Events - Week View

Panelists: Nancy Burke, PhD, Francisco J. González, MD, Loren Dent, PhD
Moderator: Christopher Landry, MD

Community health institutions have long resisted psychoanalytic thinking, and the siloed psychoanalytic world similarly makes little room for the experience and knowledge of those institutions and the psychic lives of their workers and clients. A clinician who appreciates psychoanalytic insights and understanding and wants to practice in a community setting would find it nearly impossible to integrate both in their work.

A panel of three distinguished psychoanalysts, involved in community settings and contending with the issues that prevail there – poverty, homelessness, racism, immigration, their effects on health, and the economics of community mental health – will speak to what psychoanalysis and community mental health workers and institutions can learn and gain from one another for mutual their benefit.

Our panelists will present new interventions and programs that attempt to bridge the psychoanalysis-community gulf by creatively engaging both psychoanalysts in their institutes and societies and community mental health workers in their institutions in what is becoming community psychoanalysis. The audience will be invited to imagine how they might engage in this new field in their own practice and professional lives.

NYPSI Extension Program: Psychoanalytic Couple Therapy

This course will present results of collaborative research by two analysts working in two different modalities – individual and couple. The comparison of the dynamics in the two settings reveals many new issues and questions. For instance: Is there an unconscious organization of the couple distinct from the unconscious organizations of the individuals in it? What are the differences between the individual’s transferences to the analyst and to the patient’s partner? How much can the analyst know about the patient’s partner? At every meeting, the instructor will present clinical material illustrating these and other issues such as misinterpretations, assumptions, rigid conceptions of the other, the effect of character traits in the relationship, as well as parental difficulties.

4.5 Contact Hours. 4.5 CME/CE credits offered. See details below.

Graciela Abelin-Sas Rose, MD is a member of the New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute; of the Association for Psychoanalytic Medicine and of CAPS. She founded and chaired the New York Psychoanalytic Institute‘s Colloquium with Visiting Authors, where members of diverse schools of thought were invited to present their psychoanalytic perspectives. She served as the Foreign Editor of the Journal of Clinical Psychoanalysis. She is in private practice and conducts private seminars and supervisions. Besides being guest lecturer at American and International institutions she has written reviews and essays on the work of various authors as well as publications of her own work.