Scientific Meetings

Donald Moss, MD presenter
Stathis Gourgouris, PhD discussant

Over the last fifty years, prominent French analysts have been developing a new theory and clinical technique to facilitate the treatment of patients with somatization. Drawn from Freud’s second topography (tripartite model), this clinical work derives from the theory that somatization primarily results from the patient’s difficulties in their capacity for representation. Dr Aloupis will be discussing via clinical material, the enigma of pain from the perspective of the interplay between psychic and physical pain. Dr Gerber will discuss this presentation from a neuropsychoanalytic/attachment theory perspective. This lecture will be held at the New York Academy of Medicine, 2 East 103rd Street at Fifth Avenue.
Panos Aloupis, MD presenter
Andrew Gerber, MD discussant

Danielle Knafo, PhD • presenter
David Lichtenstein, PhD • discussant
Desire and perversion have evolved in our era of the internet, robots, mechanical thinking, and social isolation. Danielle Knafo, author of The Age of Perversion: Desire and Technology in Psychoanalysis and Culture (2017), writes: “Freud considered the unconscious a site of repressed wishes and desires whose influence extends to the farthest reach of conscious life. Today, such desires find new expression on the internet, which allows anonymity and accessibility. Replacing ‘real world’ skins with digital ones, users create virtual personas to promote their secret passions. The virtual space of consciousness is well matched to the virtual space of the web, though sexual and social enactments within the latter can have dangerous real world consequences. Examining the darker side of the marriage between desire and communication technology, focused through the phenomenon of ‘catfishing,’ this presentation raises questions about the nature of the human self, love, transference, and the role they play in deception. Understanding how patients use the internet provides access to their unconscious desires.”

Christine Anzieu-Premmereur, MD • presenter
Lissa Weinstein, PhD • discussant

From her vast experience working with children and parents, Dr. Anzieu-Premmereur examines the impact of technology on contemporary children’s capacity for symbolization and relatedness.

Dr. Anzieu Premmereur is the director of the Parent-Infant Program of the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research.

Dr. Weinstein is a psychologist and psychoanalyst and full Professor of Psychology at City College of New York. Her research focuses on the measurement of changes in linguistic structures such as pronoun use, repetition, and metaphor as indicators of modifications in psychological structure during therapy with young children.

Richard Ledes documentary
Luca Flabbi, PhD, Gabriella Pediconi, PhD, Glauco Genga, MD
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Roosevelt Cassorla MD, PhDPresenter
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Diane O’DonoghuePresenter
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Mitchell Wilson, MDPresenter
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Avgi Saketopoulou, PhDPresenter
Stan Coen, MDdiscussant