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Extension Committee Deborah Barchat, Ph.D., Extension Committee Chair HISTORY
Welcome to the Extension Committee of the New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute. Our courses can serve as an introduction to psychoanalytic theory or as additional resources to clinicians who wish to expand their knowledge. They present psychoanalysis as a basic science, with opportunities for study at various levels and depths. Many of our courses are interdisciplinary, including psychoanalytic explorations of literature and other humanities, as well as psychoanalytic approaches to aspects of psychotherapy practice. Our courses are taught by NYPSI members and invited guests and are open to all mental health practitioners and interested members of the community. The Extension Committee has a long history marked by various transformations over time but imbued with an abiding mission. The first series of lecture courses open to psychiatrists in New York City was organized in 1922. With the inception of the New York Psychoanalytic Institute in 1931, the Extension Committee was established as an official division of the Institute, in order to offer a rich and varied curriculum of lectures and seminars for psychiatrists, non-psychiatric physicians, psychologists, social workers, teachers, and academics from a wide variety of disciplines. In recent years, the Extension Committee has embarked on a program of growth and expansion. Interdisciplinary colloquia, seminars, and study groups are offered to mental health practitioners and interested members of the community across a wide range of topics. The courses continue to emphasize psychoanalytic approaches to aspects of psychotherapy practice, and include explorations of literature related humanities, and the sciences.
To request a detailed brochure listing the 2009-10 courses, call (212) 879-6900 or email info@nypsa.org.
REGISTRATION Fee is due at the time of registration. To register for courses, please click HERE for Registration Form and mail with check or credit card information. Receipt of Registration will be confirmed. For additional information, please call at 212-879-6900 or e-mail info@nypsa.org.
COURSE LOCATION Courses will meet at the Institute: 247 East 82nd Street, New York, NY
Books used in the seminars are available through our Bookstore.
2009-2010 EXTENSION COMMITTEE COURSES
SEPTEMBER
1. Intermediate/Advanced Psychoanalytic Couple Therapy Fred Sander, M.D. Last Tuesday of month 7:30 – 9:00 pm 9/29/09 - 5/25/10 (9 sessions) $270 This course is designed as a peer-supervision and reading seminar for those who have had a number of years of experience doing couple therapy.
OCTOBER
2. Early Childhood Loss and Creativity Melissa Wanamaker, Ph.D., LCSW-R Thursdays 7:30 – 9:00 pm 10/8/09 - 10/29/09 (4 sessions) $120 This seminar will examine the language of four authors who experienced early loss and pitted their words against the grave. They are Paul Celan, Anne Sexton, Linda Gray Sexton, and William Styron. Two are suicides; two lived. All turned loss into art through language. Interpretations based on classical and contemporary psychoanalytic theories will be utilized. Clinical material will be encouraged.
NOVEMBER
3. In the Fray: When to Consider Psychopharmacology and What to Expect Deborah Plachta, M.D. Tuesdays 7:00 - 8:30 pm 11/3/09 - 11/17/09 (3 sessions) $90 This course highlights the cutting edge of psychopharmacology to acquaint participants with the major trends in diagnosis and medication. The focus is on helping the clinician recognize when a treatment could benefit from a psychopharmacology consult or ongoing medication backup. Included are issues of how to approach this with patients/clients, as well as medication side effects and their possible (and impossible) remedies. Topics included are: Depression and Bipolar Illness; Anxiety Disorder Spectrum (e.g. panic states, OCD, body dysmorphic disorder, phobias); Psychosis; Drugs in Pregnancy; Sleep Disorders. The course is interactive and questions (including case presentations) will be encouraged.
4. Psychoanalytic Principles of Child Development David Sawyer, M.D. and Ronald Rawitt, M.D. Wednesdays 7:30 - 8:30 pm 11/4/09 - 12/9/09 (5 sessions) $150 The course will present an overview of current psychoanalytic perspectives on child development. The interaction of constitutional factors and environmental influences on the formation of unconscious fantasy and intrapsychic conflict during the sequential stages of development will be emphasized. Clinical examples will be offered to illustrate the concepts being presented.
5. Psychoanalysis and the Literary/Visual Arts Lois Oppenheim, Ph.D. Thursdays 7:00 - 8:30 pm 11/5/09 - 11/19/09 (3 sessions) $90 Participants in this seminar will consider how psychoanalysis may enrich our understanding of literature, painting, film, and other art forms. Various notions of the relations between reader/viewer and writer/artist, of the possibilities and limits of psychoanalytic interpretation, and of the creative process itself will form the basis for discussion. A number of psychoanalytic theories of mind will be explored, from early Freudian to contemporary intersubjective, in order to provide a background for the examination of the particular works at hand. Emphasis will be on literary and visual art from the early 20th century to the present.
JANUARY
6. Psychoanalysis and the Theater Fred Sander, M.D. and Daniel Prezant, Ph.D.
"The Pride" by Alexi Kaye Campbell directed by Joe Mantello, produced by the MCC Theater at the Lucille Lortel Theater, 121 Christopher St. January 30, 2010, 2pm matinee ($50) "Measure for Measure" by William Shakespeare produced by Theater for a New Audience at the Duke on 42nd St. They are only guaranteeing 30 tickets for this performance so we will honor the first thirty paid tickets. February 20, 2010, 2pm matinee ($50) "Family Week" by Beth Henley with Kathleen Chalfant. The MCC Theater at the Lucille Lortel Theater, 121 Christopher St. April 17, 2010, 2pm matinee ($50)
7. Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy of Cancer Patients Norman Straker, M.D. Thursdays 7:30 - 8:40 pm 1/7/10, 1/21/10, 1/28/10 (3 sessions) $90 This course will provide an introduction to dynamic psychotherapy with cancer patients and their families. The unique challenges of treating cancer patients will be addressed in the first session. The discussion which will include death anxiety and the tendency to deny death, will be accompanied by the video “On the Edge of Being: When Doctors Confront Cancer.” In the second session, details of dynamic psychotherapy will be explored including: dealing with defenses such as denial and regression, managing the transference and countertransference issues unique to the cancer context, and managing dying patients. In session three, the challenges facing caregivers will be addressed, along with techniques for helping them during the illness and after their loss. These are illustrated in the lecture and in the video “The Courage to Survive: Facing the Loss of Your Soul Mate.” Managing grief and mourning will also be discussed.
8. Psychosomatic Pathology for Psychoanalysts and Psychotherapists Muriel Morris, M.D. and Larry Goldblatt, M.D. Thursdays 7:30 - 9:00 pm 1/7/10 - 2/25/10 (8 sessions) $240 Early family pathology and psychic conflict have long been known to contribute to the causation and maintenance of many physical symptoms and diseases for which medical treatments alone are often inadequate to effect improvement. These conditions include various gastrointestinal complaints including eating disorders and colitis, asthma, infertility, impotence, chronic fatigue syndrome and others. As time allows, clinical material will be enhanced with discussions of current cases in the public domain (e.g., Schiavo) as well as historic cases of such figures as Darwin, Carlyle, Swift and Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
9. The Mind in Conflict Ian Buckingham, M.D. Wednesdays 8:30 - 10:00 pm DATE CHANGED- NOW 4/1/10 - 4/29/10 (5 sessions) $50 This course presents a contemporary focus on the functioning of the mind from the perspective of Modern Conflict Theory, with an emphasis on Brenner’s revisions of traditional structural theory and a new appreciation of the ideas of evolutionary biology for understanding the functioning of the mind.
MARCH
10. Shared Therapy: The Collaboration between Psychotherapist and Psychopharmacologist Charles A. Murkofsky, M.D. Tuesdays 7:30 - 8:45 pm 3/16/10, 3/23/10, and 3/30/10 (3 sessions) $90 This seminar focuses on the issues of collaborative treatment: navigating the interface, dealing with rivalry, understanding therapeutic effects of psychological and pharmacological therapies, identification of appropriate cases for pharmacologic referral, with discussion of the benefit/detriment issue of pharmacotherapy on psychotherapy. The syndromes most frequently treated with pharma- cotherapy will be reviewed. Participants are invited to bring illustrative case material.
11. Virginia Woolf and Bloomsbury Melissa Wanamaker, Ph.D., LCSW-R Thursdays 7:30 - 9:00 pm 3/4/10 – 3/25/10 (4 sessions) $120 Bloomsbury is a state of mind and Virginia Woolf is at the heart of it. This course will explore the creativity of post-World War I England. Woolf’s art will be examined in light of her experience of early maternal loss, her love affairs, mental illnesses and suicide. We will also examine how her creativity reflected her version of self-analysis.
APRIL
12. A Short Course on Psychological Testing William Braun, Psy.D. Tuesdays 7:00 - 8:30 pm $60 per session 4/6 & 4/13/10 For mental health professionals (2 sessions) 4/20 & 4/27/10 For parents, teachers, and the general public (2 sessions) There will be two sections of this course in psychological assessment. Section 1 is geared toward mental health professionals and will address such topics as: Diagnosis and treatment planning, personality assessment, evaluation of ego strengths and weaknesses, assessing suitability for analysis, and therapeutic impasses. Section 2 is geared toward parents, teachers, and the general public and will address topics such as: IQ, learning disabilities, attention disorders, behavior disorders, anger, and acting out.
MAY
13. Psychoanalytic Themes in the Work of Jane Austen Muriel Morris, M.D. Thursdays 7:45 - 9:15 pm 5/20/10 - 6/17/10 (5 sessions) $150 This workshop will study Austen’s writings using psychoanalytic concepts to uncover the unconscious chords struck by her novels that make them uniquely irresistible to successive generations of readers and filmgoers. Austen’s own psychological insight will be discussed, as seen by how brilliantly she understood the effects of early loss, dysfunctional families, devaluation of women, masochism, oedipal conflicts, hysteria, and hypochondria.
The following ongoing courses will not be offered in the academic year 2009-2010:
On Supervision: Seminar for Psychotherapy Supervisors Francis Baudry, M.D.
Psychodynamic Treatment of Substance Abusers William H. Gottdiener, Ph.D.
Workshop on the Transgenerational Transmission of Trauma in WWII as Exemplified by the Study of Children of Survivors, Collaborators, and Nazi Perpetrators Anna Balas, M.D. and Gilda Sherwin, M.D.
The American Psychoanalytic Association is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to sponsor continuing medical education for physicians. This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the Essentials Areas and Policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint sponsorship of The American Psychoanalytic Association and The New York Psychoanalytic Institute/Society. The American Psychoanalytic Association is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians and takes responsibility for the content, quality, and scientific integrity of this CME activity. The American Psychoanalytic Association designates this educational activity for a maximum of 2 hours in category 1 credit towards the AMA Physician's Recognition Award. Each physician should claim only those hours of credit that he/she actually spent in the educational activity.
IMPORTANT DISCLOSURE INFORMATION FOR ALL LEARNERS: None of the planners and presenters of this CME program have any relevant financial relationships to disclose.
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