BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//The Postgraduate Psychoanalytic Society & Institute - ECPv6.15.20//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:The Postgraduate Psychoanalytic Society & Institute X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://postgradinstitute.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for The Postgraduate Psychoanalytic Society & Institute REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20190310T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20191103T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20200308T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20201101T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20210314T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20211107T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20220313T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20221106T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20230312T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20231105T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20240310T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20241103T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20250309T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20251102T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20260308T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20261101T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20190310T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20191103T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20200308T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20201101T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20210314T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20211107T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20220313T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20221106T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20230312T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20231105T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20240310T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20241103T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251116T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251116T153000 DTSTAMP:20260424T114005 CREATED:20250827T175251Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251114T180008Z UID:10000028-1763298000-1763307000@postgradinstitute.org SUMMARY:Fostering connection: Foster Care\, Complex Trauma\, and Treatment Approaches DESCRIPTION:Co-sponsoring with MPG Consulting NYC \n\n\n\nInvite you to our Sunday Dialogue Program\n\n\n\nDr. Marina Stolerman\, Psy. D. \n\n\n\nSunday\, November 16\, 2025\, 1:00-3:30 pm (EST)\, on Zoom \n\n\n\n3 CE credit hours for Social Workers\, Mental Health Counselors\, Psychologists and Licensed Psychoanalysts holding licenses in New York State \n\n\n\nThis presentation will review the neurobiological\, emotional and developmental sequelae of early attachment disruptions in children and youth who were in foster care. We will also explore treatment considerations from a psychoanalytic perspective\, including mentalization based therapy and polyvagal theory. Vignettes from a 12-year treatment will be used to illustrate both the challenges and benefits of long-term psychotherapy for a young person affected by foster care. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nREGISTRATION IS CLOSED \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPresenter: \n\n\n\n\nDr. Marina Stolerman is the Clinical Director at The Fostering Connection. Dr. Stolerman maintains a private practice in New York and New Jersey where she works with children and adults\, and provides clinical supervision. She has a specialty in working with individuals with ASD and ADHD. Dr. Stolerman is an adjunct clinical supervisor at Yeshiva University where she is supervisor for the psychodynamic practicum. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLearning Objectives: \n\n\n\nUpon completing this program\, participants will be able to: \n\n\n\n\nDescribe the impact of complex trauma on neurobiological development and attachment in children and adolescents within the foster care system.\n\n\n\n\n\nIdentify emotional and relational challenges specific to foster youth and foster-families.\n\n\n\n\n\nExplain key treatment considerations\, including Mentalization-Based Therapy (MBD) and psychoanalytically informed approaches\, for working with foster-affected populations .\n\n\n\n\n\nIntegrate neurobiological and psychoanalytic perspectives in treatment planning for patients with histories of complex trauma and disrupted attachments.\n\n\n\n\nFor further information or questions\, please send an email to: \n\n\n\nRussell Merritt\, LCSW: rgm3@columbia.edu \n\n\n\nMPG Consulting LCSW\, PLLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Social Work #0119\, Mental Health Counselors #0044\, Creative Arts Therapists #0021\, Marriage and Family Therapists #0030\, Psychoanalysts #0034 and Psychologists #0283 as an approved provider of continuing education. A NYC & NYS certified: M/WBE URL:https://postgradinstitute.org/event/fostering-connection-foster-care-complex-trauma-and-treatment-approaches/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://postgradinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Dr.-Marina-Stolerman.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251004T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251004T120000 DTSTAMP:20260424T114005 CREATED:20250820T213601Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251001T152701Z UID:10000027-1759572000-1759579200@postgradinstitute.org SUMMARY:Trauma of Human Origin: Effects of Interpersonal Traumatization\, and the Prevention and Repair of Trauma Across the Generations DESCRIPTION:3 Saturdays: Oct. 4 (10am-12 pm ET)\, Oct. 11 (12:30-2:30 pm ET)\, Oct. 18 (10am-12 pm ET)\, 2025\, On Zoom \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegistration is now closed. You will be emailed the zoom link a day or two prior to the event.\n\n\n\nHave a question? Please contact us at postgrad.psychoanalytic@gmail.com\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nProgram Description\n\n\n\nIn this class we will be focusing on the distinction between trauma of human origin and trauma stemming from natural catastrophes or accidents devoid of human intentionality and their different effects on the human mind. I will describe three levels of trauma of human origin\, their effects on individuals and society\, and how to work with them clinically to heal dissociative dynamics and repair destructive internalized structures\, for instance the victim-persecutor identification that can be carried through generations. We will learn how to effectively interrupt the repetition of the traumatic cycle by looking at individual cases from first presentation to actual resolution in what I term the embodied witnessing treatment. This treatment is an original integrative approach in working on interpersonal trauma using psychodynamic psychology\, attachment theory\, and affective neuroscience. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIndividual Class descriptions:\n\n\n\nClass1 (Oct.4\, 10am-12n ET) \n\n\n\nI will highlight the differences between trauma of human origin and trauma due to natural catastrophes or other accidents devoid of human evil intention against the other. I will offer my contribution on the three levels of trauma of human origin\, and present the neurobiological effects on the mind and body\, on affect regulation and on personality structure. Dissociation\, not repression\, is the major structural consequence of trauma of human agency\, affecting mind\, body and brain. The neurobiology of interpersonal trauma and the structures of the brain affected (limbic system\, implicit memory vs explicit or declarative memory\, amygdala\, hippocampus etc.) will be described in their functioning through single cases. Reference will be made to the work of Allan Schore\, Philip Bromberg\, Giovanni Liotti\, Dori Laub together with my original use of Sandor Ferenczi’s work on trauma which was controversial at the time of Freud. Genetic vs epigenetic transmission will be discussed through the most up-to date-research \n\n\n\nClass 2 (Oct. 11\, 12:30pm-2:30pm ET; PLEASE NOTE DIFFERENT TIME) \n\n\n\nAfter having presented the differences in the multifunctional dimensional and dynamic diagnoses of single cases\, I will distinguish the features of “dissociation\,” and how to identify it in the behavior and dynamics of the patient; its traumatic effects on memory will also be considered. Attachment\, (secure\, insecure and disorganized) will be described from an intergenerational point-of-view\, clarifying what can be transmitted intergenerationally and what might be used as a resource. \n\n\n\nThrough different cases we will learn how to work with affect regulation and how to identify destructive interpersonal dynamics\, such as victim-persecutor identification and their unintentional repetition in the here and now of the sessions. Attacks on the body and unconscious ways of attacking self and other will be presented through cases of personality disorders\, Complex PTSD and somatic disorders \n\n\n\nClass 3 (Oct 18\, 10am-12n ET) \n\n\n\nI will illustrate the dynamic of intergenerational transmission in its neurobiological aspects and in the defense-repetition interpersonal dynamics. I will illustrate how to work with mind-body-brain (right and left brain\, implicit and explicit\, primary and secondary processes) in individual therapy with survivors. The victim-persecutor dyad unconsciously imprinted in the mind of survivors and the dissociative mechanisms will be described as they are reactivated in the survivor and projected against their own bodies (with self-harming\, suicidality\, eating disorders\, addictions) and against others though the analysis of acting out (outside the consulting room) and of enactments (within the consulting room). Vignettes of moment to moment process will illustrate how to work through and elaborate affects in various clinical moments; i.e. moments when affect regulation is robust versus moments when affect dysregulation in the individual and in the therapeutic couple prevails. I term “embodied witnessing” the synthetic description of this complex mind-body-brain healing process illustrated through single cases. \n\n\n\n Learning objectives. Participants will learn: \n\n\n\n\n– How to identify and evaluate the three levels of trauma of human origin (interpersonal trauma) and their effects (in terms of dynamics\, neurobiology and influence on personality structure) on the mind\, the brain and the body in the individual and in the collectivities.\n\n\n\n– How to identify and distinguish dissociative structures from neurotic structures (mostly using the defense of repression in their system\, not dissociation) to borderline or very destructive personalities and how to work with the victim-persecutor internalized dyad of traumatic interpersonal origin.\n\n\n\n– How to analyze\, discuss and work with destructive symptoms of severe patients with dissociative structure and interpersonal trauma in the mind-body-brain system\, considering also their attachment system and how implicitly these all get repeated in dyadic situations both outside of the therapy as well as in treatment.\n\n\n\n– How to work from first evaluation to major progression of the case until resolution (not only of symptoms but of destructive dynamics and dissociative structures) in patients with personality disorders of traumatic origin\, Complex PTSD and some somatic disorders.\n\n\n\n– How to apply an integrative empathic and compassionate mind-body-brain psychotherapeutic approach that I term “embodied witnessing” through practices of witnessing in the relational dyad and in the recognition of the story presented\, both the remembered one and the dissociated one that speaks through the body.\n\n\n\n– How to interrupt the cycle of repetition with survivors of trauma of human agency understanding the neurobiological and unconscious transmission for first\, second and third generations. Reconciliation of split parts and even forgiveness of self and other (though not an aim in the treatment) might become a healing outcome (as that which overcomes the identification with the aggressor and with the internalized victim-persecutor dyad).\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr Clara Mucci is Full Professor of Dynamic Psychology at the University of Bergamo\, Italy where she also is The Director of the School of Specialization and Psychotherapy in Health Psychology and Co-Director of the Course of Advanced Training for the Evaluation and Treatment of Eating Disorders. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nShe served as Full professor of English Literature and Shakespearean Studies until 2012 (University of Chieti\, Italy). After a PhD in English Studies (Genoa\, 1994)\, she received a PhD in Literature\, Anthropology and Psychoanalysis from the ILA\, (Emory University 1999); subsequently she retrained in Clinical Psychology with a graduate degree in Clinical Psychology (2004) and a fellowship for six months at the Institute for Personality Disorders in New York and White Plains\, Directed by Otto Kernberg (2004-2005). She is a licensed Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist practicing in Milan\, Italy and has obtained the AAI certification from Berkeley\, the School directed by the late Mary Main and Erik Hesse\, with Instructors Debbie Jakobvitz and Nino Dazzi. She is also certified in the RF with a course under the guidance of Howard Steele\, The New School for Social Research. \n\n\n\nShe is the author of five monographs (in Italian) on Shakespeare\, Women’s writing\, and literary theory and three volumes in English on trauma and personality disorders\, Beyond Individual and Collective Trauma (Karnac Books\, 2013)\, Borderline Bodies\, Affect Regulation Therapy for Personality Disorders (Norton\, 2018) and more recently Resilience and Survival. Understanding and Healing Intergenerational Trauma (Confer Books\, London\, 2022.)\, She co-edited with G Craparo\, Unrepressed Unconscious\, Implicit memory and Clinical Work (Karnac\, 2017)\, and\, with Arnold Rachman\, Ferenczi’s Confusion of Tongues Theory of Trauma (Routledge 2023) \n\n\n\nAssociate Member of SIPP\, Teaching and Supervisor Psychoanalyst for SiPeP-SF\, a supervisor for several schools of training in Italy and abroad\, including the NIP\, New York\, Confer\, London\, Switzerland and the National Psychodynamic Institute in Warsaw\, Poland; she lectures extensively internationally and in Italy\, where she is the Scientific Guarantor of several Institutes of psychodynamic psychotherapy and a consulting supervisor for several institutes\, individuals and group professionals. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nFor further information or questions please send an email to: \n\n\n\nRussell Merritt\, LCSW: rgm3@columbia.edu \n\n\n\nIf mailing a check\, please send it to:PPSI\,PO Box 2031 Madison Square StationNew York\, NY 10010-9996 \n\n\n\nThis program is approved for 6 CE Credit Hours. \n\n\n\nMPG Consulting LCSW\, PLLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Social Work #0119\, Mental Health Counselors #0044\, Creative Arts Therapists #0021\, Marriage and Family Therapists #0030\, Psychoanalysts #0034 and Psychologists #0283 as an approved provider of continuing education. A NYC & NYS certified: M/WBE \n\n\n\nFollowing the last class\, attendees will receive an online evaluation form from MPG Consulting. \n\n\n\nAfter submitting that form\, a second email will be sent containing a printable CE certificate. Please note: Registrants must attend all 3 classes to receive the 6 CE credits. We are unable to offer partial credit for those attending less than 3 classes \n\n\n\nRegistration closes: Tuesday\, September 30th. You will receive a Zoom link two days prior to the beginning of class.  \n\n\n\nRegister Now URL:https://postgradinstitute.org/event/trauma-of-human-origin-effects-of-interpersonal-traumatization-and-the-prevention-and-repair-of-trauma-across-the-generations/ CATEGORIES:2025 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://postgradinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/clara-foto-estate-pescara1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250316T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250316T153000 DTSTAMP:20260424T114005 CREATED:20250122T180708Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250221T221313Z UID:10000026-1742130000-1742139000@postgradinstitute.org SUMMARY:Looking Through the Psychoanalytic Lens -Voter Choices & Election Outcomes: Case illustrations DESCRIPTION:The Postgraduate Psychoanalytic Society & Institute \n\n\n\nCo-sponsoring with MPG consulting \n\n\n\nInvite you to our Sunday Dialogue Program \n\n\n\nGene Guberman\, LP\, MA \n\n\n\n3 CE credit hours for Psychologists\, Social Workers\, Mental Health Counselors\, and Licensed Psychoanalysts holding licenses in New York State \n\n\n\nWhat just happened in our nation? Psychoanalyst Gene Guberman will explore some of the challenging issues conflicting our culture as manifested in the psychology of a diverse group of voters. Case vignettes will be used to understand underlying psychodynamic issues & motivations for political choices.Gene distinguishes politics from unwitting psychological factors embedded in politics\, examines the nature of perception including unintentional subjectivity\, defines psychodynamics and how they influence a voter’s choice. In this presentation case vignettes will illustrate the nature of conscious and unconscious psychological factors influencing political choices. \n\n\n\nWe are living in an era of significant cultural polarization. Understanding these consuming social divisions calls for examination of the political\, economic\, social\, and media effects to account for the election outcome. Psychoanalysts need to be attentive to the ways in which these broad cultural forces manifest and shape individual psychodynamics as well as how individual psychodynamics may determine an individual’s political activity or lack of it. Using case examples\, Gene applies psychoanalytic concepts to illustrate how unconscious processes function within voters to influence their election choices. \n\n\n\nFinally\, Gene invites us to look within ourselves\, to identify with his case vignettes and to reflect on aspects of ourselves that may unknowingly be hidden from us. According to philosophers & psychoanalysts\, human nature has been shown to have an inherent self-deceptive feature. In other words\, an emotional or irrational side of us that lead to faulty judgments\, mistaken political and marital choices\, unwanted personal habits\, personality traits\, and self-destructive actions. Using diverse psychoanalytic concepts and vignettes from his practice\, Gene demonstrates how psychological motivations and rationale underlay our election choices. \n\n\n\nLearning Objectives: \n\n\n\n\nParticipants will gain an understanding of how social interactions entail mutual unconscious collusions\n\n\n\nParticipants will gain broadened insight into unconscious mental processes\, including a contemporary view of healthy and pathological compromise formations\n\n\n\nParticipants will gain insight into how an exploration of voting choice may provide a window into the function of compromise formation in an individual client’s overall dynamics\n\n\n\nParticipants will get an understanding of how childhood dynamics affect our decision-making processes.\n\n\n\nParticipants will have the opportunity to reflect on how consonant or opposing political views in a therapeutic couple may shape transference / countertransference phenomena.\n\n\n\n\nGene Guberman\, LP\, MA\, NCPsyA is a faculty member\, and supervisor at the Postgraduate Psychoanalytic Society & Institute (PPSI)\, and The Institute for Expressive Analysis (IEA); a former director & faculty member of the New York Center for Psychoanalytic Training (NYCPT) where he graduated in 1990\, he has been affiliated\, taught and supervised at many training institutes and settings\, synthesizing modern conflict theories with relational approaches. Gene lectures on topics addressing the values of psychoanalytic clinical theories and techniques. He is a former editor of the Journal\, Issues in Psychoanalytic Psychology at Washington Square Institute. Gene was a former Board Trustee as Secretary\, National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis (NAAP). \n\n\n\nInformation Contact: Russell Merritt\, LCSW: rgm3@columbia.edu \n\n\n\nMPG Consulting is an approved provider of continuing education for Licensed Social Workers (#0119) and for Licensed Psychoanalysts (3P-0034). MPG Consulting\, LCSW\, PLLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health. MPG Consulting LCSW\, PLLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Psychology as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychologists #PSY-0283. \n\n\n\n\nREGISTER NOW URL:https://postgradinstitute.org/event/looking-through-the-psychoanalytic-lens-voter-choices-election-outcomes-case-illustrations/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240929T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240929T153000 DTSTAMP:20260424T114005 CREATED:20240904T154042Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240910T160859Z UID:10000025-1727614800-1727623800@postgradinstitute.org SUMMARY:Sunday Dialogue Program: Anne and Krystyna: Two Cases of Intergenerational Transmission of Trauma DESCRIPTION:Sunday\, September 29\, 2024\, 1:00-3:30 pm (EDT)\, on Zoom \n\n\n\n3 CE credit hours for Social Workers\, Mental Health Counselors\, and Licensed Psychoanalysts holding licenses in New York State \n\n\n\nPsychoanalyst Krystyna Sanderson will discuss and illustrate the intergenerational transmission of trauma passed from mother to daughter. Epigenetically transmitted trauma is manifested in a range of behavioral disturbances such as identity issues\, anxiety\, guilt\, hypervigilance\, and attachment issues such as the inability to be physically and emotionally close to another person in a love relationship. The presentation is partly based on the book Memorial Candles: Children of the Holocaust by Dina Wardi\, an Israeli psychotherapist who treated the children of Holocaust survivors for twenty years.  The book details the effects of untreated trauma in parents being passed on to their children. \n\n\n\nTo illustrate and substantiate the theories of intergenerational trauma with its multiple and varied psychic impacts\, the presenter will contrast her own trauma history with that of a woman named Anne. Sanderson’s mother\, Jadwiga\, was a non-Jewish Pole\, who lived through the German occupation of Poland\, including the bombing of Warsaw during the Warsaw Uprising of 1944. Anne is the daughter of Sima\, a Jewish woman who survived in Poland during World War II by passing as a non-Jewish Pole. The material for this discussion is based on psychoanalytic research interviews conducted by Dr. Sanderson between 1987 and 2023 with all the women concerned. \n\n\n\nThe topics of recovery and resilience will be explored based on the book The Power of Witnessing: Reflections\, Reverberations\, and Traces of the Holocaust: Trauma\, Psychoanalysis\, and the Living Mind by Nancy Goodman. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLearning Objectives: \n\n\n\n\n Participants will learn how war trauma affects the human psyche.\n\n\n\nParticipants will gain insight into the ways in which trauma experienced by parents is transmitted to their children.\n\n\n\nParticipants will get an understanding of the ways epigenetically transmitted trauma is manifested in a range of behavioral disturbances.\n\n\n\nParticipants will gain an understanding of how processing trauma by witness fosters recovery and resilience.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKrystyna Sanderson\, Psy. D.\, LP\, is a psychoanalyst in private practice in New York City. She is also an instructor at the Psychoanalytic Training Institute. She is a supervisor of psychoanalytic students and a dissertation adviser of doctoral students and writes and lectures regularly on topics dealing with psychoanalysis in relation to art\, spirituality\, and the application of psychoanalytic principles to social and historical phenomena. Dr. Sanderson is a contributing author of The Encyclopedia of Psychology and Religion and the author of a photo essay\, Light at Ground Zero: St. Paul’s Chapel After 9/11. She is a member of the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis (NAAP) and the Postgraduate Psychoanalytic Society & Institute \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA zoom link will be sent to registrants 1-2 days prior to the event. \n\n\n\nFor further information or questions please send an email to: Russell Merritt\, LCSW: rgm3@columbia.edu \n\n\n\nThis program is approved for 3 CE Credit Hours. \n\n\n\n MPG Consulting is an approved provider of continuing education for Licensed Social Workers (#0119) and for Licensed Psychoanalysts (3P-0034). MPG Consulting\, LCSW\, PLLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health. \n\n\n\nREGISTER NOW (Download pdf) URL:https://postgradinstitute.org/event/sunday-dialogue-program-anne-and-krystyna-two-cases-of-intergenerational-transmission-of-trauma/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240407T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240407T153000 DTSTAMP:20260424T114005 CREATED:20240308T191708Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240308T192133Z UID:10000024-1712494800-1712503800@postgradinstitute.org SUMMARY:Heroes and Antiheroes | Sunday Dialogue Program DESCRIPTION:on Zoom \n\n\n\nThe Postgraduate Psychoanalytic Society and Institute \n\n\n\nCo-sponsoring with MPG Consulting NYC \n\n\n\nInvite you to our Sunday Dialogue Program \n\n\n\nHeroes and Antiheroes\n\n\n\nSarah Jackson\, MFA\, MA\, LP \n\n\n\nSunday\, April 7\, 2024\, 1:00-3:30pm (EDT)\, on Zoom \n\n\n\n3 CE credit hours for Social Workers\, Mental Health Counselors and Licensed Psychoanalysts holding Licenses in New York State \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhite\, male heroes have seen better days\, but heroes and their counterparts – a multitude of new antiheroes who do not exhibit the typical heroic attributes – continue to appear in contemporary society and culture.  A variety of hero complexes also show up in our dreams and can play a role in our professional lives\, since as psychotherapists and psychoanalysts we encounter them in our patients. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPresenter: \n\n\n\nJungian analyst Sarah Jackson has had an interest in unconventional heroes for a long time.  She has written and lectured on “The Female Hero in Contemporary Cinema” and “Motherhood as a Hero’s Journey”.  In this talk\, she will focus on both ancient and contemporary manifestations of heroes and antiheroes\, including some who are shape-shifting and gender fluid.  She will also give a couple of case examples\, one of which demonstrates how the hero complex can arise from\, and compensate for\, early trauma. \n\n\n\nSarah has presented widely\, most recently as host of a panel sponsored by the Brooklyn Rail as part of their New Social Environment Series [#875\, August 14\, 2023] which took a fresh look at the work of Edvard Munch.  She has been in private practice in Great Barrington\, MA since 1990\, and is an adjunct faculty member and supervisor at the C.G. Jung Institute of New York\, as well as serving as the vice president of the New York Association of Analytic Psychology \n\n\n\nLearning Objectives: \n\n\n\nAfter attending this presentation\, participants will be able to: \n\n\n\n\nGain a basic understanding of what an archetype is\, and why it is relevant to the practice of psychotherapy and psychoanalysis.\n\n\n\n\n\nSee complexes through the lens of Analytic Psychology.\n\n\n\n\n\nLearn how hero (and anti-hero) complexes relate to ego-development and ego structure.\n\n\n\n\n\nAppreciate the continued relevance of heroes and anti-heroes to contemporary culture\, as well as to the personal struggles of individuals. Consider how heroes and hero complexes show up in dreams and manifest in our lives.\n\n\n\n\nREGISTER USING THIS FORM PLEASE \n\n\n\nA zoom link will be sent to registrants 1-2 days prior to the event \n\n\n\nFor further information or questions please send an email to: \n\n\n\n       Russell Merritt\, LCSW: rgm3@columbia.edu \n\n\n\nThis program is approved for 3 CE Credit Hours.  MPG Consulting is an approved provider of continuing education for Licensed Social Workers (#0119) and for Licensed Psychoanalysts (3P-0034). MPG Consulting\, LCSW\, PLLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health URL:https://postgradinstitute.org/event/heroes-and-antiheroes-sunday-dialogue-program/ CATEGORIES:2024 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240225T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240225T153000 DTSTAMP:20260424T114005 CREATED:20240202T202324Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240202T202611Z UID:10000023-1708866000-1708875000@postgradinstitute.org SUMMARY:CONCEALED A memoir of intergenerational trauma\, resistance & resilience DESCRIPTION:CONCEALED A memoir of intergenerational trauma\, resistance & resilience \n\n\n\n\n\nCo-sponsoring with MPG Consulting NYC \n\n\n\nInvite you to our Sunday Dialogue Program \n\n\n\nCONCEALEDA memoir of intergenerational trauma\, resistance & resilience Esther Amini\, LCSWSunday\, February 25\, 2024\, 1:00-3:30pm (EST)\, on Zoom       3 CE credit hours for Social Workers\, Mental Health Counselors and Licensed Psychoanalysts holding Licenses in New York StateProgram Description:Esther Amini\, a psychoanalytic psychotherapist\, will discuss her highly acclaimed memoir\, “CONCEALED.” The life of a Jewish-Iranian-American daughter\, caught between two opposing parents and two opposing cultures\, will be examined through a psychoanalytic lens. Born into a legacy of silence\, illiteracy\, and an ancestry of child brides\, Esther Amini shares her external and internal journey. Attendees will have the opportunity to learn something of the important\, but less known Jewish community residing in the holy Shiite city of Mashhad\, Iran; the experience of being a minority within a minority; to consider questions on how individual and couple psychodynamics interact with historical and cultural forces; the important\, but often overlooked role of siblings in individual development\, and the function of memoir writing as a therapeutic tool.\n\n\n\nSpeaker:Esther Amini\, LCSW\, is a writer\, painter\, and psychoanalytic psychotherapist in private practice. Her debut memoir is entitled: “CONCEALED”—Memoir of a Jewish-Iranian Daughter Caught Between the Chador and America. KIRKUS REVIEWS anointed “CONCEALED” one of the BEST BOOKS of “2020.” Katie Couric and Zibby Owens selected “CONCEALED” as one of their favorite books\, and showcased this memoir on Nov. 30\, 2021 at The Streicker Center in Manhattan.Esther Amini’s short stories have appeared in Elle\, Lilith\, Tablet\, The Jewish Week\, Barnard Magazine\, TK University’s Inscape Literary\, Proximity\, Paper Brigade\, and Medium.com.  Her essays can also be found in Zibby Owens’ Anthology: “Moms Don’t Have Time To\,” as well as in Zibby’s most recently published anthology: “Moms Don’t Have Time To Have Kids.” She was named one of Aspen Words’ best emerging memoirists and awarded its Emerging Writer Fellowship in 2016 based on her memoir: “CONCEALED.” Seven of her pieces have been performed by Jewish Women’s Theatre\, (a.k.a. The Braid)\, in Los Angeles and in Manhattan\, and she was chosen by Jewish Women’s Theatre as their Artist-in-Residence in 2019. Esther Amini is now working on her next book which will be a collection of short stories. She can be reached through her website: EstherAmini.comLearning Objectives: -Participants will gain greater insight into many of the intrapsychic conflicts stemming from being raised by two opposing cultures: Iran and America; and gain a better understanding of the social and familial values of clients who come from Iran -Participants will gain increased awareness of the ways in which individual and couples psychodynamics shape and are shaped by the historical and cultural forces to which they are subject.-Participants will broaden their scope of listening for the importance of siblings in clients’ developmental stories.-Participants will learn how the difficult experience of being marginalized by family and/or society can result in inner growth and an increased capacity for resilience. A zoom link will be sent to registrants 1-2 days prior to the eventFor further information or questions please send an email to:Russell Merritt\, LCSW: rgm3@columbia.edu This program is approved for 3 CE Credit Hours.MPG Consulting is an approved provider of continuing education for Licensed Social Workers (#0119) and for Licensed Psychoanalysts (3P-0034). MPG Consulting\, LCSW\, PLLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental HealthClick Here to download Registration Form URL:https://postgradinstitute.org/event/concealed/ CATEGORIES:2024 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231015T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231015T153000 DTSTAMP:20260424T114005 CREATED:20230923T174915Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230923T175121Z UID:10000022-1697374800-1697383800@postgradinstitute.org SUMMARY:The Significance of The Sibling Experience: Its Impact on Development\, Identity and Character DESCRIPTION:Co-sponsoring with MPG Consulting NYC \n\n\n\n Invite you to our Sunday Dialogue Program \n\n\n\nThe Significance of The Sibling Experience: \n\n\n\nIts Impact on Development\, Identity and Character \n\n\n\nSusan Klett\, PhD\, PsyD\, LCSW-R \n\n\n\nSunday\, October 15\, 2023\, 1:00-3:30pm (EDT)\, on Zoom \n\n\n\n3 CE credit hours for Social Workers\, Mental Health Counselors and Licensed Psychoanalysts holding Licenses in New York State    \n\n\n\nAlthough siblings accompany us within our family of origin throughout all of our developmental stages and are often the longest relationship in our lives\, scarce attention has been paid to conscious and unconscious influences of siblings in psychoanalytic theory and clinical practice. It is our sibling(s) who first socialize us into the world of peers. The aim of this presentation is to widen the scope of clinical practice to include listening for lateral (sibling) transference and countertransference; to recognize and understand how a patient can “other” or be the recipient of “othering” by a sibling and its’ lifelong internal and external implications. Juliet Mitchell’s concepts of “the Law of the mother” and “Seriality\,” will be used to examine significant ways a mother can diminish the potential of “othering” and enhance sibling relationships. We will also examine Juliet Mitchell’s “Sibling Thinking Theory” in opening up ways to listen for both vertical and lateral dimensions of psychic life and for recognizing when they intersect\, contributing to shifts in the intersubjective fields\, altering relationships and shaping development. I will introduce “Developmental Sibling Relational Systems Theory” and open up space for an in-depth dialogue. Clinical examples will illustrate the necessity of both concepts to fully understand the complexity of an individual’s psychic life. \n\n\n\nPresenter: \n\n\n\nSusan A. Klett\, Ph.D.\, Psy.D.\, LCSW-R\, is a training and supervising analyst at The Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis Los Angeles and a faculty member\, supervising and training analyst at various psychoanalytic institutes in New York City. She is a past President and board member of The Postgraduate Psychoanalytic Society and a former Co-Director and board member of Washington Square Institute for Mental Health. Dr. Klett is the founder and past Director of Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) Training and Skill Group Program at WSI. She has also served as Director of the Scientific Lecture Series at WSI [2009-2014]; co-director of the Education Lecture Series at PPS [2009-2011]; and former Director of Professional Development at the Advanced Clinical Education Foundation [2014-July 2022]. Dr. Klett holds a diplomate in Clinical Social Work from New York State Society for Clinical Social Work. \n\n\n\nHer doctoral dissertation examined historical and contemporary perspectives on siblings in psychoanalysis [2017) and she has taught a course at *postgrad PPSI titled: Sibling Dynamics: Understanding their Impact on Development\, Attachment Style and Character (2020). \n\n\n\nShe is a former contributing editor of Issues in Psychoanalytic Psychology and past co-editor of *postgrad PPSI’s newsletter [2009-2011]. \n\n\n\nDr. Klett is co- author of Analysis of the Incest Trauma: Retrieval\, Recovery\, Renewal (Karnac; 2015) and has published articles and reviews on trauma\, eating disorders\, couple treatment and the psychoanalytic process. She has received a Humanitarian Award for her work with the victims and families of the World Trade Center Disaster (9/11) and has been an invited guest lecturer at various universities in NYC. She has presented nationally and internationally on trauma. Dr. Klett maintains a private practice in Manhattan working with individuals\, couples\, groups and provides supervision to clinicians and consultations to educational organizations. \n\n\n\nLearning Objectives: \n\n\n\nAfter attending this presentation\, participants will be able to: \n\n\n\n\nExplain the difference between the vertical and lateral dimensions of the transference and countertransference and provide an example of a lateral (sibling) transference and/or countertransference.\n\n\n\n List two or three ways a patient may “other” or be the recipient of “othering” by a sibling\, and ways this may truncate their development\, limit the depth and richness of their relationship and transition into lifelong perceptions of self\, self in-relationships and the potential for “othering’ therefore limiting rather than enriching their lives.\n\n\n\n Define the meaning of “The Law of the Mother” and “Seriality” and describe how the use of these concepts can facilitate healthy rather than destructive interactions among siblings.\n\n\n\n Define the meaning of “Developmental Sibling Relational Systems Theory” and the pivotal moment when a traumatic accommodation may occur influencing ones character development; include the impact of sibling(s) on ones’ interpersonal relationships with peers\, and their partner and career choices.\n\n\n\n\nThis program is approved for 3 CE Credit Hours. MPG Consulting is an approved provider of continuing education for Licensed Social Workers (#0119) and for Licensed Psychoanalysts (3P-0034). MPG Consulting\, LCSW\, PLLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health \n\n\n\nA zoom link will be sent to registrants 1-2 days prior to the event \n\n\n\nFor further information or questions please send an email to: \n\n\n\n Russell Merritt\, LCSW: rgm3@columbia.edu \n\n\n\nRegister Now – (Download pdf and mail) URL:https://postgradinstitute.org/event/the-significance-of-the-sibling-experience-its-impact-on-development-identity-and-character/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230430T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230430T151500 DTSTAMP:20260424T114005 CREATED:20230405T154259Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230405T154701Z UID:10000020-1682848800-1682867700@postgradinstitute.org SUMMARY:Sunday\,  One  Day  Conference |  Ethics\, Law and Maintaining Boundaries for New York State Psychotherapists DESCRIPTION:The Postgraduate Psychoanalytic Society & Institute \n\n\n\nCo-sponsoring with MPG Consulting NYC  and  Bruce Hollowe\, JD\, PhD Spring Trimester\, 2022  – 2023 Continuing Education Course on Zoom \n\n\n\nSunday\,  One  Day  Conference Ethics\, Law and Maintaining Boundaries for New York State Psychotherapists5 CE Credit Hours \n\n\n\nSunday April\,  30th\, 2023\, Via Zoom\, 10:00AM  — 3: 15 PM ET \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n5 CE Credit Hours to be approved for :  \n\n\n\nPsychologists\, Social Workers\, Licensed  Psychoanalysts\, Licensed Mental Health Counselors\, Licensed Creative Art TherapistsTitle of the Course:Ethics\, Law\, and Maintaining Boundaries for New York States Psychotherapists \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nCourse Description: \n\n\n\nIn this intensive one day conference\,  we will learn the  basic legal and ethical requirements of New York State’s mental health  laws that govern all the NY States licensed mental health psychotherapy practitioners. In addition\, a particular attention and emphasis will be placed on “maintaining boundary of contact ”  issues which are now mandated by New York State  for  3 credit hours component of the  total 5 CE Credit Hours required  for license renewal.  \n\n\n\nCompletion of this One Day Conference will satisfy the license renewal requirement.  \n\n\n\nLearning Objectives: \n\n\n\n1. Participants will learn basic NY State  legal requirements for mental healthcare providers  practicing in New York State. \n\n\n\n2. Participants will learn about ethical obligations governing their professional conducts  and practice   of psychotherapy in New York State. \n\n\n\n3. Participants will learn about “maintaining Boundaries” \, a newly required segment of 3credit hours continuing education . \n\n\n\nInstructor: \n\n\n\nBruce V. Hillowe\, J.D.\,PhDConsidered one of the foremost experts \, innovators\, and leaders in  mental healthcare law and mediation\, Dr.Bruce V. Hillowe brings us wide ranging knowledge in the ethical and legal issues in the mental health clinical practice of psychotherapy and psychoanalysis . Trained in Law  at Duke University School of Law\, and having practiced as an attorney in private practice  since 1986 with emphasis on  health and mental health care law and mediation\, Dr. Hillowe also trained and  was certified as psychologist-psychoanalyst  at Adelphi University\, Derner Institute\, where he is  currently on faculty as adjunct Professor\, teaching Law and Ethics. \n\n\n\n  Combining his extensive knowledge and  experiences in both litigation and mediation  with his clinical knowledge\, and  with the most updated understanding of New York State mental health laws  and regulations\, Dr. Hillowe will help us to  learn about the New York State legal requirements and understanding of ethical  issues involved in clinical situations clinicians  should be aware of and help us to navigate them with greater clarity . \n\n\n\nAs the new New York State regulations call for the inclusion of  3 CE Credit Hours of  ” Maintaining Boundaries”\,  and all together 5 CE Credit hours of  professional Ethics course for renewal of all mental health  licenses\, this one day conference is designed to fulfill  this important renewal requirement. \n\n\n\nDr. Bruce V. Hillow is an approved New York State provider of Continuing education courses. \n\n\n\nCost:       General Public Admission: $175\,     PPSI Member: $ 125\,\,  Other Institutes and Graduate Students:  $75 \n\n\n\nRegistration Information needed:  Name\, Address\, Telephone number\, email address\, New York State License type and number\, affiliationRegistration Information Contact: Nobuko Meaders\, LCSW\, Tel. #212-228-6988\, Email: \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nOur co-sponsors: \n\n\n\nMPG Consulting NYC\, our cosponsor\,  is an approved provider of continuing education for Licensed Social Workers (#0119)\, \n\n\n\n And Licensed Psychoanalysts (#p-0034) \n\n\n\nBruce Hallowe\, JD\, PhD\,  the presenter and an approved provider of continuing education for Licensed Psychologist  (#psy-0011) \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\nRegister Now URL:https://postgradinstitute.org/event/sunday-one-day-conference-ethics-law-and-maintaining-boundaries-for-new-york-state-psychotherapists/ CATEGORIES:2023 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230425T174500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230425T191500 DTSTAMP:20260424T114005 CREATED:20230416T013107Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230416T013427Z UID:10000021-1682444700-1682450100@postgradinstitute.org SUMMARY:“Neurotic Patients: Toward Greater Integration” DESCRIPTION:Spring Trimester\, 2023  \n\n\n\nContinuing Education Course on Zoom \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n“Neurotic Patients: Toward Greater Integration”Reading Morris N. Eagle\, PhD together on: Tuesdays\, 5:45 pm – 7:15 pm EDTEarn 15 CE creditsApril 25 to June 27\, 2023\, via ZoomWith John E. Morrow\, LCSW\n\n\n\n15 CE Credit Hours for: Licensed Social Workers\, Licensed Psychoanalysts\, Licensed Mental Health Counselors\, Licensed Creative Art Therapists  Program Description: (Please purchase a copy of the book “Towards a Unified Psychoanalytic Theory: Foundation in a Revised and Expanded Ego Psychology\,” by Morris N. Eagle. NY: Routledge\, 2022.)We will be reading\, discussing\, and exploring the proposals set forth by Dr. Eagle\, PhD in his latest book with an emphasis on the various psychoanalytic theories and treatment practices especially in context to the resolution or stagnation of the Oedipal Situation\, Dilemma\, and Complex faced by humans throughout their Life Cycle. The weekly syllabus will include chapter readings from Dr. Eagle’s book\, and suggested readings from the PEP website.Presenter:John E. Morrow\, LCSW is a psychoanalyst\, psychotherapist\, and educator with over 35 years of experience in working with individuals\, couples\, and families. Certified in Psychoanalysis and psychotherapy from the Postgraduate Center for Mental Health\, Mr. Morrow has been active in psychotherapeutic education. He is currently a faculty member\, instructor\, analyst\, supervisor for candidates in training\, and member on the Executive Board Committee at the Postgraduate Psychoanalytic Society and Institute. He was a psychotherapist for eating disorder symptoms; and an executive administrative at the Renfrew Center\, NY; and a psychotherapist\, and a member of the faculty and administration at the Center for the Study of Anorexia and Bulimia\, (CSAB). Trained in a variety of therapeutic modalities such as CBT\, DBT\, ACT\, Mr. Morrow has attempted to integrate psychoanalytic theories and practices with cognitive-behavioral\, neuropsychological and Buddhist psychotherapy. He is in private practice in New York City. Learning Objectives:-Participants will learn the current research and revisions of Ego Psychology as it applies to the oedipal situation\, complex and resolution.-Participants will learn the effects of pre-oedipal ego deficits and conflicts on the intrapsychic and interpersonal development towards secure-enough self and other interactions.-Participants will learn how various psychoanalytic theories and practices along with other psychological therapeutic approaches to treatment of pathology promote healthy self-differentiation\, separation\, and individuation of individuals in society.\n\n\n\n\nRegister Now URL:https://postgradinstitute.org/event/neurotic-patients-toward-greater-integration/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230319T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230319T153000 DTSTAMP:20260424T114005 CREATED:20230223T191927Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230223T193601Z UID:10000019-1679230800-1679239800@postgradinstitute.org SUMMARY:Diving Right In: Engaging Social Forces in the Consulting Room DESCRIPTION:With \n\n\n\nSarah Hill\, LCSW & Priti Doshi\, JD\, LP \n\n\n\nSunday\, March 19\, 2023\, 1:00-3:30pm\, on Zoom \n\n\n\n3 CE credit hours for Social Workers and Licensed Psychoanalysts holding Licenses in New York State \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nProgram Description: \n\n\n\nAs psychoanalysts\, we are trained to tune into unfolding psychodynamics in the consulting room. But many of us feel ill equipped to make meaning out of the intersubjective mingling of our social locations with those of our patients.  \n\n\n\nHow does the analyst traverse the various similarities and differences of both the patient’s and the analyst’s social identities around race\, gender\, sexuality\, and socioeconomic class? \n\n\n\nSocial location\, or positionality\, has an enormous influence on shaping each analytic dyad’s clinical process\, and can lead to enactments generated not only by unconscious psychic forces\, but also conscious and unconscious social ones\, such as bi-directional racism\, sexism\, homophobia\, transphobia\, classism. These forces tilt power dynamics back and forth between the analyst and the patient.  \n\n\n\nIn this workshop\, we invite participants to bring awareness to their various social identities\, and to those of their patients\, and to consider how each dyad inevitably embodies dynamics along oscillating axes of social power\, while remaining cognizant of the inherent power differential between analyst and patient.  \n\n\n\nWe will consider the role of intersectionality\, and will pay special attention to trauma\, and associated affects such as fear\, rage\, and shame\, both expressed and dissociated.   \n\n\n\nToo often\, the social matrix of transference/countertransference is simply interpreted on the psychodynamic level\, but is not often enough recognized in its own right\, holding its own valuable source of meaning and process. \n\n\n\nThe more consciousness we develop around positionality\, the more we invite healing on both the psychic and social levels of experience\, creating a more expansive field. \n\n\n\nWe will provide clinical examples from our practices of working with our own social location and that of our patients\, with the hopes of inviting participants to bring increased curiosity to this dimension of their work.  \n\n\n\nLearning Objectives: \n\n\n\n\nParticipants will learn to identify and reflect upon their own social location/positionality in the consulting room.\n\n\n\n\n\nParticipants will learn to consider the impact of their positionality as it relates to power and privilege in the consulting room.\n\n\n\n\n\nParticipants will learn to better navigate the ways in which social location impacts the transference/countertransference matrix as well as the intersubjective field.   \n\n\n\n\n\nParticipants will learn to pay special attention to intersectionality in the analytic dyad\, and the impact of trauma when navigating social forces in the consulting room. \n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nPresenters: \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSarah Hill\, LCSW is a psychoanalyst and craniosacral therapist in private practice in New York City. She is a supervisor\, faculty member\, and training analyst at National Institute for the Psychotherapies Training Institute (NIP TI)\, an adjunct professor at Union Theological Seminary\, and a board member at CESSA\, a center for mental health and spirituality in Port-au-Prince\, Haiti. \n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\nPriti Doshi\, JD\, LP is a licensed psychoanalyst and an Attachment-Focused EMDR therapist trained by the Parnell Institute. She is on the faculty of The National Institute for the Psychotherapies and The Manhattan Institute for Psychoanalysis.  She works with individuals and couples in her private practice located in the West Village. She has a deep interest in working with the Asian/Asian American population. In 2020\, she ran a South Asian Women Therapy Group.  \n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nModerator: \n\n\n\nRussell Merritt\, LCSW\, Faculty & Senior Supervisor\, \n\n\n\nPostgraduate Psychoanalytic Society and Institute \n\n\n\nA zoom link will be sent to registrants 1-2 days prior to the event. \n\n\n\nFor further information or questions please send an email to: \n\n\n\n       Russell Merritt\, LCSW: rgm3@columbia.edu \n\n\n\n       If you do not receive a timely email response\, please telephone: \n\n\n\n       Nobuko Meaders\, LCSW: 212-228-6988. \n\n\n\nThis program is approved for 3 CE Credit Hours. \n\n\n\nMPG Consulting is an approved provider of continuing education for Licensed Social Workers (#0119) and for Licensed Psychoanalysts (3P-0034). MPG Consulting\, LCSW\, PLLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nTo register\, please download\, complete and mail this form with payment>> URL:https://postgradinstitute.org/event/diving-right-in-engaging-social-forces-in-the-consulting-room/ CATEGORIES:2023,Sunday Dialogue Program END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230131T164500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230131T183000 DTSTAMP:20260424T114005 CREATED:20230111T194929Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230111T195820Z UID:10000018-1675183500-1675189800@postgradinstitute.org SUMMARY:Transforming Narcissism: DESCRIPTION: Reflections on Empathy\, Humor and Expectations \n\n\n\n\n\nThe Postgraduate Psychoanalytic Society & InstituteCo-sponsoring with MPG Consulting NYCpresentsWinter Trimester\, 2022 – 2023 Continuing Education Course on Zoom10 CE Credit Hours  Dates:  5 sessions\, 10 CE Credit Hours anticipated                                                      5 Tuesdays: 5:45 — 7:30PM   January\, 31\, February\, 7\, 14\, 21\, 28\, 2023Transforming Narcissism: Reflections on Empathy\, Humor and Expectationswith  Frank M. Lachmann\, PhD\n\n\n\nIn this intensive 5 session course\, we are pleased to have Dr . Frank M Lachman presents updates of Kohut’s Self Psychological proposals by drawing on empirical infant research\, psychoanalytic and psychotherapeutic literature and practice\, and contributions from other humanities such as social psychology and creative artists. He expands and modifies Kohut’s ideas of transforming archaic narcissism\, in the course of development and in therapeutic engagement\, into such qualities as empathy\, humor\, creativity\, acceptance and wisdom .Dr. Lachman clarifies that these qualities are not the goal or the end product of treatment\, but rather they are the intrinsic part of ongoing  bidirectional therapeutic relationships \, which impact on both patients and therapist to undergo the transformation of affect. Meeting expectations of emotional responsiveness in empathy provides a major pathway for the transformation of affect . Utilizing the book \, entitled the same as this course: Transforming Narcissism: Reflections on Empathy\, Humor\, and Expectations ( Routledge\, 2007)\, Dr. Lachmann will focus on applying this broad view of narcissism to clinical practices. Participants are encouraged to bring in clinical issues relevant to this topic. The course is based on the book\, now available in paperback and Kindle\, and students are to read the two chapters each of the first four classes\, and three chapters for the last class.Learning Objectives:1. To avoid moralizing and pathologizing narcissism and to view its crucial contribution to organizing the sense of self\,2. To appreciate the fundamental place of empathy in the treatment relationship and recognize its contribution to meeting or failing to meet one:s expectations3. To engage and. Include both the analysts”s and the patient’s humanity in the therapeutic process.About Presenter: Frank M. Lachman\, PhD Dr. Lachmann is a revered faculty member\, Senior Supervisor\, and Training Analyst of the Postgraduate Psychoanalytic Society & Institute. A graduate of the Fellowship Training Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis at Postgraduate Center for Mental Health\, our predecessor Institute\, he was its Senior Supervisor and Training Analyst\, and a founding member of the Postgraduate Psychoanalytic Society in 1981. He is a founding Faculty member of the Institute for the Psychoanalytic Study of Subjectivity. He is also Clinical Assistant Professor at New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. A prolific author of more than 100 articles in the Journal literature\, he is author of numerous books including Transforming Narcissism: Reflection a on Empathy\, Humor and Expectations ( Routledge\, 2007)\, and many more\, including  Transforming Aggression (Aronson\, 2000 )\, and co-author of Infant Research and Adult Treatment ( Analytic Press\, 2002).Cost: General Public Admission: $350\,    PPSI Member: $ 250\, Other Institutes and Graduate Students: $150.Information \, Question Contact: Nobuko Meaders\, LCSW.  Email: nobukomeaders@gmail.com Telephone\, 212-228-6988This program is approved for 10 CE Credit Hours:MPG Consulting\, NYC is NEW York State Education Department approved provider of continuing education for Licensed social workers (#0119) and Licensed Psychoanalysts (#P-0034)Please download pdf form to register.REGISTER NOW>> URL:https://postgradinstitute.org/event/transforming-narcissism/ CATEGORIES:2023 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221204T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221204T153000 DTSTAMP:20260424T114005 CREATED:20221028T183519Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221028T183815Z UID:10000017-1670158800-1670167800@postgradinstitute.org SUMMARY:Radical Psychoanalysis — Laplanche in America DESCRIPTION:Co-sponsoring with MPG Consulting NYC \nInvite You to Our Sunday Dialogue Program \nRadical Psychoanalysis — Laplanche in America with Gila Ashtor\, PhD\, LP\nSunday\, December 4\, 2022\, 1:00-3:30pm\, on Zoom \n3 CE credit hours for Social Workers and Licensed Psychoanalysts holding Licenses in New York State \n  \nProgram Description: \nJean Laplanche is one of the leading theorists in French psychoanalytic thought\, but his writing has only recently been translated into English; thus\, his theories remain largely underrepresented in contemporary psychoanalytic discourse. Gila Ashtor’s Exigent Psychoanalysis\, The Interventions of Jean Laplanche (Routledge\, 2021) represents an important contribution to a new wave of American scholarship that explicates Laplanche’s contributions for Anglophone readers. \n  \nIn this presentation\, Ashtor demonstrates how Laplanche’s radical innovations offer a critical and provocative alternative to the dominant strands of psychoanalysis today\, drawing lines between his theories; his critique of Freud; affect and queer theories; and the fractious development of American psychoanalysis \n  \nLearning Objectives: \nAt the conclusion of this presentation the participant will be able to: \n  \n\nDescribe what Laplanche means by the competing “Ptolemaic” and “Copernican” tendencies of psychoanalysis.\nDescribe the importance of the “seduction theory” to psychoanalysis\, and in particular\, how Laplanche’s ideas on this topic differ from existing formulations.\nDefine Laplanche’s concept of ‘enlarged’ sexuality and describe the meaning of this idea.\nDescribe how Laplanche’s theory of translation differs from prevailing theories of motivation.\n(Explain how Laplanche’s ideas of seduction\, sexuality and translation conduce to new conceptual foundations for psychoanalysis.\n\nPresenter: \nGila Ashtor\, PhD\, LP is a professor\, psychoanalyst and writer. Her areas of academic and clinical expertise are trauma\, affective disorders\, identity\, and sexuality. In addition to Exigent Psychoanalysis: The Interventions of Jean Laplanche\, she is the author of Homo Psyche: On Queer Theory and Erotophobia (Fordham UP\, 2021) and an experimental memoir\, Aural History (Punctum\, 2020). She teaches at Columbia University and is on the faculty of the Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research (IPTAR) where she teaches and supervises. She is in private practice in New York City. \n  \nModerator: \nRussell Merritt\, LCSW\, Faculty & Senior Supervisor\, \nPostgraduate Psychoanalytic Society and Institute \n  \nA zoom link will be sent to registrants 1-2 days prior to the event. \nFor further information or questions please send an email to: \n  \nRussell Merritt\, LCSW: rgm3@columbia.edu \nIf you do not receive a timely email response\, telephone: \nNobuko Meaders\, LCSW: 212-228-6988. \nThis program is approved for 3 CE Credit Hours \nMPG Consulting is an approved provider of continuing education for Licensed Social Workers (#0119) and for Licensed Psychoanalysts (3P-0034). MPG Consulting\, LCSW\, PLLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health. \n  \nDownload Form to Register Now URL:https://postgradinstitute.org/event/radical-psychoanalysis-laplanche-in-america/ CATEGORIES:2022  END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221016T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221016T143000 DTSTAMP:20260424T114005 CREATED:20220924T221206Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220927T195259Z UID:10000016-1665921600-1665930600@postgradinstitute.org SUMMARY:Resilience: What Does It Mean and Where Does It Come From? DESCRIPTION:Fall Trimester\,2022   \nContinuing Education Course on Zoom \n15 CE Credit Hours   \nDates:   \n5 sessions\, 15 CE Credit Hours  \n5 Sundays : 12:00\, Noon — 2:30 PM   \nOctober\, 16th \, 23rd\, 30th\, November\, 6th\, 13th. \n  \n\nwith  \nClara Mucci\, PhD \n  \nCourse Description: \nA physical concept\, “resilience ” describes the ability of a material being stretched beyond its limits and then being able to return to the original state again. Applied to humans\, the mysterious  concept of resilience describes the ability of a person\, having overcome  severe difficulties thanks to unexpected inner resources. It defines the human ability to resist adversity and/or to respond\, without too much damage\, to trauma of various intensities\, both interpersonal trauma\, and trauma stemming from natural catastrophes or involuntary accidents\, which has different consequences (Mucci 2013\, 2018\, 2022).  Yet human beings differ in the responses to severe traumatic experiences.  Some people go through the most adverse experiences and are capable of struggling\, fighting back  and keeping hope and maintaining healthy attitudes and capacity to care for one’s own and other’s  life\,  while others suffer from extreme consequences\, to the point of becoming ill and losing the capacity to go back to previous health and personality qualities? \nWhere does the difference in the response lie? Are there exquisite biological features that explain the differences\, or is resilience based on a sort of mental strength that we need to better define and clarify? Is resilience  innate or acquired?  And if so\, how and why? \nIn examining these  questions in this intensive five weeks  course\, Dr.  Clara Mucci defines the biological features that create a better resilience to trauma and  explores where the vulnerability to traumatic response  may come from. In addition\, we will analyse which biosocial conditions  contribute to and determine the likelihood for optimal response and  restoration of health\, and which relational and socio-cultural elements create post-traumatic effects in both individuals and collectivities. \nFinally\, the course will give hints as to how to implement and create better resilience in individuals and families  and how to reduce post-traumatic effects\, through therapy and other community interventions. \nLearning Objectives: \n\nTo understand and evaluate levels of traumatizations in individuals\, for clinical purposes.\nLearn how to recognise patterns of long term trauma including intergenerational ones and modalities of psychological transmission\nLearn how to enhance resilience capacity in traumatised individuals and groups \, and  learn how to intervene in the treatment.\n\n  \nCourse Outline: \nLecture 1. October 16 th\, 2022.  Time : 12:00 \, Noon –2.30PM \nIn this first lecture\, we will investigate the biological reasons for better or worse response to traumatization. How is resilience created neurobiologically? Is the response of the HPA axis\, the neurobiological stress system\, innate? And if not so\, when and how is it created? We will consider trauma at any developmental level\, starting in utero.first investigations of what trauma means will be necessary: what does DSM-5 define as trauma and what does PTSD means?  Is PTSD the only way we can define the neurobiological and mental response to traumatic stress or do we need to consider different definitions? We will contrast PTSD with Complex PTSD as in PDM-2 and in ICD-11 and see differences and applications to case histories and treatment. How to create secure attachment and affect regulation in the subject. \n  \nLecture 2. October 23 th\, 2022. Time :12-:00\, Noon — 2:30pm \nDifferences about symptoms and consequences of different traumatizations: trauma of human agency versus trauma due to natural catastrophes. Three levels of trauma of human agency. Dissociative symptoms and structures as signs of trauma of human agency. Responses to this kind of trauma: symptoms and distorted patterns in evaluating reality. How affect dysregulations is created in individuals and how to enhance the capacity for better regulation and to limit symptomatology. \n  \nLecture 3. October 30\, 2022. Time 12:00\, Noon – – 2.30 pm \nSecure insecure and disorganized attachment; post traumatic effects in the long term. Cumulative traumatizations and the treatment of trauma of human agency. PTSD and Complex PTSD. \nHow to distinguish and diagnose levels of traumatizations even intergenerationally. \n  \nLecture 4. November 6\, time 12\, Noon – – 2.30 PM \nTransmission of trauma through generations. Studies on three generations of post-traumatic disorders. The dynamics of transmissions and the neurobiology of transmission. Resilience as an acquired capacity due to early experience and lack of intergenerationally transmitted vulnerabilities. ACE research and reflections on resilient bodies and ways to fight physical illness not only psychologically transmitted illness. \n  \nLecture 5. November 1 th\, 2022: Time 12:00\, Noon —2.30PM \nPsychosomatic illnesses of traumatic origins. Neurobiological and psychodynamic research. What does it mean to survive trauma and to thrive after it; resilience and forgiveness or overcoming the negative identification with one’s tragic story. \n  \nAbout Presenter: \nClara Mucci\, PhD is a graduate of Emory University in English Literature and Psychoanalysis\,  and Genoa University\, Italy\, and University of Chieti\, Italy as well Specialization in Psychoanalytic  Psychotherapy\, (SIPP) in Milan\, Italy She was a full professor  in English  Literature and is the expert in Shakespere.  She is currently a professor \,teachingDynamic Psychology atUniversity of Bergamo\, Italy. Besides numerous international  professional group membership\, she is  a faculty at Societa Italiana Psicoanalisis e Psicoterapia  -SandorFerenczi\,Italian Society of Sandor Fernczi. \n\nAuthor of numerous monographs on Shakespeare and psychoanalysis\, her major publications in English include: Beyond Individual Collective Trauma  (Karnac\, 2013). She is the co-author  with Dr. Rachman of the book\, Ferenczi’s Confusion ofTongue  theory of Trauma: A Relational/Neurobiological Perspectives.(London\,Routledge\, 2022). Her most recent publication  is a book  published this summer\, 2022 : Resilience and Survival. Understanding and Healing Intergenerational Trauma. \n(London\, Karnac\, 2022) \nWith this extremely timely subject\, we  are happy  to welcome back Dr. Mucci in response to many requests  for her next lectures from  the past audience. \nCost; \nGeneral Public :$325\,  PPSI Members: $225\,    PPSI Students: $125 \n Make check payable to: The postgraduate Psychoanalytic Society-Institute \n Mail to: PPSI\, POBox 2031\,  Madison square Station\, New York\, NY 10010 \nPlease include Registration information for registration\, and for Zoom  Link \nRegistration Information needed:  CLICK TO DOWNLOAD FORM \nFor more information\, Contact: \n    Nobuko Meaders\,lCSW     \n             Telephone: 212-228-6988 \n             E mail: nobukomeaders@gmail.com \n             Website: postgrad.psychoanalytic@gmail.com \nMPG Consulting NYC is  an approved provider of continuing education for Licensed Social Workers (#0119) and for LicensedPsychoanalysts (3p-0034)\,MPG Consulting \,LCSW\,PLL is recognized by the New York State EducationDepartment’s State Board for Mental Health. \n\n  URL:https://postgradinstitute.org/event/resilience-what-does-it-mean-and-where-does-it-come-from/ CATEGORIES:2022  END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220426T054500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220426T190000 DTSTAMP:20260424T114005 CREATED:20220407T205236Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220407T205859Z UID:10000015-1650951900-1650999600@postgradinstitute.org SUMMARY:Ferenczi's Confusion of Tongues Theory of Trauma: A Relational/ Neurobiological Perspective DESCRIPTION:Spring Trimester\, 2022 | Continuing Education Course on Zoom \nA 10 session Course\, 15 CE Credit Hours   \n5 Tuesdays: 5:45 PM — 7:00PM \, April 26th\, May 3rd\, 10th\, 17th\, 24th\, \n5 Sundays: 1:00 PM —2:15 PM May 29th\, June 5th\, 12th\, 19th\, 26th. \nFerenczi’s Confusion of Tongues Theory of Trauma: A Relational/ Neurobiological Perspective\nwith  Arnold Wm. Rachman\, PhD & Clara Mucci\, PhD \n\nCourse Description:  \nIn this 10-week course\, Arnold Wm. Rachman\, PhD and Clara Mucci\, PhD will introduce and examine \, Ferenczi’s Confusion of Tongue Theory\, which they consider to be an alternative to Freud’s  theory of the Oedipal Complex and that they regard to be the first major paradigm shift for psychoanalysis. They will present the historical development of Ferenczi’s ideas\, the first Relational approach to trauma disorder\, which is seen as originating from actual relational disturbances in family interactions\, as opposed to Freud’s biologically based stimulus of the Oedipal Complex. \nThey will also demonstrate applications of Ferenczi’s ideas to current clinical situations and consider traumatic development and its enactment from modern relational and neurobiological perspectives. They assert that Ferenczi’s early relational perspectives opened up what is now referred to as the two-person psychology orientation of trauma analysis. \nCourse Outline:  \n\nFerenczi’s Confusion of Tongues Paradigm: The Origin of Trauma Theory in Psychoanalysis.\nConfusion of Tongues Theory as a paradigm Shift for Psychoanalysis\nThe Trauma Analysis of Elizabeth Severn:” R.N.” in Ferenczi’s Clinical Diary (1988).\nA Contemporary Trauma Analysis: The Case of “W”\, an Outsider Artist.\nFerenczi’s Confusion of Tongue Theory and the Development of Relational Analysis.\nTraumatic Developments and Complex PTSD.\nThree levels of Trauma of Human Agency.\nTwo Paths to Psychopathology: Dissociation vs Repression.\nEnactments and right brain unconscious communication.\nTherapy with the Traumatized Patient: Trauma and Human Agency.\n\n Learning Objectives   \n\nUnderstand the origin and development of Sandor Ferenczi’s Confusion of Tongues Theory\, which opened a new relational paradigm in the psychoanalysis of trauma\, as opposed to Freud ‘s view of trauma as biologically driven\, unconscious stimuli.\nExpand the boundaries of psychoanalytic theory and treatment\, to include an integrated two person perspectives.\nTo be able to distinguish and evaluate in the psychodynamic diagnosis of the various levels of traumatization\, the consequences for mind and body from using the neurobiological perspective\, the concept of the internalization of the persecutor\, or the revictimizing dynamics of human harm at both the individual and collective level.\n\nAbout Presenters:  \nArnold Wm. Rachman\, PhD is a faculty member\, and Senior Supervisor and Training Analyst at the Postgraduate Psychoanalytic Society & Institute. A graduate of The Fellowship Training Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis of the Postgraduate Center for Mental Health\, our predecessor institute\, he was a Senior Supervisor and Training Analyst. He is also a Senior Supervisor and Training Analyst on the Faculty of the Postdoctoral Program in Psychoanalysis at New York University\, and Associate Professor of Psychiatry at New York Medical Center. As  one of the earliest psychoanalysts to credit Ferenczi’s contribution to psychoanalytic discourse in the United States\, Dr. Rachman has taught and is on the Board of Directors of the Sandor Ferenczi Center. The New School for Social Research\, NYC. He is an Honorary Member of The Sandor Ferenczi Society\, Budapest\, Hungary.  A prolific author in addition to being a dedicated psychoanalytic educator and clinician\, Dr. Rachman has published 14 books to date. His latest publication is\, Psychoanalysis and Society’s Neglect of Sexual Abuse of Children\, Youth and Adults: Re-addressing Freud’s Original Theory of Sexual Abuse and Trauma. London: Routledge\, (2022).  His upcoming book co-authored with Dr. Clara Mucci\, Sandor Ferenczi’s Confusion of Tongues Theory of Trauma:Relational/Neurological Perspective.\, London: Routledge\, is to be published in the spring. \nClara Mucci\, PhD is a graduate of Emory University in English Literature and Psychoanalysis. She also graduated from Genoa University\, Italy\, and  the University of Chieti\, Italy\, Specialization in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy\, (SIPP) in Milan\, Italy. She was a full professor in English Literature and is an expert in Shakespeare. She is currently a professor\, teaching Dynamic Psychology at the University of Bergamo\, Italy. Besides being a member of numerous professional international groups\, she is a faculty member at Societa Italiana Psicoanalisis e Psicoterapia – Sandor Ferenczi. Author of numerous monographs on Shakespeare and psychoanalysis\, her major publications in English include Beyond Individual Collective Trauma (Karnac\, 2013). She is the co-author with Dr. Rachman of the upcoming book\, Sandor Ferenczi’s Confusion of Tongues  Theory  of Trauma: Relational Neurobiological Perspectives. (London\, Routledge\, 2022). \nCost:  General Public: $325\, PPSI Members: $225\, Students: $125 \nMake check payable to: The Postgraduate Psychoanalytic Society-Institute\, (PPSI) \nMail to: PPSI\, PO Box 2031\, Madison Square Station\, New York\, NY 10010 \nFor more information\, Please Contact: \nNobuko Meaders\, LCSW\, Telephone: 212-228-6988 \nEmail: Nobuko Meaders nobukomeaders@gmail.com\, \npostgrad.psychoanalytic@gmail.com \nMPG Consulting NYC is an approved provider of continuing education for Licensed Social Workers (#0119) and for Licensed Psychoanalysts (3P-0034). MPG Consulting\, LCSW\, PLLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health \nTo Register: Please print and fill the registration information and mail it with your payment to the PO Box address listed below. \n  \n  URL:https://postgradinstitute.org/event/ferenczis-confusion-of-tongues-theory-of-trauma-a-relational-neurobiological-perspective/ CATEGORIES:2022  END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220327T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220327T153000 DTSTAMP:20260424T114005 CREATED:20220311T193816Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220311T194154Z UID:10000014-1648386000-1648395000@postgradinstitute.org SUMMARY:Repression vs. Dissociation | Two different paths for psychopathology DESCRIPTION:The Postgraduate Psychoanalytic Society and Institute\, Co-sponsoring with MPG Consulting NYC \nInvite you to our Sunday Dialogue Program: Repression vs. Dissociation | Two different paths for psychopathology\nClara Mucci\, PhD \nSunday\, March 27\, 2022\, 1:00-3:30pm (EDT)\, on Zoom \n3 CE credit hours for Social Workers and Licensed Psychoanalysts holding Licenses in New York State \nClick to download registration form>>\n\n\n\nProgram Description\nRecent research on trauma\, attachment and neuroscience point at a clear divide in psychopathology between disorders based on repression and psychopathologies structured on dissociative mechanisms\, a response to severe interpersonal trauma. In this presentation Dr. Clara Mucci will analyze and discuss the main differences between forms of psychopathology and symptoms as they relate to both repression and dissociation. Dr. Mucci will trace the difference between Freud’s initial theory of trauma in contrast to Ferenczi’s development of trauma theory in the direction of real interpersonal traumatization. The relationship of the trauma of human agency\, or interpersonal trauma (Complex PTSD) will be contrasted with the descriptions of PTSD intended in the DSM. \nClara Mucci (PhD\, 1999\, Emory University\, Atlanta\, in English Literature and Psychoanalysis; Doctorate in Anglistics\, Genoa University\, Italy; Degree in Clinical Psychology\, University of Chieti\, and Specialization in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy\, Milan\, SIPP) was a full professor of English Literature and Shakespearean Drama until 2012. She is a member of SIPP (Società italiana psicoterapia psicoanalitica)\, IARPP\, APA-Division39 (Psychoanalysis)\, and a Psychoanalyst in private practice in Milan\, Italy with training functions for SIPeP-SF (Società italiana psicoanalisi e psicoterapia-Sandor Ferenczi). \nShe is the author of various monographs on Shakespeare and psychoanalytic theory. Within the psychoanalytic field\, her major publications in English are Beyond Individual and Collective Trauma (Karnac\, 2013\, reprinted Routledge\, 2017)\, Borderline Bodies: Affect Regulation Therapy for Personality Disorders (Norton\, 2018)\, and\, forthcoming\, Resilience and Survival. Understanding and Healing Intergenerational Trauma. London\, Confer\, 2022. She is the co-editor\, with G. Craparo\, of Unrepressed Unconscious\, Implicit Memory and Clinical Work (Karnac\, 2017). \nShe was Visiting Scholar at the Comparative Literature and Society Program at Columbia University\, New York\, Fellow for six months of the Personality Disorders Institute at the Presbyterian Hospital\, White Plains and New York\, under the guidance of Dr. Otto Kernberg\, and Visiting Scholar at the New School\, Department of Psychology. She obtained certification for the Adult Attachment Interview (trainers Jukobvitz and Dazzi; University of California at Berkeley) and for Reflective Functioning (training with Howard Steele\, New School). She lectures extensively in Europe and in the US and is a teacher and supervisor in several training schools of psychoanalysis and psychotherapy in Italy\, England (Confer)\, and the US (NIP). \nLearning Objectives\nUpon completion\, attendees will be able to: \n\ntrace the historical and theoretical differences in psychoanalytic trauma theory as they relate to the theories of Freud and Ferenczi;\n understand and discuss the developmental and structural differences between repression and dissociation and their different connections to interpersonal trauma;\n see the differences in the treatment of non-intentional traumas\, such as natural catastrophes\, and trauma stemming from interpersonal violence and abuse—only trauma of human agency causes dissociation.\n\nA zoom link will be sent to registrants 1-2 days prior to the event. \nFor further information or questions please send an email to: \n           Russell Merritt\, LCSW: rgm3@columbia.edu \n           If you do not receive a timely email response\, telephone \n           Nobuko Meaders\, LCSW: 212-228-6988 \nThis program is approved for 3 CE Credit Hours. \nMPG Consulting is an approved provider of continuing education for Licensed Social Workers (#0119) and for Licensed Psychoanalysts (3P-0034). MPG Consulting\, LCSW\, PLLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health. URL:https://postgradinstitute.org/event/repression-vs-dissociation-two-different-paths-for-psychopathology/ CATEGORIES:Sunday Dialogue Program END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220220T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220220T153000 DTSTAMP:20260424T114005 CREATED:20220128T221637Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220208T205357Z UID:10000013-1645362000-1645371000@postgradinstitute.org SUMMARY:Who’s Splitting Who? Cultural change and the clinical management of aggression DESCRIPTION: The Postgraduate Psychoanalytic Society and Institute Co-sponsoring with MPG Consulting NYC\n\nInvite you to our Sunday Dialogue Program\n\nWho’s Splitting Who? Cultural change and the clinical management of aggression\n\nwith David Anderegg\, PhD\nSunday\, February 20\, 2022\, 1:00-3:30pm\, on Zoom\n3 CE credit hours\n\n\nProgram Description\nClinicians of a certain age may feel\, at times\, like the cultural conditions that grounded our concepts of treatment have shifted under our feet. One such concept is the treatment of splitting: there is a traditional clinical dogma that split-off aggression is an indicator and a cause of personality pathology\, and\, therefore\, aggression needs to be addressed\, and survived\, in a two-person relationship in order for psychic growth to occur. But contemporary life does not support this activity. In many contemporary settings and institutions\, an older clinician might see split-off aggression being allowed or encouraged as people\, especially younger people\, have come to expect that they are entitled to feel “safe.” The current paper attempts to operate from a position of neutrality: maybe our young people are being encouraged in unhealthy splitting…or maybe our theories of personality pathology are outmoded. Or neither. Or both.\n\n\n\nSpeaker\nDavid Anderegg PhD did his pre-doctoral training at Boston’s Beth Israel Hospital and post-doctoral training at the Austen Riggs Center in Stockbridge\, MA. He has held faculty appointments at Harvard Medical School\, Tufts University\, and Smith College School of Social Work\, and recently retired after 22 years of teaching psychology at Bennington College. He maintains a private practice of psychodynamic psychotherapy of children and adults in Lenox\, MA.\, and teaches and supervises in the psychiatry residency program at Berkshire Medical Center in Pittsfield\, MA. He has served for many years on the editorial board of Psychoanalytic Psychology and has published on the topics of play and creativity in psychotherapy. He is also the author of two popular-press books on developmental psychology topics\, Worried All the Time and Nerds\, and has published on the op-ed pages of major metropolitan dailies including the Los Angeles Times and the New York Times.\n\nRussell Merritt (Moderator)\nRussell Merritt\, LCSW\, Faculty & Senior Supervisor\,\nPostgraduate Psychoanalytic Society and Institute\n\nLearning Objectives\nUpon completion\, attendees will be able to\n\nEvaluate traditional psychoanalytic theories of the role of splitting in personality pathology;\nDescribe and recognize institutional practices that may support or encourage splitting;\nEvaluate and/or revise traditional approaches to splitting in accordance with contemporary institutional life.\n\n\nClick here to download the fillable pdf>>\nA zoom link will be sent to registrants 1-2 days prior to the event.\nFor further information or questions please send an email to:\n\n      Russell Merritt\, LCSW: rgm3@columbia.edu\n      If you do not receive a timely email response\, telephone:\n      Nobuko Meaders\, LCSW: 212-228-6988\n\nThis program is approved for 3 CE Credit Hours\n\nMPG Consulting is an approved provider of continuing education for Licensed Social Workers (#0119) and for Licensed Psychoanalysts (3P-0034). MPG Consulting\, LCSW\, PLLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health. URL:https://postgradinstitute.org/event/whos-splitting-who-cultural-change-and-the-clinical-management-of-aggression/ CATEGORIES:Sunday Dialogue Program END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220125T174500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220125T190000 DTSTAMP:20260424T114005 CREATED:20220111T161116Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220111T165526Z UID:10000011-1643132700-1643137200@postgradinstitute.org SUMMARY:The Foundations of  Psychoanalytic Discourse DESCRIPTION:The Postgraduate Psychoanalytic Society & Institute\nwith MPG consulting\n\npresents: Winter Trimester\, 2022\n\nContinuing Education Course on Zoom\n\n10 sessions\, 15 CE Credit Hours\, Tuesdays 5:45PM — 7:00PM\, ( January\, 25th — March\,29th\, 2022)\n\n\nThe Foundations of Psychoanalytic Discourse\n\nwith\nElliot Adler\, PhD.\,ADPP\n  \n\n\nIn this 10 week course\, Dr Adler will attempt to present what he believes are the fundamental understandings\, beliefs and perspectives that uniquely define and organize a contemporary psychoanalytic approach to therapy. In attempting to synthesize his almost half-century of experience as a psychoanalytic clinician\, he will offer a vision of the therapeutic work that is as free of jargon and tendentious theoretical bias as possible.\n\nTraditional therapeutic concepts\, such as transference\, defense\, resistance\, counter-transference\, interpretation\, etc. will be considered from the way these abstract conceptualizations reflect observable events that arise and must be addressed in specific analytic contexts. A central theme that will be developed in this course will emphasize how all psychological meaning is embedded in unique contexts of experience that must first be discovered and described in communicable language in order to achieve enduring therapeutic effects.\n\nLearning Objectives:\n\nFor students to understand the specific elements of a psychoanalytic relationship that define a psychoanalytic treatment distinguished from other modes of psychotherapy.\nTo identify ways of confirming the relevance and appropriateness of our therapeutic interventions.\nTo provide students with a historical context within which to understand how contemporary psychoanalytic ways of approaching the work have emerged and evolved.\n\nAbout Presenter:\nDr. Elliot Adler\, PhD\,.ABPP is a Faculty member and Senior Supervisor and Training Analyst at the Postgraduate Psychoanalytic Society & Institute. He was its founding member in 1981 and was a past President in 1983 – 1985. Dr. Adler graduated from The Postgraduate Psychoanalytic Institute in 1974\, and has pursued a career as a teacher\, administrator\, supervisor\, and analytic clinician in private practice\, for almost half a century. He has served as the Associate Dean of Training at the Postgraduate Center for Mental Health; Director of the Westchester Center for the Study of Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy; President of the Section on Psychoanalysis of Division 39 of the American Psychological Association\, Dedicated Psychoanalytic educator and clinician\, Dr. Adler has taught and contributed to psychoanalytic training and education\, not only regionally but also on a national level. He has held faculty positions at many psychoanalytic training centers in New York and in the US. With co-author Janet Bachant\, he published a book on technique\, Working In-Depth; A Clinician’s Guide to Framework and Flexibility in the Psychoanalytic Relationship. In recent years\, he has collaborated on developing a series of theatrical performances dramatizing the early history of the psychoanalytic movement.\n\n\n  \nPlease use this registration form\n  \n\n\nDates and Time\nThis 10 sessions Course ( Jan. 29th — March\, 29th\, 2022) will be offered on Tuesdays\,at 5:45pm — 7;00pm\,  on:\n         January\, 25\n         February\, 1\, 8\, 15\, 22\,\n         March\, 1 \,8\, 15\, 22\, 29\n\nPlace: This course will be presented on Zoom\n\nCost: \nGeneral Public Admission\, $325\, PPSI Member\, $225\, Student\, $125\nMake check payable to:\n  The Postgraduate Psychoanalytic Society-Institute ( PPSI)\nMail check to: PO Box 2031\, Madison Square Station\, NY\, NY 10010\nInclude your information for registration.\n\nRegistration: \n  Name\, Address\, Tel. #\, Email address\, NY State License type and number\, Affiliation should be included for registration.\n\nInformation Contact: Nobuko Meaders\, LCSW\n  < nobukomeaders@gmail.com>\, Tel. #: 212-228-6988\n\nThis Program is approved for 15 CE Credit Hours.\nMPG Consulting is an approved provider of continuing education for Licensed Social Worker (#0119) and for Licensed Psychoanalysts(#P-0034).\nMPG Consulting\, LCSW\,PLLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health.\n< URL:https://postgradinstitute.org/event/the-foundations-of-psychoanalytic-discourse/ CATEGORIES:2022 ,Winter 2022 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220116T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220116T153000 DTSTAMP:20260424T114005 CREATED:20220111T161600Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220111T164812Z UID:10000012-1642338000-1642347000@postgradinstitute.org SUMMARY:The Creative Arts as Healing/ Healing as a Creative Art DESCRIPTION:Sunday Dialogue Program \nThe Creative Arts as Healing/ Healing as a Creative Art \nwith \nPsychologist\, Charlotte Doyle\, PhD & Composer\, Chester Biscardi \nSunday\, January 16\, 2022\, 1:00-3:30pm\, on Zoom \n3 CE Credit hours \n\nProgram Description: How did celebrated works of art and breakthroughs in science come to be? What was the first inkling? What were the steps and missteps along the way? How was the process experienced by the creative person as it proceeded? These were the questions Charlotte Doyle asked as she explored the lived experience of making of specific works. She followed the clues from traces left behind: diaries\, notebooks\, sketches\, drafts\, letters\, and qualitative interviews. The research culminated in her recent book\, The Creative Process: Stories from the Arts and Sciences. Drawing on a narrative-phenomenological framework\, each chapter tells the story and notes the features of a creative episode as it unfolded.\n\nMany of the stories reveal the imprint of childhood. But can the process resolve personal issues even as the work has universal meaning? How do the features of the creative process contribute to this dual outcome? Chester Biscardi became a co-explorer into the nature of his creative process as Charlotte Doyle interviewed him and read diary entries made during the time he was composing his Piano Quintet. Charlotte and Chet will replicate some of this process in their live dialogue. Chet’s story shows remarkable similarity to that told by Virginia Woolf about the writing of To the Lighthouse—both stories of healing through creating a work of art.\n\nThe creative process is not limited to the arts and sciences. During the discussion period participants will have the opportunity to reflect on their experience of the creative process in psychoanalytic work. How do these experiences match or differ from what has been described? Are new concepts needed?\n  \nCharlotte L. Doyle\, PhD\, is a Professor of Psychology at Sarah Lawrence College. With Wilbert J. McKeachie\, she coauthored the text\, Psychology\, three further editions\, and a Spanish translation. Later she was the sole author of Explorations in Psychology. At the turn of the millennium\, she grappled with the problem of defining psychology by writing the definition entry for the American Psychological Association’s Encyclopedia of Psychology. Research articles include her work on the creative process in children\, fiction writers\, actors\, and teachers; theoretical articles have dealt with conceptualizing the creative domain\, the challenge of creative flow for cognitive psychology\, reasons why we enjoy “sad music\,” and the implications of creativity theory and research for education.  She is also the author of seven picture books for children. Her most recent book\, The Creative Process: Stories from the Arts and Sciences includes a chapter on the creation of two of Chester Biscardi’s compositions. \n  \nChester Biscardi’s music has been performed throughout Asia\, Europe\, and North and South America. His catalog includes At the Still Point\, for orchestra\, Sailors & Dreamers\, for voice and chamber ensemble\, Tight-Rope\, a chamber opera in nine uninterrupted scenes\, Trasumanar\, for twelve percussionists and piano\, and works for piano\, voice\, chorus\, and chamber ensembles\, as well as incidental music for theater\, dance\, and television. Recordings appear on the Albany\, Bridge\, CRI (New World Records)\, New Albion\, and Steinway & Sons labels\, among others\, including a Naxos American Classics release entitled Chester Biscardi: In Time’s Unfolding. Biscardi is a recipient of the Rome Prize\, a Guggenheim Fellowship\, an Academy Award in Music from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters\, and a commission from the Koussevitzky Music Foundation in the Library of Congress\, among numerous other awards and fellowships. Please see chesterbiscardi.com for further information. \n  \n\nRussell Merritt\, LCSW (Moderator) \nFaculty & Senior Supervisor\, Postgraduate Psychoanalytic Society and Institute \n  \nRegistration form\nA zoom link will be sent to registrants one or two days prior to the event. \nFor further information or questions please send an email to: \n  \nRussell Merritt\, LCSW: rgm3@columbia.edu \nIf you do not receive a timely email response\, telephone: \nNobuko Meaders\, LCSW: 212-288-6988 \n  \nThis program is approved for 3CE Credit Hours. \n  \nMPG Consulting is an approved provider of continuing education for Licensed Social Workers (#0119) and for Licensed Psychoanalysts (3P-0034). MPG Consulting\, LCSW\, PLLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health. URL:https://postgradinstitute.org/event/the-creative-arts-as-healing-healing-as-a-creative-art/ CATEGORIES:Sunday Dialogue Program END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201023T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201023T220000 DTSTAMP:20260424T114005 CREATED:20200403T192517Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200403T192517Z UID:10000010-1603483200-1603490400@postgradinstitute.org SUMMARY:Friday Night Dialogue Program DESCRIPTION:The Nature of Authority in Psychoanalytic Education and\n\nThe Nature of Psychoanalytic Authority in Treatment URL:https://postgradinstitute.org/event/friday-night-dialogue-program-2/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200221T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200221T220000 DTSTAMP:20260424T114005 CREATED:20200224T135451Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200224T144444Z UID:10000009-1582311600-1582322400@postgradinstitute.org SUMMARY:Friday Night Dialogue Program DESCRIPTION:Save the Date\nThe Postgraduate Psychoanalytic Society & Institute\nCo-sponsor with MPG Consulting\n  \nPresents \n Friday Night Dialogue Program\n3 CE Credit Hours\n  \nFriday\, February 21st\, 2020\, 7:00 -10:00 pm \nAt: Greenwich House Music School\, Auditorium \n46 Barrow St\, NY\, NY 10014 (West of 7th Avenue/Bleecker St.) \n  \nOne Glorious Noise:\nHow the Voice of Bruce Springsteen Found Its Way \nInto My Consulting Room \nWith \nOna Lindquist\, LCSW\nHaving worked with a variety of creative artists in her practice\, Ms. Ona Lindquist has written and presented a number of innovative papers\, bringing a unique form of creativity to the clinical process. She will focus on her use of popular culture in the clinical process to elicit and deepen the understanding of both patient’s and therapist’s own internal processes and the meanings that shared experiences of art and popular culture can bring to the course of treatment. The convergence of treatment and art can create rich clinical material\, bringing a form of play and authenticity into the consulting room. Ms. Lindquist will utilize her longtime interest in the work of Bruce Springsteen\, playing some of his songs during her presentation to illustrate how mutually shared cultural exchanges\, such as popular music\, can inform\, facilitate\, energize\, and deepen the therapeutic process. \nDiscussion\, Audience Q &A\, and Dialogue with the presenters  will follow. \n  \nDiscussant: Russell Merritt\, LCSW\nRussell Merritt\, LCSW\, is a Faculty member and Supervisor at the Institute of the\, Postgraduate Psychoanalytic Society &Institute. He is also an Executive Committee member and a Director of the Board at the Postgraduate Psychoanalytic Society & Institute. He was a supervisor and instructor at the Postgraduate Center for Mental Health\, Fellowship Training Program\, our predecessor institute. \n  \nRegistration::  \nGeneral Admission\, $65\,    PPSI member\, $45\,      Student\, $25 \nMake check payable to: The Postgraduate Psychoanalytic Society & Institute (PPSI) and Mail to: PPSI\, PO Box 2031\, Madison Square Station\, NY\, NY 10010 \n  \nInformation:\nNobuko Meaders LCSW nobukomeaders@gmail.com\, Tel.212-Tel. 212-228-6988. \n  \n  \n This Program Is approved for 3 CE Credit Hour\nMPG Consultant is an approved provider of continuing education for Licensed Social Workers (#0119) and for Licensed Psychoanalysts (#P-0034). MPG Consulting LCSW\, PLLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health URL:https://postgradinstitute.org/event/friday-night-dialogue-program/ LOCATION:Greenwich House Music School\, Auditorium 46 Barrow St\, NY\, NY 10014 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR