The Postgraduate Psychoanalytic Society & Institute

Ferenczi's Confusion of Tongues Theory of Trauma: A Relational/ Neurobiological Perspective
2022-04-26 05:45 - 19:00 (America/New_York)
Spring Trimester, 2022 | Continuing Education Course on Zoom
A 10 session Course, 15 CE Credit Hours
5 Tuesdays: 5:45 PM — 7:00PM , April 26th, May 3rd, 10th, 17th, 24th,
5 Sundays: 1:00 PM —2:15 PM May 29th, June 5th, 12th, 19th, 26th.
Ferenczi’s Confusion of Tongues Theory of Trauma: A Relational/ Neurobiological Perspective
with Arnold Wm. Rachman, PhD & Clara Mucci, PhD

Course Description:
In 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.
They 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.
Course Outline:

Ferenczi’s Confusion of Tongues Paradigm: The Origin of Trauma Theory in Psychoanalysis.
Confusion of Tongues Theory as a paradigm Shift for Psychoanalysis
The Trauma Analysis of Elizabeth Severn:” R.N.” in Ferenczi’s Clinical Diary (1988).
A Contemporary Trauma Analysis: The Case of “W”, an Outsider Artist.
Ferenczi’s Confusion of Tongue Theory and the Development of Relational Analysis.
Traumatic Developments and Complex PTSD.
Three levels of Trauma of Human Agency.
Two Paths to Psychopathology: Dissociation vs Repression.
Enactments and right brain unconscious communication.
Therapy with the Traumatized Patient: Trauma and Human Agency.

Learning Objectives

Understand 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.
Expand the boundaries of psychoanalytic theory and treatment, to include an integrated two person perspectives.
To 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.

About Presenters:
Arnold 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.
Clara 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).
Cost: General Public: $325, PPSI Members: $225, Students: $125
Make check payable to: The Postgraduate Psychoanalytic Society-Institute, (PPSI)
Mail to: PPSI, PO Box 2031, Madison Square Station, New York, NY 10010
For more information, Please Contact:
Nobuko Meaders, LCSW, Telephone: 212-228-6988
Email: Nobuko Meaders nobukomeaders@gmail.com,
postgrad.psychoanalytic@gmail.com
MPG 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
To Register: Please print and fill the registration information and mail it with your payment to the PO Box address listed below.

Repression vs. Dissociation | Two different paths for psychopathology
2022-03-27 13:00 - 15:30
The Postgraduate Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, Co-sponsoring with MPG Consulting NYC
Invite you to our Sunday Dialogue Program: Repression vs. Dissociation | Two different paths for psychopathology
Clara Mucci, PhD
Sunday, March 27, 2022, 1:00-3:30pm (EDT), on Zoom
3 CE credit hours for Social Workers and Licensed Psychoanalysts holding Licenses in New York State
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Program Description
Recent 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.
Clara 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).
She 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).
She 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).
Learning Objectives
Upon completion, attendees will be able to:

trace the historical and theoretical differences in psychoanalytic trauma theory as they relate to the theories of Freud and Ferenczi;
understand and discuss the developmental and structural differences between repression and dissociation and their different connections to interpersonal trauma;
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.

A zoom link will be sent to registrants 1-2 days prior to the event.
For further information or questions please send an email to:
Russell Merritt, LCSW: rgm3@columbia.edu
If you do not receive a timely email response, telephone
Nobuko Meaders, LCSW: 212-228-6988
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 Health.

Who’s Splitting Who? Cultural change and the clinical management of aggression
2022-02-20 13:00 - 15:30
The Postgraduate Psychoanalytic Society and Institute Co-sponsoring with MPG Consulting NYC

Invite you to our Sunday Dialogue Program

Who’s Splitting Who? Cultural change and the clinical management of aggression

with David Anderegg, PhD
Sunday, February 20, 2022, 1:00-3:30pm, on Zoom
3 CE credit hours

Program Description
Clinicians 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.

Speaker
David 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.

Russell Merritt (Moderator)
Russell Merritt, LCSW, Faculty & Senior Supervisor,
Postgraduate Psychoanalytic Society and Institute

Learning Objectives
Upon completion, attendees will be able to

Evaluate traditional psychoanalytic theories of the role of splitting in personality pathology;
Describe and recognize institutional practices that may support or encourage splitting;
Evaluate and/or revise traditional approaches to splitting in accordance with contemporary institutional life.

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A zoom link will be sent to registrants 1-2 days prior to the event.
For further information or questions please send an email to:

Russell Merritt, LCSW: rgm3@columbia.edu
If you do not receive a timely email response, telephone:
Nobuko Meaders, LCSW: 212-228-6988

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 Health.

The Foundations of Psychoanalytic Discourse
2022-01-25 17:45 - 19:00
The Postgraduate Psychoanalytic Society & Institute
with MPG consulting

presents: Winter Trimester, 2022

Continuing Education Course on Zoom

10 sessions, 15 CE Credit Hours, Tuesdays 5:45PM — 7:00PM, ( January, 25th — March,29th, 2022)

The Foundations of Psychoanalytic Discourse

with
Elliot Adler, PhD.,ADPP

In 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.

Traditional 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.

Learning Objectives:

For students to understand the specific elements of a psychoanalytic relationship that define a psychoanalytic treatment distinguished from other modes of psychotherapy.
To identify ways of confirming the relevance and appropriateness of our therapeutic interventions.
To provide students with a historical context within which to understand how contemporary psychoanalytic ways of approaching the work have emerged and evolved.

About Presenter:
Dr. 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.

Please use this registration form

Dates and Time
This 10 sessions Course ( Jan. 29th — March, 29th, 2022) will be offered on Tuesdays,at 5:45pm — 7;00pm, on:
January, 25
February, 1, 8, 15, 22,
March, 1 ,8, 15, 22, 29

Place: This course will be presented on Zoom

Cost:
General Public Admission, $325, PPSI Member, $225, Student, $125
Make check payable to:
The Postgraduate Psychoanalytic Society-Institute ( PPSI)
Mail check to: PO Box 2031, Madison Square Station, NY, NY 10010
Include your information for registration.

Registration:
Name, Address, Tel. #, Email address, NY State License type and number, Affiliation should be included for registration.

Information Contact: Nobuko Meaders, LCSW
< nobukomeaders@gmail.com>, Tel. #: 212-228-6988

This Program is approved for 15 CE Credit Hours.
MPG Consulting is an approved provider of continuing education for Licensed Social Worker (#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.
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The Creative Arts as Healing/ Healing as a Creative Art
2022-01-16 13:00 - 15:30
Sunday Dialogue Program
The Creative Arts as Healing/ Healing as a Creative Art
with
Psychologist, Charlotte Doyle, PhD & Composer, Chester Biscardi
Sunday, January 16, 2022, 1:00-3:30pm, on Zoom
3 CE Credit hours

Program 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.

Many 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.

The 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?

Charlotte 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.

Chester 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.

Russell Merritt, LCSW (Moderator)
Faculty & Senior Supervisor, Postgraduate Psychoanalytic Society and Institute

Registration form
A zoom link will be sent to registrants one or two days prior to the event.
For further information or questions please send an email to:

Russell Merritt, LCSW: rgm3@columbia.edu
If you do not receive a timely email response, telephone:
Nobuko Meaders, LCSW: 212-288-6988

This program is approved for 3CE 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.

Friday Night Dialogue Program
2020-10-23 20:00 - 22:00
The Nature of Authority in Psychoanalytic Education and

The Nature of Psychoanalytic Authority in Treatment

Friday Night Dialogue Program
2020-02-21 19:00 - 22:00 | Greenwich House Music School, Auditorium 46 Barrow St, NY, NY 10014
Save the Date
The Postgraduate Psychoanalytic Society & Institute
Co-sponsor with MPG Consulting

Presents
Friday Night Dialogue Program
3 CE Credit Hours

Friday, February 21st, 2020, 7:00 -10:00 pm
At: Greenwich House Music School, Auditorium
46 Barrow St, NY, NY 10014 (West of 7th Avenue/Bleecker St.)

One Glorious Noise:
How the Voice of Bruce Springsteen Found Its Way
Into My Consulting Room
With
Ona Lindquist, LCSW
Having 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.
Discussion, Audience Q &A, and Dialogue with the presenters will follow.

Discussant: Russell Merritt, LCSW
Russell 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.

Registration::
General Admission, $65, PPSI member, $45, Student, $25
Make check payable to: The Postgraduate Psychoanalytic Society & Institute (PPSI) and Mail to: PPSI, PO Box 2031, Madison Square Station, NY, NY 10010

Information:
Nobuko Meaders LCSW nobukomeaders@gmail.com, Tel.212-Tel. 212-228-6988.

This Program Is approved for 3 CE Credit Hour
MPG 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
