PLEASE JOIN NYPSI FOR A YEAR LONG CELEBRATION OF OUR CENTENARY
CELEBRATING A CENTURY OF ADVANCEMENT THROUGH SELF-KNOWLEDGE
THE NEW YORK PSYCHOANALYTIC SOCIETY & INSTITUTE:
KABCENELL MEMORIAL LECTURE
247 East 82nd St., between 2nd & 3rd, NY, NY 10028
212-879-6900
www.psychoanalysis.org
Tuesday, March 8, 2011
8:15 p.m.
Mum’s the Word:
Are We Becoming Silent On Masturbation?
Denia Barrett, MSW
President of The Association for Child Psychoanalysis
Discussant:
Leon Hoffman, M.D.
This eloquent and provocative paper explores the trend in contemporary child analytic technique to avoid addressing material related to masturbation. The author invites the reconsideration of the value of timely, tactful exploration of the child’s impulses, fantasies and related conflicts. The analyst’s resistances to open discussion of masturbatory conflicts are discussed along with the limiting effect this may have on the patient feeling fully understood. Clinical examples of analytic work with children from prelatency through preadolescence whose symptoms range from neurotic conflict to more severe disturbances are provided. This paper is relevant to the work of all analysts-adult, adolescent and child.
DENIA BARRETT, MSW is the current President of the Association for Child Psychoanalysis and a founding member of the Alliance for Psychoanalytic Schools. She served as Editor-in-Chief of the journal Child Analysis: Clinical, Theoretical, and Applied from 1996 to 2010 is currently on the Editorial Board of The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child. Mrs. Barrett was on the faculty of The Hanna Perkins Center from 1994 to 2010. The importance of writing about clinical work in order to preserve psychoanalysis and inspire new practitioners is one of her longstanding interests.
LEON HOFFMAN, M.D. is a Training and Supervising Analyst and Child/Adolescent Supervising Analyst at The New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, where he is also Co-Director of The Research Center and Co-Director of The Pacella Parent Child Center. Dr. Hoffman is Co-Chair of the Committee on Research Education of the American Psychoanalytic Association, is on the faculty of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, and is Chief Psychiatrist at West End Day School.
For information about NYPSI training programs please visit us at www.psychoanalysis.org