Understanding Primitive Mental States Conference Year Three: Psychotic States of Mind
Friday, September 16, 2011, 7:30 – 9:45 pm &
Saturday, September 17, 2011, 9:30 – 11:45 am
A Continuing Education Program of The New York Freudian Society
Friday, September 16, 2011
The Culture Center, 410 Columbus Avenue @ 80th Street
7:30 – 9:45 pm
Narcissistic Identification: Phenomenology and Technical Problems (The Claustrum Revisited)
Alberto Hahn, MD, presenter
Nasir Ilahi, discussant
‘The Claustrum’ is a psychopathological entity that is present in narcissistic and borderline states and consists of a withdrawal from the world of object relations through intrusive identification into internal objects represented in unconscious phantasy by the internal mother’s body. Dr. Hahn will give an overview of the main concepts that may allow us to think further about this constellation in its clinical and theoretical implications.
Saturday, September 17, 2011
The Culture Center, 410 Columbus Avenue @ 80th Street
9:30 – 11:45 am
Clinical Case Presentation
Harmon Biddle, LCSW, Clinical Case Presenter
Alberto Hahn, MD, and Karen Proner, LP, Discussants
Bios:
Susan N. Finkelstein, LCSW, Conference Director and Moderator, is a Training and Supervising Analyst, and faculty member, at the Psychoanalytic Training Institute of NYFS. Ms. Finkelstein’s interest in varying theoretical perspectives has led to extensive program development at NYFS, which have included seminars on analytic listening and case conferences on difficult clinical issues. Ms. Finkelstein also designed a seminar on supervision for Training Analysts at the PTI of NYFS. In 2009, she designed and developed the Understanding Primitive Mental States Program.
Alberto Hahn, MD, a fellow of the British Psychoanalytical Society, is a lecturer and Training Analyst at the Tavistock Clinic in London, where he teaches undergraduate and postgraduate courses on the work of Donald Meltzer, Bion, and psychoanalytic theory and technique. He also teaches regularly in various countries in Europe, the Far East and South America. He translated An Introduction to the Work of Bion, by Leon Grinberg, et al, from Spanish. Dr. Hahn is the editor of Sincerity and Other Works: Collected Papers of Donald Meltzer, and co-authored, with Margaret Cohen, Exploring the Work of Donald Meltzer: A Festschrift.
Nasir Ilahi is a Clinical Assistant Professor in Psychiatry at New York University Medical School and on the faculty of New York University Psychoanalytic Institute. An Honorary Member of New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, he is a graduate and member of the British Psychoanalytic Society. He is also on the faculty of the Western New England Psychoanalytic Institute. His papers and lectures on clinical psychoanalysis focus on primitive mental states and cross-cultural issues.
Karen Proner, LP, is a Training and Supervising Analyst, and faculty member, in the Child and Adolescent Psychoanalysis Program of the Psychoanalytic Training Institute of NYFS. She is also on the faculty of the PTI of NYFS & IPTAR Anni Bergman Parent-Infant Program, as well as the Child Psychotherapy Program of IPTAR. She is a Member of Columbia’s Parent-Infant Program, and a Visiting Faculty member of the Tavistock Child Analytic Training Program in Florence, Italy. She is interested in the Tavistock method of Infant Observation as the foundation for psychoanalytic training.
Harmon Biddle, LCSW, is Training and Supervising Analyst, and Faculty member, at the Psychoanalytic Training Institute of NYFS, where she is also the DC Division Chair of Training and Supervising Analysts. She is a faculty member at the Washington School of Psychiatry. Ms. Biddle has presented at both the APA and IPA on numerous psychoanalytic topics. She has a private practice in Washington, DC.
Objectives:
This seminar is designed to help you:
1. Describe the concept of ‘the claustrum’ as it relates to psychotic states.
2. Apply Meltzer’s theory of the claustrum to the conceptualization of a clinical case.
Who Should Attend:
Mental Health Professionals (psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, licensed therapists, such as LP’s, LCAT’s, LMHC’s, pastoral counselors), and people with an interest in psychodynamic and psychoanalytic thinking and clinical applications.
Registration Fees:
The fee for attending this program is $80. Candidates in psychoanalytic training programs, $60.
The fee for 4 APA-approved CE Credits is an additional $40 (see below).
APA-approved CE Credits:
Psychologists: The New York Freudian Society is approved by the American Psychological Association (APA) to sponsor continuing education programs for psychologists. NYFS maintains responsibility for this program and its content. APA-approved CE credits are granted to participants with documented attendance and completed evaluation forms. Attendance is monitored. Credit will not be granted to registrants who arrive late, or depart early. Credit will be granted to participants who submit a completed evaluation form and payment as described below. It is the responsibility of participants seeking APA-approved CE credits to comply with these requirements.
If you would like CE credit, please give your email address to the identified person at the end of the program. An evaluation form will be emailed to you. You will receive a PDF via email of your CE credits upon receipt of a hard copy of the completed evaluation form and your check (written to NYFS).
Important disclosure information:
None of the planners and presenters of this CE program have any relevant financial relationships to disclose.
If you have any questions, please contact:
Susan Finkelstein, Conference Chair, at 212-254-8501 or susanfcsw@aol.com
REGISTRATION FORM:
Fee: $80.00 ($60.00 Candidates)
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