The Role of Anxiety in Child & Adolescent Development at CFS

The Role of Anxiety in Child & Adolescent Development: A Psychoanalytic Perspective
Panel Presenters: VIRGINIA UNGAR, JAMES HERZOG & MARSHA LEVY-WARREN

November 8th, 2014, Saturday – 9:00am to 4:45pm, Pace University NYC Campus, One Pace Plaza
ANNUAL SCIENTIFIC MEETING OF THE CONTEMPORARY FREUDIAN SOCIETY
Co-Sponsored By: PACE UNIVERSITY DOWNTOWN NYC DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHOLOGY

Psychoanalysis has led to the creation of a new approach to mental development. Psychoanalytic observations have taught us that since the beginning of life babies experience anxieties and libidinal impulses and also great disappointments while organizing their approach to life. In this journey, separation anxieties, bodily anxieties and object-loss anxieties play a central role in the process of psychic development and in the work of becoming oneself. The process of becoming oneself means becoming aware that one is unique and that the Other is also unique. Mental development and maturation as a process is the consequence of how and when this process of “becoming oneself” takes place.

The goal of our meeting today is to elaborate on the role that basic anxieties play in child and adolescent development. The panelists will show how these anxieties take place in the clinical situation, and will connect them with the vicissitudes of normal development.

Following the panel, the conference participants will break into small groups, assisted by a group leader. The groups will have the opportunity to meet with the panelists and to think together about the theoretical and clinical material.

Presentations:
Virginia Ungar, M.D.
ealing with Mental Pain in Childhood and Adolescence:
A Container-Contained Approach

James Herzog, M.D.
Understanding and Mastery Through Play
Marsha Levy-Warren, Ph.D.

Paralysis at the Adolescent Gate: Peter Pan meets Godzilla
Rogelio Sosnik, M.D., Meeting Chair

Conference Schedule:

9:00-9:30 Registration
9:30-9:45 Welcome, Introduction, and Orientation

—Rogelio Sosnik

9:45-10:30 Virginia Ungar, M.D.
10:30-10:45 Questions from the audience
10:45-11:30 James Herzog, M.D.
11:30-11:45 Questions from the audience
11:45-12:30 Marsha Levy-Warren, Ph.D.
12:30-1:00 Questions from the audience
— Dialogue between the Panelists

1:00-2:10 LUNCH

2:15-3:30 Discussion Groups with the participation of the Panelists
3:30-4:45 Conclusions and final discussion
— Rogelio Sosnik, Moderator

Conference Location:

Pace University Student Union: Pace University’s NYC Campus is located across from City Hall on Park Row at City Hall Park. Enter the building at One Pace Plaza; take the elevator to Level B where you will be directed to the Student Union.

By Subway: #1 or #2 to Park Place; #4 or #5 to Brooklyn Bridge-City Hall; N, R, J, Z or M to Chambers Street; #A or #C to Broadway-Nassau Streets.

By Bus: M1 or M6 to Park Place; M101 or M103 to Park Row-City Hall; M15 to South Ferry-Pearl Street. Parking is available on Gold and Spruce Streets.

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Panelists:

Virginia Ungar, M.D. is a full member and training analyst at the Buenos Aires Psychoanalytic Association. She is a specialist on Child and Adolescent Psychoanalysis. She has published numerous papers in Journals and also book chapters. She was a former Latin American Representative to the Board and the Executive Committee of the IPA (2005-2009) and the former Chair and current consultant on the Committee of Child and Adolescent Psychoanalysis of the IPA. (COCAP). She is also Chair of the IPA Integrated Training Committee and member of the Latin American Board of the IJPA.

James Herzog, M.D. is an adult and child psychiatrist and psychoanalyst. He is a training and supervisory analyst at the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute and a Child Analytic Supervisory Analyst there as well. He also supervises at the Sigmund Freud Institute in Zurich, Switzerland. Dr. Herzog’s book Father Hunger was published by the Analytic Press in 2001.

Marsha Levy-Warren, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst, who writes, teaches, lectures, and consults both nationally and internationally. She is the author of The Adolescent Journey (Jason Aronson, 1996; reissued by Rowman and Littlefield, 2004), and numerous articles on clinical and developmental theory, adolescence, and various aspects of culture. She is currently President of The Contemporary Freudian Society (CFS), a component society of the International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA), and a Training and Supervising Psychoanalyst in both the CFS and the IPA. She is also an Adjunct Clinical Associate Professor of Psychology and a Clinical Consultant in New York University’s Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. Dr. Levy-Warren has a clinical practice with adolescents and adults, and a consulting practice with parents on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.

Rogelio Sosnik, M.D. is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Contemporary Freudian Society (CFS) and at the Buenos Aires Psychoanalytic Association (APDEBA), and full member of the International Psychoanalytic Association. He is a member of the American Psychoanalytic Association, where he co-chairs a Discussion Group, “A Classic Unvisited: The Clinical Value of the Ideas of Wilfred Bion,” since 1994, and has published internationally on the subjects of Ethics and Psychoanalysis, and on the works of Sandor Ferenczi and Wilfred Bion. He is a psychoanalyst in private practice in New York.

Discussion Facilitators:

Partial Listing:

Christa Balzert, Irene Cairo, Judith Felton, Andrea Greenman, Kimberly Kleinman, Katherine Oram, Rita Reiswig, Shelley Rockwell, Ann Rudovsky &

Donna Roth Smith

Conference Planning Committee:

Jo Lang, Marsha Levy-Warren & Mark Sossin

Rogelio Sosnik, Chair

We gratefully acknowledge the help and participation of the Department of Psychology, Pace University Downtown, New York City

Sonia Suchday, Chair

Mark Sossin, Liaison Faculty Member

Contemporary Freudian Society &

Psychoanalytic Training Institute

A Component Society of the International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA)

Marsha Levy-Warren, President