New York Freudian Society – NY Division
Scientific Program
The Anna Freud Lecture
Tuesday, April 26th, 2011
8:30 – 10:00 pm
Mt. Sinai Medical Center, Hatch Auditorium
Madison Avenue & 100th Street
Admission is free and no reservations are required.
Free Certification of Attendance forms will be provided.
Child’s Play: Metaphor in Child Analysis
Judith A. Yanof, MD, presenter
Child analysts use a different language with children, the language of play. This paper explores the ways in which play functions as a language, using conceptual metaphors, as well as symbolized and unsymbolized modes of communicating. These aspects of play are richly illustrated through the presentation of a child analytic case.
Judith A. Yanof, MD, is a Training and Supervising Analyst and a Child Supervisor at the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute. She is also an Instructor at the Harvard Medical School. She was selected to be the 2011 Helen Meyers Travelling Psychoanalytic Scholar by the American Psychoanalytic Association. She has written articles on several different aspects of child analysis, including gender, development, transference, and termination. Her article, “Language, Communication, and Transference in Child Analysis: Is Child Analysis Really Analysis?” received the 1996 Journal Essay Award of the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association. She serves on the Editorial Boards of JAPA and The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child, and is a Reader for The Psychoanalytic Quarterly. She is a volunteer consultant to Boston University’s Child Witness to Violence Program. She presently chairs the Child Analysis Program at BPSI and the BPSI Annual Child Care Conference for early childhood educators.
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.
Objectives:
1) To present an understanding of how play is used in child analysis as a tool to gain understanding, communicate emotional experience, and negotiate meanings.
2) To use the concept of metaphor to help us understand the therapeutic action of play. Metaphor is used here not simply as figure of speech, but as a fundamental mode of human cognition – the way human brains categorize experience (Lakoff & Johnson).
3) To make important segues between adult and child analytic concepts of technique and therapeutic action.
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. It is the responsibility of participants seeking APA-approved CE credits to comply with these requirements. Upon completion of these requirements, participants will be given 1.5 CE credits.
Registration Fees:
There is no fee for attending this program.
Basic Certification of Attendance forms will be provided to ATR-BC’s and others at no charge.
The fee for 1.5 APA-approved CE Credits for Members of NYFS and Candidates of the PTI of NYFS is $15, and for all others it is $30. 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:
Kimberly S. Kleinman, LCSW, at kim@kskleinman.com