NEW YORK PSYCHOANALYTIC SOCIETY & INSTITUTE:
Scientific Meeting
Marianne and Nicholas Young Auditorium
247 East 82nd St., between 2nd & 3rd, NY, NY, 10028
212-879-6900, www.psychoanalysis.org, www.nypsi.org
Tuesday, April 12, 2016, 8-10 pm
Further Explorations of Winnicott’s ‘Use of the Object’ With Marion Oliner, Ph.D.
Discussant: Josephine Wright, M.D.
2 CME/CE credits offered
Tickets, click on: $10 – General Admission
Free – RSVP For Members & NYPSI Students
After more than 50 years in learning, teaching, practicing and writing about psychoanalysis, Dr. Marion Oliner observes that she has been struck by the need to balance the emphasis on psychic reality, the essence of our science, with a greater awareness of the way in which the senses impact this reality. This presentation represents an outgrowth of her personal experience of massive trauma, the greater understanding of the interplay between the way the unconscious assimilates these experiences, and the emphasis placed by Jacob Arlow and Charles Brenner on the context in which any experience takes place, including the supposedly insulated psychoanalytic session. In Winnicott’s article, with its emphasis on survival, she has found a dynamic approach that is otherwise missing in the literature. This approach stresses the importance of perceiving in the external world objects that have suffered destruction. To Dr. Oliner the emphasis on the survival in real time differs significantly from most of the literature on the subject in which loss appears to be the only sequel to trauma. In this presentation she will explain how this is so and how Winnicott has contributed to her thinking.
Dr. Marion Oliner trained in what was then the NY Freudian Society and subsequently became a member of and faculty in that organization, as well as in NPAP, Metropolitan Institute for Mental Health, and IPA. She is the author of two books: Cultivating Freud’s Garden in France (Aronson, 1988) and Psychic Reality in Context: Perspectives on Psychoanalysis, Personal History and Trauma (Karnac, 2012; German translation, Brandes & Apsel, 2015). Dr. Oliner has written and spoken extensively on a variety of topics and participated in many study groups. She remains as interested in the field now as the day she began, noting that with age comes a certain self-assurance that makes life easier.
Josephine Wright is a practicing Adult and Child and Adolescent psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, who is on the teaching Faculty of both the New York Psychoanalytic Institute and the Berkshire Psychoanalytic Institute. She has published papers in several psychoanalytic journals focused on her interests in adoption, developmental problems and issues of character, as well as a book for parents about ADHD.
Educational Objectives: Upon completion of this activity, participants will be able to:
1) Demonstrate a greater understanding of Winnicott’s language
2) Describe the significance of his text “The Use of the Object”
3) Describe how this text deals with the difference between internal and external reality
Physicians: This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of American Psychoanalytic Association and New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute. The American Psychoanalytic Association is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
The American Psychoanalytic Association designates this Live Activity for a maximum of (2) AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
IMPORTANT DISCLOSURE INFORMATION FOR ALL LEARNERS: None of the planners and presenters of this CME program have any relevant financial relationships to disclose.
Psychologists: New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute is approved by the American Psychological Association (APA) to sponsor continuing education programs for psychologists.
Important disclosure information for all learners: None of the planners and presenters of this CE program have any relevant financial relationships to disclose.
Social Workers: New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute SW CPE is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #0317.
2 CME/CE credits offered