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Programs begin at the public school level and extend through continuing medical education. The Academy provides a place for individuals and institutions to convene, as well as a publically accessible comprehensive medical library of over 700,000 original medical and public health materials, including 49,000 volumes in the history of medicine, rare materials from 1700 BC to 1800 AD, medical Americana, classic works, 16-th Century medical incunabula, broadsides and manuscripts and a series of special exhibitions.

The main official publication of NYAS is the Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences.

Objectives:

• To educate the professional, governmental, and public communities of the prevalence and range of outcomes of TBI
• To encourage appreciation by the concerned public that assessment and treatment of persons with TBI requires multi-discipline collaboration
• To offer a forum for public discussion and advocacy for health care professionals, accident victims and their families, schools, and other organizations in various areas. Our goals are improved level of care, services, and compensation; proper funding for services; encouragement of legislation mandating special accommodations for individuals of all ages who have incurred TBI

• Albany/Hudson Valley
• Central New York
• Genesee Valley
• Long Island
• Metropolitan New York City
• Westchester/Mid-Hudson

representing approximately 900 members statewide.

Objectives:

• Promote the concept and practice of mental health recovery
• Promote the widespread availability of quality recovery-centered rehabilitation and peer support services throughout New York State
• Promote the rights of people with psychiatric disabilities in the struggle against stigma and discrimination both within the mental health system and in the larger community

The New York Coalition for Asian American Mental Health was founded in 1989 to improve the quality of mental health care services available to the Asian American population in the New York City metropolitan area.

The Society supports the Psychoanalytic Training Institute of NYFS, which offers training programs in adult, child and adolescent psychoanalysis, as well as psychoanalytic psychotherapy, the treatment of infants and parents, and an introductory program in psychodynamic psychotherapy for beginning clinicians.

Objectives:

• Foster the continuing theoretical and professional development of its members by providing scientific programs and advanced seminars (continuing education)
• Support a Psychoanalytic Training Institute for instruction in and the study of psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy
• Advance the science of psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy through the encouragement of appropriate research
• Disseminate the ideas and findings of psychoanalytic research among other colleagues, related professionals and the general public

1. Understanding Primitive Mental States Conference: "Year Three - Psychotic States of Mind" (September 16-17, 2011: New York, NY)
2. Salon Meeting: "The Container and the Claustrum - Bion's Work on Groups and Meltzer's Theory of the Claustrum" (September 21, 2011: New York, NY)
3. Dissociation in a Post 9/11 World (September 23, 2011: New York, NY)

Understanding Primitive Mental States Conference
"Year Three - Psychotic States of Mind"

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Sponsor: New York Freudian Society [NYFS]

September 16-17, 2011
New York, NY

'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.

Objectives:

• Describe the concept of 'the claustrum' as it relates to psychotic states
• Apply Meltzer's theory of the claustrum to the conceptualization of a clinical case

Program:

• Narcissistic Identification: Phenomenology and Technical Problems (The Claustrum Revisited)
  • Alberto Hahn, MD, Lecturer and Training Analyst, Tavistock Clinic, London, UK
  • M Nasir Ilahi, LLM, Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Langone Medical Center; faculty, Psychoanalytic Institute, New York University, New York; faculty, Western New England Psychoanalytic Institute, New Haven, Connecticut (discussant)
• Clinical Case Presentation
  • Alberto Hahn, MD [see above]
  • Karen Proner, LP, Training and Supervising Analyst and faculty member, Child and Adolescent Psychoanalysis Program, Psychoanalytic Training Institute, New York Freudian Society [NYFS]; faculty, Psychoanalytic Training Institute, Anni Bergman Parent-Infant Program, NYFS and Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research [IPTAR]; faculty, Child Psychotherapy Program, IPTAR; Member,Parent-Infant Program, Columbia University, New York, New York; Visiting Faculty, Tavistock Child Analytic Training Program, Florence, Italy (discussant)

There are as many as 4 continuing education credit hour equivalents available for
  -psychologists

Event Contact:

Susan N Finkelstein, LCSW, Conference Chair

212/254-8501

susanfcsw@aol.com

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Salon Meeting
"The Container and the Claustrum - Bion's Work on Groups and Meltzer's Theory of the Claustrum"

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Event sponsored by: New York Freudian Society [NYFS]

September 21, 2011
New York, NY

Donald Meltzer once said that every time he made a new discovery, every time he thought he was exploring a previously undiscovered wilderness, he would come upon a cairn of rocks in the middle of nowhere holding up a flag with a "B" on it. He was being too generous to Bion, of course—he was always generous to those he admired, respected and loved—but there is an element of truth in what he said.

We can see this when we examine Bion's work on groups and the light it sheds on Meltzer's theory of the claustrum. Bion suggested that every group functioned in two different modes at all times. The first he called the Work mode and the second the Basic Assumption mode. The Basic Assumption group was a kind of container in which the members of the group were insulated from the demands of reality that the Work group struggled to address.

This presentation will take up Bion's work on groups and the relationship of the group members to the group in its different modes, in terms of his theory of the container and the relationship between the container and the contained. Meltzer's work on the claustrum can be seen as an extension of Bion's exploration of one kind of container/contained relationship, first elucidated in his underappreciated work on groups.

Presenter: Robert Caper, MD, New York, New York; Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Jane and Terry Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, University of California Los Angeles [UCLA].

Event Contact:

Debra Gill

dgill89@aol.com

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Dissociation in a Post 9/11 World

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Event sponsor: New York Freudian Society [NYFS]

September 23, 2011
New York, NY

It was predicted that things would never be the same in the US after the attacks on September 11, 2001. A new era was to have begun in which our illusion of safety on American soil was irreparably shattered. Destruction of the World Trade Center, substantial damage to the Pentagon and a significant loss of life triggered our "war on terror" which continues ten years later. Homeland security and other measures to "protect us" have gradually eroded several of our freedoms. The growing awareness of the limits of US supremacy in a rapidly changing technological and geopolitical world has left many with a vague sense of uneasiness about the future. In the aftermath of this national trauma, it is curious, therefore, how little has been published in the psychoanalytic literature about this topic. After review of this literature, the author will offer some speculations about why this might be the case and consider the importance of dissociation in contemporary mental processes. Dissociation will be compared and contrasted with related phenomena such as denial, disavowal, repression and splitting.

Objectives:

• Describe the process of a dissociative response to trauma, distinguishing it from denial and other more familiar defensive processes
• Analyze the concept of dissociation in relation to the psychosocial reactions of some survivors of the attack on 9/11/01
• Apply the model of the dissociative mind to a traumatized society

Presenter: Ira Brenner, MD, Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Jefferson Medical College; Director Emeritus, Adult Psychotherapy Training Program; Training and Supervising Analyst, Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

There can be as many as 1.5 continuing education credit hours available for
  -psychologists

Event Contact:

Vivian Eskin, PhD

veskinphd@gmail.com

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