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OPEN VIRTUAL SESSIONS THROUGHOUT THE DAY POSTER SESSION The 2021 Poster Session will be offered as a virtual gallery. Conference attendees will be able to independently view the posters throughout the conference and engage with poster presenters in real-time during two virtual chat sessions on Saturday February 13 from 5:00-6:00 p.m. ET and Saturday February 20 from 1:00-2:00 p.m. ET. Presenters will list the dates they are available to chat as a part of their poster listing on the main Gallery page. During these sessions, attendees will be free to navigate between posters, submit their questions to presenters, and interact in real time using the Chat button on each individual poster page. This poster session is designed to promote stimulating conversations and mutual learning among psychoanalytic practitioners, theorists, and researchers. Submissions have relevance to psychoanalytic theory, technique, practice and effectiveness of psychoanalysis, or interdisciplinary scholarship addressing research questions in neighboring fields. This is the 20th annual poster session at the APsaA National Meeting.

HALLWAY/”MEET AT THE CLOCK” In keeping with the spirit of APsaA’s Waldorf days where attendees would run into colleagues in the hallway or meet a friend at the clock, APsaA will have a Zoom room where participants can meet up with old and new friends throughout the day, have lunch together and network.

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Confidentiality

Ensuring the confidentiality of all clinical material • Presenters of case material must have either presented at our meetings is of the utmost importance obtained informed consent from the patient (or to APsaA. Attendance is contingent on an agreement guardian) or taken other carefully considered to adhere to the following guidelines: measures to safeguard confidentiality. • Clinical material must not be discussed outside of • If at any time a participant suspects he, she or the session in which it is presented and furthermore they may recognize the identity of a patient in a must not be recorded, conveyed, or disseminated in case presentation, the participant must leave the written or electronic form. session immediately. • Participants must agree to maintain a secure • Failure to observe these guidelines constitutes a environment to be utilized solely by the registered breach of APsaA’s ethical principles and may be participant and protected from intrusion by, or cause for disciplinary exposure to, unauthorized persons. or legal action or both. 2 rv6.20.2020 DAILY SCHEDULE WEEKEND 1: Feb 12-14

how to get involved and to chat with leadership, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 2021 staff and other attendees. Questions? Email Carolyn Gatto, Scientific Program and Meetings Director, All sessions are live and listed in Eastern Time. [email protected].

12:00 P.M. – 2:00 P.M. ET 2:15 P.M. – 2:30 P.M. ET STRETCHING WITH ELIZABETH MANNE PLENARY 1: UNIVERSITY FORUM: RACISM IN AMERICA Relax for 15 minutes during your lunch break V: ARE WE READY TO INTERROGATE at an informal stretching session led by Elizabeth WHITENESS? Manne, the full-time Executive Director of the Chair: Beverly J. Stoute, M.D. (Atlanta, GA) Washington Baltimore Center for Psychoanalysis. Host: Amber Nemeth, Ph.D. (New York, NY) Elizabeth Manne, RYT500, has been teaching yoga Presenters: Carol Anderson, Ph.D.* (Atlanta, GA) for six of the twelve years she has been practicing. FRIDAY Jonathan Michel Metzl, M.D.* (Ann Arbor, MI) She currently teaches on weekends. Elizabeth’s stretching class was very popular at last year’s Note: This program is intended to satisfy the meeting! requirements of those states that require CE/CME credits in the area of cultural competency for license renewal, but the final judgment for such qualification 3:00 P.M. – 5:00 P.M. ET is made by each state’s board. SPECIAL SESSION 1: This session will expand the vital discussion of racism CHILDREN AS COLLATERAL DAMAGE in America to address the historical and political IN POLITICAL WARS

context of white reaction and white resentment. NY Chair: Linda C. Mayes, M.D.* (New Haven, CT) SATURDAY Times bestselling author and historian, Dr. Carol Host: Susan L. Donner, M.D. (Woodland Hills, CA) Anderson, will present, “WHITE RAGE: Its Impact Presenter: Kristen Hennessy, Ph.D.* (Huntingdon, PA) on American Democracy.” Dr. Jonathan Metzl will Gilbert W. Kliman, M.D. (San Francisco, CA) explore the history of white racial resentment Kathryn McCormick, M.A., LMFT, CMHS in the U.S., discuss strategies for addressing it (Seattle, WA) in constructive ways, and address the challenge Note: This program is intended to satisfy the of combating these politics, and the underlying requirements of those states that require CE/CME anxieties and biases in post-election pandemic credits in the area of cultural competency for license America. Utilizing these historical perspectives, this renewal, but the final judgment for such qualification session will interrogate and integrate the impact of is made by each state’s board. Whiteness as an identity and as a social construct on SUNDAY the discourse on racism in America. The COVID-19 crisis has drawn attention to the impact of the external world on children. Targeting After attending this session, participants should be all psychoanalysts, this session will focus on the able to: 1) Define whiteness as a social construct and psychic reality of children under siege in 3 different explain three examples of its impact on individual communities as expressed through their detailed and collective feelings of racial resentment; 2) clinical work with child analysts. Dr. Kliman is an Discuss strategies for addressing the history of esteemed child analyst and forensic psychiatrist white racial resentment in the U.S. in constructive, who has been at the forefront of exposing the trauma engaged, and effective ways. 2 of asylum seeking immigrant children separated for political purposes. Dr. Hennessey is a Lacanian 2:00 P.M. – 3:00 P.M. ET clinician who works with children in foster care in LUNCH BREAK: a rural and impoverished community in Central WELCOME COMMITTEE MEETS Pennsylvania. Kathryn McCormick is a child analyst WITH FIRST TIMERS and an advanced adult analytic candidate who works For those attending the meetings for the very first with children in a minority community with a strong time join APsaA staff, Welcome Committee members cultural tradition in Washington State. and other first timers at this informal gathering. After attending this session, participants should Our goal is for you learn more about the association, be able to: 1) Describe the effects of political

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3:00 P.M. – 5:00 P.M. ET continued Over the course of one two hour meeting, via detailed clinical process of a patient in an ongoing oppression as they appear in the dreams, fantasies, analysis, participants will have the opportunity to and play of child patients; 2) Discuss the impact listen as Dr. Michael Feldman, a world-renowned of chronic trauma and disruption of caregiving on Kleinian analyst from London, discusses a clinical children’s development and long-term physical and presentation by Dr. Guiseppe Fedele, a fourth psychological health. 2 year candidate at NYPSI. Dr. Fedele will provide detailed process session material from his ongoing SPECIAL SESSION 2: work with a patient in analysis. Dr. Feldman is ONE DAY CLINICAL WORKSHOP WITH known for his work on projective identification, LESLEY CALDWELL, PH.D. the countertransference, and his unusually fine Chair: Irene Cairo, M.D. (New York, NY) sensitivity to the unconscious communication of Host: Amber Nemeth, Ph.D. (New York, NY) the patient in the moment by moment process of Presenter: Catherine Kimble, M.D. (Lexington, MA) the analytic hour. Participants will hear a way of Discussant: Lesley Caldwell, Ph.D.* (London, England) working that emphasizes the transference and Note: Your registration for this session is subject to countertransference expressions that are alive in the approval of the session chair and presenter to the here and now of the session. Attendance will ensure there are no conflicts. You will be contacted if be limited at this session. there is a conflict. After attending this session, participants should be FRIDAY The group is targeted to experienced clinicians. able to: 1) Describe how a patient uses projective The activity is geared to permit an improved identification to communicate with the analyst; discrimination between different but related object 2) Utilize the workings of countertransference as relations schools, most specifically increased a means of discerning the patient’s unconscious knowledge of Winnicott’s ideas. The discussant communication. 2 Lesley Caldwell is exceptionally qualified for the group’s objectives, having been Editor and Trustee SPECIAL SESSION 4: for the Winnicott Trust (2002-2016), the Joint THE STUART TWEMLOW SYMPOSIUM ON general Editor of the Collected works of Winnicott, PSYCHOANALYSIS IN THE COMMUNITY: winner of the American Board and Academy of COMMUNITY EFFECTS OF CORONAVIRUS Psychoanalysis book prize (2017), the Director of the PANDEMIC IN FOUR COUNTRIES

SATURDAY Squiggle Foundation (2000-2003) and Editor of its Chair & Host: Jeffrey Taxman, M.D. (Mequon, WI) Winnicott Studies monograph series. Attendance Discussants: Jun Gao, Ph.D.* (Shanghai, China) will be limited at this session. Susana Muszkat* (Sao Paolo, Brazil) After attending this session, participants should be Tatiana Onikova* (Moscow, Russia) able to: 1) Demonstrate the clinical use of Winnicott’s David Scharff, M.D. (Chevy Chase, MD) ideas of object relations; 2) Compare the difference Note: This program is intended to satisfy the between the Winnicott’s concept of holding and requirements of those states that require CE/CME Bion’s concept of containment. 2 credits in the area of cultural competency for license renewal, but the final judgment for such qualification :

SUNDAY SPECIAL SESSION 3 is made by each state’s board. ONE DAY CLINICAL WORKSHOP WITH This symposium presents a global perspective of MICHAEL M. FELDMAN, M.D. the current challenges to communities, and to the Chair: Lynne M. Zeavin, Psy.D. (New York, NY) analytic therapists providing care, during and after Host: Thomas DePrima, M.D. (New York, NY) the current acute coronavirus pandemic. It features Presenter: Giuseppe Fedele, M.D. (New York, NY) detailed perspectives from four disparate countries: Discussant: Michael M. Feldman, M.D.* China, Russia, Brazil and the United States, each (London, England) with very different political and social structures Note: Your registration for this session is subject to that set contrasting contexts within which analysts the approval of the session chair and presenter to and analytic therapists must attempt to help patients ensure there are no conflicts. You will be contacted if and communities with rising anxiety, devastating there is a conflict. family situations, economic consequences, and the

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3:00 P.M. – 5:00 P.M. ET continued SPECIAL SESSION 6: HISTORICAL AND INSTITUTIONAL evocation of internal conflict in a time of maximal TRAUMA IN PSYCHOANALYSIS: AN personal and national crises. Each presenter will INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVE ON RESISTANCE outline their national situation, the context of AND RECONCILIATION treating patients, and the effects of COVID-19 on their Chair: Harriet L. Wolfe, M.D. (San Francisco, CA) country, communities, and healthcare providers. Host: Cheryl Y. Goodrich, Ph.D. (Los Altos, CA) Discussion will include analytic methodologies they Presenters: Karim G. Dajani, Psy.D. (San Francisco, CA) have found most effective. Klaus Poppensieker, Dr. Med. After attending this session, participants should be (San Francisco, CA) able to: 1) Discuss the effects of COVID-19 pandemic Adriana Prengler, M.A.* (Sammamish, WA) on psychic conflict in communities and variations Stephen Seligman, D.M.H. (San Francisco, CA) in national presentation of this conflict; 2) Describe The essential impact of cultural systems and social strategies for treating analytic and psychotherapy trauma on both individuals and institutions is FRIDAY patients who struggle with the direct and indirect undertheorized in psychoanalysis. Have our own effects of COVID-19 psychologically, economically organizations disavowed what we profess to value,

and medically. 2 including racial, ethnic, and gender diversity; economic and political equality; and even our own SPECIAL SESSION 5: ethic of self-reflection? Analysts from three continents PRESIDENTIAL SYMPOSIUM: will present accounts of analytic institutions’ THE INFANTILE AT THE CORE OF relations with their historical surrounds: post- EXPERIENCE: PSYCHOANALYSIS AND CULTURE World War II Germany, midcentury Latin America, Chair: William C. Glover, Ph.D., President and the United States in recent times. Varied paths

(Berkeley, CA) SATURDAY have been taken: detachment from political realities, Host: Robin A. Deutsch, Ph.D. (Oakland, CA) collaboration with tyranny, and more or less active Presenter: Virginia Ungar, M.D.* opposition. Examples of progressive efforts at (Buenos Aires, Argentina) reconciliation will be considered, including those Discussants: Christine Anzieu-Premmereur, M.D., Ph.D. (New York, NY) currently seen as aspirational in the US. Resistances to such thinking will also be discussed. We hope for Sergio Nick, M.D.* (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) vigorous audience discussion. This session will explore and discuss the place of the After attending this session, participants should be infantile within the body of Psychoanalytic theory, able to: 1) Discuss the impact of cultural systems clinical work and analytic practice. This concept is and social trauma on the development of individuals central to the notion of transference in patients of and institutions; 2) Describe historical and current

all ages and, being the source of creative capacity, SUNDAY resistances to facing violent sociocultural factors is also found in the area of culture. We are in a and accomplishing reconciliation. 2 humanitarian crisis brought on by COVID-19, and have adapted virtual practice, opening up another space for reflection on the emergency faced by the SPECIAL SESSION 7: DISPLACEMENT AND DISRUPTION IN OUR infantile in analytic practice today. Virginia Ungar is PSYCHOANALYTIC LOCATION DURING THE President of the IPA. Sergio Nick is Vice President PANDEMIC: DARIA COLOMBO, ANTON HART AND and Christine Anzieu-Premmereur is Co-chair of AVGI SAKETOPOULOU IN CONVERSATION the Child and Adolescent Psychoanalysis Committee Chair, Presenter (COCAP). & Discussant: Daria Colombo, M.D. (New York, NY) After attending this session, participants should be Co-chairs & able to: 1) Discuss the role of the infantile throughout Co-presenters: Anton H. Hart, Ph.D. (New York, NY) human life and its effect on transference in Avgi Saketopoulou, Psy.D. (New York, NY) psychanalytically informed treatments; 2) Explain Host: TBA the use of the psychoanalytic concept of the infantile Note: This program is intended to satisfy the in human creativity. 2 requirements of those states that require CE/CME credits in the area of cultural competency for license renewal, but the final judgment for such qualification

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3:00 P.M. – 5:00 P.M. ET continued anchored in an established community training track at a psychoanalytic institute; others at is made by each state’s board. various stages of development and integration Displacement and disruption can challenge the with institute curricula. Speakers will highlight the analyst’s self-protective fantasy of stability and roles of collaboration and mentorship in developing coherence. Such disruption carries deep potential community psychoanalytic education and practice. for our field to engage more fully with issues of After attending this session, participants should inequality, discrimination and bias. Participants be able to: 1) Describe the roles of collaboration will be able to identify ways in which psychoanalytic and mentorship in developing community practice involves theorizing our relation to psychoanalytic education and practice; 2) Discuss our “place” and how the pandemic has further how institutes can incorporate community work illuminated that we are always experiencing shifts into psychoanalytic training and collaborate with in our framing function. Through discussion of institutions that serve our communities to help clinical vignettes, the participants will discuss meet the needs of broader populations. 2 ways in which we can use our theory in a variety of settings without being any less “psychoanalytic” but rather pushing the potential of psychoanalytic 6:00 P.M. – 8:00 P.M. ET approaches to respond to challenges. VIRTUAL SOCIAL HOUR After attending this session, participants should — FREUD TRIVIA!

FRIDAY be able to: 1) Use psychoanalytic theory in a Join us for a fun filled night answering flexible manner, responsive to the change in the Psychoanalytic/Freud related questions frame caused by remote work while remaining cultivated by a team of APsaA members, committed to psychoanalytic endeavors; 2) Explain hosted by APsaA’s own Maureen Katz, M.D. how shifts in the framing function have revealed Participants will be randomly assigned to teams, potential for psychoanalysis to engage more fully ensuring that everyone will meet other meeting in the social world and address issues of inequality, attendees. Prizes will be awarded to the winning team! discrimination and bias. 2

SPECIAL SESSION 8: NOVEL APPROACHES TO PSYCHOANALYTIC EDUCATION: THE SATURDAY PSYCHOANALYST AND THE COMMUNITY SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 2021 Chair: Jennifer Stuart, Ph.D. (New York, NY) Host: Sameer Khan, M.D.* (Jackson Heights, NY) All sessions are live and listed in Eastern Time. Moderator: Mojgan Khademi, Psy.D. (San Diego, CA) Presenters: James W. Barron, Ph.D. (Brookline, MA) 12:00 P.M. – 2:00 P.M. ET Francisco Gonzalez*, M.D. (San Francisco, CA) PLENARY 2: Alan Krohn, Ph.D. (Ann Arbor, MI) POWER/POWERLESSNESS Chair & Host: Ann Pellegrini, Ph.D.* (New York, NY) Rachael Peltz, Ph.D.* (Berkeley, CA)

SUNDAY Presenters: Avgi Saketopoulou, Psy.D. (New York, NY) Elizabeth Schmick, D.O. (Portland, OR) Lara Sheehi, Psy.D. (Williamsburg, VA) Thomas Veeder, M.D. (Portland, OR) Frank Wilderson, Ph.D.* (Irvine, CA) Clinical psychoanalysis generally has been available Mitchell David Wilson, M.D. (Berkeley, CA) only to individuals with the knowledge to seek it and the means to afford it. How might psychoanalysts This non-traditionally structured plenary takes up collaborate with the institutions that serve our the issue of Power/Powerlessness from various communities, to help them meet the needs of positions; socially, professionally and politically. broader populations? How might our institutes Presenters will explore the ways in which incorporate community work into psychoanalytic psychoanalysis, and therefore, psychoanalysts training? This session will provide several and psychoanalytically oriented clinicians have examples of clinical psychoanalytic consultation historically engaged from a position of power. to community service agencies and schools: some They will locate themselves in these structures and further reflect on how our technique and theory continued

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12:00 P.M. – 2:00 P.M. ET continued gender had two, fixed categories — male and female — many people now define and express their gender building is invested dynamically, libidinally and in more nuanced ways. How has our field adapted to defensively in a wish to remain normatively and society’s rapidly changing understanding of gender? ideologically stable. The importance of investigating How have we as individual clinicians adapted? This the dynamic nexus between positionality and power/ session will present the case material of a gender powerlessness will be centered with considerable non-conforming patient and ask three discussants attention to audience engagement. from different backgrounds and generations to After attending this session, participants should respond and discuss. The hope is that participants be able to: 1) Discuss how issues of power/ will recognize and challenge their preconceived powerlessness inflect our metapsychology and notions of gender in order to help them navigate theory-building; 2) Explain how positionality what can sometimes be a confusing new clinical and resistance to recognizing the impact of world. dominant iterations of power plays into analytic After attending this session, participants conceptualizations. 2 FRIDAY should be able to: 1) Compare contemporary conceptualizations to traditional psychoanalytic 2:00 P.M. – 3:00 P.M. ET theories of gender; 2) Describe the challenges LUNCH BREAK that gender non-conforming patients face in psychoanalytic treatment. 2 2:15 P.M. – 2:30 P.M. ET SPECIAL SESSION 10: STRETCHING WITH ELIZABETH MANNE ENTITLED DOMINION: A CONVERSATION Relax, for 15 minutes, during your lunch ABOUT THE INTERSECTIONS OF break at an informal stretching session led by ENVIRONMENTAL AND RACIAL JUSTICE SATURDAY Elizabeth Manne, the full-time Executive Director of Chair: Lynne M. Zeavin, Psy.D. (New York, NY) the Washington Baltimore Center for Psychoanalysis. Host: Maureen A. Katz, M.D. (Berkeley, CA) Elizabeth Manne, RYT500, has been teaching yoga for Presenters: Lindsay L. Clarkson, M.D. (Dorset, VT) six of the twelve years she has been practicing. She Robert D. Nixon, Ph.D.* (Princeton, NJ) currently teaches on weekends. Elizabeth’s stretching Sally Weintrobe* (London, England) class was very popular at last year’s meeting! Note: This program is intended to satisfy the requirements of those states that require CE/CME 3:00 P.M. – 5:00 P.M. ET credits in the area of cultural competency for license SPECIAL SESSION 9: renewal, but the final judgment for such qualification UNDERSTANDING GENDER: is made by each state’s board. SUNDAY HOW PSYCHOANALYSIS IS GRAPPLING The environmental crisis is accelerating along with WITH SOCIETIES’ NEW GENDER NORMS a crisis surrounding race. Both our relationship to Co-chairs and Co-hosts: Ethan M. Grumbach, Ph.D. (Los Angeles, CA) the natural world and to the complexities of race Justin Shubert, Psy.D., Ph.D. have been substantially overlooked by mainstream (Los Angeles, CA) psychoanalysis—these have been thought to be Discussants: Elizabeth Diamond, Ph.D. (Los Angeles, CA) aspects of the external world, so called “external Jack Drescher, M.D. (New York, NY) reality” and therefore not something that we take Patricia Gherovici, Ph.D.* (Philadelphia, PA) up with our patients as part of themselves or their conflicts. In this conversation, psychoanalysts Moderator: Kimberlyn Leary, Ph.D., ABPP (Cambridge, MA) and an academic will address the ways the natural world becomes internalized as part of psychical Note: This program is intended to satisfy the life. A Kleinian perspective will be used to develop a requirements of those states that require CE/CME working knowledge of the complex links between the credits in the area of cultural competency for license similarities in treatment of non-human inhabitants renewal, but the final judgment for such qualification of the natural world and devalued other humans. is made by each state’s board. After attending this session, participants should Social views on gender have changed rapidly in be able to: 1) Describe the ways the natural world recent years. While it used to be assumed that becomes internalized and part of psychical life, continued All sessions are live and listed in Eastern Time. apsa.org #APSAmeeting @psychoanalysis_ 7 DAILY SCHEDULE WEEKEND 1: Feb 12-14

3:00 P.M. – 5:00 P.M. ET continued are central in therapeutic action and the analyst’s motivations and conduct. The fullest implications and the emotional impediments to recognizing our of a deep Object Relations Theory illuminate play place in the community of nature; 2) Compare the and imagination in the analytic process and in complex links between racism with the treatment of the development of the reality sense, adequate the environment. 2 ego functions and depressive affect. The analytic role involves a “balancing act” between very deep SPECIAL SESSION 11: engagement and a kind of insulation, one that must PSYCHOANALYSIS AND NEUROSCIENCE be practiced by the analyst without isolating themself SYMPOSIUM: REVISION OF THE THEORY OF from the analysand, or for that matter, from themself. THE OEDIPUS COMPLEX After attending this session, participants should Chair: Charles P. Fisher, M.D. (Berkeley, CA) be able to: 1) Critique historic and contemporary Host: Margaret R. Zellner, Ph.D., L.P.* (New York, NY) theories about The Transitional Object and Function.; 2) Apply strategies for deepening the Presenter: Mark Solms, Ph.D. (London, England) process with young children and adults by focusing In this presentation, Mark Solms will address one on the Transitional Space. 2 of Freud’s foundational concepts, the Oedipus Complex, in the light of contemporary research SPECIAL SESSION 13: findings about emotional drive systems in human NOT THAT I’M A RACIST, BUT…”:

FRIDAY beings (and indeed in all mammals). In contrast to WORKING IN THE REALM OF RACIAL a tendency among psychoanalysts to take Freud’s AND ETHNIC DYNAMICS ideas for granted, or to abandon some of them too Chair: Amber Nemeth, Ph.D. (New York, NY) readily, this session will promote a reconsideration Host: Christopher Rigling, Psy.D. (Chicago, IL) and revitalization of the concept of the Oedipus Presenter: Himanshu Agrawal, M.D. (Hartland, WI) Complex in an integrative manner, using the work Discussants: Aisha Abbasi, M.D. (West Bloomfield, MI) of Jaak Panksepp and others. Participants will be Michael Moskowitz, Ph.D.* (New York, NY) encouraged to discuss the dynamics underlying Beverly J. Stoute, M.D. (Atlanta, GA) transference and countertransference responses to Oedipal issues in treatment. Along the way, Mark Note: This program is intended to satisfy the will address Freud’s idea of Lamarckian inheritance requirements of those states that require CE/CME of acquired characteristics. credits in the area of cultural competency for license SATURDAY renewal, but the final judgment for such qualification After attending this session, participants should is made by each state’s board. be able to: 1) Describe the basic emotional systems underlying the Oedipus Complex in terms of Race, color, and ethnicity seep into the skin of contemporary research; 2) Discuss the dynamics every relationship. Nowhere is this more relevant underlying transference and countertransference and usable than in the psychoanalytic dyad. This responses to Oedipal issues in treatment by session will explore the intersectionality of race; integrating new findings. 2 from the binary US perspective of black and white to the South Asian perspective, as well as the impact SPECIAL SESSION 12: of skin color, ethnicity, and the view of the Other.

SUNDAY ISOLATION, INSULATION AND EMOTIONAL The complexity of the analyst’s personal identity ENGAGEMENT: EXPLORATIONS OF along these lines may be lived out differently than WINNICOTT’S TRANSITIONAL SPACE AND how the patient perceives and communicates. The TRANSITIONAL OBJECT session will explore, using clinical vignettes and Chair: Talia Hatzor, Ph.D. (New York, NY) a supervisory interaction, how these dynamics Host: Laura Beth Kaplan, M.D.* (New York, NY) emerge and can be responded to as transference perception and countertransference receptivity. Presenters: Lesley Caldwell, Ph.D.* (London, England) Stephen Seligman, D.M.H. (San Francisco, CA) After attending this session, participants should Discussant: Christine Anzieu-Premmereur, M.D., Ph.D. be able to: 1) Summarize the intersectionality (New York, NY) of race, ethnicity, and color as they emerge in the psychoanalytic dyad; 2) Describe how the Novel clinical nuances of Winnicott’s conception intersectionality of race, ethnicity, and color effect of transitional space will be presented: Creativity transference and countertransference in the and reflectiveness, freedom and free association analytic dyad. 2

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3:00 P.M. – 5:00 P.M. ET continued for narrative. Dr. Kulish will explore the functions of stories for individuals in terms of adaptation SPECIAL SESSION 14: and connection, the metaphoric role of theoretical ON BEING DOWNED BY RACE paradigms in psychoanalysis and how our approach Chair & to stories in treatment relates to theories of change. Presenter: Anton H. Hart, Ph.D. (New York, NY) As examples, Dr. Kulish will revisit the paradigm Host: TBA for the female triangular situation and a patient’s Presenters: Dorothy E. Holmes, Ph.D., ABPP (Bluffton, SC) dramatic story of change in analysis. The author’s experiences growing up in a diverse population in Donald B. Moss, M.D. (New York, NY) the Southwest will illustrate how storytelling fosters Note: This program is intended to satisfy the group cohesion and how longstanding racial stories requirements of those states that require CE/CME can give way to change. credits in the area of cultural competency for license After attending this session, participants should be renewal, but the final judgment for such qualification able to: 1) Discuss the function of paradigms in their is made by each state’s board. FRIDAY own theories and practices and how self-narratives The session will target all practicing analysts and influence their patients’ behaviors and problems; therapists, since all of us have been the objects 2) Describe the function of stories in groups and of racial designations. Using autobiographical in individuals that contribute to prejudice and approaches, the session will model how an misinformation. 2 expanded knowledge about the impact of one’s racial designation necessarily increases the clinician’s capacities to address the impact of their SPECIAL SESSION 16: PSYCHOANALYTIC ACTIVISM patients’ racial designations. The three presenters

bring decades of experience and writing to bear Chair: Mary Margaret McClure, D.M.H. SATURDAY (Mill Valley, CA) on issues of race and racism. Each of the three Host: Clara Kwun, LCSW, (San Francisco, CA) carries a different racial designation and therefore Presenters: Ebony Dennis, Psy.D. (Washington, DC) the session will provide a wide range onto which learners can map themselves. Julie Leavitt, M.D.* (San Francisco, CA) Marianne Leuzinger-Bohleber* After attending this session, participants should be (Frankfurt, Germany) able to: 1) Revise accepted views about the impact of racial designations on both themselves and their Note: This program is intended to satisfy the patients; 2) Analyze how racial designations impact requirements of those states that require CE/CME psychic structure and function in patients and credits in the area of cultural competency for license renewal, but the final judgment for such qualification colleagues. 2

is made by each state’s board. SUNDAY SPECIAL SESSION 15: This program will be of interest to all clinicians who PLENARY: STORIES MATTER: want to learn about the work of and identity of the PSYCHOANALYTIC PERSPECTIVES ON THE psychoanalytic psychotherapist regarding the world POWER OF STORIES outside the consulting room. The discussion among Plenary three experienced psychoanalysts will highlight Speaker: Nancy Kulish, Ph.D. (Birmingham, MI) different views of activism within psychoanalysis and Host: Harvey H. Falit, M.D. (Ann Arbor, MI) psychoanalytic education. The program will consider Discussant: Gretchen L. Hermes, M.D., Ph.D. many decades of work toward social change within (Northford, CT) psychoanalysis and beyond. Among the issues that Felecia R. Powell-Williams, Ed.D., LPC-S, will be addressed about psychoanalytic perspectives RPT/S (Houston, TX) in theory and in clinical work are race, gender equity, Dr. Nancy Kulish was to be the prestigious plenary LGBTQ issues, and psychological trauma. speaker at the in-person 2021 National Meeting. After attending this session, participants should be APsaA is honored that she is giving her plenary able to: 1) Demonstrate how views of activism can be virtually at this meeting. This session will explore expressed and not expressed in the clinical setting; the question of why stories hold so much power 2) Describe the activism of clinicians from diverse for individuals and groups. Human beings are race, age and theoretical perspectives. 2 story telling animals whose minds are designed

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5:00 P.M. – 6:00 P.M. ET POSTER SESSION Q & A SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 2021 This is an opportunity to engage with the Poster Presenters in real time. During this session, All sessions are live and listed in Eastern Time. attendees will be free to navigate between posters, submit their questions to presenters, and interact in 12:00 P.M. – 1:30 P.M. ET real time using the Chat button on each individual poster page. There will be another opportunity to PRESIDENTIAL PLENARY: interact with the Poster Presenters on Saturday, THE FUTURE OF APSAA February 20th from 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. Eastern Chair William C. Glover, Ph.D., President & Host: (Berkeley, CA) Note: This session does not offer Continuing Co-chair: Kerry J. Sulkowicz, M.D., President-elect Education Credit. (New York, NY) Special 6:00 P.M. – 8:00 P.M. ET Guest: Holly Crisp, M.D. (Houston, TX) VIRTUAL SOCIAL HOUR This session will begin with the Presidential Award — AN EVENING OF JAZZ! being given to immediate past president, Lee Jaffe, Join us for a virtual cocktail party followed Ph.D. This will be followed by a conversation on by a special performance by pianist Michael the future of APsaA between APsaA President, FRIDAY Weiss and bassist David Wong at 7:00 p.m. Bill Glover, President-Elect, Kerry Sulkowicz and immediate past president of the Candidates’ Council, Pianist, composer, bandleader and educator Michael Holly Crisp. Weiss has enjoyed a formidable career working with the greatest names in jazz, including Johnny Note: This session does not offer Continuing Griffin, Art Farmer, George Coleman, Jimmy Heath, Education Credit. Frank Wess and Wynton Marsalis. While headlining at the Village Vanguard, the New York Times noted that Weiss “focuses the intensity in a tune as well as 2:00 P.M. – 4:00 P.M. ET any pianist in mainstream jazz.” About his latest : recording, JazzTimes writes, “Soul Journey has PLENARY 3 NEUTRALITY AS A “WHITE LIE” warmth, integrity, and above all, originality.”

SATURDAY Chair: Anton H. Hart, Ph.D. (New York, NY) David Wong, one of the most sought after jazz Host: TBA bassists in New York, has worked with Jimmy Heath, Presenters: Glen Gabbard, M.D. (Houston, TX) Roy Haynes, and Hank Jones. Dorothy E. Holmes, Ph.D., ABPP Visit Michael Weiss’s website and click here (Bluffton, SC) to hear some of Michael’s music. Stephen H. Portuges, Ph.D. (Oakland, CA) Note: This program is intended to satisfy the requirements of those states that require CE/CME credits in the area of cultural competency for license renewal, but the final judgment for such qualification SUNDAY is made by each state’s board. Although contemporary neutrality perspectives emphasize analysts’ availability to explore all aspects of patients’ mental life, they generally don’t include the historical development and contemporary manifestation of patients’ or analysts’ racialized internalizations. Consequently, derivatives of dehumanizing racism remain unrecognized and may not become analyzable. When neutrality is misapplied, it encourages analysts’ self-deception and impairs their ability to initiate open discussions of white-racialized attitudes. In a systemically racist

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society, psychoanalytic silence impedes the progress of what might potentially become an anti-racist psychoanalysis. Panelists will present and discuss their different views about how psychoanalytic neutrality functions and malfunctions in the clinical setting. Social and clinical material will then be offered to illustrate how unexamined internalized white supremacy can turn psychoanalytic neutrality in the clinical setting into a “white lie.” After attending this session, participants should be able to: 1) Describe ways that analysts’ adherence to the principle of neutrality may function to impede the exploration of race and racism in the psychoanalytic setting; 2) Assess unexamined internalized racism FRIDAY in the treatment setting when psychoanalysts and patients are white and/or white identified. 2 SATURDAY SUNDAY

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CLINICAL CONFERENCE FOR SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 2021 RESIDENTS, PSYCHOLOGY AND SOCIAL WORK TRAINEES, AND STUDENTS, PRESENTED BY APSAA FELLOWS: SHARED AND All sessions are live and listed in Eastern Time. DIFFERENT: CHALLENGES OF INTERSECTING ETHNICITIES, RACE AND CLASS IN TREATMENT 11:00 A.M. – 1:00 P.M. ET OF IMMIGRANTS DPE SEMINAR: Chair: Joshua Turchan, Ph.D.* (Williamston, MI) EARLY CAREER PSYCHOANALYST Host: Tareq M. Yaqub, M.D.* (Ann Arbor, MI) EDUCATION AND PROFESSIONAL Presenter: Ali Haidar, M.D.* (New York, NY) DEVELOPMENT Discussant: Adrienne Harris, Ph.D. (New York, NY) Co-chairs: Richard C. Fritsch, Ph.D. (Washington DC) Note: This program is intended to satisfy the Britt-Marie Schiller, Ph.D. (Saint Louis, MO) requirements of those states that require CE/CME Host: Wendy Jacobson, M.D. (Atlanta, GA) credits in the area of cultural competency for license Presenters: Sabrina Cherry, M.D. (New York, NY) renewal, but the final judgment for such qualification Kerry J. Sulkowicz, M.D., President-elect is made by each state’s board. (New York, NY) The journey of immigration is marked by Richard Tuch, M.D. (Los Angeles, CA) dislocation, loss of familiar homeland, embracing A Discussant:A Sarah L. Lusk, Ph.D. (Cambridge, MA) otherness, and often, trauma. This may be true EATET o DEAENThis DPE Seminar is designed to fill a gap for both patients and the therapists providing AAT SYCHANALYIC EAT EDUCAINand provide educational needs treatment. This case conference discusses a patient of the American Psychoanalytic Association of the American Psychoanalytic Association specifically for the Early Career Psychoanalyst and therapist who share similar backgrounds but (ECP). Experts in their fields will present a program with important ethnic, racial and class differences. SATURDAY directly engaging the professional development of Patient’s fantasies and power dynamics within

EATET o recent graduateDEAEN analysts. Sabrina Cherry, M.D. will the treatment reflect perceived ethnicities and AAT SYCHANALYIC EAT present researchEDUCAIN on career paths after analytic power struggles experienced while living inside of the American Psychoanalytic Association training.of the American Psychoanalytic Kerry Association Sulkowicz, M.D. will outline key his country origin. Shifting identifications, anger, elements for assuming leadership roles and guilt and mistrust permeated the transference responsibilities in psychoanalysis. Richard Tuch, and countertransference as the patient navigated M.D. will focus on developing the ability and asylum and acculturation challenges. Questions incentive to contribute to psychoanalytic addressed will include the role of the therapist’s

scholarship. personal history, disclosure, humility, and seeking out specific knowledge of geopolitical contexts when DEPARTMENT of DEAENAfter attending this session, participants should SYCHOANALYTIC SYCHANALYIC working with survivors of war conflicts and trauma. of the American EDUCAINbe able of the to: 1) Design models of Early Career EDUCATION Psychoanalytic Association American Psychoanalytic Association SUNDAY Psychoanalyst (ECP) education and professional After attending this session, participants should be development; 2) Demonstrate the skills to assume able to: 1) Describe how immigration and cultural leadership positions in psychoanalysis and considerations can become the driving force for a contribute to scholarly psychoanalytic literature. treatment even when not acknowledged at the initial 2 stages; 2) Analyze special cultural transference and countertransference considerations in treating immigrants. 2

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11:00 A.M. – 1:00 P.M. ET continued DISCUSSION GROUP 2: ITALIAN PSYCHOANALYSIS AND DISCUSSION GROUP 1: CONTEMPORARY MODELS OF THEORY THE PSYCHODYNAMICS AND AND TECHNIQUE PSYCHOLOGICAL IMPACT OF MISOGYNY Co-chairs: Andrea Celenza, Ph.D. (Lexington, MA) Co-chairs: Cecile R. Bassen, M.D. (Seattle, WA) Christopher G. Lovett, Ph.D. Hilli Dagony-Clark, Psy.D. (New York, NY) (Newton Centre, MA) Host: Catherine Mallouh, M.D. (San Francisco, CA) Co-chair Presenter: Patricia Alkolombre* & Host: John C. Foehl, Ph.D. (Cambridge, MA) (Buenos Aires, Argentina) Presenter: Matthew Shaw, Ph.D. (New Haven, CT) Note: This program is intended to satisfy the Discussant: Elena Molinari, M.D.* (Pavia, Italy) requirements of those states that require CE/CME This discussion group will explore contributions credits in the area of cultural competency for license to contemporary psychoanalysis by clinicians renewal, but the final judgment for such qualification and theorists who represent different aspects of is made by each state’s board. recent developments in Italian psychoanalysis. Misogyny and domestic violence are significant The work of such authors such as Lombardi, problems throughout the world. This discussion Bolognini, Borgogno and members of the Pavia group will explore the psychological impact group such as Ferro, Civitarese and Molinari will be of misogyny and domestic violence, and highlighted, especially their attention to primitive, psychodynamic aspects of tolerating abuse. The often unsymbolized levels of functioning and group will discuss clinical material and relevant innovative methods of analytic approach to these papers in order to increase participants’ ability to areas in work with patients. The clinical focus of make use of contemporary understandings of the this group will emphasize analysis as a system psychodynamics of gender and of misogyny in their of transformations that take place within and work, especially their ability to respond analytically through the analytic relationship, often featuring to clinical material involving aggression towards methods that encourage increased receptivity on women. This group will focus on the analysis of an the part of the analyst to the patient’s unconscious abused woman, with an emphasis on the importance communications and a greater diversity of of the analyst’s response and on the challenge to the interpretive approaches to include less direct, more analyst’s countertransference. Patricia Alkolombre ‘unsaturated’ interventions. The three co-chairs are is the Latin American Co-Chair of the IPA Committee experienced analysts with a longstanding interest SATURDAY on Women and Psychoanalysis. and involvement with Italian analytic approaches. After attending this session, participants should The presenter is an experienced child and adult be able to: 1) Utilize contemporary concepts of the analyst, and the guest discussant is a prominent psychodynamics of gender and domestic violence child analyst from Italy. in psychotherapy and psychoanalysis with victims After attending this session, participants should be of domestic abuse; 2) Analyze the psychological able to: 1) Describe ‘saturated’ versus ‘unsaturated’ impact of misogyny, domestic violence, and aspects interpretations and their differing uses in clinical of tolerating abuse with an emphasis on the technique; 2) Compare interpretations that stress importance of the analyst’s response. 2 the creation of new experience and their different

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11:00 A.M. – 1:00 P.M. ET continued discuss theoretical issues raised by the clinical DISCUSSION GROUP 3: exploration. This group aims to familiarize analysts TEACHING PSYCHODYNAMIC PRINCIPLES with the shifts in technique required for application THROUGH FILM of analysis to family and couple psychoanalysis, Chair: Christopher W. T. Miller, M.D. (Baltimore, MD) and to apply lessons from these modalities to the conduct of individual analytic treatments. Presenter & Host: Jooyoung Lee, M.D.* (Baltimore, MD) After attending this session, participants should be Presenters: Lindsay L. Clarkson, M.D. (Dorset, VT) able to: 1) Describe the shifts in technique required Donald R. Ross, M.D. (Baltimore, MD) for application of analysis to family and couple psychoanalysis; 2) Compare cases appropriate for The use of film for teaching analytic concepts can conjoint therapy with those more appropriate for illustrate them in more relatable and applicable individual psychoanalytic therapy. 2 manners. The 2019 film Parasite portrays a vivid contrast between two families, one living in opulence and comfort, whilst the other lives in relative DISCUSSION GROUP 5: squalor. The position of the more affluent family is FACING THE FACTS: SELF DISCLOSURE maintained through psychic and physical disavowal AND THE ANALYTIC RELATIONSHIP of baser elements of the human condition, requiring Chair: Stephanie Brody, Psy.D. (Lexington, MA) mounting force in order to keep such offensive bits Host: Catherine Kimble, M.D. (Lexington, MA) out of awareness. As the less advantaged family Presenter: Anne J. Adelman, Ph.D. (Chevy Chase, MD) seeks social promotion, a perversion of their sense Discussant: Alfred S. Margulies, M.D. (Auburndale, MA) of unity and of self occurs. The repudiated aspects The clinical work of 2020 has been conducted in a of human nature keep breaking through the efforts turbulent world. Many professional discussions

to repress them and inevitably stain the image of have focused on ‘maintaining the analytic SUNDAY SATURDAY perfection that is so sought-after. frame’; even as unfathomable fear and loss have After attending this session, participants should be surrounded our dyadic space. A virtual consulting able to: 1) Describe a teaching model that utilizes room may protect us, but the external remains - its film to expose early learners to psychodynamic presence pierces the frame. Vulnerability exists concepts, serving to increase their mastery of on both sides of the screen. Can the analytic frame the content; 2) Create a didactic approach to the include a discussion of our mortality, or do we shy concepts of primitive anxieties and the return of the away from facing our shared fate? This discussion repressed as represented in the two sets of families group will address the challenge of sessions that portrayed in the film Parasite. 2 begin with “how are you doing with this?” and end with a discussion of our shared destiny. The group DISCUSSION GROUP 4: will explore the penetrating facts of 2020, and the PSYCHOANALYTIC COUPLE AND FAMILY consequences in the clinical world of 2021. THERAPY After attending this session, participants should be Co-chair able to: 1) Describe the challenge to the ‘analytic & Host: David Scharff, M.D. (Chevy Chase, MD) frame’ in the context of life altering external events; Co-chair: Richard M. Zeitner, Ph.D. (Blue Springs, MO) 2) Demonstrate how the awareness of mortality can Presenter: Elizabeth Palacios, M.D.* (Zaragoza, Spain) alter clinical work and prepare for the inevitable This discussion group applies psychoanalytic clinical challenges of lifespan events, of external principles from object relations psychoanalytic events, and personal vulnerability for both members theory to the psychoanalytic treatment of families of the therapeutic dyad. 2 and couples. Dr. Janine Wanlass will present a family with two young children and with blocked mourning who were treated through analytic family therapy. It proceeds through in-depth discussion of issues raised in the case, grappling with points about technique, cultural and ethical considerations, and theoretical implications for conducting family and couple psychoanalysis, as well as implications for individual psychoanalytic therapy. The group will

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11:00 A.M. – 1:00 P.M. ET continued After attending this session, participants should be able to: 1) List 3 disengagement behavioral cues DISCUSSION GROUP 6: and 3 engagement behavioral cues; 2) Explain how TREATING THE SUICIDAL PATIENT disengagement cues communicate information Chair: Mark J. Goldblatt, M.D. (Cambridge, MA) about the relationship to the interactive partner and Host: Benjamin J. Herbstman, M.D., M.H.S. also to the self. 2 (Cambridge, MA) Presenter: Lisa Citrin, LICSW (Cambridge, MA) 1:00 P.M. – 2:00 P.M. ET Discussants: Elsa Ronningstam, Ph.D. (Belmont, MA) Mark A. Schechter, M.D.* (Needham, MA) POSTER SESSION Q&A This discussion group is targeted at psychoanalysts This is an opportunity to engage with the and psychoanalytic psychotherapists who are Poster Presenters in real time. During this session, interested in learning about treatments for suicidal attendees will be free to navigate between posters, patients. A case report of the psychoanalytic submit their questions to presenters, and interact in treatment of a suicidal patient is presented real time using the Chat button on each individual with attention to session notes that enable an poster page. understanding of how the analyst considers Note: This session does not offer Continuing and holds patient risk. The discussants will Education Credit. consider conscious and unconscious factors in the transference/countertransference that enable 2:00 P.M. – 4:00 P.M. ET safety and growth. The case and discussion will ORAL HISTORY WORKSHOP: broaden understanding of suicidal patients and THE SOCIAL VOICES OF the stressors on clinicians undertaking these PSYCHOANALYSTS: THE 1960S AND 1970S treatments. Chair & After attending this session, participants should Presenter: Nellie L. Thompson, Ph.D. (New York, NY) be able to: 1) Assess suicidal patients and factors to Host: Laurie Wilson, Ph.D. (New York, NY) engage with them in safe and effective treatments; Presenters: Daniel H. Jacobs, M.D. (Brookline, MA) 2) Discuss transference/countertransference John Martin-Joy, M.D. (Watertown, MA) manifestations of regression and recovery from Discussant: Nancy J. Chodorow, Ph.D. (Cambridge, MA) suicidal distress. 2 The social and political unrest that marked the SATURDAY 1960s and 70s generated a number of papers by DISCUSSION GROUP 7: psychoanalysts that have been largely forgotten. INSIGHTS FROM INFANT RESEARCH FOR Against the backdrop of an increasing involvement THE PRACTICING PSYCHOANALYST: THE in contemporary social and political issues by IMPORTANCE OF BEHAVIORAL CUES FROM analysts today, the workshop will revisit two INFANCY TO ADULTHOOD papers written in response to this earlier societal Chair & Host: Nicholas Domaney, M.D. (Cambridge, MA) conflict. The psychoanalyst John Martin-Joy will Presenter: Alexandra Harrison, M.D. (Cambridge, MA) discuss Erik Erikson’s “Reflections on the Dissent This session presents a lexicon of behavioral cues of Contemporary Youth” (1970), while the analyst that communicate affect and intention, beginning SUNDAY Daniel Jacobs will discuss Andrew Peto’s “On Crowd in infancy and continuing into adulthood. The Violence: The Role of the Archaic Superego and presenter will demonstrate these behavioral cues in Body Image” (1975). The discussants are Nancy videotape illustrations—of infants and caregivers, of Chodorow (Erikson) and Nellie Thompson (Peto). child analytic sessions, and of adults in conversation It is both useful and perhaps cautionary as well, to such as in the Jonathan Swan interview with revisit how analysts applied psychoanalytic theory Trump-- and will explain their meanings in terms of to a period of social crisis. communications both to the observer or interactive After attending this session, participants should partner, and also to the self. Issues of mutual and be able to: 1) Summarize Erik Erikson’s thesis on self-regulation of stress in human development and the overdetermined origins of youth protest and in psychoanalytic practice will be considered. The Andrew Peto’s ideas on the interplay between crowd participants will then discuss the videotape material violence and body image; 2) Compare contemporary and its relevance to their own clinical work continued

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2:00 P.M. – 4:00 P.M. ET continued COMMITTEE SPONSORED WORKSHOP 1: PSYCHOTHERAPY psychoanalyst’s increasing involvement in social TRAINING PROGRAMS: ENGAGING THE and political issues with psychoanalytic responses REMOTE: TEACHING IN A TIME OF COVID-19 to earlier societal conflicts. 2 Co-chair: Ann Dart, LCSW* (Portland, OR) Co-chair RESEARCH SEMINAR: EXPLORING THE & Host: Anna R. Schwartz, M.D. (New York, NY) INTERFACE OF TECHNOLOGY, IDENTITY, Presenters: Sue Baxt, Ph.D.* (Westmount, Quebec) AND RELATIONSHIPS Matthew Griepp, M.D.* (New York, NY) Chair: Katie C. Lewis, Ph.D.*(Stockbridge, MA) Mark Moore, Ph.D. (Philadelphia, PA) Host: Ilana Larkin, M.A.* (Evanston, IL) Despite much discussion about conducting Presenters: Carly Inkpen, LICSW* (Cambridge, MA) remote treatment during the COVID-19 pandemic, Xiaochen Luo, Ph.D.* (Santa Clara, CA) little consideration has been given to the Jamie Steele, M.A., M.F.T.* (Troy, NY) specific challenges of teaching psychotherapy Discussant: Danielle Knafo, Ph.D.* (Great Neck, NY) students in virtual classroom settings. This Note: This program is intended to satisfy the workshop will address some of the challenges requirements of those states that require CE/CME around teaching about process, maintaining credits in the area of cultural competency for license class interest, developing class cohesion and renewal, but the final judgment for such qualification ensuring student retention. Particular attention is made by each state’s board. will be given to fostering an appreciation of the concepts, sensibilities and attunements unique to Identity and relational functioning have long been psychoanalytic therapy, and addressing limitations viewed as essential axes for understanding and and unexpected opportunities provided by remote

contextualizing human experiences and behaviors. SUNDAY SATURDAY learning. Following an initial discussion by The increasing use of technology in daily life and in panelists, break-out groups will engage in short the context of clinical treatment has introduced new exercises and a related discussion of topics chosen opportunities both for expanding understanding to help faculty improve the classroom experience. of different dimensions of identity construction, particularly with regards to gender, and for After attending this session, participants should evaluating the dynamic processes that underly be able to: 1) Assess the challenges of teaching relational functioning and therapeutic engagement. psychotherapy students in a virtual classroom This seminar will feature multidisciplinary research setting; 2) Prepare virtual classes that teach process presentations that examine the intersection of using techniques to maintain class interest and technology, identity, and relatedness, ranging from create class cohesion. 2 explorations of abstract ideals to experience-near momentary evaluations of affective experiences COMMITTEE SPONSORED during treatment. The relevance of knowledge WORKSHOP 2: THE BUSINESS OF gained from these studies for psychoanalytic theory PRACTICE: NAVIGATING BOREDOM and treatment will be the focus of the discussion. Chair: Michael D. Groat, Ph.D., M.S.* (New Canaan, CT) After attending this session, participants should be Co-chair able to: 1) Apply contemporary quantitative methods & Host: Jonathan Kersun, M.D.* (Swarthmore, PA) in examining dynamic interpersonal processes and Presenter: Frank Tisano, M.S.W. (Philadelphia, PA) alliance ruptures in psychotherapy; 2) Describe Discussant: Kerry J. Sulkowicz, M.D., President-elect the role of technological development and imagery (New York, NY) in reinforcing gender-related cultural fantasy and enactments of marginalization and trauma. 2 Designed for any clinician who has experienced feelings of boredom or disengagement, this stimulating session will examine the adverse impact of boredom on the effect of transference work, especially for patients with a history of poor, non-mutual and complicated relationships. Held annually, the business of practice series addresses common challenges faced by clinicians of all continued

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2:00 P.M. – 4:00 P.M. ET continued DISCUSSION GROUP 9: SHAME DYNAMICS experience levels and is designed to foster increased Co-chair, Presenter clinical proficiency across one’s career. Using a & Host: Peter Shabad, Ph.D.* (Lincolnwood, IL) case example, didactics and facilitated discussion, Co-chair: Melvin R. Lansky, M.D. (Los Angeles, CA) this session will demonstrate the relationship between bored therapists, patient history of This discussion group will examine theoretical and poor relationships and/or personality disorder clinical aspects of how shame inhibits curiosity. pathology, and, the positive use of boredom to Given that shame leads to self-consciousness inform technical interventions and foster increased and self-doubts about one’s adequacy and the clinical understanding “rightness” of one’s inner life, it has a pervasively inhibiting effect on one’s growth, as well as curiosity After attending this session, participants should and inquiry into the unknown. This inhibition of be able to: 1) Explain the connection between curiosity often leads to the character passivity of countertransference and treatment process and “playing it safe.” Given that curiosity is an important outcome; 2) Assess the adverse impact of heightened aspect of mental and emotional health, the group levels of disengaged feelings in a treatment on the will revisit how analysts have often deflected or effect of transference work. 2 shut down the questions of patients that reflect their attempts to recover their curiosity. The group DISCUSSION GROUP 8: will examine ways that analysts can facilitate and RESEARCH IN PSYCHOANALYSIS – engender their patients’ curiosity. REMOTE THERAPY AND THE ANALYST: WHAT HAVE WE LEARNT FROM THE PANDEMIC? After attending this session, participants should be Chair: Tracy A, Prout, Ph.D.* (Bronx, NY) able to: 1) Describe how the particular dynamics of shame and self-consciousness inhibit curiosity; 2) Host: Adam N. Moriwaki, Psy.D. (Muskego, WI) Explain how the analyst’s way of answering patient Presenters: Katie Aafjes-van Doorn* (Bronx, NY) inquiries has major implications for the inhibition Vera Bekes, Ph.D.* (Montreal, Canada) or facilitation of the patient’s curiosity. 2 Leon Hoffman, M.D. (New York, NY) Karl W. Stukenberg, Ph.D. (Cincinnati, OH) DISCUSSION GROUP 10: The COVID-19 pandemic forced psychotherapists THE VULNERABLE CHILD: IT TAKES to continue their practice in a remote format. Given A VILLAGE, FINDING A CHILD’S PLACE

SATURDAY analysts’ traditional reluctance of using online IN THE COMMUNITY therapy due to concerns regarding the ability to Co-chair maintain the analytic frames, the mass transition to & Host: Richard L. Cruz, M.D. (Chadds Ford, PA) remote sessions may have imposed many challenges Co-chair: Christie Huddleston, M.D. (Bala Cynwyd, PA) on them. This discussion will present results of an Presenters: Kimberly Grant, M.A., Child Protective international study of over 3000 therapists during Service* (Houston, TX) the start of the pandemic and at two follow-ups, Betsi Longoria, M.S.W, Child Advocate* which explored experiences with remote therapy, (Houston, TX) as well as preliminary results of more in-depth Felecia R. Powell-Williams, Ed.D., LPC-S, qualitative interviews conducted with analysts RPT/S (Houston, TX) SUNDAY about their experiences. Discussant: Mary Davis, M.D. (Lancaster, PA) After attending this session, participants should Felecia Powell-Williams presents work with a be able to: 1) Assess the strengths and limitations boy whose mother’s trauma left him emotionally of telehealth treatment based on research data; 2) handicapped in foster care. The presentation Apply research findings about telehealth treatment illustrates the child’s trauma related internal to inform and improve telehealth care of patients. conflicts, and parental influence on development. 2 Betsi Longoria presents the child advocate’s role. Kimberly Grant presents protective service’s involvement and deliberation over reunification. Mary Davis discusses work with the child and family from both a clinical perspective and a consultation and policy perspective. The session interests continued

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2:00 P.M. – 4:00 P.M. ET continued DISCUSSION GROUP 12: ETHICAL DILEMMAS IN PSYCHOANALYTIC therapists working with vulnerable children and INSTITUTES adults and consulting with child care agencies. Co-chair After attending this session, participants should be & Host: Susan Kattlove, M.D. (Cambridge, MA) able to: 1) Plan for treatment of traumatized children Co-chair: Stephanie Schechter, Psy.D. (Cambridge, MA) based on assessment of defenses and developmental Note: This program is intended to satisfy the status; 2) Utilize parent work and consultation with requirements of those states that require CME credits child care related professionals that supports the in the area of risk management or medical ethics for child’s emotional development. 2 medical license renewal, but the final judgment for such qualification is made by each state’s medical DISCUSSION GROUP 11: board. TREATING PATIENTS WITH This discussion group will explore every day ethical UNREPRESENTED PSYCHIC EXPERIENCE dilemmas that occur in clinical work and in the AND SOMATIC STATES life of a psychoanalytic institute. What is ethical Chair: Deborah Shilkoff, LICSW (Cambridge, MA) professional behavior – in the consulting room, in the Co-chair: Lucinda Di Domenico, M.D. classroom, in admissions meetings, in supervision? (Newton Centre, MA) How do we make ethical judgments when there are Host: Alistair A. McKnight, Psya.D., LMHC competing interests to consider? Why is ethical (Cambridge, MA) conduct so difficult to talk about at institutes? Using Presenter: Sureyya Iscan, Ph.D. (Westborough, MA) a method employed at the Boston Psychoanalytic This discussion group explores the development of Society and Institute to ease barriers to open the ability to represent feelings and thought. Under discussion, this group will use a fictional vignette deficits in attachment, or due to trauma, the original as a springboard to explore the multiple ethical SUNDAY SATURDAY body ego does not develop a psychically represented and clinical choices members of psychoanalytic ego. Instead the body ego represents feelings through, institutes face in supervisory, treatment, and peer for example, somatic states or action, concrete relationships. thinking, attachment difficulties, psychosomatic After attending this session, participants should be illness, panic attacks, eating disorders, or addiction. able to: 1) Describe competing ethical and clinical The group will consider unrepresented experience values that arise in relationships among members of as it appears in the treatment through projective psychoanalytic institutes; 2) Summarize the ethical identification, containment, reverie, transference and clinical choices members of psychoanalytic and countertransference phenomena, and the institutes face in supervisory, treatment, and peer particular use of dreaming. The group will discuss relationships. 2 the long path to psychic representation. This population does not respond easily to interpretation or might get worse, resulting in premature 5:00 P.M. – 7:00 P.M. ET departure from treatment. DPE CHILD CONGRESS: After attending this session, participants should RESEARCH AND CHILD PSYCHOANALYSIS: INTEGRATING ANALYTIC PRINCIPLES AND be able to: 1) Analyze unrepresented or poorly EMPIRICAL STRATEGIES represented psychic states through projective identification, containment, reverie, transference Chair & Host: Pamela Meersand Ph.D. (New York, NY) and countertransference phenomena and the Presenters: Jordon Bate, Ph.D.* (New York, NY) particular use of dreaming; 2) Discuss ways Inga Blom, Ph.D.* (New York, NY) psychoanalytic patients develop the capacity for Patricia Nachman, Ph.D. (New York, NY) symbolization and the use of words to contain and Wendy Olesker, Ph.D. (New York, NY) describe feelings. 2 Timothy Rice, M.D. (New York, NY) Lisa Roth, M.D. (New York, NY) Gabrielle H. Silver, M.D. (New York, NY)

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5:00 P.M. – 7:00 P.M. ET continued After attending this session, participants should be able to: 1) Summarize the neuroanatomy of and the growing need for evidence-based research free association, mind wandering, and meditation; to help demonstrate the importance and efficacy of 2) Analyze the relationships between the analytic treatments. The program is designed for psychoanalytic concept of free association and the practicing child psychoanalysts and dynamic neuroscientific concepts of mind wandering and clinicians, as well as child candidates and other meditation. 2 students of psychodynamic therapies who are interested in the contributions of past and current DISCUSSION GROUP 14: child research, or who wish to initiate their own THE INTERNATIONAL FACE OF research projects. Presenters who are clinician/ RELATIONAL PSYCHOANALYSIS researchers will describe their own past or ongoing Chair: Anthony Bass, Ph.D. (New York, NY) research projects, and discuss ways for analytic centers to support faculty and students who wish to Co-chair & Host: Adrienne Harris, Ph.D. (New York, NY) make research contributions. Presenters include well-known figures in the field of child analysis as This group targets analysts at all levels of well as current candidates who are conducting experience wishing to gain deeper knowledge of original research projects. relational theory and increased competence in its applications. The analyst’s flexible uses of self After attending this session, participants should be in the service of the patient’s development and able to: 1) Assess the current state of child research the deepening of the analysis will be emphasized. within the curricula of psychoanalytic institutes and Impasse, enactments and other disturbances in the need for diverse research ideas and strategies the transference/countertransference field will be in child psychoanalysis; 2) Utilize research within addressed. Educational methods include didactic psychoanalytic institutes to pursue original projects explication of relevant theory, and its demonstration using psychodynamic principles and empirical in the context of case discussion. This year the approaches. 2 session will examine clinical material drawn from two different international communities in which DISCUSSION GROUP 13: relational ideas are taught and applied. Clinical NEUROSCIENCE PERSPECTIVES ON presentation, interview and didactic material will PSYCHOANALYSIS be included. Chair & Host: Mark J. Fisher, M.D. (Irvine, CA) SATURDAY After attending this session, participants should Discussants: Richard J. Kessler, D.O. (Long Island City, NY) be able to: 1) Discuss frame elasticity and the Theo G.M. van Erp, Ph.D.* (Irvine, CA) clinical relevance of cultural and social factors This discussion group addresses the current in the context of COVID-19 and trauma in diverse neuroscience literature on topics pertinent cultural surrounds; 2) Assess impasse, enactments to contemporary psychoanalysis, from the and other disturbances in the transference/ perspectives of both theory and clinical practice. countertransference field as they are applied in the Specific papers are reviewed in detail, and all context of COVID-19 diverse cultural, social context members of the discussion group are invited to and needs. 2 provide their input. The session is led by Dr. Fisher, SUNDAY a neurologist, neuroscientist, and Professor of DISCUSSION GROUP 15: Neurology at UC Irvine. Discussant Dr. Kessler is CANCELLEDLOVE, SEX AND THE AMERICAN PSYCHE: a practicing psychoanalyst and Co-Editor of the LOVE DISORDERS IN THE TIME OF COVID-19 journal Neuropsychoanalysis. Discussant Dr. van Co-chair Erp is an fMRI expert and Associate Professor of & Presenter: R. Curtis Bristol, M.D. (Washington, DC) Psychiatry & Human Behavior at UC Irvine. The Co-chair, Presenter group will address the provocative topic of the & Host: Stefan A. Pasternack, M.D. (Delray Beach, FL) relationship between what neuroscientists view as This session is for practicing therapists and “mind-wandering” and what psychoanalysts regard psychoanalysts. It will address psychoanalytic as “free association”. This was discussed at the 2020 theories of the psychoanalytic frame, love disorders National Meeting, and it was clear that this subject and the impact of COVID-19 and quarantine. matter deserves additional attention. Literature on psychoanalytic theories of love,

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5:00 P.M. – 7:00 P.M. ET continued After attending this session, participants should be able to: 1) Utilize social/historical factors, relationships and the impact of the pandemic will CANCELLED such as race and economic class to increase the be reviewed along with a presentation of clinical comprehensiveness of psychotherapeutic clinical case material. The goal of this discussion group is work; 2) Demonstrate the importance of the to improve skill in remote/distance patient care sociohistorical origins of psychopathology. 2 and treatment procedures during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Drs. Bristol and Pasternack have co-chaired this discussion group for many DISCUSSION GROUP 17: years, reviewing love disorders, sexual addiction, OPERA AND PSYCHOANALYSIS masochism and other topics. Both are experienced Co-chairs: Ralph Beaumont, M.D. (Portland, OR) analysts with extensive practice and teaching Lynn Buell, MSW (Seattle, WA) experience. Host: Constance J. Jackson, M.D. (Portland, OR) After attending this session, participants should Presenters: Francis Grier, M.A.Oxon.* (London, England) be able to: 1) Describe the impact social distancing John Muller, M.Phil.* (New York, NY) isolation, fears of illness and death anxiety have on This program will consider interpersonal and old and new love and sexual relationships; 2) Apply intrapsychic aspects of the dynamics of forgiveness adjustments to the frame of treatment in a telehealth and the refusal to forgive in Mozart’s three Da Ponte setting due to social distancing and quarantine in the operas, with special emphasis on The Marriage of treatment of love and sexual relationship disorders. Figaro. These dynamics emerge as central issues 2 in all three of these operas, and are resolved differently in each. From applied analytic and DISCUSSION GROUP 16: musicological perspectives the discussion will take

APPLYING HISTORICAL AND SOCIAL up the ways these varied dynamics are expressed SUNDAY SATURDAY FACTORS IN CLINICAL PSYCHOANALYSIS in art and in the clinic. Questions such as, why did Chairs: Dorothy E. Holmes, Ph.D. (Bluffton, SC) Mozart provide different resolutions in different Donald B. Moss, M.D. (New York, NY) works, will be considered, along with questions of Stephen Seligman, D.M.H. (San Francisco, CA) why our patients and analysands also resolve these Host: Jill Smith, M.D. (Los Angeles, CA) issues differently at different times in treatment Presenters: Jyoti Rao, M.F.T. (San Francisco, CA) processes. After attending this session, participants should be Note: This program is intended to satisfy the able to: 1) Describe the underlying interpersonal requirements of those states that require CE/CME and intrapsychic dynamics of forgiveness and the credits in the area of cultural competency for license refusal to forgive that lead to different resolutions; renewal, but the final judgment for such qualification 2) Explain why patients and analysands resolve is made by each state’s board. issues of forgiveness and its refusal differently and A detailed case presentation will begin the program, at different times in the treatment processes. 2 including specific session notes. The case presenter will include factors that might lend themselves to a DISCUSSION GROUP 18: cultural-historical perspective. PSYCHOANALYSIS AND CHINA: DISTANCE Group discussion will follow after the initial ANALYSIS FROM BOTH SIDES OF THE COUCH summary of the case and then after each hour Chair: Lana P. Fishkin, M.D. (Bala Cynwyd, PA) is presented. The discussion will be focused Co-chair: Elise W. Snyder, M.D. (New York, NY) on the impact of those particular factors in the Host: Tiffany Bryant* (New York, NY) psychotherapeutic process and the origin of Presenters: Xiubing Wang, M.S. (Guang Dong, China) the clinical problems at hand. Different ways of Eric Qi Zhuang, M.A. (Sichuan, China) formulating and intervening will be considered. Discussant: Frederic Levine, Ph.D. (Coconut Grove, FL) There will be opportunity to reflect on how analysts’ own cultural and economic situations affect our Note: This program is intended to satisfy the thinking and experience. The presenter is an requirements of those states that require CE/CME experienced analyst open to broad critical thinking. credits in the area of cultural competency for license The program chairs have written, taught and been renewal, but the final judgment for such qualification involved in explorations of these subjects for some time. is made by each state’s board. continued All sessions are live and listed in Eastern Time. apsa.org #APSAmeeting @psychoanalysis_ 21 DAILY SCHEDULE WEEKEND 2: Feb 20-21

5:00 P.M. – 7:00 P.M. ET continued SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2021 This discussion group will be of interest to anyone involved with, or contemplating becoming involved with, distance psychoanalysis. The presenters, two All sessions are live and listed in Eastern Time. Chinese analysands and one senior analyst, will provide vignettes, to illustrate the specific issues 11:00 A.M. – 1:00 P.M. ET involved in experiencing and providing analytic DPE RESEARCH EDUCATION treatment via the internet. The effectiveness DIALOGUE: THE ROLE OF MENTALIZATION and the difficulties of distance psychoanalysis AND REFLECTIVE FUNCTION IN will be explored, and a lively discussion among PSYCHOANALYTIC TREATMENT: TFP & MBT the participants will be encouraged to increase Chair: Linda S. Goodman, Ph.D. (Los Angeles, CA) knowledge and competence with this necessary Co-chair & Morris N. Eagle, Ph.D., ABPP treatment modality. Discussant: (Marina Del Rey, CA) After attending this session, participants should Host: Ebony Towner* (Los Angeles, CA) be able to: 1) Utilize a videoconference platform to Presenters: Elizabeth Allison, Ph.D.* (London, England) conduct a distance psychoanalytic treatment; 2) Peter Fonagy, Ph.D.* (London, England) Assess the appropriateness of tele-psychoanalytic Otto F. Kernberg, M.D. (White Plains, NY) treatment for a given patient. 2 A Discussant:A Diana Diamond, Ph.D.* (New York, NY)

EATET o DEAENIn 1934, Sterba wrote about the 7:15 P.M. – 8:15 P.M. ET AAT SYCHANALYIC EAT EDUCAINenhancement of the observing function of the American Psychoanalytic Association of the American Psychoanalytic Association PSYCHOTHERAPY DEPARTMENT of the ego in psychoanalytic treatment. There was INFORMATION & NETWORKING EVENT little further development of this basic idea until the All are invited to an informal evening to appearance of clinical and research papers on the socialize with fellow psychotherapistsEATET oand to importanceDEAEN of enhancing mentalization and AAT SYCHANALYIC talk about APsaA, the PsychotherapyEAT reflectiveEDUCAIN function in treatment. Although this of the American Psychoanalytic Association of the American Psychoanalytic Association Department and how you can become involved. approach was initially directed to the treatment of There will be an exchange of information and borderline conditions, it has been extended to other diagnostic groups. Two of the leading figures in this perspectives about psychotherapy within the analytic community. Bring your favorite appetizer & area, Professors Fonagy & Kernberg will present

SATURDAY beverage to the Zoom room! their work. The target groups for this session include clinicians who work with different diagnostic groups. They are expected to acquire DEPARTMENT of DEAEN SYCHOANALYTIC SYCHANALYICinformation that will be relevant to their clinical of the American EDUCAIN of the EDUCATION Psychoanalytic Association American Psychoanalyticapproach Association to treatment. After attending this session, participants should be able to: 1) Describe the use of mentalization and reflective function as one mechanism of change in psychodynamic treatment; 2) Compare the use of Mentalization Based Treatment (MBT) & SUNDAY Transference Focused Psychotherapy (TFP)with different diagnostic groups. 2

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11:00 A.M. – 1:00 P.M. ET continued of the novel, is a more appropriate model for the PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT revelation of the self in psychoanalysis. Drawing WORKSHOP: RE-BRANDING on the roots of the short story in fable together with PSYCHOANALYSIS: CORRECTING THE Freud’s Totem and Taboo she will illuminate how PUBLIC’S MISUNDERSTANDINGS Munro offers us an exemplary tale that parallels Co-chairs: Jack Drescher, M.D. (New York, NY) the origin of the self in its identification with the other. “The Courage to Dream Book Prize and the Susan D. Kolod, Ph.D. (New York, NY) Undergraduate Essay Prize will be presented at this Host: TBA session.” Presenters: Linda L. Michaels, Psy.D., MBA* (Chicago, IL) Austin Ratner, M.D.* (New York, NY) Note: This session does not offer Continuing Education Credit. Psychoanalytic treatment is depicted as outdated and ineffective to the general public. Rather than DISCUSSION GROUP 19: blaming the media and New Yorker cartoons, EMBRACING OR FORECLOSING CHANGE: psychoanalysts bear some responsibility. Often DEEPENING THE TREATMENT our way of communicating relies heavily on jargon Chair, Presenter and refers to our complex theories. This approach & Host: Peter Shabad, Ph.D.* (Lincolnwood, IL) to public communication inadvertently turns off This discussion group will explore how the treatment potential patients who could benefit from a deeper, relationship is a paradoxical one, inasmuch as it is more individualized form of talk therapy. In order both professional and intensely personal at the same to change the public’s perceptions, psychoanalysts time. What does it signify and what are the clinical need to communicate in a way that illustrates how implications when the professional is emphasized psychoanalysis can be accessible and relevant to by one or both participants at the expense of the their lives. In this session, resistance to speaking SUNDAY SATURDAY personal? Or when the personal is emphasized at to the lay public will be addressed and suggestions the expense of the professional? What effect does the will be offered on how best to communicate about analyst’s countertransference, analytic technique, what psychoanalysts do, how it is done, and why it and personal defense structure have on how this is effective. professional/personal paradox is addressed in the After attending this session, participants should be treatment, and on the fate of the analysis? This able to: 1) Describe resistances to plain speaking and group will seek to raise questions and stimulate the default to in-group communications; 2) Analyze discussion about how the professional/personal the public’s misconceptions, while developing new paradox plays out in the treatment relationship. language skills to create positive associations for After attending this session, participants should be psychoanalytic treatment and theories. 2 able to: 1) Describe why the treatment relationship can be characterized as both professional and THE PETER LOEWENBERG ESSAY PRIZE personal simultaneously; 2) Compare aspects of IN PSYCHOANALYSIS AND CULTURE the treatment relationship that are considered Chair & Host: Murray M. Schwartz, Ph.D. (Amherst, MA) professional and some that are more personal. Presenter & 2 Prize Winner: Rosemary Rizq, Ph.D.* (London, England) Discussant: Mitchell Wilson, M.D. (Berkeley, California) DISCUSSION GROUP 20: Title: ‘Familiar Artifice’: Ways of Telling in the ENRICHING ADULT ANALYTIC WORK BY Short Story, Psychoanalysis, and Alice Munro’s The Moons of Jupiter. CHILD ANALYTIC TRAINING AND PRACTICE Co-chair, Presenter The Peter Loewenberg Essay Prize (formerly & Host: Caroline M. Sehon, M.D. (Bethesda, MD) the CORST Essay Prize) is awarded to a paper Co-chair & demonstrating outstanding psychoanalytically Presenter: Virginia Ungar, M.D.* informed research and scholarship in the arts, (Buenos Aires, Argentina) humanities, or social and behavioral sciences. The co-chairs will demonstrate the importance for Presenting a reading of Alice Monro’s The Moons of every adult analyst to obtain some child analytic Jupiter, Dr. Rizq will argue that the form of the short supervision or training before or after graduating story, as opposed to the linear, sequential aspects from an analytic training program. Presenters will continued

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11:00 A.M. – 1:00 P.M. ET continued roots through insight, faith confronting established norms. include internationally recognized Dr. Virginia Ungar, President, IPA and Dr. Caroline Sehon, After attending this session, participants should be Director, International Psychotherapy Institute able to: 1) Discuss how to cultivate faith in patients by (IPI). Child analytic foundational concepts keeping the archaic roots open for working through will be highlighted, such as a discussion of the crisis and trauma; 2) Describe the differences contributions of Anna Freud, Melanie Klein, Donald between defensive uses of religion and adaptive Winnicott, and a review of the developmental stages uses of the mystery of faith in a person’s cultural from pre-birth to adolescence relevant to adult history. 2 psychotherapy and adult analysis. Evocative clinical case presentations will improve participants’ DISCUSSION GROUP 22: capacities to come into contact with difficulties A HALL OF MIRRORS: IMPINGEMENTS ON associated with very regressive moments or phases THE ANALYTIC CONTAINER in adult analytic work. Participants will come to Chair & Host: Michael Krass, Ph.D. (Falls Church, VA) experience firsthand how child analytic work Discussants: Justine Kalas Reeves, LICSW, Psy.D. facilitates the development of analytic attitude, (Washington, DC) observational skills, and receptivity to transference Marie A. Murphy, MSW, BCD (Bethesda, MD) and countertransference in clinical work with both This session is oriented towards clinicians who child and adult patients. find themselves trapped in countertransference After attending this session, participants should be enactments, areas of misattunement and able to: 1) Summarize concepts from infant, child, and impasses that could be helped by examining the adolescent development that apply to the practice of impingements that affect the analyst’s capacity to adult analytic work; 2) Describe transference and think effectively —in short—to interfere/collapse/ countertransference issues relevant to work with destroy the analyst’s containing function. The co- the infantile parts of adult patients’ minds. 2 leaders are inviting participants to bring clinical moments when their analytic containing function DISCUSSION GROUP 21: was challenged by the strain of current sociopolitical FEAR, FAITH, GUILE AND GRIT: events: e.g., the COVID-19 pandemic, the recent PSYCHOANALYSIS AND SPIRITUALITY increase of societal focus on racism and misogyny, Chair: Paula Jean Hamm, M.A., LPC the chronic state of political crisis and increasing SATURDAY (Centreville, VA) economic stratification. We will utilize these case Host: Marc S. Levine, M.D. (Washington, DC) examples to discuss those forces that impinge upon Presenter: Joseph Novello, M.D. (Ashburn, VA) the container – tipping, puncturing, and, in the Discussant: Paul Marcus, Ph.D. (Great Neck, NY) worst cases, pulverizing the container within the analyst – to identify strategies the analyst can use Note: This program is intended to satisfy the to withstand and make constructive use of damage requirements of those states that require CE/CME inflicted on the analyst’s containing function. credits in the area of cultural competency for license After attending this session, participants should be renewal, but the final judgment for such qualification able to: 1) Use the analyst’s countertransference is made by each state’s board. and reverie as well as the transference SUNDAY Pandemic times demand psychoanalysts to adapt, be countertransference field to manage the impact flexible and cultivate resilience but this comes with of destructive impingements on the analyst’s suffering as part of the human experience. In the containing function; 2) Utilize impingement to the forefront of confronting uncertainty, complexity, container by closely analyzing the impingement’s and the role of personal responsibility a more impact upon the countertransference-transference intimate truer self can emerge from the cracks field and the analyst’s reverie to facilitate a and crevices broken open. Illustrated through the deepening of the analytic process. 2 life of Angelo D’Agostino, Jesuit Priest, physician and American Trained Psychoanalyst, Dr. Joseph Novello will tell “Dags” story. Author of “Dag, Savior of Aids Orphans” he will illustrate how one man can change the world through being true to his archaic

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11:00 A.M. – 1:00 P.M. ET continued the complicated dynamics involved in digital work. DISCUSSION GROUP 23: Through a presentation by a seasoned supervisor PSYCHOANALYTIC PERSPECTIVES ON and a discussion that will follow, this session will WOMEN AND THEIR EXPERIENCE OF train supervisors to help their supervisees identify COMPETENCE, AMBITION AND LEADERSHIP patients’ conflicts, transference reactions, and Co-chairs: Frances Arnold, Ph.D. (Cambridge, MA) resistances that occur in digital work. This session is intended for supervisors eager to help their Stephanie Brody, Psy.D. (Lexington, MA) supervisees become more aware of their patient’s Host: Trude Kleinschmidt, M.D. (Watertown, MA) dynamics in response to digital work. Presenter: Adrienne Harris, Ph.D. (New York, NY) After attending this session, participants should Note: This program is intended to satisfy the be able to: 1) Explain how patients’ conflicts, requirements of those states that require CE/CME transference reactions, and resistances could credits in the area of cultural competency for license become animated in digital work; 2) Assess renewal, but the final judgment for such qualification supervisee’s work with patients to decipher the is made by each state’s board. potential presence or deficit of analysis pertaining Looking back on 2020, on the impact of Black Lives to conflicts, transference reactions and resistance Matter, of the pandemic, of economic collapse – of as pertaining to digital work. 2 the presidential election – how will people make meaning of the women’s movement? Did women 2:00 P.M. – 4:00 P.M. ET leaders make a difference? This discussion group will reflect on the consequences of the 2016 and SENIOR ANALYST PRESENTATION 2020 presidential election, four years that include a (PART 1) resurgence of women’s representation in congress Co-chair: Ethan M. Grumbach, Ph.D. (Los Angeles, CA)

and in the streets. But alongside the power of women, Co-chair SUNDAY SATURDAY & Host: Elizabeth Diamond, Ph.D. (Los Angeles, CA) reproductive rights, gender equity, and female Presenter: Kathryn Zerbe, M.D. (Portland, OR) leadership remain elusive. Do psychoanalysts have anything meaningful to contribute to this Note: The senior analyst presentation is only open to challenging puzzle? The group will use this forum those who have yet to complete analytic training. It is to look at what has changed, what has not, and what a two part session. Please register for both sessions. psychoanalysis might meaningfully contribute to Part 2 takes place from 5:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. the dialogue. Candidates comment that they are asked to publicly After attending this session, participants should be present clinical material in conferences, classes able to: 1) Apply contemporary psychoanalytic ideas and supervision. They express a desire to hear about women and their experience of authority and analytic work presented by an experienced analyst leadership to our current socio-political context, illuminating how the analyst manages his/her including the leadership experience of key women own countertransference, transference and other leaders; 2) Explain the group and social dynamics matters in a week of analysis. The attendee will that underlie, undermine and control women’s leave with a deeper knowledge of how the analyst realization of authority and power. 2 uses their analytic instrument to maintain a healthy and productive analysis. The attendee will be able DISCUSSION GROUP 24: to communicate their concerns, successes and ON BEING SUPERVISED: HOW TO HELP questions to supervisors. This discussion group SUPERVISEES NAVIGATE DYNAMICS IN THE is designed to increase candidates’ competence DIGITAL AGE to grasp the depth and challenge of analysis by Chair: Hilli Dagony-Clark, Psy. D. (New York, NY) hearing how the senior analyst works with the raw Host: Sarah L. Lusk, Ph.D. (Cambridge, MA) material presented. The new perspectives offered Presenter: Daniel W. Prezant, Ph.D. (New York, NY) to the attendees will help them develop their own clinical mind. The COVID-19 pandemic has created a wide- After attending this session, participants should spanning necessity to transition from in-person be able to: 1) Summarize the key conscious and clinical meetings to video and telephone sessions unconscious communications between an analyst with very little preparation. Therefore, there has and analysand that deepen the clinical work; 2) not been enough teaching to help trainees navigate continued

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2:00 P.M. – 4:00 P.M. ET continued such qualification is made by each state’s medical board. Demonstrate how psychoanalysis has evolved to a space shared by analyst and analysand where When the COVID-19 crisis began, many analysts interactions include the subjectivities of both. shifted abruptly to practicing by video, but few 2 had either the time or the technological expertise to evaluate the risks this method might present to maintaining confidentiality. John Churcher is RESEARCH SYMPOSIUM: Chair of the Confidentiality Committee for the PERSONALITY DIAGNOSIS IN International Psychoanalytical Association, and Roy PSYCHOANALYSIS AND PSYCHOTHERAPY: Huggins is a consultant to healthcare organizations A ROADMAP FOR TREATMENT who specializes in telemedicine. They will present Chair: Glen Gabbard, M.D. (Houston, TX) information about how to protect confidential Host: Charles P. Fisher, M.D. (Berkeley, CA) material when practicing remote analysis, and Presenter: Jonathan Shedler, Ph.D. (San Francisco, CA) entertain questions from the audience. The group Knowledge of personality styles, or “neurotic styles,” will also address the ethical question of how much has accrued over generations of psychoanalytic responsibility the analyst should assume for the observation and thought. An understanding technological aspects of video practice. of core personality dynamics brings focus to After attending this session, participants should be treatment, avoids stalemates, and deepens analytic able to: 1) Assess the risks to confidentiality posed by work. Dr. Shedler will discuss the personality video analysis; 2) Explain the confidentiality risks styles most often seen in clinical practice (e.g., of video analysis to a patient in a way that allows narcissistic, borderline, depressive, obsessive- the dyad to reach a comfortable decision about compulsive, hysteric), drawing on and integrating proceeding with video analysis. 2 accrued psychoanalytic wisdom with cutting edge scientific research. Dr. Shedler will discuss how each personality style has its own psychological DISCUSSION GROUP 26: vulnerabilities and is a distinct pathway to the PERSPECTIVES ON FATHERING “same” manifest symptoms of depression or anxiety, Co-chair: Seth Aronson, Psy.D. (New York, NY) and he will offer clinical strategies for deepening Co-chair & Host: Phillip Blumberg, Ph.D. (New York, NY) treatment for each personality style. Attendees Presenters: Anne Alvarez, Ph.D., M.A.C.P.* will also be introduced to the SWAP assessment SATURDAY (London, England) instrument, a clinician-completed personality test Judith Edwards, Ph.D.* (London, England) for psychoanalytic diagnosis and case formulation. Graham Music, Ph.D.* (London, England) After attending this session, participants should be able to: 1) Assess how familiar personality Note: This program is intended to satisfy the styles represent distinct pathways to depressive requirements of those states that require CE/CME disorders; 2) Describe how narcissistic, paranoid, credits in the area of cultural competency for license and borderline personality styles inherently create renewal, but the final judgment for such qualification is made by each state’s board. psychological vulnerability to depression. 2 Fatherhood is often seen as a stepchild, as it SUNDAY DISCUSSION GROUP 25: were, in the analytic literature. With changing PROTECTING CONFIDENTIALITY IN views about the roles of race, culture, gender and VIDEO ANALYSIS sexuality, and ethnicity, how can we understand the Chair: Kevin V. Kelly, M.D. (New York, NY) contemporary role of the father in development? Host: Peter L. Rudnytsky, Ph.D., LCSW Anne Alvarez, a distinguished child analyst will (Gainesville, FL) bring her perspective to bear on this question. Her Presenters: John Churcher* (Manchester, England) discussants will take up related questions such as Roy Huggins* (Portland, OR) the father’s importance for bodily awareness and self-regulation. Discussion with the audience will Note: This program is intended to satisfy the follow. requirements of those states that require CME credits in the area of risk management or medical ethics for After attending this session, participants should medical license renewal, but the final judgment for be able to: 1) Discuss how the father is integral continued

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2:00 P.M. – 4:00 P.M. ET continued DISCUSSION GROUP 28: UNDERSTANDING PRIMITIVE MENTAL to development for bodily awareness and self- STATES AND THE NATURE OF THE regulation; 2) Describe how the move away from OBJECT RELATIONSHIP binary thinking has changed the role of the paternal Chair & in child development. 2 Discussant: Lynne M. Zeavin, Psy.D. (New York, NY) Host: Amber Nemeth, Ph.D. (New York, NY) DISCUSSION GROUP 27: Presenters & PSYCHOANALYTIC PERSPECTIVES Discussants: Lindsay L. Clarkson, M.D. (Dorset, VT) ON THE DISSOCIATIVE DISORDERS Kay Long, Ph.D.* (New Haven, CT) Chair: Richard P. Kluft, M.D., Ph.D. Shelley Rockwell, Ph.D. (Washington, DC) (Bala Cynwyd, PA) Through discussion of clinical material, this Co-chair: Ira Brenner, M.D. (Bala Cynwyd, PA) session will explore the interface between the Host: Richard A. Chefetz, M.D.* (Washington, DC) internal and external worlds. The group will This discussion group is designed to assist elaborate the Kleinian view of transference and psychoanalysts working with or interested show that close attention to transference and in working with patients suffering complex countertransference manifestations in the session Dissociative Disorders such as Dissociative allow psychoanalysts to track various aspects of the Identity Disorder. It prioritizes acquiring skills patient’s communication of their internal world. relevant to 1) the identification and treatment of The group will address the phantasies propelling dissociative structures such as alternate identities, projection and introjection and the subtle tugs and not merely dissociative processes; and to 2) pulls exerted on the analyst to join or resist the addressing autohypnotic aspects of dissociative patient’s point of view and demands. There will be

psychopathology. Intense discussion of illustrative a discussion on how to better discern the patient’s SUNDAY SATURDAY vignettes will offer indirect clinical practice toward state of mind to better focus interventions. these goals. Current psychoanalytic thinking After attending this session, participants should be has enhanced the understanding of dissociative able to: 1) Define the Kleinian concept of transference processes, but the understanding of working with as it unfolds in a clinical session; 2) Explain the role dissociative structures and absorption phenomena of projective identification in linking the inner and has been relatively disregarded. The acquisition of outer worlds of the patient. 2 the newer skills referred to above will facilitate the resolution of dissociative structures. The faculty DISCUSSION GROUP 29: have decades of experience in the treatment of PSYCHODYNAMIC PROBLEMS IN dissociative disorders. ORGANIZATIONS & WORKSHOP After attending this session, participants should be OF COMMITTEE ON ORGANIZATIONAL able to: 1) Prepare confrontations and interpretations CONSULTATION that address two or more identities/dissociative Co-chairs: Steven Rolfe, M.D. (Bryn Mawr, PA) structures simultaneously; 2) Apply techniques Kenneth M. Settel, M.D. (Brookline, MA) and approaches usually associated with hypnosis Kerry J. Sulkowicz, M.D., President-elect in the context of and without compromising the (New York, NY) psychoanalytic paradigm. 2 Presenter: Kathleen White, Ph.D.* (New York, NY) Analysts working in the consulting room hear about patient’s conflicts in their work and organizational life. Addressing the psychodynamic conflicts and identifications motivating behavior in groups and organizations is often beyond the scope of our knowledge. A noted leader in psychodynamic consultation to groups, organizations, and their leaders, offers an anecdote from her psychoanalytic practice. The discussion will illustrate the particular dynamic faced by a woman analyst, working with a woman leader, both in a psychoanalytic framework

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2:00 P.M. – 4:00 P.M. ET continued 5:00 P.M. – 7:00 P.M. ET SENIOR ANALYST PRESENTATION as well as in a consulting framework. The analyst (PART 2) became aware of her own conflicts around Co-chair: Ethan M. Grumbach, Ph.D. (Los Angeles, CA) womanhood and leadership and professional roles. Co-chair This journey for the analyst enabled a deeper & Host: Elizabeth Diamond, Ph.D. (Los Angeles, CA) knowledge of self, leading ultimately to deeper and Presenter: Kathryn Zerbe, M.D. (Portland, OR) successful psychoanalytic work for the client. Note: The senior analyst presentation is only open to After attending this session, participants should be those who have yet to complete analytic training. It is able to: 1) Use countertransference stemming from a two part session. Please register for both sessions. the dilemmas of role boundaries that emerge in Part 1 takes place from 2:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. work with business leaders; 2) Analyze unconscious processes and role challenges that shift the analytic Candidates comment that they are asked to publicly stance both in a psychoanalytic framework and a present clinical material in conferences, classes consulting framework. 2 and supervision. They express a desire to hear analytic work presented by an experienced analyst DISCUSSION GROUP 30: illuminating how the analyst manages his/her THE INSIDE FOCUS: LISTENING FOR own countertransference, transference and other AFFECT AND DEFENSE INSIDE THE matters in a week of analysis. The attendee will CLINICAL HOUR leave with a deeper knowledge of how the analyst Chair & Host: Diana S. Rosenstein, Ph.D. (Jenkintown, PA) uses their analytic instrument to maintain a healthy Presenter: Rachel G. Gross, M.D. (Philadelphia, PA) and productive analysis. The attendee will be able to communicate their concerns, successes and This discussion group is intended for those questions to supervisors. This discussion group experienced with close process work who wants to is designed to increase candidates’ competence increase their technical skill, as well as novices who to grasp the depth and challenge of analysis by would like an introduction to the technical approach. hearing how the senior analyst works with the raw In this discussion group, the focus will be on the material presented. The new perspectives offered patient’s mind in conflict in the here-and-now of to the attendees will help them develop their own the analytic hour. Identifying moments in a session clinical mind. when a patient experiences conflict over what he After attending this session, participants should

SATURDAY or she is revealing to the analyst and responds be able to: 1) Summarize the key conscious and with unconscious defense will be discussed as well unconscious communications between an analyst as the how and when (and why) the analyst calls and analysand that deepen the clinical work; 2) attention to such moments. Detailed process notes Demonstrate how psychoanalysis has evolved to from an ongoing analysis conducted by an analyst a space shared by analyst and analysand where experienced with defense analysis will be presented. interactions include the subjectivities of both. 2 The presenter is an experienced psychoanalyst who practices from the point of view of close process analysis. DISCUSSION GROUP 31: PHARMACOTHERAPY AND After attending this session, participants should be

SUNDAY PSYCHOANALYSIS able to: 1) Summarize the principles of close process Co-chair: Frederic N. Busch, M.D. (New York, NY) attention methodology; 2) Describe when a patient Co-chair experiences conflict over what he or she is revealing & Host: David Gutman, M.D. (New York, NY) to the analyst and responds with unconscious Presenter: Aaron Reliford, M.D.* (New York, NY) defense and the how, when and why the analyst calls attention to such moments. 2 This discussion group will explore common challenges when medication is part of an analysis. These include: What factors contribute to the decision to prescribe or withhold medication? What countertransference challenges exist in combining treatment for medical and non-medical analyses? How does the introduction of medication affect the psychoanalytic process? In what situations continued

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5:00 P.M. – 7:00 P.M. ET continued DISCUSSION GROUP 33: ANALYTIC LISTENING may the use – or non-use – of medication threaten Chair: Ralph Beaumont, M.D. (Portland, OR) an analysis? What are some of the challenges in monitoring medication once it is introduced? To Host: Jeanne Johnson, M.D. (Lake Oswego, OR) what degree are cultural pressures at play and how Presenter: Mary-Stone Bowers, M.F.T. (Campbell, CA) are they managed within the analysis? When should The focus of this session will be on the centrality the analyst consider splitting the treatment with a of the data gathering process, and a consideration psychopharmacologist? of the distinctions between hypotheses, which may After attending this session, participants should derive from espoused psychoanalytic theories, and be able to: 1) Explain the factors that contribute to the evidence for them in listening to the patient. the decision to prescribe or withhold medication; Looking closely at process notes of a single session, 2) Describe how the introduction of medication effort will be made to sharpen the view on nuances of affects the psychoanalytic process and the communications, verbal and non-verbal (e.g. shifts countertransference challenges of combining in affect or state, torn off voice, pauses, posture, treatment for medical and non-medical analyses. etc.), as these may provide significant information 2 and awareness of experience as yet unconscious. Attention will be highlighted on cues that may DISCUSSION GROUP 32: have been overlooked, as the group reflect on EFFECTS OF THE HOLOCAUST assumptions and inferences, of whatever origin, to AND GENOCIDE ON SURVIVORS AND see how these may or may not contribute to opening FAMILY MEMBERS yet untried paths. Chair: Ira Brenner, M.D. (Bala Cynwyd, PA) After attending this session, participants should

Co-chair: Nanette C. Auerhahn, Ph.D. (Beachwood, OH) be able to: 1) Describe the distinctions between SUNDAY SATURDAY Host: Valentino Zullo, M.A., MSSA* (Cleveland, OH) hypotheses, which may derive from espoused Presenter: Francoise Davoine, Ph.D.* (Paris, France) psychoanalytic theories, and the evidence for them in listening to the patient; 2) Assess overlooked Note: This program is intended to satisfy the verbal and nonverbal cues when considering requirements of those states that require CE/CME further implications in the nature of therapeutic credits in the area of cultural competency for license action. 2 renewal, but the final judgment for such qualification is made by each state’s board. DISCUSSION GROUP 34: This group is designed to address the impact of the CONFLICTING SUBJECTIVITIES AND Holocaust and genocidal persecution on survivors SELF-INTERESTS BETWEEN ANALYST and their family members. The clinical importance AND PATIENT of intergenerational transmission of such trauma, Co-chair, Co-discussant seen in successive generations of survivor families, & Host: Margaret Crastnopol, Ph.D. (Seattle, WA) has formed the cornerstone of this group since its Co-chair inception. A parallel process on the perpetrator & Presenter: Irwin Hirsch, Ph.D.* (New York, NY) side, with significant differences, may also be Co-discussant: Joye Weisel-Barth, Ph.D., Psy.D.* addressed. Through a review of theoretical aspects (Encino, CA) of transmission, the presentation of clinical case What constitutes acting in “bad faith” on the analyst’s material, and active group discussion, participants part? When might the analyst be putting forth one can acquire increased competence in this area. set of feelings or attitudes, while at the same time After attending this session, participants should feeling or holding another, contradictory set, with or be able to: 1) Assess those patients for whom without conscious awareness of this discrepancy? Holocaust/genocidal persecution issues may exist; The group will explore and contextualize this as a 2) Analyze the painful, affect laden material of potential outgrowth of the analyst’s multiplicity intergenerational transmission of trauma and its of self, wherein he or she doesn’t own or take impact on the psyche. 2 responsibility for a disavowed aspect of his or her psychic experience. The two discussants, who’ve written about the dark, unseen sides of the analyst’s psyche, examine how such “bad faith” functioning

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can undermine the analytic bond and impair the treatment’s outcome. After attending this session, participants should be able to: 1) Explain the nature of “bad faith” functioning on the analyst’s part; 2) List indicators of when the analyst might be engaged in “bad faith” engagement with a patient and use strategies to correct this deleterious therapeutic approach. 2

DISCUSSION GROUP 35: NO BODIES IN THE ROOM Chair: Susan Vaughan, M.D. (New York, NY) Host: Mark J. Blechner, Ph.D. (New York, NY) Presenter: Lyn Yonack, M.S.W. (Great Barrington, MA) Discussant: Danielle Knafo, Ph.D.* (Great Neck, NY) In online psychoanalytic treatment, the parameters of expression of erotic transference have changed, since neither the clinician nor patient is in the same physical space, although they are in the same virtual space. The group will explore changed ways that erotic transference can be experienced and expressed in online treatment. The clinician needs to cultivate an increased competence to the expression of these phenomena and astute ways of clarifying them and making them productive. Lyn Yonack, Editor of The American Psychoanalyst, will present clinical material from online treatment

SATURDAY that raises these issues. Danielle Knafo, author of The New Sexual Landscape and Contemporary Psychoanalysis, will discuss these phenomena through the lens of modern approaches to sexuality. Susan Vaughan, Director of the Columbia Psychoanalytic Center, will moderate the discussion. After attending this session, participants should be able to: 1) Discuss ways that erotic transference is manifested differently in online psychoanalytic

SUNDAY treatment; 2) Compare approaches to identifying and working with erotic transference in online treatment. 2

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OPEN VIRTUAL SESSIONS THROUGHOUT THE DAY POSTER SESSION The 2021 Poster Session will be offered as a virtual gallery. Conference attendees will be able to independently view the posters throughout the conference. This poster session is designed to promote stimulating conversations and mutual learning among psychoanalytic practitioners, theorists, and researchers. Submissions have relevance to psychoanalytic theory, technique, practice and effectiveness of psychoanalysis, or interdisciplinary scholarship addressing research questions in neighboring fields. This is the 20th annual poster session at the APsaA National Meeting.

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CONVERSATION WITH A SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 2021 DISTINGUISHED ANALYST: DR. JACK DRESCHER “A HISTORY OF HOMOSEXUALITY AND PSYCHOANALYSIS: All sessions are live and listed in Eastern Time. FROM THE THEORETICAL TO THE PERSONAL” Chair: Holly Crisp, M.D. (Houston, TX) 11:00 A.M. – 1:00 P.M. ET Host: Sumru Tufekcioglu, Ph.D. (New York, NY) SCIENCE DEPARTMENT SESSION 1: Distinguished Analyst, ON THE EDGE OF DISCOVERY: SELECT Presenter: Jack Drescher, M.D. (New York, NY) STUDIES FROM THE POSTER SESSION Note: This program is intended to satisfy the PRESENTED BY THE COLLEGE OF RESEARCH requirements of those states that require CE/CME FELLOWS OF APSAA credits in the area of cultural competency for license Chair: Robert Gregory, M.D.* (Syracuse, NY) renewal, but the final judgment for such qualification Co-chair: Heather MacIntosh, Ph.D.* is made by each state’s board. (Montreal, Canada) Join renowned analyst Dr. Jack Drescher for a Host: J. Christopher Perry, M.P.H, M.D.* conversation on his ideas about psychoanalytic (Montreal, Canada) practice and thinking. Early psychoanalytic Discussants: Barton J. Blinder, M.D. (Newport Beach, CA) theorizing about homosexuality made it impossible Rebecca Drill, Ph.D.* (Needham, MA) for openly gay men and women to become psychoanalysts. The history of psychoanalytic John Markowitz, M.D.* (New York, NY) attitudes toward homosexuality illustrates how This year marks the 20th anniversary of the psychological theories cannot be divorced from APsaA Poster Session, with contributions from the political, cultural, and personal contexts in psychoanalytic researchers throughout the United which they are formulated. This presentation will SATURDAY States and around the world. In our session “On elucidate some of that history as well as the impact the Edge of Discovery,” we inaugurate a new of theoretical formulations on the personal level of program for APsaA. The newly formed College of an openly gay male psychoanalyst. In this interactive Research Fellows of APsaA will select outstanding presentation, attendees are encouraged to engage contributions from researchers who have submitted in discussion. Dr. Drescher is a Faculty Member and poster presentations for the 2021 National Meeting. Senior Psychoanalytic Consultant, Columbia Center The authors of the selected posters will present for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, and a their studies in more detail and a faculty member Training and Supervising Analyst at the William will discuss the strengths and limitations of the Alanson White Institute. research methodology and how the findings may After attending this session, participants should be inform psychoanalytic theory and practice. SUNDAY able to: 1) Discuss and distinguish between the three After attending this session, participants should be broad categories of theorizing about homosexuality: able to: 1) Utilize relevant design elements such as theories of pathology, theories of immaturity and sample size and selection, control of independent theories of normal variation; 2) Assess how personal variables, randomization, mediation, and statistical beliefs (countertransference) influence clinical analysis for psychoanalytic research; 2) Analyze the thinking about human sexuality. 2 strengths and limitations in research methodology for psychoanalytically-oriented studies to inform psychoanalytic theory and practice. 2

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11:00 A.M. – 1:00 P.M. ET continued speakers will present an overview of the COMMITTEE SPONSORED WORKSHOP legal implications associated with COVID-19, 3: PRACTICE BUILDING TODAY: BLACK telemedicine, suicide risks and colleague peer hand LIVES MATTER, PSYCHOANALYSIS AND off/coverage issues. Using closed and potential claim FAITH IN BUILDING PRACTICE scenarios, the presenters will suggest strategies Chair & Host: Susan Flinders, Ph.D. (Chelsea, MI) and resources to assist the attendees to minimize professional liability. The session with be highly Presenters: Robin Rayford, M.A.* (Troy, MI) interactive and encourage questions and comments Stan Rayford, M.A.* (Troy, MI) from the attendees in dialogue with panelists. Note: This program is intended to satisfy the After attending this session, participants should be requirements of those states that require CE/CME able to: 1) Describe two major risks associated with credits in the area of cultural competency for license suicide in the COVID-19 environment; 2) Summarize renewal, but the final judgment for such qualification best practice process and procedures suggested is made by each state’s board. for telehealth licensing and documentation in the This workshop will address environmental and COVID-19 environment. 2 self-induced biases that might keep clinicians from offering more psychoanalysis/psychoanalytic DISCUSSION GROUP 36: treatment to Black patients, especially those of faith. TREATMENT RESISTANCE: APPLICATION These issues will be discussed interactively with OF PSYCHOANALYTIC IDEAS TO two Black professionals who are intensely involved PSYCHIATRIC DILEMMAS with an inner-city church which provides emotional Co-chair: Eric M. Plakun, M.D., DLFAPA, FACPsych and spiritual support with an underpinning of (Stockbridge, MA) psychoanalytic concepts. There will be time for Co-chair, Discussant questions and discussion to help increase the & Host: Elizabeth F. Weinberg, M.D. (Stockbridge, MA) interpersonal competence and confidence needed Presenter: Heather Churchill, Psy.D* (Stockbridge, MA) to offer psychoanalysis/psychoanalytic therapy to “Treatment resistance” is increasingly described more patients. in the treatment of severe mental illness, with After attending this session, participants should be dramatic increases in citations using this term able to: 1) Describe how bias of the Black Lives Matter over the past decades. This group will begin with a movement has limited work with Black patients and presentation of psychoanalytic work with a severely

SATURDAY patients of Faith; 2) Analyze environmental and self- disturbed patient with a history of poor response to induced biases to reduce mutual bias and build a conventional treatment. Participants will explore psychoanalytic practice with individuals from more psychoanalytic concepts and approaches as they diverse populations, especially those of faith. 2 apply to these dilemmas. Discussion will include reflections on the alliance, transference, and the ETHICS COURSE role of the “third.” OVERVIEW OF LEGAL & RISK After attending this session, participants should CHALLENGES OF TELEHEALTH, be able to: 1) Describe dynamic explanations PRESCRIBING, SUICIDE & PEER COVERAGE underlying common forms of treatment distance; IN TODAY’S WORLD. SPONSORED BY AIG/ 2) Discuss the process of establishing a treatment SUNDAY EDGEWOOD PARTNERS INSURANCE CENTER alliance in a psychoanalytic therapy when serious FORMERLY KNOWN AS FRENKEL & COMPANY psychiatric illness is present. 2 Presenter & Host: Kris Oliveira, J.D., M.A., R.N., CPHRM* (Boston, MA) Note: This program is intended to satisfy the requirements of those states that require CME credits in the area of risk management or medical ethics for medical license renewal, but the final judgment for such qualification is made by each state’s medical board. Utilizing an interactive presentation format,

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11:00 A.M. – 1:00 P.M. ET continued an attack by an offender. Where the “symmetry” DISCUSSION GROUP 37: of the unconscious tends “like an acid” to cancel PSYCHOANALYTIC APPROACHES TO THE distinctions, the psychoanalytic task is to promote SERIOUSLY DISTURBED PATIENT distinctions that stimulated discrimination, thought, Co-chair: Marlene Kocan, Ph.D., FABP (Columbus, OH) and emotional containment. Co-chair After attending this session, participants should & Host: Peter Kotcher, M.D. (Cincinnati, OH) be able to: 1) Utilize the exigencies of the pandemic Presenter: Nancy Bakalar, M.D. (Lone Tree, CO) in work with disturbed patients unable to tolerate The discussion group will be of interest to all anxiety evoked by traumatic intrusions of reality conference attendees who wish to explore and such as the reality of the pandemic; 2) Describe and improve their knowledge of and competence clinically utilize the numerous ways in which the in treating their patients who have serious body mind relationship has been brought into sharp disturbances. In response to a detailed case focus in a time in which threats to the body can no presentation, the group will ask questions and longer be overlooked. 2 discuss process and events to clarify the underlying strategies, obstacles, and competencies revealed in DISCUSSION GROUP 39: the presenter’s reported treatment. Marlene Kocan, THE PSYCHOANALYTIC TREATMENT Ph.D. and Peter Kotcher, M.D. are both graduates OF PATIENTS WITH PSYCHOSOMATIC of the Cincinnati Psychoanalytic Institute who SYMPTOMS: TRAUMA AND EMBODIED MEMORY have extensive experience in inpatient psychiatric Chair: Phyllis L. Sloate, Ph.D. (New Rochelle, NY) treatment. Host: Fredric T. Perlman, Ph.D. (Pleasantville, NY) After attending this session, participants should be Presenter: Marilyn Rifkin, LCSW (Naples, FL)

able to: 1) Use their emotional reaction to patients The psychoanalytic treatment of trauma is fraught SATURDAY with serious primitive pathology to verbalize with dissociative mechanisms and concomitant the patient’s emotional state and to guide the enactments. Embodied memory research explicates participant’s intervention; 2) Explain what the the way trauma is stored in the body and how it patient’s internal experience is or might be and can be understood within the transference and recognize that inner experience to present it in a countertransference matrix. A practice gap exists way that is useful to and can be understood by the where the analyst is not sensitized to embodied patient. 2 communication. Modification of technique is needed to transcend the enactment cycle. This case presents DISCUSSION GROUP 38: an alexithymic patient with a history of trauma due CORONA VIRUS AND THE BODY IN to early maternal failure and medical treatment

PSYCHOANALYSIS of secondary enuresis. Repeated sadomasochistic SUNDAY Chair: Vaia Tsolas, Ph.D. (New York, NY) enactments were often difficult to manage. The Host: Anand Desai, M.D. (New York, NY) decoding of bodily experience led to a deepening of Presenter: Riccardo Lombardi, M.D.* (Rome, Italy) the treatment and increased symbolic capacity. Discussant: Christine Anzieu-Premmereur, M.D., Ph.D. After attending this session, participants should (New York, NY) be able to: 1) Explain embodied memory theory as Dr. Riccardo Lombardi presents a theoretical it pertains to the analysis of traumatized patients; formulation, expanding on the ideas of Freud, Bion 2) Apply techniques that decode embodied and Matte-Blanco to explain the theory behind communication in order to enable patients to viewing in the contemporary body-mind crisis of overcome dissociative states and move from the corona virus pandemic as an opportunity for enactment to comprehension. 2 deepening the analytic process. Struggling with body boundaries and acute anxieties has the potential to become a springboard for creativity for both patient and analyst. For patients vulnerable to guilt and internal paranoia, tragic news of the pandemic necessitates an unfolding of the distinctions: body and mind, external and internal reality, objective tragedy and imagined fear of

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11:00 A.M. – 1:00 P.M. ET continued those who hope to contribute to it, “consumers” DISCUSSION GROUP 40: of psychoanalytic research who want to apply it to THE DIFFICULT CHILD TO REACH: practice, and those who want to intelligently support A KLEINIAN PERSPECTIVE ON the research effort. The presentation will be in the PSYCHOANALYTIC WORK WITH CHILDREN form of a dialog with Dr. Robert Galatzer-Levy and Chair & Host: Karen Proner, M.S. (New York, NY) will include audience participation. Presenter: Debra Gill, LCSW (New York, NY) After attending this session, participants should be able to: 1) Explain the crucial importance of This session will focus on children and adolescents psychoanalytic research for the development with severe problems that may make them of psychoanalysis as a discipline, and its role in uncertain patients for psychoanalytic work. With “suicide prevention” for psychoanalytic institutes the growing pressure on child analysts to work with and societies; 2) Discuss resistances to research more disturbed children, this discussion group will that occur within psychoanalytic organizations. look at technical problems and theoretical problems 2 through the presentation and discussion of clinical material. The clinical case will be selected for its difficulties and challenges to our usual ways of THE 2021 CANDIDATES’ COUNCIL thinking and working as child analysts. Klein and PSYCHOANALYTIC PAPER PRIZE her followers believed that one could adapt the Chair: Rachel D. Maree, M.D., M.P.H. method of psychoanalysis to work with children’s (Brookhaven, GA) earliest anxieties and their defenses and stay true Host: Melissa Jenereski, M.S.W. (Pittsburgh, PA) to the principles of psychoanalysis. Presenter: Rochelle M. Broder, Ph.D. (Huntington Woods, MI) After attending this session, participants should be Discussant: Joan E. Sarnat, Ph.D., ABPP* able to: 1) Describe the Kleinian methods of working (Berkeley, CA) with children and adolescents whose problems are The Candidates’ Council Psychoanalytic Paper from early trauma or deficit and whose primitive Prize is awarded based on a competition in which mental states and defenses make them difficult any candidate member is eligible to participate. to reach in the conventional analytic approach; 2) The award-winning paper is selected based on a Assess emotions that are generated by the primitive blind peer review process with candidates serving process of projective identification to bridge the as readers and judges. This year’s finalist prize difficulty of children who may not play or symbolize SATURDAY winner Rochelle M. Broder, Ph.D. will present her in the conventional way or who challenge the setting paper “Low Fee, Rage and Countertransference”. A and the analyst. 2 senior analyst, Joan Sarnat, Ph.D., will serve as the discussant and comment on the themes of the paper 2:00 P.M. – 4:00 P.M. ET as well as on the writing process more broadly. SCIENCE DEPARTMENT SESSION 2: Participants will have the opportunity for discussion OTTO KERNBERG: PERSPECTIVES FROM in a collegial and informal atmosphere. SEVEN DECADES OF PSYCHOANALYTIC After attending this session, participants should be RESEARCH able to: 1) Discuss issues of countertransference Chair: Robert M. Galatzer-Levy, M.D. (Chicago, IL) and patient enactments related to setting fees; 2) SUNDAY Host: Adam N. Moriwaki, Psy.D. (Muskego, WI) Analyze the phenomenon of a parallel processes that Presenter: Otto F. Kernberg, M.D. (White Plains, NY) occurs in the candidate’s supervisory experience. Dr. Otto Kernberg’s enormous contributions to 2 psychoanalytic research have spanned seven decades. In this presentation he will discuss the development of psychoanalytic research, its roles, methods, problems and limitations as he has seen them evolve. Building on his own experience to illustrate the excitement and frustrations of the field, he will discuss where research has been, where it is and what the future may hold. Dr. Kernberg will provide a picture of research that can inform

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2:00 P.M. – 4:00 P.M. ET continued DISCUSSION GROUP 41: PSYCHOTHERAPIST ASSOCIATES COMMITTEE SPONSORED WORKSHOP 4: PRESENT: FROM PERSECUTION TO 2021 RALPH ROUGHTON AWARD PAPER: PSYCHIC BIRTH: COUNTERTRANSFERENCE AND FROM BATTLEGROUND TO PLAYGROUND: TRANSFERENCE FROM AN OBJECT RELATIONS A WINNICOTTIAN READING OF THE VIDEO GAME PERSPECTIVE AVATAR AS TRANSITIONAL PHENOMENON FOR Co-chair: Margo P. Goldman, M. D.* (Andover, MA) THE QUEER, TRANSGENDER, AND/OR GENDER Co-chair NON-CONFORMING PATIENT & Host: Petra Pilgrim, M.D.* (New Canaan, CT) Chair: Carol B. Levin, M.D. (Okemos, CA) Presenter: Padma Desai, LMHC, LPC* (New York, NY) Co-chairs: Justin Shubert, Psy.D. (Los Angeles, CA) Discussant: Aisha Abbasi, M.D. (West Bloomfield, MI) Don Spivak, M.D. (Birmingham, MI) This discussion group applies psychodynamic Host: TBA principles and techniques to real-world Presenter: Sien Rivera, M.D. (Columbia, SC) psychoanalytic psychotherapy with special attention Note: This program is intended to satisfy the to identifying and managing transference/ counter- requirements of those states that require CE/CME transference enactments. The case presentation credits in the area of cultural competency for license and discussion will portray how individual and renewal, but the final judgment for such qualification cultural persecutory experiences are internalized is made by each state’s board. and limit psychic growth. The program will address This presentation, for any practitioner who managing and using containment, internalization encounters patients that engage with video games, and regression to improve competence and avoid will utilize the work of D.W. Winnicott as a lens pitfalls that can impede the clinician’s or patient’s to examine play in the development of queer, progress in treatment. All levels of clinical

transgender, and/or gender-nonconforming training and skill are welcome. Padma Desai is a SATURDAY patients, and the safety that video games provide psychoanalytic psychotherapist practicing in New for this play. Included is a discussion of a case of a Jersey with an interest in object relations theory trans patient who utilized a video game avatar as a and technique. Aisha Abassi is a psychiatrist and tool in therapy during their medical transition. Sien psychoanalyst practicing in Michigan, with clinical Rivera, M.D. is a PGY4 Child/Adolescent Psychiatry and published expertise in cross-cultural issues Fellow at Prisma Health Midlands, a member and inadvertent psychosocial disruptions in the of Prisma Health’s physician working group for treatment relationship. transgender patient care, the Association for Gay After attending this session, participants should and Lesbian Psychiatrist’s Resident Committee, and be able to: 1) Identify the transference-counter- the American Association for Child and Adolescent transference reactions between the patient and

Psychiatrist’s Sexual Orientation and Gender therapist to manage and trace movement in the SUNDAY Identity Issues Sub-Committee. dyad during psychotherapy; 2) Utilize clinical After attending this session, participants should be interventions and technique consistent with the able to: 1) Apply Winnicottian concepts to formulate relevant object-relations theories to support the patient engagement with video games: 2) Utilize treatment dyad while holding and interpreting play as an effective therapeutic tool for the queer, toward transformation. 2 transgender and/or gender non-conforming patient. 2 DISCUSSION GROUP 42: THE INTEGRATION OF PSYCHOANALYSIS AND COUPLE THERAPY Chairs & Presenters: Graciela E. Abelin-Sas Rose, M.D.* (New York, NY) Peter Mezan, Ph.D.* (New York, NY) Host: Ellen Mezan, Ph.D.* (New York, NY) This discussion group will define the distinction between the unconscious organization of the individual and of the couple, studying the marked

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2:00 P.M. – 4:00 P.M. ET continued engagement to infer and imagine the infant history of adult patients with early trauma. 2 differences between an individual’s transference to his or her analyst and the transferences to the DISCUSSION GROUP 44: partner. To that effect clinical material will be CULTURAL NARRATIVES IN presented where the same patient is studied in PSYCHOANALYSIS his individual session and in the couple session. Chair: M. Nasir Ilahi, L.L.M. (Riverside, CT) The presenters have designed a collaboration maintained during many years whereby one of Co-chairs: Sandra Buechler, Ph.D.* (New York, NY) them sees the couple while the other treats one of Alan Roland, Ph.D.* (New York, NY) the partners in psychoanalysis. The observations Host: TBA are extremely clarifying about the great differences Presenter: Fang Duan, Ph.D.* (Lake Hiawatha, NJ) encountered in both settings. It opens up the Note: This program is intended to satisfy the question of how to deal with these different aspects requirements of those states that require CE/CME of the psyche in each treatment. credits in the area of cultural competency for license After attending this session, participants should renewal, but the final judgment for such qualification be able to: 1) Assess how distortions and projective is made by each state’s board. identifications, articulated by patients about their Psychoanalysis has rarely considered that culture partners, are expressed not only through words, is deeply internalized. While psychoanalysis but through subtle gestures and tone; 2) Design has universal applicability, internalized values interventions that address how a fixed construction of Western individualism deeply inform many of the other affects the emotional field of the partner psychoanalytic formulations. Potential conflicts and then reverberates back into the patient’s mind, arise when the analyst (or his/her explicit/implicit maintaining an immovable pattern, impeding theories) comes from a Western culture and the mutual development. 2 patient from a radically different, non-Western culture (e.g. Japan, China, and India) where DISCUSSION GROUP 43: profoundly different family-centered unconscious CONTRIBUTIONS OF INFANT RESEARCH emotional values prevail. While each non -western TO ADULT TREATMENT culture has unique features, they all share in common Chair, Co-presenter the family-centered aspect to varying degrees in & Host: Beatrice Beebe, Ph.D. (New York, NY) contrast to the individual-centered emphasis in SATURDAY Co-chair & the West. These nonconflictual internalizations Co-presenter: Frank M. Lachmann, Ph.D. (New York, NY) date back to the earliest preverbal mother/infant This discussion group will present research on interactions and seldom become conscious since mothers who were pregnant and widowed on 9/11, they are silently woven into the entire emotional and their infants: an “Urgent Engagement” picture fabric. This territory will be intensively explored – and its relevance to adult treatment. The session utilizing detailed clinical process will show films/frame-by-frame analyses of mother- After attending this session, participants should be infant interaction; role-play brief interactions able to: 1) Describe the role of deeply internalized identified by the research; discuss case vignettes culture in psychoanalytic therapy with patients from

SUNDAY of adult treatment that illustrate the applicability of non-Western cultures; 2) Explain how transference this research, and invite participants to bring case and countertransference developments in vignettes of adult patients with early trauma. Beatrice psychoanalytic therapy with patients from non- Beebe is an infant researcher/ psychoanalyst; Frank Western cultures can lead to clinical impasses. Lachmann is a psychoanalyst. Their books are good 2 background: Beebe & Lachmann, 2002, Infant research and adult treatment: Co-constructing interactions; Beebe & Lachmann, 2014, The origins of attachment: Infant research and adult treatment. After attending this session, participants should be able to: 1) Describe the mother-infant interaction patterns of urgent engagement; 2) Use urgent

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2:00 P.M. – 4:00 P.M. ET continued to describe the specific struggles that twins have DISCUSSION GROUP 45: in individuating from one’s twin at different PSYCHOANALYSIS AND stages of their development. The transference/ PSYCHOTHERAPEUTIC HOSPITALS countertransference issues that may be enacted in Chair & Host: M. Sagman Kayatekin, M.D. (Bellaire, TX) the treatment by the patient will be highlighted. Co-chair: Michael D. Groat, Ph.D. M.S.* After attending this session, participants should be (New Canaan, CT) able to: 1) Analyze the competitive feelings of rivalry Presenters: Allison de Seve, Ph.D.* (New Canaan, CT) and jealousy that twins experience as they attempt Michael McClam, M.D. (Houston, TX) to develop their separate identities; 2) Describe how in the transference a twin with maternal Drs. Kayatekin and Groat have extensive experience psychopathology searches for a good maternal in psychoanalytic individual, family, group, milieu object to replace or remediate the bad early infant and hospital team work. The target audience is mother mis-attunement. 2 clinicians who have a wide range of exposure to psychoanalytic venues; from the office to hospitals, IOP’s, partial hospitalizations, and day treatment 5:00 P.M. – 7:00 P.M. ET programs. These contexts, with their regressive/ SCIENCE DEPARTMENT SESSION 3: progressive capabilities on the person and the TRAUMA-FOCUSED PSYCHODYNAMIC psychopathology, provide a unique window to PSYCHOTHERAPY (TFPP) the fascinating interrelatedness of intra-psychic Chair and interpersonal matrices of human minds. & Presenter: Barbara Milrod, M.D. (New York, NY) Clinical presentations from psychoanalytically Host: Charles P. Fisher, M.D. (Berkeley, CA) informed multiple treater settings and discussion Presenters: Fredric Busch, M.D. (New York, NY)

will increase participants’ knowledge beyond the Cory K. Chen, Ph.D. (New York, NY) SATURDAY intrapsychic/dyadic psychoanalytic approaches that In this program, the authors of the forthcoming book, dominate the psychoanalytic theory. This will allow Trauma Focused Psychodynamic Psychotherapy, for a more sophisticated, multilayered use of the will present their research findings about treatment multiple venues of therapeutic action that makes of patients with PTSD. “Patients said they yearned multiple treater settings effective environments to regain a sense of life purpose, of which they felt conducive to therapeutic growth and change. their traumas had robbed them, because of their After attending this session, participants should be ongoing symptoms and the way their traumatic able to: 1) Describe the capacity for the regression experiences had come to overshadow their lives.” of the individual in dyadic therapeutic relations Many psychotherapies are helpful with symptoms and families and groups as an essential part of of PTSD. Moving beyond symptom relief, “The

psychopathology; 2) Use the individual, dyadic, goal of TFPP is to help patients with PTSD make SUNDAY group regressions from the lens of bi-personal coherent sense of their often disjointed symptomatic defenses like projective identification in the experiences, and thereby to provide an emotionally formulation of therapeutic interventions. 2 vibrant road linking the trauma survivor to his/her emotional life before the trauma, hence helping to DISCUSSION GROUP 46: restore that lost sense of purpose and coherence.” PSYCHOANALYSIS WITH TWINS: After attending this session, participants should be PSYCHOANALYSIS OF A LATENCY AGE able to: 1) Summarize recent research findings about MALE FRATERNAL TWIN the nightmarish consequences of PTSD; 2) Describe Co-chair the elements of a trauma-focused psychodynamic & Host: Maida Greenberg, Ed.D. (Newton Centre, MA) psychotherapy that moves beyond symptom relief to Co-chair help PTSD patients regain a “sense of life purpose.” & Presenter: Mali Mann, M.D. (Los Altos, CA) 2 The challenges that exist for twins as they attempt to develop a separate sense of self will be offered to clinicians who are working with twins, siblings of twins, and parents of twins in their professional practice. The presentation and discussion of analytic material about fraternal twin will enable clinicians

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5:00 P.M. – 7:00 P.M. ET continued will present the process and video material, DISCUSSION GROUP 47: accompanied by Dr. Weinstein’s testing results. PSYCHOANALYSIS AND PSYCHODYNAMIC They will discuss diagnostic criteria, the concept of PSYCHOTHERAPY neuroplasticity and change, and the impact on ego Chair: Ralph Beaumont, M.D. (Portland, OR) development of neurogenetics and conflict in the formation of symptoms. Host: Cynthia Ellis Gray, M.D. (Portland, OR) Presenters: Kristen Callahan, M.A., M.F.T. After attending this session, participants should (Redwood City, CA) be able to: 1) Compare the classic symptoms of Petra Pilgrim, M.D.* (New Canaan, CT) ASD with conflict-driven symptoms in a child; 2) Discussant: Britt-Marie Schiller, Ph.D. (Saint Louis, MO) Describe a psychoanalytic approach’s impact on ego and superego development and conflicts in the Contrasting psychoanalysis and psychodynamic formation of symptoms. 2 psychotherapy has been a long established tradition, focusing often on limitations of the latter. This discussion group will take a different stance DISCUSSION GROUP 49: JAMES JOYCE’S ULYSSES AND toward this relationship. The emphasis will be PSYCHOANALYSIS psychoanalysis and psychodynamic psychotherapy, Co-chair rather than one versus the other. The group will & Host: Steven Rolfe, M.D. (Bryn Mawr, PA) emphasize side by side comparison with the Co-chair: Paul Schwaber, Ph.D. (Hamden, CT) intention of greater knowledge of the two areas of practice and their relations. The group believes “Ulysses” by means of characterizations that in that examining these two clinical approaches context makes real and credible the inner lives together will increase knowledge of their shared of fictive persons and provides, through artistic aspects. The format will involve two presenters, form and aesthetic experience, what scientific case one providing psychoanalytic material, the other studies cannot manage, for it portrays minds in psychotherapeutic material. A discussant will help action, the specificity, rhythms, ideas, association, pursue consideration of the two processes in terms feelings, and recurrences that distinguish and, in the of method, technique, and therapeutic action. clinical situation, reveal distinct persons. In doing this it offers occasion for showing by extrapolation After attending this session, participants should how an analyst listens and ponders, that is follows be able to: 1) Compare the two processes of along, notices things, and reflects about a person psychoanalysis and psychodynamic psychotherapy SATURDAY who is saying whatever comes to mind, or trying to. in terms of technique, method, and therapeutic The chapter “Cyclops” in James Joyce’s Ulysses will action; 2) Demonstrate the distinctions that can be provide an opportunity to increase knowledge of the made conceptually between the psychoanalytic and relationship between narcissism, aggression and psychotherapeutic processes. 2 paranoid and racist attitudes. The session will focus on the blindness of the characters in the novel, and : DISCUSSION GROUP 48 the dangerous consequences of xenophobia which PSYCHOANALYTIC APPROACHES TO result. This year’s reading: Ulysses: Chapter 12 WORKING WITH CHILDREN WITH AUTISM “Cyclops” Gabler Edition, Vintage Books/Random SPECTRUM DISORDER House. Supplemental reading: “The Argument of

SUNDAY Chair: Susan P. Sherkow, M.D. (New York, NY) Ulysses” Stanley Sultan Presenter & Host: Lissa Weinstein, Ph.D. (New York, NY) After attending this session, participants should be able to: 1) Describe the nature and limitations This group will examine the developmental course of a “one-eyed” narcissistic, prejudiced view of of a nine year old boy, whose five-year analysis the world; 2) Apply Freud’s concepts of character revealed a confluence of genetic and constitutional types to analyze the dangers and consequences of factors, and environmental stressors, that together nationalism, racism and unbridled characterological contributed to his manifest presentation of narcissism. 2 being both brilliant and well-endowed, yet still often asocial and dysregulated, which negatively impacted his capacity to function in a school setting. Neuropsychological testing confirmed the difficulty of finding a clear “diagnosis.” Dr. Sherkow

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5:00 P.M. – 7:00 P.M. ET continued SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2021 DISCUSSION GROUP 50: DEEPENING THE TREATMENT Chair: Jane S. Hall, LCSW, FIPA (New York, NY) All sessions are live and listed in Eastern Time. Host: TBA Presenters: Luke Hadge, Ph.D. (Honolulu, HI) 11:00 A.M. – 1:00 P.M. ET Timothy H. Rayner, M.D. (San Diego, CA) COMMITTEE SPONSORED WORKSHOP 5: This discussion group will address the difficult topic TEACHING ABOUT ANALYTIC CASE of deepening the work with those who know nothing WRITING about psychoanalytic work. The problems presented Chair: Stephen B. Bernstein, M.D. (Chestnut Hill, MA) often do not surface in the beginning of treatment Co-chair so the clinician must be equipped to handle the & Host: Mark Moore, Ph.D. (Philadelphia, PA) revelations that occur. Case material will illustrate Co-chairs: Melvin Bornstein, M.D. (Birmingham, MI) working with naiveté, anxiety, and fear of trusting. Jonathan Palmer, M.D. (Newton, MA) Working with patients that are resistant to in depth Harvey J. Schwartz, M.D. (Philadelphia, PA) therapy requires sophisticated communication Peggy E. Warren, M.D. (Waban, MA) skill. Skills in patient communication, explaining Presenter: Deborah L. Cabaniss, M.D. (New York, NY) why deeper treatment is necessary and how to This workshop will continue to discuss teaching help patients begin addressing their problems and writing about treatment cases. Deborah by understanding their roots are taught. The Cabaniss, author, clinician and educator, will reflect presenters will use case material and share their on her personal journey to understand and teach knowledge about how they deepened the work. the psychodynamic formulation. With her writing SATURDAY Both presenters are mid-career psychoanalysts group, she has created an operationalized model who understand that the general public knows little for formulating psychodynamically to help trainees about deep psychoanalytic work. They will share and seasoned clinicians create the formulations their expertise in encouraging patients to do the that are essential for understanding and treating work. patients. She will discuss her earlier contributions After attending this session, participants should be on case writing and the formulation. More recently, able to: 1) Create a non-judgmental environment Deborah and her group have begun to explore how to deepen psychoanalytic work that includes more to make internalization of perceptions about race, frequent sessions; 2) Prepare patients for intensive gender and sexuality central to all psychodynamic psychoanalytic work that involves exploring the formulations. This will be an interactive workshop. deep roots of their problems through expressing (This workshop is related to the discussion group: emotion, speaking freely, and analyzing dreams to “Writing About Your Analytic Work In a Case Report”, SUNDAY make the unconscious more conscious. 2 Sunday, February 28 at 2:00p.m.) After attending this session, participants should 7:00 P.M. – 8:30 P.M. ET be able to: 1) Utilize psychodynamic formulation in CANDIDATES’ VIRTUAL the teaching and writing about patient treatments; COCKTAIL PARTY 2) Demonstrate how to make internalization of perceptions about race, gender and sexuality central This is a chance to unwind, socialize, meet to all psychodynamic formulations. 2 and network with candidate colleagues from across the country and around the world. The goal is to socialize with other candidates, make professional connections and develop friendships in a non-educational event. There will be a chance to talk as a larger group and then break into smaller groups for informal conversation and socializing.

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11:00 A.M. – 1:00 P.M. ET continued schizoid phenomena, while obtaining the tools to CANDIDATES’ COUNCIL MASTER work within the transference-countertransference TEACHER AWARD: DR. DIONNE POWELL: dynamic. The session will integrate the connection “A MOVEMENT NOT A MOMENT: between theory and practice by discussing an article, SUSTAINING A DIVERSE, RACIALLY INCLUSIVE examining a case presentation with detailed process APPROACH TO PSYCHOTHERAPY AND notes, and a lengthy discussion among participants PSYCHOANALYTIC EDUCATION.” culminating in a final summary by the chairs, Chair: Holly Crisp, M.D. (Houston, TX) all within the Independent and British Kleinian Host: Sumru Tufekcioglu, Ph.D. (New York, NY) Schools of psychoanalysis. Ms. Susan Finkelstein, a training analyst in NYC conducts Understanding Master Teacher Award Recipient, Presenter: Dionne R. Powell, M.D. (New York, NY) Primitive Mental States study groups on the Internal World and Its Objects with London Contemporary Note: This program is intended to satisfy the Kleinians. Mr. M. Nasir Ilahi, a training analyst, is a requirements of those states that require CE/CME Fellow of the British Psychoanalytic Society. credits in the area of cultural competency for license renewal, but the final judgment for such qualification After attending this session, participants should is made by each state’s board. be able to: 1) Describe the nature of schizoid mechanisms and their links with neurotic, Seismic changes in our national conversation, borderline and narcissistic functioning; 2) Apply following the inexplicable deaths of too many black specific technical approaches with origins in Freud people, result in our reckoning as analysts on how and Klein to working with the non-neurotic patient we unconsciously and consciously exclude the or the disturbed aspects of neurotic patients. 2 racial other. Our racism and supremacy, cloaked by liberalism, blinds our ability to view ourselves as part of the problem and contributors to viable solutions. DISCUSSION GROUP 52: By striving to include the cultural/ethnic self in PSYCHODYNAMIC WORK WITH ELDERS 2.0 all aspects of psychoanalytic education, including Chair & Host: Daniel Plotkin, M.D., M.P.H., Ph.D the recruitment, retention and development of (Los Angeles, CA) diverse candidates of color, we can make a change Discussants: Audrey Kavka, M.D. (Oakland, CA) promoting diversity, equity and inclusion. Racial Doryann M. Lebe, M.D. (Los Angeles, CA) reconciliation must go beyond public statements Jolyn Welsh Wagner, M.D. (Birmingham, MI to the intra-psychic, to acknowledging our failures SATURDAY regarding the mental health care and training of Mi Yu, M.D., Ph.D. (Nashville, TN) black and brown people, to consciously “do better”. Previous discussion groups have focused on After attending this session, participants should establishing that elders can and do benefit from be able to: 1) Describe ways to actively include doing deep psychotherapeutic work, which may be the cultural and ethnic self in all aspects of identified as psychodynamic work with elders 1.0. psychoanalytic education; 2) Analyze impediments The current discussion group goes a step further, to change that are intrapsychic and dynamic as well asserting that not only can older adults do the work, as those that are systemic. 2 but they are uniquely qualified or “ripe” for this kind of work. Characteristics associated with favorable therapeutic process and outcome (i.e., “suitability”) SUNDAY DISCUSSION GROUP 51: SCHIZOID MODES IN NARCISSISTIC will be compared to characteristics associated with AND BORDERLINE STATES: LEVELS OF normal aging, demonstrating many common factors DISTURBANCE IN THE CAPACITY TO SYMBOLIZE and characteristics. AND ESTABLISHING A SPACE-TIME CONTINUUM After attending this session, participants should be Chair: Susan N. Finkelstein, LCSW (New York, NY) able to: 1) List qualities associated with “suitability” Co-chair: M. Nasir Ilahi, LLM (Riverside, CT) for doing depth psychotherapeutic work; 2) List Host: Carla Rentrop, Ph.D.* (New York, NY) qualities of normal aging that may be associated Presenter: Lee Zuckerman Share, Ph.D.* (New York, NY) with favorable capability to do psychotherapeutic work. 2 This group targets analysts at all levels wishing to increase their knowledge of working with unconscious phantasy, primitive anxiety and

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11:00 A.M. – 1:00 P.M. ET continued issues will update the group on the origins of DISCUSSION GROUP 53: contemporary developments. An analyst working ANALYTICALLY-ORIENTED WORK WITH with infants and toddlers will show clinical work CHILDREN AND ADULTS ON THE AUTISM with intense early repression of drives. The many SPECTRUM different interpretations of the psychoanalytic use Chair, Discussant of masochism and self-destructiveness have made & Host: Michael Krass, Ph.D. (Falls Church, VA) those important concepts confused. The session Presenter: Nathan Leslie, B.S.* (Washington, DC) plans to show their use in clinical evaluations and in analysis. Clinicians working with patients on the autism spectrum often make the mistake of either After attending this session, participants should be underestimating the psychic impact of living able to: 1) Describe and critically evaluate historic with neurobiological differences and limitations, and contemporary theories of Masochism; 2) or overestimating the role of psychology and Analyze the multilayered dynamics present in early environment in those difficulties that have a sado-masochistic interactions. 2 neurobiological origin. This discussion group will present a clinical case of analytically-oriented work DISCUSSION GROUP 55: with a patient with Asperger’s Syndrome to discuss DISTANCE PSYCHOANALYSIS AND the neurobiology of Asperger’s through the lens of DISTANCE PSYCHOANALYTIC EDUCATION Winnicott’s and others’ (e.g. Bion’s) theories on the Co-chairs: David Scharff, M.D. (Chevy Chase, MD) origins and development of the mind. This group will R. Dennis Shelby, Ph.D. (Chesterton, IN) function as a space in which to think together about Host: TBA innovating techniques for working therapeutically Presenter: Ralph E. Fishkin, D.O. (Bala Cynwyd, PA) with adults, adolescents and children in analysis and

Discussants: Kerry Kelly Novick (Ann Arbor, MI) SATURDAY analytic therapy Participants are invited to bring Jill Savege Scharff, M.D. (Chevy Chase, MD) additional case material to present and discuss. Katherine M. Williams, Ph.D., LCSW After attending this session, participants should (Chicago, IL) be able to: 1) Prepare analytic techniques with This discussion group addresses effective teaching Asperger’s Syndrome patients that use Winnicott’s in the online situation that now confronts most and Bion’s theories on the origins and development institute teachers of analytic candidates and of the mind within the framework of the neurobiology therapists today. We will focus on how the internet of Asperger’s; 2) Compare and distinguish the hard- or telephone both aids and hinders the educational wired causes of autism spectrum phenomena from process, consulting with teachers and students for the psychic results of these neurobiological causes. their perspective of the online learning experience. 2 Results of focus groups with candidates illuminate SUNDAY holes in educational process. The group’s discussion DISCUSSION GROUP 54: will pool experience of teaching and learning in PSYCHOANALYSIS WITH BABIES: the situation of required online training. This MASOCHISM AS A REGULATION session will cover didactic seminars as well as MECHANISM supervision, mentoring and faculty meetings, with Chair: Talia Hatzor, Ph.D. (New York, NY) the aim of being inclusive about the educational Host: Francoise G. Graf (New York, NY) process. Presenters have extensive experience in Presenter: Alan Sugarman, Ph.D. educational research, teaching and learning. (Cardiff by the Sea, CA) After attending this session, participants should be Discussant: Christine Anzieu-Premmereur, M.D., Ph.D. able to: 1) Apply the strategy of invojved discussion (New York, NY) and candidate critique of readings for effective Adult and Child Psychoanalysts will discuss the teaching to a group of dispersed candidates in an masochistic patients who require a specific attention online learning environment; 2) Revise teaching to their need for regulation of transition. Punishment methods based on candidate feedback through the inducing behavior and self-destructiveness are use of equalizing the experience of online and in- issues which can be observed early in life and can be room candidates, engaging candidates instead of associated with a lack in early transitional capacity. lecturing or reading of papers. 2 An expert on psychoanalytic theories in masochistic

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11:00 A.M. – 1:00 P.M. ET continued Freud’s conceptions of unconscious processes; 2) DISCUSSION GROUP 56: Discuss the implications for the psychodynamic PSYCHOANALYTIC EXPLORATIONS: THE operationalizing of the unconscious based ANALYST’S AFFECTIVE EXPERIENCE on intrapsychic and societal models as either Chair, Presenter intertwined or separated. 2 & Host: Merton A. Shill, LLM, Ph.D. (Ann Arbor, MI) This session is intended for clinicians of all 2:00 P.M. – 4:00 P.M. ET experience levels. The specific focus here is to COMMITTEE SPONSORED WORKSHOP 6: increase knowledge of and responsiveness to the MEDICAL STUDENT EDUCATION affective experience of both patient and analyst Co-chair in the treatment. The instructional method to & Presenter: David Mintz, M.D.* (Stockbridge, MA) be employed is the presentation of a theoretical Co-chair introduction followed by clinical case material & Host: Janis L. Cutler, M.D. (New York, NY) which is illustrative. This approach is intended to Presenters: Dinorah M. Gomez, B.S.* contrast with the training analysts traditionally (Isabela, Puerto Rico) receive which involves interpreting conflict or Murad Khan, M.D.* (New Haven, CT) self-states in a cognitive manner without sufficient Brian Schulman, M.D.* (Somerville, MA) attention to deepening the affective experience and This workshop is designed for individuals who are meaning of those issues for the patient. interested in teaching medical students and other After attending this session, participants should be early career trainees. Psychoanalysts who are active able to: 1) Assess the patient’s affective response to members of national professional organizations in the treatment hour and the treatment as a whole; 2) academic psychiatry will be joined by a senior medical Design technical interventions based on the crucial student and a psychiatry resident to describe recent contribution of affects in both the patient and the trends in medical education, including an increased clinician. 2 focused on issues of interpersonal communication and social justice. Participants will develop skills DISCUSSION GROUP 57: to engage medical students effectively in learning THE CRITICS OF PSYCHOANALYSIS: about the relevance of psychoanalytic concepts for PLATO AND THE ORIGINS OF these topics, including a demonstration of their PSYCHODYNAMIC THINKING value in assessing the social history and as a tool for SATURDAY Co-chairs & social justice. There will be ample time for group Presenters: Jonathan Lear, Ph.D. (Chicago, IL) discussion. Alfred S. Margulies, M.D. (Auburndale, MA) After attending this session, participants should be Host: Kay Long, Ph.D. (New Haven, CT) able to: 1) Describe effective pedagogical approaches As citizens and clinicians, we have been shaken by to presenting psychoanalytic concepts to medical assaults to our republican democracy and by our students and other early career trainees; 2) Discuss need to reimagine who we are. Presciently, Plato psychoanalytic concepts - such as unconscious bias did imagine just these challenges, and the problem - to conceptualize oppression and social justice in of human nature written large into the structure of medical education. 2

SUNDAY society. While Freud drew on Plato to fashion his basic model of human nature into an operationalized SERVICE MEMBER AND VETERANS psychoanalytic, clinical approach to the unconscious INITIATIVE of the individual, Plato’s vision was larger: he Chair imagined the implications of individual human & Presenter: Harold Kudler, M.D. (Durham, NC) nature that is conflicted, irrational, and grasping— Co-chair and is always in a recursive, spiraling relationship & Host: Norman M. Camp, M.D. (Richmond, VA) with larger group and societal psychological Discussant: Arthur Blank, M.D. (Bethesda, MD) dynamics. The individual and society are entangled Note: This program is intended to satisfy the and moving within incorporative and projective requirements of those states that require CE/CME interactions—often with tragic consequences. credits in the area of cultural competency for license After attending this session, participants should renewal, but the final judgment for such qualification be able to: 1) Compare and summarize Plato’s and is made by each state’s board. continued

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2:00 P.M. – 4:00 P.M. ET continued After attending this session, participants should be able to: 1) Assess the efficacy and possible limitations This session targets clinicians seeking to increase of different theoretical approaches to the same their knowledge and skills in treating combat clinical material; 2) Plan clinical formulations from veterans. Essential connections between the alternative theoretical and clinical perspectives. evolution of psychoanalytic theory and technique 2 in military settings and the standards of modern evidence-based practice will be discussed in a ARTIST/SCHOLAR-IN-RESIDENCE: lively, interactive format. Following this session, “WROUGHT WITH THINGS FORGOTTEN”: participants will be able to apply sophisticated SHAKESPEARE’S MOTHER conceptualizations of psychological trauma in Chair: Peter L. Rudnytsky, Ph.D., LCSW clinical settings and analyze the evidence-base (Gainesville, FL) for psychoanalytic treatment of combat veterans. Co-chair The presenters are senior clinicians with unique & Host: Murray M. Schwartz, Ph.D. (Amherst, MA) experience in military and veteran settings, each of Presenter: Richard P. Wheeler, Ph.D.* whom has led national VA mental health programs (Champaign-Urbana, IL) and published widely on the psychoanalytic Discussant: Stephen Greenblatt, Ph.D.* (Cambridge, MA) treatment of veterans. Although critics have explored psychological After attending this session, participants should themes grounded in infant-mother relations in be able to: 1) Apply sophisticated psychoanalytic Shakespeare’s plays, they have said very little conceptualizations of psychological trauma in about Shakespeare’s own mother, Mary Arden the clinical assessment and treatment of combat Shakespeare. Mary gave birth to William, her first veterans; 2) Analyze the evidence-base for son, in times that must have involved significant psychoanalytic treatment of combat veterans stresses on her pregnancy and nurturing experience. SATURDAY suffering from the sequelae of psychological She was still grieving two dead daughters, and trauma. 2 England’s worst plague of the century was bearing down on Stratford. In his paper, eminent scholar Richard P. Wheeler inquires whether, and how, NAPSAC CLINICAL EXPERIENCE the circumstances of Mary’s pregnancy and early Chair: Randi E. Wirth, Ph.D.* (New York, NY) experience with her newborn son might enrich our Host: Leigh Tobias, Ph.D.* (Beverly Hills, CA) understanding of Shakespeare’s art. Moderator: Drew Tillotson, Psy.D.* (San Francisco, CA) Note: This session does not offer Continuing Discussants: Michael J. Diamond, Ph.D. (Los Angeles, CA) Education Credit. Martin Gauthier, M.D.* (Montreal, Canada) Cordelia Schmidt-Hellerau, Ph.D. DISCUSSION GROUP 58: SUNDAY (Chestnut Hill, MA) FINDING UNCONSCIOUS FANTASY IN Reader: Andrea Kahn, Ph.D.* (Los Angeles, CA) NARRATIVE, TRAUMA, AND BODY PAIN This clinical workshop offers the unique Chair & Host: Paula L. Ellman, Ph.D. (Rockville, MD) opportunity for clinicians to come together and Presenter have an experience of “dreaming” shared material. & Host: Nancy R. Goodman, Ph.D.* (Bethesda, MD) Anonymous verbatim clinical material is presented Discussant: Catalina Bronstein, M.D.* (London, England) by a reader, not the treating analyst. A panel of three This discussion group will increase the clinician’s IPA North American analysts will hear the material competence in their clinical work with trauma and for the first time with the audience and associate to body pain through a focus on finding unconscious the material as freely as possible. This format allows fantasies. Case material will bring attention to the group the opportunity to observe how the mind the use of countertransference, global and micro of the analyst works in “real time” - as close to an enactments between analyst and patient leading actual session as possible. This workshop provides to contact and the analysis of meaning. Bringing an opportunity for a clinical discussion among focus to the place of unconscious fantasy in the colleagues with a diversity of theoretical viewpoints, mind offers a symbolizing process that allows in an atmosphere free of any supervisory dynamics. for clinical transformation. Nancy Goodman and This workshop is targeted towards seasoned Paula Ellman will provide reflections from their analytic clinicians. continued All sessions are live and listed in Eastern Time. apsa.org #APSAmeeting @psychoanalysis_ 44 DAILY SCHEDULE WEEKEND 3: Feb 27-28

2:00 P.M. – 4:00 P.M. ET continued DISCUSSION GROUP 60: PSYCHOANALYSIS WITH ADOPTEES: extensive work with finding unconscious fantasy HIDING, DEFENDING AND FINDING in narrative, trauma, and body pain and group THE SELF engagement furthers working with symbolizing and Co-chair nonsymbolizing patients. Catalina Bronstein will be & Host: Paul Brinich, Ph.D. (Chapel Hill, NC) discussing the clinical material and making some Co-chair: Maida Greenberg, Ed.D. (Newton Centre, MA) connections to both the content and the form by Presenter: Bliss Rand, M.D. (Belmont, MA) which unconscious phantasies manifest themselves Adoption may pose certain psychological stresses on through the patient’s discourse. each of its participants- the relinquishing parents, After attending this session, participants should be the adopting parents, and the child. The adopted able to: 1) Utilize the modalities of listening involved adult patient may have feelings about being born to in the process of finding unconscious fantasy one set of parents and being raised by another set particularly in working with patients with trauma of parents. This presentation will focus on how Ms. and somatic expression; 2) Apply the therapeutic Z’s adoption influenced her “sense of self.” Clinical action of finding unconscious fantasy with patients material will reveal how Ms. Z struggled to meet all who function and think symbolically and those who her obligations and will speak to specific worries and present a flow of enactments revealing trauma and conflicts that existed for her. The case presentation stories of body pain. 2 and discussion will provide participants with additional strategies to work with adopted patients. DISCUSSION GROUP 59: After attending this session, participants should RESEARCH ON THE RELATION OF be able to: 1) Discuss how an adopted patient’s PSYCHOANALYSIS AND NEUROSCIENCE understanding of relationships with adoptive -- LOOKING FOR THE SELF WITHOUT AND WITHIN parents gives him/her insight into their behavior THE BODY with others; 2) Create a meaningful narrative with Chair: Virginia C. Barry, M.D. (Chicago, IL) the adoptive patient as a way of understanding the Host: Margaret Zellner, Ph.D., L.P.* (New York, NY) impact of adoption on character and choices in life. Presenter: Manos Tsakiris, Ph.D.* (London, England) 2 Body-awareness has implications for cognition, affect and mental health. Professor Tsakiris will DISCUSSION GROUP 61:

SATURDAY discuss two key ways in which we become aware INTERPRETATION, PROCESS AND of our bodies: from without (exteroception) and TECHNIQUE IN THE USE OF PLAY IN from within (interoception - the processing of THE ANALYSIS OF PRE-OEDIPAL CHILDREN internal bodily signals). There is a dynamic balance Co-chair between these exteroceptive and interoceptive & Presenter: Susan P. Sherkow, M.D. (New York, NY) representations of the body that can be modeled Co-chair using predictive coding. A wealth of recent evidence & Host: Alexandra Harrison, M.D. (Cambridge, MA) highlights the functional roles and the implications This discussion group will consider the theory and of extero/interoceptive interactions for our mental technique of analytic work with pre-oedipal children, life. While exteroceptive processing underpins with an emphasis on close examination of the process SUNDAY the malleability of body-awareness, interoception of play and on the special features of play which provides a dynamic stability that sustains the core reflect a child’s particular developmental capacities. self. This talk will present a theoretical framework Clinical material from the analytic case of a pre- and empirical results that address the crucial role oedipal child will be presented by Dr. Harrison. The that interoceptive signals and awareness thereof group will utilize two cases to compare and contrast play for self- and social-awareness. the presenters’ approaches. Discussion by the After attending this session, participants should group, from a number of points of view, will include: be able to: 1) Describe interoceptive processes psychoanalytic theory, interpretation, defense and how they contribute to bodily self-awareness; analysis, transference and countertransference, 2) Discuss how the dynamic play of interoceptive specific issues of development, and play technique. and exteroceptive processes contributes to the After attending this session, participants should formation of self and to mental health. 2 be able to: 1) List three developmental features of

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preschool children that make play the preferable therapeutic technique; 2) Describe the process of play and the special features of play in the clinical setting which reflect a child’s particular developmental capacities. 2

DISCUSSION GROUP 62: WRITING ABOUT YOUR ANALYTIC WORK IN A CASE Chair: Stephen B. Bernstein, M.D. (Chestnut Hill, MA) Co-chair & Host: Mark Moore, Ph.D. (Philadelphia, PA) Co-chairs: Melvin Bornstein, M.D. (Birmingham, MI) Jonathan Palmer, M.D. (Newton, MA) Harvey J. Schwartz, M.D. (Philadelphia, PA) Peggy E. Warren, M.D. (Waban, MA) Presenter: Kathy Monroy, M.D. (Weston, FL) Analysts are often called upon to describe their work in written form. Clinical psychoanalysis is a spoken process; however, it is through a written process that much of the psychoanalyst’s reflection, learning, teaching, transmission of clinical data, and SATURDAY research occurs. This discussion group will focus on the translation of clinical work from spoken to written modes (as this is seen in an analytic case report). It is led by analysts who have significant experience in teaching about clinical writing. (This discussion group is related to the Committee Sponsored Workshop On Teaching About Analytic Case Writing, Sunday, February, 28 11:00 a.m.). After attending this session, participants should be able to: 1) Prepare and write about clinical work in a case report; 2) Describe the specific experience SUNDAY of both patient and analyst in the clinical account. 2

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