International Psychohistorical Association 2019 Conference Program

New York University, May 22-24, 2019

Wednesday May 22, 2019: Kimmel Center for University Life 8th Floor; Shorin Room # 802

8:30 - 8:55 am: Registration and Continental Breakfast

8:55 am: Welcome – Ken Fuchsman, IPA President and Conference Chair

9:00 - 10:00 am: The Trauma of Mass Incarceration: How Do We EVOLVE? [1CEU; 1 PDU] Kirk Anthony James, PhD, New York University Clinical Assistant Professor at the NYU Silver School of Social Work. His work “The Invisible Epidemic in Social Work Academia,” examined the complex phenomena of mass incarceration through a historical and contemporary lens. He focuses on deconstructing issues of mass incarceration –– specifically as it pertains to trauma, cognitive development, culpability, and the examination of systems that foster and perpetuate racial injustice.

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10:05 - 11:05 am: Towards an American Independent Tradition in Psychoanalysis – Keynote [1 PDU] Keynote Speaker Nancy Chodorow, PhD, Harvard University Lecturer of Psychiatry, a sociologist and psychoanalyst who taught for years at the University of California, and is now at Harvard. Her 1978 landmark book, The Reproduction of Mothering: Psychoanalysis and the Sociology of Gender was chosen by Contemporary Sociology as one of the ten most influential books of the last quarter century. Some of her other books that address psychoanalysis and feminism include Individualizing Gender and Sexuality: Theory and Practice, Feminism and Psychoanalytic Theory, The Power of Feelings: Personal Meaning in Psychoanalysis, Gender and Culture, and Femininities, Masculinities, Sexualities: Freud and Beyond.

11:10 am - 12:10 pm: Rebirth: It’s been around a Long Time [1 PDU] Michael Eigen, PhD, New York University Associate Clinical Professor of Psychology (part time) in the Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. He has authored over 25 books including Toxic Nourishment, The Psychotic Core, and Flames from the Unconscious. He was on the Board of Directors at the National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis for eight years, first as Program Chair, then editor of The Psychoanalytic Review.

12:10 - 1:10 pm: Lunch; served in the Shorin Room #802

1:15 - 3:15 pm: Dialogue on the Historical Contributions of David Greenberg [1 PDU] David Greenberg, PhD, Professor of History and Journalism and Media Studies at Rutgers University. His 2016 Republic of Spin: An Inside History of the American Presidency examines the rise of the White House spin machine, from the Progressive Era to the present day, and the debates that Americans have waged over its implications for democracy. Samuel Popkin, PhD, University of California – San Diego, will be the discussant.

3:20 - 4:20 pm: Trump's Rallies and the Psychohistorical Impact of the Closet Narcissist [1 PDU] Susan Kavaler Adler, PhD, ABPP, NCPsyA, DLitt, Founder and Director of the Object Relations Institute for Psychotherapy and Psycho- analysis. She is in private practice as a psychologist and psychoanalyst in New York City. She has published more than 70 peer reviewed articles and five psychoanalytic books, including The Klein-Winnicott Dialectic: Transformative New Metapsychology and Interactive Clinical Theory, and Compulsion to Create: Women Writers and Their Demon Lovers.

4:25 - 4:55 pm: Group Process Meeting

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Thursday, May 23, 2019, Morning Sessions – Silver School of Social Work: 1 Washington Square North

Room 101 (V) Room 112 (V;V) Room 206 Room 207 (V) Room 216 (V) Room 302 Room 324 Room 404 (V) Room 405 9:00 - Jamshid Ruth Golan – Howard Stein – Claude Barbre – Merle Molofsky Louis Rothschild Robinson Tristan Chirico – Michael 10:00 Marvasti – The influence of A Workshop on The Psycho- – The Truth of – Breakdown Lilienthal – Macbeth O’Loughlin – am Psychopoliti- the Kabbalah’s Poetry and analytic Mystic Fiction as a and recovery: Nietzsche as Through the Exploring the cal Aspects of conception of Psychohistory: in the Contribu- Representation Keeping time Physician of Lens of Melanie Intersections of Hate Crimes, Eros on the The Psycho- tions of Michael of Human and other Culture Klein Psychoanalysis Gun Violence, Psychoanalytic historian's Self, Eigen: Psychology and rhythmic and History: Antisemitism, Eros according Culture, and Contemporary History concerns Clinical and Islamophobia to Eigen History Perspectives Political 1PDU 1PDU 1PDU 1PDU 1PDU Implications 1PDU 10:05 Arnold Adam Herb Barry – Diane Perlman Paul Elovitz – Denis O’Keefe – Benjamin Tzipi Ben Ami – Richard Raubolt –11:05 Richards, Schechter – Psychological – It’s The A Political Moderator – Abelow – Freud: The - Rage Against am Jonathan More than a Attraction and Humiliation Psychobiograph Panel: Is the Religious Concept of Love Brent, David Word: An Historical Stupid: The ical Comparison Examining World View A Pathology as Lotto, Emily Anchor to Misuse of Appeal of of Richard Emotional and Post Traumatic "Symmetric Kuriloff – Realities Maladaptive Donald Trump Nixon and Psychological Dream? Anthropological The Federal Income Donald Trump – Factors Research" for Resurgence of Tax Psychohistory Contributing to 1PDU Saving the Anti-Semitism Forum Policy Paradox Subject in America and Irrational 1PDU 11:10- and Europe Jacques Szaluta Andrew Stein – Shomer Victoria Social Behavior Ziva Gidron – Ellen Toronto – Claude Barbre 12:10 – How a What Lacan’s Zwelling – Dimitrako- “Unity of Opera as & Ruth Lijtmaer pm Displaced seminars and Another poulos – 2PDUs Opposites”– Psychohistory: – Liberation French Boy essays tell us Manifestation: Of Gods and Hope in Jewish- The Undoing of Psychology and During World about Christian Eigen- Goats: Timeless Hassidic History Women Psychoanalysis War II Became mysticism. Influenced Tales of Trauma Revived in a as Social a Psychohisto- Hatha Yoga in Transmission New 1PDU Revolution: The rian, Historian 1PDU Practice Therapeutic Clinical and & Psycho- 1PDU Model Community analyst 1PDU Contributions - Psychohistory 1PDU of Marie Langer Forum 1PDU

12:10 - 1:10 pm Lunch: In the Parlor

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Thursday, May 23, 2019, 1:25 to 2:25 pm – Plenary Session: Cantor Film Center, 36 East 8th Street The Psychoanalytic Psychology of Organizations (V) Michael Diamond, PhD, Professor Emeritus of Public Affairs and Organizational Studies at the University of Missouri. His 1993 volume The Unconscious Life of Organizations was awarded a special prize by the American Psychological Association. He has also written Private Selves in Public Organizations; and most recently – Discovering Organizational Identity. He is past President of the International Society for the Psychoanalytic Study of Organizations.

Thursday, May 23, 2019, Afternoon Sessions – Silver School of Social Work: 1 Washington Square North Room 101 (V) Room 112 (V/V) Room 206 Room 207 Room 216 (V) Room 302 Room 324 Room 404 (V) Room 405 (V) 2:35- Michael Britton Adrienne Harris James Tyler Andrea Greer Theresa Aiello David Beisel, Hattie Myers Victoria Susan Klett and 4:05 and Shuki and Rosemary Carpenter and and Rabbi Yosef (Moderator), David Lotto, and Mafe Grinman & Inna Margaret Yard – pm Cohen – Balsam – Burt Seitler – Rosen – Natalie Medina Robert Samuels Izaguirre – Rozentsvit – Mother and Quantitative The Trauma and Faith, Minton & and Moderator Room: From Child Locked in Research and Contributions Reading Kabbalah and Raashida Paul Elovitz - A Sketchbook Neurobiology to the Abysmal the Uncon- of Nancy Disabilities Psychoanalysis Edwards – The Roads to for Analytic Listening for World of scious in Chodorow Sociocultural Achievement of Action many faces of Radical Historical 1.5 PDUs 1.5 PDUs History of the Builders of TRAUMA: PTSD Separation Circumstances: 1.5 PDUs Tattooing and Psychohistory 1.5 PDUs & Post- A study of Sex work in the Traumatic 1.5 CEUs Pathways to 21st Century PSYCHOHISTORY Growth 1.5 PDUs Anti-Semitism FORUM and a Study of 1.5 CEUs 1.5 PDUs Gendered 1.5 PDUs Differences in Work and Love 1.5 PDUs 4:10- Robert Chazan Evelyn Peter Hannah Hahn – Nancy Kaufman Denis O’Keefe – Neetu Sarin – Alan Roland – 5:10 – The Re- Rappaport – Petschauer – They Left it all and Nancy The Immigrant Psychoanalysis The Clinical pm Emergence of Till Death Do Us From One Behind: Psycho- Freeman-Carroll Other: Towards a Prayer: The Relevance of the Economic Part Generation to logical – Disclosure in a construction Internalized Theme in the Next: Experiences Of Donor Assisted Psychohistorical and breakdown Socio-Historical Contemporary Trauma in the Jewish Immigra- Conception: A Social Policy of Faith in Change Antisemitism? Family tion & Interge- Clinician’s Analysis Dissociative to Four Stages 1PDU nerational Guide States 1PDU of Adjustment Reverberations 1 CEU; 1PDU 1PDU of Trauma and Loss 1PDU

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5:15 5:45 pm -- Group Process Meeting *Legend for Video/Virtual Room Designation: V=Video-taped; V/ V=Video-taped & Virtual Participation -

Friday, May 24, 2019 – Morning Session: Silver School of Social Work: 1 Washington Square North Room 101 (V) Room 112 (V/V) Room 206 Room 207 (V) Room 216 Room 302 (V) Room 324 Room 404 (V) Room 405 9:00- Connie Benson Shalini Masih - Robinson Sean Harrell – Denis O’Keefe Theresa Aiello, Duke Wagner – Merle Molofsky Michael 10:00 – Christian Anti- ‘Artist of the Lilienthal – Chasing the (Moderator), Michael Where Have All – The unique Melmed and am Semitism in Invisible’ The Third Birth: Uncatchable: Gillian O’Shea Clifford, Carol of the Positive contributions of Christopher Academia: The Reading Works How the Baby Mystery and Brown, Max Martino – Qualities Gone? Michael Eigen Santiago - Legacy of Nazi of Michael Boomers Can Metaphor in Craig History of Blood magic in Theologian Eigen in India Save the work of Kusovitsky, Psychoanalysis 1PDU the age of Emanuel Hirsch Themselves and Michael Eigen Nicholas Santos psychopathy, ANTI SEMIIISM 1PDU the Earth and Constance 2 CEUs mass shootings 1PDU Catrone. - and ecological Integrating catastrophe 10:05 Ken Fuchsman, Robin Bagai – Kopel Elezier – Howard Covitz Social Theories Rose Gupta – Alice Maher & Brian - Inna Rozentsvit, Michael Eigen Intersexuality – Missed of Self, Claire Elizabeth Butter D’Agostino & 11:05 Howard Stein, and Evolution as a research Opportunities Motivation, Steinberger Evert – Michael Britton am & Adam of Psyche method for in the History of Discrimination Estranged from Catalysis: A – Landscape, Shechter – qualitative Psychoanalysis, and Oppression Oneself: Dialogue on Dreamscape: Anti-Semitism 1PDU researchers Redux & in Clinical Socially derived Alice Maher’s Finding Our in Russia and within the Reclaimed Practice constructions of Transformatio- Footing In America: Psychoanalytic - self from an nal Vision and Climate Change History and Intersubjective 1PDU 2PDUs intersubjective Practice Psychology paradigm psychoanalytic model 1PDU 2PDUs 11:10 Alitta Kullman – Joann Ponder - Stefanie Robert Samuels Peter - On Not School Teitlebaum – - Is Donald Petschauer – 12:10 Knowing Desegregation My Kingdom for Trump the Most Trauma Across pm Michael Eigen and the a Widdler Truthful Generations Perpetuation Of Michael Eigen – President Ever? 1PDU Racism The Beta- 1PDU Watcher’s Midwife 1PDU 12:10 - 1:10 pm – Lunch in the Parlor *Legend for Video/Virtual Room Designation: V=Video-taped; V/V=Video-taped & Virtual Participation

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Friday, May 24, 2019, 1:25 to 2:55 pm – Plenary Session: Cantor Film Center, 36 East 8th Street

MICHAEL EIGEN RETROSPECTIVE (V/V)

PRESENTERS:

Loray Daws, PhD, Registered Clinical Psychologist with the Health Professions Counsel of South Africa and a Registered Psychologist with the College of Psychologists of British Columbia, Canada. He graduated from the University of Pretoria and served as a full time lecturer from 1998 to 2006. Since formally leaving the University of Pretoria he completed a three year post- graduate certificate in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy for the disorders of self (personality disorders) and serves as faculty member at the International Masterson Institute for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy in New York since 2010.

Keri Cohen, LCSW, Board Certified Diplomate (BCD) in Clinical Social Work. She has worked in a wide range of settings since 1991, mostly in outpatient therapy, collaborating closely with psychiatrists and other mental health professionals. She graduated of the University of Pennsylvania School of Social Policy and Practice where she earned a Master's degree in Clinical Social Work. After graduate school Keri Cohen enrolled in a two-year post master's program, earning a certificate in child and adolescent therapy from Bryn Mawr Graduate School of Social Work.

Robin Bagai, PsyD, is a Licensed psychologist in Oregon. He has practiced clinical psychology in Portland, Oregon since 1990 and in 2015 began leading weekly seminars on the work of Michael Eigen. To date, ten of Eigen’s books have been studied in these seminars.

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Friday, May 24, 2019 – Afternoon Session: Silver School of Social Work: 1 Washington Square North Room 101 (V) Room 112 (V/V) Room 206 Room 207 (V) Room 216 Room 302 (V) Room 324 (V) Room 404 Room 405 3:15- Ofra Eshel – Michael Carol Jaxson- Charles Ashis Roy – Crystal Ramirez Laura Allan Mohl – 4:15 Michael Eigen Louderback & Jager – Bonerbo – The Limitlessness – Disruption of Hendrickson – Notes on Causes pm and the Daniel Brown – Sexual Violence Case for “Play,” and Early Human Après-coup in and Theories on “hearing heart” Through the and War The Case for Fragmentation Attachment Historio- Human Warfare Or “Who needs Belly of the Illusion, Relationships as graphy: a heart when a Unconscious: Spontaneity Viewed Meaning and heart can be Historically and Fantasy Through the Memory broken?” Situating Lens of History Transposed in Eigen’s 1 CEU Time 1PDU Approach to 1PDU 1PDU 1PDU Dreams 1PDU 4:20- Ashonag Nagpal Shahid Rashid – Fang Duan – Sandra Indig – Doris Leicher – Willow Pearson Nicola Short – 5:20 – What can Psychological The Significance Psycho- Bio-social – Elemental Feminist pm respect for Lust and Spiritual of Faith in “Face Aesthetic Functions of Contact readings of the mean—joining growth: Work” with Transforma-tion Religion psychoanalytic Gandhi and Meeting in a Chinese of Toxic and the Indian Field! Patients Environments historical: psychoanalysis (presentation through Methodological with Eigen’s via virtual Creativity and resources for a vision? mode) Creative critique of 1PDU 1PDU Process ideology. 1PDU 5:25- Group Process Meeting 5:55 pm *Legend for Video/Virtual Room Designation: V=Video-taped; V/V=Video-taped & Virtual Participation

Eigen Dinner Kimmel Center For University Life

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