Specialization in Trauma and Disaster Studies – NYU Postdoc

Dear Colleagues:

The Specialization in Trauma and Disaster Studies, part of the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, is pleased to announce that we have extended the deadline for applications for the 2012-2013 academic year until June 30.

You may access information about the curriculum and the application at the following utl: htttp://postdocpsychoanalytic.as.nyu.edu/object/pd.advspecial.trauma

If there are any questions you would like to ask, don’t hesitate to contact me at my New York number: 212 877 7282, my Morristown, NJ number: 973 540 9894 or via email to doctornina@aol.com

Regards,

Nina Thomas, Ph.D., ABPP
Chair, Specialization in Trauma and Disaster Studies
Adjunct Clinical Associate Professor
NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis

Nina K. Thomas, Ph.D., ABPP
2373 Broadway

Suite 1421
New York, NY 10024
Phone: 212 877 7282
Fax: 973 540 0555
www.drninathomas.com

Save the Date! The Wounds of History (NYU Postdoc – March 2013)

http://postdocpsychoanalytic.as.nyu.edu/page/home

Action Alert — Inclusion of Psychologists in definition of Physician in Medicare

Outside interests are seeking to prevent psychologists from operating independent of inappropriate physician supervision and have been pushing back against legislation to include psychologists in the Medicare physician definition (HR 831 and S 483). This is despite bipartisan support and the fact that psychologists are the only Medicare providers required to have doctoral training who are still excluded from the definition.

Your help is needed to turn expressions of support by our legislators into solid cosponsors. Please ask your legislators to cosponsor psychology’s Medicare “physician” definition inclusion bills and end inappropriate physician supervision requirements that hinder the delivery of psychological services.

To do this ASAP, please visit http://capwiz.com/apapractice/issues/alert/?alertid=17359501

Early Registration for NYU Postdoc/PPDA Pain Conference, October 6, 2012

Early Registration for NYU Postdoc/PPDA Pain Conference, October 6, 2012

Saturday, October 6, 2012WHEN STRESS CAUSES PAIN
~Innovative Treatments for Psychophysiologic Disorders~

8:30 AM – 5:30 PM
The New York Academy Of Medicine
1216 5th Avenue, New York, NY (at 103rd St.)

Objectives

• To understand the link between psychosocial stress and pain and other physical symptoms
• Learn to assess clients with medically unexplained physical illness
• Learn to use psychotherapy to relieve somatic symptoms
• And more…

Keynote Speaker: Raja Selvam, PhD.

Faculty
• Lewis Aron, PhD, ABPP – Director of NYU Postdoc
• Frances Sommer Anderson, PhD, SEP – NYU Postdoc
• Sharone Bergner, PhD – NYU Postdoc
• David D. Clarke, MD – Oregon Health & Science University
• Mary-Joan Gerson, PhD, ABPP – NYU Postdoc
• Alan Gordon, LCSW – USC

• Spyros Orfanos, PhD, ABPP – NYU Postdoc Clinic Director
• Evelyn Rappaport, PsyD, SEP – NYU Postdoc

• Forest S., MA, MS – Boston U.
• Howard Schubiner, MD – Wayne State University
• Eric Sherman, PsyD – NYU Postdoc
• Peter Zafirides, MD – Ohio State University

Register at: http://www.ppdassociation.org/events/when-stress-causes-pain

For more information email Frances Sommer Anderson, Ph.D. at: stress.causes.pain@gmail.com

http://www.pathwaystopainrelief.com

NYU Postdoc – On and Off the Couch: Explorations in Contemporary Psychoanalysis (2012-2013)

NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis Presents:

On and Off the Couch: Explorations in Contemporary Psychoanalysis

for Graduate Students and Early Career Professionals

Co-Sponsored by Beth Israel Medical Center

The Unconscious
Andrew Druck
Melinda Gellman
Mark Blechner
Carina Grossmark

What We Really Do
Mary-Joan Gerson
Alan Kintzer
Stephen Solow
Iris Hellner

Crimes & Misdemeanors
Elizabeth Goren
Susan Klebanoff
Sue Grand
Peggy Carr

The NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis is pleased to announce a new year-long project examining current issues of interest to clinicians. Each semester, participants will attend three lectures on topics in and about psychoanalysis. Each lecture will feature a senior faculty member and an advanced candidate or graduate of the NYU Postdoctoral program.

Who is eligible? Doctoral level mental health professionals (such as psychologists, psychiatrists, and social workers) and students in doctoral level mental health training programs who have not yet entered psychoanalytic training and who are interested in learning about psychotherapy and psychoanalysis. This series is an excellent way to learn more about where psychoanalytic thought is going and about NYU Postdoc’s unique and lively analytic community. All participants will be asked to attend all lectures, in order to make this a more meaningful and deeper experience for everyone.

The series will take place on six Monday evenings during the academic year 2012-2013. There will be no charge. NYU Postdoc is a large and active community of forward–thinking and intellectually open psychoanalysts. We are excited about what is happening at Postdoc, and we are looking forward to sharing some of it with you.

For more information or to register, please contact a series organizer:

Karen Starr:   kstarr@optonline.net
Margery Kalb:   margerykalb@gmail.com
Jill Bresler:   drjbresler@aol.com

Scheduled Dates:

September 10, October 22, December 3, 2012
January 28, March 4, & April 29, 2013

7:30 – 8pm snacks & chat
8 – 9:30pm lecture

See attached Flier or go to http://postdocpsychoanalytic.as.nyu.edu/page/explorations

On_and_Off_the_couch_2012-2013.doc

NYSPA’s Division of Psychoanalysis: God at an Analytic Impasse: Poverty, Devotion, and the Elusive Self (5.11.12)

New York State Psychological Association

The Suffolk Institute For Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis Presents: God at an Analytic Impasse: Poverty, Devotion, and the Elusive Self May 11th 2012 6:00 PM – 10:00 PM  NYU Kimmel Center 60 Washington Square South, #914/912 New York, NY 10012  This event is Co-sponsored by: The NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychoanalysis and The Division of Psychoanalysis of The New York State Psychological Association Guest Speaker: Sue Grand, Ph.D.,author of The Hero in the Mirror: From Fear to Fortitude and The Reproduction of Evil: A Clinical and Cultural Perspective Discussants: Lewis Aron, Ph.D., ABPP & Jeff Wells, M.Div. Dr. Grand’s fascinating paper presents her work with a migrant worker who struggles out of poverty to become a physician and caretaker. Unknown to himself as a human subject, his life is a devotion to the needy other. His own health is compromised and his sacrificial practices draw him close to near-death. Analysis of his masochism fails. To save his life, the dyad must examine his Christian convictions of passion, devotion, and sacrifice. These values collide with the analyst’s philosophical/metaphysical system, derived from relational analytic theory, her own reform Jewish ethos, and atheistic beliefs. Can patient and analyst meet – and save his life? Please join Dr. Grand, her discussants, and many colleagues as we explore this compelling intersection of psychoanalysis, religion, and social justice in the consulting room.

Fees: $ 50.00 NYSPA Pyschoananlysis Division, SIPP, and NYU Post Doc Member $ 70.00 Others $ 20.00 Students *CE Credits available through SIPP REGISTER NOW!

Save Now!

The 75th Annual Convention will be held in Saratoga Springs, NY June 8 – 10, 2012. The event will boast an appropriate theme for the weekend "Art and Psychology" – Saratoga is an arts community and will host the 6th Annual Saratoga Arts Fest the same weekend. Convention attendees and their guests will enjoy special discounts to the Arts Fest activities. Bring the whole family for a weekend of education, arts and fun! Discounted Arts Fest tickets available with convention registration. Arts Fest tickets sell out fast! Sign up today!

EARLY BIRD ENDS APRIL 27, 2012

PsychCentral Video: About Psychodynamic Psychotherapy

Video: About Psychodynamic Psychotherapy

Joseph Burgo, one of our bloggers here at Psych Central, has recently inaugurated a new series of videos about psychodynamicpsychotherapy, aimed at people who may be considering treatment and don’t know quite what to expect from this particular type of therapy.

His first video deals with the intake or initial consultation, focusing on the anxieties felt by both client and therapist as they embark upon a new relationship with a total stranger. His next video will focus on the types of issues that come up during the first few sessions; in future, he plans to cover other issues such as: the emergence of the transference, vacation breaks, the role of humor, therapist errors, etc.

These videos will appear on his YouTube channel and Dr. Burgo will announce each new one via his Therapy Case Notes blog. Even if you’re already familiar with psychodynamic psychotherapy, his thoughts about first sessions apply to all types of treatment and may be of interest:

http://psychcentral.com/blog/archives/2012/03/31/video-about-psychodynamic-psychotherapy/

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God at an Analytic Impasse: Poverty, Devotion, and the Elusive Self – May 11, 2012

God at an Analytic Impasse: Poverty, Devotion, and the Elusive Self

The Suffolk Institute For Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis

PRESENTS

God at an Analytic Impasse:
Poverty, Devotion, and the Elusive Self

Co-sponsored by:

The NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychoanalysis

and

The Division of Psychoanalysis of
The New York State Psychological Association

Friday, May 11, 2012

6:00 PM to 10:00 PM
Registration and light meal from 6:00 PM to 7:00 PM

NYU Kimmel Center

60 Washington Square South, #914/912
New York, NY 10012

Guest Speaker:
Sue Grand, Ph.D.,
author of The Hero in the Mirror: From Fear to Fortitude and
The Reproduction of Evil: A Clinical and Cultural Perspective

Discussants:
Lewis Aron, Ph.D., ABPP & Jeff Wells, M.Div.

Dr. Grand’s fascinating paper presents her work with a migrant worker who struggles out of poverty to become a physician and caretaker. Unknown to himself as a human subject, his life is a devotion to the needy other. His own health is compromised and his sacrificial practices draw him close to near-death. Analysis of his masochism fails. To save his life, the dyad must examine his Christian convictions of passion, devotion, and sacrifice. These values collide with the analyst’s philosophical/metaphysical system, derived from relational analytic theory, her own reform Jewish ethos, and atheistic beliefs. Can patient and analyst meet — and save his life?

Please join Dr. Grand, her discussants, and many colleagues as we explore this compelling intersection of psychoanalysis, religion, and social justice in the consulting room.

For further information and to register, go to WWW.NYSPA.ORG or call NYSPA central office at: (800) 732-3933.

CE credits offered.

Writing Madness | Radio Times

http://www.radiotimes.com/episode/px458/writing-madness

Men weren’t mad in Victorian times, only women. As ludicrous as this sounds now, one only has to look at Victorian literature to see how the mental state of the sexes was viewed: women lay lifeless on chaise longues at the healthiest end of a breakdown or, at the opposite extreme, they were confined to attics for the safety of those around them.

Vivienne Parry is joined by a professor of English, a psychiatrist, a historian, and the chair of the trustees of the Freud Museum among others, to analyse how literature developed from the archetypal madwoman that is the skeletal, obsessive Miss Havisham in Great Expectations, through to a post-First World War society where Virginia Woolf shocked her readers with a suicidal male character inMrs Dalloway.

ABOUT THIS PROGRAMME

Vivienne Parry explores the relationship between early 20th-century literature and psychiatry. She analyses the heroines of Virginia Woolf’s novel Mrs Dalloway and F Scott Fitzgerald’s Tender Is the Night, and considers both authors’ views on the connection between `madness’ and creativity. She also considers how the books reflect the growing popularity of psychotherapy at the time, and compares their depictions of mental health with those in Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations. With contributions by psychiatrists Simon Wessely and Chris Thompson, psychotherapist Adam Philips and cultural historian Lisa Appignanesi.