Continuing Education in New York

An essential mission of NYFS is to provide a forum for the professional development of its members and candidates in an atmosphere of support and mutual respect. These values are made real through a vital spirit of inquiry and through stimulating interactive dialogue that contribute to our intellectual inheritance. Our Continuing Education programs are designed to promote this mission.



Case Conference: Difficult Issues with Analytic Patients
 
This is a four-times-a-year case conference open to NYFS members, as well as candidates in all of the training programs of our Institute. We have tried, we believe successfully, to develop a setting within which participants can feel free to present and talk about their analytic work. The discussion is collegial, not supervisory. The presentation of particularly difficult issues has been welcomed, and has led to many stimulating interchanges from which we have all learned. The format consists of the presentation of the process material of a patient in analysis, followed by a discussion of the material by the participants. The two co-leaders, Susan Finkelstein and Kate Oram, take turns acting as facilitators.

2006/2007 Schedule:

October 13, 2006: Vivian Eskin
January 12, 2007: Liz Fritsch
March 9, 2007: Deborah Gill
May 11, 2007: Marilyn Sande

From 2:30 - 3:00 we will socialize, and the case presentation and discussion will take place from 3:00 - 4:30.
We will meet on the Upper West Side. Please call for the address.
RSVP either Kate Oram (212-477-2018) or Susan Finkelstein (212-254-8501).
Space is limited. We look forward to seeing you there.



Analytic Listening Seminars

beginning in November, 2006

The Analytic Listening Seminars are an opportunity for the membership and candidates who have completed their course work to focus on our experience of the listening process that we bring to our clinical work through group discussion of clinical material, and some readings on analytic listening. These seminars will allow us to reflect on the multiple perspectives that influence our listening, including our selectivity and how we make sense of what the patient brings. We plan to form four small groups, each group with two facilitators. We think this new project can provide ways for us to learn from each other as a community of colleagues, as well as deepen and refresh our work.

All of the seminars below are open to all New York members and also to candidates who have completed their academic coursework. Please call the facilitators of the group you wish to join to let them know of your desire to participate. You are also welcome to call Kate Oram (212-477-2018) or Susan Finklestein (212-254-8501) if you have any further questions.

Listening to the Narrative: Its Unconscious Meaning, and Responding
We will be finding the unconscious meaning in the patient's narrative and listening to the interaction in the session. How do we as analysts respond and where does our response come from?
Facilitators: Ed Levy and Marilyn Sande
Time: the second Friday of the month from 3:15 to 4:45 pm beginning on 11/10/06
Location: at the home of Marilyn Sande on the Upper West Side (call for address)

Listening Informed by Clinical Work with Parents & Babies, and Infant Research: Thinking about Memory Systems and Early Patterns of Interaction as they Emerge in the Transference
Facilitators: Ellen Hirsch and Donna Roth Smith
Time: Wednesday afternoon Brown Bag Lunch Seminar, from 1:00 to 2:30 pm, 11/8/06, 11/29/06, 12/13/06, and then continuing on the 2nd and 4th Wednesday of the month in 2007
Location: Donna Roth Smith's office, 210 West 89th Street, #1E

Considering Enactments: A Way to Achieve a New Way of Listening
In the on-going experience of the analytic process, "enactments" are continuous. We can either join the patient's defensive organization (impasses) OR, through listening to and being aware of the enactments that are taking place, we can intervene to achieve psychic change. Clinical discussion with material presented by all participants and readings by Betty Joseph and others belonging to the British School.
Facilitators: Rogelio Sosnik and Susan Finkelstein
Time: Fridays from 3:00 to 4:30 pm on 11/3/06, 12/1/06, 2/2/07, 2/23/07, and continuing on the first and fourth Friday of the month in 2007.
Location: at the home of Susan Finkelstein on the Upper West Side (call for address)

Listening on Multiple Levels
The focus of this seminar will be on transference and counter transference, the interactive aspects of the transference and counter-transference matrix, the patient's and our own way of listening and how primitive anxieties and unconscious fantasies come into play.
Facilitators: Christa Balzert and Elsa First
Time: the second and fourth Monday of the month at 7 or 7:30 pm
Location: the meetings will alternate between Christa Balzert's office on the Upper East Side and Elsa First's office on the Upper West Side



The Anni Bergman Parent-Infant Training Program: Infant Observation Seminar

This course is offered jointly with IPTAR. We are pleased to offer it to NYFS members, and to psychoanalysis candidates who have finished their course work.

Instructors: Karen Proner and Paul Carroll

The close observation of an infant, and his or her relationships, forms a strong basis for further psychoanalytic training and work. Observing an infant from birth in the intimacy of his or her relationships gives one a unique opportunity to think about how the mind develops and how emotional development occurs. Although this observation method is not a clinical course, it provides us with an experience that furthers our capacities to imagine and make contact with the more primitive mental states and thinking of our adult and child patients. It provides a unique pathway to gaining deeper understanding of the power and intimacy of the analytic relationship as it unfolds in the transference and counter-transference, as well as helping attune us to the nuances and complexity of nonverbal communication. Observing the evolution of mental development and finding ways to think about this with colleagues is a compelling learning experience. Each member will observe a baby and bring his or her experience to a small group for discussion.

Meets weekly from 12:30-2:00 pm on Tuesdays, from October 3, 2006 through May 2, 2007. Location to be announced.

The cost is $600 per semester.

To register, or for more information, please contact
Rita Reiswig at ritar@lycos.com or 212-875-9442.



Seminar for Training Analysts

In the near future, a seminar for Training Analysts, covering topics such as termination, supervision and ethics, will be offered in both New York and Washington, DC.