***This meeting is virtual and will be held on ZOOM.*** You must register to attend the virtual event.
The recipients of the 2025 Fred Pine Ph.D. Award for a Paper Contributing to Psychoanalytic Theory, Technique, or Development will present the work on January 13, 2026 from 8:00-9:30pm at an event to be hosted by NYPSI and co-sponsored by APsA and the NYU Postdoc program. Register for this event through NYPSI.
The winning paper, “Time and Timelessness in the Unconscious” by Kenneth Feiner, Psy.D. and Deborah Waxenberg, Ph.D. suggests that time and timelessness are coexistent, interrelated dimensions of experience, rather than binaries. They delineate ways that temporality infiltrates unconscious processes, including in language production, date marks, anniversary reactions, unconscious fears of death, and compromise formation. They draw on the psychoanalytic literature, contemporary chronobiological and developmental research, recent work in neuroscience as well as clinical observations.
Kenneth Feiner, Psy.D. a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst, is the coauthor (with Danielle Knafo) of the book, Unconscious Fantasies and the Relational World. He is a clinical consultant at NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis and a faculty member at the Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research. He has published articles on child development, empathy, unconscious fantasy, and sexual abuse. He is in private practice in New York City where he sees adults, teenagers and couples.
Deborah Waxenberg, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst. She is Teaching Faculty, Clinical Consultant, and served for 6 years as Co-Chair of the Relational Track at the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. She is also Faculty at the Stephen Mitchell Relational Study Center and the National Training Program of NIP. She maintains an office practice in NYC working with individuals and couples.
