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SUMMARY:APM Scientific Meeting - The Disabling Object
DESCRIPTION:Disability remains among the least theorized subjects in psychoanalysis. This is notable but not surprising: the relational anxiety that disability provokes in the non-disabled is pervasive\, and psychoanalysts are not exempt. This paper introduces the concept of the disabling object — a persecutory internal structure through which social prejudice and structural ableism are psychically internalized and perpetuated. Integrating psychoanalytic ideas on racism\, anxiety\, and object relations with insights from critical disability studies\, the paper explores how disability becomes a site of projected anxiety and disavowed vulnerability\, shaping internal\, interpersonal\, and social experience. Through theoretical elaboration and clinical and personal vignettes\, the disabling object is shown to obstruct symbolization\, foreclose grief\, and reproduce social hierarchies within the mind. Psychoanalysis\, Dr. Crosby argues\, must confront its own ableist investments to help clinicians sustain contact with psychic pain and difference as generative rather than annihilating.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/apm-scientific-meeting-the-disabling-object/
LOCATION:Hybrid (In-Person at Association for Psychoanalytic Medicine and Virtual)\, New York\, NY
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SUMMARY:Movie Night at the Thalia
DESCRIPTION:“What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?” \nDiscussant: Clark Johnsen \nJoin us for a screening of What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?\, Robert Aldrich’s 1962 psychological thriller starring Bette Davis and Joan Crawford as two sisters locked in a decaying mansion and in a decades-long struggle over envy\, dependency\, and humiliation. A gothic study in sibling rivalry\, regression\, and sadomasochism\, the film offers a rich clinical text for thinking about trauma\, narcissistic injury\, and the perverse bindings of love and hate across the lifespan.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/movie-night-at-the-thalia/
LOCATION:Thalia Theater\, Broadway\, NY\, NY\, New York\, NY\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="The Association for Psychoanalytic Medicine (APM) (NY)":MAILTO:admin@theapmnewyork.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260407T200000
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SUMMARY:Systems and Fields: Intersubjectivity in New York\, Buenos Aires\, and Montevideo
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Soni will trace the contemporary psychoanalytic concept of the “field” to its origins in the 1950 – 70s within two distinct traditions: the Interpersonal analysts of the William Alanson White Institute and the analysts of the Rio de la Plata in Argentina and Uruguay. He will argue that both groups drew on the social scientific thought of their time to develop complex models of the analytic process that foregrounded the reciprocal\, unconscious influence of patient and analyst upon one another. By reconstructing these lineages\, Dr. Soni aims to articulate some alternatives to key features of the contemporary field perspectives that draw on Bionian thinking.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/systems-and-fields-intersubjectivity-in-new-york-buenos-aires-and-montevideo/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
ORGANIZER;CN="The Association for Psychoanalytic Medicine (APM) (NY)":MAILTO:admin@theapmnewyork.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260303T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260303T213000
DTSTAMP:20260625T082632
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SUMMARY:Monique Losson
DESCRIPTION:Community health institutions have long resisted psychoanalytic thinking\, and the siloed psychoanalytic world similarly makes little room for the experience and knowledge of those institutions and the psychic lives of their workers and clients. A clinician who appreciates psychoanalytic insights and understanding and wants to practice in a community setting would find it nearly impossible to integrate both in their work. \nA panel of three distinguished psychoanalysts\, involved in community settings and contending with the issues that prevail there – poverty\, homelessness\, racism\, immigration\, their effects on health\, and the economics of community mental health – will speak to what psychoanalysis and community mental health workers and institutions can learn and gain from one another for mutual their benefit. \nOur panelists will present new interventions and programs that attempt to bridge the psychoanalysis-community gulf by creatively engaging both psychoanalysts in their institutes and societies and community mental health workers in their institutions in what is becoming community psychoanalysis. The audience will be invited to imagine how they might engage in this new field in their own practice and professional lives.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/monique-losson/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
ORGANIZER;CN="The Association for Psychoanalytic Medicine (APM) (NY)":MAILTO:admin@theapmnewyork.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260210T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260210T213000
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SUMMARY:The Margaret Morgan Lawrence Lecture for Social Justice w/ Kirkland Vaughans\, PhD
DESCRIPTION:The APM is honored to present the second Margaret Morgan Lawrence Lecture for Social Justice\nThis Lecture brings to the APM/Columbia community speakers who apply psychoanalytic theory or practice to socially\, racially and culturally diverse community contexts and honors the life and work of Dr. Margaret Morgan Lawrence. \nWhiteness and the Psychoanalytic Frame\nKirkland Vaughans\, PhD\nFebruary 10\, 2026\n8:00 pm – 9:30 pm Eastern Time \nDr. Vaughans has been at the forefront in helping white American psychoanalysts and psychotherapists to acknowledge and struggle to manage our racial bias. In this Lecture\, Dr. Vaughans attempts to examine the findings of the Holmes Commission of the American Psychoanalytic Association (2023) through the lens of the Latin American psychoanalyst Jose Bleger and his notion of the psychoanalytic frame. The mission of the Holmes Commission was to assess systemic racism within psychoanalytic training and its entrenched impact on theory and practice. However\, Bleger discredited the traditional focus on breaches and ruptures of the frame. Instead\, he proposed scrutinizing the frame when everything is going smoothly\, believing that absence of perceptible issues may obscure underlying tensions or that systemic problems may be going on unnoticed. \n  \nKirkland Vaughans\, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst. A training and supervising analyst of IPTAR\, he is also on faculty and founder of the Adelphi Derner/Hempstead Child Clinic and supervisor in the Child & Adolescent Program of the Derner Postgraduate Program. Dr. Vaughans is on the faculty of the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy & Psychoanalysis and the Stephen Mitchell Relational Study Center. He is a Founding Editor of the Journal of Infant\, Child\, and Adolescent Psychotherapy and co-editor of the two-volume Psychology of Black Boys and Adolescents. He has presented at numerous conferences and panel discussions on white racism\, generational trauma among African Americans\, and the school-to-prison pipeline for boys and girls of color\, and is a subject of the documentary\, “Your Mum and Dad.” A founding member of Black Psychoanalysts Speak\, Dr. Vaughns was a member of the Holmes Commission of APsA and is the recipient of the 2024 Founder Award of the American Psychological Association\, Div. 39. \nDiscussant:\nDr. Dionne Powell is a training and supervising psychoanalyst at our own Columbia Psychoanalytic Center and at the Psychoanalytic Association of New York (PANY). She is Adjunct Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at New York Presbyterian Hospital (NYPH)/Columbia and Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at NYPH/Weill Cornell. She served as Co-Chair of the Holmes Commission on Racial Equity in American Psychoanalysis and currently serves on the IPA Board as North American Representative. Dr. Powell has written and presented extensively on a range of issues with her most recent contribution\, (2025) Becoming Raced: Psychic Consequences of Transgenerational Racial Trauma in the International Journal of Psychoanalysis. She gave the inaugural Margaret Morgan Lawrence Lecture (March 2022) and is the recipient of many awards for her work\, including the 2026 APsA Sabshin Teaching award. She is in full-time private practice in NYC.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/the-margaret-morgan-lawrence-lecture-for-social-justice-2/
LOCATION:Hybrid (In-Person at Association for Psychoanalytic Medicine and Virtual)\, New York\, NY
ORGANIZER;CN="The Association for Psychoanalytic Medicine (APM) (NY)":MAILTO:admin@theapmnewyork.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260106T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260106T213000
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SUMMARY:Beating an Undead Horse: Toward a Conceptualization of Nuisance in the Analytic Process
DESCRIPTION:Winnicott brilliantly grasped the child’s nuisance-making as a bid for assurance of the parent’s reliability. Some adult patients continue their patterns of nuisance-making in ways that can be annoying to others\, including the analyst. Dr. Cooper explores the work that the analyst must do on behalf of his patient to transform countertransference annoyance into meaningful interpretive responsiveness. This work requires the analyst to metabolize the affects expressed that are challenging for the patient to contain. Together\, patient and analyst live for periods of time in a nuisance-making climate\, one that is demanding for both patient and analyst. \nSteven H. Cooper\, PhD\, is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute and the Columbia Univ. Psychoanalytic Center. He holds Clinical Professorships at Columbia P&S and at New York Univ. Postdoctoral Program in Psychoanalysis. He has recently been the Visiting Erik Erikson Senior Scholar at the Austen Riggs Center. Dr Cooper is the author or editor of eight books in psychoanalysis. His most recent books: Playing and Becoming in Psychoanalysis\, (2023) and Psychoanalysis in Play: Expanding Psychoanalytic Concepts from a Play Perspective\, (2025); and Winnicott’s Letter to Bion: Playing and Dreaming and Beyond\, co-edited with Christopher Lovett (2025). \nMatthew Shaw\, PhD\, is an adult\, child and adolescent psychoanalyst\, teaches at the Yale Univ. School of Medicine and is a training and supervising analyst at the Western New England Institute for Psychoanalysis in New Haven\, CT\, where he chairs the child and adolescent training program. He has published broadly\, including a book on Hans Loewald. He gave the plenary at the Association for Child Psychoanalysis and the Beata Rank Lecture at the Boston Psychoanalytic Institute.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/beating-an-undead-horse-toward-a-conceptualization-of-nuisance-in-the-analytic-process/
LOCATION:Hybrid (In-Person at Association for Psychoanalytic Medicine and Virtual)\, New York\, NY
ORGANIZER;CN="The Association for Psychoanalytic Medicine (APM) (NY)":MAILTO:admin@theapmnewyork.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251202T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251202T220000
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SUMMARY:Neuroqueering the Psychoanalytic Lens
DESCRIPTION:Diana Moga\, MD\, PhD and Robert Glick\, MD\nThis presentation explores how the framework of neuroqueering—a concept rooted in neurodiversity and queer theory—invites a radical reconsideration of foundational psychoanalytic concepts such as identity\, subjectivity\, normativity\, and development. By centering lived experiences of neurodivergent and queer individuals\, this talk interrogates the implicit assumptions of the analytic frame and challenges psychoanalysis to reexamine its historical investments in normative development\, binary gender theory\, and the medicalization of difference. \nDrawing on clinical material\, literary theory\, and contemporary scholarship\, the speaker will propose a reorientation of psychoanalytic thinking that embraces multiplicity\, nonlinearity\, and neurodivergent epistemologies. The discussant will offer reflections on clinical implications\, including how neuroqueering perspectives may reshape our understanding of transference\, diagnosis\, and therapeutic goals. \nThis session aims to provoke rich interdisciplinary dialogue at the intersection of psychoanalysis\, disability studies\, queer theory\, and contemporary clinical practice.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/neuroqueering-the-psychoanalytic-lens-2/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
ORGANIZER;CN="The Association for Psychoanalytic Medicine (APM) (NY)":MAILTO:admin@theapmnewyork.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251202T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251202T220000
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SUMMARY:Neuroqueering the Psychoanalytic Lens
DESCRIPTION:This presentation explores how the framework of neuroqueering—a concept rooted in neurodiversity and queer theory—invites a radical reconsideration of foundational psychoanalytic concepts such as identity\, subjectivity\, normativity\, and development. By centering lived experiences of neurodivergent and queer individuals\, this talk interrogates the implicit assumptions of the analytic frame and challenges psychoanalysis to reexamine its historical investments in normative development\, binary gender theory\, and the medicalization of difference. \nDrawing on clinical material\, literary theory\, and contemporary scholarship\, the speaker will propose a reorientation of psychoanalytic thinking that embraces multiplicity\, nonlinearity\, and neurodivergent epistemologies. The discussant will offer reflections on clinical implications\, including how neuroqueering perspectives may reshape our understanding of transference\, diagnosis\, and therapeutic goals. \nThis session aims to provoke rich interdisciplinary dialogue at the intersection of psychoanalysis\, disability studies\, queer theory\, and contemporary clinical practice. \nCE
URL:https://apsa.org/event/neuroqueering-the-psychoanalytic-lens/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
ORGANIZER;CN="The Association for Psychoanalytic Medicine (APM) (NY)":MAILTO:admin@theapmnewyork.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251104T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251104T213000
DTSTAMP:20260625T082632
CREATED:20251008T220601Z
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SUMMARY:How the Sense of Self Breaks Down and Recovers in Neurosis and Psychosis with Andrew Lotterman\, MD
DESCRIPTION:In this presentation Dr. Lotterman documents the extensive overlap between the symptoms and psychology of neurotic and psychotic patients. He portrays the way the sense of self falls apart\, and its possible recovery in psychological therapy. Areas of convergence between neurosis and psychosis include: the fragmenting of the sense of self\, the sense of aloneness in the world\, the loss of identity\, the presence of an internal and often hostile inner figure and the creation of a camouflaged surrogate self to draw the fire of attackers. Dr. Lotterman also highlights the essential supports of the self’s resilience: the acceptance by caregivers of what is genuine about the self\, and the appreciation of the value of the love given by the self. He discusses Winnicott’s and Fairbairn’s contributions to these ideas. He also describes paranoid psychology in terms of a fear of being seduced into the experience of annihilation. Finally\, he emphasizes that understanding the areas of common psychology shared by both neurosis and psychosis can lead to better informed treatments of each.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/how-the-sense-of-self-breaks-down-and-recovers-in-neurosis-and-psychosis-with-andrew-lotterman-md/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
ORGANIZER;CN="The Association for Psychoanalytic Medicine (APM) (NY)":MAILTO:admin@theapmnewyork.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251007T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251007T220000
DTSTAMP:20260625T082632
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SUMMARY:Erotic Entanglements in the Search to Be and Belong: Traversing the Forcefield of Dependency and Desire
DESCRIPTION:Psychoanalytic clinicians often encounter the complexities of erotic transference and countertransference\, yet struggle with conceptual frameworks and language that adequately capture these intense\, often ambiguous experiences. Traditional models can obscure the subtle intersubjective and developmental meanings of erotic material\, resulting in impasses or missed therapeutic opportunities. \nThis presentation aims to expand clinicians’ capacity to think about and work with erotic dynamics that emerge within the analytic dyad. Drawing on contemporary psychoanalytic theory\, particularly relational and developmental perspectives\, Dr. Schoen will examine how erotic experiences in the transference may reflect unconscious longings for recognition\, repair\, and vitality. \nCE.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/erotic-entanglements-in-the-search-to-be-and-belong-traversing-the-forcefield-of-dependency-and-desire-2/
LOCATION:Hybrid (In-Person at Association for Psychoanalytic Medicine and Virtual)\, New York\, NY
ORGANIZER;CN="The Association for Psychoanalytic Medicine (APM) (NY)":MAILTO:admin@theapmnewyork.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251007T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251007T220000
DTSTAMP:20260625T082632
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SUMMARY:Erotic Entanglements in the Search to Be and Belong: Traversing the Forcefield of Dependency and Desire
DESCRIPTION:This paper takes up the clinical challenges of working with patients for whom the repetitive pursuit of intense\, erotic relationships both expresses and conceals yearnings to be and belong. While sexual experiences can elicit core fantasies of transformation\, awareness of the very otherness that offers such promise also threatens a fragile self and is thus negated. A detailed clinical account illuminates sexuality’s dense entanglement with experiences of coming alive and the knotted strands of character armor\, sexual charge\, developmental trauma\, disintegrative anxieties\, and concretized longings for physical touch that permeate eroticism in the space of breakdown. The author takes up how these unstable intersections contribute to patients’ and analysts’ fears and avoidance of engaging these entanglements in the analytic relationship with its inherent seductions and frustrations; at the same time\, it’s through delving into and living through these overlaps that the basic issues of being and becoming can emerge.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/erotic-entanglements-in-the-search-to-be-and-belong-traversing-the-forcefield-of-dependency-and-desire/
LOCATION:Hybrid (In-Person and Virtual)
ORGANIZER;CN="The Association for Psychoanalytic Medicine (APM) (NY)":MAILTO:admin@theapmnewyork.org
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