Participants will have the opportunity to join a Q&A with faculty from the PANY Psychoanalytic Program.
Written and presented by Lesley Caldwell, MA, PhD, FIPA This paper aims to extend the understanding of Donald Winnicott’s theoretical and clinical assumptions through his concern with play and playing, and its links with the development of psychic flexibility. It approaches his work through his extensive clinical experience with babies and children, and with neurotic […]
Anne Erreich, PhD, cites the prominence of theories which locate serious adult psychopathology in the pre-verbal infant’s inability to formulate or represent traumatic experience in her paper presentation. The work of two such authors, H. Levine and D.B. Stern, is briefly considered. The frame of reference for this investigation is that clinical and academic research […]
Presenter: Nasir Ilahi, LLM, LP The term "fantasy" is foundational to psychoanalysis, yet its clinical application varies dramatically across the Atlantic. While all schools share a common Freudian root, the British Kleinian tradition added something additional. It developed the concept of "unconscious phantasy" as a continuous, somatic, and structural undercurrent of the psyche. This talk […]
Transference, countertransference, resistance, neutrality, focus on the unconscious…these are a few of the key elements of a psychodynamic approach to treatment that will be explored in this seminar. The speaker will use video clips from the HBO series “In Treatment” (2008-2010) in which a psychotherapist meets with patients in a re-enacted version of actual therapeutic […]
The history of psychoanalysis since Freud has been marked by fragmentation into multiple theoretical schools, often with limited dialogue across them. M. Nasir Ilahi, LLM, LP’s paper examines the deeper reasons for such failures of communication—focusing on schools that originate across transatlantic traditions, specifically the US and the UK. It proposes that these failures cannot […]