Psychoanalytic Association of New York (PANY)

Questions about the psychoanalytic frame will be discussed during the talk; clinical vignettes will be used to illustrate the points addressed. CE credit.

Winnicott's concept of primary maternal preoccupation highlighted an altered mental state presumed essential to a mother's transition to parenthood. This presentation will review how Winnicott's is relevant to more contemporary understanding of the psychological transition of adults to parenthood, what are the challenges to adults becoming parents, and how do individual differences in adults' development […]

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 […]