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SUMMARY:Revisiting Donald Winnicott’s 1968 Encounter and the Ongoing Limits of Regional Psychoanalysis
DESCRIPTION: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 be explained solely in terms of intellectual divergence\, but must also be understood in relation to “internalized psychoanalytic cultures”—the non-conscious cultural value systems that shape the development\, reception\, and practice of analytic theories within a given geographical culture. Focusing on the reception of D.W. Winnicott’s “The Use of an Object” paper at NYPSI in 1968\, Ilahi illustrates how a lack of awareness of differing underlying cultural frameworks and implicit worldviews—especially between British Object Relations theory and American Ego Psychology—obstructed meaningful dialogue despite a shared professional language on the surface. Whereas British approaches emphasize the preverbal mind\, unconscious phantasy\, and early object relations\, American ego psychology privileged adaptation\, verbal processes\, and later developmental stages. These transatlantic confusions continue to the present day\, as will be briefly illustrated by the case of Thomas Ogden\, where despite an explicit affinity at the level of theoretical statements\, clinical work remains firmly—and unknowingly—rooted in North American traditions. These divergences demonstrate that theories in psychoanalysis migrate unevenly across cultural contexts\, often undergoing unconscious transformations. While recognizing the influence of such internalized cultures—rather than assuming universal agreement on psychoanalytic concepts—may create anxieties that our theories are not free of local values (and thus not totally “scientific”)\, it nevertheless offers a way forward for more genuine dialogue across schools and geographies\, helping to differentiate what is regional versus universal in our theories. The paper argues that without acknowledging the cultural and non-conscious foundations of theoretical orientations\, psychoanalysis risks perpetuating confusion\, false consensus\, and seriously missed opportunities for growth and global relevance.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/revisiting-donald-winnicotts-1968-encounter-and-the-ongoing-limits-of-regional-psychoanalysis/
LOCATION:Hybrid: In-person (1 Park Ave 8th Fl\, New York\, NY 10016) & Virtual
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SUMMARY:Examination of Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Technique Fundamentals
DESCRIPTION: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 material.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/examination-of-psychodynamic-psychotherapy-technique-fundamentals/
LOCATION:Hybrid: In-person (1 Park Ave 8th Fl\, New York\, NY 10016) & Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260516T114500
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SUMMARY:Different Meanings of Fantasy and Phantasy
DESCRIPTION:Presenter: Nasir Ilahi\, LLM\, LP\nThe 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 will explore these divergent definitions\, tracing their development from Freud’s central usage to his subsidiary notions of fantasy in his concepts of hallucinatory wish-fulfillment and negation.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/different-meanings-of-fantasy-and-phantasy/
LOCATION:Hybrid: In-person (1 Park Ave 8th Fl\, New York\, NY 10016) & Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260511T200000
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SUMMARY:58th Anniversary Freud Lecture: The Innate Capacity for Representing Subjective Experience: The Infant’s Mind is Neither Primitive nor Pre-representational
DESCRIPTION: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 findings are highly relevant to psychoanalytic theorizing. It is argued that when such findings are considered\, a view of the infant with “primordial and unrepresented” states of mind has little evidence to support it. In fact\, research findings summarized herein point to an opposite view: that of the “competent infant\,” one with highly accurate perceptual discrimination capacities and an innate ability to register and represent subjective experience in both procedural and declarative memory\, even pre-natally. Given the infant’s competencies it seems implausible to hold that representational deficits are at the heart of serious adult psychopathology\, which is instead seen to be the result of defensive maneuvers against unknowable and unspeakable truth rather than the absence of a pre-verbal representational capacity. Current research findings seem to pose a significant challenge for psychoanalytic theories which espouse so-called “primitive mental states\,” “unrepresented\,” ”unformulated\,” “unsymbolized” experience or “non-conscious” states.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/58th-anniversary-freud-lecture-the-innate-capacity-for-representing-subjective-experience-the-infants-mind-is-neither-primitive-nor-pre-representational/
LOCATION:In-Person: NYU Langone Health\, Science Building\, 550 1st Avenue\, New York\, NY 10016
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SUMMARY:Noticing Understanding Responding: Winnicott at Work
DESCRIPTION:Written and presented by Lesley Caldwell\, MA\, PhD\, FIPA \nThis 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 and more disturbed adults. It highlights the need for the analyst to meet the patient on their own terms and be prepared to wait for them to arrive at a quality of psychic life through the continuing presence of the analyst. Dr. Caldwell thinks that playing originates in and depends on the patient’s capacity to be\, and to live from that being\, most especially with oneself and only then with others\, though Winnicott himself argues that these different ways of being initially emerge together. Dr. Caldwell illustrates this through his brief work with a child and his analysis with an adult woman.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/noticing-understanding-responding-winnicott-at-work-2/
LOCATION:Hybrid (Virtual & In-person: NYU Science Building\, 550 1st Ave\, New York\, NY 10016)
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SUMMARY:PANY Psychoanalytic Training Program Open House
DESCRIPTION:Participants will have the opportunity to join a Q&A with faculty from the PANY Psychoanalytic Program.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/pany-psychoanalytic-training-program-open-house/
LOCATION:NYU Langone Health Science Building (NYC)\, 435 East 30th St\, New York\, NY\, United States
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