Friday, September 26, 8:00 pm
ROMANTIC BONDS, BINDS, AND RUPTURES: The Conjoint Treatment of Relational Trauma

This paper argues that romantic love is, in both the formal and evocative sense, an attachment process, and that romantic loss, rupture, and deadlock exemplify what trauma theorists call "relational 'small t' trauma." This perspective is crucial for understanding, containing, and simply bearing the primitive mental processes and relentless enactments so typical of couples work.

Speaker: Virginia Goldner, Ph.D.*
Discussant: Lewis Aron, Ph.D.*
Location: NYU Kimmel Center, 60 Washington Sq. South, Room 905

November

Sunday, November 2, 2:00 - 5:00 pm
"OUR CHILDREN" (Undzere Kinder)

"Undzere Kinder" (1948) tells the story of Jewish orphans living in the Polish countryside near Lodz after WWII. It was the last Yiddish-language film ever to be made in Poland, and is the account of a group of Jewish child survivors, played by child residents of the Helanowek orphanage who retell their ordeal. "Undzere Kinder, part of a handful of early post-Shoah movies, was first to confront the issue of whether remembering the mass murder of one's people, as opposed to repressing these memories, is therapeutic." (quoted from Maurice Preter, M.D.)

Speakers: Maurice Preter, M.D., Isaac Tylim, Psy.D.*, Judith Eckman-Jadow, Ph.D.
Moderator: Rifka Greenberg, Ph.D.
Location: NYU Kimmel Center, 60 Washington Sq. South, Room 802

Saturday, November 22, 10:00 - 12:30 pm
SULLIVAN'S LEGACY

In addition to recognizing verbal symbolic levels of communication, analysts are increasingly attending to nonverbal embodied dimensions of the analytic interaction as sources of subjective experience in the analyst, as well as offering clues to transferential and counter-transferential meanings.

Speakers: Speakers: John Fiscalini, Ph.D.*, Jack Drescher, M.D.*, Mary Joan Gerson, Ph.D.*, and Brian Koehler, Ph.D.*
Moderator: Martin Rock, Ph.D.
Location: NYU Kimmel Center, 60 Washington Sq. South, Room 802

January

Friday, January 30, 8:00 pm
THE MAN WHO WOULD BE EVERYTHING: Psychic Change From A Relational Perspective

This paper explores the multiple modes of therapeutic action which contribute to psychic change from within a relational perspective. A long clinical example describes the treatment of a man who presented himself for psychoanalysis claiming that he was a "compulsive liar who could not be trusted to tell the truth about anything."
Speaker: Jody Messler Davies, Ph.D.*
Discussants: Andrew Druck, Ph.D.*, Ann D'Ercole, Ph.D.*, Steven Knoblauch, Ph.D.*
Location: NYU Kimmel Center, 60 Washington Sq. South, Room 914
Cocktail Reception: 6:00-8:00 pm for all who are interested in Postdoctoral Psychoanalytic Training. Faculty, graduates and candidates will be available for informal discussion about the program before the evening colloquium.

March

Friday, March 13, 8:00 pm
TWO CLINICAL PERSPECTIVES: In Concert Or Collision?

Intersubjective Systems Theory is seen by some as emergent and interactive with the spectrum of clinical theories that constitute the Relational Perspective in psychoanalysis. Others have argued for distinct differences between the two approaches. This paper will present a compelling comparative study of the two perspectives emphasizing points of convergence and divergence.
Speaker: Philip Ringstrom, Ph.D. Moderator: Steven Knoblauch, Ph.D.*
Discussants: Carolyn Clement, Ph.D.*, Bruce Reiss, Ph.D.*
Location: NYU Kimmel Center, 60 Washington Sq. South, Room 914

April

Friday, April 17, 8:00 pm
THE ENIGMA OF BION'S WRITINGS: Links Between A Life And A Theory

Bion is one of the most enigmatic figures in psychoanalysis, yet he continues to fascinate. Meira Likierman will present her research into Bion's background, which reveals a life rich in extraordinary experiences, but also marred by war trauma that shaped his personality and thinking. By virtue of his unusual outlook, Bion developed the lessons that he learnt from war into a brilliant and original theory, thus making lasting contributions both to psychoanalysis and to the history of ideas.
Speaker: Meira Likierman, Ph.D.
Discussants: Elsa First, M.A.*, Ruth Stein, Ph.D.*
Location: NYU Kimmel Center, 60 Washington Sq. South, Room 802

Saturday April 18 10:00 am - 2:00 pm
CLINICAL BION: Workshop With Meira Likierman

This workshop will involve a conversation with Meira Likierman about Bion's theoretical work in more depth than the Friday night colloquium using case material.
Fee: $45 ($25 for candidates) Limited to 40, preregistration required.
Location: TBA

* Faculty and/or Supervisor in the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis.