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Annual Conference 2016
A Conversation with Adam Phillips NEW YORK ACADEMY OF MEDICINE, 1216 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK CITY MAP Registration: ONLY AVAILABLE AT THE DOOR - ONLINE REGISTRATION IS NOW CLOSED General Admission: 0.00 Student Admission with ID: .00 3.5 CE CREDITS FOR SOCIAL WORKERS AND PSYCHOLOGISTS The New York Times has called Adam Phillips “one of the most engaging writers in the world on analysis and the analytic movement.” From the publication of his first book, Winnicott, in 1988, to his latest, Unforbidden Pleasures, in 2015, Phillips has demonstrated that he is one of the foremost writers on psychoanalysis today. Phillips has described psychoanalysis as an exploratory conversation with someone you enjoy talking to. In conversation, thoughts and feelings can be metabolized by the analyst in ways that can counteract the repetitions of solitary thinking and allow us to surprise ourselves with new ideas. Most people come to psychoanalysis simply wanting relief from their suffering, but Phillips asserts that they often discover something more important than the alleviation of psychic pain, the joy of a dialogue that offers an opportunity to translate and redescribe troublesome impulses, thoughts, and feelings in the moment. Phillips will begin the day by presenting a paper, “CONVERSION HYSTERIA,” which explores the idea of conversions in a broad context. This will be followed by a Conversation between Phillips and CMPS President, Mimi Crowell, on both this and a wide range of ideas. The afternoon will be devoted to a conversation between Phillips and the audience about not only the morning’s presentation but also the wealth of interesting ideas that Phillips has presented in his twenty books. Given Phillips’ deep love and intensive study of literature and philosophy, this conference should be of interest not only to psychoanalysts and students of psychoanalysis but also to students and teachers of English literature and philosophy, as well as a general audience. To make the conference a richer experience, it is suggested that those attending acquaint themselves with Phillips’ work. A bibliography of recommended readings is available and linked here. “Conversion Hysteria” Psychoanalysis began with the treatment of so-called hysterical conversion symptoms, and psychoanalysis itself has always been an inquiry, one way or another, into the nature of conversion experiences, whether psychological, somatic, secular, or religious. Phillips’ paper investigates the uses and abuses of the idea of conversion in psychoanalytic theory and practice. Adam Phillips was formerly Principal Child Psychologist at London's Charing Cross Hospital. He is now a writer and a psychoanalyst in private practice in London. Mimi Crowell, PhD, LP, is President of the Center for Modern Psychoanalytic Studies and Program Director of the New York Graduate School of Psychoanalysis, where she serves on the faculty and is a training analyst and supervisor. She is in private practice in New York City. Lucy Holmes, PhD, LCSW, LP, Conference Chair, is a CMPS and NYGSP faculty member and training analyst, and is in private practice in New York City. She is the author of two books, The Internal Triangle and Wrestling with Destiny. MORNING SESSION 9:00 - 9:45 AM - REGISTRATION 9:45 - 10:00 AM - WELCOME AND INTRODUCTION OF SPEAKERS, LUCY HOLMES, CONFERENCE CHAIR 10:00 - 11:00 AM - ADAM PHILLIPS, KEYNOTE SPEAKER: “CONVERSION HYSTERIA” 11:00 - 12:00 AM - A CONVERSATION BETWEEN ADAM PHILLIPS AND MIMI CROWELL AFTERNOON SESSION 12:00 - 1:30 PM - LUNCH BREAK 1:45 - 3:15 PM - A CONVERSATION BETWEEN ADAM PHILLIPS AND THE AUDIENCE MODERATED BY LUCY HOLMES 3:30 - 5:00 PM - WINE-AND-CHEESE SOCIAL Tickets purchased after March 1, 2016 will be held at the door. Download flier Download brochure DIRECTIONS TO CONFERENCE The New York Academy of Medicine is located at the corner of Fifth Avenue and 103rd Street (entrance on 103rd). By Subway Take the 6 train to 103rd Street. Walk across 102nd Street to Fifth Avenue. Alternatively, take the 6 train to 96th Street and walk up Fifth Avenue to 103rd Street. By Bus Heading uptown: Take the Madison Avenue bus (M1, M2, M3, or M4) to 102nd Street. Heading downtown: Take the Fifth Avenue bus (M1, M2, M3, or M4) to 102nd Street. LUNCH RECESS There is a selection of restaurants with a range of cuisines at various price points in the immediate vicinity of the New York Academy of Medicine. Printed information about the choices will be provided on site to conference attendees.
Using Countertransference in Treatment and Supervision
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 2018 | 7:30 — 9:30 PM
2 CE CREDITS FOR LICENSED PSYCHOANALYSTS, SOCIAL WORKERS, AND PSYCHOLOGISTS
with Faye Newsome, MA, LP [read more]
Parsing the Poetics of Place in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 2018 | 7:30 — 9:30 PM
2 CE CREDITS FOR LICENSED PSYCHOANALYSTS, SOCIAL WORKERS, AND PSYCHOLOGISTS
with Billie A. Pivnick, PhD [read more]
Our Difficulties with Otherness: Cultivating Curiosity in Psychoanalytic Treatment and Organizations
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2018 | 9:00 AM — 1:00 PM
4 CE CREDITS FOR LICENSED PSYCHOANALYSTS, SOCIAL WORKERS, AND PSYCHOLOGISTS
with Anton H. Hart [read more]
Intensive Weekend Clinical Seminar: Emotional Communication
FRIDAY, JUNE 22, 2018 • 2:30 - 6:30 PM
SATURDAY, JUNE 23, 2018 • 9:00 AM - 3:30 PM
7.5 CE Credits for Licensed Psychoanalysts, Social Workers, and Psychologists
This intensive clinical seminar will focus on the theory and practice of using emotional communication in treatment. [read more . . .]
Short Course: Modern Psychoanalytic Approaches to Understanding and Treating Addictive Disorders
WEDNESDAYS, MAY 23 – JUNE 27, 2018 • 7:00–8:30 PM
9 CE CREDITS FOR PSYCHOANALYSTS, SOCIAL WORKERS, PSYCHOLOGISTS, AND CASACS
This course will focus on understanding addiction as a form of self-medication, a maladaptive defense for managing unacceptable thoughts and feelings, and will emphasize treatment methods that combine psychoanalytic theory and technique with harm-reduction approaches. Case studies will be used to illustrate the theoretical material.
From the “Child Woman” to “Wonder Woman”: Progress and Misogyny in Psychoanalytic Theory and Clinical Work
FRIDAY, MAY 18, 2018 • 7:30–9:30 PM
2 CE CREDITS FOR LICENSED PSYCHOANALYSTS, SOCIAL WORKERS, AND PSYCHOLOGISTS
The way we listen to our patients and formulate their problems in the areas of sex and gender depend on the guiding theories of the therapist. The place and function of sex and gender in that theory will reveal its biases about female development in particular. [Read more]
Rosemary H. Balsam, MD, presents
Pace, Space, and the Other in the Making of Fiction
FRIDAY, APRIL 27, 2018 • 7:30–9:30 PM
2 CE CREDITS FOR LICENSED PSYCHOANALYSTS, SOCIAL WORKERS, AND PSYCHOLOGISTS
The turn toward an embodied metaphorical understanding of human thought in the cognitive sciences and other disciplines has reconfigured the idea that narrative is a purely linguistic phenomenon that begins with language acquisition. [Read more]
Siri Hustvedt, PhD presents
D. W. Winnicott and the Middle School of British Psychoanalysis
SATURDAY, APRIL 21, 2018 • 9:00 AM–1:00 PM
4 CE CREDITS FOR LICENSED PSYCHOANALYSTS, SOCIAL WORKERS, AND PSYCHOLOGISTS
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Donald Winnicott was one of the most original thinkers in the history of psychoanalysis. His conceptualizations—of transitional objects and the false self, for example—are now embedded within psychoanalytic discourse; [Read more]
M. Gerard Fromm, PhD, presents
Trans* Psychoanalysis: A New Discipline?
FRIDAY, MARCH 16, 2018 • 7:30–9:30 PM
2 CE CREDITS FOR LICENSED PSYCHOANALYSTS, SOCIAL WORKERS, AND PSYCHOLOGISTS
“I had no choice. I would be dead if I hadn’t transitioned—I would have killed myself.” This clinical vignette is no longer exceptional. We are living a “transgender moment,” as headlines across the United States have called it, that is radically changing our notions of sex and gender. [Read more]
Patricia Gherovici, PhD, presents
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