The Past as Presence: A Novelist and Psychoanalyst Compare Notes

Tuesday, June 4, 2024 at 8 PM

Elizabeth Graver and Ruth Graver MD presenters
Lisa Gornick PhD moderator

SANDOR RADO LECTURE — The Unknown, the Unmet, and the Unlived: Strangers and Strangeness Within Us

Tuesday, May 7th, 2024 at 8pm

Salman Akhtar, MD RADO LECTURER

Returning to the Diary of Anne Frank in 2024

Tuesday, April 2, 2024 at 8 PM

Katherine Dalsimer, PhD presenter
Susan Scheftel, PhD discussant

From Theory to Practice: New Directions in Psychoanalytic Thought at the Columbia Psychoanalytic Center

Tuesday March 5, 2024 at 8 PM

Gila Ashtor Ph.D., Ben Kafka Ph.D. Presenters
Jay Crosby Ph.D., Adele Tutter Ph.D. Discussants

The Analyst's Vulnerability: Personal, Clinical, Ethical

Tuesday, February 6, 2024 at 8 PM

Ellen Pinsky, PsyD presenter
Lisa Carbone, MD discussant

Reverberations of the Long-Term Fate of Early Aggression in Mental Representations: Integrating Separation-Individuation and Attachment Theory

Tuesday, January 2, 2024 at 8 PM

Wendy Olesker, PhD presenter
Inga Blom, PhD, PMH-C discussant

Making Freud Matter: Teaching Freud to Undergraduates

December 5, 2023 at 8 PM

Adele Tutter M.D., Ph.D. and Craig Tomlinson M.D.

A Psychoanalytic Perspective on Psychedelic Experience

October 3, 2023 at 8pm

Philip Ringstrom Ph.D., Psy.D. & Jeffrey Guss M.D. Speakers

Strangers to Ourselves: A Conversation with Author Rachel Aviv

Tuesday, June 6, 2023 at 8PM

Rachel Aviv Speaker
Orna Ophir, Ph.D. Discussant

SANDOR RADO LECTURE — To Feel in My Flesh: Receptivity, Resonance and the Beta Screen

Tuesday, May 2nd at 8pm

Howard B. Levine, MD RADO LECTURER

L'Origine du monde at the end of analysis: Treating a patient obsessed with pornography

Tuesday, April 4, 2023 at 8PM

Elena Molinari, M.D. presenter

The Robert S. Liebert Award and Lecture: Psychoanalysis of the Oppressed, a practice of freedom

Tuesday, March 7, 2023 at 8 PM

Professor Ankhi Mukherjee presenter
Nate Kravis, M.D. introduction

THE FAULT LINE: What can the neuroscience of volition tell us about the boundaries between mind and body?

Tuesday, February 7 at 8 PM

Alice Flaherty, M.D., Ph.D. presenter
Andrew J. Gerber, M.D., Ph.D. discussant

Unmasked: Frame Alterations during the Time of Covid and Other Plagues

Tuesday December 6 at 8PM

Tony Bass, Ph.D. presenter
Natasha Chriss, M.D. discussant

Psychodynamic Formulation: an Expanded Approach

Tuesday November 1 at 8PM

Shirin Ali, M.D.; Ruth Graver, M.D.; Aaron Reliford, M.D.; Anna Schwartz, M.D.; Susan Vaughan, M.D.
Panel

Treatment Resistance: What to Do when Dyadic Treatment Isn't Enough

Tuesday, June 7 at 8PM

Eric M. Plakun, M.D. presenter
Eve Caligor, M.D. discussant

SANDOR RADO LECTURE — Ferenczi, Balint and Rado, and the Hungarian Psychoanalytic Tradition

Tuesday, May 3rd at 8pm

Adrienne Harris, Ph.D. RADO LECTURER

Trauma and the Art of Transformation: Dutch Painter and Bergen-Belsen Survivor Sieg Maandag

Tuesday, April 5 at 8PM

Dawn Skorczewski, Ph.D. presenter
Adele Tutter, M.D. discussant

The Imperative of Racial Trauma: Truth and Reconciliation in America

Tuesday, March 1, 2022 at 8 PM

Dionne Powell, M.D. presenter
Susan Coates, Ph.D. discussant

Of Fear and Strangers: A History of Xenophobia

Tuesday, February 1, 2022 at 8 PM

George Makari, M.D. presenter
Kwame Anthony Appiah discussant

The Aesthetics of Testimony and the Unfinished Transgenerational Task of Trauma

Tuesday, January 4, 2022 at 1pm (Rebroadcast at 8pm)

Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela, Ph.D. presenter

Working Alongside Oliver Sacks: Kate Edgar in Conversation with Lisa Gornick

Tuesday, December 7, 2021 at 8pm

Kate Edgar presenter
Lisa Gornick, Ph.D. discussant

Practicing Psychoanalysis at the Intersection of Covid-19, the Murder of George Floyd, and Trump's Presidency: A Brown Analyst Speaks

Tuesday, November 9, 2021 at 8pm

Aisha Abbasi, M.D. presenter
Sandra Park, M.D. discussant

On coming into possession of oneself: Witnessing and the formulation of experience

Tuesday, October 5, 2021 at 8pm

Donnel Stern Ph.D. presenter
Adrienne Harris Ph.D. discussant

How Concepts Make the Unconscious Conscious

Tuesday June 1st at 8pm

Andrew Lotterman, M.D. Presenter
Larry Sandberg, M.D. Discussant

SANDOR RADO LECTURE — Speech and the Drives: Psychoanalysis and Living Systems

Tuesday, May 4th at 8pm

Dominique Scarfone, M.D. RADO LECTURER

Novel Relations: Bion and George Eliot

Tuesday, April 6th at 8pm

Alicia Christoff, Ph.D. Presenter
Wendy Katz, Ph.D. Introduction

It's a Matter of Time: Relational Psychoanalysis and Temporality

Tuesday, March 2nd at 8pm

Neil J. Skolnick, Ph.D. Presenter
Wendy Katz Ph.D. Discussant

Psychological Resistances to the Use of Logic in Psychotherapy for Psychosis

Tuesday, February 2nd at 8pm

Michael Garrett, M.D. presenter
Eric Marcus, M.D. presenter

"Everything is an Emergency": An OCD Story in Words and Pictures

January 5, 2021 (Joint event with the Columbia Public Outreach Committee)

Jason Katzenstein presenter
Roz Chast presenter

On Denial: Internal, Relational, Social and Political Functions

December 1, 2020

Nancy McWilliams PhD presenter
Kevin Kelly, M.D. discussant

On the Psychoanalytic Legacy of John Bowlby: Attachment Theory, Reflective Functioning and Therapeutic Action

November 10, 2020

Miriam Steele PhD presenter
Diana Diamond PhD discussant

New Languages/Old Worlds: the Self in Translation

October 6, 2020

Jhumpa Lahiri presenter
Daria Colombo MD discussant

On Consciousness

June 2, 2020

Andrew Lotterman, MD presenter
Paolo Mieli, MD discussant

This presentation will describe the roles played by consciousness and conceptual thought in the therapeutic action of psychoanalysis. It will examine the structure of the system Unconscious and system Conscious and the evolution of thinking from the subsymbolic to the verbal-concept system.

Sandor Rado Lecture

May 5, 2020

Dominique Scarfone, MD presenter

Skin Ego and Identity Confusion in Work with Children and with Couples

April 7, 2020

Christine Anzieu-Premmereur, PhD presenter
Graciela Abelin-Sas Rose, MD discussant

Dr. Anzieu-Premmereur will present on Didier Anzieu's notion of the skin ego to explore identity confusion in our days in working with children and families. Dr. Abelin-Sas Rose will discuss identity confusion and skin ego in her clinical experience of working with couples.

The Early Shapes of Psychic Life as Forerunners of (Bi)Sexuality

February 11, 2020 8:00 p.m.

Patrick Miller, MD presenter
Rosemary Balsam, MD discussant

A visiting scholar from the Societe Psychanalytique de Recherche et de Formation and prominent psychoanalyst, Dr. Miller will focus on the role of apres coup in the construction of genital sexual life. His presentation will revolve around deepening his notion of penetrability and permeability (early shapes of sexuality), connecting it with adult sexuality using two substantial clinical vignettes.

Creativity in the Science of Psychoanalysis: an APM, NYPSI and PANY Joint Event

December 10, 2019

Theodore Shapiro, MD, Eric Marcus, MD, Marina Mirkin, MD Panelists
Christine Anzieu Premmereur, PhD, MD Moderator

PLEASE NOTE DIFFERENT LOCATION • 247 East 82nd Street • New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute

Reception with wine and cheese will open the event.

Psychotherapy Affiliates Event: Relevance and applications of psychoanalysis to the psychotherapeutic frame

Tuesday, November 19, 2019

Eve Caligor, MD and Seth Aronson, PsyD • presenters

This event was designed by the APM and the Columbia University Center for Training and Research to welcome the graduates of the Psychotherapy Division to the monthly Scientific Meeting program.

Lessons in Masochism

October 1st, 2019

Robert Glick, MD presenter

Love Speech, Hate Speech, Free Speech and Neutrality: In and Out of the Consulting Room

October 2, 2018 8:00pm

Donald Moss, MD presenter
Stathis Gourgouris, PhD discussant

On the Enigma of Pain

November 6, 2018 8pm

Panos Aloupis, MD presenter
Andrew Gerber, MD discussant

This lecture will be held at the New York Academy of Medicine, 2 East 103rd Street at Fifth Avenue.

Digital Desire and the Online Imposter: Catfishing

December 4, 2018 8:00pm

Danielle Knafo, PhD • presenter
David Lichtenstein, PhD • discussant

Growing Up in an X-Box: the Child in a Detached World

January 15, 2019 8pm

Christine Anzieu-Premmereur, MD • presenter
Lissa Weinstein, PhD • discussant

From her vast experience working with children and parents, Dr. Anzieu-Premmereur examines the impact of technology on contemporary children's capacity for symbolization and relatedness.

No Human is Illegal: Dislocation and Exclusion of Otherness in Working with Trauma on the Couch and in the World

February 5, 2019 8pm

Richard Ledes documentary filmmaker
Luca Flabbi, PhD, Gabriella Pediconi, PhD, Glauco Genga, MD discussants

2019 International Psychoanalytic Scholar Lecture: Fanaticism in Social Groups and in the Analytic Field

March 5, 2019 8pm

Roosevelt Cassorla MD, PhD • Presenter

Liebert Award Lecture • On Dangerous Ground: Freud's Visual Cultures of the Unconscious

April 2, 2019 8pm

Diane O'Donoghue Presenter

2019 Sandor Rado Lecture • On the Threat of Narcissistic Closure: The Mirror Stage, Narrative, Cognitive Bias

May 7, 2019 8pm

Mitchell Wilson, MD Presenter

A Laplanchean Approach to Consent: Infantile Sexuality, Risk and States of "Overwhelm"

June 4, 2019 8pm

Avgi Saketopoulou, PhD presenter
Stan Coen, MD discussant

Beyond the binary of sex: Psychoanalytic exploration of multiple sexualities

October 3, 2017

Presenter: Jack Drescher
Discussant: Patricia Gherovici

Entering One's own life as an Aim of Clinical Psychoanalysis

November 7, 2017

Presenter: Ricchardo Lombardi
Discussant: Christine Anzieu-Premmereur

Who is the analyst in Lacanian, Ego-Object relations and Self psychological approaches

December 5, 2017

Presenters: David Lichtenstein, Andrew Lotterman, Jeff Halpern
Interviews by Diana Moga and Elhav Weinstein

Different structural organizations of the transference in working with neurotic, narcissistic and borderline patients

January 9, 2018

Presenters: Otto Kernberg and Eve Caligor

'Trumpism.' The symptom of our times

February 6, 2018

Presenters: Paola Mieli and Peter Bratsis

Liebert Award Lecture: Sex, text, ur-text, intertext: Freud's Dora and the poisonous book

March 6, 2018

Presenter: Adele Tutter

Rethinking the death instinct

April 3, 2018 8:00 pm

Presenters: Bob Michels and Jonathan House, discussion with Joel Whitebook

Rado Lecture • Emerging Adulthood: Mental life, development and 21st century culture

May 1, 2018 8:00pm

Karen Gilmore, MD

The Pleasure of Technology

June 5, 2018 • 8:00pm

Presenter: Ben Fong, PhD
Discussant: Kevin Kelly, MD

Soul Machine: The Invention of the Modern Mind

October 4, 2016

Lecturer: George Makari, MD
Discussant: Jerome Wakefield, PhD

Kardiner Award Lecture: Shamanism and Psychoanalysis

November 1, 2016

Michael Taussig, PhD

Sadistic Transference Fantasies in the Wake of 9/11: Clinical Work Across Ethnic, Religious, Racial, and Cultural Boundaries

December 6, 2016

Lecturer: Aisha Abbasi, MD
Discussant: Susan Vaughan, MD

Working Well With Others: A Panel on Joint Psychoanalytic Treatment with Other Modalities – CBT, DBT and EMDR

February 7, 2017

Panelists: Brenda Berger, PhD, Robin Gibbs, PhD, Anna Schwartz, MD, Tiziano Colibazzi, MD, Lisa Napolitano, PhD
Moderator: Michele Rosenberg, MD

Liebert Award Lecture: Embodied Readers, Narrative Texts: Literary and Psychoanalytic Perspectives

March 7, 2017

Anne Golomb Hoffman, PhD
Professor of English and Comparative Literature
Fordham University

Field Theory in Contemporary Psychoanalysis

April 4, 2017

Lecturer: S. Montana Katz, PhD, co-sponsored with the Columbia Parent Infant Program

Sandor Rado Lecture

May 2, 2017

Analytic Thirds in Clinical Psychoanalysis
Nancy Kulish, PhD

Ruth Reichl: Chef, Food Writer, Memoirist

Jun 6, 2017

A Conversation with Susan Scheftel, PhD

On the Analyst's Identification with the Patient: The Case of J.-B. Pontalis and the novelist Georg Perec

November 3, 2015

Lecturer: Henry Schwartz MD
Discussant: Alfred Margulies, MD

The Fight to Defend Long-Term and Psychodynamic Psychotherapy: Parity, Out-of-Network Benefits, and Insurance Companies

December 1, 2015

Panelists: Rachel Fernbach, Esq., June Feder, PhD, Bob Raymond, PhD
Moderators: David Gutman, MD and Juliette Meyer, PhD

Race and Culture in Psychoanalysis: the African American Experience

January 5, 2016

Panelists: Dionne Powell, MD and Anton Hart, MD

International Scholars Lecture • The Clinical Common Ground: Shared Intersubjective Experience

February 2, 2016

Lecturer: Ricardo Bernardi, MD – Universidad de la Republica, Uruguay

Thinking (and Moving) Outside the Box: Psychoanalytic Treatment and Dance Movement Therapy

March 1, 2016

Lecturers: Larry Sandberg, MD and Suzi Tortora EdD, LCAT

Gary Shteyngart, novelist and author of the memoir Little Failure

April 5, 2016

Interview by Alison Brown, PhD

Sandor Rado Lecture • The Quest for Truth as the Foundation of Psychoanalytic Practice: Klein's Essential Contribution to the Articulation and Grounding of this Freudian Perspective

May 3, 2016

Lecturer: Rachel Blass, PhD, University of London

Sonali Deraniyagala, author of Wave: A Memoir of Life After the Tsunami

October 7, 2014

An interview with Philip Lister

Coming Attractions: Analyzing the Use of Pornography in the Psychoanalyses of Two Patients

November 4, 2014

Lecturer: Susan Vaughan, MD
A lecture in honor of Ethel Spector Person, MD, with a tribute by Robert Glick, MD

Applying Psychoanalytic Principles and Practice to the Treatment of Substance Misuse

December 2, 2014

Lecturer: Debra Rothschild, PhD
Discussant: Lisa Goldfarb, MD

Conceptualizing and Working with Shame in Transference-Focused Psychotherapy for Narcissistic Personalities

January 6, 2015

Lecturer: Barry Stern, PhD
Discussant: Eve Caligor, MD

Giacometti's Genius: Understanding the Artist's Creative Process

February 3, 2015

Lecturers: Oren Kalus, MD & Laurie Wilson, PhD

The Clinical Use of Countertransference in Relational and Ego Psychological Psychoanalysis: A Panel on Comparative Technique

March 3, 2015

Presenter: Natasha Chriss, MD
Panelists: Tony Bass, PhD and Ellen Rees, MD

Leibert Award Lecture • Embedded and Couched: the Function and Meaning of Recumbent Speech

April 7, 2015

Lecturer: Nathan Kravis, MD

Life, Liberty and Lunacy: Debra Lampshire's "Recovery" from Psychosis

May 5, 2015

Lecturers: Charles Marmar, MD, Marilyn Charles, PhD and Lois Oppenheim, PhD

Rado Lecture • Does Psychoanalysis Have a Meta-Theory?

June 2, 2015

Lecturer: Eric R. Marcus, MD

On Time and the Deepening of Analysis

October 1, 2013

Lecturer: Lucy LaFarge, MD
Discussant: George Sagi, MD

Transferences in Parent-Infant Psychotherapy

November 5, 2013

Lecturer: Bjorn Salomonsson, MD
Discussant: Theodore Shapiro, MD

Converting Patients to Psychoanalysis: a Panel on Technique

December 3, 2013

Panelists: Arnold Rothstein, MD, Deborah Cabaniss, MD, Andreas Kraebber, MD, Ruth Graver, MD

Maternal Altruism and Boundary Violations

January 7, 2014

Lecturer: Beth Seelig, MD
Discussant: Robert Michels MD

History and Theory: the Case of Psychoanalysis Coming to Palestine/Pre-State Israel

February 4, 2014

Co-sponsored with the Columbia University Center for Israel & Jewish Studies
Lecturer: Eran Rolnik, MD, PhD
Discussant: Anne Hoffman PhD

Narcissus and Echo – Narcissistic Dyads in the Works of Ovid, Poussin and their Links to Psychoanalytic Theory

March 4, 2014

Lecturer: Adele Tutter, MD
Discussant: Christine Anzieu MD

Defending Psychoanalytic Secularism

April 1, 2014

Lecturer: Joel Whitebook, PhD
Discussant: Richard Bernstein, PhD

Liebert Lecture: Rear Window and Sexual Voyeurism

May 6, 2014

Lecturer: Peter Dunn, MD

Rado Lecture: Purloined Privacy and the Right to Deceive

June 3, 2014

Lecturer: Bonnie Litowitz, PhD