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Panelists: Nancy Burke, PhD, Francisco J. González, MD, Loren Dent, PhD
Moderator: Christopher Landry, MD

Community health institutions have long resisted psychoanalytic thinking, and the siloed psychoanalytic world similarly makes little room for the experience and knowledge of those institutions and the psychic lives of their workers and clients. A clinician who appreciates psychoanalytic insights and understanding and wants to practice in a community setting would find it nearly impossible to integrate both in their work.

A panel of three distinguished psychoanalysts, involved in community settings and contending with the issues that prevail there – poverty, homelessness, racism, immigration, their effects on health, and the economics of community mental health – will speak to what psychoanalysis and community mental health workers and institutions can learn and gain from one another for mutual their benefit.

Our panelists will present new interventions and programs that attempt to bridge the psychoanalysis-community gulf by creatively engaging both psychoanalysts in their institutes and societies and community mental health workers in their institutions in what is becoming community psychoanalysis. The audience will be invited to imagine how they might engage in this new field in their own practice and professional lives.

NYPSI Extension Program: Psychoanalytic Couple Therapy

This course will present results of collaborative research by two analysts working in two different modalities – individual and couple. The comparison of the dynamics in the two settings reveals many new issues and questions. For instance: Is there an unconscious organization of the couple distinct from the unconscious organizations of the individuals in it? What are the differences between the individual’s transferences to the analyst and to the patient’s partner? How much can the analyst know about the patient’s partner? At every meeting, the instructor will present clinical material illustrating these and other issues such as misinterpretations, assumptions, rigid conceptions of the other, the effect of character traits in the relationship, as well as parental difficulties.

4.5 Contact Hours. 4.5 CME/CE credits offered. See details below.

Graciela Abelin-Sas Rose, MD is a member of the New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute; of the Association for Psychoanalytic Medicine and of CAPS. She founded and chaired the New York Psychoanalytic Institute‘s Colloquium with Visiting Authors, where members of diverse schools of thought were invited to present their psychoanalytic perspectives. She served as the Foreign Editor of the Journal of Clinical Psychoanalysis. She is in private practice and conducts private seminars and supervisions. Besides being guest lecturer at American and International institutions she has written reviews and essays on the work of various authors as well as publications of her own work.

When outpatient therapy, hospitalization, PHP, IOP, or residential treatment has not led to lasting change, determining the next step can be difficult.
The Austen Riggs Center is an open therapeutic community specializing in intensive psychiatric treatment for adults with complex, often longstanding psychiatric conditions. This free, live online series offers an opportunity to learn more about our treatment model, who it is best suited for, and how the admissions process works.
These sessions, in which participants are invited to bring questions of interest to them to help shape the discussion, are designed to help individuals, families, and clinicians determine whether Riggs may be an appropriate next step.
Upcoming Dates
March 18, 2026 | 5:00–5:50 PM ET
March 25, 2026 | 5:00–5:50 PM ET
April 1, 2026 | 5:00–5:50 PM ET
April 8, 2026 | 5:00–5:50 PM ET
Free to attend. No registration required.
Zoom link:
https://austenriggs.zoom.us/j/94732641062

Senior members of our community will be invited to discuss a paper, present a case or give a lecture on a topic of their choice. Meetings will be held on an occasional basis and will take place either on zoom or in person. There is no cost to attend to this APM members-only group.

Our first event, “A Psychoanalytic Consultation,” with Bob Michels, MD

When outpatient therapy, hospitalization, PHP, IOP, or residential treatment has not led to lasting change, determining the next step can be difficult.
The Austen Riggs Center is an open therapeutic community specializing in intensive psychiatric treatment for adults with complex, often longstanding psychiatric conditions. This free, live online series offers an opportunity to learn more about our treatment model, who it is best suited for, and how the admissions process works.
These sessions, in which participants are invited to bring questions of interest to them to help shape the discussion, are designed to help individuals, families, and clinicians determine whether Riggs may be an appropriate next step.
Upcoming Dates
March 18, 2026 | 5:00–5:50 PM ET
March 25, 2026 | 5:00–5:50 PM ET
April 1, 2026 | 5:00–5:50 PM ET
April 8, 2026 | 5:00–5:50 PM ET
Free to attend. No registration required.
Zoom link:
https://austenriggs.zoom.us/j/94732641062

The term “trauma” is commonly used in everyday language and by clinicians who work from a variety of theoretical orientations. This presentation will clarify the psychoanalytic meanings of the term “trauma” and shed light on the intrapsychic effects of these events, in addition to exploring technical implications of these understandings. The presentation will include a case example from a child analytic treatment. This example will be used to highlight the clinical relevance of the concepts under discussion to work with children, adolescents, and adults.

About the Book
Winnicott’s Letter to Bion presents reflections on a fascinating moment in the history of psychoanalytic thinking.

Donald Winnicott’s letter, sent on October 5, 1967, and conveying thoughts about two of Wilfred Bion’s papers, never received a response. In this book, international contributors elaborate on the contents of the letter, overlapping and divergent projects of the two psychoanalysts, and the meaning of Bion’s silence. The chapters consider topics including the historical context of their work, their focuses on play and reverie, and the question of the sensuous.

Winnicott’s Letter to Bion will be of great interest to psychoanalysts in practice and in training, and to historians of psychoanalysis.