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SUMMARY:Annual Conference - When Objects Meet: Identifications and Intersections in the Consulting Room (Hybrid Event)
DESCRIPTION:Join us at Manhattanville University or by Zoom!\n5 CEs for most NY and CT licenses \n Conference Overview\nThis conference will focus on the intersection of therapist’s and patient’s subjective experiences. The wish to rescue and heal our parents is a widely recognized catalyst for choosing to become a therapist. However\, the ongoing presence in the treatment room of not only the patient’s but also the therapist’s internal objects\, a phenomenon that influences choice of theory\, therapeutic technique and specific interventions is so ubiquitous (or imagined to have been thoroughly analyzed) that the implications are not always well-enough examined or understood. \nDr. Steven Kuchuck has written and presented extensively on the topic of the therapist’s subjectivity. He will deliver a paper describing his work with a patient traumatized by toxic\, fragile objects in treatment with an analyst similarly impacted by parental fragility. He will consider a period of existential crisis for both parties in which events overlapped\, finality hovered\, and confusion enveloped the dyad. Senior analysts and discussants Hillary Grill\, LCSW\, and Rachel Sopher\, LCSW\, will help illuminate clinical and theoretical nuance and deepen the broader conversation. \nIn addition\, Dr. Kuchuck will respond to a paper presented by Cara Maniaci\, LCSW\, exploring the impact of idealizing transference in psychoanalytic action. Maniaci builds on the concept of idealization as a point of identification and desire\, and looks at how the resolution or mourning of an idealized transference between patient and analyst enables self-recognition. Her paper examines this process from various vantage points – using clinical material from her work with patients and drawing from her own experience as an analysand. \nClick here for full brochureRegistration link to attend IN-PERSONRegistration link to attend on ZOOM \n\nSpeaker Biographies\nDr. Steven Kuchuck is former Editor-in-Chief of Psychoanalytic Perspectives\, where he currently serves as Senior Consulting Editor; Past President of the International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy (IARPP); current Editor of Routledge’s Relational Perspectives Book Series; and faculty\, NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis\, NIP National Training Program\, and other institutes. His book\, The Relational Revolution in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy\, has been translated into numerous languages. He won the Gradiva Awards for best book of 2015 for Clinical Implications of the Psychoanalyst’s Life Experience and in 2016 for The Legacy of Sandor Ferenczi: From Ghost to Ancestor. His most recent book\, The Workbooks of Masud Khan: Diary of a Fallen Psychoanalyst (co-edited with Linda Hopkins)\, is published by Karnac Books. \nCara Maniaci\, MA\, LCSW\, is a 2026 graduate of the Advanced Program in Psychoanalysis at WCSPP. She has completed a two-year program in Relational Psychoanalysis at the Stephen Mitchell Center for Relational Studies. She is also a graduate of WCSPP’s Couples Therapy Training Program. Cara has written for The American Psychoanalyst and Psychoanalytic Quarterly. She is an active member of APsA’s President’s Commission on Artificial Intelligence. Cara has a private practice in Pleasantville\, NY\, working with adults\, adolescents and couples. \nHillary Grill\, LCSW\, is a psychoanalyst practicing in New York City. She is a supervisor\, faculty member and training analyst at the National Institute for the Psychotherapies and the Institute for Expressive Analysis. She is on the faculty and supervises at the Stephen Mitchell Relational Study Center. She writes and presents widely and is executive editor of the journal Psychoanalytic Perspectives. Areas of interest are the psychological aspects of women’s reproductive health\, contemporary family-making\, the impact of the socio-cultural environment on the individual and the genesis of creativity. \nRachel Sopher\, LCSW\, is Faculty and Supervisor\, National Institute for the Psychotherapies Training Institute (NIP); Faculty and Supervisor\, NIP’s National Training Program; and Faculty and Supervisor and on the Executive Committee of The Stephen Mitchell Relational Study Center. She is co-Editor with Amy Schwartz-Cooney of the collection Vitalization in Psychoanalysis and Senior Editor of Psychoanalytic Perspectives. She writes and presents on reaching nonverbal states and vitalizing interactions in the psychoanalytic encounter and maintains a private practice in New York City. \nModerator – Carter Thornton\, LCAT\, LP\, LPC\, is a Psychoanalyst and Creative Arts Therapist in private practice in New York. He is faculty and clinical supervisor at Institute for Expressive Analysis\, and is an instructor and co-chair of the film committee at the Westchester Center for the Study of Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy. He is also a Zen practitioner\, a working musician\, and a visual artist.
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SUMMARY:Bridging Mind and Brain: Using Neuroscience to Enhance Clinical Work with Complex Development Trauma (Hybrid Event)
DESCRIPTION:***Hybrid Event***  In-Person at the Hitchcock Presbyterian Church\, 6 Greenacres Avenue\, Scarsdale\, NY or Live on Zoom! \n2 CE Hours available for:\nNY Practitioners – LCSWs\, LMSWs\, LPs\, LMFTs\, LMHCs\, LCATs\, PHDs\, PSYDs \nThe Psychoanalytic Association of WCSPP Presents\nBridging Mind and Brain: Using Neuroscience to Enhance Clinical Work with Complex Development Trauma \nPresenter:\nJanet Bachant\, PhD \nComplex developmental trauma is not simply the result of adverse events. It develops through the ways children organize emotionally significant experiences using the biological and psychological capacities available to them at particular moments in development. These early organizations may become embedded in patterns of feeling\, expectation\, defense\, relatedness\, and behavior that continue to shape mental life long after the experiences themselves can be consciously remembered. \nThis presentation explores how findings from developmental neuroscience can deepen psychodynamic understanding of these processes without reducing psychological experience to brain function. Particular attention will be given to early brain development\, implicit memory\, fear systems\, sensitive periods\, and neural plasticity as they illuminate why some early experiences acquire disproportionate organizing power. The clinical question then becomes: How do we recognize early organization when the experience itself cannot be remembered? Clinical material will illustrate how emotional intensity\, repetitive patterns\, enactments\, language\, fantasy\, dreams\, and transference can provide access to enduring organizations established early in development. \nThrough clinical examples\, the presentation will examine how understanding the developmental roots of automatic patterns can help patients recognize the ways early solutions continue to organize present experience. The therapeutic aim is not to undo history\, but to increase the patient’s capacity to recognize\, understand\, and respond differently to patterns that once operated automatically. We cannot change what happened\, but we can change how what happened continues to organize the mind. \n\nRegistration link to attend IN-PERSONRegistration link to attend on ZOOM \n\nJanet Bachant\, PhD\, is a psychologist\, psychoanalyst\, author\, and educator who has taught and supervised in New York City and China for over 50 years. After September 11\, she founded and led the New York Disaster Counseling Coalition. She has authored numerous journal articles and two books: Exploring the Landscape of the Mind: An Introduction to Psychodynamic Therapy (2019) and (with Elliot Adler) Working in Depth: Framework and Flexibility in the Analytic Relationship (1998).  She is writing another book on complex developmental trauma.
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