Continuing Education in New York

An essential mission of NYFS is to provide a forum for the professional development of its members and candidates in an atmosphere of support and mutual respect. These values are made real through a vital spirit of inquiry and through stimulating interactive dialogue that contribute to our intellectual inheritance. Our Continuing Education programs are designed to promote this mission.



Programs for Training & Supervising Analysts

Jack Novick on "Supervising an Analysis in Termination"

Friday night, October 17th, 2008
7:00 to 8:30
Upper West Side location

Jack Novick will be supervising Vivian Eskin in the termination of a lengthy analysis and helping to transform this painful "ending" into a "Good Goodbye." Sometimes terminations that are decided upon "unilaterally" can be turned into something new and different.

A few seats remain. Please contact Susan Finkelstein at susanfcsw@aol.com if you would like to join this dynamic duo, and for the address.

Recommended reading:
Novick, J. & Novick, K.K. (2006). Good Goodbyes: Knowing How to End in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. New York: Jason Aronson.



IPA or Bust

Related to the Chicago 2009 IPA Conference on Convergences/Divergences, the 2008/2009 program for Training and Supervising Analysts will allow us to listen to analysts of different psychoanalytic persuasions. Joyce Slochower of NYU, Nasir Ilahi of PANY and the British Psychoanalytic, and our own Rogelio Sosnik, also of the Buenos Aires Psychoanalytic Association, will be our three Supervisors.

Each Supervisor will present two times. The first of the two presentations by each guest will be an evening of a theoretical description of what school of psychoanalysis he/she feels he practices, where the presenter sees him/herself theoretically within his/her own ideological school (ie "Middle School" of British Psychoanalytic, "Conservative School" of Relational Psychoanalysis) and how he/she believes this orientation differs from or is similar to Freudian Psychoanalysis. The second of the two meetings will be the supervision of a case, presented by one of our Training Analysts, that is stuck or at an impasse. Each supervisor will explain his/her own technique in attempting to shift this impasse.

Vivian Eskin will be our NYFS Training Analyst/Presenter to each Supervisor. Vivian will present the same case with the same process recording to each Supervisor. We hope to learn from each presentation how each supervisor from his/her own psychoanalytic school would handle differences in technique and theory in approaching clinical material.

Dates:

8:30 pm, Wednesday, October 15 and 22, 2008 - Rogelio Sosnik
8:00 pm, Wednesday, November 5 and 19, 2008 - Joyce Slochower
8:30 pm, Wednesday, January 21 and 28, 2009 - Nasir Ilahi

All meetings will take place at the home of Susan Finkelstein. Please call her for the Upper West Side address.



Case Conference: Difficult Issues with Analytic Patients
 
This is a four-times-a-year case conference open to NYFS members, as well as candidates in all of the training programs of our Institute. We have tried, we believe successfully, to develop a setting within which participants can feel free to present and talk about their analytic work. The discussion is collegial, not supervisory. The presentation of particularly difficult issues has been welcomed, and has led to many stimulating interchanges from which we have all learned. The format consists of the presentation of the process material of a patient in analysis, followed by a discussion of the material by the participants. The two co-leaders, Susan Finkelstein and Kate Oram, take turns acting as facilitators.

2006/2007 Schedule:

October 13, 2006: Vivian Eskin
January 12, 2007: Liz Fritsch
March 9, 2007: Deborah Gill
May 11, 2007: Marilyn Sande

From 2:30 - 3:00 we will socialize, and the case presentation and discussion will take place from 3:00 - 4:30.
We will meet on the Upper West Side. Please call for the address.
RSVP either Kate Oram (212-477-2018) or Susan Finkelstein (212-254-8501).
Space is limited. We look forward to seeing you there.



Seminar for Training Analysts

In the near future, a seminar for Training Analysts, covering topics such as termination, supervision and ethics, will be offered in both New York and Washington, DC.