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Sex and the Psyche

CMPS Annual Conference

Saturday. December 6. 2008

CMPS Annual Conference Saturday. December 6. 2008Lycée Français, 505 East 75th Street at York Avenue in New York City

Sex and the Psyche

Center for Modern Psychoanalytic Studies Annual Conference

Saturday. December 6. 2008 - 10 AM–5 PM■ Lycée Française, 505 East 75th Street at York Avenue in New York City ■

The conference will focus on gender and the latest thinking about itspsychic significance and is organized throughout to facilitate a discussionon what it means to be a man or a woman.

The day will include presentations by two female psychoanalysts followed by responses anddiscussion from four male analysts who are members of the faculties of the Center forModern Psychoanalytic Studies and the Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis.

Dr. Lucy Holmes will begin the day by presenting a new theory of female development basedon the triangulation of the female unconscious and the importance of internalized objectsfor women. Dr. Eugene Kalin will respond to her paper and Dr. Theodore Laquercia willmoderate a dialogue with the audience.

This year the Center faculty invites all conference participants to join us for lunch and a livelydialogue between the sexes in the spacious and comfortable Lycée cafeteria. A healthy anddelicious box lunch (see Registration form for choices) is included in the registration fee.

After the lunch break, Dr. Elisabeth Young-Bruehl will talk about recent shifts inpsychoanalytic theories about women and how they are being reflected in a socio-politicalway in the world. Dr. Siamak Movahedi will respond. Dr. Elliot Zeisel will facilitate a finaldiscussion with the audience.

Sex and the Psyche

Freud framed human development as male development, with women viewed as a“little man,” and he himself acknowledged that his phallo-centric theories of

femininity were “incomplete and fragmentary.” Later psychoanalysts attempted to addressthe integrity and uniqueness rather than the “difference” of female maturation anddevelopment. More recent writers have focused on the importance of the pre-Oedipal periodfor both women and men, and the use of drive theory to understand femininity.

Lucy Holmes, PhD,is a licensedpsychoanalyst inprivate practice inNew York City.She is a member ofthe faculty ofCMPS, the NewYork GraduateSchool of Psycho-analysis, and theCenter for GroupStudies. A formerPresident of theSociety of Modern

Psychoanalysts, she lectures widely on female developmentand the technique of modern group. She is the author ofnumerous journal articles on women and groups, and awinner of the 2002 NAAP Gradiva Award for her article“The Object Within: Childbirth as a DevelopmentalMilestone.” Her first book The Internal Triangle: NewTheories of Female Development appeared this year.

Masculine and Feminine:Differentiation and Integration

Dr. Holmes will present an hypothesis of female develop-ment using Freud’s drive theory to look at the female per-sonality and femininity. She will demonstrate how girlsuse the introjection of parental figures much in the waythat boys utilize the penis: to separate from powerful earlyobjects and to gain control. An internal triangle of mater-nal imago, paternal imago and self is unique to femaledevelopment and is a dynamic that facilitates the quali-ties, both positive and negative, that we associate with

femininity. After this exploration of femaledevelopment, Dr. Holmes will argue for

an integration of masculine andfeminine, not only in the individual

psyches of analyst and patient,but also in the profession of

psychoanalysis itself. Explora-tions of the differences betweenmen and women often deni-grate one sex or the other andprevent the integration ofmasculine and feminine ten-dencies in the unconscious,which can promote growth

and maturation in both sexes.

Sex and the PsychePresenters

Elisabeth Young-Bruehl, PhD,is a member of theToronto Psycho-analytic Societyand the ColumbiaCenter for Psycho-analyitic Trainingand Research,and a practicinganalyst inManhattan.Dr. Young-Bruehlis the author ofmany books,including the biographies of Hannah Arendt and AnnaFreud, “Creative Characters,” and “The Anatomy ofPrejudices.” She has contributed to numerous essaycollections since 1985 and is the editor of an anthologyof Freud’s papers on female psychology, “Freud onWomen.” She is a founding editor of the journal Studiesin Gender and Sexuality.

Women and Children First!

This lecture will be located on the boundary—a veryporous boundary—between psychoanalysis and socio-political theory. Dr. Young Bruehl will compare somerecent shifts in psychoanalytic theory of femaledevelopment and early childhood attachments withsome recent developments in the world that havebeen prompted by socio-political theories and alsoregistered in them. For examples, she will be talkingabout the theories underpinning the Grameen Bank’smicrocredit program, which is largely directed atwomen entrepreneurs, and the reasons for the WorldHealth Organization’s recent policy shift towardprioritizing maternal health, prenatal care, and earlychildhood health. Her assumptionis that the globalizinghistorical moment we arein, which unites peoplearound the world in acommon sense of bothperil and possibility, iscalling forth ways ofthinking that are new,including new ways of thinkingabout women and children.

Morning Session

9:00-9:45 Registration

9:45-10:00 Welcome and introduction of speaker, Sara Sheftel, PhD

10:00 – 10:45 Lucy Holmes, PhD, Masculine and Feminine: Differentiation and Integration

10:45 – 11:05 Gene Kalin, PhD responds

11:05 – 12:15 Audience discussion led by Ted Laquercia, PhD

12:15 – 2:15 Boxed Lunch in Lycée cafeteria (see Registration information)

Afternoon Session

2:15 – 2:30 Presentation of the Phyllis W. Meadow Awards to four recipients by Journal editors,June Bernstein, PhD, and Ron Okuaki Lieber, MFA

2:30 – 2:45 Announcements and introduction of speaker, Lucy Holmes, PhD, Conference Chair

2:45 – 3:30 Elisabeth Young-Bruehl, PhD, Women and Children First!

3:30 – 3:50 Siamak Movahedi, PhD, responds

3:50 – 5:00 Audience discussion led by Elliot Zeisel, PhD

Sex and the Psyche

Conference Program

Saturday, December 6

Case PresentationsFriday Night, December 5. 2008 in the CMPS Great Hall, 7:30-9:00PMIn conjunction with the conference, the Center is hosting a night of case presentations by students in theCMPS Certificate Training Program. Drs. Lucy Holmes and Elisabeth Young-Bruehl will lead the discussion.Cases to be presented for discussion: “Fear of Falling and the Self-Holding Defense in a SchizoaffectiveWoman,” presented by Nicholas Ganoudis; “Don’t You See I’m Pregnant?” presented by Jennifer Lieber.

No charge for conference registrants. $10 for non-registrants. R.S.V.P.: 212.260.7050.

Eugene Kalin, PhD, is a licensed psy-choanalyst and marriage and familytherapist in New York City and GreatNeck, Long Island. He is a trainingand supervising analyst and facultymember at CMPS where he serves onthe President’s council and hasserved in numerous capacities atother analytic institutes. Author ofnumerous psychoanalytic papers,Dr. Kalin is a member of the Societyof Modern Psychoanalysts and the American Association ofMarriage and Family Therapists.

Siamak Movahedi, PhD, is a train-ing and supervisory analyst and theDirector of the Institute for theStudy of Psychoanalysis and Cultureat the Boston Graduate School ofPsychoanalysis. He is Professor ofSociology at the University of Mas-sachusetts, Boston and author ofnumerous articles which have ap-peared in American Imago, AmericanPsychologist, Contemporary Psycho-analysis, Journal of the American Psychoanalytical Association,Modern Psychoanalysis, and The American Sociological Review.

Theodore Laquercia, PhD, is thePresident of the Society of ModernPsychoanalysts (SMP), Professor atBGSP and Training and SupervisingAnalyst at CMPS and BGSP. He is anAdministrative Director of CMPSand a member of the CMPS Boardof Trustees. He has organized andled professional meetings in Europeand the US and recently presented apaper on the Training Analysis atTrinity College in Dublin, Ireland. Dr. Laqerica is a NYSlicensed psychoanalyst in New York and Boston, MA.

Elliot Zeisel, PhD is a licensedpsychoanalyst. He is a Fellow ofthe American Group PsychotherapyAssociation and has served on theAGPA Board. Currently, he is Vice-Chair of the AGPA’s FoundationBoard. Dr. Zeisel is a Founder ofthe Center for Group Studies anda faculty member and traininganalyst at the Center for ModernPsychoanalytic Studies, where heserves as the Director of the Group Department. He haslectured on group therapy, both nationally and abroad.

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