The Edith Laufer Neuropsychoanalytic Clinical Study Center

Instructors:
Part I:
Steven Yagerman
Peter Zimmermann
Lee Jenkins
Lillesol Kane

Part II:
Tine Pahl
Jennifer Harper
Christian Churchill
Stephaine Teitelbaum

Moderator/Instructor:
Elizabeth Singer, LP

Saturday – Sunday:
May 17, 2025 & May 18, 2025
10am – 2:30pm (each day)

Live Online via Zoom (registration is required in order to receive the zoom link)
In-Person (limited capacity)

Registration will close
Friday, May 16 at 1pm

YOU WILL RECEIVE THE ZOOM LINK
BETWEEN 1PM AND 2PM
ON FRIDAY, MAY 16

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The frequency of psychoanalysis is a debated topic in the field of psychology. What is the role of frequency in psychoanalytic treatment and training today? What determines what psychoanalysis is, and how does frequency contribute to it? Should the question of frequency of sessions be set, as it is now, by the individual institutes or a governing board for psychoanalysis, or other criteria, like the needs of patients and trainees? The panelists of this course will debate the rationale and theoretical orientation behind the frequency of psychoanalysis in their training programs. With the prevalence of online therapy and diverse treatment approaches to mental healthcare, the question arises of how psychoanalysis can remain relevant in a fast-changing clinical setting.

Learning Objectives: After attending the presentation, participants will be able to
– Describe different approaches to the value of frequency of sessions in psychoanalytic treatment.
– Discuss whether frequency impacts transference, dream analysis, symbolic meaning, countertransference, and outcome of treatment.
– Discuss how a theoretical application determines the frequency of sessions in treatment.

Note: This course does not provide instruction on how to use psychedelics, provide instruction or training on how to be a psychedelic therapist, or will discuss the use of psychedelics outside of academic clinical research and the history of psychedelics. Most psychedelic drugs are federally identified as Schedule 1 and will be referenced only regarding FDA clinical trials.

Open to:
NPAP Members I $250
Candidates I $250 (register as usual for coursework)
Other Professionals I $285
Student Guest Rate I $125 (Inquiries: [email protected])
Contribution I Encouraged

9.0 CE contact hours will be granted to participants with documented attendance and complete evaluation form. It is the responsibility of the participants seeking CE credits to comply with these requirements. Upon completion, a Certificate of Attendance will be emailed to all participants.

Bios:
Christian J. Churchill, PhD, LP, FIPA, is a member of Contemporary Freudian Society, served at CFS NY as: fellowship director. Board member, director of the psycho¬analytic training institute, director of the LP program, and Vice President. A sociolo¬gist (PhD Brandeis 2000); he held a tenured full professor position at St. Thomas Aquinas College (2001-2019; former visit¬ing assistant professor of sociology at Williams College. Author, peer reviewed articles in sociology and psychoanalysis; co¬authored The Enigmatic Academy: Class, Bureaucracy, and Religion in American Education (Temple 2012). Private Practice, New York, NY.

Jennifer R. Harper, LP, MDiv, NCPsyA, is Chair of the Board of Trustees of the American Board for Accreditation in Psychoanalysis; Director of the Interfaith Doctor of Ministry Program at Hebrew Union College – Jewish Institute of Religion, teaches clinical education and pastoral care for clerical and non-clerical care providers; faculty member and supervisor with the Blanton-Peale Institutes for Religion and Health; Past President, National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis; M.Div. in Psychiatry and Religion, Union Theological Seminary; Certificate in Psychoanalysis, Westchester Institute for Training in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy. Private Practice, New York, NY, and Tenafly, NJ.

Lee Jenkins, PhD, LP, is Professor Emeritus of English at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY, a poet, novelist, and psychoanalyst. He has a PhD in English and Comparative Literature from Columbia University. He received his psychoanalytic training from the National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis (NPAP). He has served as an instructor, supervisor, and training analyst at Blanton-Peale Institute, the Harlem Family Psychoanalytic Institute, and NPAP. He is the author of Faulkner and Black-White Relations: A Psychoanalytic Approach (Columbia University Press, 1981); a first book of poems,
Persistence of Memory (Aegina Press, 1996); a novel, Right of Passage (Sphinx Books, 2018); a second book of poems, Consolation (IPBooks. 2021); and articles on race and psychoanalysis. Private Practice, New York, NY.

Lillesol Kane, PhD, NCPsyA is a nationally certified psychoanalyst; degrees are from the Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis-NJ, Johns Hopkins, Brown and the University of Sydney, Australia; member of the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis and the Society of Modern Psychoanalysts; faculty member at the Academy of Clinical and Applied Psychoanalysis in Livingston, NJ. Private Practice, Morristown, NJ, and New York, NY.

Kerstin “Tine” Pahl, PhD, LP, is a graduate, member, faculty at NPAP; an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the NYU Grossman School of Medicine, NYU Langone Health, and a Research Scientist in the Division of Social Solutions and Services Research at the Nathan S. Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research (NKI); BA in Psychology from the Free University of Berlin; PhD in Developmental Psychology from New York University; a Standing Member of the Community Influences on Health Behavior Study Section for the NIH Center for Scientific Review.

Elizabeth C. Singer, LP, is a graduate and member of NPAP in New York, and Center for Object Relations in Seattle. She has served as faculty, supervisor, training analyst and board member at NPAP. She holds an MFA from Southern Methodist University in Acting. Her fiction has appeared in IFPE’s Otherwise and her book reviews in Psychoanalytic Review. Private Practice, New York, NY.

Stefanie Teitelbaum, LCSW, is a Graduate of NPAP; a member, supervisor; training analyst, and faculty member at NPAP, IEA, and ORI; Advisory Board of the Psychoanalytic Review; past staff psychotherapist at the Lower Eastside Service Drug-Free Out-Patient Program; author, on topics such as drive and instinct theory, and mourning. Private Practice, New York, NY.

Steven Jay Yagerman, LP, D.Min, is a graduate, member, faculty member, board member (treasurer) at NPAP; Graduate of Dr. of Ministry in pastoral counseling from Hebrew Union College; former Rector (1993-2024); author, on paper with a focus on the analyst; Private Practice, New York, NY.

Peter Zimmermann, PhD, LP, is Former President of the Training Institute of NPAP (2016-2021), and Member of the Board of Directors of NPAP (2012 – 2025). Senior Member, Training and Supervising Analyst and Faculty Member at NPAP. Founding Member and Member of the Board of Directors of TRISP, The Training and Research in Intersubjective Self Psychology Foundation; Senior Faculty, Training and Supervising Analyst at TRISP. Member of the Editorial Board of The Psychoanalytic Review. Co-editor and contributing author of Intersubjective Self Psychology, A Primer (Routledge 2019). Author of papers on self psychology, the theory of intersubjectivity, including an intersubjective, self psychological formulation of depression and its treatment. Private Practice, New York, NY.

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