THURSDAY FEB 16

SUSAN SCHEFTEL, PH.D.

WHY AREN'T WE CURIOUS ABOUT NANNIES?

Recent Winner of the American Psychoanalytic Association Karl Menninger Award

New Jersey Psychoanalytic is proud to present Susan Scheftel, Ph.D., Child Analyst, from Columbia Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research who will present her recent paper on the importance of nannies in child development, which she will elaborate on by providing a personal talk. Nannies have tended to be invisible in psychoanalytic developmental theory: the hope of this presentation is that we might all become more aware of their importance.

DISCUSSANT: NAT DONSON, MD

In addition, Nat Donson, MD, also from Columbia will provide a discussion on this important paper.

More details will follow in the future, but please if you are interested save the date.

Hackensack Medical Center
Hekemian Conference Rooms 1 & 2
Food and drink at 7:15pm. Presentation from 8:00 to 10:00pm

The conference is free and open to professionals and students.

For directions see Directions to the Meeting

Questions? E-mail Richard Reichbart, Ph.D. reichbart@earthlink.net

At Our Previous Meeting:

CAN YOU HEAR ME? CAN YOU SEE ME?

CAROLE ROSEN, MA, MSW, LCSW

Five years ago, a program was established principally through the work of psychoanalyst Elise Snyder, M.D., to help create and sustain a psychoanalytic community in China. Since then, tens of American psychoanalysts, as well as psychoanalysts from other countries, have been supervising, teaching, and treating Chinese candidates in psychoanalytic psychotherapy and psychoanalysis via the internet through Skype ( using a web camera). The program is called the Chinese American Psychoanalytic Alliance or “CAPA” and can be found at www.capachina.org where its history can be accessed. Analysts involved in the program are from APsA, IPA, CPPNJ, Freudian Society, IPTAR, William Alanson White, NPAP and other analytic societies. (There are almost 300 Western analysts who are members of CAPA and over 150 Chinese members.)

Abstract

Carole Rosen, MA, MSW, LCSW, a psychoanalyst who practices in New York City and who (unlike almost all the American psychoanalysts involved) speaks Mandarin, joined the CAPA program early on. She will present an analytic case conducted in Chinese, in which she will illustrate that many of the characteristics of an engaged analytic treatment – working with transference, countertransference, analysis of resistance and character defense -- can be observed in an internet treatment setting. She will discuss ways that an internet analysis may affect the patient, the analysis itself and the thinking of the analyst. In addition, she will offer some insight into contemporary Chinese culture, and discuss the analyst working in a different language , as well as American psychoanalysts working with Chinese patients.

Typical problematic situations involve markedly paranoid or self destructive patients, or those who tend to elicit special efforts from therapists. In such cases the therapist's empathy for and comfort in interpreting patients' aggressive feelings may determine the outcome of treatment. This presentation will use detailed clinical examples to discuss risk factors, the roles of projective identification and narcissism, and the provision of a secure treatment frame for both patient and therapist.

Carole Rosen, MSW, LCSW, is Supervising and Training Analyst at the National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis (NPAP). She specializes in cross-cultural psychoanalysis and has seen patients from India, Korea and Japan in addition to China. She is former Coordinator of Hunter College’s International English Language Institute’s Counseling Services. Her presentations and publications include “Chinese and American Cultural Differences and Treatment Implications” and “Special Issues in Working with a Bilingual Patient.” She conducts a private practice on the Upper West Side in New York City, where she sees individuals and couples.