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Scientific Programs

Tuesday, March 16, 2010
8:30 – 10:00 pm
Mt. Sinai Medical Center, Hatch Auditorium
Madison Ave & 100th Street

Admission is free. No reservations are required.


The Anna Freud Lecture

The Trauma of Actualized Unconscious Phantasies:
Internal and External Fields of Reference

Presenter: Maurice Apprey, PhD, FIPA

In his Anna Freud Lecture, Dr. Apprey will address how external fields of reference and internal fields of reference to trauma gather into the public space of the psychoanalytic relationship - a decidedly intersubjective field where humans reconstitute the way they situate themselves in the world. He will provide clinical examples from both child and adult cases in order to address the topic of this year's scientific meetings - The Impact of Trauma: The Mind in Times of Social Violence and Social Change.

Maurice Apprey, PhD, FIPA, Professor of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences at the University Of Virginia School of Medicine, studied under Anna Freud at the Hampstead Clinic/Anna Freud Centre in London, where he completed his child and adolescent psychoanalytic training in 1979. His subsequent training in adult psychoanalysis was completed at the Psychoanalytic Training Institute of NYFS, where he is a supervising and training analyst. He is certified by the Board of Professional Standards of the American Psychoanalytic Association as both a child and adult psychoanalyst. He is an IPA supervising analyst for candidates in Turkey. Alongside his psychoanalytic training, Dr. Apprey studied the Continental philosophies of Edmund Husserl, Georges Politzer, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Gaston Bachelard and others for his PhD, under the American phenomenological psychological researcher Amedeo P. Giorgi. For his doctoral degree in Management at Case Western Reserve University he studied social change management. Dr. Apprey is the author of Intersubjectivity, Projective Identification and Otherness (Duquesne University Press) and the English language translator of George Politzer's Critique des Fondements de la Psychologie (Critique of the Foundations of Psychology: The Psychology of Psychoanalysis, Duquesne University Press).

The Anna Freud Lecture Program Committee
Katharine Rees, Chair; Kimberly Kleinman

flyer : NYFS-NY Scientific Program 3/16/2010 (PDF:46KB)

Tuesday Evening Presentations
8:30–10:00 pm
Location: TBA

Admission is free. No reservations are required.

The Impact of Trauma: The Mind in Times of Social Violence and Social Change

This year's Scientific Meetings focus on the psychological consequences of social disruption and social violence, a topic especially relevant in these times of economic hardship and political upheaval.

These meetings will provide a forum to study how psychoanalytic thinking contributes to the understanding and to the work of psychological and sociological repair of traumatized individuals and communities. We look forward to having an active dialogue with the audience.


Tuesday, October 20, 2009
The Impact of Waiting, Not Knowing and Knowing: When a Parent is Deployed
Presenter:Vivian Eskin, PhD
Discussant:Nancy Heather Wolf, LCSW

Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Listening to Children Under Siege: Reflections on the Problem of Resilience
Presenter: Elsa First, MA, LP
Discussant: Rogelio Sosnik, MD, LP

Tuesday, March 16, 2010
The Anna Freud Lecture
The Trauma of Actualized Unconscious Phantasies:
Internal and External Fields of Reference
Presenter: Maurice Apprey, PhD, FIPA

Tuesday, April 20, 2010
Picturing the Implicit Realm: The Art of Adult Survivors as a Window into the Trauma Response and its Treatment
Presenter: Ani Buk, MFA, MA, LP, LCAT
Discussant: Laurie Wilson, PhD, LP

flyer : NYFS-NY Scientific Programs 2009-2010 (PDF:45KB)

NYFS-NY Scientific Program Committee
Christa Balzert, Rogelio Sosnik and Nancy Wolf