NYU Psychoanalytic Institute
Twenty-Fifth Annual Maurice R. Friend Lecture
Thursday, September 29, 2005, 8:30 pm
Schwartz Lecture Hall "F", NYU Medical Center, 530 First Avenue, Manhattan

Infant Research and Treatment
Beatrice Beebe, Ph.D.
Introduction by Theodore Jacobs, M.D.

Dr. Beebe will present material based on infant-mother observation drawn from 30 years of research. With the aid of original research films that provide insight into interactive and self-regulation processes, current relational developmental theory will be discussed. She will also present a mother-infant treatment case, with video illustration.

Dr. Beebe, a psychoanalyst and infant researcher, directs a program of basic Parent-Infant Research at the Dept. of Communications Sciences, New York State Psychiatric Institute, Columbia University. She is a Clinical Professor in the Department of Psychiatry, New York State Psychiatric Institute, Columbia University. She is a faculty member of the Columbia Psychoanalytic Center, the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, and the Institute for the Study of Subjectivity.

The lecture is presented in memory of Dr. Maurice R. Friend, former Director of NYU Psychoanalytic Institute and Chair of the Child and Adolescent Division, who died in 1981.

NYU Psychoanalytic Institute
Twenty-Fifth Annual Maurice R. Friend Lecture
Thursday, September 29, 2005, 8:30 pm
Schwartz Lecture Hall "F", NYU Medical Center, 530 First Avenue, Manhattan

Analyzing Disavowed Action: The Fundamental Resistance of Analysis

Henry F. Smith, MD

Dr. Smith is the Editor of The Psychoanalytic Quarterly and a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Psychoanalytic Institute of New England, East (PINE).

Educational Objective

Dr. Smith will present several detailed analytic hours to illustrate the way patients use the analyst's words to gratify the very wishes they are analyzing, and in so doing disavow the work of analysis. These actualizations are themselves disavowed in the apparent pursuit of analytic understanding. The painful task for both analyst and patient is to interpret this process as it is occurring, moment by moment, in the real time of the hour.