September 11TH:
Psychoanalytic Reflections in the Second Year

Saturday, November 9 and Sunday, November 10, 2002
Schwartz Lecture Hall E, NYU Medical Center, New York City

= PROVISIONAL PROGRAM =
Saturday, November 9th

1:00 to 3:30 pm

Welcome and Opening Remarks: Donald Moss, MD (PANY)

The Destruction of Metaphor: Examining Structure and Meaning Among Responses to Extreme Violence -- Martha Bragin, PhD (IPTAR)

Clinical Work with Parents and Children After September 11th -- Susan Coates, PhD (Columbia Univ. Ctr. for Psa Training and Research), Daniel Schechter, MD, (Columbia Univ. Ctr. for Psa Training and Research) and Elsa First, MA (Columbia Univ. Ctr. for Psa Training and Research)

Changing Places: Thematic and Countertransferential Shifts in Working with Survivors of Both the 1998 African Embassy Bombings and the 2001 New York Terror Attacks -- A. Elizabeth Hirky, PhD (NYU Med. Ctr. and Bellevue Hospital) and Lauren I. Silverman, PhD (NYU Med. Ctr. and Bellevue Hospital)

Discussant: Gerald Fromm, PhD (Erikson Institute, Austen Riggs Center)

3:30 to 4:00 pm -- Break

4:00 to 5:30 pm

Tragedy and Technique: Stability When the Ground Shakes -- Barbara Stimmel, PhD (NY Freudian Society)

You're in This, Too! Psychoanalysis in a Time of Terror: The Effect of Terror on Transference, Countertransference and Technique -- Harriet Basseches, PhD (NY Freudian Society), Paula Ellman, PhD, ((NY Freudian Society), Susan Elmendorf, MSW (NY Freudian Society), and Nancy Goodman, PhD (NY Freudian Society)

Discussant: Ruth Stein, PhD (IPTAR, NYU)

----- Sunday, November 10th -----

10 am to 12:30 pm

In Pursuit of Safety: The Use of Reality in a Patient's Two Analyses -- Hattie Myers, PhD (IPTAR)

Trauma 9/11: PTSD or Reactivation of Earlier Disturbance? -- Helen Gediman, PhD (NY Freudian Society)

Nachtraglichkeit and Deferred Action of Memory: Two Concepts Reconsidered -- Joann Turo, MA (NY Freudian Society) and Laurie Wilson, PhD (PANY)

Recent Histology: The Tissue of Thought and Theories of Wound Revision -- Stuart Taylor, MD (APM) and Lila Kalinich, MD (APM)

Discussant: Alan Bass, PhD (IPTAR and NY Freudian Society)

12:30 to 1:30pm -- Lunch

1:30 to 2:15 pm

Three Photographs: Enactment, Working-Over, and Analyzing Shared Traumatic Experiences Following September 11th -- Donna Bassin, PhD (IPTAR)

Discussant: Donald Moss, MD (PANY)

2:15 to 4:30 pm

The Impact of September 11th, 2001 on Children -- Anna Balas, MD (NY Psa. Soc.) and Alicia Guttman, MD (Washington Psa. Soc.)

Severe Post-Partum Depression in a First-time Mother Following the WTC Attacks -- Miriam Pierce, CSW (IPTAR)

Terror, Persecution and Dread, Revisited -- Karen Komisar-Proner, MA (IPTAR)
Discussant: Leon Hoffman, MD (NY Psa. Soc.)

Concluding Remarks: Donald Moss, MD (PANY)

Program Committee

Anni Bergman, PhD, IPTAR
Rita Frankiel, PhD, The New York Freudian Society
Mimi Ismi, MD, Psychoanalytic Association of New York
Donald Moss, Psychoanalytic Association of New York
David Pollens, MD, New York Psychoanalytic Society
Stuart Taylor, MD, Association for Psychoanalytic Medicine