Annual Conference 2025 - Caught in a Bad Romance

Caught in a Bad Romance: Attachment and Rupture in Intimate Relationships

Speakers

Galit Atlas, Ph.D.

Betty Teng, LCSW, MFA

Jackie Gotthold, Ph.D.

Clinical Presentation

Michael Perlman, MFA

Moderators

Allison Katz, LCSW

Michael Scheman, LP

4.5 CE Contact hours for APA, NYS Social Workers, Psychologists, and Licensed Psychoanalysts

NIP’s annual conference returns for the first time since 2020. This conference will explore the intricate relationship between love and hate, examining their profound and transformative impact on all modes of human experience, including our ability to maintain intimacy, form attachments, and navigate ruptures in intimate relationships.

Our three distinguished panelists will offer analytic insights into the dynamics of love and hate through an engaging blend of panel discussions, case studies, theoretical explorations, and interactive dialogue. Galit Atlas will explore how adult love, shaped by childhood wounds, is deeply rooted in early disorganized attachment and trauma. Betty Teng will share her own experience with ruptures as an analytic patient, reflecting on how rupture itself, with its complex interplay between love, loss and vulnerability, can present both a risk to treatment while simultaneously enriching the therapeutic experience. And Jackie Gotthold will examine her treatment with a parent and child, exploring how early experiences of intimacy impact the development of later relational encounters, including the intimacy between analyst and patient. These three discussions, centering on the treatment of a couple, an individual and a child, represent the ultimate psychoanalytic trifecta, offering a framework to explore how we can help patients feel secure enough to risk intimacy in a world increasingly shaped by binaries and dissociation.

This year’s conference also marks a fresh start in a new location, providing an invigorating setting for the exchange of ideas. Sessions will feature our three panelists presenting brief papers and engaging in a lively exchange with both one another and the audience, along with a moderated roundtable to further examine and expand upon those discussions. The event will conclude with a thought-provoking clinical presentation by Michael Perlman, a fourth-year candidate at NIP, followed by insightful commentary and audience interaction

Personalized CE certificates will be distributed at the end of this event. Due to New York State requirements, persons arriving more than 15 minutes late or leaving more than 15 minutes early will not receive a CE certificate.

Learning Objectives

I. Identify the impact of early disorganized attachment and relational trauma on adult romantic relationships and intimacy patterns.

II. Examine and identify the complex dynamics of rupture and repair in analytic therapy to improve our understanding and capacity to make use of the generative potential of rupture in clinical practice.

III. Understand and reflect on intimacy in its earliest moments and view these moments through the lens of a a dyadic, bi-directional, “self and self-with-other” interactive regulatory model; explore the impact of early experiences of intimacy (including the intimacy between analyst and patient) on the development of later relational encounters.

IV. Identify clinical strategies to help patients work through paranoid-schizoid relational patterns, enhancing their capacity for emotional ambivalence, engagement and intimacy.

Galit Atlas, Ph.D., is on the faculty at NYU Postdoc, NIP, and NTP. She is the author of three books, including the international bestseller Emotional Inheritance. Atlas serves on the editorial boards of Psychoanalytic Dialogues and Psychoanalytic Perspectives. She is a recipient of the André François Award, the NADTA Research Award, and the Gradiva Award.

Jackie Gotthold, Ph.D., is faculty supervisor, instructor, training analyst and Executive Committee member at IPSS in NYC. She has been faculty for various institutes in the US and abroad. A longtime member of the IAPSP, she established the Child and Adolescent Initiative at IAPSP and has served on its International Council. She is a member of IARPP and serves on its Child and Adolescent interest group. Jackie served as a board member of the APA’s Division 39, Section II (Child and Adolescent Psychoanalysis) for 15 years. Jackie continues to publish and present on child, adolescent and adult clinical theory.

Betty P. Teng, LCSW, MFA is a psychoanalyst and trauma therapist who works with survivors of war, sexual assault and domestic violence. On faculty at MIP, she is co-author of New York Times bestseller The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump, and a contributing essayist to Adam Phillips’s The Cure for Psychoanalysis, She recently co-edited Mind of State: Conversations on the Psychological Conflicts Stirring U.S. Politics and Society.

Michael Perlman, MFA, is a fourth year candidate at the National Institute for the Psychotherapies, where he’s served as co-chair of the Equity Advisory Committee and Equity Steering Committee, co-facilitator of the Candidate Council in Diversity and was one of the founding participants of Queer@NIP. Michael comes to psychoanalysis from a theater background, and as a GLAAD Media Award winning writer and director. He brings that unique perspective to his work as a Psychoanalyst, as he works with patients to understand their stories and the meanings behind them. Michael works with individuals from a variety of backgrounds, with particular interest in working with LGBTQ patients.

Continuing Education

The National Institute for the Psychotherapies is approved by the American Psychological Association to offer continuing education credits for psychologists. The National Institute for the Psychotherapies maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

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Personalized CE certificates will be distributed at the end of this event. Due to New York State requirements, persons arriving more than 15 minutes late or leaving more than 15 minutes early will not receive a CE certificate.

Refunds, & Cancellation Policy

Cancellation requests made more than a week prior to the event will be given a full refund of registration fees. Refunds will not be granted for cancellation requests made within a week of the first day of the event or for no-shows on any of the days event take place.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

NYC Seminar and Conference Center, 114 West 26th Street, New York, United States