Moving From Grievance to Hope: Psychoanalytic Applications Transforming Destructive Aggression Toward Post-Traumatic Growth in the Social Milieu

Moving From Grievance to Hope
Saturday, February 15, 2025

from 9:00am – 1:00pm EST.

At ICP, 33 W 60th St, New York, NY 10023.

Check-In/ Lite Breakfast: 9:00AM – 9:30AM

Panel Discussion and Q&A: 9:30AM – 1:00PM

Approved for 3.5 NYS CE Credits!

We invite you to a compelling and timely event that promises to deepen our understanding of how to bridge psychoanalytic theory and clinical wisdom in addressing the widespread distress we face today. Explore how a psychoanalytic sensibility can foster meaningful change in our social landscape. This engaging panel presentation features three distinguished educator-clinicians who will share powerful case examples from their work, demonstrating how they guide groups from fear, rage, grief, and pain toward connection, healing, and repair.

Join Johanna Dobrich and Paul Teixeira, Co-Directors of the Psychoanalytic Program for a Q&A to follow. Don’t miss this opportunity to expand your awareness and contribute to a vital cause. Mark your calendars and be a part of this essential conversation.

About the Presenter: Dr. Nina Cerfolio, Dr. Gerard Fromm, Dr. Billie Pivnick

Dr. Nina E. Cerfolio, MD, is a board-certified psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, and Assistant Clinical Professor at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, with over 30 years of experience specializing in trauma, mass shootings, terrorism, anxiety, and depression. Combining traditional psychiatric training with over a decade of spiritual practice in mindfulness and meditation, she offers a holistic, collaborative approach to care, tailoring treatment to each patient’s unique needs. An internationally recognized expert, Dr. Cerfolio frequently shares insights through media appearances, speaking engagements, and her acclaimed book, Psychoanalytic and Spiritual Perspectives on Terrorism, which explores the roots of terrorism and paths to healing. Dedicated to relieving emotional suffering, she empowers patients to transcend life’s challenges and achieve emotional wellness.

Dr. Gerard Fromm, Ph.D., ABPP, is a psychoanalyst and Distinguished Faculty at the Erikson Institute of the Austen Riggs Center, where he spent much of his career as a psychotherapist and program leader. He directed the Therapeutic Community Program, fostering collaboration between patients and staff, and served as the first Evelyn Stefansson Nef Director of the Erikson Institute, promoting interdisciplinary dialogue and founding the International Dialogue Initiative, where he is now president. Dr. Fromm has held academic roles at Yale and Harvard and has published extensively.

Dr. Billie Pivnick, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist and psychoanalytic psychotherapist in Brooklyn, NY, specializing in treating children and families confronting difficulties with traumatic loss, including those that result from adoption and mass catastrophes. She is faculty and supervisor in the William Alanson White Institute Child/Adolescent Psychotherapy Training Program, the New Directions Program in Psychoanalytic Writing, Columbia University Teachers College Doctoral Clinical Psychology Program, and is former head of the Graduate Dance Therapy Program at Pratt Institute. Dr. Pivnck co-hosts the podcast Couched. Co-chair of APA Division 39’s Humanities and Psychoanalysis Committee and co-founder of The Community Collaboratory, Dr. Pivnick also serves as Consulting Psychologist to Thinc Design, collaborating on exhibitions like the National September 11 Memorial Museum. An award-winning author and editor, she has published extensively on psychoanalysis, trauma, and culture.

An important note about CEs: ICP is an approved provider of continuing education credits for social workers, mental health counselors, marriage and family therapists, and psychoanalysts through the New York Department of Education. If your license is from a different state, please contact your state’s licensing board to find out if they will accept CE credits from New York State. If your license is from another state, please enter your license number with your state in parenthesis, ie 54321 (CA).