The analytic gatherings were started by Dr. Sidney Phillips in 2000 to offer more in-depth exposure to psychoanalysis to Yale adult psychiatry residents, child fellows, medical students, and other mental health trainees and professionals. We meet monthly at the Institute on the third Thursday from July through May. We begin with a social get-together over light supper at 6:30 p.m., and the presentations go from 7:30 to 9:00 p.m. The gatherings are hybrid, so people can attend in person or on Zoom.
We invite nationally known and local psychoanalysts to present on relevant psychoanalytic topics. Analysts use clinical vignettes to illustrate and explain their subjects. Each meeting allows for rich discussion between the presenter and participants, with plenty of time for questions and comments. There is an overarching theme for each year, and each topic relates to it. One year, the theme was racism in psychoanalysis, where issues of race and intersectionality were explored in clinical work with children and adults. Another year, the theme was trauma, where we examined various forms of trauma, from war to sexual abuse and medical diagnosis. A recent theme was gender and sexuality, where topics ranged from transgender experience, feminism in psychoanalysis, erotic transference and countertransference, on becoming gay, and lesbians and pregnancy.
The gatherings are always co-led by Dr. Phillips and a psychiatry resident, and we invite suggestions on themes and topics for the gatherings. The atmosphere of our meetings is relaxed and comfortable and includes delicious food from Café Bravo, an outstanding, local, Italian restaurant. If you’d like to be on our emailing list, please contact Dr. Phillips at: sidney.phillips@yale.edu.We look forward to seeing you there.
Studies in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy
We are now welcoming psychiatric residents at the PGY-3 or above level to join our adult psychotherapy training program. We would also welcome clinical psychologists doing post-doctoral fellowships or graduate social workers doing fellowships to consider our training. The program consists of two years of didactic and clinical classes along with supervision by a Western New England graduate analyst. PGY-3 residents receiving supervision in their training program would not be eligible for additional supervision. For a complete description of the program, fees, and application, click here. For further information, please contact Dr. Jennifer Myer at: jennifermyermd@hotmail.com
Long-Term Supervision at Yale University School of Medicine
Many Western New England graduate analysts also have appointments at the Yale School of Medicine and participate in long-term supervision. Each resident and clinical psychology trainee carries one or more patients who are treated with psychodynamic psychotherapy. The supervisor typically works with the resident for the duration of the treatment.
