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Working with Infertility Patients through a Psychoanalytic Lens - Golzar Naghshineh, MS, LP, CGP, and Nancy Kaufman, LCSW, LP (Webinar live online)
2025 Grand Rounds Series
While addressing behavioral needs and surface level fears and anxieties is crucial in helping patients who struggle with infertility, it is also crucial that we help patients process their deeper unconscious (and often conflicting) feelings around treatment, failure, loss, inadequacy, and successful pregnancy. This presentation will address (i) the important role the unconscious plays in infertility patients’ mental health (and how the therapy needs to be a safe place for the patient to say everything without restraint); (ii) new theories that explore how infertility, Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART) and loss impact the psyche of this specific population; (iii) the role transference and countertransference play in helping our patients explore all of their feelings around ART and how the therapist can be helped to tolerate those feelings. Case presentation will be used to illustrate seven psychoanalytic concepts in practice with ART patients.
Target Audience
______ Introductory __X____ Intermediate ______ Advanced
Learning Objectives
- List three psychoanalytic concepts that can apply to ART patients.
- Demonstrate three ways psychoanalytic theory can be implemented in practice with ART patients.
- Identify three ways that countertransference feelings can interfere in the treatment of ART patients.
Golzar Selbe Naghshineh, MS, LP, CGP, is a training and supervising licensed psychoanalyst and certified group psychotherapist licensed in New York and New Jersey. Naghshineh has special expertise in reproductive and maternal mental health. She developed NAPS – an integrative mental health program for OBGYN offices and fertility clinics – that launched in 2014 at the renowned Downtown Women OBGYN practice in New York City. She partners with fertility clinics to provide group therapy treatment to their IVF patients.
Naghshineh completed her psychoanalytic training at the Center for Modern Psychoanalytic Studies and her group psychotherapy training at the Center for Group Studies. She also attended the Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis for her doctorate in Psychoanalysis (ABD), where her in-progress dissertation examines the impact of online, virtual and hybrid psychoanalytic group therapy models. Naghshineh also holds a master’s degree in Nonprofit Management from the New School University. Naghshineh has presented at American Psychoanalytic Association (APsA), International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA), Jones Foundation Infertility Counseling Conference (JFICC), Society for Psychotherapy Research (SPR), and the American Group Psychotherapy Association (AGPA). She has a forthcoming article in the journal Studies in Gender and Sexuality on Psychoanalytic Considerations on the Impact of Infertility, IVF, and the Politicization of Pregnancy on the Psyche.
Nancy Kaufman, LCSW, LP, is a licensed clinical social worker and training psychoanalyst in private practice for over 35 years working with individuals / couples / groups dealing with infertility and parenting after infertility. She graduated from Columbia University School of Social Work in 1979 and completed her analytic training at the Center for Modern Psychoanalytic Studies in 1992, serving on the faculty and as a training fellow. For the past 25 years, she has led the Third Party Parenting Network (TPPN), a group for those pursuing donor assisted reproduction with an emphasis on issues related to disclosure.
She speaks frequently on this topic and has presented at American Society for Reproductive Medicine (ASRM), American Psychoanalytic Association (APsA), The International Psychoanalytic Association (IPA), Women’s Mental Health Consortium (WMHC), Jones Foundation Infertility Counseling Conference (JFICC) among others. In addition to her published articles in Modern Psychoanalysis and Fertility Counseling: Clinical Guide and Case Studies, her research has been published in Human Reproduction. Her latest research, "Secrets and Lies: What Donor Conceived People Really Feel about their Disclosure Experience" is expected to be published this year. She is licensed in NY, NJ, CT, and VA.
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Available Credit
- 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
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- 1.00 APA
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