Inna Rozentsvit

2013 – Current:

International School for Mental Health Practitioners (ISMHP, Ignatius University), Staten Island, NY

-Teaching Faculty Member. Taught the following courses: Psychoanalytic Technique (2015-2016; 2016-2017) Principles of Dream Interpretation (2013-2014)

Cultural Influences in Psychotherapeutic Work (2013-2014)

Psychoanalytic Diagnosis (2013-2014; 2014-2015)

Borderline Psychopathology (2013-2014) Transference and Countertransference (2014-2015)

-International Virtual Psychoanalytic/ Psychotherapeutic Training Program Coordinator. 2011 – Current:

ORI Academic Press (Imprint of the Object Relations Institute for Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis), NYC, and MindMendMedia, Inc., Forest Hills, NY

-Editor-in-Chief – of the psychoanalytic publishing company (ORI Academic Press), the trade book company (MindMend Publishing), and the peer-reviewed

multi-disciplinary (Library of Congress approved) on-line journal MindConsiliums.

2009 – Current:

Object Relations Institute for Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, NY, NY

Faculty profile: http://orinyc.org/Inna_Rozentsvit.html

-Teaching/Scientific Faculty Member. Taught the following courses:

Love Before First Sight – Parent-Child Bond as a Primer for Human Relationships (2011-2012; 2012-2013) Neurobiology for Psychotherapists and Psychoanalysts (2011-2012; 2012-2013)

Neurobiology for Psychoanalysts and Psychotherapists – through Neuropsychiatric Clinical Cases (2011-2012) Neurobiology and Brain Mapping for Psychotherapists and Psychoanalysts (2012-2013)

Neurobiology of Parent-Child Bonds and Child Development (2012-2013; 2013-2014)

Neuropsychoanalysis: Attachment Theory and neurobiology of Parent-Child Bonds and Child Development (2015-2016)

-Administrator, Registrar, Community Relations and Outreach Coordinator, Web Editor.

-Virtual Program Founder, Developer, and Administrator.

-Founder and Co-director of the Parent-Child Development and Neuropsychoanalysis Program.

The Summit School (specialized in education and mental health care of children with neuro-developmental disorders), Fresh Meadows, NY

Consultant and Neuro-psychoeducator. 2005 – Current:

Neurorecovery Solutions, Inc., Fresh Meadows, NY (a registered NYS domestic non-profit organization; DOS ID# 3146002)

-Founder and Neuropsychoeducator-

1. Educating the patients, their caregivers and their family members about neurological conditions they are suffering from and about various associating mental health issues these people suffer from, silently;
2. Researching available resources for people with chronic neurological conditions/ complications of general medical illness, and connect families to these

resources;

1. Organizing public speaking events and in teach courses/ workshops – to bring awareness about neurological and neuro-psychiatric illnesses;
2. Doing evaluations of neurologically impaired individuals’ medical condition and their caregivers’ needs;
3. Building teams of neurorehabilitation professionals for each particular family touched by neurological disability;
4. Educating medical professionals (non-neurologists) about neurological conditions, neurorehabilitative comprehensive approach, and follow-ups;
5. Communicating with medical, legal, and other professionals involved in care for neurological

 

1982-2004: Montefiore HMC, Jacobi HMC, North Central Bronx MC; Jack D. Weiler Hospital of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine; Beth Israel HMC, Hospital for

Joint Diseases/ New York University, Methodist HMC, NYC.

-Physician/General Medicine/Neurologist/Neurorehabilitation Specialist/Director of Initiative for Women with Disabilities (NYU) and Stroke Prevention Center (NYU)

1976-1982 – Stavropol State Medical Academy, Russian Federation (former USSR); medical training 1982-1984 – Kishinev State University, Moldova; PhD Program in Clinical Sciences

1986-1988 – Kishinev State University, Moldova; Neurology Specialization Training Program 1994-1998 – Albert Einstein College of Medicine, NY; Neurology Residency Program

1998-1999 – New York University, NY; Neurorehabilitation Fellowship

2004-2009 – Washington Square Institute for Mental Health, NY; Training in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis

2006-2008 – Colorado Technical University; Master’s in Business/ Healthcare Administration 2008-2010 – Brooklyn College, CUNY, NY; Master’s in Science Education Program

2009-2015 – Object Relations Institute for Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, NY; Training in Object Relations Clinical Theory and Psychoanalysis

IN THE FIELD OF PSYCHOANALYTIC PSYCHOTHERAPY AND PSYCHOANALYSIS (SELECTED COURSES):

• On Guilt, Conscience, Regret, and Reparation (ORI, 2015 Annual Conference)
• Wilfred Bion and His Contributions to Psychoanalytic Thinking (ORI, 2014-2015)
• Neo-Kleinian Thought (ORI, 2014-2015)
• Dream as Entre to Everything: Principles of Psychoanalytic Dream Interpretation (ORI, 2014-2015)
• Current Concepts in Object Relations Clinical Theory and Technique (ORI; 3 trimesters in 2014-2015)
• Neo-Freudian Thought and Psychoanalytic Technique (ORI, 2014-2015)
• Freud and Psychoanalytic Technique (ORI, 2012-2013)
• Narcissism and Narcissistic Personality Disorder (ORI, 2014-2015)
• Schizoid Personality and Schizoid Phenomena (ORI, 2012-2013)
• Borderline Personality Structure and Treatment (ORI, 2012-2013)
• Introduction to Object Relations Clinical Theory and Technique (ORI, 2011-2012; 2012-2013; 2013-2014)
• Donald Winnicott’s Contributions to Object Relations Theory and Technique (ORI, 2012-2013)
• Child’s Play and Its Role in Human Psychological Development (ORI, 2012-2013)
• Infant Research, Object Relations Clinical Theory and Human Development (ORI, 2011-2012)
• Current Concepts in Object Relations Clinical Thinking and Technique (ORI, 3 trimesters, 2013-2014)
• Neurosis and Oedipal Conflict (ORI, 2013-2014)
• Group Supervision/ Analyst as Instrument (ORI, 3 trimesters in 2011-2012; 3 trimesters in 2012-2013)
• Psychoanalytic Technique: Freud and Beyond (ORI, 2012-2013; 2015-2016)
• Freud as an Object Relations Theorist (ORI, 2012-2013)
• Advanced Dream Interpretation (ORI, 2012-2013; 2015-2016)
• Barriers to Success: The Object Relations View (ORI, 2011, workshop)
• Writings of Ronald Fairbairn, a Theoretical Founder of the Object Relations Theory (ORI, 2015-2016)
• Writings of Donald Winnicott (ORI, 2015-2016)
• The Theories of Melanie Klein (ORI, 2015-2016)

IN THE FIELD OF NEURO-PSYCHOEDUCATION & PSYCHOANALYSIS :2009 Annual Conference of the National Association for

Advancement of Psychoanalysis (NAAP) – in NYC. Individual workshop/ power-point presentation: Neurobiology of Destiny.

• 2010/ 41st Annual Northeastern Educational Research Association (NERA) conference: Building Research Partnerships – in Rocky Hill, Connecticut, October 20-22, 2010. Panel (with Victoria Grinman, Lisa Novemsky, Victoria Nunez, Barbara Rosenfeld, and Robinson Lilienthal): Ethics Across the Curriculum: Exploration by an Interdisciplinary Academic Community of Inquiry – Teaching Ethics and Socio‐Emotional Curriculum with a Diverse Learning
• 2012 Workshop: Neuropsychiatric syndromes: State of mind in chronic illness (Multiple sclerosis, Lupus, Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s disease, and others) at ORI,

March 2012.

• 2012 Workshop: How the brain tricks the mind – Alien hand syndrome, Tourette’s, Capgras, Cotard syndromes, and many more at ORI, May
• 2012/ 22nd Annual Interdisciplinary Conference of the International Forum of Psychoanalytic Education (IFPE): Sustainable Psychoanalysis: Embracing Our Future,

Preserving Our Past – in Portland (OR); November 2-4, 2012.

Panel (with Victoria Grinman, Esther Heitner, Natalie Riccio): Back to the Future of Psychoanalysis: From Neurology and Neuropathology – to Psychoanalysis, and Back to Neuroscience.

• 2013 /23rd Annual Interdisciplinary Conference of the International Forum of Psychoanalytic Education (IFPE): Transience and Permanence – in Philadelphia (PA);

October 31-November 2, 2013.

Panel (with Victoria Grinman, Esther Heitner, Natalie Riccio): Analytic Hour, Time Experiences, and Their Neurobiological Vicissitudes.

• 2012-2013 and 2013-2014 – Series of workshops at the NYSSCSW Committee for Creativity and Neurobiology: Reading Eric Kandel’s The Age of Insight: The

Quest to Understand the Unconscious in Art, Mind, and Brain – co-directed with Sandra Indig.

*1st workshop (4-14-2013): The Age of Insight by Eric R. Kandel: The First Two Chapters – Discovering Hidden Truths.

*2nd workshop (5-5-2013): Exploring Brain-Mind relationships, “brain-based” psychology, dynamic psychology, and search for inner meaning in art and

literature – Chapters 3-7.

*3rd workshop (6-2-2013): Exploring Brain-Mind relationships, (including the brain as a “creativity machine”), the “beholder’s share”, as well as representation of

psyche, eroticism, aggression, anxiety, and women sexuality in art – Chapters 8-12.

*4th workshop (11-17-2013): The depiction of the psyche in art and the fusion of aggression, anxiety, and eroticism in art (Chap. 9-10). Discovering the beholders

share (Chap. 11). Observation is also invention: brain as a creativity machine (Chap.12). The emergence of the 20th century painting (Chap.13).

*5th workshop (1-14-2014): Biology of the Beholder’s Visual Response to Art.

*6th workshop (3-30-2014): The Beholder’s Share: The Brain, the Mind, and the Visual & Emotional Perception.

• 2013-2014 – Series of four power-point presentations for Psychoanalysis, Arts, and Creativity (PAC) Working Group (http://www.psychartcreativity.org/): 1) The Beholder’s Share: The Brain, the Mind, and the Visual & Emotional Perception.2) Neurobiology for Psychoanalysts and Psychotherapists: Neuroplasticity, Neurogenesis, Neurointegration, Brain Laterality; Neuro-Economy, and Other Concepts.
• 2014 / 45th Annual NYSSCSW Educational Conference: Facing Impasses: Identification and Working Through – in New York, NY; May 10, 2014. Panel (with Victoria Grinman and Sandra Indig): Impasses and Neuropsychoeducation: Fringe Benefits for Clinical
• 2014/ XVIII Congress of the International Forum of Psychoanalytic Societies (IFPS) – in Kaunas, Lithuania; September 17-19,

Panel (with Victoria Grinman and Sandra Indig): The Post-Traumatic Growth: The Wisdom of the Mind; Its Clinical and Neuropsychoanalytic Vicissitudes

• 2014 Annual Congress of the International Psychohistorical Association – in NYC; June

Individual power-point presentation: Dreaming the Memories of Our Parents: Understanding Neurobiology of Transgenerational Trauma and the Capacities for Its Healing;

• 2015 (Winter) NSU Interdisciplinary Meeting of “Psychoanalysis in Our Time” Interdisciplinary Cycle: Psychoanalysis and Science – in Tallinn, Estonia; March 13-15, 2015.

Panel (with Victoria Grinman and Sandra Indig): Back to the Future of Psychoanalysis: From Neurology and Neuropathology – to Psychoanalysis – and Back to

Neuroscience.

• 2015 Winter Series at East European Institute of Psychoanalysis – in St. Petersburg, Russia; March 18, 2015. Power-point presentation: In Mind’s Great Economy, Nothing Goes to Waste: Neuroplasticity and Neurointegration as Tools for Post-traumatic Growth Phenomenon

 

• 2015 International Sandor Ferenczi Conference – in Toronto, Canada; May 7-10, Symposium/ panel (with Victoria Grinman and Sandra Indig): The

Post-Traumatic Growth: The Wisdom of the Mind; Its Clinical and Neuropsychoanalytic  Vicissitudes.

• 2015 International Psychohistorical Association Congress – in NYC, June 3-5, 2015. Panel (with Victoria Grinman and Sandra Indig): The Post-Traumatic Growth: The Wisdom of the Mind; Its Clinical and Neuropsychoanalytic Vicissitudes;
• 19th International Congress for Group Therapy and Group Process – in Rovinj, Croatia, August 30-September 5, 2015. Power-point presentation: In Mind’s

Great Economy, Nothing Goes to Waste: Neuroplasticity and Neurointegration as Tools for Post-traumatic Growth Phenomenon.

• 2015 /25th Annual Interdisciplinary Conference of the International Forum of Psychoanalytic Education (IFPE): Vulnerability and Its Discontents – in Philadel-

phia (PA); Panel (with Victoria Grinman and Sandra Indig): The Joy of Bing Vulnerable: Vulnerability’s Fringe Benefits for Clinical Practice and Creative Pro-

cess;      November 7, 2015.

• 2016 Interactive Workshop Series (of 3) at NYSSCSW/ ACE Foundation (with Victoria Grinman and Sandra Indig). Power-point presentation: In Mind’s Great

Economy, Nothing Goes to Waste: Neuroplasticity and Neurointegration as Tools for Post-traumatic Growth Phenomenon. February 2016.

• 2016 Presentation for Psychoanalytic Committee of NYSSCSW/ ACE Foundation: Love Before First Sight – Parent-Child Bond as a Primer for Human

Relationships; April 2016.

• 2016/ XIX Congress of the International Forum of Psychoanalytic Societies (IFPS), on Violence, Terror, and Terrorism Today: Psychoanalytic Perspectives – in

New York City, NY; May 2016. Panel (with Victoria Grinman and Sandra Indig): Vulnerability and Its Neuropsychoanalytic Vicissitudes in the Times of Terror,

Individual presentation: Dreaming the Memories of Our Parents: Understanding Neurobiology of Transgenerational Trauma and the Capacities for Its Healing

• 2016 International Psychohistorical Association Congress – in NYC, June 1-3,
  1. Panel (with Victoria Grinman and Sandra Indig): The Joy of Bing Vulnerable: Vulnerability’s Fringe Benefits for Clinical Practice and Creative
  2. Individual plenary presentation: Neuro-psychoanalysis and Neuro-hermeneutics: Integrative transdisciplinary methodology of meaning making
  3. Panel (with Dolores Brandon): They “Bore Witness”: From Sigmund Freud to Oliver Sacks, Or Metamorphoses of Clinical Neuropsychoanalytic Method

Selected essays for the National Association for Advancement of Psychoanalysis (NAAP) Newsletter:

1. Was Emily Dickinson a Neuroscientist? Neurobiology: How It Relates to Psychoanalysis and to Our Sense of Being a
2. The Neurobiological Basis of Thanksgiving, or Neuroscience of Giving and Receiving
3. Neurobiology of Generosity
4. Neuroscience of Empathy
5. Neurobiology, Creativity, Madness, and Their Vicissitudes
6. Neurobiology of Parenting: Love before First Sight
7. Not Guilty by Reason of Brain Damage? Neurobiological Underpinnings of Violence
8. Post-traumatic Growth Phenomenon and Its Neuropsychoanalytic Vicissitudes
9. The Beholders Share Phenomenon, Its Neurobiology and Clinical Application in Mental Health and Creative Practice
10. A Tribute to Oliver Sacks, a Human Phenomenon