2026 Visiting Professor – Lynne Zeavin, Psy.D.

2026 Visiting Professor – Lynne Zeavin, Psy.D.

March 16, 2026 MPI

“The Elusive Good Object – Revisited”

Discussant: Dushyant Trivedi, M.D.

Light dinner at 6 pm, talk at 7 pm

Hybrid Presentation: 7:00 – 9:00 PM

A $60 fee for the event (in-person and virtual) must be paid at the time of reservation.

2 CME and CE Credit Hours are included in the fee.

Michigan Psychoanalytic Institute, 32841 Middlebelt Road, Farmington Hills

Or contact Melanie Schwab, mschwab@mpi-mps.org

Zoom meeting link will be emailed to the virtual participants after registration and payment is received.

About the presenter and discussant:

Dr. Lynne Zeavin is a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst in full-time practice in New York City, and a training and supervising analyst at the New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute, where she chairs the Curriculum. She is an Associate Editor at JAPA and has published on idealization, the status of the object, neutrality, interpretation and various aspects of Kleinian theory. She supervises widely from a contemporary Kleinian perspective. She is co-founder of the Rita Frankiel Memorial Fellowship funded by the Melanie Klein Trust and is a founder of Second Story, a non-institutional psychoanalytic space in New York City. A member of Green Gang, she participates on the IPA Climate Committee that studies aspects of the climate emergency. Dr. Zeavin is co-editor Hating, Abhorring and Wishing to Destroy: Psychoanalytic Essays on the Contemporary Moment and With Climate in Mind: Psychoanalysts on Climate Breakdown (2025), and currently co-editing a new collection on the abortion debate in the US and globally.

Dr. Trivedi is a graduate psychoanalyst in private practice of psychoanalysis, psychotherapy and psychiatry with adolescents and adults in Ann Arbor. He is a lecturer at the Michigan Psychoanalytic Institute and Adjunct Clinical Professor at the University of Michigan.

Practice Gap Need and Course Description: For clinicians, there is a common gap in differentiating idealization that supports early ego development from idealization that interferes with consolidation of a stable good object and obscures persecutory anxiety and split-off aggression in the transference. This activity addresses these gaps by translating Kleinian theory into clinical interpretation and technique. Learners will acquire strategies for recognizing persecutory anxiety beneath apparently positive transference, avoiding countertransference collusion, and formulating interpretations that facilitate integration of split-off affects. These skills support more effective analytic work with high-functioning patients whose symptoms emerge episodically, revealing vulnerabilities in the face of an elusive good object and ultimately improving treatment stability and depth. Dr. Zeavin will present, followed by discussion by Dr. Trivedi and an open question-and-answer period.

After attending this presentation, participants will be able to: 

1.     Analyze how idealization operates as a defensive process in the paranoid-schizoid position and differentiate it from the consolidation of a stable internal good object in clinical material.        

2.     Apply concepts of persecutory anxiety, splitting, and idealization to examine transference–countertransference dynamics and formulate interventions that promote movement toward depressive-position functioning.

 The views of the speakers do not necessarily represent the views of the Michigan Psychoanalytic Institute.

CONTINUING MEDICAL EDUCATION

ACCME Accreditation Statement

This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of American Psychoanalytic Association and Michigan Psychoanalytic Institute. The American Psychoanalytic Association is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

AMA Credit Designation Statement

The American Psychoanalytic Association designates this live activity for a maximum of 2 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Disclosure Statement

The APsA CE Committee has reviewed the materials for accredited continuing education and has determined that this activity is not related to the product line of ineligible companies and therefore, the activity meets the exception outlined in Standard 3: ACCME’s identification, mitigation and disclosure of relevant financial relationship. This activity does not have any known commercial support.

PSYCHOLOGISTS: The Michigan Psychoanalytic Institute is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The Michigan Psychoanalytic Institute maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

SOCIAL WORKERS:  This training/event has been approved by the NASW-Michigan Chapter for 2.0 CE credits.