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The Institute of Contemporary Psychotherapy & Psychoanalysis
presents
A Series of Short Courses: An Integration of Neuroscience, Mind -Body Principles
and Self & Relational Psychotherapies
ICP&P office and other Northwest Washington locations
Selected Fridays October 14 – December 16, 2011 from 11:45 – 3:00pm

Series Description: This series consists of seven independent short courses, each lasting three hours and incorporating three different components: 1) a didactic component consisting of a review of relevant theory and research; 2) a case study; and 3) a guided experiential component. The purpose of the case study and experiential component is to enhance participants’ ability to translate the concepts they are learning in the seminars directly into their clinical practices. Throughout these seven courses, an integrated model will be employed drawing together, when appropriate, mind-body principles, contemporary dynamic theories and neuroscience. Because they enhance one another, we recommend that participants take as many courses in this series as possible. Readings will be sent to participants upon registration.

Series Instructors: Jean Gearon, PhD; Bill Harman, PhD; Kate Kelly; Faith Lewis, MSW; Karen Schachter, MSW; and Stephen R. Stein, PhD.

Maximum Enrollment: Ten

Each short course offers 3.0 CE credits – The Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy & Psychoanalysis (ICP&P) maintains responsibility for this program and its content. ICP&P is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. ICP&P is approved by the Maryland Board of Social Work Examiners to offer Category I continuing education credit. Because ICP&P has approval from the Maryland Board, CE credits hours awarded by ICP&P may also be claimed by social workers licensed in Virginia and the District of Columbia. These continuing education credits meet the ANCC approval standards for nurses and the approved standards for marriage & family therapists. Attendees from the above professional groups will earn 3.0 CE credits for attending the conference. Full attendance is required to receive the designated CE credit. ICP&P is accredited by MedChi, the Maryland State Medical Society to provide continuing medical education for physicians. ICP&P designates this educational activity for a maximum of 3.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)Ô. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

COURSE ONE: OVERVIEW OF THE PROGRAM AND RATIONALE FOR AN INTEGRATED MODEL:
Date: October 14, 2011
Instructors: Faith Lewis, MSW and Stephen R. Stein, PhD
Brief Summary: The evolution of psychodynamic theory, beginning with Freudian psychoanalysis, moving to object relations theory, self psychology, relational theories, and other contemporary influences will be briefly discussed. The centrality of attachment theory and inter-subjectivity in the healing process, and how these concepts relate to the theories previously discussed, and to mind-body principles and neuroscience, will be articulated. The provision of selfobject experiences and selfobject transferences will also be discussed in relation to limbic revision and neuro-plasticity.

COURSE TWO: THE CENTRAL CONCEPTS OF NEUROSCIENCE THAT RELATE TO PSYCHOTHERAPY
OCTOBER 21, 2011
Instructors: Stephen R. Stein, PhD & Jean Gearon, PhD

Brief Summary: This section will focus upon some central concepts in neural science that affect the treatment process. The importance of neural integration in therapy and psychological well-being will be discussed. The parts of the brain that play crucial roles in neural integration will be reviewed, including the neocortical and limbic systems, brain stem and left brain-right brain functioning. The didactic component will also focus on: 1) an interpersonal theory of neural development, which sculpts the brain, 2) the effects of stress in relation to neural functioning, behavior and psychological well-being, and 3) the impact of therapy upon neural integration, limbic revision and executive brain functioning to promote neural plasticity.

COURSE THREE: MIND-BODY PRINCIPLES AND TECHNIQUES
OCTOBER 28, 2011
INSTRUCTORS: Stephen R. Stein, PhD and Karen Schachter, MSW

Brief Summary: This seminar will focus upon an operational definition and discussion of mind/body strategies such as hypnosis, guided imagery, mindfulness and meditation. The principles that provide the underlying foundation for the use of mind-body practice and the structural components that serve to deepen the trance experience and to create altered and heightened states of consciousness will be identified. The application of these therapeutic strategies to the clinical encounter will be discussed as well.

COURSE FOUR: MINDFULNESS AND PSYCHOTHERAPY
NOVEMBER 4, 2011
Instructor: Bill Harman, PhD

Brief Summary: This seminar will define mindfulness, and describe how it can be helpful to the therapist, the patient and the therapeutic relationship. Additionally, this seminar will review the empirical evidence supporting the positive benefits of mindfulness and will help you to integrate its use into your psychotherapy practice.

Course Five: THE INTEGRATED MODEL AND HOW TO USE IT TO PROMOTE HEALING
NOVEMBER 18, 2011
Instructors: Faith Lewis, MSW and Stephen Stein, PhD

Brief Summary: During this didactic component, the convergence of contemporary psychodynamic theory with modern neuroscience will be highlighted. Specifically, we will explore these concepts — mirror neurons, empathy, selfobject experiences and transferences, implicit relational knowing — and how each of these represent the integration of contemporary psychotherapy with neuroscience. The ideas of mindsight, wise mind, limbic revision and resonance will be reviewed. We will also discuss how specific induction content/focus (i.e., relaxation, vitalization, health, body image) relates and influences clients’ inter-subjective experience and intra-subjective reality.

COURSE SIX: CLINICAL APPLICATIONS OF THE INTEGRATED MODEL: TRAUMA
DECEMBER 2, 2011
Instructors: Jean Gearon, PhD, and Stephen R. Stein, PhD

Brief Summary: This seminar will review and discuss the impact of psychological trauma on the brain and how different memory systems (implicit and explicit) respond to and process traumatic events. During this seminar, participants will learn how an integrated model can help facilitate recovery from traumatic events by utilizing neuro-plasticity and limbic revision to decrease the classic intrusive and arousal symptoms of PTSD, create a new healing narrative and promote greater emotional equilibrium. The importance of the intersubjective experience with the therapist in healing will be outlined as well as how guided imagery can contribute to developing and maintaining the therapeutic alliance.

COURSE SEVEN: CLINICAL APPLICATIONS OF THE INTEGRATED MODEL: MALADAPTIVE SELF-SOOTHING BEHAVIORS
DECEMBER 16, 2011
Instructors: Karen Schachter, MSW and Kate Kelly

Brief Summary: During this seminar, we will continue the discussion of how to apply the integrated model with clients (adults and children) with a variety of maladaptive coping strategies including disordered eating, negative body image and anxiety. Woven into these discussions will be examples of how to craft inductions, as well as to use other mind-body strategies, to help address these difficult issues.

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Registration Form – Series of Short Courses
Name: ____________________________________ Designation: ___________________________
Street Address: ______________________________ City/State: _____________________________
Phone: (w) ________________ (h) ______________ E-mail: ________________________________
Please check dates you would like to attend:

 October 14, 2011
 October 21, 2011
 October 28, 2011
 November 4, 2011
 November 18, 2011
 December 2, 2011
 December 9, 2011

Fees per Short Course: (Make checks payable to ICP&P and send to: 4601 Conn. Ave., NW, Washington, DC 20008)  ICP&P Member $60.00  Non Member $90.00

For more information including learning objectives and selected bibliography, please visit www.icpeast.org or call 202-686-9300 ext. 5 or email icpeastadmin@att.net

Neither ICP&P nor the presenters have any relevant financial relationship with any commercial interests.

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Presenter: William Pinney, PhD
Friday, January 27, 2012  12:30-3:30 pm

Paul Russell once wrote, “There is no real treatment process that does not include some piece of therapy for the therapist.” Much of Russell’s work presages core aspects of the Relational Perspective’s focus on co-creation and the therapeutic use of enactments. This program will explore complicated treatment impasses and/or ruptures and the important role both patient and therapist have in co-creating this ride. Dr. Pinney will illustrate these concepts with a case presentation of a long-term, three-times-weekly psychotherapy that presented significant challenges to both the patient and the therapist.

Registration: Free for WSPP members; $20 for non-members. (Non-members are invited to join WSPP for $60.00 and save on registration.) This workshop earns 3 Continuing Education credits (sponsored by the APA)- for an additional cost of $10.

Light refreshments will be offered.
Note New Location: Wisconsin  Place Community Center (nr. Friendship Heights Bloomingdale’s). See our website for directions.

WSPP: A Local Chapter of the Division of Psychoanalysis (39) of the APA.  For more information about learning objectives, CE’s, registration and WSPP policies, please visit our website: www.wspp-dc.org.   Our 2011-2012 program can be viewed here:

http://www.wspp-dc.org/fivefridays.htm

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Join us and other professionals for a stimulating and engaging educational opportunity!

ICP&P presents the 2011-2012 Self Psychology Institute 40 Years of Growth and Innovation with Frank M. Lachmann, PhD, Joseph D. Lichtenberg, MD, Donna Orange, PhD, James L. Fosshage, PhD and Judith Guss Teicholz, PhD.
Dates: Four full-day Saturdays, September 17 and November 19, 2011 and February 3 and April 28, 2012.
Location: The Cosmos Club, 2121 Massachusetts Ave., NW, WDC.
*27 CE credits

Please visit our website www.icpeast.org or call us at 202-686-9300 ext. 5 for further information.

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Presents

“Ethical Issues: The Use of Technology in Clinical Practice”

Speakers: Angela Martin, DNP, APRN & Cornelia Lischewski, PsyD

DATE: Sunday, December 11, 2011

TIME: 1:00-4:00pm

LOCATION:  GWU Mount Vernon Campus, Post Hall

COST: $70 members, $100 non-members

3 CME CREDITS for attending

Presenter: Rosemary Segalla, PhD
Friday, May 6, 2011 9:30am – 12:30pm

Under the umbrella of Self Psychology, there has been an expansion of theory and an exploration of many facets of Kohut’s work. Later theories include: Motivational Systems (Joe Lichtenberg, James Fosshage and Frank Lachmann); Attachment Theory and its use in adult treatment (Beatrice Beebe and Frank Lachmann); Intersubjectivity Theory (Robert Stolorow, George Atwood and Donna Orange), and Complexity Theory (James Coburn). We will refresh our minds about Kohut’s fine contributions, and explore these later theories. Later developments have expanded the focus to include couples, family and group work. Clinical examples will explicate the theories presented.

Registration: Free for WSPP members; $20 for non-members. (Non-members are invited to join WSPP for $60.00 and save on registration.) This workshop earns 3 Continuing Education credits (sponsored by the APA)- for an additional cost of $5.

Light refreshments will be offered.
Location: BCC Services Center

WSPP: A Local Chapter of the Division of Psychoanalysis (39) of the APA.  For more information about learning objectives, CE’s, registration and WSPP policies, please visit our website: www.wspp-dc.org.

Presenter: Jacob Melamed, PhD, MS (Clin. Psychopharm)
Friday, March 18, 2011 9:30am – 12:30pm

Dr. Melamed has looked at drugs from both sides now, as psychotherapist and as clinical psychopharmacologist. He has been on both sides of the medication debate. What is the proper role of psychotropic medication in psychological treatment? What are the psychotherapist’s responsibilities for recommending a medication consultation, in making the referral, in addressing the patient’s concerns, and monitoring the effects of medication on the patient and on the psychotherapy? This presentation will discuss the meanings that medication can have for the patient and the therapist, the illusions that surround the use of psychotropic medication and outline the real limitations and real benefits of psychotropic medication.

Registration: Free for WSPP members; $20 for non-members. (Non-members are invited to join WSPP for $60.00 and save on registration.) This workshop earns 3 Continuing Education credits (sponsored by the APA)- for an additional cost of $5.

Light refreshments will be offered.
Location: BCC Services Center

WSPP: A Local Chapter of the Division of Psychoanalysis (39) of the APA. For more information about learning objectives, CE’s, registration and WSPP policies, please visit our website: www.wspp-dc.org.

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Tuesdays, March 15, 22, 29, and April 5, 2011 8:00 – 9:30 p.m.

at the Baltimore Washington Institute for Psychoanalysis, Inc.

14900 Sweitzer Lane, Suite 102, Laurel, MD 20707

Tuition $240/Residents and full-time students $120.
Registration is required. Registration deadline, Fri., March 4, 2011.

301-470-3635 or 410-792-8060
www.bwanalysis.org

Dr. Baughman will present a case with a focus on termination and on explicating the use of classical technique. Both Drs. Baughman and Berkowitz will then discuss the case presentatin with particular attention to attention to issue of termination.

Pre-registrations are due by March 22, 2011. Thank you.

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The Baltimore Society for Psychoanalytic Studies

Presents

Kristina C. MacGaffin, MSW, FIPA

Marital Love and Hate and ‘Fit’ from a Psychoanalytic Perspective

Sunday, March 27, 2011

9:30 a.m. Refreshments, Sign In and Registration
10:00 a.m. – 1:00 a.m. Presentation

Sheppard Pratt Conference Center
6501 N. Charles Street
Baltimore, MD 21285

Program Description:
Kristina MacGaffin, MSW, FIPA, will discuss the Object Relational model of early childhood development and its relationship to the building up of defenses of the ego, particularly pathological defenses of narcissism. In this essay and discussion, Mrs. MacGaffin will bring together the links between pathological defenses, early childhood disruptions of “going on being”, and difficulties in the creation of a loving marital relationship. Finally, she will explore and discuss that nature of partner choice in pathological organizations, as different from ordinary unconscious partner choice, and the shaping of “marital fit”.

About the speaker:
Kristina MacGaffin is a member and training and supervising analyst with the New York Freudian Society in Washington, DC. While her primary specialty is individual adult psychoanalysis, she was trained by the Object Relations Family and Couple Training Program in Washington, DC, over 20 years ago, and has practiced psychodynamic and psychoanalytic couples therapy since that time. She is a three-year member of an advanced study group studying psychodynamic couples therapy, as well as the IPA Work Group on Psychoanalytic Couple and Family Therapy.

Objectives:
At the end of the program, participants will be able to explain:
1. Basic understanding of the contributions of early childhood experiences
to marital “fit”, in object relations dynamic therapy.
2. The relationship between early childhood experiences and destructive
Narcissistic relating
3. The causes of partner choice and marital “fit” in destructive
narcissistic marriages.

Some Reading References:
Fisher, James V. The Uninvited Guest: Emerging from Narcissism towards Marriage, Karnac Books, London. 2005
Ruszczynski, Stanley, Ed/, Psychotherapy with Couples: Theory and Practice at the Tavistock Institute of Marital Studies, Karnac Books. 1994.
Ruszczynski, Stanley, and Fisher, James, Eds., Intrusiveness and Intimacy in the Couple
Rosenfeld, H. On the Psychopathology of Narcissism: A Clinical Approach. IJP, 45, 1965.
Rosenfeld, H., Primitive Object Relations and Mechanisms. IJP, 64, 1983.

Who Should Attend?
Mental health professionals (psychiatrists, psychologists, clinical social workers, licensed professional counselors, pastoral counselors) and persons with an interest in psychodynamic and psychoanalytic thinking and application.
CE Credits:
CE credits are granted to participants with documented attendance and completed evaluation forms. Attendance is monitored. Credit will not be granted to registrants who arrive late, or depart early. Credit will be granted to participants who submit a completed evaluation form at the end of the session. It is the responsibility of participants to comply with these requirements.
Upon completion of this program, participants will be given 3 CE credits.
This program is being co-sponsored by The New York Freudian Society (NYFS). NYFS is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education programs for psychologists. The New York Freudian Society maintains responsibility for this program and its content. Baltimore Society of Psychoanalytic Studies is recognized by the Maryland Board of Social Work Examiners as a sponsor of continuing education activities.
Registration
• Pre-registration fees: $35 BSPS and NYFS members, $60 Non-members, $5 Full-time student members, $15 Full-time student non-members
• Pre-registration fees apply only if payment is received by 01/19/11.
• Registration received after 01/19/11 or at the door: $45 BSPS and NYFS members, $70 Non-members, $15 Full-time student members, $25 Full-time student
non-members
• Make checks payable to Baltimore Society for Psychoanalytic Studies
• Mail to: PO Box 20910, Baltimore, MD 21209
• Register on our website BSPSmaryland.org
• Program fees are non-refundable
Important disclosure information:
None of the planners and presenters of this CE program have any relevant financial relationships to disclose.
Contact Person: For additional information, please contact Amanda Polk via email: contactbsps@BSPSmaryland.org or call: 410-665-3550.

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The Fromm-Reichmann Scientific Lecture

“The Many Faces of Schreber – Madness in American Psychoanalysis 1960 – 2000″

Speaker: Orna Orphir, PhD

Date: Friday, January 28, 2011

Time: 7:00pm

Place: GWU Mount Vernon Campus, Post Hall  2100 Foxhall Rd, Washington, DC

WCP Members: $20

Non-Members: $40

Students and Active Duty Military: Free

2 CME/CE Credits are being offered

*Please register online at www.wcpweb.org *