Psychoanalytic Events & News

Hanna Segal reminds us that our counter-transference reactions can be our wisest guide or our worst enemy in our therapeutic work with others. Figuring out who’s who and what’s what is hard enough when working with individual patients but when working with couples – it often feels impossible. Janet Malcolm was wrong when she wrote that psychoanalysis was the impossible profession. Those of us who work with couples know that being a couple therapist is truly the impossible profession. Many have expressed the idea that our hidden mission is to cure our parents. If there’s some truth in this then it might help explain why working with couples is so hard and why it stirs such uncomfortable feelings in us: the room is filled with so many opportunities for complex and confusing counter-transference reactions.

The focus of this interactive workshop will be on us. In the spirit of understanding this tough work – I’ll show you mine if you’ll show me yours. Please bring clinical vignettes (especially those that are giving you the most trouble), and I will too. Together we will tease out what might be going on in the three-some of couple work and how we might creatively use our reactions/contributions to help couples learn from the experience, think a new thought, and mourn the past so as to allow them and us — “to turn ghosts into ancestors.”

Cost: Registration is free to Members, $20 for non-members
CEU\’s: Earns 3 CEU\’s for an additional $5.

Registration: Contact Lynn Hamerling (LynnHamerling@gmail.com) or (202) 722-1507.

For More Info go to www.WSPP-DC.org.

The Baltimore Society for Psychoanalytic Studies is pleased to present: Working with Dreams – A Self Psychological Perspective

Elizabeth M. Carr, APRN, MSN, BC will present a contemporary self psychological model of dream analysis. In this approach, dreams are viewed as revealing (rather than disguising) unconscious organizing processes. Thus, dream images are viewed as potentially providing a sweeping view into a patient’s inner world including self and self-with-other representations, emerging analytic themes, and current state. The corresponding clinical approach focuses on exploring and amplifying the dreamer’s experience in the dream through exploring the affects, themes, and central story of the dream narrative. Theory will be interwoven with clinical process in the presentation and will include the fascinating topic of analysts dreaming about their patients.

Please visit our website to register, or for more information.

Conferences are held at the Sheppard Pratt Conference Center. Coffee and registration begins at 9:00 and the presentation begins at 9:30. 3 CEUs are available.

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International Psychotherapy Institute (IPI)

Weekend Conference and

Saturday Morning Lecture

with Stefano Bolognini, M.D.

Saturday Morning Lecture and Discussion, April 24, 2010:

“Notes from the Deep: On Unconscious Communication”

and Weekend Conference April 23 -25, 2010:

“Psychoanalytic Empathy and the Interpsychic Relationship”

Stefano Bolognini, M.D., President, Italian Psychoanalytic Society; member, European Editorial Board of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis; Supervisor, Adult and Adolescent Psychiatric Services, Italian National Health System.  Author: Psychoanalytic Empathy and Secret Passages: Theory and Technique of the Interpsychic Dimension.

Lecture Saturday, April 24, 2010

“Notes from the Deep: On Unconscious Communication”

9:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. followed by reception and optional Small Group Discussion 11:00 – Noon.

Fee: $30, free to IPI members, fellows, residents and graduate students.

CE: Lecture and small group, 2.5 hours

Full Weekend Conference, April 23-25, 2010

“Psychoanalytic Empathy and the Interpsychic Relationship”

Dr. Bolognini will link crucial therapeutic process to his emerging ideas of shared unconscious dimensions.  Conference features didactic and clinical presentations and daily large and small group discussion.  9:00 a.m. Friday – 1:00 p.m. Sunday.

Advance registration fee: $485

CE: 14 hours; 3 additional hours available for optional sessions

Location for Lecture and Conference: Rockville Hilton Hotel, 1750 Rockville Pike

For information or to register: info@theipi.org, 301-215-7377 or www.theipi.org

Four Sessions
Basic Concepts: Projective Identification, Unconscious Assumptions, Marital Fit

Learn by Video Observation

Sponsored By

The Contemporary Psychoanalytic Couple and Family Therapy
Training Program
Washington Center for Psychoanalysis

Course Overview
This introductory experience is designed to expose clinicians already skilled in psychotherapy or psychoanalytic practice to work deeply with couples and families. It is also an opportunity for those skilled in working with couples and families in other theoretical modalities who want to explore a psychoanalytic approach. Each of the four classes contains a combined group discussion of a pre-circulated paper(s) followed by observing a taped interview of a family and a couple. Even if clinicians only want to focus on working with couples, seeing the projective process in observing a family taped interview strengthens learning for both modalities of therapy. The class size will be limited to foster discussion. Further training opportunities will also be addressed. This is a great opportunity to explore a way to consider expanding one’s expertise and practice.

When:

Saturdays from 9:00AM – 11:30AM
March 20, 27, April 3, 10

Where:
Washington Center for Psychoanalysis
4545 42nd St NW, #209, Washington, DC, 20016

Cost:

$275 for Center Members (full, corresponding, friends)
$325 for non-member clinicians

Questions: Contact Linda Grey at 703 533-1359 or Lgrey01@aol.com.
Registration online at: http://www.wcpweb.org/
Class limited to 7 participants.

Speaking to the inherent value enactments provide, Sandor Ferenczi once stated “You must catch your hare before you can cook him.” This seminar will explore why enactments are an inevitable result of being unbearably caught in “the grip of the field” until that field is destabilized by an unanticipated action. A relational perspective on the phenomena of enactments, and their powerful potential for moving the therapeutic process forward, will be explored using a variety of clinical vignettes and participant case examples.

Cost: Registration is free to Members, $20 for non-members
CEU\’s: Earns 3 CEU\’s for an additional $5.

Registration: Contact Lynn Hamerling (LynnHamerling@gmail.com) or (202) 722-1507.

For More Info go to www.WSPP-DC.org.

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Sally Bloom-Feshbach, Ph.D. will present on the topic:
Negotiation, Spontaneity and Authenticity: Relational Co-Construction.
This workshop will explore the contemporary psychoanalytic perspective known as Relational Psychoanalysis, with a primary focus on how this perspective may be used clinically. The movement from a classical one-person drive/structure model toward an intersubjective two-person model of mutual influence between therapist and patient will be touched upon, as well as relational perspectives on therapeutic action. The use of negotiation, authenticity, neutrality and spontaneity will be highlighted and illustrated with clinical material. Participants are encouraged to bring questions, thoughts and clinical examples to a lively interactive discussion of relational concepts.
3 CEUs are available.
The conference is from 9:00-12:30 at Sheppard Pratt Conference Center.
For more information and to register, please visit our website: www.BSPSmaryland.org

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Many of us are hearing more about sexual addictions lately, both in our practices and in popular culture.  But what are sexual addictions, and how do we talk to our patients about them in productive ways?  We will focus on how to assess for a sexual addiction, explore the underlying dynamics of secrecy and shame, and become familiar with treatment options and resources.  We will define the addictive cycle, review examples of specific sexual behaviors, including Internet pornography addiction (the “crack cocaine” of sexual addictions), and explore the secondary functions of these addictive/compulsive sexual behaviors.  The presenter will offer a framework for exploring sex addicts’ inner world, and invite participants to discuss their own case examples.

Date:  Friday, January 8, 2010 -  9:30am – 12:30pm (refreshments and socializing 1/2 hr. prior)

Location:  BCC Services Center – 4805 Edgemoor Lane – Bethesda, Md

Cost: Registration is free to Members, $20 for non-members
CEU\’s: Earns 3 CEU\’s for an additional $5.

Registration: Contact Lynn Hamerling (LynnHamerling@gmail.com) or (202) 722-1507.

For More Info go to www.WSPP-DC.org.

Please join BSPS for a presentation and discussion with Dr. David I. Joseph.
This workshop will explore the topic of ethics as applied to clinical psychotherapeutic practice. A general framework for conceptualizing ethical decision making will be presented. This will be followed by a discussion of (1) treatment recommendations (2) money (3) confidentiality and (4) boundary crossings and boundary violations. Clinical material will be presented but participants are encouraged to come with personal ethical dilemmas that they have experienced.
3 CEUs are available.
Registration information is available at www.BSPSmaryland.org.

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As therapists, we try to help our patients heal splits and enlarge their capacities to feel, think and tolerate ambivalence. When psychosomatic illness is involved, achieving these goals is unusually challenging. Psyche and soma are deeply split: the body has a tale to tell but the patient is not listening – indeed, cannot bear knowing the story that exists. When the patient cannot make emotional links, the physical symptom takes on a life of its own, often compromising the patient\’s health. We will talk together about our patients and examine how we can best help them name, claim and emotionally grapple with what ails them.

Date: Friday, November 13, 2009 9:30am – 12:30pm (refreshments and socializing 1/2 hr. prior)

Location: BCC Services Center – 4805 Edgemoor Lane – Bethesda, Md

Cost: Registration is free to Members, $20 for non-members
CEU\’s: Earns 3 CEU\’s for an additional $5.

Registration: Contact Lynn Hamerling (LynnHamerling@gmail.com) or (202) 722-1507.

For More Info go to www.WSPP-DC.org.

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The Baltimore Society for Psychoanalytic Studies Presents John Zinner, M.D.:
Demystifying Projective Identification: A Videotaped Consultation with the Family of a Sexually Abused Pre-adolescent Boy

Projective Identification is a profoundly important bridge between intrapsychic and interpersonal phenomena. Nevertheless, many clinicians remain unnecessarily puzzled by the concept and its mode of operation. This videotaped family session will provide a vivid demonstration of projective identification, how it is manifested in the clinical situation, and how the therapist may intervene in a family to transform blame into empathy.
The Presenter, Dr. John Zinner is a psychoanalyst, as well as a family and couple therapist. His ideas, writings and teaching evolved from his research at NIMH into the impact of family interaction on adolescent development. As a clinical professor, he teaches psychoanalytic psychotherapy at the George Washington University Medical Center and at the Washington School of Psychiatry. He is a Teaching Analyst at the Washington Psychoanalytic Institute, and also provides training in family and couple therapy at the Washington Center for Psychoanalysis.
Sunday, November 15, 2009
9:30 AM – 12:30 PM at the Sheppard Pratt Conference Center
Coffee, Sign In & Registration 9 AM
Attendees of this program will receive 3 CEU credits.
Please visit our website for more information and to register: www.BSPSmaryland.org.

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