Psychoanalytic Events & News

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.

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.

Introduction to Couple and Family Therapy
Basic Concepts

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.

Objectives
1. Participants will be able to describe an example of unconscious family assumptions and how it applies to organizing couple/family therapy material
2. Participants will be able to describe projective identification and how it applies to interpreting couple/family therapy material

When Saturdays from 10:00AM – 12:30PM
October 31, November 7, 14, 21 (2009)

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

Cost $325 for Center Members (full, corresponding, friends)
$375 for non-member clinicians

Faculty
Linda Grey MSN. She is a psychoanalyst in private practice in Falls Church, Virginia, where she treats individuals, couples, and families. She Is Chair of the Contemporary Couple and Family Therapy Training Program. She is on the faculty of the Washington Psychoanalytic Institute, the Modern Perspectives in Psychotherapy, and a Sunday writing group facilitator for the New Directions Program through the Washington Center for Psychoanalysis.
Ann Devaney MSW. She is in private practice in Falls Church, Virginia and Bethesda, Maryland where she treats individuals, couples, and families. She is a faculty member of the Contemporary Couple and Family Therapy Training Program at the Washington Center for Psychoanalysis. She is a faculty member of the Advanced Psychotherapy Training Program and guest faculty of the Clinical Program at the Washington School of Psychiatry.

Questions: Contact Ann Devaney at 703 356-4727 or anndevaney@yahoo.com.
Registration online at: http://www.wcpweb.org.
Class limited to 10 participants.

*** SAVE THE DATE ***

Sunday, February 21, 2010
8:30 AM – 4:30 PM

The Consortium for Psychoanalytic Research 17th Annual Conference

Mentalization as a Multidimensional Concept: Implications for the
Treatment of Patients with Trauma-Related Psychopathology
with Patrick Luyten, Ph.D.

Ernst Auditorium
Sibley Memorial Hospital
5255 Loughboro Road, N.W.
Washington D.C.

For additional information: www.CPRincDC.org

Mentalization PDF brochure.pdf (97 KB)

There are still openings for the Fall 2009

Intensive Short Term Dynamic Psychotherapy Training Program

      Jon Frederickson, MSW, Co-Chair           

Barbara Suter, Ph.D., Co-chair

Intensive Short Term Dynamic Psychotherapy is designed to achieve long term structural character change in briefer periods than with traditional psychodynamic therapy. Based on psychodynamic theory, it uses active techniques designed to focus, clarify, and intensify the therapeutic process.

This model of treatment was first developed by Habib Davanloo. Davanloo recognized that rapid character change could take place through helping the patient relinquish defenses against emotional experience. He accomplished this through a method of handling resistance and transference which mobilizes the patient’s unconscious therapeutic alliance. As a result, the patient reveals the core emotions and conflicts which have been responsible for character problems. This model of treatment has shown excellent results with a broad range of patients in numerous psychotherapy studies over the past 35 years.

In addition to the work of Davanloo, this program introduces students to recent contributions to this technique. Students will also study work on defense restructuring (Patricia Coughlin), attachment theory based ISTDP (Rob Neborsky), work with fragile patients (Allan Abbass), mindfulness based ISTDP (Allen Kalpin), mobilizing ego capacity (Josette ten Have de Labije), work with projection (Kees Cornellisen), radical empathy (Diana Fosha), and other subjects as well. This course will focus on relational and experiential techniques for deepening the therapeutic relationship by facilitating the experience and working through of core affects.

When patients can afford only a time-limited treatment, therapists must be even more skilled, rapid, and effective. We will teach those clinical skills in this program. Students learn how to help patients relinquish defenses in order to face feelings they previously avoided. You will also learn how to recognize pathways of unconscious anxiety discharge in the body so as to help patients better regulate their anxiety. You will also learn how to use “radical empathy” in order to better connect to the patient emotionally. You will learn how to help patients turn against ego syntonic defenses. Whether you do primarily long term or short term psychotherapy, the skills you learn in this course will deepen and accelerate your work with all of your patients. Whatever theoretical orientation you use, the course will increase your skills for intensive therapy.

Format

This is a three year program which leads to a certificate and graduation. However, you can take one semester, one year, two years, or three years of the program. The ISTDP training for the first year of the program is organized in two hour classes. The first hour is a theoretical presentation; the second hour uses videotaped therapy sessions to illustrate the theory and to develop your clinical skills. It is our intent to demonstrate everything we teach with videotaped examples drawn from our own work.

Classes for first year students meet Fridays in the late afternoons, ten sessions a semester. 

Curriculum

First Year, First Semester

Basic principles of theory and technique in ISTDP: the triangle of conflict, regulation of anxiety, unconscious pathways of anxiety discharge, restructuring of defenses, therapeutic alliance—conscious and unconscious, resistance, transference.

First Year, Second Semester

Working through the central dynamic sequence of psychotherapy–beginning with a patient, psychodiagnosis of fragility and depression, working with superego pathology, resistance against emotional closeness, deactivating malignant transferences and an introduction to a variant of ISTDP, Diana Fosha’s AEDP.

Supervision

Optional small group and individual supervision can be set up as needed.

Educational Objectives

First Year

·                           Recognize the triangle of conflict and how to use it to obtain character change quickly

·                           Recognize the pathways of unconscious anxiety discharge and learn how to regulate the patient’s anxiety

·                           Learn to recognize, clarify, and confront defenses, and how to transform them from syntonic to ego dystonic

·                           Learn to help patients face feelings without anxiety or defenses interfering

·                           Learn how to mobilize the therapeutic alliance

Eligibility

General guidelines:

·                           A graduate degree in social work, psychology, psychiatry,    psychiatric nursing, counseling, or related clinical fields

·                           Experience conducting psychotherapy

·                           Personal psychodynamic psychotherapy

·                           A solid grounding in psychodynamic psychotherapy

Applications will be considered on the basis of individual skills, maturity, and experience

Tuition

Year 1:  $1,200

Faculty

• Jon Frederickson, MSW, Co-Chair
• Barbara Suter, Ph.D., Co-chair
• Steve Slatkin, MD
• Leyla M. Kenny, Ph.D.
• Janet Merkel, Ph.D.
• Nancy Reder, MSW

APPLICATION PROCESS

• Application Form
• Scholarships
• School Policies

To apply to the program, print and complete the application form

Please send the completed application form to

Registrar, Washington School of Psychiatry

5028 Wisconsin Ave., NW, Suite 400

Washington, DC 20016-4118

You can also call 202 237-2700 to receive an application form by mail.

For more information about the Washington School go to our website: www.wspdc.org

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