METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE FOR TRAINING IN
PSYCHOANALYTIC PSYCHOTHERAPY
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MITPP 2011 SUMMER INSTITUTE
HOMOPHOBIA TODAY: ANTI-GAY BIAS AND ITS IMPLICATIONS IN THE CONTEMPORARY TREATMENT OF GAY MEN AND LESBIANS
Tuesdays, June 7, 14, 21, 28
8:00 PM – 9:30 PM
$100
230 West 13th Street (between 7th & Greenwich Avenues)
This four-session workshop is designed for clinicians who work with or intend to work with gay men and lesbians. Through focused readings and discussion of clinical vignettes, participants will explore the impact on work with our gay and lesbian clients of what is commonly referred to as “homophobia,” both in its original clinical meaning and in contemporary popular use. With recent gains in acceptance of homosexuality, it can become too convenient to assume that prejudice against homosexuals—conscious or unconscious—has little consequence. We will first look at the psychodynamics of anti-gay bias, with particular attention to the consideration of homosexuality in clinical theory. Then we’ll reflect on the effects of this bias in our social world and how it may impact both clinician and patient in our work together. If they have them, participants are encouraged to bring their own clinical vignettes for consideration.
JAMES M. HOLMES, MPH, L.P. Faculty: Metropolitan Institute for Training in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, Adult Program. Board Member, Training Analyst, Faculty and Supervisor: National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis. Director: Theodor Reik Clinical Center for Psychotherapy. Faculty and Supervisor: Blanton-Peale Institute. Member: National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis.
TECHNIQUES FOR WORKING WITH PARENTS
Rena Matison Greenblatt will describe how to process meetings with parents in order to further self-reflection, examine countertransference manifestations and plan for future collateral sessions. She will discuss her innovation of using writing as a means to facilitate communication with parents and describe how she developed this technique as a result of her testing work. She will show how she now applies the technique to psychotherapy work. She will also demonstrate how she teaches parents how to prepare for meetings by utilizing a journaling technique. The participants in this workshop will hear examples of how this technique has been useful for parents in their initial consultation and how this may be applied to later collateral sessions. Dr. Greenblatt will provide the opportunity for participants to role play how to work with parents of children of varying ages and with different symptom pictures. Clinicians will be invited to share how they facilitate communication from parents about how the child is doing at home, at school and with peers. Developmental themes appropriate to different ages/stages and symptom pictures will be highlighted as a way to direct parent sessions. Finally, the importance of the therapist’s alliance with parents will be discussed in terms of its role in providing hope.
RENA MATISON GREENBLATT, Ph.D. Faculty: Metropolitan Institute for Training in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, Adult and Child and Adolescent Programs; Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, Adult and Child Programs. Supervisor: Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, Child Program. Director: Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, Child Adolescent Psychotherapy Program. Adjunct Associate Professor: New York University School of Social Work. Member: Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, International Psychoanalytical Association, American Psychological Association.
Wednesdays, June 8, 15, 22
8:30 PM – 10:00 PM
$80
1160 5th Avenue, Suite 112 (between 97th & 98th Streets)
UNDERSTANDING PARENT-INFANT INTERACTION AND ITS IMPLICATIONS FOR CLINICAL WORK
D.W. Winnicott said: “There is no such thing as a baby.” When we see a baby, we also see “someone caring for the baby.” Extensive amounts of infant research have proved Winnicott right, making it impossible to think of a baby without also considering his or her caregiver. The field of parent-infant interaction has advanced immensely over the past few decades resulting in significant changes in the way we understand parent-infant interaction and its relation to normal development and psychopathology. The aim of this mini-course is to expand the clinician’s understanding of the early relationship between parents and their babies, the profound implications of such interactions on the development of the infant, and how they inform clinical work. Writings by Winnicott, Mahler, Bowlby, Fonagy, Stern, Beebe and others will be discussed.
ALEXANDRA CATTARUZZA, M.S., L.P. Faculty and Supervisor: Metropolitan Institute for Training in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, Child and Adolescent Program. Fellow: Anni Bergman Parent-Infant Training Program, NYFS–IPTAR. Advanced Candidate: Adult Psychoanalysis, Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research. Certificate in Child and Adolescent Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, Metropolitan Institute for Training in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy. Certificate in Creative Arts Therapies, New School University. Diploma in Child Psychological Assessment, Universidad El Bosque.
Thursdays, June 9, 16, 23
7:00 PM – 8:30 PM
$80
1133 Broadway, Suite 1127 (corner of 25th Street)
BEING THE MOMENT: A ZEN PERSPECTIVE ON PSYCHOANALYSIS
Both Zen Buddhism and psychoanalysis derive from an experiential base and share at their heart a desire to effectively address human suffering. In this mini-course, Paul Cooper will use meditation techniques, clinical material, Zen teaching stories and psychoanalytic concepts to contextualize the implications of Zen in the therapeutic setting in relation to basic psychoanalytic concepts such as unconscious processes, transference and countertransference and projective identification to demonstrate how Zen practices and beliefs can inform, relate to, and enhance transformative psychoanalytic practice. Though mindful of their differences, the instructor’s intent throughout will be to illustrate how the practices of both Zen and psychoanalysis become internalized by the individual who engages in them and can, in turn, inform one another in mutually beneficial ways. Educational Objectives: The participant will develop and/or enhance basic meditation skills and explore their clinical relevancy, become familiar with basic Zen Buddhist principles that contribute to therapeutic efficacy and gain a basic understanding of the use of the Zen koan as a conceptual tool for organizing and integrating seemingly contradictory psychoanalytic theories and concepts. Participants are encouraged to read an article by the instructor online, “Attention and Inattention in Zen and Psychoanalysis,” at http://absentmindzen.org/ATTNFULLARTICLE.html
PAUL C. COOPER, M.S., L.P. Faculty: Metropolitan Institute For Training In Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, Adult Program. Senior Member, Faculty, Training Analyst, and Supervisor: NPAP, The Institute for Expressive Analysis, The Harlem Family Institute. Board of Directors: International Forum for Psychoanalytic Education. Advisory Board: HFI. Poet and Author including: The Zen Impulse and the Psychoanalytic Encounter(Routeledge, 2010).
Mondays, June 20, 27, (no class July 4), July 11, 18
7:30 PM – 9:00 PM
$100
145 East 35th Street, #5FE (between Lexington & 3rd Avenues)
THE ADOPTION CHALLENGE
The concerns of adoptive families may differ from those families with only biological children. Even adopted children who seem comfortable with their adoptive status face emotional challenges and identity issues that go beyond those of the biological child. In this workshop, these matters will be approached from a psychoanalytic perspective, along with the challenges to the adoptive parent(s). The Family Romance, tribulations and sorrows of the adopted child, adoptive parents and birth parents will be addressed. Clinical material from the treatment of an adoptive mother with an adoptive child will be presented. Participants are encouraged to bring their own vignettes for discussion.
SIMONE F. STERNBERG, Ed.D. Faculty and Supervisor: Metropolitan Institute for Training in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, Adult and Child and Adolescent Programs, National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis, New York Center for Psychoanalytic Training, New Hope Guild. Board Member: Harlem Family Institute. Member: National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis, American Psychological Association.
Thurdays, July 7, 14, 21
7:00 PM – 8:30 PM
$80
225 West End Avenue, #53 (between 70th and 71st Street)
WORKING WITH DEVELOPMENTAL TRAUMA AND NARCISSISTIC INJURY
Developmental trauma and narcissistic injury are core phenomena that everyone has to face. Arising out of mal attunement to painful affect in early lived experiences, they exist along a continuum for therapists and patients alike. Through the lens of the self psychological perspective, clinical reactions of narcissistic rage and shame as well as the development of twinship and mirroring transferences will be discussed. Participants will be encouraged to discuss their clinical work.
ALAN DOLBER, Ph.D. Faculty and Supervisor: Metropolitan Institute for Training in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, Adult Program. Board Member, Co-Director of Curriculum, Faculty and Supervisor: National Institute for the Psychotherapies. Training Analyst, Faculty and Supervisor: National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis. Founding Member: Association for Psychoanalytic Self Psychology.
Thursdays, July 14, 21
7:00 PM – 8:30 PM
$65
250 West 57th Street, 5th floor (between Broadway & 8th Avenue)
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