METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE FOR TRAINING IN
PSYCHOANALYTIC PSYCHOTHERAPY
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MITPP SUMMER INSTITUTE 2013
Mini-Courses and Workshops
TRAUMA RECONSIDERED
Instructor: Marion Oliner, Ph.D.
This course is based on Psychic Reality in Context: Perspectives on Psychoanalysis, Personal History, and Trauma (Karnac 2012) by Marion Oliner, Ph.D. In subtle ways, literature has introduced a bias into the analysis of pathology in which trauma plays a role: Trauma tends to be treated as the cause of pathology. Dr. Oliner has concluded that it is more fruitful to treat trauma as the trigger for a process. She will emphasize the lag in the literature compared to the greater flexibility in actual clinical work. Dr. Oliner will cover the nature of the experience of traumatic events, followed by observations on how these experiences are assimilated into the personality of the individual. Her focus will be on the conflicting needs of forgetting and remembering which lead to the additional difficulty of keeping the events external and historic. She will address the unconscious omnipotence which is strengthened through the experience of having survived traumatic events, a cause for the difficulties survivors of trauma have in using fantasy constructively and in firmly distinguishing between inside and outside. Dr. Oliner will illustrate her ideas through clinical examples and will welcome contributions from participants.
TUESDAYS, JUNE 4, 11, 18, 25 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM 670 WEST END AVENUE (BETWEEN 92ND AND 93RD STREETS), #9F
FEE: $80
BUILDING A RELATIONSHIP WITH THE RELATIONAL APPROACH
Instructor: Shelly Petnov-Sherman, LCSW
This workshop will introduce you to the relational approach and illustrate how it may expand your ways of working, particularly with difficult patients. Examples will be offered to demonstrate how working relationally may be helpful in impasses, with crises and with various issues in everyday practice. The ways that countertransference is used will be emphasized. Participants are invited to bring clinical examples and readings will be recommended for those who would like them.
MONDAY, JUNE 17 7:00 PM- 10:00 PM 2000 BROADWAY (BETWEEN 68TH AND 69TH STREETS), #10G
FEE: $50
HOW TO TALK “REAL” TO YOUR PATIENT
Instructor: Jill C. Herbert, Ph.D.
Talking to patients – whether adults, adolescents or children – as regular people rather than as patients makes for more effective and relaxed collaborative therapeutic/analytic work. We can make an interpretation without sounding like a text book, or worrying if we are saying “it” in the right way if we talk “normally.” We can say what we need to say and sound like a person talking to another person, rather than stilted or formal. For example, if a patient walks in noticeably sad, a therapist can say a heartfelt “You seem so sad today; what has happened since last I saw you?” or “You look so sad…did something happen?” This is often a better way to engage an easy affective response than by putting on a compassionate therapy face, looking wonderingly or waiting for the patient to begin, or struggling to figure out the level of the sadness. We can formulate our psychoanalytic hypotheses internally yet speak to the patient in the same voice and with same interest and concern as we do with those outside our offices. This course is designed for therapists at all levels who have patients with whom they’d like to transform the dialogue into an ordinary yet engaged psychoanalytically informed verbalization. Dr. Herbert will be talking about and sharing her work to demonstrate her perspective and welcomes participants’ clinical contributions.
WEDNESDAYS, JUNE 12, 19, 26 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM 650 WEST END AVENUE (CORNER OF 92ND STREET), #GRC
FEE: $60
LOSS, MOURNING AND BEYOND
Instructor: Judith Felton, L.C.S.W.
This mini-course will explore the process of mourning, which is a part of every person’s life. We will examine the way we move through the stages of separation and loss and investigate them in their real and fantasized forms. Everyone is confronted throughout life with loss— from those that we all experience, like traumatic social and political events, violence, and terrorism, as well as the personal, individual ones. This course will focus on how different losses affect our patients as well as ourselves as therapists. Attention will be paid to how loss and its consequences are manifested in the transference and countertransference. The instructor will present clinical case material and welcome vignettes from participants. As a background, participants will read Freud’s “Mourning and Melancholia,” a timeless paper that is profoundly concerned with emotions. In addition, the class will also cover how mourning affects the countertransference.
THURSDAYS, JUNE 20, 27, JULY 11, 18 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM 215 WEST 90TH STREET (BETWEEN B’WAY & AMSTERDAM)
FEE: $80
THE DEVELOPMENT AND TREATMENT OF YOUNG ADULTS: KEY ISSUES
Instructor: William Salton, Ph.D.
This workshop will explore the developmental, psychological, and clinical issues that become particularly relevant when doing psychotherapy with the older adolescent who is becoming a young adult. This shift from adolescence into adulthood is a period of great complexity in our contemporary culture. Difficulty in completing the developmental tasks of adolescence, which often include struggles with identity consolidation, may lead to a myriad of problems as the teenager enters the “adult world.” The need to make occupational choices, establish intimate relationships and assume new roles, along with the difficulties these tasks entail, often comprise the content of psychotherapy sessions. Consequently, the workshop will encompass a wider focus than just adolescent or young adult development, psychopathology, and treatment: A wider lens will help attendees to be able to understand and work with this population. The workshop will examine both classical and more modern theories of late adolescent development and the developmental tasks and challenges that adolescents face as they approach young adulthood and will utilize clinical material and cases from popular culture (film, music, TV) to highlight therapeutic approaches that would be helpful with these patients. A comprehensive reading list will be provided.
SATURDAY, JUNE 22, 2013 10:00 AM – 1:00 PM 1225 PARK AVENUE, #1A (BETWEEN 95TH AND 96TH STREETS)
FEE: $50
WHEN THE GOING GETS TOUGH . . .
Instructor: Jill Bellinson, Ph.D.
Child therapy often starts out well: children come willingly, play freely, improve quickly. But as time goes on, it sometimes flags: children start to skip sessions or ask to stop; play can be repetitive and lifeless; progress slows and stalls; we reach impasses. This workshop will examine how and why these difficulties might arise and discuss ways to enliven a lifeless treatment, overcome a deadlocked impasse, and restore progress toward improvement.
SATURDAY, JULY 13 10:00 AM – 1:00 PM 229 WEST 71ST STREET (TOP FLOOR WALK-UP, WEST OF BROADWAY)
FEE: $50
“I’M NOT HERE TO TALK WITH YOU”: PSYCHOANALYTIC ADVENTURES WORKING WITH THE EMERGING NARCISSISM OF YOUNG ADULTS
Instructor: Joseph Reynoso, Ph.D.
Pathological narcissism is traditionally considered a fairly treatment-resistant disorder. Emerging adults are, in many ways, developmentally positioned to be consciously and unconsciously rejecting of or ambivalent about therapy. The psychoanalytic literature has only recently, and in limited ways, paid attention to the technical challenges young adults confront clinicians with—despite the established developmental psychology empirical research that distinguishes this late teens to mid/late 20’s population from (late) adolescence and adulthood. This clinical workshop will focus on treating and conceptualizing pathological narcissism in a growing adult population. The presenter will draw on his experience working privately and at university counseling centers to discuss: the assumptions underlying the hesitance of clinicians to recognize personality and character pathology in younger populations, the preventative utility of identifying pathological narcissistic aspects of emerging adult personalities, and some technical modifications to be considered in order to maintain therapeutic alliances and treat a broader group of young adults with narcissistic characteristics.
THURSDAY, JULY 25 7:00 PM – 10:00 PM 120 RIVERSIDE DRIVE, #1W (ENTRANCE ON 84TH STREET)
FEE: $50
LISTENING TO HEAR
Instructor: Robert Willinger, L.C.S.W.
This experiential workshop is designed to expand the listening skills of clinicians. How do we listen to clinical material so as to glean what’s underneath the obvious? How do we become more empathic listeners? What interferes with our capacity to hear what the patient is conveying and how do we investigate our own impediments to listening? These questions and others will be addressed through the instructor’s presentation of clinical material. Vignettes from participants will be welcome.
SATURDAY, AUGUST 3, 2013 10:00 AM – 1:00 PM 285 WEST END AVENUE, #3Y (BETWEEN 73RD AND 74TH STREETS)
FEE: $50
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JILL BELLINSON, Ph.D. Faculty and Supervisor: Metropolitan Institute for Training in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, Child and Adolescent Program; William Alanson White Institute, National Institute for the Psychotherapies, Adelphi University. Supervisor: Clinical Psychology Doctoral Programs of CUNY and Columbia University. Psychological Consultant: Children’s Center of John Jay College. Author: Children’s Use of Board Games in Psychotherapy and papers on child therapy. JUDITH FELTON, LCSW Certificate in Psychoanalysis, New York Freudian Society. Faculty and Supervisor: Metropolitan Institute for Training in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, Adult Program. Training and Supervising Analyst: New York Freudian Society, International Psychoanalytical Association. Member: National Association of Social Workers. JILL C. HERBERT, Ph.D. Certificate in Psychoanalysis, New York Freudian Society. Faculty and Supervisor: Metropolitan Institute for Training in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, Adult and Child and Adolescent Programs. Member: International Psychoanalytical Association, American Psychological Association and the Psychoanalytic Division, New York State Psychological Association, American Psychoanalytic Association. Fellow: International Psychological Association. MARION OLINER, Ph.D. Training in Psychoanalysis, New York Freudian Society. Faculty and Supervisor: Metropolitan Institute for Training in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, Adult Program. Faculty: National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis, New York Freudian Society. Member: American Psychological Association, International Psychoanalytical Association. Author: Cultivating Freud’s Garden in France. SHELLY PETNOV-SHERMAN, LCSW Certificates in Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, American Institute for Psychoanalysis. Certificate in Intervention, Assessment and Treatment of Children and Adult Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse, Forensic Mental Health Associates. Training in Child and Adolescent Program, National Institute for the Psychotherapies. Faculty and Supervisor: Metropolitan Institute for Training in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, Adult and Child and Adolescent Programs. Senior Faculty, Supervising and Training Analyst: American Institute for Psychoanalysis. Chairperson, Membership Committee: International Association for Relational Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. Mental Health Consultant: Corlears School, New York City. JOSEPH REYNOSO, Ph.D. City College of New York, Clinical Doctoral Program. Faculty: Metropolitan Institute for Training in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, Adult Program. Adjunct Psychology Professor: Barnard College. Supervisor: Clinical Psychology Program, City College of New York; Clinical Psychology Internship of The NYPI/Columbia University Medical Center. Book Review Editor: Psychoanalytic Psychology (Division 39 APA Journal). Member: Division of Psychoanalysis of The American Psychological Association. WILLIAM SALTON, PH.D. Certificate in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy with Children and Adolescents from New York University Medical Center Psychoanalytic Institute. Certificate in Family Forensics, Washington Square Institute. Faculty and Supervisor: Metropolitan Institute for Training in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, Child and Adolescent Program. Former Director: Families and Individuals in Recovery (F.A.I.R.) Program, Metropolitan Center for Mental Health. Adjunct Associate Professor: Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology, Yeshiva University. Faculty: New York Institute for Psychotherapy Training for Infants, Children, and Adolescents. ROBERT WILLINGER, LCSW Certificates in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, Group Supervision and Clinical Supervision, Metropolitan Institute for Training in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy. Supervisor: Metropolitan Institute for Training in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, Child and Adolescent Program, and Metropolitan Center for Mental Health. Founder and Member: Metropolitan Society of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapists.
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