The Metropolitan Institute for Training in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, The Metropolitan Center for Mental Health and The Metropolitan Society of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapists
Invite you to a Scientific Meeting
Friday, November 6, 2015 – 7:30 PM
A NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL OF UNCONSCIOUS PROCESSES AND THERAPEUTIC CHANGE
Presenter: Efrat Ginot, Ph.D.
The neuropsychological model of the unconscious presented here seeks to tackle recurrent difficulties that often confront both therapists and patients; the perniciousness of repetition and the difficulties involved in therapeutic change. For example, why are emotional and behavioral difficulties so enduring, stubborn, and repetitive even when we gain insight? Why do people continue to engage in behaviors and interactions that cause misery to themselves and others? Why is so difficult to regulate affective states? With a growing neuropsychological picture of unconscious processes it is becoming clear that unconscious-conscious patterns are resistant to change, but not necessarily because of dynamically-motivated defensive reasons; the resistance is built into the machinery of the brain/mind. Consequently, an integrated neuropsychological model of the unconscious-conscious continuum will greatly expand our understanding of the all too human difficulties both patients and therapists experience. The psychotherapeutic implications of a neuropsychological model of the unconscious will be discussed.
Efrat Ginot Ph.D. Graduate: NYU Postdoctoral Program for Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. Faculty: Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy. Supervisor: Fifth Avenue Center For Counseling and Psychotherapy. Dr. Ginot’s published papers have integrated neuropsychology and psychoanalytic processes and she received the 2002 Gradiva Award for best article. She is also an artist.
The New York State Education Department has approved this meeting for 2 contact hours (CEUs)
for LMSWs and LCSWs. A certificate will be emailed to those who sign the attendance sheet
at the end of the workshop and pay an administrative fee of $5.
There is no charge for those affiliated with MITPP, MCMH or MSPP.
No registration or fee required. Refreshments served following the presentation.
PLEASE NOTE NEW LOCATION OF MEETING:
Reidy Hall of Unitarian Church of All Souls
1157 Lexington Avenue (between 79th & 80th Streets)
New York, NY 10075
For further information: email mitppnyc@aol.com, visit www.MITPP.org or phone (212) 496-2858
Program Committee: Alexandra Cattaruzza, MS, LP, Co-Chair * Rosemarie Verderame, LCSW, Co-Chair * Joyce A. Lerner, LCSW *
Anthony Mazzella, Ph.D., LCSW * Barbara Reichenthal, LCSW, BCD * Ivy Vale, BFA
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