THE METROPOLITAN CENTER FOR MENTAL HEALTH AND THE METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE FOR TRAINING IN PSYCHOANALYTIC PSYCHOTHERAPY
STAYING ALIVE: THE THERAPIST
AND THE NON-REFLECTIVE PATIENT
Saturday, May 14, 2011
Presenter: Nancy H. Wolf, L.C.S.W.
This clinical workshop will consider how an analyst can stay emotionally and psychologically alive in the room with a non-reflective and at times, non-communicative patient. Patients like this may be unable to access their emotional life or may do so only with difficulty. They resist contact with the therapist that might elicit emotions, fearing that such contact holds the possibility of danger and psychological collapse: Yet it may be their only hope. What can the therapist do when the patient constructs a middle ground or holding pattern, coming to sessions but engaging in attacks on both understanding and meaning, depriving the therapist of mental food for thought — and therefore of the necessary associative material which makes the work possible? The workshop will focus on the clinical situation and the dynamics between patient and therapist and will draw on the seminal thinking of Wilfred R. Bion, Esther Bick, and Anne Alvarez.
Nancy H. Wolf, L.C.S.W. is a Faculty Member and Supervisor in The Metropolitan Institute for Training in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy’s Adult Program. She is Past President of The New York Freudian Society and Faculty, Training and Supervising Analyst at The Psychoanalytic Institute of the New York Freudian Society. She has a particular interest in developmental trauma and the effects of early anxieties on thinking.
TIME: 10:00 AM – 1:00 PM, Breakfast at 9:30 AM
LOCATION: The Metropolitan Center for Mental Health
1090 St. Nicholas Avenue (located on West 165th Street
between St. Nicholas and Amsterdam Avenues, downstairs
level next to Church Santa Rosa de Lima)
FEE: $50 includes breakfast (no fee to MCMH staff)
$30 Student Fee (includes breakfast), with proof of student status
On site registration: $60 or $40 (students with proof of student status)
No fee to MCMH Staff members.
REGISTRATION DEADLINE IS May 12, 2011.
SPACE FOR THE WORKSHOP IS LIMITED. REGISTRATION IS ACCEPTED
ON A FIRST-COME FIRST-SERVED BASIS.
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Return to: Joyce A. Lerner, L.C.S.W., Director, MITPP
160 West 86th Street
New York, NY 10024
(212) 496-2858 mitppnyc@aol.com
MITPP, chartered by the New York State Board of Regents, offers three certificate programs: a three year program in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy with Adults, a two year program in Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy and a program leading to New York State licensure in Psychoanalysis for those with Masters Degrees who don’t qualify for licensure in the established mental health professions. Social Workers enrolled at MITPP may arrange to qualify for the LCSW. Matriculants see patients at the Metropolitan Center for Mental Health, which is licensed by the Office of Mental Health. MITPP’s low tuition of $1,000 per semester includes all supervision and coursework. Courses are also offered on a non-matriculated basis.
Applications are now being accepted for the Fall 2011 semester.
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