MITPP 2012 SUMMER INSTITUTE
WORKING WITH PARENTS AND CHILDREN OF DIVORCE
This six week clinical mini course will educate the therapist about legal issues, mandated reporting, letters to the court, subpoenas and establishing custody. The impact on children of separation and divorce, high conflict, the loss of the father, and the “caught in middle” syndrome will be explored. Parental capacity and goodness of fit with the child will be assessed. Other topics covered will be: who in the family to see, couples therapy, attachment and its bearing on divorce issues, overnight visitation, multiple attachments, siblings, step-parents and blended families, fatherhood, the child therapy process and work with divorced families as well as domestic violence and child sexual and physical abuse.
PAUL HYMOWITZ, Ph.D. Faculty: Metropolitan Institute for Training in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, Adult and Child and Adolescent Programs; Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research. Adjunct Professor: New York Medical College. Instructor: Yeshiva University. Member: New York University Postdoctoral Program, Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, International Psychoanalytical Association.
Thursdays, June 7, 14, 21, 28, July 5, 12
6:30 PM – 8:00 PM $120
60 West 13th Street (between 5th and 6th Avenues, just off 6th)
POST PARTUM DEPRESSION: ITS IMPACT ON MOTHER AND CHILD
The literature and direct work on postpartum depression, a specific type of depression that occurs after childbirth, has emphasized the biological aspect that plays a role in it. Often the crucial impact of psychological factors is minimized. In this four-week mini-course, we will aim to identify predisposing factors, symptoms and manifestations of post-partum depression and focus on the work we can do as clinicians to help from a psychoanalytic perspective.
ALEXANDRA CATTARUZZA, MS, LP 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.
Mondays, June 11, 18, 25, July 2
7:00 PM – 8:30 PM $80
1133 Broadway, Suite 1127 (between 25th & 26th Streets)
THE EATING DISORDERED PATIENT: ASSESSMENT AND TREATMENT
In eating disorders, the body is used as an expression of affects and anxieties that must be kept out of awareness. When these issues are understood through treatment, the attack on the self is revealed and the communication of affect and experience can begin. This marks the beginning of connecting the patient to his or her inner life. For people with eating disorders the foundation is set for deeper work. Through clinical material, behaviors such as self-starvation, binding, exercising and other obsessional rituals will be examined. The unique aspects of these patients’ transferences will be explored. Techniques for creating and maintaining a therapeutic alliance with eating disordered patients will be discussed.
NANCY CROMER-GRAYSON, LCSW Faculty and Supervisor: Metropolitan Institute for Training in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, Adult Program; New York Freudian Society Psychotherapy Program. Faculty: New York School for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. Fellow: Academy of Eating Disorders. Vice President: American Anorexia and Bulimia Association. Recipient: Plumsock Prize, New York Freudian Society.
Tuesdays, June 12, 19, 26
6:30 PM – 8:00 PM $60
177 East 87th Street (between Lexington and 3rd Avenues)
BIPOLAR DISORDER: THE INTERFACE BETWEEN MEDICATION AND PSYCHOTHERAPY
Bipolar Disorder is one of the puzzling diagnoses in psychiatric illnesses. As a result of ongoing clinical practice and neuroscience research, the diagnosis has gone through several revisions and includes a wide spectrum of psychological presentations. While the research evidence for genetic roots and biochemical causes of Bipolar Disorder is rapidly growing, the very basic Kleinian principle of Paranoid-Schizoid Position vs. Depressive Position appears to dominate the psychodynamics of most of these patients. These Kleinian positions will be presented and explained. This interactive workshop will review the diagnosis and the psychodynamic and the psychopharmacological aspects of this illness. The interface between medication and psychotherapy together with some clinical case material will be presented.
KAMRAN RAHMANI, MD Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Faculty and Supervisor: Montefiore Medical Center. Member: American Academy of Psychoanalysis, American Psychiatric Association, American Society of Clinical Psychopharmacology. Dr. Rahmani has conducted workshops on cultural issues in psychotherapy and clinical psychopharmacology.
Saturday, June 16
10:00 AM – 1:00 PM $50
60 West 13th Street, Suite #LB (between 5th and 6th Avenues, just off 6th)
TREATING THE CONCRETE PATIENT
A fundamental aspect of psychoanalytic psychotherapy and psychoanalysis is the interpretation of symbolic meaning as it emerges through dreams, transference, unconscious fantasy and enactment. However, increasingly psychoanalytically-oriented clinicians find themselves working with patients who respond to symbolic interpretations with defensive concreteness, claiming in one way or another that “what I say is literally what I mean”: end of discussion. This mini-course will aim to more fully explore the problem of concreteness as well as several different ways to intervene in order to begin the process of opening up a therapeutic space in which effective interpretation can occur. In other words, how is it possible for both clinician and patient to arrive at a shared sense that anything that goes on in the therapeutic context could ultimately mean something other than its manifest content? Participants will be encouraged to bring vignettes from their own practices as we work through this most challenging clinical issue.
BRIAN KLOPPENBERG, MFA, LP Faculty: Metropolitan Institute for Training in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, Adult Program. Board Member, Training and Supervising Analyst: National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis. Director: Theodore Reik Clinical Center for Psychotherapy.
Tuesday, July 3, 10, 17, 24, 31
8:00 PM – 9:30 PM $100
155 West 20th Street, #3K (between 6th and 7th Avenues)
HOW TO ORGANIZE YOUR CLINICAL MATERIAL OR PREPARE A CASE FOR PRESENTATION
Organizing your clinical work with a patient is a unique endeavor. Most candidates and/or seasoned clinicians find their first experience very challenging because this kind of organizing draws on so many different skills, such as: the capacity to integrate clinical theory with practice, the ability to select and organize the clinical material which best represents your patient and, if you’re writing about the case, the ability to write clearly. The hardest part may be conceptualizing the therapeutic process so the patient and the therapist come alive. This mini course will cover the steps that can help you think about your clinical material in a more useful way or produce a presentation or paper which captures the therapeutic process, represents your understanding of your patient, demonstrates your role in the treatment, and substantiates your dynamic and diagnostic thinking.
LOUISE CRANDALL, Ph.D., LCSW Faculty and Supervisor: Metropolitan Institute for Training in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, Adult Program. Training and Supervising Analyst: New York Freudian Society. Adjunct Associate Professor: New York University School of Social Work. Member: New York Freudian Society, International Psychoanalytical Association, National Association of Social Workers, New York State Society of Clinical Social Work Psychotherapists, National Membership Committee on Psychoanalysis.
Mondays, June 18, 25, July 9, 16
6:30 PM – 8:00 PM $80
170 West End Avenue, #1E (at 68th Street)
THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE VERY, VERY BAD: BRINGING THE WHOLE CHILD INTO THERAPY
Children are referred for therapy because of difficulties at home and school – they may be aggressive, demanding, anxious, or prone to tantrums. Classmates avoid them, and parents and teachers describe them as “impossible.” Many of these children begin therapy, quickly become attached, and love to play and spend time with their therapist. It’s a pleasure to be with them in sessions. In short, these children are like two different people: gentle, sweet children with their therapists, and angry, needy, oppositional children with parents and teachers. This workshop will focus on ways to bring the whole child into treatment, to work with the loving and aggressive, the anxious and attached, the needy and obstructionist. Case examples will be used to demonstrate how to engage all sides of children in treatment, helping them to bring us their pleasures and pains, anxieties and anger, so that we can work together to help them alleviate their difficulties at home and in school.
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.
Saturday, July 14
10:00 AM – 1:00 PM $50
229 West 71st Street (top floor walk-up, west of Broadway)
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