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, October 20, 2017 – 7:30 PM
NAVIGATING BOUNDARIES AND COUNTERTRANSFERENCE WHEN WORKING WITH CHILDREN, ADOLESCENTS AND THEIR PARENTS PRESENTER: SHELLY PETNOV-SHERMAN, LCSW

Treating children and adolescents can be extremely fulfilling and fun, as well as complex and difficult. Navigating the engagement of parents while maintaining confidentiality and boundaries can feel like “walking on a tightrope without a safety net.” This presentation will help facilitate and may challenge your understanding and knowledge of the dynamics involved in working with children and adolescents and their parents. Shelly Petnov-Sherman will use clinical material to illustrate these dynamics. She will also discuss her countertransference with this group of patients and how it has impacted and informed the treatment. This presentation will include how she came to this work and the trials she has endured, as well as how her ways of working have evolved over time.

Washington Baltimore Center for Psychoanalysis: 2017 Cultural Competence Conference: Changing Notions of Pathology
Sunday, November 5th, 2017, 12:30 – 4:00

The George Washington University Mount Vernon Campus 2100 Foxhall Road, NW West Hall B- 108 Washington, DC 20007
Introduction: Margarita Cereijido, PhD

Presenters:

Rosemary Balsam, MD: “From ‘The Child Woman’ to ‘Wonder Woman’: Progress and Misogyny in Psychoanalytic Theory and Clinical Work”
Dr. Balsam is an Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and a staff psychiatrist at Yale University; and a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Western New England Institute for Psychoanalysis. Her special interests are gender developments, young adulthood, the place of the body in psychic life, the work of Hans Loewald and teaching. She has written award winning papers and books, lectured here and abroad. She was a National Woman Traveling Psychoanalytic Scholar for APsaA. She is on the editorial boards of Psychoanalytic Quarterly, Imago, and JAPA. Her most recent book is: Women’s Bodies in Psychoanalysis (2012, Routledge).