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In the Realm of Unrepresented States: Understanding the Patient Who is Difficult to Reach
Instructors: Mary L. Ayre, M.D. and Angela Cappiello, M.D., Ph.D.
Educational Objectives:
¨ To study unrepresented states of mind, and non-neurotic aspects of the personality.
¨ To explore concepts such as representation, symbolization, alpha-function, and mentalization.
¨ To discuss how the intersubjective work between therapist and patient leads to a transformation of the unrepresented states into increasingly organized mental phenomena, amenable to more usual therapeutic interventions.
¨ To examine in the clinical material primitive, unrepresented states of the mind.
Audience: Mental Health Professionals, and Trainees.
In our work with patients we are often confronted with the issue of experience that cannot be expressed into words. “Unrepresented states’ define basic raw data, internal or external, which have failed to be transformed into symbols, or denote anxious states of impending danger, perceived as concrete objects in the psyche or as bodily states. Such unrepresented states can neither be used as food for thought nor stored as memories in the mind.
This course will discuss the intersubjective and intrapsychic work needed to transform and elaborate these unrepresented states into increasingly organized mental phenomena, amenable to more usual therapeutic interventions. Therapeutic action often consists of dreaming—that is, of undertaking the transformations of sensory storms into images that the patient cannot perform by himself.
Drawing from various authors (Levine, Bion, Botella & Botella, Ogden, Ferro etc.) this class will discuss ways to develop in the patient the capacity to generate images, to create dreams out of the forms of concrete thought represented by symptoms (Ogden, 2008)
Educational Objectives
1) This course will fill the educational gap by broadening current understanding of unrepresented states, and non-neurotic parts of the personality, and by providing in-depth analysis of individual cases.
2) The course will improve the professional/clinical competence of the participants by examining case studies in which is applied the intersubjective work needed to transform and elaborate the unrepresented states into increasingly organized mental phenomena, amenable to more usual therapeutic interventions.
3) The course design will include seminar discussion with readings and case material. We will consider aspects of unrepresented mental states and non-neurotic parts of patients’ personality. We will study concepts such as representation, symbolization, alpha-function, working through, and mentalization.
4) Taking the course the participants will improve clinical understanding and competence in the unrepresented states of mind, and non-neurotic parts of patients’ personality, in addition to enhancing the participants’ clinical and interpersonal skills, and quality of care.
8 sessions
Tuesdays, 6–8 pm
September 26 October 24 November 28 December 19 2017
January 23 February 20 March 20 April 24 2018Dr. Cappiello’s office:
49 Welles Street, Suite 216Glastonbury, CT
Fee: $ 640 ($ 50 for trainees)
Contemporary Psychoanalytic Field Theory (This course is postponed until next year)Instructor: S. Montana Katz
Educational Objectives:
¨ To be able to describe the theory of psychoanalytic field theory
¨ To be able to describe the clinical techniques of psychoanalytic field theory
¨ To be able to apply the techniques of psychoanalytic field theory in clinical practice
Audience: mental health professionals and trainees ,clinicians, scholars, and others interested in the topic
This course will cover contemporary psychoanalytic field theory models and clinical techniques. Specific emphasis will be placed on the role and activity of the analyst and on analytic listening. The application of fundamental concepts and techniques of field theory will be discussed, such as the use of the analytic field and the analytic relationship, unconscious metaphoric processes, and reverie. Readings for the course will be drawn from the work of Madeleine and Willy Baranger, Giuseppe Civitarese, Roosevelt Cassorla, Antonino Ferro, Edgar Levenson, and other contemporary field theorists.
4 Sessions
Wednesdays 7-8:30
March 7,14,21,28 2018
255 Bradley Street, New Haven [or specify other location]
Fee $240
Cultural Issues in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis: Identification and Identity in Immigration
Instructor: Esperanza Díaz MD
Educational Objectives:
¨ To understand the developmental tasks of pre-adolescence, adolescence, and adulthood in identity formation in preparation to understand the immigrant experience.
¨ To understand the psychological process of immigration and the subsequent reorganization of identity.
¨ To appreciate the impact of culture and language on identity.
Audience: Mental health professionals, clinicians, scholars and trainees interested in psychotherapy and mental health services to immigrants and minorities.
Starting with the seminal paper of the “First Not Me Possession” by Winnicott, the course will review the developmental tasks of preadolescence, adolescence and adulthood to prepare the participant to understand the process of an immigrant in a new culture and new language. We will review papers by Anna Freud and Sigmund Freud. Then, we will review the “Second Individuation Process of Adolescence” (Blos), “The Waning of the Oedipus Complex” (Loewald) and the “Conflicts of Aggression in Coming of Age” by our own Samuel Ritvo with his 2003 paper. We will end by reviewing what happens to identity and individuation in immigrants and the impact of language and cultural differences in establishing a new identity. Participants will have the opportunity to bring examples of their own cases to illustrate the discussions.
4 sessions
Tuesdays, 5:30–7pm
November 14, 21, 28 and Dec 5. [Monday evenings would be a second option.]
255 Bradley Street, New Haven
Fee: $ 240
Placing your Theory on the Couch: Models of Listening that Shape Therapist Inference
Instructor: Ira Moses, Ph.D.
Educational Objectives:
¨ By more detailed listening participants will be able to help their patients articulate their experiences more fully
¨ Participants will be able to differentiate the distinct treatment implications of the Relational and Interpersonal Models.
¨ Reviewing published transcripts will enhance the participants ability to assess the therapist’s responsiveness to the patient’s reports.
Audience: Mental health clinicians, trainees, and others interested in the topic
This seminar will critique how our ways of listening to the material shape our inferential process. By reviewing the details of published psychoanalytic transcripts we will review the many points in the treatment where the clinician may opt to intervene (or not) depending on one's model of treatment. In examining the transcripts questions will be debated about the "when" and "how" of addressing the patient's, characterological patterns, acting out, transference, or the real relationship. We will review how the patient responds to the analyst's interventions and how we can think about working with the "here and now," and/or the "there and then" of the material. Particular attention will be paid to some critical distinctions between Interpersonal and Relational clinical theory which differ significantly in in their view of mental functioning and clinical interventions
4 Sessions
Wednesdays, 630-8 PM
Oct 4,11,18,25 2017
255 Bradley Street, New Haven
Fee: $240
Clinical Assessment and Psychotherapeutic Treatment of Gender Nonconforming Children, Adolescents and Adults
Instructors: Lisa Marcus, PhD and Ken Marcus, MD
Educational Objectives:
¨ To broaden our ability to help individuals and their families as they make gender transition decisions given the limitations in what we know about causal mechanisms, developmental trajectories and treatment outcomes.
¨ To better help patients to evaluate and address intrapsychic conflicts, conscious and unconscious, related to gender identity, as well as the interpersonal difficulties created by familial and cultural pressures toward gender conformity, as they work toward greater authenticity and comfort within their gender identities.
¨ To better help family members to address the internal struggles, as well as interpersonal challenges, that arise when a family member is redefining their gender identity.
Audience: Mental health professionals and trainees who have some clinical experience working with gender nonconforming individuals, whether in clinical or support agency settings.
We will focus on participants’ clinical work with gender nonconforming individuals. Clinical issues will include, but not be limited to: how to evaluate and understand gender identity – how developmental level, character traits, concurrent psychopathology, and familial and social environmental factors affect this assessment; how to advise individuals and families who are considering potentially irreversible medical intervention while recognizing the inherently elusive and changing nature of identity; how to recognize when psychotherapy is indicated in the course of a gender consultation.
8 sessions
Mondays, 7–9 pm
Sept 18, 25, Oct 2, 16, 23, 30, Nov 6, 13, 2017
255 Bradley Street, New Haven
Fee: $ 640
Social neuroscience and psychoanalytic perspectives on parenting and addiction
Instructors: Linda Mayes and Helena Rutherford
Educational Objectives:
¨ Understand the value of examining parenting and addiction from neuroscientific and psychoanalytic perspectives
¨ Critical consideration of the experimental and theoretical research that has been introduced to date in this area and its relevance for interventions
Audience: (eg mental health professionals and trainees ,clinicians, scholars, and others interested in the topic) Any and all – attendees do not need any prior knowledge of neuroscience (or psychoanalysis)
The purpose of this course is to outline the relevant neuroscientific and psychoanalytic literature as it pertains to parenting and addiction; specifically, these sessions will serve to (1) demonstrate the value of these disciplines to our understanding of parental addiction and the impact of addiction on the emerging family system; and (2) support the identification of mechanisms that can be directly targeted by intervention approaches.
6 sessions
Day of the week, time, dates [give us your preferences; we will try to accommodate you]
Beginning at 5pm or 5.30pm would be optimal; day of the week is flexible, spring semester
255 Bradley Street, New Haven
Fee: $ 240
CANCELED
Joyce's Ulysses and Psychoanalytic Listening
Instructor: Paul Schwaber, PhD
Educational Objectives:
¨ To read through and comprehend and enjoy Ulysses.
¨ To consider the usefulness of a psychoanalytic consideration of the characters.
¨ To consider the psychodynamics of the changing narrative strategies.
Audience: clinicians, scholars, and students of literature interested in the topic.
James Joyce's Ulysses has often been acclaimed as the greatest novel of the twentieth century. Our aim will be to read this remarkable novel closely and to appreciate its comedy, insight, and creative force. In doing so, we will consider its contemporaneity with Freud's work, the way a pyshcoanalytic perspective helps to illuminate it, and how Ulysses in turn tests psychoanalysis.
14 sessions
Thursdays, 7–9:00 pm
February 22 2018
March 1,8,15,22,29
April 5,12,19,26
May 3,10,17,24255 Bradley Street, New Haven
Fee: $ 640 ($ 50 for trainees)
CONTINUING EDUCATION 2016-2017
New Models of Bereavement Theory & Treatment: New Mourning
Instructor: George Hagman, LCSW
Educational Objectives:
¨ Participants will acquire extensive knowledge of new psychological models of bereavement, mourning and grief
¨ Participants will learn to apply this knowledge to perform more accurate and effective assessments of patients who have experienced bereavements
¨ Participants will gain skill in developing more reliable and useful treatment plans which target the unique responses of their bereaved patients
Audience: clinicians, students, and interested scholars
This course reviews the psychoanalytic theory of mourning and loss, and offers a new perspective based on contemporary analytic and extra-analytic theory and research. The classical emphases on decathexis as the major work of mourning is critiqued and a new model based on continuity, dialogue and meaning is offered. Extensive clinical discussion regarding work with grieving or traumatized patients is encouraged. Participants will gain a thorough knowledge of the theory of mourning and loss, and acquire greater skill in working with these patients. Mourning, loss and transition as universal as well as highly personal processes are emphasized.
4 sessions
Tuesdays, 7–9 pm
January 31, February 7, 14, 21, 2017
255 Bradley Street, New Haven
Fee: $ 320 ($50 for trainees)
Psychoanalysis and Its Critics: Understanding the Arguments
Instructors: Ken Marcus, MD and Lisa Marcus, PhD
Educational Objectives:
¨ To become familiar with the most salient current criticisms of psychoanalysis as well as the responses to those critiques
¨ To develop an understanding of the epistemic underpinnings, scientific methodologies and validity of the conclusions drawn by both critics and adherents
¨ To apply and integrate these analyses into their own clinical work and/or their broader view of the psychoanalytic enterprise
Audience: Clinicians, scholars, and trainees
This course is the first in a series intended to explore the current status of psychoanalysis as a theory of mind, a clinical theory, a treatment, and in its relationship to related clinical, bio-medical and psychosocial sciences. Psycho-analysis, whose ideas have been both revolutionary and controversial since its inception, has been challenged from an array of perspectives—philosophic, scientific, clinical and organizational. It has seen its status and credibility as the primary explanatory model of human mental functioning—of what it means to be human—decline in relation to other explanatory systems originating from within and without psychoanalysis and the psychological sciences. For those with a deep conviction that psychoanalysis has yielded fundamental insights concerning the human condition which could not have been uncovered in any other way and who thus wish to preserve it, it is essential to understand the nature and quality of those criticisms and the nature and quality of psychoanalysis’ response.
6 sessions
Mondays, 7–9 pm
March 27, April 3, 10, 17, 24, May 1, 2017
255 Bradley Street, New Haven
Fee: $ 480 ($ 50 for trainees)
Psychotic States of Mind
Instructor: Robin J Renders, PhD
Educational Objectives:
¨ To identify the underlying psychological functions of essential psychotic mental processes
¨ To identify the concepts of mental states that manifest on a continuum of different levels of psychological organization
¨ To apply the theoretical understanding of psychotic mental processes to issues of technique
Audience: Clinicians interested in joining an ongoing study group led by the instructor in Stockbridge, MA.
This course will address psychotic processes as they are manifest in primary psychotic conditions (i.e., schizophrenia, paranoia) as well as other personality organizations. We will consider Freud's original notion of "internal catastrophe" and focus on the relation between psychic reality and external reality along with concepts of the self, disintegration, impingement, and projective identification, and the significance of the context of object relations. Theoretical understanding will be linked to issues of technique, for example, the fear of being taken over. Readings will be drawn from classical, developmental, and British object relations literature, including Segal, Bion, Rosenfeld, Winnicott, Fonagy and Target, and others.
8 sessions
Wednesdays, 6:30–8 pm
April 12, 19, 26, May 3, 10, 17, 24, 31, 2017
Stockbridge, MA
Fee: $ 360 ($50 for trainees)
Please contact Dr. Renders at 413-298-3920 or RobinRenders@aol.com if you are interested in this class.
Field Theory in the Consulting Room: The Work of Antonino Ferro
Instructors: Angela Cappiello, MD, PhD, and Elizabeth Wilson, MD
Educational Objectives:
¨ To study the analytic field theory
¨ To explore the technical implications of the field theory in the here and now of the therapeutic relationship
¨ To examine clinical material following the analytic field model
Audience: mental health professionals and trainees
“The analytic field is made of all the lines of force, proto-aggregates of proto-emotions, proto-characters and characters floating in the virtual space of the field, as they gradually assume weight, color and three-dimensionality… It includes unconscious or unmentalized types of functioning, which are continuously transformed into thinkable forms...” (Antonino Ferro, 2002)
This course will explore Ferro’s model of analytic field. We will address the implications of the field model in terms of the therapist’s listening to the patient communications, transference-countertransference, reverie, and projective identification. We will read papers mainly from Ferro, Civitarese, Bion, and Baranger. We will examine case material in which the field theory is applied.
5 sessions
Thursdays 7–8:30 pm
May 4, 11, 18, 25, June 1, 2017
255 Bradley Street, New Haven
Fee: $ 300 ($ 50 for trainees)
Loewald & Beyond: The Mind, Representation & the Analytic Field
Instructor: Elizabeth A. Brett, PhD
Educational Objectives:
¨ Participants will learn about new concepts of the analytic field and of unrepresented psychic content
¨ Participants will learn how to recognize represented and unrepresented material in the field
¨ Participants will learn how to work clinically with poorly organized and unrepresented states
Audience: Mental health professionals, trainees and scholars
In his later work, Hans Loewald focused on psychic structure formation in the analytic field and on its development in undifferentiated and more complexly organized interaction. His ideas anticipated much of the contemporary concern with primitively organized/poorly represented experience and its treatment. In this elective, we will compare Loewald’s late contributions with recent views of the analytic field (Antonino Ferro and Giuseppe Civitarese) and unrepresented states (Howard Levine, Gail Reed, and Dominique Scarfone).
6 sessions
Tuesdays, 6:30–8:30 pm
January 24, 31, February 7, 14, 21, 28, 2017
255 Bradley Street, New Haven
Fee: $ 480 ($50 for trainees)
CONTINUING EDUCATION COURSES 2013-2014
Philosophical Problems in Psychoanalysis (CANCELLED)
Working with Adolescents: Clinical Applications of Developmental Psychoanalytic Theory
Primitive Dimensions of Countertransference States
Enhancing Your Clinical Skills with Self Psychology: An Introduction to the Theory and Clinical Methods
Resilience to Stress and Trauma (Postponed until the fall)
Using our Minds: Therapists' In-Session Links to the Patient (Postponed until next year)
Contemporary Psychoanalytic Approaches to Borderline Personality
Feminism, Film and the Mind
Philosophical Problems in Psychoanalysis (CANCELLED)
Instructor: Marshal Mandelkern, M.D., Ph.D.
Educational Objectives: To examine several philosophical problems raised by psychoanalytic theory and practice.
Audience: Practitioners of analytic therapy with an interest in philosophical questions, and those with an interest in psychoanalytic theory.
Course Description: We will look at several philosophical questions raised by psychoanalytic theory and practice: the scientific basis of analysis and the possibility of the hermeneutic alternative, the problem of free will in analysis, and the problem of consciousness. My main goal will be to highlight the problematic nature of these issues, rather than to come to any specific conclusion.
4 sessions
Saturdays, 10:30am- 12pm
October 5, 12, 19, 26
255 Bradley Street
New Haven, CT
Fee: $210 ($50 for trainees)
Working with Adolescents: Clinical Applications of Developmental Psychoanalytic Theory
Instructor: Norka T. Malberg, PsyD, LPC
Educational Objectives:
1) To discuss the application of the developmental psychoanalytic framework to the clinical work with adolescents.
2) To provide a clear conceptual framework to participants from which to develop clinical formulations.
3) To explore and compare classical and contemporary clinical modalities in adolescent psychodynamic psychotherapy.Audience: Mental health professionals working with adolescents
Course Description: This course will review the clinical applications of the developmental psychoanalytic lens to the work with adolescents. Participants will be assigned readings offering a framework from which to think and discuss published clinical material. Strong emphasis will be placed on the importance of creating a clear clinical formulation that guides the process of intervention and informs the clinician's technical choices. Technical issues specific to contemporary work with adolescents such as the impact of social media will be discussed.
6 Sessions
Tuesdays, 7-8:30pm
September 17, 24
October 1,8,15
255 Bradley Street
New Haven, CT
Fee: $315 ($50 for trainees)
Primitive Dimensions of Countertransference States
Instructors: Mary L. Ayre, M.D. and Angela Cappiello, M.D., Ph. D.
Educational Objectives:
1) To develop awareness of countertransference states particularly in terms of intrapsychic and bodily experience.
2) To explore the current theoretical understanding of countertransference and its application in clinical settings.
3) To study clinical process material from current psychotherapy sessions to be presented by course members.Audience: Mental health professional and trainees
Course Description: The analysis of countertransference states can lead us to understand the primitive dimensions of the mind of an individual. A therapist's somatopsychic experience in the room develops in parallel to the psychic shifts in the patient, and may provide valuable information in the clinical setting. We will explore the current literature regarding countertransference as a registration of something within the patient's unconscious that is not accessed verbally but is registered through the therapist's somatic/mind state.
5 sessions
Tuesdays 6:30pm-8pm
September 24
October 1, 8
November 5
49 Welles Street, Suite 216
Glastonbury, CT
Fee: $260 ($50)
Enhancing Your Clinical Skills with Self Psychology: An Introduction to the Theory and Clinical Methods
Instructor: George Hagman, LCSW
Educational Objectives:
1) Learn about the history, central theories and clinical concepts of Self Psychology.
2) Appreciate the importance of self-experience in psychological life and how it is tied to relationships with important others considered self objects.
3) Explore the central role of empathy in clinical treatment.
4) Increase awareness of the forward edge of development, and how clinicians can support these positive strivings while working through resistance to change.Audience: Mental health professional and trainees
Course Description: This course will introduce participants to the basic theories and clinical applications of Self Psychology. Special attention will be given to those aspects of the field which are especially useful in clinical practice. Several classes will focus on special clinical challenges such as trauma, couples therapy and addiction. In depth case discussion will be used throughout. The goal of the class is for the participant to enhance his or her clinical practice with the help of Self Psychological understanding and techniques.
6 sessions
Tuesdays, 6-8pm
February 25, March 4, 11, 18,25, April 1 2014
255 Bradley Street
New Haven CTFee: $420 ($50 for trainees)
Resilence to Stress and Trauma
Instructors: Linda Mayes, M.D. and Steven Southwick, M.D.
Educational Objectives:
1) Students will learn about psychological, social and neurobiological factors associated with resilience to stress.
2) Students will learn about psychodynamic approaches to understanding resilience to stress
3) Students will learn about a variety of approaches to enhancing resilence.Audience: Clinicians and interested members of the community.
Course Description: This class will focus on resilience to stress and trauma. Resilience will be discussed from neurobiological, psychological and social perspectives. How do mental health professionals and psychoanalysts think about trauma-related adaptation, defense mechanisms, reframing, recovery, resilience and posttraumatic growth?
4 sessions
Wednesdays, 5-6:30pm
March 5,12,19,26 2014
255 Bradley Street, New Haven, CT
Fee: $210 ($50 for trainees)
Feminism, Film and the Mind
Instructors: Millicent Marcus, Ph.D. and Victoria Morrow, M.D.
Educational Objectives:
1) To explore the intersection between feminist theory and film theory.
2) To become familiar with the theories of film critic Laura Malvey.
3) To understand the Freudian and Lacanian underpinnings of Malvey’s theories.
Audience: Those interested in feminism, psychoanalysis and expressions of these theories in film.
Course Description: This will be a one session presentation on psychoanalysis and feminist film theory. We will discuss the work of pioneering feminist film critic Laura Malvey (whose writing is heavily inflected by Freudian and Lacanian thought), and apply it to several sequences in Italian film.
One session
Thursday May 6, 2014, 7–9 pm
location TBAFee: $70 ($50 for trainees)
Using our Minds: Therapists' In-Session Links to the Patient (postponed until next year)
Instructors: Deborah Fried, M.D. and Brian Tobin M.D.
Educational Objectives:
1) To recognize the importance of events (seemingly stray thoughts, moods, memories, etc) in the therapist’s mind during sessions.
2) To appreciate how such stirrings reflect the patient’s affects, ideas, temperament and relationship patterns.
3) To use this understanding of our own and our patients’ states of mind to further the treatment.Audience: Clinicians and trainees interested in the dynamics between patient and therapist.
Course Description: When attempting to understand patients one of our most powerful tools is our awareness of something going on in our minds, our experience in as well as between sessions. An idea that evolved from W. Bion is that these impressions may be in fact a form of communication from patient to therapist informing us about aspects of his or her intrapsychic organization. Given this notion, we work to link the experiences of something going on in the room to the patient’s psyche. Each week we will review a relevant article. Then, a member of our group will provide process material that focuses on the actual lived emotional experience of the therapeutic dyad in an effort for us to elaborate upon and jointly experience the theoretical ideas we are learning.
6 sessions
Thursdays, 6–7:30 pm
April 10, 17, May 1, 8, 15, 22, 2014
255 Bradley Street, New Haven
Fee: $315 ($50 for trainees)
Contemporary Psychoanalytic Approaches to Borderline Personality
Instructor: Stephen Atkins, M.D., Ph.D.
Educational Objectives: Upon completion of this course participants should be able to:
1) Understand the theories of borderline personality disorder underlying these approaches.
2) Understand how transference is used in these approaches.
3) Understand the role of interpretation in these approaches.
Audience: Mental health trainees or professionals with an interest in borderline personality disorder
Course Description: Two contemporary psychoanalytic approaches to the treatment of borderline personality disorder are Transference-focused Psychotherapy, developed by Otto Kernberg, John Clarkin, and Frank Yeomans; and Mentalization-based Psychotherapy, developed by Peter Fonagy and Anthony Bateman. We will explore the theoretical foundations and treatment techniques of these two approaches.
5 sessions
Wednesdays, 7–8:30 pm
April 16, 30, May 14, 28, and June 4, 2014
255 Bradley Street, New Haven
Fee: $260 ($50 for trainees)
Continuing Education Courses 2011-2012
A variety of individual courses are offered each year taught by members of the Western New England Psychoanalytic Society. Participants include mental health professionals and trainees, as well as others from outside the mental health field, at various levels of knowledge of psychoanalytic concepts. A course can serve as an introduction to psychoanalytic concepts or a way to deepen one's psychoanalytic understanding. Course topics have included theory and technique, developmental considerations, and studies of imaginative literature.
Courses for 2011-2012
Clinical Applications of French Psychoanalytic TheoryPsychosomatics and Contemporary Psychoanalysis
On Another Level
Philosphical Problems in Psychoanalysis
Anna Freud & The Developmental Tradition Today
Sex Therapy & Psychoanalysis: Strange Bedfellows or Complementary Companions?
Psychoanalysis Playful and Profound, Part I: The Works of Bertram Lewin
Law and Psychoanalysis
Moments of Conflict
Program Committee
Co-Chairs
Deborah Fried, M.D.
Rachel Bergeron, Ph.D.,J.D.Robert White, M.D.
Coordinator, Seminars in Psychotherapy
Committee Members
Susan Bers, Ph.D.
Sybil Houlding, M.S.W
Angelica Kaner, Ph.D.
Fred Koerner, Ph.D.
Nancy Olson, M.D.
Lynn Reiser, M.D.
Bronce Rice, Psy.D.
Faculty 2011-2012
David Carlson, M.D.
Anne Dailey, J.D.
Carole Goldberg, Psy.D.
Frank Knoblaugh, M.D.
Lawrence Levenson, M.D.
Norka Malberg, Psy.D.
Marshal Mandelkern, M.D., Ph.D.
Jack Miller, M.D.
Accreditation
This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the Essential Areas and Policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint sponsorship of the The American Psychoanalytic Association and the Western New England Psychoanalytic Society. The American Psychoanalytic Association is accrediated by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
The American Psychoanalytic Association designates this live activity for a maximum of (number of credits) AMA PRA in Category 1 credit(s). Physician should claim only the credits commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Important Disclosure Information for All Learners:
None of the planners and presenters of the CME program have any relevant financial relationships to disclose.CEU credit issued by N.A.S.W.-CT for hours attended under the continuing education criteria for Social Work Licensure renewal.
2010-2011 Continuing Education Courses
Courses for 2010-2011
The Role of Mourning in Psychoanalysis and Analytic Psychotherapy
Mentalization Based Interventions: Theory and Clinical Practice
Three Ways of Thinking about Thinking Contemporary Views of Trauma: Implications for Psychotherapeutic Practice
Philosophical Problems in Psychoanalysis Psychotherapy Supervision (Course to be held 2011-2012)
Writing from Inside-Out An Introduction to the Work of Anna Freud
The Role of Mourning in Psychoanalysis and Analytic Psychotherapy
Instructor: Sybil Houlding, MSW
Educational Objectives: (1) Participants will study significant papers in the analytic literature on mourning, (2) will become familiar with theories about the psychic work involved in mourning and (3) will become attuned to failed or pathological mourning in the clinical situation.Audience: Mental health professionals; interested others.
Course Description: Mourning builds psychic structure and will be an essential part of any psychoanalysis or dynamic therapy. In this course we will read papers by Freud, Klein, and Loewald, as well as contemporary writers (Sodres, Steiner, Frankiel). We will view a film, Sand we are reading about.
6 sessions
Thursdays, 7–8:30 pmSeptember 23, 30
October 7, 14, 21, 28, 2010
255 Bradley Street, New Haven
Fee: $ 270.
Mentalization Based Interventions:
Theory and Clinical Practice
Instructors: Norka T. Malberg, PsyD and Linda Mayes, MD
Educational Objectives: To study the theoretical basis and clinical applications of mentalization based interventions.
Audience: Mental health professionals and trainees, especially those working in community based settings.
Course Description: We will explore the theory of mentalization and the existing evidence that helped influence its clinical applications. All sessions will seek to illustrate the diverse clinical applications of the mentalization based intervention by
providing clinical examples and descriptions of existing interventions (such as group work with certain populations). Specific technical considerations and
guidelines will be discussed and illustrated.
5 sessions
Tuesdays, 5:30–7 pm
October 19, 26
November 2,9,16, 2010
255 Bradley Street, New Haven
Fee: $225
Three Ways of Thinking about Thinking
Instructor: Frank W. Knoblauch, MD
Educational Objectives: To consider how observing and describing clinical material from different theoretical points of view affects our understanding of what the “data” are. To introduce approaches to clinical observation based on ideas from various psychoanalytic schools but also from non-psychoanalytic but related fields such as linguistics, semiotics, and neuroscience To learn about the theory of projective identification and some of its manifestations in an interaction between a therapist and a patient Audience: Mental health professionals and trainees (maximum 8)
Course Description: We will examine in detail and from several perspectives a 45-minute video recording and transcription of a psychotherapy session. In the first meeting we will read a chapter from John Muller’s (2000) book, Peirce, Semiotics, and Psychoanalysis and will consider the interview in terms of its “signs” and sign systems. We will go on to read some selections from Gerald Edelman’s (1989) book, The Remembered Present (a modern neuroscientific discussion of memory) to help us rethink the interview as it reveals the functioning of the participants’
“memories.” In our final meeting we will read some selections on projective identification from W.R. Bion and Thomas Ogden and relook at the interview with respect to how the two participants seem to
be affecting each other.
Three evening sessions
2 hours each
Dr. Knoblauch’s office in West Hartford.
Fee: $180
Contemporary Views of Trauma:
Implications for Psychotherapeutic Practice
Instructor: Steven Marans, PhD
Educational Objectives: This brief course will provide an overview of a psychodynamic context for understanding the phenomena of trauma. Discussions will be based on a mixture of lectures, systematic group review of traumatic phenomena, and selected readings. The intent of these sessions will be to consider the nature of current trauma-focused treatments in a broader psychodynamic
context as well as implications of the phenomena of trauma to general psychotherapeutic practice.
Audience: Mental health professionals and trainees
Course Description: Participants will learn about what Freud described as the “traumatic situation” in the context of a psychoanalytic consideration of unfolding development and symptom formation. Participants will learn about the detailed phenomenology of traumatic experience and the convergence of psychodynamic and cognitive-behavioral approaches to traumafocused treatments. Participants will learn about ways in which a deep understanding of the human experience of overwhelming, traumatic events can have broad implications for considering the goals of treatment in general psychotherapeutic practice. Selected readings from: Inhibitions, Symptoms and Anxiety (Freud, 1926), Mourning and Melancholia (Freud, 1917) and Listening to Fear (Marans, 2005).
4 sessions
Wednesdays, 6:30-8:00 pm
January 12, 19, 26
February 2, 2011
255 Bradley Street, New Haven
Fee: $180
Philosophical Problems in Psychoanalysis (To be held 2011-2012)
255 Bradley Street, New Haven
Fee: $270
Instructor: Marshal Mandelkern, MD, PhD
Educational Objectives: To examine several philosophical problems raised by psychoanalytic theory and practice.
Audience: Practitioners of analytic therapy with an interest in philosophical questions, and those with an interest in psychoanalytic theory.
Course Description: We will look at several philosophical questions raised by psychoanalytic theory and practice. The scientific basis of analysis, and the possibility of the hermeneutic alternative; the problem of free will in analysis; and the problem of consciousness. My main goal will be to highlight the problematic nature of these issues, rather than to come to any specific conclusion.
Will be held in academic year 2011-2012
Writing from Inside-Out
Instructor: Joan Wexler, MSW
Educational Objectives:• To use reading as a stimulant to writing.
• To become more familiar with your own personal writing style.
• To capture internal experience in written prose.
Audience: Mental health professionals and trainees
Course Description: Reading clinical papers along with fiction, poetry and memoir enhances our own capacity to write about our patient’s internal lives and our responses to them. Each week we will read a poem, short story or short memoir and one clinical paper. Class members write a response to the reading of no more than 500 words. The writing response may be clinical, critical or personal. Discussion will focus on what works in the writing and reading samples—what aspect of the writing conveys the inner experience of the writer and the writer’s subject noting economy, clarity, point of view, affect and style.
6 sessions
Thursdays, 5:30–7 pm
March 24, 31
April 7, 14, 21, 28, 2011
255 Bradley Street, New Haven
Fee: $270
An Introduction to the Work of Anna Freud
Instructors: Norka T. Malberg, PsyD and Victoria Morrow, M.D.
Educational Objectives: To acquaint ourselves with the work of child psychoanalyst Anna Freud, her theoretical conceptualizations and their clinical applications.
Audience: Mental health professionals and trainees, especially those working with children.
Course Description: This course will introduce the participants to the work of Anna Freud. Starting with a brief introduction to her life and work in order to provide a historical framework (e.g. the impact of the controversial discussions with Melanie Klein), the course will examine in
detail Anna Freud's major contributions such as the developmental profile and the
developmental lines and their applications to our work today. Examples of innovative
approaches to working with children away from the consulting room will be discussed.
The course will use clinical examples provided by instructors and participants to
illustrate major concepts and promote discussion regarding theoretical evolution
as well as to provide an opportunity for skill development.
8 sessions
Tuesdays, 5:30-7:00 pm
March 29
April 5, 26
May 3, 10, 17, 24, 31, 2011
255 Bradley Street, New Haven
Fee: $360