SOME THOUGHTS ON PSYCHOSOMATIC ILLNESS

Monday, March 12, 2007
7:30 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.

Presenter:  Marcia Kaplan, M.D.
Dr. Kaplan is a physician who is board certified in psychiatry and neurology, and the Director of the Advanced Psychotherapy Training Program at the Cincinnati Psychoanalytic Institute.  She is a past distinguished fellow of the American Psychiatric Association of which she is a current member.  She is past president-elect of the Cincinnati Psychoanalytic Society.  She also received certification in adult psychoanalysis from the American Psychoanalytic Society of which she is a current member.

Seminar Description
Dr. Kaplan will present typical presentations of psychosomatic illnesses from a psychoanalytic perspective.  The neurobiology of pain perception will be briefly discussed as a way to understand the etiology of such illnesses.  A case presentation of a patient who is being treated psychoanalytically will be discussed.  Dr. Kaplan will discuss recommended readings in her presentation.

Objectives:
1)  Identify two dynamics present in the patient's with psychosomatic illness.
2)  Name two ways in which neurobiology helps us understand psychosomatic illness.
3)  Name one advantage of psychoanalytic treatment for psychosomatic illness.