February 12th, 2024, 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. (1.5 CE credits – free for members with CE credit; $30 for non-members requesting CE credit). In Person meeting with Zoom option (see below on how to request Zoom link). Meeting Address: 1050 W. 42nd Street, Indianapolis, IN 46208.

Title

The Emerging Process Within the Therapist as a Creative Resource for Deepening the Therapeutic Work

Presenter

Nancy D. Campbell, Ph.D., HSPP, LMFT

Description

Building upon our last ISPT meeting, we will explore the importance of the emerging process within the therapist as a creative resource for deepening therapeutic work. Ideally, we will share moments from our own work when spontaneous images, thoughts, etc., were shared and what impact they had on the therapeutic process.

Learning Objectives

Be able to focus on emerging process in countertransference
Identify moments of therapeutic work that surprisingly led to therapeutic change
Discover through the group process new meanings of clinical encounters

Sources

Bion, W. R. (1992). Notes on Memory and Desire (1967). In  W. R. Bion, & F. Bion (Ed.), Cogitations (pp. 380-383). Karnac Books.

Brandchaft, B. (1991) Countertransference in the Analytic Process. Progress in Self-Psychology 7:99-105.

Carpy, D. V. (1989) Tolerating the Countertransference: A Mutative Process. International Journal of Psychoanalysis 70:287-294

Cooper, P. C. (2008) Being the Moment. Psychoanalytic Review 95:285-303

Parsons, M. (2006) The Analyst’s Countertransference to the Psychoanalytic Process. International Journal of Psychoanalysis 87:1183-119

About the Presenter

Nancy D. Campbell, Ph.D., HSPP, LMFT hails from Terre Haute, IN where she completed her degrees and taught at Indiana State University, Saint Mary of the Woods, and was the Director of the Alcohol and Drug Division at Hamilton Center before coming to Indianapolis in 1987. She developed a private practice and joined the CTS faculty as Instructor and Clinical Supervisor in the MFT program, and became the Director of Clinical Training in MFT from 2000-2003. She is currently semi-retired in private practice.

Fees, Policies and Participants

Members attend free of charge. Non-member rate is $30. Participants by Zoom must RSVP by the end of day Sunday, Jan. 7, 2024, to receive the Zoom link, which will be sent by 5 pm of the day of the presentation. RSVP to isptdues(at)gmail.com to receive the Zoom link. Note: Members receive the Zoom link for free. Non-members are welcome. Non-members who wish to receive CE Credit should pay the non-member rate of $ 30 below before the presentation. Alternatively, non-members are encouraged to become members at the $ 45 annual member rate ($ 25 student rate) to receive free CEs for a year.

Non-Member CE Credit

It is the policy of the Society to encourage multidisciplinary learning.  This seminar is appropriate for the intermediate level of knowledge in the area of psychoanalysis.  Enrollment is intended for psychologists and other mental health practitioners, graduate students and all who are interested in psychoanalysis.

Continuing Education

This program is offered for 1.5 continuing education credits. The entire meeting must be attended in order for attendees to receive certificates. Upon completion of an evaluation form, a certificate will be provided. This serves as documentation of attendance for all participants. Psychologists will have their participation registered through Division 39.

Division 39 is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Division 39 maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

Division 39 is committed to accessibility and non-discrimination in its continuing education activities. Division 39 is also committed to APA Ethical Guidelines. Participants are asked to be aware of need for privacy and confidentiality throughout the program. If program content becomes stressful, participants are encouraged to process these feelings during discussion periods. If participants have special needs, we will attempt to accommodate them.

November 13th, 2023, 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. (1.5 CE credits – free for members with CE credit; $30 for non-members requesting CE credit). In Person meeting with Zoom option (see below). Meeting Address: 1050 W. 42nd Street, Indianapolis, IN 46208.

Title

Frederick Douglass, Psychobiography, and Liberating the Psychic Space

Presenter

Danjuma Gibson, Ph.D.

Description

This presentation will expose participants to the genre of psychobiography through the life of Frederick Douglass. Participants will be introduced to the methodology used to construct the psychoanalytic profile of this formerly enslaved 19th century thinker and social activist/leader found in the book Frederick Douglas, A Psychobiography: Rethinking Subjectivity in the Western Experiment of Democracy. Finally, participants will be challenged to consider how the categories of psychobiography and psychohistory in their own context, heritage, and culture can be used as an interpretive tool to enhance psychoanalytic social praxis in a way that fosters practices of healing, hope, love, and peace in the current sociopolitical environment.

Learning Objectives

Participants will be exposed to the category of psychobiography and how it and other literary genres can expand our understanding of the human condition and enhance the healing and recovery potential of the therapeutic space.
Participants will be challenged to consider how their theoretical commitments in the field of psychoanalytic scholarship can be used to better understand social phenomena like race, class, ethnicity, culture, gender, and sexuality, and how this enhanced understanding can help to undermine the social ills and vices that affect the lives of our clients and the broader community.
Participants will be given the opportunity to imagine how communal and indigenous therapeutic practices in various cultures can facilitate psychological and emotional healing within individuals and groups.

Sources


 1.       Frederick Douglass, A Psychobiography: Rethinking Subjectivity in the Western Experiment of Democracy | by Danjuma Gibson | Palgrave Macmillan | 2018
 
2.       The Analyst in the Inner City: Race, Class, and Culture Through a Psychoanalytic Lens | by Neil Altman | Routledge | 1995
 
3.       Trauma and Human Existence: Autobiographical, Psychoanalytic, and Philosophical Reflections | by Robert D. Stolorow | Routledge | 2007
 
4.       Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence—From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror | Judith Herman | Basic Books | 1997
 
5.      James Baldwin: Collected Essays | by James Baldwin and edited by Toni Morrison | Library of America | 1998
 
 

About the Presenter

  Danjuma Gibson, Ph.D. is the Professor of Pastoral Theology, Care, and Counseling at Calvin Theological Seminary, and is a licensed psychotherapist in private practice. In addition to studying psychohistory and psychobiography and the psychological, spiritual, and emotional implications for individuals and groups, Dr. Gibson’s research also explores the intersection of urban culture, black religious experience, social psychology, and economics. Dr. Gibson earned his BA from Morehouse College, MBA from DePaul University, MA in Urban Ministry and MA in Christian Studies from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, and Ph.D. from Garrett Evangelical Theological Seminary.

Fees, Policies and Participants

Members attend free of charge. Non-member rate is $30. Participants by Zoom must RSVP by the end of day Sunday, November 12th, 2023, to receive the Zoom link, which will be sent by 5 pm of the day of the presentation. RSVP to isptdues(at)gmail.com to receive the Zoom link. Note: Members receive the Zoom link for free. Non-members are welcome. Non-members who wish to receive CE Credit should pay the non-member rate of $ 30 below before the presentation. Alternatively, non-members are encouraged to become members at the $ 45 annual member rate ($ 25 student rate) to receive free CEs for a year.

Non-Member CE Credit

It is the policy of the Society to encourage multidisciplinary learning.  This seminar is appropriate for the intermediate level of knowledge in the area of psychoanalysis.  Enrollment is intended for psychologists and other mental health practitioners, graduate students and all who are interested in psychoanalysis.

Continuing Education

This program is offered for 1.5 continuing education credits. The entire meeting must be attended in order for attendees to receive certificates. Upon completion of an evaluation form, a certificate will be provided. This serves as documentation of attendance for all participants. Psychologists will have their participation registered through Division 39.

Division 39 is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Division 39 maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

Division 39 is committed to accessibility and non-discrimination in its continuing education activities. Division 39 is also committed to APA Ethical Guidelines. Participants are asked to be aware of need for privacy and confidentiality throughout the program. If program content becomes stressful, participants are encouraged to process these feelings during discussion periods. If participants have special needs, we will attempt to accommodate them.

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September 11th, 2023, 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. (1.5 CE credits – free for members with CE credit; $30 for non-members requesting CE credit). In Person meeting with Zoom option (see below). Meeting Address: 1050 W. 42nd Street, Indianapolis, IN 46208.

Title

  Ruptures in the continuity of the self: Where do I belong? Immigration as trauma

Presenter

Ruth Lijtmaer, PhD

Description

 Immigration, refugee status  and exile can qualify as social traumas. Whatever the circumstances of migration, these life changes entail periods of disorganization, pain, frustration, and may produce a catastrophic sense of loss. This feeling of homelessness is an emotional self-state. The individuals are deprived of a holding secure environment to continue their lives. They look for a safe place to live but countries do not want them. They are the “unwelcome child”.  The common psychic experience in the process of migration is mourning to allow “going on being”. Another is nostalgia that  helps the immigrant defend against the aggression resulting from current frustrations. This presentation will focus on the psychodynamic processes of immigration and its role in the therapeutic dyad.

Learning Objectives

Understand the traumatic effects of immigration when dehumanizing “others” takes place not only at an individual level and in the general population but also as an intergenerational transmission of trauma.
Comprehend the psychic costs associated with the disavowal of truth and reality and the power of mourning and nostalgia in the immigration experience.
Recognize the challenges facing therapists treating traumatized patients due to the complexity of traumatic experiences in being the immigrant, the unwanted “other”.

Sources

Achotegui, J. (2019). Migrants living in very hard situations: Extreme migratory mourning (The Ulysses Syndrome), Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 29(3), 252–268. https://doi.org/10.1080/10481885.2019.1614826 
 
Akhtar, S. (1999). The immigrant, the exile, and the experience of nostalgia. Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies, 1(2), 123–130. https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1023029020496 
 
Beritzhoff, L. (2021). Psychoanalysis in the Meantime. Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 31, (1),  81-99.
 
Grinberg, L. & Grinberg, R. (1989). Psychoanalytic perspectives on migration and
exile. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
 
Volkan, V. (2017). Immigrants and Refugees: Trauma, Perennial Mourning, Prejudice, and Border Psychology. New York: Karnac

About the Presenter

Ruth Lijtmaer, PhD is a Senior supervisor and faculty at the Center for Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis of New Jersey, USA. She has a private practice in Ridgewood, New Jersey, USA. She was a board member of IFPE (International Forum of Psychoanalysis) until 2012.
She presents papers and wrote book chapters on topics like social issues, discrimination, ethnicity, bilingualism, women and immigration. Her latest publications are:
“Can we imagine a world without walls?”. Journal of the Association for Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society (2023). Springer Nature. On Line Journal 3-1-23
“The absence of Women in classical music”. Clio’s Psyche, 29,3, 348-351, 2023
 
 
 

Fees, Policies and Participants

May 8th, 2023, 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. (1.5 CE credits – free for members with CE credit; $30 for non-members requesting CE credit). In Person meeting with Zoom option (see below). Meeting Address: 1050 W. 42nd Street, Indianapolis, IN 46208.

Title

White Privilege and Psychoanalysis: Report and Discussion of Highlights from the Division 39 Spring Meeting

Presenter

Matthias Beier PhD LMHC LP NCPsyA

Description

The 42nd Annual Spring Meeting of the Society for Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Psychology, which is Division 39 of the American Psychological Association, was titled “Our Beautiful Struggle: Destruction, Creation, and Psychoanalysis”. It was attended by the most diverse group of participants in Div. 39’s history and was organized by a Steering Committee composed entirely of early career professionals. It aimed “to bring the best and most creative thinking our field has to offer to deal with the concerns that members of our community, many of whom have expressed feeling unseen and unheard within professional psychoanalysis, have urged us to address.” This presentation will provide highlights from the Meeting and bring the conversation of the Meeting to our local chapter of Division 39, ISPT.
     

Learning Objectives


Identify ways in which the Spring Meeting engaged the internalization of white privilege in psychoanalysis

Describe findings from a qualitative thematic analysis study about BIPOC (black, indigenous, and persons of color) experiences of discrimination in psychoanalytic professional organizations
Discuss ways of working with internalized white privilege and anti-blackness in clinical practice and social contexts.

Sources

Presentations at the 2023 Division 39 Spring Meeting:

Jones, A. L., & Woods, A. (2023, Apr. 27). A Conversation Between Annie Lee Jones and Alexandra Woods [Keynote Conversation]. Society for Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Psychology Spring Meeting 2023, New York, NY, United States.

Lijtmaer, R. (Moderator/Presenter), Carrara, A. C. (Presenter), & Maxwell, A. M. (Presenter) (2023, Apr. 27). Where is Our Humanity? Three Latina Women Psychoanalysts Discuss Dehumanization, Gender and Immigration [Panel/Roundtable]. Society for Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Psychology Spring Meeting 2023, New York, NY, United States.

Knoblauch, S. (Moderator/Chair), Hyman, J. (Chair), Kim, J. (Presenter), Echegoyen, R. (Presenter), McPhaul, S. (Presenter), & Griffin, C. (Presenter) (2023, Apr. 27). The White Supremacist Within: Continuing Struggle with Chanda Griffin’s Groundbreaking Concept [Panel/Roundtable]. Society for Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Psychology Spring Meeting 2023, New York, NY, United States.

Sheehi, L. (2023, Apr. 27). President’s Address. Society for Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Psychology Spring Meeting 2023, New York, NY, United States.

Carter, C. J. (Chair), Lasheen, T. (Presenter), Sencherey, D. (Presenter), Tronnier, C. (Presenter), Crath, R. (Presenter), Espinosa-Setchko, A. (Presenter), Bhargava, H. (Presenter), & Galeota, J. (2023, Apr. 28). BIPOC Experiences of Discrimination in Psychoanalysis: A Thematic Analysis [Panel/Roundtable]. Society for Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Psychology Spring Meeting 2023, New York, NY, United States.

Sheehi, S., & Eng, D. (2023, Apr. 28). On the Dread of Psychoanalytic Repair [Keynote Conversation]. Society for Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Psychology Spring Meeting 2023, New York, NY, United States.

DeVinney, H. (Moderator), Kelly, C. (Chair), & Báez-Powell, N. (Presenter) (2023, Apr. 28). Holding the Both/And of Oppression and Character Dynamics [Panel/Roundtable]. Society for Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Psychology Spring Meeting 2023, New York, NY, United States.

Knoblauch, S. (Moderator/Chair), Jones, A. L. (Moderator/Chair), Vaughans, K. (Discussant [scheduled but not present]), Bennett, J. (Presenter), Hartman, S. (Presenter), Clough, P. (Presenter), Lombardi, K. (Presenter), Powell, D. (Presenter), Padrón, C. (Presenter), & Stephens, M. (Presenter) (2023, Apr. 29). Fanon: On the Struggle to Understand [Panel/Roundtable]. Society for Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Psychology Spring Meeting 2023, New York, NY, United States.        

About the Presenter

Matthias Beier, MDiv, PhD, LMHC, LP, NCPsyA, is Associate Professor of Pastoral Theology and Mental Health Counseling at Christian Theological Seminary, Indianapolis, Indiana. A nationally certified psychoanalyst and President of the Indiana Society for Psychoanalytic Thought, Beier received his psychoanalytic training at the National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis (NPAP), one of the oldest and largest psychoanalytic institutes in the country. He specializes in countertransference-focused psychoanalytic supervision and consultation for individuals and groups. Beier is the author of three books – A Violent God-Image, Gott ohne Angst, and Eugen Drewermann: Die Biografie – and numerous journal articles and book chapters.

2023 ISPT Master Clinician Workshop

April 22, 2023

with
Dr. Jonathan Shedler

Personality Styles in Psychotherapy
A Roadmap for Deep and Lasting Change

9 am – 4:30 pm EDT (UTC/GMT -4)
In-Person and on Zoom
(5.5 CEs)

Location: Christian Theological Seminary & Butler University

1000 W 42nd St., Room 136, Indianapolis, IN 46208

Workshop Description

In a time when symptoms are used to label, pathologize, and disempower people seeking mental health care, master clinicians know that meaningful, empowering, and lasting psychological change does not come from focusing on symptoms, but on the personality dynamics underlying them. In the morning lecture, “Personality Styles, Depression, and Therapeutic Change,” Dr. Shedler will discuss the personality styles most often seen in clinical practice (e.g., narcissistic, depressive, obsessive-compulsive), integrating long-standing clinical wisdom with contemporary empirical findings. He will discuss how each personality style represents a unique psychological pathway to clinical depression that requires a distinct treatment focus, and he will offer clinical strategies for deepening treatment.

Building on concepts from the morning, the afternoon workshop will have a hands-on clinical focus. Participants will develop a deeper appreciation of the role of personality dynamics in psychotherapy through clinical case presentations by workshop participants, with case discussion, live supervision, and role playing to demonstrate effective intervention. Dr. Shedler will emphasize how personality dynamics and relational patterns unavoidably play out in the therapy relationship, and how to use the therapy relationship constructively in the service of deep and lasting change.

Presenter

Dr. Jonathan Shedler is the author of what may be the most widely read psychoanalytic paper of our time, The Efficacy of Psychodynamic Psychotherapy. Hailed as a contemporary classic, it firmly established psychodynamic therapy as an evidence-based treatment. A leading expert on personality styles and disorders and their treatment, Dr. Shedler is also author of the Shedler-Westen Assessment Procedure (SWAP-200) for personality diagnosis and clinical case formulation, and coauthor with Nancy McWilliams of the Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual (PDM-2). He has authored over 100 scholarly articles, and his blogs reach audiences in the hundreds of thousands. Dr. Shedler teaches and lectures internationally and provides clinical consultation and supervision to clinicians around the world. He is a faculty member at the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis and Clinical Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF).

Schedule

9:00-10:30 Session 1 (1.5 hrs.): Presentation “Personality Styles, Depression, and Therapeutic Change”

10:30-10:45 Break

10:45-12:00 Session 2 (1.25 hrs.): Presentation, cont’d. Audience Discussion

12:00-1:30 Lunch Break

1:30-3:00 Session 3 (1.5 hrs.): Case Discussion & Live Supervision, Part 1

3:00-3:15 Break

3:15-4:30 Session 4 (1.25 hrs.): Case Discussion & Live Supervision, Part 2

Fee*

Standard Registration begins April 1, closes April 20:

Regular ISPT Member: $ 159

Regular Non-Member: $ 169

Student ISPT Member: $ 99

Student Non-Member: $ 109

*Fees are non-refundable after March 31.

Learning Objectives

 

  1. Describe the major personality configurations commonly seen in clinical practice
  2. Describe how narcissistic, paranoid, and borderline personality dynamics create psychological vulnerability to depression
  3. Describe the defining features of depressive personality as a diagnostic construct and its implications for treatment
  4. Gain an introductory-level familiarity with the Shedler-Westen Assessment Procedure (SWAP) personality assessment method
  5. Develop a deeper understanding of the role of personality in clinical treatment through case discussion, role play, and live clinical supervision

Sources

Shedler, J. (2022). The personality syndromes. In R. Feinstein (Ed.), Personality Disorders. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Shedler, J. (2022). Integrating clinical and empirical approaches to personality: the Shedler-Westen Assessment Procedure (SWAP). In R. Feinstein (Ed.), Personality Disorders. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Westen, D., Shedler, J., Bradley, B., DeFife, J. (2012). An empirically derived taxonomy for personality diagnosis: Bridging science and practice in conceptualizing personality. American Journal of Psychiatry, 169, 273-284.
Russ, E., Bradley, R., Shedler, J., & Westen, D. (2008). Refining the construct of narcissistic personality disorder: Diagnostic criteria and subtypes. American Journal of Psychiatry, 165, 1473-1481.
Lingiardi, V., Shedler, J., Gazillo, F. (2006). Assessing personality change in psychotherapy with the SWAP-200: A case study. Journal of Personality Assessment, 86, 23-32.
McWilliams, N. (2011), Psychoanalytic Diagnosis: Understanding Personality Structure in the Clinical Process. 2nd ed. New York, NY: Guilford Press.

Policies

It is the policy of the Society to encourage multidisciplinary learning. This Master Clinician Day Workshop is appropriate for the intermediate level of knowledge in the area of psychoanalysis. Enrollment is intended for psychologists and other mental health practitioners, graduate students and all who are interested in psychoanalysis.

March 13th, 2023, 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. (1.5 CE credits – free for members with CE credit; $30 for non-members requesting CE credit). In Person meeting with Zoom option (see below). Meeting Address: CTS Counseling Center, 1050 W. 42nd Street, 3rd floor parlor, Indianapolis, IN 46208.

Title

The Analyst’s Rorschach: Gateway to Opening the Dialectical Field

Presenter

William Alexy, Ph.D.

Description

The proverbial question of “What might this be?” has been asked when administering the Rorschach test for the past century. Prior to beginning analytic training, I routinely used the Rorschach in my clinical practice with the intent of mining patients’ psyches for useful information about personality organization and functioning. During analytic training, I often wondered how Rorschach testing and psychoanalysis might fruitfully merge – or could they? A series of synchronistic events while in training led me to the unexpected realization that the Rorschach could best be used to identify and integrate areas of my own psychic functioning that had previously gone unrecognized. Findings from my own Rorschach promoted consciousness-raising that enriched my clinical practice. Case material will be presented that highlights the facilitating influence of my own Rorschach findings on the analytic treatment process. I have concluded that depth-oriented psychotherapists and training candidates can potentially benefit from taking the Rorschach to further heighten awareness of how their countertransferences may manifest in the analytic field.
     

Learning Objectives

1.     Discuss the basis of what has been called the “Rorschach Controversy”.
2.     Identify the basic rationale of using the Rorschach Inkblot Method that grounds the legitimacy of an interpretation.
3. Describe how Rorschach findings may facilitate consciousness-raising.
4.    Identify two areas of analyst-therapist personality functioning where knowledge of Rorschach findings may be particularly useful.

Sources

Alexy, W. (2018) The analyst’s Rorschach: gateway to opening the dialectical field. Journal of Analytical Psychology, 63,1,26-46.
Exner, J.E. (1993) The Rorschach – A Comprehensive System – Basic Foundations (Vol 1: third edition). New York: John Wiley & Sons, I.
Meyer, G.J., Viglione, D.J., Mihura, J.L., Erand, R.E. Erdberg, P. (2011) Rorschach Performance Assessment System: Administration, Coding, Interpretation, and Technical Manual. Toledo: Rorschach Performance Assessment System.
Mihura, J.L., Meyer, G.J., Dumitrascu, N., and Bombel, G. (2013) The validity of individual Rorschach variables: systematic reviews and meta-analyses of the Comprehensive System. Psychological Bulletin, 139, 548-605.
Rorschach, H. (1921/1942) Psychodiagnostik. New York: Grune & Stratton, Inc. 

About the Presenter

Dr. William Alexy is a private practice psychologist and Jungian analyst with a home-based office on the north side of Indianapolis. He works primarily with adults who are suffering challenges associated with major life transitions. Dr. Alexy has a background in cognitive-behavioral orientations to psychotherapy and has most recently completed analytic training at the Jung Institute of Chicago – where he now teaches in the Analyst Training Program and serves on various monitoring and exam committees. He is a member of the Indiana Psychological Association, the Chicago Society of Jungian Analysts, the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts, and the Indiana Society for Psychoanalytic Thought.

Fees, Policies and Participants

Members attend free of charge. Non-member rate is $30. Participants by Zoom must RSVP by the end of day Sunday, March 12, 2023, to receive the Zoom link, which will be sent by 5 pm of the day of the presentation. RSVP to isptdues(at)gmail.com to receive the Zoom link. Note: Members receive the Zoom link for free. Non-members are welcome. Non-members who wish to receive CE Credit should pay the non-member rate of $ 30 below before the presentation. Alternatively, non-members are encouraged to become members at the $ 45 annual member rate ($ 25 student rate) to receive free CEs for a year.

Non-Member CE Credit

It is the policy of the Society to encourage multidisciplinary learning.  This seminar is appropriate for the intermediate level of knowledge in the area of psychoanalysis.  Enrollment is intended for psychologists and other mental health practitioners, graduate students and all who are interested in psychoanalysis.

Continuing Education

This program is offered for 1.5 continuing education credits. The entire meeting must be attended in order for attendees to receive certificates. Upon completion of an evaluation form, a certificate will be provided. This serves as documentation of attendance for all participants. Psychologists will have their participation registered through Division 39.

Division 39 is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Division 39 maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

Division 39 is committed to accessibility and non-discrimination in its continuing education activities. Division 39 is also committed to APA Ethical Guidelines. Participants are asked to be aware of need for privacy and confidentiality throughout the program. If program content becomes stressful, participants are encouraged to process these feelings during discussion periods. If participants have special needs, we will attempt to accommodate them.

February 13th, 2023, 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. (1.5 CE credits – free for members with CE credit; $30 for non-members requesting CE credit). In Person meeting with Zoom option (see below). Meeting Address: 1050 W. 42nd Street, Indianapolis, IN 46208.

Title

Rooting in Nourishing Soil: Integrating Advanced Music Therapy Methods with Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy

Presenter

Leah Whitmire, MA, MT-BC, LMHCA

Description

Music therapists have a unique opportunity to work with the unconscious and tap into symbolic material through the mediums of music, imagery, and other creative processes.  In addition, music therapists can support clients to express their deeper selves, connect with inner resources, and utilize altered states of consciousness for healing.  This presentation explores one music therapist’s experiences utilizing Music Imagery, psychoanalytic psychotherapy, and concepts from Analytical Music Therapy in practice.  The method of Music Imagery will be discussed, as well as the Continuum Model of Guided Imagery and Music (Summer, 2009).  Principles from psychoanalytic psychotherapy and Analytical Music Therapy will also be discussed. Case examples will be presented, highlighting the impact of advanced training on clinical practice.     

In this presentation, I share my experiences integrating Guided Imagery and Music, Analytical Music Therapy, and psychoanalytic psychotherapy in my work.  I discuss how psychoanalytic, humanistic, and transpersonal theory and approaches inform my work in music therapy and psychotherapy. I explore the integration of music therapy and psychotherapy, including the ways that I have benefited from training in verbal psychotherapy, specifically a psychoanalytic approach.  I offer case examples to illustrate concepts I have found useful with clients such as using music as a metaphor for internal states and using music as resource for self-regulation
     

Learning Objectives


Participants will be able to describe two components of the GIM Continuum

Participants will be able to observe the potential impact of the qualities of specific music for self-regulation.   

Participants will be able to describe at least two ways that music therapy supports psychoanalytic psychotherapy and vice versa.

Sources

1.      Story, M. (2018). Guided Imagery and Music with military women and trauma: a Continuum approach to music and healing. PhD Dissertation, Aalborg University, Denmark. https://doi.org/10.5278/vbn.phd.hum.00100
2.      Eyre, L. (Ed.) (2013). Guidelines for music therapy practice in mental health. Barcelona
3.      Schedler, J. (2010). The efficacy of psychodynamic psychotherapy.  American Psychologist, 65(2), 98–109.
4.      Gatchel, R., Peng, Y., Peters, M., Fuchs, P., Turk, D. (2007). The biopsychosocial approach to chronic pain: Scientific advances and future directions. Psychol Bull. 2007 Jul;133(4):581-624.
5.      Priestly, M. (1994) Essays on Analytical Music Therapy. Barcelona.
6.      Summer, L. (2015). The journey of GIM training from self-exploration to a continuum of clinical practice. In D. Grocke & T. Moe (Eds.), Guided Imagery &  Music and Music Imagery Methods for Individual and Group Therapy (pp 339-348). Jessica Kingsley Publishers.
 
 

About the Presenter

Leah Whitmire is a music therapist and counselor living in Indianapolis, Indiana. She studied classical saxophone in her undergraduate degree before changing her focus to music therapy, where she discovered a continuation of her musical interests in a world of creative depth aimed at healing.  Leah continued her studies of depth-oriented music therapy, and while in pursuit of additional licensure, found psychoanalytic psychotherapy along the way—an unexpected perfect fit!  She currently offers integrative music psychotherapy and counseling in her private practice and works part time for the Henry M. Jackson Foundation and Creative Forces: NEA Military Healing Arts Network doing music therapy research with Veterans.  Leah is passionate about the ways that creative, relational, and embodied experiences in therapy can help people on their journeys towards healing. Leah is also secretary for the Indiana Society for Psychoanalytic Thought and very much enjoys participating in the Indiana psychoanalytic community.

Fees, Policies and Participants

Members attend free of charge. Non-member rate is $30. Participants by Zoom must RSVP by the end of day Sunday, Feb. 12, 2023, to receive the Zoom link, which will be sent by 5 pm of the day of the presentation. RSVP to isptdues(at)gmail.com to receive the Zoom link. Note: Members receive the Zoom link for free. Non-members are welcome. Non-members who wish to receive CE Credit should pay the non-member rate of $ 30 below before the presentation. Alternatively, non-members are encouraged to become members at the $ 45 annual member rate ($ 25 student rate) to receive free CEs for a year.

Non-Member CE Credit

It is the policy of the Society to encourage multidisciplinary learning.  This seminar is appropriate for the intermediate level of knowledge in the area of psychoanalysis.  Enrollment is intended for psychologists and other mental health practitioners, graduate students and all who are interested in psychoanalysis.

Continuing Education

This program is offered for 1.5 continuing education credits. The entire meeting must be attended in order for attendees to receive certificates. Upon completion of an evaluation form, a certificate will be provided. This serves as documentation of attendance for all participants. Psychologists will have their participation registered through Division 39.

Division 39 is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Division 39 maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

Division 39 is committed to accessibility and non-discrimination in its continuing education activities. Division 39 is also committed to APA Ethical Guidelines.


January 9th, 2023, 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. (1.5 CE credits – free for members with CE credit; $30 for non-members requesting CE credit). Zoom ONLY meeting (see below).

Title

The Therapist’s Transition: Reconfiguration of Relational Dynamics

Presenter

Cadyn Cathers, PsyD

Description

Social and medical transition is a public process for the transgender therapist that can impact the transference dynamics while their body and appearance changes. Whereas a lesbian, gay, or bisexual therapist may choose not to disclose his/her/their sexuality, a transgender or gender non-binary (TGNB) therapist may not have that privilege regarding self-disclosure due to the physical process of transition.  In this way, there is a similarity of transference to a therapist who is either pregnant or dealing with illness, but neither of these scenarios encapsulate the unique situation that occurs when the therapist is physically transitioning through hormones or surgery. This presentation will discuss transference dynamics in a transgender male psychoanalytic psychotherapist with transgender patients with a special emphasis during the therapist’s transition with the gender confirming surgeries (GCS) of male chest reconstruction and phalloplasty. Transference dynamics that the surgeries elicited, such as envy, loss of the maternal object, and presence of the paternal object, will be explored. Suggestions about how to handle medical transition for TGNB therapists will be provided with emphasis on the timing and nature of self-disclosure

Learning Objectives

Discuss 2 ways in which medical transition can shift relational dynamics
Explain the concept of primary transitional preoccupation and how it can impact the therapeutic alliance
Describe at least 2 dynamics that can occur from the therapist’s self-disclosure about medical transition

Sources

Cathers, C. (2019). The therapeutic alliance between transgender or gender nonbinary patients and cisgender therapists (13860387). [Doctoral dissertation, The Chicago School of Professional Psychology] ProQuest Dissertations Publishing.
 
Cotten, Trystan T. 2012. Hung Jury: Testimonies of Genital Surgery by Transsexual Men.
 
Cristy, Barbara L. E. 2001. “Wounded Healer: The Impact of A Therapist’s Illness on The
Therapeutic Situation”. Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis and Dynamic Psychiatry. 29 (1): 33.
 
Fraser, Lin. 2009. “Depth psychotherapy with transgender people”. Sexual and Relationship
Therapy. 24 (2): 126-142.
 
Gutowski, Jane. 2000. “A Boy Who Was A Girl.” Modern Psychoanalysis. 25: 191-197.
 
Hansbury, Griffin. 2005. “Mourning the Loss of the Idealized Self: A Transsexual
Passage”. Psychoanalytic Social Work. 12 (1): 19-35.
 
Hansbury, Griffin. 2011. “King Kong & Goldilocks: Imagining Transmasculinities Through the
Trans-Trans Dyad”. Psychoanalytic Dialogues. 21 (2): 210-220.
 
Hansbury, G. 2005. “The Middle Men: An Introduction to the Transmasculine Identities.”
Studies in Gender and Sexuality. 6 (3): 241-264.
 
Kahn, Nancy. 2003. “Self-Disclosure of Serious Illness: The Impact of Boundary Disruptions for
Patient and Analyst.” Contemporary Psychoanalysis. 39: 51-74
 
Pula, Jack. 2015. “Understanding Gender Through the Lens of Transgender
Experience”. Psychoanalytic Inquiry. 35 (8): 809-822.
 
Stuart, Jennifer. 1997. “Pregnancy in the Therapist: Consequences of a Gradually Discernible
Physical Change”. Psychoanalytic Psychology. 14 (3): 347.
 
World Professional Association for Transgender Health. 2012. Standards of care for the health
of transsexual, transgender, and gender-nonconforming people. [Minneapolis, Minn.]:
World Professional Association for Transgender Health.
 
 


About the Presenter

Cadyn Cathers, PsyD (he/him/his) has been teaching courses on human sexuality, psychotherapy with LGBTQIA+ communities, and psychodynamic theory for over 10 years. He is a licensed psychologist in private practice, where he focuses on psychoanalytic psychotherapy with transgender and nonbinary patients. He is the founder and CEO of The Affirmative Couch, which provides online continuing education on clinical work with LGBTQIA+, CNM, and kink communities. Additionally, he is adjunct faculty at Antioch University Los Angeles, Pacifica Graduate Institute, and Reiss-Davis Graduate School

Fees, Policies and Participants

Members attend free of charge. Non-member rate is $30. Participants by Zoom must RSVP by 5 pm on the day of the presentation, Jan. 9, 2023, to receive the Zoom link. RSVP to isptdues(at)gmail.com to receive the Zoom link. Note: Members receive the Zoom link for free. Non-members are welcome. In either case, non-members who wish to receive CE Credit should pay the non-member rate of $ 30 below before the presentation. Alternatively, non-members are encouraged to become members at the $ 45 annual member rate ($ 25 student rate) to receive free CEs for a year.

It is the policy of the Society to encourage multidisciplinary learning.  This seminar is appropriate for the intermediate level of knowledge in the area of psychoanalysis.  Enrollment is intended for psychologists and other mental health practitioners, graduate students and all who are interested in psychoanalysis.

Continuing Education

This program is offered for 1.5 continuing education credits. The entire meeting must be attended in order for attendees to receive certificates. Upon completion of an evaluation form, a certificate will be provided. This serves as documentation of attendance for all participants. Psychologists will have their participation registered through Division 39.

Division 39 is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Division 39 maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

Division 39 is committed to accessibility and non-discrimination in its continuing education activities. Division 39 is also committed to APA Ethical Guidelines. Participants are asked to be aware of need for privacy and confidentiality throughout the program. If program content becomes stressful, participants are encouraged to process these feelings during discussion periods. If participants have special needs, we will attempt to accommodate them.

December 12th, 2022, 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. (1.5 CE credits – free for members with CE credit; $30 for non-members requesting CE credit). In Person meeting with Zoom option (see below). Meeting Address: 1050 W. 42nd Street, Indianapolis, IN 46208

Title

A Discussion by the authors of the 2022 book: Enriching Psychoanalysis: integrating concepts from contemporary science and philosophy. [The book is available for purchase here.] 

Presenters

Gerald J. Gargiulo, PhD, former President of the NPAP Training Institute, New York City

John Turtz, PhD, Co-director of the Psychoanalytic Program at the Westchester Center for the Study of Psychoanalysis and PsychotherapyWCSPP, in New York State

Description

This text hopes to broaden psychoanalytic theory and practice by providing new models by which to understand the mind as well as deepen an understanding of clinical practice.
Freud was very much influenced by the Newtonian models and was not particularly open to alternate conceptual models. Many contemporary sciences have undergone major paradigm shifts – all of which offer models by which to appreciate psychoanalytic theory and clinical practice. This presentation will discuss some of the contributions from quantum physics, chaos and complexity theory, neuroscience, and epigenetics.

Learning Objectives

(1) Participants will gain a knowledge of some of the broad paradigm shifts in the sciences that are discussed, that have occurred since Freud’s writings.

(2) Participants will be able to evaluate at least one model of the contemporary sciences that are presented and that psychoanalysts can use to enrich their self-understanding and their clinical work.

(3) Participants will be informed of the necessity of constant dialogue with sciences to evaluate and deepen psychoanalytic theory and practice.

Sources

Turtz, J. & Gargiulo, G. (Eds.) (2022). Enriching psychoanalysis: Integrating concepts from contemporary science and philosophy. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003271499
Introduction
Ch. 1. New Models for Understanding the Clinical Unconscious: A Contribution from Quantum Findings, by G. J. Gargiulo
Ch. 2. Psychoanalysis and Physics: A Quantum Sensibility, by J. Turtz
Ch. 3. Chaos and Complexity Theory: New Metaphors and Models for Psychoanalysis, by J. Turtz
Ch. 4. Ecopsychoanalysis, Complexity and a Nonlinear Earth, by J. Dodds
Ch. 5. Psychoanalysis and Epigenetics, by R. Colangeli
Ch. 6. Neuropsychoanalysis: What, How, and Why, by J. Dall’Aglio

About the Presenter

John Turtz, Ph.D. is faculty, supervisor and Co-director of the Psychoanalytic Program at WCSPP. He is faculty, supervisor and former Co-director at the Manhattan Institute for Psychoanalysis. Dr. Turtz is faculty at the New York Medical College and is in private practice in Larchmont, New York and Manhattan. In addition, Dr. Turtz serves on the Outreach and Advocacy Committee – a joint project of the Climate Psychiatry Alliance and the Climate Psychology Alliance – North America.

Gerald J. Gargiulo has authored three psychoanalytic texts, the latest of which is Quantum Psychoanalysis, which received the coveted Gravida Award (2017); he is the author of over a hundred professional articles. He is on the editorial Boards of The Psychoanalytic Review as well as Psychoanalytic Psychology. He is a former President of the NPAP Training Institute (NYC) as we as IFPE. He has a psychoanalytic practice in Stamford Ct.

Additional contributors to the book besides the editors will join the meeting.

Fees, Policies and Participants

Members attend free of charge. Non-member rate is $30. Participants by Zoom must RSVP by the end of day Sunday, 12/11, to receive the Zoom link. RSVP to isptdues(at)gmail.com to receive the Zoom link. Note: Members receive the Zoom link for free. Non-members are welcome in person or via Zoom. In either case, non-members who wish to receive CE Credit should pay the non-member rate of $ 30 below before the presentation. Alternatively, non-members are encouraged to become members at the $ 45 annual member rate ($ 25 student rate) to receive free CEs for a year.

It is the policy of the Society to encourage multidisciplinary learning.  This seminar is appropriate for the intermediate level of knowledge in the area of psychoanalysis.  Enrollment is intended for psychologists and other mental health practitioners, graduate students and all who are interested in psychoanalysis.

Continuing Education

This program is offered for 1.5 continuing education credits. The entire meeting must be attended in order for attendees to receive certificates. Upon completion of an evaluation form, a certificate will be provided. This serves as documentation of attendance for all participants. Psychologists will have their participation registered through Division 39.

Division 39 is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Division 39 maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

Division 39 is committed to accessibility and non-discrimination in its continuing education activities. Division 39 is also committed to APA Ethical Guidelines. Participants are asked to be aware of need for privacy and confidentiality throughout the program. If program content becomes stressful, participants are encouraged to process these feelings during discussion periods. If participants have special needs, we will attempt to accommodate them.

November 14th, 2022, 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. (1.5 CE credits – free for members with CE credit; $30 for non-members requesting CE credit). In Person meeting with Zoom option (see below). Meeting Address: 1050 W. 42nd Street, Indianapolis, IN 46208

Title

Exploring multiplicity in Jung’s Red Book and Richard Schwartz’ Internal Family Systems

Presenter

Dr. Felicity Kelcourse

Description

This presentation explores the relevance for therapeutic work of Jung’s  active imagination in The Red Book, Liber Novus (2009) and Richard Schwartz’ popularization of therapeutic approaches to multiplicity in No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model (2021). Just as Freud sought and found healing from his  neurotic avoidance of Rome through his dreamwork in The Interpretation of Dreams, Jung’s six-year immersion in active imagination as documented in The Red Book provided experiential proof for his own understanding of multiplicity in the service of individuation.

Richard Schwartz, originally trained at Purdue as a systemic family therapist,  synthesized his therapeutic approach to trauma by drawing on psychoanalytic and Jungian resources to produce an accessible approach to working with intrapsychic systems.  The goal is to enlist the cooperation of “parts” that appear to be blocking necessary change by enlisting Self-leadership (1995). Qualities of Self-leadership include connection, curiosity, creativity, confidence, courage, clarity, compassion, and calm (Kelcourse, forthcoming). Schwartz’ work represents a convergent evolution between contemporary Jungian understandings of clinical work with trauma (Kalsched, 2013) and an understanding of intrapsychic parts accessible through active imaginative dialogues in the service of Self-leadership.  Multiplicity is to dissociative identity disorder as individuation is to trauma. When our many parts are brought into balanced communication through Self-leadership, healing occurs.  

Learning Objectives

(1) Participants will understand the historical development of Jung’s active imagination in The Red Book with its implications for therapeutic work.

(2) Participants will evaluate Richard Schwartz’ understanding of Self-leadership in response to “parts” frozen through trauma.

(3) Participants will be able to apply the idea of soul/Self as an organizing principle to theological and therapeutic understandings of Imago Dei.

Sources

1. Corbett, L. (2022). Varieties of numinous experience: The experience of the sacred in the therapeutic process.   In Anthology of contemporary clinical classics in analytical psychology. New York: Routledge.
2. Corbett, L. (2022). Varieties of numinous experience: The experience of the sacred in the therapeutic process. In Anthology of contemporary clinical classics in analytical psychology. New York: Routledge.
3. Jung, C.G. (2009). The red book, Liber novus. Ed. Sonu Shandasani, New York: W.W. Norton.
4. Kelcourse, F.B. (2019). Sabina Spielrein from Rostov to Zurich: The making of an analyst. In Sabina Spielrein and the beginnings of psychoanalysis: Image, thought and language, edited by Pamela Cooper-White and Felicity Brock Kelcourse, New York: Routledge, pp. 36-72.
5. Schwartz, R. (1995). Internal family systems therapy. New York: Guilford.
6. Schwartz, R. (2021). No bad parts: Healing trauma and restoring wholeness with internal family systems. Boulder, CO: Sounds True.

About the Presenter

Felicity Kelcourse. MMin, PHD, LMHC is Associate Professor of Clinical Mental Health Counseling and Psychology of Religion at Christian Theological Seminary. Her recent publications appear in Sabina Spielrein and the Beginnings of Psychoanalysis (2019, Routledge), Transforming Wisdom: Pastoral Psychotherapy in Theological Perspective (Cascade, 2015), and Human Development and faith: Life-cycle stages of body, mind and soul (Chalice, 2015, 2nd edition). With over 30 years of clinical experience, Dr. Kelcourse has been teaching and supervising counseling students at CTS since 1996. She maintains a part-time practice as a Jungian informed psychotherapist specializing in dream work and is currently a candidate with the Inter-regional Society of Jungian Analysts. She is trained in EMDR and Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy.  

Fees, Policies and Participants

Members attend free of charge. Non-member rate is $30. Participants by Zoom must RSVP by the end of day Sunday, 11/13, to receive the Zoom link. RSVP to isptdues(at)gmail.com to receive the Zoom link. Note: Members receive the Zoom link for free. Non-members are welcome in person or via Zoom. In either case, non-members who wish to receive CE Credit should pay the non-member rate of $ 30 below before the presentation. Alternatively, non-members are encouraged to become members at the $ 45 annual member rate ($ 25 student rate) to receive free CEs for a year.

It is the policy of the Society to encourage multidisciplinary learning.  This seminar is appropriate for the intermediate level of knowledge in the area of psychoanalysis.  Enrollment is intended for psychologists and other mental health practitioners, graduate students and all who are interested in psychoanalysis.

Continuing Education

This program is offered for 1.5 continuing education credits. The entire meeting must be attended in order for attendees to receive certificates. Upon completion of an evaluation form, a certificate will be provided. This serves as documentation of attendance for all participants. Psychologists will have their participation registered through Division 39.

Division 39 is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Division 39 maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

Division 39 is committed to accessibility and non-discrimination in its continuing education activities. Division 39 is also committed to APA Ethical Guidelines. Participants are asked to be aware of need for privacy and confidentiality throughout the program. If program content becomes stressful, participants are encouraged to process these feelings during discussion periods. If participants have special needs, we will attempt to accommodate them.

October 10th, 2022, 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. (1.5 CE credits – free for members with CE credit; $30 for non-members requesting CE credit). Meeting Address: 1050 W. 42nd Street, Indianapolis, IN 46208

Title

Owning Our Counter-Resistances to Enhancing Analytic Gains

Description

Dynamically oriented therapists recognize that patients harbor unconscious resistance to change. What is not so commonly recognized is that therapists themselves also unconsciously resist changing their psychological status quo in response to aspects of the treatment process. This is known as counter-resistance and manifests in attitudes and behaviors that impede therapeutic gains. Counter-resistances are often similar to and as intense as patient resistances. Moreover, the resolution of patient resistances often is dependent on the resolution of counter-resistances. This presentation will address types of counter-resistance, distinguish between counter-resistance and counter-transference, and discuss two clinical vignettes that highlight the emergence of counter-resistance. Recommendations will also be given for how counter-resistance can be assessed and dealt with in our clinical practices.

Learning Objectives

(1) What distinguishes counter-resistance from counter-transference?

(2) What are three types of counter-resistance that have been reported in the literature?

(3) What are three questions therapists can ask themselves to assist in identifying counter-resistance?

Sources

1. Alexy, W. (2018) The analyst’s Rorschach: gateway to opening the dialectical field. Journal of Analytical Psychology, 63(1), 26-46.

2. Lambert, K. (1976) Resistance and counter-resistance. Journal of Analytical Psychology, 21(2), 164-192.

3. Racker, H. (1958) Counter-resistance and interpretation. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 6: 215-221.

4. Schoenewolf, G. (1993) Counterresistance: The Therapist’s Interference with the Therapeutic Process. Northvale, NJ: Jason Aronson, Inc.

5. Strean, H. (1993) Resolving Counterresistances in Psychotherapy. NY: Brunner/Mazel.

About the Presenter

Dr. William Alexy is a private practice psychologist and Jungian analyst with a home-based office on the north side of Indianapolis. He works primarily with adults who are suffering challenges associated with major life transitions. Dr. Alexy has a background in cognitive-behavioral interventions, and most recently completed analytic training at the Jung Institute of Chicago where he now teaches in the Analyst Training Program and serves on various monitoring and exam committees. He is a member of the Indiana Psychological Association, the Chicago Society of Jungian Analysts, and the Interregional Society of Jungian analysts.

Fees, Policies and Participants

Member rate is included in membership. Non-member rate is $30.

Non-Member CE Credit
  Non-member CE Credit $30.00 USD 

It is the policy of the Society to encourage multidisciplinary learning.  This seminar is appropriate for the intermediate level of knowledge in the area of psychoanalysis.  Enrollment is intended for psychologists and other mental health practitioners, graduate students and all who are interested in psychoanalysis.

Continuing Education

This program is offered for 1.5 continuing education credits. The entire meeting must be attended in order for attendees to receive certificates. Upon completion of an evaluation form, a certificate will be provided. This serves as documentation of attendance for all participants. Psychologists will have their participation registered through Division 39.

Division 39 is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Division 39 maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

Division 39 is committed to accessibility and non-discrimination in its continuing education activities. Division 39 is also committed to APA Ethical Guidelines. Participants are asked to be aware of need for privacy and confidentiality throughout the program. If program content becomes stressful, participants are encouraged to process these feelings during discussion periods. If participants have special needs, we will attempt to accommodate them.

October 10th, 2022, 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. (1.5 CE credits – free for members with CE credit; $30 for non-members requesting CE credit). Meeting Address: 1050 W. 42nd Street, Indianapolis, IN 46208

Title

Owning Our Counter-Resistances to Enhancing Analytic Gains

Description

Dynamically oriented therapists recognize that patients harbor unconscious resistance to change. What is not so commonly recognized is that therapists themselves also unconsciously resist changing their psychological status quo in response to aspects of the treatment process. This is known as counter-resistance and manifests in attitudes and behaviors that impede therapeutic gains. Counter-resistances are often similar to and as intense as patient resistances. Moreover, the resolution of patient resistances often is dependent on the resolution of counter-resistances. This presentation will address types of counter-resistance, distinguish between counter-resistance and counter-transference, and discuss two clinical vignettes that highlight the emergence of counter-resistance. Recommendations will also be given for how counter-resistance can be assessed and dealt with in our clinical practices.

Learning Objectives

(1) What distinguishes counter-resistance from counter-transference?

(2) What are three types of counter-resistance that have been reported in the literature?

(3) What are three questions therapists can ask themselves to assist in identifying counter-resistance?

Sources

1. Alexy, W. (2018) The analyst’s Rorschach: gateway to opening the dialectical field. Journal of Analytical Psychology, 63(1), 26-46.

2. Lambert, K. (1976) Resistance and counter-resistance. Journal of Analytical Psychology, 21(2), 164-192.

3. Racker, H. (1958) Counter-resistance and interpretation. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 6: 215-221.

4. Schoenewolf, G. (1993) Counterresistance: The Therapist’s Interference with the Therapeutic Process. Northvale, NJ: Jason Aronson, Inc.

5. Strean, H. (1993) Resolving Counterresistances in Psychotherapy. NY: Brunner/Mazel.

About the Presenter

Dr. William Alexy is a private practice psychologist and Jungian analyst with a home-based office on the north side of Indianapolis. He works primarily with adults who are suffering challenges associated with major life transitions. Dr. Alexy has a background in cognitive-behavioral interventions, and most recently completed analytic training at the Jung Institute of Chicago where he now teaches in the Analyst Training Program and serves on various monitoring and exam committees. He is a member of the Indiana Psychological Association, the Chicago Society of Jungian Analysts, and the Interregional Society of Jungian analysts.

Fees, Policies and Participants

Member rate is included in membership. Non-member rate is $30.

Non-Member CE Credit
  Non-member CE Credit $30.00 USD 

It is the policy of the Society to encourage multidisciplinary learning.  This seminar is appropriate for the intermediate level of knowledge in the area of psychoanalysis.  Enrollment is intended for psychologists and other mental health practitioners, graduate students and all who are interested in psychoanalysis.

Continuing Education

This program is offered for 1.5 continuing education credits. The entire meeting must be attended in order for attendees to receive certificates. Upon completion of an evaluation form, a certificate will be provided. This serves as documentation of attendance for all participants. Psychologists will have their participation registered through Division 39.

Division 39 is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Division 39 maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

Division 39 is committed to accessibility and non-discrimination in its continuing education activities. Division 39 is also committed to APA Ethical Guidelines. Participants are asked to be aware of need for privacy and confidentiality throughout the program. If program content becomes stressful, participants are encouraged to process these feelings during discussion periods. If participants have special needs, we will attempt to accommodate them.


September 12, 2022, 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. (1.5 CE credits – free for members with CE credit; $30 for non-members requesting CE credit).
Meeting Address: 1050 W. 42nd Street, Indianapolis, IN 46208

Title

Facilitated Discussion with Participants on the Use of Psychodynamic Principles in Day-to-Day Clinical Case Work

Description

A facilitated discussion with participants on the use of psychodynamic principles in day-to-day clinical case work. In light of Jonathan Shedler’s ground-breaking article on the evidence-based nature of psychoanalytic treatment (Full text free here), this discussion will engage participants in identifying which of the seven distinctive features of psychodynamic technique they apply in day-to-day clinical practice.

Learning Objectives

  1. Understand 7 distinctive features of psychodynamic technique.
  2. Apply 7 distinctive features of psychodynamic technique in clinical work
  3. Identify influence of psychodynamic of technique on other theoretical treatment models and techniques

Sources

Shedler, J. (2010). The efficacy of psychodynamic psychotherapy. American Psychologist, 65(2), 98–109. doi:10.1037/a0018378

Lingiardi, V., & McWilliams, N. (2017). Psychodynamic diagnostic manual: PDM-2 (Second edition). New York: Guilford Press.

McWilliams, N. (2011). Psychoanalytic diagnosis: Understanding personality structure in the clinical process (2nd ed). New York, London: Guilford.

Peebles, M. J. (2012). Beginnings: the art and science of planning psychotherapy (2nd ed.). London: Routledge. 2nd edition.

Shedler, J. (2015). Integrating clinical and empirical perspectives on personality: The Shedler-Westen Assessment Procedure (SWAP). In S. K. Huprich (Ed.), Personality disorders: Toward theoretical and empirical integration in diagnosis and assessment (pp. 225-252).

About the Presenter

Matthias Beier, MDiv, PhD, LMHC, LP, NCPsyA, is Associate Professor of Pastoral Theology and Mental Health Counseling at Christian Theological Seminary, Indianapolis, Indiana. A nationally certified psychoanalyst and Past President of the Indiana Society for Psychoanalytic Thought, Beier received his psychoanalytic training at the National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis (NPAP), one of the oldest and largest psychoanalytic institutes in the country. He specializes in countertransference-focused psychoanalytic supervision and consultation for individuals and groups. Beier is the author of three books – A Violent God-ImageGott ohne Angst, and Eugen Drewermann: Die Biografie – and numerous journal articles and book chapters.

Fees, Policies and Participants

Member rate is included in membership. Non-member rate is $30.

It is the policy of the Society to encourage multidisciplinary learning.  This seminar is appropriate for the intermediate level of knowledge in the area of psychoanalysis.  Enrollment is intended for psychologists and other mental health practitioners, graduate students and all who are interested in psychoanalysis.

Continuing Education

This program is offered for 1.5 continuing education credits. The entire meeting must be attended in order for attendees to receive certificates. Upon completion of an evaluation form, a certificate will be provided. This serves as documentation of attendance for all participants. Psychologists will have their participation registered through Division 39.

Division 39 is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Division 39 maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

Division 39 is committed to accessibility and non-discrimination in its continuing education activities. Division 39 is also committed to APA Ethical Guidelines. Participants are asked to be aware of need for privacy and confidentiality throughout the program. If program content becomes stressful, participants are encouraged to process these feelings during discussion periods. If participants have special needs, we will attempt to accommodate them.

January 29, 11:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. (1.5 CE credits – free for members with CE credit; $30 for non-members requesting CE credit)

Being Home – Being Alone

Professor Lesley Caldwell will engage us with two of Donald Winnicotts’s clinical interests: the capacity to be alone and analytical communication. She’ll explore the relation between being at home and being alone. Using their own clinical examples, Professor Caldwell will compare Winnicott’s ideas with Klein’s and demonstrate their different clinical assumptions and approaches. Both analysts extend their discussion beyond the analytic session to more general ideas of home and homelessness, Klein explicitly, Winnicott indirectly. Professor Caldwell will also discuss the particular resonance these topics have gained under the restrictions of the pandemic.

Learning Objectives

  1. Understand Donald Winnicott’s  general theoretical approach and its relation to his account of being alone.
  2. Learn general aspects of analytic communication used in a clinical setting.
  3. How to incorporate awareness of impacts due to COVID-19 into the therapy room. 

Sources

Caldwell, L. (2018) A psychoanalysis of being: An Approach to Donald Winnicott. British Journal Psychotherapy vol 34:2 May 221-239 

Klein, M. (1987). Envy and gratitude, and other works, 1946-1963. Hogarth Press.

Milton, J. (2018) From the Melanie Klein archives : Klein’s further thoughts on loneliness IJP 99:4 929-946

Winnicott, D. W. (2018). The maturational processes and the facilitating environment: Studies in the theory of emotional development. Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group.

Winnicott, D. W. (2017). The Collected Works of D. W. Winnicott. Oxford University Press.

About the Presenter

Lesley Caldwell is Visiting Professor in the Psychoanalysis Unit at  University College, London (UCL). She is a psychoanalyst of the British Psychoanalytic Association (BPA), a Clinical Associate of the British Psychoanalytic Society (BPAS), now retired from  private practice in London. She is one of the  European members of the IPA board  and is involved in its working group on Remote analysis. 

She taught and supervised on the MSc in Theoretical Psychoanalytic Studies  and continues to  supervise  on  the  doctoral programme in Psychoanalytic Studies. With Angela Joyce she coordinated and taught the Master’s unit on Winnicott for eight years and she now contributes to teaching Freud. She coordinated the Psychoanalysis Unit’s Interdisciplinary Programme (2010 to 2016) to explore interfaculty links between the Psychoanalysis Unit and other disciplines and schools. She has a long standing interest in psychoanalysis and the arts and was a member of the organizing committee for the Psychoanalysis and Film festival (EPF) and has contributed papers on Italian cinema there. She has been external examiner for the Tavistock. Observational Studies MA and the MA in Infant Mental Health.

She  has contributed to the Anglo China programme for which she coordinated a three year module on the British Independents (2018-2020) and, with Dieter Burgen of Switzerland, she  offered a continuing clinical seminar  until the pandemic closed this down. An Introduction to the British Independents was published in Beijing in April 2019.

Fees, Policies and Participants

Member rate for monthly program attendance is included in membership. Non-member rate for attending to receive CE Credit is $30; Zoom link will be emailed upon payment receipt. Students and guest professionals welcome; RSVP to motsayj@gmail.com to receive Zoom link.

It is the policy of the Society to encourage multidisciplinary learning.  This seminar is appropriate for the intermediate level of knowledge in the area of psychoanalysis.  Enrollment is intended for psychologists and other mental health practitioners, graduate students and all who are interested in psychoanalysis.

Continuing Education

This program is offered for 1.5 continuing education credits. The entire meeting must be attended in order for attendees to receive certificates. Upon completion of an evaluation form, a certificate will be provided. This serves as documentation of attendance for all participants. Psychologists will have their participation registered through Division 39.

Division 39 is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Division 39 maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

Division 39 is committed to accessibility and non-discrimination in its continuing education activities. Division 39 is also committed to APA Ethical Guidelines. Participants are asked to be aware of need for privacy and confidentiality throughout the program. If program content becomes stressful, participants are encouraged to process these feelings during discussion periods. If participants have special needs, we will attempt to accommodate them.

November 13, 2021, 12:00 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. (1.5 CE credits – free for members, $30 for non-members). Email motsayj@gmail.com for Zoom link to attend.

Dr. Robert Kramer, presenting to a virtual audience, will introduce the work of Otto Rank to the audience and explain why Rankian thought is central to the foundational concepts within both humanistic and existential psychology. His book, entitled, The Birth of Relationship Therapy: Carl Rogers Meets Otto Rank, included in this presentation talk, focuses on how the field of psychotherapy evolved from the first wave of psychoanalysis eventually to the third way of humanistic-existential psychology.

Learning Objectives

  1. Understand the work of Otto Rank; how the field of psychotherapy evolved from the first wave of psychoanalysis eventually to the third way of humanistic-existential psychology.
  2. How in a certain type of therapeutic relationship, the other person will discover within himself the capacity to use that relationship for growth, and change and personal development will occur.
  3. Understand why Rankian thought is central to the foundational concepts within both humanistic and existential psychology.

Sources

Kramer, R., The Birth of Relationship Therapy: Carl Rogers Meets Otto Rank, (Giessen: Psychosozial Verlag, 2019).

Kramer, R. and Lieberman, E. J., Sigmund Freud und Otto Rank: Ihre Beziehung im Speigel des Briefwechsels, 1906-1925, (Giessen: Psychosozial Verlag, 2014).

Kramer, R. and Lieberman, E. J., The Letters of Sigmund Freud and Otto Rank: Inside Psychoanalysis, (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012).

A Psychology of Difference: The American Lectures of Otto Rank. Edited, annotated, and introduced by Robert Kramer. Foreword by Rollo May. (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1996).

“Otto Rank and The Cause.” A chapter in Todd Dufresne (ed.), Freud Under Analysis: Essays in Honor of Paul Roazen. Edited by (N.J.: Jason Aronson, 1997), pp. 221-247.

About the Presenter

Robert Kramer is editor of Otto Ranks A Psychology of Difference. The American Lectures (Princeton University Press, 1996); co-editor, with E. James Lieberman, of The Letters of Sigmund Freud and Otto Rank: Inside Psychoanalysis (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012); and author of The Birth of Relationship Therapy: Carl Rogers Meets Otto Rank (Psychosozial Press, 2019). During academic year 2015-16, he was the inaugural International Chair of Public Leadership at the National University of Public Service in Budapest, Hungary. From 2016-present he has taught at Eötvös Lorand University and at Corvinus University, both in Budapest. From 2002-2005, he was director of executive education at American University’s School of Public Affairs. In 2002, he received the Outstanding Teacher Award at AU. In 2004, he won the Curriculum Innovation Award of the American Society for Public Administration. From 2002-2004, he was an elected member of the Board of Directors of the Organizational Behavior Teaching Society for Management Educators, a group of 650 professors in leadership and management education worldwide. From 1975-2001, he served in progressively senior positions in the US government, including as a member of Vice-President Al Gore’s task force to reinvent the Federal government.

Fees, Policies and Participants

Member rate is included in membership. Non-member rate is $30.

It is the policy of the Society to encourage multidisciplinary learning.  This seminar is appropriate for the intermediate level of knowledge in the area of psychoanalysis.  Enrollment is intended for psychologists and other mental health practitioners, graduate students and all who are interested in psychoanalysis.

Fall Workshop featuring Dr. Jonathan Sadowsky, author of The Empire of Depression: A New History

Depression in History: Psychoanalytic and Other Perspectives

Presenter:  Dr. Jonathan Sadowsky (in-person presenter)

Saturday, October 16, 2021, 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Eastern Time (ET).

Register as “virtual” or “in-person” below. Attending virtual is by Zoom (email motsayj@gmail.com after registration to receive Zoom link)

Attending In-person is at: Yeager Office Suites of Ft. Harrison, 9165 Otis Ave, Indianapolis, IN 46216. In-person attendance is limited and requires RSVP (see below).

Program Description

When is sorrow sickness? In English, the word “depression” refers to both a universal mood and clinical disorder. Where one ends and the other begins, though, is not easily settled by objective criteria, and had been the subject of many shifts, dating back to classical antiquity.

The speaker will provide a broad historical overview of these shifts, including considerations of cross-cultural variance, the humoral tradition in Western medicine, shifts in DSM classification, and the rise of biological psychiatry. Special attention will be given to the diversity of psychoanalytic perspective on depression.

Learning Objectives

  1. Learn the changing meanings of depressive illness across historical eras and cultural difference.
  2. Learn the diversity of psychoanalytic viewpoints on depression.
  3. Contextualize the rising rates of depression diagnosis beginning in the late decades of the twentieth century.

Sources

Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy

Bentick van Schoonheten, Anna, Karl Abraham; Life and Work, a Biography

Sigmund Freud, “Mourning and Melancholia”

Schiesari, Juliana, The Gendering of Melancholia: Feminism, Psychoanalysis, and the Symbolics of Loss in Renaissance Literature

Kristeva, Julia, Black Sun: Depression and Melancholia

About the Presenter

Jonathan Sadowsky’s writing is animated by the questions: what do madness and its treatment tell us about the rest of culture and society? What do the rest of culture and society tell us about madness? He is the Theodore J. Castele Professor of History of Medicine at Case Western Reserve University and holds degrees in African and European history. Dr. Sadowsky is the author of Imperial Bedlam: Institutions of Madness and Colonialism in Southwest Nigeria and Electroconvulsive Therapy in America, and the co-editor of a forthcoming six-volume Cultural History of Madness from Bloomsbury.

Event is scheduled from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Eastern Time (ET).  Dr. Sadowsky will be presenting in-person to an in-person and virtual audience. The presentation will begin with the introduction of the presenter.  

Fees, Policies and Participants

Member rate is $85. Non-member rate is $100.

It is the policy of the Society to encourage multidisciplinary learning.  This seminar is appropriate for the intermediate level of knowledge in the area of psychoanalysis.  Enrollment is intended for psychologists and other mental health practitioners, graduate students and all who are interested in psychoanalysis.

Continuing Education

This program is offered for 4 continuing education credits. The entire meeting must be attended in order for attendees to receive certificates. Upon completion of an evaluation form, a certificate will be provided. This serves as documentation of attendance for all participants. Psychologists will have their participation registered through Division 39.

Division 39 is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Division 39 maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

Division 39 is committed to accessibility and non-discrimination in its continuing education activities. Division 39 is also committed to APA Ethical Guidelines. Participants are asked to be aware of need for privacy and confidentiality throughout the program. If program content becomes stressful, participants are encouraged to process these feelings during discussion periods. If participants have special needs, we will attempt to accommodate them.

MONTHLY PROGRAM: Attachment theory as a psychoanalytic paradigm

Presenter:  Dr. Mario Marrone (virtual)

Saturday, September 18, 2021, 11:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Eastern Time (ET).

Register as “virtual” or “in-person” below. Attending virtual is by Zoom link (provided 24-48 hours post-registration)

Attending In-person is at: 11650 Lantern Road, Conference Room 1, Fishers, IN 46038 (GPS Link: 11650 Lantern Rd, Fishers, IN 46038) In-person attendance is limited and requires RSVP (see below).

Program Description

The presentation will be an englightening conversation with Dr. Marrone’s work in the understanding of the epistemological roots of attachment theory, the conceptualization of attachment theory as a psychoanalytic paradigm (movement from ‘one-person psychology’ to multi-person psychology’), formulation of basic principles of attachment theory as a psychoanalytic paradigm and the clinical implications of these concepts.

In this context, attachment theory is viewed as a theory of processes, across generations and across the dynamic interaction between the individual and his ‘worlds of others’ (including parental figures, offspring, the sexual partner, the group and society). This position is congenial with contemporary philosophical and developmental ideas and recent advances in the neurosciences. It is also a contribution to British Independent Psychoanalytic thinking, the so-called ‘relational schools of psychoanalysis’ and group analysis. (See Sources below for more information.)

Learning Objectives

  1. Present an outline of attachment theory.
  2. Define psychotherapeutic principles.
  3. Give clinical examples.

Sources

Attachment and Interaction

By Mario Marrone. Paperback. 240 pages – London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers (1998) Second edition: May 2014.

Attachment and Intersubjectivity

By Nicola Diamond and Mario Marrone. Paperback. 300 pages – London: Whurr (2003)

Attachment Theory and the Psychoanalytic Process

By Mauricio Cortina and Mario Marrone (Editors) – Paperback. 480 pages London: Whurr (2003).

Trauma and Loss: Key Texts from the John Bowlby Archive.

Edited By Robbie Duschinsky and Kate White. Paperback. 230 pages. London: Routledge (2020)

Encounters with John Bowlby: Tales of Attachment

By Arturo Ezquerro. Paperback, Paperback. 266 pages. London: Routledge (2016).

About the Presenter

Dr. Mario Marrone qualified as a medical doctor in 1974 at the University of Rosario, Argentina. As a young doctor, he initially trained as a pathologist and worked at the Carrasco Hospital, Rosario, doing biopsies. Later, he changed speciality and trained in psychiatry at the Provincial Hospital and Centenario University Hospital in Rosario. In 1979, he moved to the United Kingdom, where for many years he worked as a hospital psychiatrist in the National Health Service (Shenley Hospital, Claybury Hospital, Chase Farm Hospital and Central Middlesex Hospital). 

He trained in group analysis and family therapy at the Institute of Group Analysis (London), and in psychoanalysis at the Institute of Psychoanalysis (London). He is a member of the British Psychoanalytic Society. He has been a member of the Board of Directors of the International Association of Group Psychotherapy and Director of the Clinic of the London Centre for Psychotherapy. He has also been Associate Senior Lecturer in group analysis at Birkbeck College, University of London. He has also participated in psychodrama groups in various countries and played violin in a chamber orchestra.

Dr. Marrone founded the International Attachment Network (IAN) in 1992 having been directly supervised by the founder of Attachment Theory, John Bowlby, at the Tavistock Clinic in London. He remains a very active member of the IAN Executive Committee and is the coordinator for the IAN International Liaison Committee. Mario was a co-founder of the Journal for Attachment and Human development and has published and lectured extensively across the world on the subject of attachment theory.

He speaks English, Spanish and Italian and has been involved with clinical research projects in the UK, Italy, and Spain. He has participated in multifamily therapy groups in (Elche) Spain. He has extensive experience in treating a variety of psychological, emotional and relational difficulties.

Event is scheduled from 11:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Eastern Time (ET).  Dr. Marrone will be presenting virtually and the audience will be in-person and virtual. The presentation will begin with the introduction of the presenter.  

Fees, Policies and Participants

Fees are included in membership dues for association members.  The fee is $30 for non-members.  It is the policy of the Society to encourage multidisciplinary learning.  This seminar is appropriate for the intermediate level of knowledge in the area of psychoanalysis.  Enrollment is intended for psychologists and other mental health practitioners, graduate students and all who are interested in psychoanalysis.

Continuing Education

This program is offered for 1.5 continuing education credits. The entire meeting must be attended in order for attendees to receive certificates. Upon completion of an evaluation form, a certificate will be provided. This serves as documentation of attendance for all participants. Psychologists will have their participation registered through Division 39.

Division 39 is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Division 39 maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

Division 39 is committed to accessibility and non-discrimination in its continuing education activities. Division 39 is also committed to APA Ethical Guidelines. Participants are asked to be aware of need for privacy and confidentiality throughout the program. If program content becomes stressful, participants are encouraged to process these feelings during discussion periods. If participants have special needs, we will attempt to accommodate them.

Dream Sharing: Empathy, Dora, art and metaphor

Presenters:  Professor Mark Blagrove and Dr. Julia Lockheart

Saturday, May 22, 2021, 8:30 a.m. Eastern Time (ET).

Virtual, by Zoom link (provided 24-48 hours post-registration)

Program Description

This workshop has three components;

  1. Recent empirical work on the empathy-inducing effects of discussing a person’s dream will be described. This work extends previous work on the personal insight obtained by the dreamer when their dream is told to a counsellor / therapist / analyst, and mirrors extensive findings that engagement with fiction enhances empathy.
  2. The Dora case study is often seen in terms of a debate as to the validity of Freud’s conclusions regarding Dora’s early life and unconscious motivations. For this workshop, the two dreams in the case study, as recorded by Freud, will be examined solely in terms of Dora’s free-associations and her biography. It is argued that the two dreams provide poignant depictions of the emotional life of the teenage Dora, in which she was sexually harassed by a family friend, a harassment acknowledged by Freud and which he termed persecution.
  3. Psychoanalyst Montague Ullman devised a lay-person’s method of examining dreams and relating them to the recent waking life of the dreamer, to be used in a group setting. The method will be explained and then used to examine a dream of one person from the workshop. While the dream is discussed, fine artist Julia Lockheart paints the dream onto pages taken, with publisher’s permission, from Freud’s The Interpretation of Dreams, enabling text shapes and words from the book to be incorporated into the artwork. An enlarged print of the painting is gifted to the dreamer after the event so that the dream can be returned to and discussed again with family and friends.

Learning Objectives

  1. Understand how engagement with a person’s dreams, and with fiction more widely, is related to enhanced empathy.
  2. Appreciate the metaphorical relationships between the two dreams that Dora told Freud and the events and concerns of her waking life.
  3. Understand and be able to use the Montague Ullman dream appreciation method, and appreciate the functions of each of the separate stages in the method.

Sources

Blagrove, M., Hale, S., Lockheart, J., Carr, M., Jones, A. & Valli, K. (2019). Testing the empathy theory of dreaming: The relationships between dream sharing and trait and state empathy. Frontiers in Psychology 10, 1351. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01351/full

A further paper, Dream sharing and the enhancement of empathy: Theoretical and applied implications, is soon to be published in the APA journal Dreaming. The manuscript can be downloaded from https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa56640

Blagrove, M., & Lockheart, J. The two dreams in Freud’s (1905) Fragments of an Analysis of a Case of Hysteria (‘Dora’) (Draft of chapter to be published in the forthcoming Routledge book The Science and Art of Dreaming. Available at
https://psyarxiv.com/379kz/)

Blagrove, M., Edwards, C., van Rijn, E., Reid, A., Malinowski, J., Bennett, P., Carr, M., Eichenlaub, J-B., McGee, S., Evans, K., & Ruby, P. (2019). Insight from the consideration of REM dreams, Non-REM dreams and Daydreams. Psychology of Consciousness: Theory, Research, and Practice, 6, 138-162. https://psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/2018-64659-001.pdf

Montague Ullman (1996). Appreciating Dreams: A group approach. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. Further publications can be seen at http://siivola.org/monte/.

Lockheart, J. & Blagrove, M. (2020). Exploring Lockdown dreams. Sublime Magazine, July 2020. https://sublimemagazine.com/exploring-lockdown-dreams

About the Presenters

Mark Blagrove is Professor of Psychology at Swansea University who investigates the relationship of sleep to memory consolidation, the possible role of dreaming in that relationship, the etiology of nightmares, the relationship of dream content to waking life events and concerns, and the personal insight and empathy outcomes of the group discussion of dreams. He is Director of the Swansea University Sleep Laboratory, is a Consulting Editor of the APA journal Dreaming, and is a Fellow of the British Psychological Society.
Qualifications:
BA (Natural Sciences, Experimental Psychology), University of Cambridge;
PhD (Psychology), Brunel University, London;
Certificate in Humanistic and Psychodynamic Counselling, London University.

Julia Lockheart is Associate Professor at the Swansea College of Art, University of Wales Trinity St David. She collaborates with Mark Blagrove on the DreamsID.com science art collaboration and in the development of work on dream-sharing and empathy. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society for Arts and Editor of the Journal of Writing in Creative Practice.
Qualifications:
BA (Fine Art) Saint Martins School of Art, London;
MA Fine Art, Manchester Metropolitan University;
PhD, Goldsmiths, University of London.

Therapeutic Healing Through Ancient Theatrical Elements and Devices

Presenter:  Jamison Edwards, MACMHC Intern

Monday, December 14, 2020 7:00 p.m.

Virtual, by Zoom (link will be sent by email prior to the presentation)

Program Description

This presentation briefly traces the historical beginnings of theatre from early tribal rituals to the ancient Greek dramas, highlighting theatre’s origination in holistic communal wellness. We will identify healing practices and devices of early theatre as applied to modern mental health fields and discuss ways to incorporate them into our current mental health practices. Employing the foundational elements of theatre and drama in our virtual and in-office practices can be therapeutic for both groups and individuals.

Learning Objectives

  1. Recognize the holistic origins of theatre and its significance to the mental health field from antiquity to present day.
  2. Identify and describe two modern mental health models that utilize theatre/drama.
  3. List basic theatrical elements that can be applied to virtual or in-person clinical work.

Sources

Bell, C, (2009). Ritual Perspectives and Dimensions (Revised Ed.). Cary: Oxord University Press.

Ferguson, F. (1961). Aristotle’s poetics. New York: Hill & Wang.

Jacobus, L. A. (2013). The compact Bedford introduction to drama. Boston, MA: Bedford/St. Martins.

Mitchell, S. A. & Black, M. J. (2016). Freud and beyond: A history of modern psychoanalytic thought. New York: Basic Books, A Member of the Perseus Books Group.

Smith, J.E. & Meyers, R.J. (2004): Motivating Substance Abusers to Enter Treatment: Working with Family Members, Guilford Press: New York, NY.

Schrader, C. (2012). Ritual theatre: The power of dramatic ritual in personal development groups and clinical practice. London: Jessica Kingsley.

About the Presenter

Jamison Edwards is a 2020 Masters in Clinical Mental Health Counseling candidate and intern at the Christian Theological Seminary and Counseling Center. Jamison holds an undergraduate degree in Theatre Performance from Butler University. During her professional theatre career, Jamison’s experience performing interactive psycho-social dramas within communities, schools, and corporations eventually led her career path towards the mental health field, and she plans to become a psychodrama or drama therapy student upon earning her Masters in Clinical Mental Health Counseling.

Schedule and Format

Event is scheduled from 7:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m..  The presentation will begin with the introduction of the presenter.  

Note: In order to participate in mask-work, participants would ideally use a PPE mask which they are willing to manipulate. In lieu of that, drawing an outline of a mask on paper works just as well. Art supplies such as markers, crayons, embroidery tools, decoupage, paste, etc. will be useful for mask work as well.

Community Reinforcement and Family Training (CRAFT): Assisting Family Members and Significant Others Affected by Substance Use Disorder

Presenter:  Justin Phillips, M.A.

Monday, November 9, 2020 7:00 p.m.

Virtual, by Zoom (link will be sent by email the Wednesday prior to the presentation)

Program Description

In this presentation attendees will learn about the CRAFT model and an adapted version utilizing peer recovery coaches.

What Is CRAFT

Community Reinforcement and Family Training (CRAFT) teaches family and friends effective strategies for helping their loved one to change and for feeling better themselves. CRAFT works to affect the loved one’s behavior by changing the way the family interacts with him or her. It is designed to accomplish three goals:

1. When a loved one is abusing substances and refusing to get help, CRAFT helps families move their loved one toward treatment.

2. CRAFT helps reduce the loved one’s alcohol and drug use, whether or not the loved one has engaged in treatment yet.

3. CRAFT improves the lives of the concerned family and friends.

Drs. Robert J. Meyers and Jane Ellen Smith of the University of New Mexico developed the CRAFT program to teach families how to impact their loved one while avoiding both detachment and confrontation, the respective strategies of Al-Anon (a 12-Step based approach) and traditional (Johnson Institute-style) interventions in which the substance user is confronted by family members and friends during a surprise meeting. While all three approaches have been found to improve family members’ well-being, CRAFT has proven to be significantly effective in engaging loved ones in treatment and decreasing their substance use. Source: https://motivationandchange.com/outpatient-treatment/for-families/craft-overview/

Learning Objectives

  1. Gain knowledge regarding the chronic disease of substance use disorder.
  2. Gain knowledge and understanding of the impact of substance use disorder on the family/significant others.
  3. Learn about the evidenced based model CRAFT and how to implement the model.

Sources

Kirby, K.C., Marlowe, D.B., Festinger, D.S., Garvey, K.A., & LaMonaca, V. (1999). Community reinforcement training for family and significant others of drug abusers: A unilateral intervention to increase treatment entry of drug users. Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 56(1), 85-96.

Meyers, R.J. & Wolfe, B.L. (2004). Get Your Loved One Sober: Alternatives to nagging, pleading and threatening. Hazelden Publishing & Educational Services: Center City MN.

Miller, W.R., Meyers, R.J., & Tonigan, J. (1999). Engaging the unmotivated in treatment for alcohol problems: A comparison of three strategies for intervention through family members. Journal of Consulting & Clinical Psychology, 67(5), 688-697.

Copello, A., Templeton, L., Orford, J., Velleman, R., Patel, A., et al., (2009). The relative efficacy of two levels of a primary care intervention for family members affected by the addiction problem of a close relative: a randomized trial. Addiction, 104, 49-58.

Smith, J.E. & Meyers, R.J. (2004): Motivating Substance Abusers to Enter Treatment: Working with Family Members, Guilford Press: New York, NY.

Meyers, R.J. & Wolfe, B.L. (2004): Get Your Loved One Sober: Alternatives to nagging, pleading and threatening, Hazelden Publishing & Educational Services, Center City MN.

Meyers, R.J., (Author), & Yu, J. (Director) (2007): “Getting an Addict into Treatment: The CRAFT Approach” [television series episode]. In J. Hoffman & S. Froemke (Producers), The HBO Addiction Series; Why Can’t They Stop? HBO New York, New York.

Center for Motivation and Change 2016, The Parent’s 20 Minute Guide. Center for Motivation and Change.

Utah Support Advocates/University of Utah, CRAFT Family Support Workbook.

About the Presenter

Justin Phillips, M.A., is the Founder and Executive Director of Overdose Lifeline, Inc. an Indiana based non- profit dedicated to reducing the stigma of substance use disorder and preventing deaths resulting from opioid overdose. Overdose Lifeline serves as a statewide nonprofit addressing the opioid public health crisis since 2014 through subject matter expertise, education, advocacy and support for affected families.

Justin spent most of her career in public health and the prevention of unintentional injury and death to children. She received a degree in philanthropic studies and nonprofit management in 2011. When Justin lost her middle child Aaron Sims to a preventable drug overdose death in 2013 she formed Overdose Lifeline to create awareness and save other lives. Aaron’s Law passed in 2015 and named after Justin’s son allows for over the counter access to the overdose reversal drug naloxone (Narcan).

Presenter:  Derrick Hassert, Ph.D.

A Neuropsychological Analysis of Self-Injurious Harm

Monday, October 12, 2020 7:00 p.m.

Program Description

The presentation will focus on the role that self-injurious behavior plays in affect regulation, linking the use of this behavior to failures in self-soothing capacities that would emerge in early development through interactions with the primary caregiver. This position will be discussed and supported through consideration of neurobiological findings that show that both physical pain and emotional pain share overlapping neural pathways and processing: When emotional pain—which is experienced as uncontrollable—occurs, a solution (albeit temporary) can be found through the use of self-injury, which can both block the experience of emotional pain as well as providing the individual with a sense of control.

Learning Objectives

Understand the function(s) of self-injury within the developmental context of affect regulation.     

Understand the concept of neural representation in the embodiment of emotional and physical pain.

Sources

Bowlby, J. (1988). A secure base: Parent-child attachment and healthy human development. London, United Kingdom: Routledge.

Bresin, K., Kling, L., & Verona, E. (2018). The effect of acute physical pain on subsequent negative emotional affect: A meta-analysis. Personality Disorders: Theory, Research, and Treatment, 9, 273– 283. doi:10.1037/per0000248.

Buchheim, A., Viviani, R., Kessler, H., Kächele, H., Cierpka, M., Roth, G., . . . Taubner, S. (2012). Changes in prefrontal-limbic function in major depression after 15 months of long-term psychotherapy. PLoS One, 7(3): e33745. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0033745

Chapman A. L. (2006). Dialectical behavior therapy: current indications and unique elements. Psychiatry, 3(9), 62-8.

Costello, P. C. (2013). Attachment-based psychotherapy: Helping patients develop adaptive capacities. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.

Damasio, A. (1999). The feeling of what happens: Body and emotion in the making of consciousness. New York, NY: Harcourt.

DeCamp, W., & Bakken, N. W. (2016). Self-injury, suicide ideation, and sexual orientation: Differences in causes and correlates among high school students. Journal of Injury and Violence Research, 8(1), 15–24. doi:10.5249/jivr.v8i1.545

Edmondson, A. J., Brennan, C. A., & House, A. O. (2016). Non-suicidal reasons for self-harm: A systematic review of self-reported accounts. Journal of Affective Disorders, 191, 109–117. doi:10.1016/j. jad.2015.11.043

Eisenberger, N. I., Lieberman, M. D., & Williams, K. D. (2003). Does rejection hurt? An fMRI study of social exclusion. Science, 302(5643), 290–292. doi:10.1126/science.1089134

Eisenberger, N. I. (2012). The neural bases of social pain: Evidence for shared representations with physical pain. Psychosomatic Medicine, 74(2):126– 135. doi:10.1097/PSY.0b013e3182464dd1

Fonagy, P., Gergely, G., Jurist, E. L., & Target, M. (2002). Affect regulation, mentalization, and the development of the self. New York, NY: Other Press.

Fox, K. R., O’Sullivan, I. M., Wang, S. B., & Hooley, J. M. (in press). Self-criticism impacts emotional responses to pain. Behavior Therapy. Retrieved from https:// www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/ S000578941830100X

Goodman, M., Carpenter, D., Tang, C. Y., Goldstein, K. E., Avedon, J., Fernandez, N., . . . Hazlett, E. A.. (2014). Dialectical behavior therapy alters emotion regulation and amygdala activity in patients with borderline personality disorder. Journal of Psychiatric Research, 57, 108–116. doi:10.1016/j. jpsychires.2014.06.020

Horney, K. (1950). Neurosis and human growth: The struggle towards self-realization. New York, NY: W. W. Norton.

Kross, E., Berman, M. G., Mischel, W., Smith, E. E., & Wager, T. D. (2011). Social rejection shares somatosensory representations with physical pain. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 108(15), 6270– 6275. doi:10.1073/pnas.1102693108

Levy, K. N., Yeomans, F. E., & Diamond, D. (2007). Psychodynamic treatments of self-injury. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 63(11), 1105–1120. doi:10.1002/jclp.20418

McCoy, K., Fremouw, W., & McNeil, D. W. (2010). Thresholds and tolerance of physical pain among young adults who self-injure. Pain Research and Management, 15(6), 371–377.

Meares, R. (2012). A dissociation model of borderline personality disorder. New York, NY: W. W. Norton.

Morgan, C., Webb, R. T., Carr, M. J., Kontopantelis, E., Green, J., Chew-Graham, C. A., . . . Ashcroft, D. M. (2017). Incidence, clinical management, and mortality risk following self-harm among children and adolescents: Cohort study in primary care. The British Medical Journal, 359, 1–9, doi:10.1136/bmj. j4351

Niedtfeld, I., Kirsch, P., Schulze, L., Herpertz, S. C., Bohus, M., & Schmahl, C. (2012). Functional connectivity of pain-mediated affect regulation in borderline personality disorder. PLoS One, 7(3): e33293. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0033293

Niedtfeld, I., Schmitt, R., Winter, D., Bohus, M., Schmahl, C., & Herpertz, S. C. (2017). Pain-mediated affect regulation is reduced after dialectical behavior therapy in borderline personality disorder: A longitudinal fMRI study. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 12(5), 739–747. doi:10.1093/scan/nsw183.

Niedtfeld, I., Schulze, L., Kirsch, P., Herpertz, S. C., Bohus, M., & Schmahl, C. (2010). Affect regulation and pain in borderline personality disorder: A possible link to the understanding of self-injury. Biological Psychiatry, 68(4), 383–391. doi:10.1016/j. biopsych.2010.04.015.

Panksepp, J. (1998). Affective neuroscience. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.

Plener, P. L., Bubalo, N., Fladung, A. K., Ludolph, A. G., & Lulé, D. (2012). Prone to excitement: Adolescent females with non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) show altered cortical pattern to emotional and NSS- related material. Psychiatry Research, 203, 146– 152. doi:10.1016/j.pscychresns.2011.12.012

Solms, M. (2013). The conscious id. Neuropsychoanalysis, 15(1), 5–19. doi:10.1080/15 294145.2013.10773711

Schore, A. (1994). Affect regulation and the origin of the self. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Schmahl, C., Bohus, M., Esposito, F., Treede, R. D., Di Salle, F., Greffrath, W., . . . Seifritz, E. (2006). Neural correlates of antinociception in borderline personality disorder. Archives of General Psychiatry, 63(6), 659–667. doi:10.1001/archpsyc.63.6.659

Shneidman, E. S. (2005). Anodyne psychotherapy for suicide: A psychological view of suicide. Clinical Neuropsychiatry, 2(1), 7–12.

Sornberger, M. J., Heath, N. L., Toste, J. R., & McLouth, R., (2012). Nonsuicidal self-injury and gender: Patterns of prevalence, methods, and locations among adolescents. Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, 42(3):266–278. doi:10.1111/j.1943- 278X.2012.0088.x

Suyemoto, K. L. (1998). The functions of self-mutilation. Clinical Psychology Review, 18(5), 531–554.

Taylor, P., Jomar, K., Dhingra, K., Forrester, R., Shahmalak, U., & Dickson, J. M. (2018). A meta-analysis of the prevalence of different functions of non-suicidal self-injury. Journal of Affective Disorders, 227, 759–769. doi:10.1016/j.jad.2017.11.073

About the Presenter

Derrick Hassert, Ph.D., serves as Professor of Psychology at Trinity College in Palos Heights, IL, teaching courses in neuroscience, learning and memory, psychopharmacology, psychopathology, and ethics. Derrick is a Clinical Fellow of the International Neuropsychoanalysis Society, a candidate at the Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis, and currently serves as secretary of the Chicago Association for Psychoanalytic Psychology.

Note: This event was scheduled as the Spring Workshop 2020 and rescheduled for September 12th as a virtual event.

September 12 Program Year Kick Off: Minding Emotions

by Professor Elliot Jurist

Saturday, September 12th, 9:00 am to 4:30 pm Eastern Time

Virtual Zoom Link will be sent to those registered.

Program Description

The workshop will define a psychoanalytically-informed perspective on emotion regulation and will focus on assessing various problems with emotions and suggesting ways to help patients to utilize their emotions more effectively. Professor Elliot Jurist introduces the idea of “mentalized affectivity,” a form of emotion regulation that is mediated by past history and experience (autobiographical memory), and that relies on the capacity to mentalize; and he discusses a research scale that his lab has created, the Mentalized Affectivity Scale (MAS), which robustly delineates elements such as identifying, modulating, and expressing emotions. Professor Jurist also reflects on how the MAS can be developed as a clinical tool. Finally, Professor Jurist refers to case examples that illustrate problems and demonstrates how to work clinically to address them.

Learning Objectives

1. Attendees will be able to compare the advantages and disadvantages of three different perspectives on emotion regulation (the process model, mindfulness, and mentalized affectivity).

2. Attendees will be able to describe the three components of the Mentalized Affectivity Scale (identifying, processing and expressing emotions) and to apply them clinically.

3. Attendees will be able to use mentalization and mentalizing skills that are relevant to patients’ experiences of emotions.

Recommended Resources

Jurist, E.L. (2018). Minding emotions: Cultivating mentalization in psychotherapy.  New York: Guilford Press.

Greenberg, D.M., Kolasi, J., Hegsted, C.P., Berkowitz, Y., & Jurist, E.L. (2017). Mentalized affectivity: A new model and assessment of emotion regulation. PloS one12(10), e0185264.

Jurist, E.L. (2005). Mentalized affectivity. Psychoanalytic Psychology22(3), 426.

Fonagy P., & Campbell C. (2015). Bad blood revisited: Attachment and psychoanalysis, 2015. British Journal of Psychotherapy, 31(2), 229–250.

Fonagy P., Gergely G., Jurist E.L., & Target M. (2002). Affect regulation, mentalization and the development of the self. New York: Other Press.

About the Presenter

Elliot Jurist, Ph.D., Ph.D. is Professor of Psychology and Philosophy at the Graduate Center and The City College of New York, CUNY. From 2004-2013, he served as the Director of the Clinical Psychology Doctoral Program at CUNY. From 2008-2018, he was the Editor of Psychoanalytic Psychology, the journal of Division 39 of the APA. He is also the editor of a book series, Psychoanalysis and Psychological Science, from Guilford Publications, and author of a recent book in the series, Minding Emotions: Cultivating Mentalization in Psychotherapy (2018), from the same publisher (the book has been translated into Italian, will be translated into Chinese, and was named best theoretical book in 2019 by the American Board and Academy of Psychoanalysis). He is the author of Beyond Hegel and Nietzsche: Philosophy, Culture and Agency (MIT Press, 2000) and co-author of Affect Regulation, Mentalization and the Development of the Self (Other Press, 2002), the latter of which has been translated into five languages and won two book prizes. He is also the co-editor of Mind to Mind: Infant Research, Neuroscience, and Psychoanalysis (Other Press, 2008). His research interests concern mentalization and the role of emotions and emotion regulation in psychotherapy. His research lab has published a self-report measure, the Mentalized Affectivity Scale (MAS), which has now been translated into ten languages.  In 2014, he received the Scholarship Award from Division 39 of the APA.

www.elliotjurist.com

Schedule

8:30 to 9:00 a.m. Internet Cafe with 1:1 Technology Support

9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.  Morning Session

12:00 p.m. to 1:30 p.m.  Lunch (on your own)

1:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.  Afternoon Session

Fees, Policies and Participants

ISPT Members: $125*

Non-Members: $150*

Students (Undergraduate & Graduate only): $30

*Early Registration by August 22 savings of $20.00 (STUDENT RATE REMAINS AT $30)

It is the policy of ISPT to encourage multidisciplinary learning.  This workshop is appropriate for mental health clinicians across disciplines who have an interest or experience in psychoanalytic psychotherapies.

Continuing Education

This program is offered for 5 continuing education credits. The entire workshop must be attended in order for attendees to receive certificates. Upon completion of an evaluation form, a certificate will be provided. This serves as documentation of attendance for all participants. Attendees will have their participation registered through Division 39.

Division 39 is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education under the State Psychology and Behavioral Health & Human Services Boards. Division 39 maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

Division 39 is committed to accessibility and non-discrimination in its continuing education activities. Division 39 is also committed to APA Ethical Guidelines. Attendees are asked to be aware of need for privacy and confidentiality throughout the program. If program content becomes stressful, attendees are encouraged to process these feelings during discussion periods. If attendees have special needs, we will attempt to accommodate them.