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SUMMARY:Virtual Open House: Couples Therapy
DESCRIPTION:About this event\n\n\nHow Couples Training Can Change Your Practice \nHone your skills and confidence in treating couples \n\nBecome part of our Westchester/Connecticut community of clinicians\nBegin or grow your private practice through our referral network of graduates\n\nAbout Our Training Program \nOur Couples Therapy Training Program is a one-year program that teaches both basic and advanced couples therapy techniques and theory with a combination of psychoanalytic and systems perspectives. Candidates are introduced to several different theoretical approaches including object relations and relational theory\, self-psychology\, Bowenian theory\, and Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) with emphasis on the clinical work with couples. We also discuss issues pertaining to LGBTQ relationships\, divorce\, cross-cultural relationships\, and substance abuse. In addition to the didactic instruction\, weekly supervision is provided by senior faculty for cases seen through our Psychotherapy Service. \nThe Couples Therapy Training Program provides a solid introduction to couples work and provides an opportunity to join the warm\, supportive community at our institute\, build your referral network\, and be exposed to the many and varied learning opportunities provided at WCSPP. \nWho is eligible and should apply? \nApplicants must be licensed Masters or Doctoral-level mental health professionals: M.D.\, Ph.D.\, Psy.D.\, LCSW\, NP\, LMSW\, LCAT\, LMHC\, LMFT \nCE Credits will be offered for coursework. \nFinancial Aid is available for those who qualify. \nTimeline: \nRolling admissions with decisions made by July 30\, 2022. \nProgram begins September 2022 \n——————————- \nWe’d love to have you become part of our community… Come see what we are all about!
URL:https://wcspp.org/event/virtual-open-house-couples-therapy/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220424T103000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Open House: Supervisory Training Program
DESCRIPTION:If you have graduated four or more years ago from a psychoanalytic training program as a certified psychoanalyst and are interested in applying to\, or just learning more about\, this very exciting and expansive one-year program\, please consider attending.\n\n\nCurrent applicants\, faculty and graduates will be present to discuss the program\, the impact it has had personally and on clinical practice\, and to answer any questions. \nTHIS PROGRAM WILL BE OFFERED ONLINE \nOpportunity for distance learning! \nWho is eligible and should apply? \nApplicants must be a certified psychoanalyst who is licensed Masters or Doctoral-level mental health professionals: M.D.\, Ph.D.\, Psy.D.\, LCSW\, NP\, LMSW\, LCAT\, LMHC\, LMFT\, LQP \nFinancial Aid is available for those who qualify. \nCE hours available for some coursework for eligible NYS LCSW\, LMSW\, LMFT\, LMHC\,LCAT\, LP and NYS Psychologists and CT Social Workers through NASW CT \nTimeline: \nRolling admissions with decisions made by July 30\, 2022 \nProgram begins September 2022 \nWe’d love to have you become part of our community…Come see what we are all about!
URL:https://wcspp.org/event/virtual-open-house-supervisory-training-program/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220507T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220507T103000
DTSTAMP:20260404T091035
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SUMMARY:Diversity Book Group (Members only)
DESCRIPTION:We will be reading “That place gives me the heebie jeebies\,” from Lynne Layton’s book\, “Toward a Social Psychoanalysis: Culture\, Character\, and Normative Unconscious Processes\,” 2020.
URL:https://wcspp.org/event/diversity-book-group-members-only/
CATEGORIES:Member Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220515T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220515T190000
DTSTAMP:20260404T091035
CREATED:20240717T200114Z
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SUMMARY:Spring into Spring\, WCSPP's first in-person gathering since 2020 (members only)
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for our first in-person gathering since March 2020!! (members only)
URL:https://wcspp.org/event/spring-into-spring-wcspps-first-in-person-gathering-since-2020-members-only/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220520T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220520T200000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Open House: Child\, Adolescent\, Parent Psychotherapy Training Program
DESCRIPTION:About this event\n\n\nOur program weaves together the study of individual child & adolescent\, and parent development through understanding the impact of psychological histories\, relational patterns\, intergenerational effects\, and changing social contexts and constructs. Training is based on a psychodynamic\, relational orientation to change\, integrating parent guidance and advice as needed. \nWe welcome all mental health practitioners\, whether your work is exclusive to children & adolescents\, primarily serves adults or some combination. We never forget that there is\, after all\, a child’s history within each adult and the challenge of growing within every child\, adult\, and parent. \nOpportunity for distance learning!
URL:https://wcspp.org/event/virtual-open-house-child-adolescent-parent-psychotherapy-training-program/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220520T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220520T213000
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CREATED:20240717T200113Z
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SUMMARY:Scientific Meeting: My Teacher Has Your Voice; Reaching Young Children Through the Languages That Come Before Words
DESCRIPTION:“There is a voice that doesn’t use words\, listen” — Rumi \n“My teacher has your voice\,” five-year-old Jonathan told me. I had been talking to Jonathan in the rhythm of early voice for the last two years\, but I had no idea he noticed. He had changed from a child who wouldn’t look at me and barely\, rarely spoke into one who could play\, relate\, and sum up my melody.  He is one of the children who inspired this talk. \nWe all knew another language\, once upon a time. The rhythm of dialogue\, the language of looking and the music of voice each speak long before words.  They go into the background as language as we know it takes hold\, but their potential does not disappear.  While their echoes play in treatment at all ages\, in therapy with young children they actually are the treatment.  The early languages open the door to connection and growth.  They bring a way to understand a child’s story\, the one he is telling through his actions\, or she is showing through her gaze. Follow me\, one small child at a time\, into the journey of discovery that begins when you can speak a child’s language. \nPresenter \n\nEllen Luborsky\, Ph.D.\, began in the field by doing play therapy in a day care center.  She has been in private practice for decades\, working with patients of all ages and doing consultations in early childhood settings. She has a doctorate in Clinical Psychology from NYU and did psychoanalytic training at the NYU Postdoctoral Program and the Stephen Mitchell Center. She assisted in Daniel Stern’s research lab while he was investigating attunement\, a process she applies to her clinical work. Her study of creative writing with Grace Paley inspired her to use stories as a way to share her work. Two of her short-but-true stories about  therapy with young children were awarded top prizes by NYSPA. She also assisted her father\, Dr Lester Luborsky\, with his psychotherapy research\, and co-authored Research & Psychotherapy: The Vital Link with him. \ndrellenluborsky.com
URL:https://wcspp.org/event/scientific-meeting-my-teacher-has-your-voice-reaching-young-children-through-the-languages-that-come-before-words/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220604T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220604T124000
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SUMMARY:Somatic Complaints: How and when to use them as a guide in dynamic work
DESCRIPTION:About this event\n\n\n**There is a 20 person limit on this event. 2 CE hours available for NYS Practitioners* \nAdolescent and adult patients often bring up concerns about their bodies (e.g. pains\, stomach upset\, physical tension) during the course of psychodynamic treatment. We will discuss situations where these complaints were not the primary reason for seeking treatment but rather as they came up during the course of an ongoing psychotherapy. A brief introduction to the psychodynamic literature on psychosomatics will be presented together with some case material. \n1. Participants will be introduced to the psychodynamic ideas about mind/body\, psychosomatic conditions. \n2. Participants will gain a basic framework for addressing these types of conditions in psychotherapy \nPresenter: Jason Gold\, PhD \nJason Gold is a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst. With a specific focus on adolescents and related parenting issues\, Dr. Gold works with adults\, couples\, families\, and younger children as well. In over 20 years of private practice\, initially in Manhattan and currently in Westchester\, Dr. Gold provides consultation\, psychotherapy\, psychoanalysis\, and clinical supervision. \nDr. Gold is a graduate of The New York Psychoanalytic Institute\, a member of the American Psychological Association\, Division 39 of the APA\, and an affiliate member of The Westchester Center for the Study of Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy (WCSPP).
URL:https://wcspp.org/event/somatic-complaints-how-and-when-to-use-them-as-a-guide-in-dynamic-work/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220604T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220604T143000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Open House: Foundations of Psychodynamic Psychotherapy and Advanced Psychoanalysis
DESCRIPTION:Foundations and Advanced Psychoanalytic Training Programs Open House\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout this event\n\n\nWCSPP offers two adult training programs: a two-year training experience in psychodynamic psychotherapy and also an intensive course of study and immersion into contemporary psychoanalysis. Each of these certificate programs provides excellent hands-on education and training in the theory and practice of psychotherapy and contemporary psychoanalysis. The programs are designed to enhance a clinician’s understanding of psychodynamic and psychoanalytic thinking in their workplace and/or private practice. The training hones the candidate’s existing capacities to “see”\, feel\, and understand the multiple levels of meaningful human interaction in the consulting room. \nGrowing empirical evidence is clear that “deep therapeutic work”–like the kind offered at WCSPP–promotes change and growth in patients that is more substantial and longer lasting than in short-term\, singularly focused\, or behavioral treatments. \nThe Foundations of Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Training Program is a two-year program designed to provide candidates with a solid theoretical and clinical base in psychoanalytic psychotherapy. A three-pronged approach is used\, which includes coursework\, personal therapy\, and consultation/supervision with a number of master clinicians who are a part of the WCSPP Faculty. Candidates will learn how to better recognize aspects of their work that are occurring outside the conscious awareness of the patient (or even the clinician) and how to use this expanded understanding in a dynamic\, transformative way. \nThe Advanced Psychoanalytic Training Program is open to graduates of the Foundations Program and/or an equivalent program at another training institute. The Advanced course is an additional three-year program (beyond the Foundations program) that provides further in-depth training in psychoanalysis. The training consists of concurrent participation in didactic course work\, supervised clinical work\, and a personal psychoanalysis. Such an intense immersion enables the candidate to transform experientially and deeply understand the empirical basis of theoretical formulations and to develop analytic skill in the conceptualization and execution of psychoanalytic work. \nWho is eligible and should apply? \nApplicants must be licensed Masters or Doctoral-level mental health professionals: M.D.\, Ph.D.\, Psy.D.\, LCSW\, NP\, LMSW\, LCAT\, LMHC\, LMFT \nCE Credits will be offered for coursework. \nFinancial Aid is available for those who qualify. \nTimeline: \nRolling admissions with decisions made by July 30\, 2022 \nProgram begins September 2022 \n——————————- \n  \nWe’d love to have you become part of our community… Come see what we are all about!
URL:https://wcspp.org/event/virtual-open-house-foundations-of-psychodynamic-psychotherapy-and-advanced-psychoanalysis-2/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220616T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220616T213000
DTSTAMP:20260404T091035
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SUMMARY:School Violence and Its Impact on Children\, Parents and School Staff
DESCRIPTION:Carol Mahlstedt\, MSW\, Psy.D is a faculty member of WCSPP’s Child Adolescent Parent Program. A psychologist/psychoanalyst in private practice\, Dr. Mahlstedt is the founder of the Ridgefield Crisis Resource Team in Ridgefield\, Connecticut and has spoken widely in communities since the tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary School changed the face of everyday life. In addition\, Dr. Mahlstedt has worked with CERT teams on intervening in the aftermath of disasters. She is the recipient of the Connecticut Psychological Association’s award for Distinguished Contributions in the Public Interest\, as well as the Martin Luther King Award in Ridgefield\, CT.  \nPlease join us for a conversation on helping children\, teens and adults cope with the aftermath of school and community violence. We will talk about how to talk to children and teens\, as well as discuss strategies to manage anxiety and stress across the life span.  \nWe welcome also those interested in learning about our training program and its other efforts to provide support to families. Admissions and Program Directors will be available to answer questions.
URL:https://wcspp.org/event/school-violence-and-its-impact-on-children-parents-and-school-staff/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220623T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220623T210000
DTSTAMP:20260404T091035
CREATED:20240717T200146Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240717T200146Z
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SUMMARY:Virtual Open House: Child\, Adolescent\, Parent Psychotherapy Training Program (CAPP)
DESCRIPTION:An opportunity to hear from program directors and recent graduates\, and learn about the academic and clinical components of our two-year online training program. \nOur program weaves together the study of individual child & adolescent\, and parent development through understanding the impact of psychological histories\, relational patterns\, intergenerational effects\, and changing social contexts and constructs. Training is based on a psychodynamic\, relational orientation to change\, integrating parent guidance and advice as needed. \nWe welcome all mental health practitioners\, whether your work is exclusive to children & adolescents\, primarily serves adults or some combination. We never forget that there is\, after all\, a child’s history within each adult and the challenge of growing within every child\, adult\, and parent. \nWho is eligible and should apply? \n
Applicants must be licensed Masters or Doctoral-level mental health professionals: M.D.\, Ph.D.\, Psy.D.\, LCSW\, NP\, LMSW\, LCAT\, LMHC\, LMFT \nFinancial Aid is available for those who qualify.  \nCE hours available for some coursework for eligible NYS LCSW\, LMSW\, LMFT\, LMHC\,LCAT\, LP and NYS Psychologists and CT Social Workers through NASW CT \nTimeline: \nRolling admissions with decisions made by July 30\, 2022 \nProgram begins September 2022
URL:https://wcspp.org/event/virtual-open-house-child-adolescent-parent-psychotherapy-training-program-capp-2/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220713T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220713T213000
DTSTAMP:20260404T091035
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SUMMARY:Addiction and the Couple: Dynamics and Therapeutic Approaches
DESCRIPTION:About this event\n\n\n\n2 CE Hours available for NY Practitioners – LCSWs\, LMSWs\, LPs\, LMFTs\, LMHCs\, LCATs\, PHDs\, PSYD’s \nPresenter: Michal Seligman\, PsyD \nLive on Zoom! \nMost substance use treatment\, including couple therapy\, has been informed by a disease model of addiction that is expressed in an abstinence-only approach to treatment. Until recently\, prominent couple therapy contributors have taught that effective couple therapy could not be conducted with problematic substance users. The reluctance to work with these couples was not only an outcome of the disease model but also a response to the particular challenges of working with them. These challenges can include dealing with emergencies\, relapse and slips\, repeated detox and rehab hospitalizations\, volatility of behavior and affect\, and often intense or chaotic sessions that can leave the therapist confused\, angry\, worried\, helpless and deskilled. \nAs we move away from an anti-meaning disease model of addiction and embrace a model of addiction as personally and relationally meaningful\, psychoanalytic exploration becomes an essential part of both individual and couple therapy. \nI will present a harm reduction integrative model of couple therapy that combines the exploratory aspects of relational dynamics with behavioral therapy\, motivational work\, and interventions to enhance affect regulation. In addition\, I will address common issues that couples face when one partner is using substances problematically and during the vulnerable period that follows inpatient rehabilitation. \nPresenter \nMichal Seligman\, Psy.D. is a clinical psychologist\, psychoanalyst\, and couple therapist. Dr. Seligman has been in practice for 30 years. She is a graduate of the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. In her work with couples she integrates psychoanalytic ideas with the clinical observations and techniques of contemporary couple therapists. \nDr. Seligman specializes in the treatment of addictions and incorporates behavioral therapy for couples struggling with addictions.
URL:https://wcspp.org/event/addiction-and-the-couple-dynamics-and-therapeutic-approaches/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220720T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220720T203000
DTSTAMP:20260404T091035
CREATED:20240717T200213Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240717T200213Z
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SUMMARY:Virtual Open House: Couples Therapy Training Program
DESCRIPTION:SIGN UP FOR THIS FREE VIRTUAL EVENT USING THE EVENTBRITE LINK BELOW \nAbout Our Training Program \nOur Couples Therapy Training Program is a one year program which teaches both basic and advanced couples therapy techniques and theories with a combination of psychoanalytic and systems perspectives. Candidates are introduced to several different theoretical approaches including object relations and relational theory\, self psychology\, Bowenian theory and Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) with emphasis on the clinical work with couples. We also discuss issues pertaining to LGBTQ relationships\, divorce\, cross cultural relationships\, and substance abuse. In addition to the didactic instruction\, weekly supervision is provided by senior faculty for cases seen through our Psychotherapy Service. \nThe Couples Therapy Training Program provides a solid introduction to couples work and provides an opportunity to join the warm\, supportive community at our institute\, build your referral network\, and be exposed to the many and varied learning opportunities provided at WCSPP. \nOur program’s coursework will take place online. \nApplicants must be licensed Masters or Doctoral-level mental health professionals: M.D.\, Ph.D.\, Psy.D.\, LCSW\, NP\, LMSW\, LCAT\, LMHC\, LMFT \nFinancial Aid is available for those who qualify. \nCE hours available for some coursework for eligible NYS LCSW\, LMSW\, LMFT\, LMHC\,LCAT\, LP and NYS Psychologists and CT Social Workers through NASW CT \nTimeline: \nRolling admissions with decisions made by July 30\, 2022 \nProgram begins September 2022 \nWe will continue to be on Zoom for the 2022-2023 year.
URL:https://wcspp.org/event/virtual-open-house-couples-therapy-training-program/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220803T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220803T130000
DTSTAMP:20260404T091035
CREATED:20240717T200214Z
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SUMMARY:Virtual Open House: Child\, Adolescent\, Parent Psychotherapy Training Program
DESCRIPTION:About this event\n\n\n\nLearn about the academic and clinical components of our two-year online training program. Candidates can elect to do the academic piece\, without seeing a training case. \n*Come learn how the program can add to your skills helping your patients parent their children. \n*Come hear how a deeper understanding of child development can inform your work with adult patients. \nOpportunity for distance learning! \nOur program studies individual child & adolescent\, and parent development by understanding the impact of psychological histories\, relational patterns\, intergenerational effects\, and changing social contexts and constructs. Training is based on a psychodynamic\, relational orientation to change\, integrating parent guidance and advice as needed. \nWe welcome all mental health practitioners\, whether your work is exclusive to children & adolescents\, primarily serves adults\, or some combination. We never forget that there is\, after all\, a child’s history within each adult and the challenge of growing within every child\, adult\, and parent. \nWho is eligible and should apply? \nApplicants must be licensed Masters or Doctoral-level mental health professionals: M.D.\, Ph.D.\, Psy.D.\, LCSW\, NP\, LMSW\, LCAT\, LMHC\, LMFT \nFinancial Aid is available for those who qualify. \nCE hours available for some coursework for eligible NYS LCSW\, LMSW\, LMFT\, LMHC\,LCAT\, LP and NYS Psychologists and CT Social Workers through NASW CT \nTimeline: \nRolling admissions extended through mid-August \nProgram begins September 2022 \nWe’d love to have you become part of our community and our referral network…Come see what we are all about! \n~ If interested in the CAPP training program\, but unable to attend this discussion\, contact us at Admissions@WCSPP.org
URL:https://wcspp.org/event/virtual-open-house-child-adolescent-parent-psychotherapy-training-program-2/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220813T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220813T120000
DTSTAMP:20260404T091035
CREATED:20240717T200214Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240717T200214Z
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SUMMARY:Listening with a Beginner's Mind: A Psychoanalytic Approach Informed by W.R. Bion and Zen Buddhism
DESCRIPTION:About this event\n\n\n\nDialogues In Clinical Moments: Small-group Discussions of the Latest in Psychoanalytic Thought and Practice Today\, Treating the Gamut of Presenting Problems and Diagnoses \n1 CE Hour available for NY Practitioners – LCSWs\, LMSWs\, LPs\, LMFTs\, LMHCs\, LCATs\, PHDs\, PSYD’s \nIs it valuable or even possible to remain a “beginner” in knowing and listening to your analysand throughout a deep therapeutic relationship? How we listen—as psychodynamic clinicians—and what\, in essence\, constitutes analytic material\, will be the unfocused topics of this discussion. A paper written by the moderator of the Dialogue will serve as a launching point. \nModerator – Wade B. Anderson\, Ph.D \nI am a clinical psychologist\, psychoanalyst and practicing Buddhist. With broad interests and skills in working with families\, parents\, children and individual adults\, I enjoy the challenges of meeting people and their emotional systems moment by moment. For me\, the work is to foster investigation and transformation\, some small and others profound. My affinity for Wilfred Bion’s work has grown over the last 10 years\, and is an extension of Buddhist and existential paths that I am following. I have presented clinical papers in various formats over the last 15 years on topics ranging from “evolving an analytic voice”\, “witnessing”\, “the art of therapy” and beginner’s mind.
URL:https://wcspp.org/event/listening-with-a-beginners-mind-a-psychoanalytic-approach-informed-by-w-r-bion-and-zen-buddhism/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220911T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220911T180000
DTSTAMP:20260404T091035
CREATED:20240717T200244Z
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SUMMARY:Welcome Wine & Cheese (WCSPP only)
DESCRIPTION:The WCSPP community is invited to a casual wine & cheese event to welcome the new 2022-2023 candidates.  \nMore details to follow via Listserv\, including location in Scarsdale
URL:https://wcspp.org/event/welcome-wine-cheese-wcspp-only/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220923T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220923T213000
DTSTAMP:20260404T091035
CREATED:20240717T200215Z
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SUMMARY:Reflections on Money Matters in the Transference/Countertransference Matrix
DESCRIPTION:Presenters: Irwin Hirsch\, PhD and George Whitson\, PhD \nClinical Material presented by Nicholas Singman\, LCSW \nModerators \nGeorge Goldstein\, PhD \nJanet Shimer\, LCSW\, MBA \nSylvia Steinert\, LCSW \n2 CE Hours available for \nNY Practitioners – LCSWs\, LMSWs\, LPs\, LMFTs\, LMHCs\, LCATs\, PHDs\, PSYDs \nPending for CT LCSWs \nThis webinar is live\, real-time and interactive \nThe impact of the exchange of money between patient and therapist and its characterological implications has not received the attention it warrants in literature focused on this complex therapeutic interaction. Issues surrounding money can foreshadow ways patients and therapists project private meaning systems and display character within the dyad. Irwin Hirsch\, PhD will discuss the integration of money matters and financial transactions with his recent writing on the analyst’s avoidance of countertransferential discomfort. \nGeorge Whitson\, PhD will elaborate on his thinking regarding character development and how character manifests in patients and therapists when playing out money matters. \nPanel moderators George Goldstein\, PhD\, Janet Shimer\, LCSW and Sylvia Steinert\, LCSW will facilitate a conversation around these presentations and incorporate clinical material prepared by Nicholas Singman\, LCSW. The material will be discussed to highlight these themes and demonstrate how the handling of money reveals some of the ways that patients and therapists organize their worlds. The issues related to fee setting\, billing and collecting have been an under-examined area of important clinical information in our work. The audience will be invited to participate in the discussion. \nIrwin Hirsch\, PhD is Faculty\, supervisor and former director\, Manhattan Institute for Psychoanalysis. He is Distinguished visiting faculty\, William Alanson White Institute. He is Adjunct clinical professor of psychology and supervisor\, Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis\, New York University. He is Faculty and supervisor\, The National Training Program\, The National Institute of the Psychotherapies. He has authored over 90 psychoanalytic articles and book chapters and 6 books including the 2008 Goethe Award winning\, “Coasting in the Countertransference: Conflicts of Self-Interest between Analyst and Patient”. He is on the following Editorial Boards: Contemporary Psychoanalysis\, Psychoanalytic Dialogues and Psychoanalytic Perspectives. \nGeorge Goldstein\, PhD is a faculty member\, supervisor and former Director of the Westchester Center for the Study of Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy. He is a supervisor at the Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis\, New York University and is faculty and supervisor at Suffolk Institute of Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. He is also former faculty and supervisor at the Derner Institute of Advanced Psychological Studies at Adelphi University\, and former associate faculty at Albert Einstein College of Medicine Department of Psychiatry. Dr. Goldstein is the author of book chapters and articles on psychoanalysis\, character and countertransference. He is the co-editor of “Sabert Basescu:` Selected Papers on Human Nature and Psychoanalysis”. \nDr. George Whitson is a co-founder and former executive director of the Suffolk Institute of Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis where he currently serves on the Board of Trustees. Dr. Whitson is also teaching and supervising faculty at the Manhattan Institute of Psychoanalysis where he teaches the Advanced Dream course. In addition\, he has been a teaching and supervising analyst at the Derner Institute of Advanced Psychological Studies. Dr. Whitson is in private practice in Rockville Centre\, New York. \nJanet Shimer\, LCSW\, MBA is current Co-Executive Director of the Westchester Center for the Study of Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy. She is Faculty and Supervisor\, WCSPP; She earned her Certificate in Psychoanalysis and Supervision at WCSPP. She is a Former Director of WCSPP Annual Conference; a Former Director of WCSPP Marketing\, and Past President\, WCSPP Psychoanalytic Association. \nNicholas Singman\, LCSW received his analytic training at the Westchester Center for the Study of Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy. He has taught there and at the Suffolk Institute. He maintains a private practice in Tarrytown\, NY. \nSylvia Steinert\, LCSW is current Co-Executive Director\, WCSPP; Faculty\, WCSPP; Certificates in Psychoanalysis and Supervision\, WCSPP. She is in private practice in Ridgefield\, CT.
URL:https://wcspp.org/event/reflections-on-money-matters-in-the-transference-countertransference-matrix/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220930T193000
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SUMMARY:Blooming in December: Psychodynamic Psychotherapy with Older Adults
DESCRIPTION:Psychodynamic treatment of older adults can be extremely effective. The assaults\, losses\, and indignities accompanying older age are many and may exacerbate old relational conflicts\, revive early trauma\, and erode the sense of self. In the context of therapy\, it presents opportunity. Aspects of treatment that we will explore include current and revived trauma\, the narrative self\, transference\, countertransference\, and existential issues. We will also discuss specific challenges entailed in this work. \nPresenter \n\nAmy Schaffer\, Ph.D. is the author of Blooming in December: Psychodynamic Psychotherapy with Older Adults\, published in the Routledge series\, Psychoanalysis in a New Key. Dr. Schaffer received her certification in Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy from the Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy\, where she is on the faculty\, a supervisor\, and founder and former director of the Two-year Training Program in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy. She is currently the President-Elect of the New York State Psychological Association’s Division of Adult Development and Aging. Her background also includes psychodrama\, psychological research\, and college teaching.  She has worked clinically with older adults for more than 40 years.
URL:https://wcspp.org/event/blooming-in-december-psychodynamic-psychotherapy-with-older-adults/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221014T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221014T140000
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SUMMARY:Master Class: Ruptures and Crises in Termination\, Jill Salberg\, PhD
DESCRIPTION:WCSPP’s Leadership and Development Committee is inviting all graduates of psychoanalytic training programs* to a one time master level class  \nRuptures and Crises in Termination\nJill Salberg\, PhD. \n2 CE HOURS AVAILABLE FOR MOST NYS PRACTITIONERS \nThe difficulties involved in ending treatment are complex and can present challenges and possibilities for analyst\, patient and the therapeutic dyad.  It is no surprise that a variety of crises can arise when ending a treatment. When the history of the patient includes complex trauma involving parental neglect\, sexual abuse and alcoholism\, the ending process is especially ripe for enactments.  I will be presenting a case with a long-term analytic patient\, where a crisis occurred which stalled our ending.  Ironically\, it was when we began our termination phase that the enactment occurred\, revealing further work that needed to be explored. This challenge of not being able to end while ending demonstrates how rich a crisis around ending can be.  \n\n*This is a master class for graduates of psychoanalytic training programs only. You will be asked to confirm the name of your psychoanalytic training institute and date of graduation.\n\n\nJILL SALBERG\, Ph.D.\, ABPP is faculty and supervisor at the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis\, the Stephen Mitchell Center for Relational Studies\, Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy and member of IPTAR. She is the editor of and contributor to Good Enough Endings: Breaks\, Interruptions and Terminations from Contemporary Relational Perspectives (2010) and is Editor of Psychoanalytic Credo: Personal and Professional Journeys of Psychoanalysts (2022).   She has co-edited with Sue Grand\, The Wounds of History: Repair and Resilience in the Transgenerational Transmission of Trauma\, and Transgenerational Trauma and the Other: Dialogues Across History and Difference\, (2017)\, both won the Gradiva Award (2018).  She conceived of and co-edits a Book Series\,Psyche and Soul: Psychoanalysis\, Spirituality and Religion in Dialogue at Routledge/Taylor&Francis Group. She has conceived of and co-edits a book series\, Psyche and Soul: Psychoanalysis\, Spirituality and Religion in Dialogue at Routledge/Taylor&Francis Group. She is in private practice in Manhattan.
URL:https://wcspp.org/event/master-class-ruptures-and-crises-in-termination-jill-salberg-phd/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221016T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221016T120000
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SUMMARY:Internal Family Systems: A Psychoanalytic Tool
DESCRIPTION:Dialogues In Clinical Moments: Small-group Discussions of the Latest in Psychoanalytic Thought and Practice Today\, Treating the Gamut of Presenting Problems and Diagnoses \nCONTINUING EDUCATION – 2 CE HOURS \nINTERNAL FAMILY SYSTEMS (IFS) is a guided meditation technique that mirrors the main goals and aims of psychoanalysis. Richard Schwartz who developed the IFS technique noticed that if we are able to feel our feelings as physically embodied\, we then have access to multiple feeling states and we are able access the thoughts\, stories and ideas that accompany these feeling states. \nLike Freud\, IFS starts by examining defenses (IFS calls them ‘protectors’). The complete arc of IFS\, is then to explore what the defense is defending. Retrieving the underlying stories\, beliefs and experiences that trigger our reactions\, allows for freedom to re-examine the stories and ensuing beliefs. \nIn this two hour workshop\, we will begin with the guided meditation and experience our own work with a part of ourselves. While the work is deeply personal\, the following discussion will focus on the underlying theory of this visceral experience. Participants will be able to share as much or as little of their own experience in the group. This will provide a beginning introduction to work with IFS and incorporating it into your usual practice. \nAviva Gitlin\, Psy.D. is a clinical psychologist\, psychoanalyst\, and couples therapist. Dr. Gitlin has been in practice for 23 years. She is a graduate of the Westchester Center for the Study of Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy (WCSPP) advanced analytic program. In her work Dr. Gitlin works as an integrative therapist who draws on several therapeutic traditions: psychodynamic therapy\, systems theory\, and Internal Family Systems theory (IFS). Dr Gitlin is currently teaching Faculty and heads the Psychoanalysis in Action committee of WCSPP. Dr Gitlin is also on teaching Faculty at Adelphi University-Derner School of Psychology and The Ferkauf School of Psychology at Yeshiva University.
URL:https://wcspp.org/event/internal-family-systems-a-psychoanalytic-tool/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221021T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221021T213000
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SUMMARY:A Shimmering Landscape: The Actual and the Imaginative in Psychic Life
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Dodi Goldman\, PhD\n2 CE Hours available for: NY Practitioners – LCSWs\, LMSWs\, LPs\, LMFTs\, LMHCs\, LCATs\, PHDs\, PSYDs\, Connecticut Practitioners – LCSW \nWCSPP invites you to an evening with Dodi Goldman\, PhD\, of the William Alanson White Institute. Through an interactive consideration of a series of projected images\, we will explore how the idiosyncratic interplay between the actual and the imaginative shapes one’s sense of reality and is inherent to the making of personal meaning.  \nIn this talk\, we will consider a series of projected images to consider how the idiosyncratic interplay between the actual and imaginative is forged from within our earliest relationships. \nThe poet Elizabeth Bishop’s grandmother had a glass eye. The glass eye often looked heaven-ward\, or off at an angle\, while the real eye looked directly at you. Bishop’s grandmother’s bifurcated gaze is a useful metaphor for the inherent strain involved in coming to terms with reality\, distinct from what psychoanalysis commonly describes as conflict between reality and pleasure. We neither simply “see” an objective reality nor invent a subjective one.  \nDodi Goldman\, PhD\, is a training and supervising analyst and on faculty at The William Alanson White Institute. He authored “In Search of the Real: the origins and originality of D.W. Winnicott” and is the former book review editor of the journal Contemporary Psychoanalysis. His latest book\, “A Beholder’s Share: Essays on Winnicott and the Psychoanalytic Imagination” won the 2017 Gravida Award for Best Psychoanalytic Book. \nJanet Rivkin Zuckerman\, PhD\, clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst\, is faculty and past director of WCSPP and clinical consultant at NYU Postdoc. Dr. Zuckerman leads study and supervision groups on contemporary interpersonal/relational theory and publishes in the area of female agency and self-assertion.
URL:https://wcspp.org/event/a-shimmering-landscape-the-actual-and-the-imaginative-in-psychic-life/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221029T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221029T113000
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SUMMARY:Diversity Book Group (WCSPP only)
DESCRIPTION:The book is Invisible Child: Poverty\, Survival & Hope in an American City (Pulitzer Prize Winner) by Andrea Elliott.  \nMore details to follow via Listserv
URL:https://wcspp.org/event/diversity-book-group-wcspp-only/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221104T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221104T213000
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SUMMARY:WCSPP Film Night "Beanpole" : Clinical Perspectives on Remarkable Movies
DESCRIPTION:2 CE Hours available to NYS LCSWs\, LMSWs\, LPs\, LMFTs\, LMHCs\, LCATs\, Psychologists and PsyDs \n This film is available for viewing on Amazon Prime Video\, YouTube\, or Google Play before the event \nA discussion will be facilitated via ZOOM by JANIT BLISS\, LCSW-R & JANE BLOOMGARDEN\, PhD \nAbout the movie \n “BEANPOLE”\, FILMED IN 2019\, BEGINS ITS STORY AT THE CLOSE OF WORLD WAR II IN RUSSIA. IT IS A STUDY OF PERVASIVE DESTRUCTION TO THE INNER AND OUTER WORLDS OF ITS CHARACTERS WHILE AT THE SAME TIME IT RECORDS ITS PERNICIOUS HOLD ON THEIR RELATIONSHIPS AND THE SOCIAL ORDER. THE FILM MOVES BETWEEN HOPE AND SADISM\, LIFE AND DEATH\, BARRENNESS AND FERTILITY WITH SUBTLE BEAUTY AND RICH SYMBOLISM WITHOUT A SINGLE CLICHÉ. THE DISCUSSION OF THIS FILM WILL ATTEMPT TO EXAMINE THE CORROSIVE EFFECTS OF WAR AND ITS IMPACT ON THE CHARACTER OF MEN AND WOMEN IN A SOCIETY DARKENED BY IT. IT WILL ALSO BE DISCUSSED THROUGH THE LENS OF GENDER. \nAbout the speakers \n Jane Bloomgarden\, PhD\, is Co-Director of the Child-Adolescent-Parent Program at WCSPP and Chair of the Film Night Committee. She is in private practice in Scarsdale\, NY\, working with adults\, adolescents and children. \n Janit Dini Bliss\, LCSW\, is a psychodynamically-informed psychotherapist\, and a recent graduate of the WCSPP Couples Therapy Training Program. She has been in private practice for nearly 30 years and has over 40 years experience in Substance Abuse Treatment and Prevention\, including directing an outpatient program through Yonkers General Hospital in Pelham\, NY. \nAbout the event \nAttendees will access and watch the film prior to the event and come prepared for an introduction to and formal presentation of ideas generated by the film and a group discussion of the film. The presentation will relate directly to the psychological and societal import of the film and its themes\, how they emerge in clinical settings\, and how they impact societies. The first hour will focus on that presentation. The second hour will focus on thoughts and questions raised by attendees and will be interwoven with clinical material. Special attention will be paid to the far-reaching effects of war and trauma\, the flickering exhaustion of goodness in the context of threatened survival\, and the ravages of war long after its formal end. Personal\, interpersonal and societal implications will be emphasized.
URL:https://wcspp.org/event/wcspp-film-night-beanpole-clinical-perspectives-on-remarkable-movies/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221119T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221119T133000
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SUMMARY:WCSPP's Annual Conference: The Arc of Adoption
DESCRIPTION:Keynote Speakers: Billie Pivnick\, PhD\, and Katie Naftzger\, LICSW \n4 CE Credits for most NYS licenses; Connecticut Practitioners – LCSW \nOverview \nAt their roots\, adoption stories begin with elements of sorrow. The children\, adolescents \nand parents whose lives together begin in loss often find their way into clinical settings\, \nfaced with challenges that are unique. Too often\, that uniqueness is neglected and \nadopted children and families face their pain alone or with well-meaning clinicians who \nare untrained in the complexities of adoption. \nThis conference\, guided by the experiences of two expert clinicians whose own personal  \nstories of adoption inform their work\, seeks to provide critical insights for those living and  \nworking with adoptive families. It has 3 goals: 1) to add to familiar principles of attachment  \ntheory\, developmental theory\, and relational theory to provide specificity to the needs of  \nadoptees and their families; 2) to illustrate the hurdles that adoptive families confront  \nthrough the life cycle\, visiting and revisiting spoken and unspoken themes central to their  \nexperience; and 3) to identify ways to enlighten the present and fortify the future through  \npsychodynamic psychotherapy focused on helping adoptees and their families write their  \nown authentic narratives. \nThe early morning session will include two papers\, each followed by a Q & A. Dr. Billie  \nPivnick’s paper will illustrate her ways of working with adopted children and families\, and  \nthe application of her fine attunement to the adoption experience. Dr. Katie Naftzger’s  \npaper will delve into the adopted adolescent’s experience\, focusing on finding oneself in  \nthe midst of a double challenge to identity formation. The later morning/early afternoon  \nsession will begin with a series of film clips in which adoptees share their stories. Drs.  \nPivnick and Naftzger will have a conversation with each other about their papers\, the  \nfilm clips\, and the light they hope to shed on clinical work within adoptive families. The  \nconversation will then be opened up to all conference attendees.  \nAbout the Speakers \nBillie A. Pivnick\, PhD\, is a Psychoanalytic Psychologist in private practice  \nin Greenwich Village\, specializing in treating children and families confronting  \ndifficulties with traumatic loss\, including those that result from adoption  \nand mass catastrophe. She is faculty and supervisor in the William Alanson  \nWhite Institute Child/Adolescent Psychotherapy Training Program\, the New  \nDirections Program in Psychoanalytic Writing\, and Columbia University  \nTeachers College Doctoral Clinical Psychology Program\, and is the former  \nhead of the Graduate Dance Therapy Program at Pratt Institute. She serves  \nas co-chair (with Dr. Romy Reading) of the Humanities and Psychoanalysis  \nCommittee of APA’s Society for Psychotherapy and Psychoanalytic  \nPsychology\, co-host of the Couched Podcast\, and co-founder (with Dr. Jane  \nHassinger) of the Community Collaboratory @ PsiAn\, a web-based learning  \ncommunity for psychoanalytic practitioners working in community settings.  \nConsulting Psychologist to Thinc Design\, the exhibition designers partnered  \nwith the National September 11 Memorial Museum\, Chicago’s Museum of  \nScience and Industry\, and The Smithsonian\, she is the winner of SPPP’s 2015  \nSchillinger Memorial Essay Award for her essay\, “Spaces to Stand In:  \nApplying Clinical Psychoanalysis to the Relational Design of the National  \nSeptember 11 Memorial Museum\,” and IPTAR’s 1992 Stanley Berger  \nAward for the contribution to psychoanalysis made by her research. Author  \nof over two dozen articles published in academic texts and peer-reviewed  \njournals\, she also serves on the Board of Directors of the Association for  \nPsychoanalysis\, Culture\, and Society\, and on the Editorial Review Boards of  \nContemporary Psychoanalysis and the American J of Dance Therapy. \nKatie Naftzger\, LICSW\, Korean-adoptee\, is the author of “Parenting  \nin the Eye of the Storm: The Adoptive Parent’s Guide to Navigating the  \nTeen Years.” She maintains a private psychotherapy practice in Newton\,  \nMA\, where she sees adopted teens\, young adults and families. Currently\,  \nKatie facilitates an online young adult adoptee group\, and offers groups for  \nadoptive parents with teens who struggle with significant mental health  \nissues. Katie has also presented at the Korean-American Adoptee Network  \nConference\, the St. John’s Conference\, Also-Known-As and Judge Baker’s  \nChildren Center. Her work can be seen in Adoptive Families magazine. She’s  \nbeen a guest on podcasts such as Creating a Family and Adoptees On. Katie  \nis a member at the Psychodynamic Children and Family Institute of New  \nEngland (PCFINE) in MA. She co-taught the “race in couples work” course  \nand was a discussant for an interracial couples case presentation. She is  \nalso a member of A Home Within\, a national organization which offers pro  \nbono therapy for current and former foster care youth. \n 
URL:https://wcspp.org/event/wcspps-annual-conference-the-arc-of-adoption/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221209T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221209T213000
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SUMMARY:Enriching Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy Using New Models and Metaphors from Contemporary Science
DESCRIPTION:2 CE Hours available for\nNY Practitioners – LCSWs\, LMSWs\, LPs\, LMFTs\, LMHCs\, LCATs\, PHDs\, PSYD’s \nOverview: Psychoanalysis and psychotherapy can be enriched through interdisciplinary studies that move beyond the confines of psychoanalysis itself.  This scientific meeting will look toward the contemporary sciences to provide new ideas\, models\, and metaphors that can both broaden and enrich psychoanalysis and psychotherapy.  Freud was very much influenced by the Newtonian paradigm of his times.  Contemporary science has undergone major paradigm shifts since Freud’s studies.  These presentations will explore how such contemporary models can help deepen the psychotherapeutic process.  Areas of contemporary science to be touched upon are quantum physics\, chaos and complexity theory\, neuroscience\, and epigenetics. \nPresenters: \nJohn Turtz\, PhD\nGerald J. Gargiulo\, PhD\nRoberto Colangeli\, PhD\nJohn Dall’Aglio\, ScB\nJoseph Dodds\, PhD
URL:https://wcspp.org/event/enriching-psychoanalysis-and-psychotherapy-using-new-models-and-metaphors-from-contemporary-science/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230127T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230127T210000
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SUMMARY:Siblings: Love\, Rivalry and the Forging of Identity
DESCRIPTION:2 CE Hours available for: NY Practitioners – LCSWs\, LMSWs\, LPs\, LMFTs\, LMHCs\, LCATs\, PHDs\, PSYDs  \nAbout the event \nPsychoanalysis has traditionally emphasized the relationship with parents as central to identity formation and character development. Yet\, as Juliet Mitchell puts it\, “why should there be only one set of relationships which provide for the structure of our mind\, or why should one be dominant in all times and places?” In this presentation\, Dr.s Christian and Vivona consider the role played by the lateral dimension of psychic life – that is\, sibling relations – in forging identity. Two clinical cases will illustrate the profound influence of siblings in the character formation and symptom development of two patients. Dr. Christian’s case will focus on a patient’s experience of having been a replacement child for a lost sibling. This patient developed a negative therapeutic reaction in her treatment as she became aware of her hostility toward not only her dead sibling\, but more importantly\, at her parents. In the second case presentation\, Dr. Vivona focuses on how the therapist’s pregnancy evoked strong sibling rivalry that the patient found unbearable.  \nPresenters \nChristopher Christian\, PhD\, is the Editor-in-Chief of Psychoanalytic Psychology. He is past Dean at IPTAR (Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research). Dr. Christian has authored several books including: Psychoanalysis in the Barrios: Race\, Class and the Unconscious (Routledge\, 2019) with Patricia Gherovici; Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Conflict (Routledge\, 2017) with Morris Eagle and David Wolitzky; and The Second Century of Psychoanalysis (Routledge\, 2011) with Michael J. Diamond. He is an Assistant Clinical Professor at the Yale School of Medicine\, Department of Psychiatry\, and he serves on the Faculty of the Western New England Psychoanalytic Institute. Dr. Christian has a private practice in New Haven\, CT. \nJeanine M. Vivona\, PhD\, is a Professor of Psychology at The College of New Jersey. She is a member of the Editorial Boards of Psychoanalytic Quarterly and the Psychoanalytic Psychology. Dr. Vivona has twice been awarded the JAPA prize for her 2006 article\, “From Developmental Metaphor to Developmental Model: The Shrinking Role of Language in the Talking Cure”\, and for her 2012 article\, “Is There a Nonverbal Period of Development?”. She is currently working on a book focused on Language and the therapeutic process\, to be published by Routledge as part of the Psychoanalysis in a New Key series\, edited by Daniel Stern. Dr. Vivona has a private practice near Philadelphia.
URL:https://wcspp.org/event/siblings-love-rivalry-and-the-forging-of-identity/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230204T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230204T113000
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SUMMARY:Working Analytically with Immigrants and First-Generation Americans
DESCRIPTION:1 CE Hour available for NY Practitioners – LCSWs\, LMSWs\, LPs\, LMFTs\, LMHCs\, LCATs\, PHDs\, PSYDs \nLive on Zoom! Limited to 20 participants. To allow for depth of clinical discussion and a true sense of our formal coursework\, participation will be capped at 20 therapists. \nPresenter: Maria Laguna\, LCSW \nGiven that the United States attracts the largest number of immigrants in the world\, the experience of working with immigrant and first-generation Americans is not foreign to clinicians. Due to the current socio-political climate\, issues around acculturation\, identity conflicts and intergenerational trauma are becoming more and more prevalent in the consulting room. By drawing on several concepts of Object Relations theory\, this discussion aims at helping clinicians identify some of the salient issues\, unconscious processes and internal conflicts that tend to occur among immigrant and first-generation Americans. Clinicians will be introduced to theoretical and technical tools to strengthen their assessment and engagement skills when working with this population.
URL:https://wcspp.org/event/working-analytically-with-immigrants-and-first-generation-americans/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230208T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230208T210000
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SUMMARY:Open House (All WCSPP Programs)
DESCRIPTION:Interested in learning more about our contemporary psychoanalytic training programs? \nOpen Houses for all programs will be held online on Wednesday\, February 8th @ 8pm and Sunday\, March 5th @11am. \no ADVANCED PSYCHOANALYTIC TRAINING PROGRAM \no FOUNDATIONS OF PSYCHODYNAMIC PSYCHOTHERAPY TRAINING PROGRAM \no CHILD\, ADOLESCENT\, PARENT PSYCHOTHERAPY TRAINING PROGRAM \no COUPLES THERAPY TRAINING PROGRAM \no SUPERVISORY TRAINING PROGRAM
URL:https://wcspp.org/event/open-house-all-wcspp-programs/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230210T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230210T213000
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SUMMARY:Scientific Meeting: Developmental Narratives of Gay Men
DESCRIPTION:Psychoanalytic developmental narratives embedded within heterosexually normative assumptions do not account for a maturational line leading to a normal\, adolescent gay identity. Although it is impossible to delineate a single maturational line leading to a gay identity\, there are developmental themes that recur in the narratives of adult gay men who recall their adolescent years. Some of the themes which emerge in psychotherapy with adult\, gay male patients include the invisibility of gay adolescents; the relationship between same-sex attractions and a feeling of otherness; peer relationships between gay adolescents and their heterosexual cohort; the emergence of a gay male adolescent’s sexuality; and being in “the closet.” \nJack Drescher\, MD\, is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst in private practice in New York City. \nDr. Drescher is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Columbia University and a Faculty Member at Columbia’s Division of Gender\, Sexuality\, and Health. He is a Senior Psychoanalytic Consultant at Columbia’s Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research and Adjunct Professor at New York University’s Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. He is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the William Alanson White Institute. \nDr. Drescher served as Section Editor of the Gender Dysphoria Chapter in the DSM-5 Text Revision (DSM-5-TR) process (2022 publication). He served on APA’s DSM-5 Workgroup on Sexual and Gender Identity Disorders and served on the World Health Organization’s Working Group on the Classification of Sexual Disorders and Sexual Health that revised sex and gender diagnoses in the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11). He served on the Honorary Scientific Committee revising the 2nd edition of the Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual (PDM-2). \nDr. Drescher’s professional honors include the Sigourney Award (2023)\, the American Psychiatric Association’s John Fryer Award (2018)\, the Federation of State Medical Boards’ Award for Excellence in Editorial Writing (2017)\, Albert M. Biele Visiting Professor in Psychiatry\, Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University (2016)\, Sheppard-Pratt’s Harry Stack Sullivan Award Lecturer (2013)\, an APA Special Presidential Commendation (2009)\, an APA Distinguished Psychiatrist Lecturer (2009)\, APA’s Irma Bland Award for Excellence in Teaching Residents (2006)\, and the James Paulsen Service Award from the Association of Gay and Lesbian Psychiatrists (2004). \nDr. Drescher is Author of Psychoanalytic Therapy and the Gay Man (Routledge) and Emeritus Editor of the Journal of Gay and Lesbian Mental Health. He has edited and co-edited more than a score of books dealing with gender\, sexuality and the health and mental health of LGBT communities. He has authored and co-authored numerous professional articles and book chapters as well. His publications have been translated into Italian\, Portuguese\, French\, Spanish\, Russian\, Arabic\, Finnish and German. \nDr. Drescher is an expert media spokesperson on issues related to gender and sexuality and has appeared on ABC: World News Tonight\, Good Morning America\, 20/20\, and Nightline; CBS: Sunday Morning; PBS: In The Life; CTV: AM Canada; CNN: Wolf Blitzer\, Anderson Cooper 360\, Paula Zahn; Fox: The O’Reilly Factor\, Fox News; MSNBC: The Most; NPR: On Point\, Here and Now\, To the Point. BBC: Radio 4. \nDr. Drescher’s expert views have also been sought and quoted by The Associated Press\, Reuters\, Time\, Newsweek\, People\, Esquire\, Agence France-Presse\, The New York Times\, USA Today\, The Washington Post\, The Los Angeles Times\, The Boston Globe\, The Miami Herald\, and numerous local media outlets\, including the New York Daily News\, New York Newsday\, and The Village Voice. He is an occasional contributor to The Huffington Post\, FoxNews.com and PsychologyToday.com.
URL:https://wcspp.org/event/scientific-meeting-developmental-narratives-of-gay-men/
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SUMMARY:How to Integrate Sex Therapy into Your Psychoanalytic Practice: With a Focus on Difficulties with Low Desire
DESCRIPTION:2 CE credits \nPresenter: \nWendy E. Miller\, PhD \nAbout the event: \nWorking as a sex therapist requires a certain amount of active participation on the part of the therapist. This stance can sometimes feel in conflict with working psychoanalytically. In addition\, not knowing how and when to actively pursue clinical material about sex and what to do with it once you get it can also feel daunting to many psychoanalysts who are often under-trained in the concrete steps needed to help an individual or couple who is struggling sexually. This workshop will teach you how to invite and make use of sexual material and how to balance deep psychic exploration with actual\, detailed understanding of clients’ sexual lives.
URL:https://wcspp.org/event/how-to-integrate-sex-therapy-into-your-psychoanalytic-practice-with-a-focus-on-difficulties-with-low-desire/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230303T193000
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SUMMARY:WCSPP Film Night: Petite Maman
DESCRIPTION:2 CE Hours available to NYS LCSWs\, LMSWs\, LPs\, LMFTs\, LMHCs\, LCATs\, Psychologists and PsyDs \nThis film is available for viewing on Hulu\, Amazon Prime Video\, YouTube\, or Google Play before the event. \nFriday\, March 3\, 2023 \n7:30 – 9:30 p.m. \nAdmission with CE: $20 \nA discussion will be facilitated via ZOOM by \nKATE WASHTON\, LCSW & SARAH FISHER\, LCSW \nREGISTER HERE: \nPetite Maman is a jewel of a film\, written and directed by Celine Sciamma. It is part fairy tale\, part stunning case study of mothers and daughters across three generations\, trying to find each other across three spans of time. The past\, present\, and future lose their boundaries in the camera’s eye just as mothers and daughters shift places in their roles\, becoming each others’ essential best friends and companions even in the face of loss\, betrayal\, and pain. The autobiographical roots that anchor this film are beautifully explained in the words of one character: “secrets\,” she declares\, “aren’t always things we try to hide. There’s just no one there to tell them to.” The moviegoer\, akin to the therapist\, is privileged to fill that void. \nKate Washton\, LCSW\, is a supervisor and former director of the Child-Adolescent-Program at WCSPP. She is in private practice in Bronxville\, NY\, working with all ages. She also works with adolescent girls at the YWCA of Yonkers. \nSarah Fisher\, LCSW\, is a 2nd year CAPP student. She has over 25 years of experience working with children\, adolescents and families in Westchester County. She is currently working with Westchester Jewish Community Services (WJCS) as Director of a mobile crisis team in northern Westchester County. \nCONTINUING EDUCATION – 2 CE HOURS \nDescription of Teaching Method: \nAttendees will access and watch the film prior to the event and come prepared for an introduction to and formal presentation of ideas generated by the film and a group discussion of the film. The presentation will relate directly to the psychological and societal import of the film and its themes\, how they emerge in clinical settings\, and how they impact societies. The first hour will focus on the presentation. The second hour will focus on thoughts and questions raised by attendees\, interwoven with clinical material. Special attention will be paid to the mother-child relationship\, the impact of generational trauma on child development\, and the unique complexities of navigating grief at a young age. \nLearning Objectives \n1. Attendees will be able to address the importance of imagination as a tool for mastering traumatic experience. \n2. Attendees will be able to reference mother-child role reversal. \n3. Attendees will be able to recognize the role of one’s history in connection to depression. \nCosts\, refunds\, and cancellation policy: payment is organized through Eventbrite. Unlikely cancellations will be announced via email. \nThe Westchester Center for the Study of Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy is recognized by NY State Education Department’s State Board of Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for Licensed Psychologists #PSY-0050; Licensed Clinical Social Workers #SW-0063; Licensed Psychoanalysts #P-0027; Licensed Marriage and Family Therapists #MFT-0040; Licensed Mental Health Counselors #MHC-0075; and Licensed Creative Arts Therapists #CAT-0028 \nA completed evaluation must be submitted at the end of the event. \nWho should attend: NY Psychiatrists\, psychologists\, social workers\, psychoanalysts\, other mental health professionals\, nurses\, and graduate students.
URL:https://wcspp.org/event/wcspp-film-night-petite-maman/
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