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1997-1998 Continuing Education Series
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SPECIAL TRISP TENTH ANNIVERSARY
THE SPECTRUM OF INNOVATION IN SELF PSYCHOLOGY
The first self psychology institute to offer yearly continuing education programs for the mental health community, TRISP celebrates its tenth anniversary by presenting an especially innovative series of workshops and lectures. During the past ten years, self psychology and intersubjectivity theory have been applied to an ever-widening spectrum of clinical problems and theoretical issues. The TRISP 1997-1998 Continuing Education Series offers you a rich sampling of these topics which include intersubjective contextualism, aggression and rage, morality, unconscious fantasies in couples, self-criticism, spirituality, a story-writing technique, self-disclosure, gender, dreams and pharmacotherapy, expressive relating, despair, the analyst’s pregnancy, eating-disorders, and bilateral healing. As usual, we begin our series with an introductory lecture on basic concepts in self psychology and intersubjectivity and feature a number of presentations by creative thinkers outside the self psychology community. These include presentations on creativity and loneliness, and a relational perspective on gender. We are very pleased that Dr. Anna Ornstein, a renowned self-psychological theorist and clinician and one of Heinz Kohut’s valued colleagues, will discuss a presentation on the group treatment of Holocaust survivors. Attend all twenty of these illuminating presentations and receive a substantial discount.
1. September 13, 1997
Mastering the Fundamentals of Self Psychology and Intersubjectivity
PETER B. ZIMMERMANN, PhD
In this lecture Dr. Zimmermann provides a comprehensive overview of the central clinical concepts of self psychology and the theory of intersubjectivity as well as the treatment principles that derive from them. Clinical vignettes will be used to illustrate the theory.
2. September 27, 1997 (Note new date)
NOTE SPECIAL TIME: 1:00 P.M.
Secret Conversations With My Father:
The Human Contextualization Of Theoretical DiscourseMAXWELL S. SUCHAROV, MD
Convinced that psychoanalytic theoretical discourse is inseparable from its human subjective context, Dr. Sucharov asserts the importance of acknowledging and exploring the personal issues that shape our theoretical convictions. Employing intersubjective contextualism to re-examine his earlier work on the status of self psychology and intersubjectivity theory, he finds that his conclusions were embedded in his own psychological life and the overlapping life of the self psychology community. His self-reflective exercise reveals serious incompatibilities between the two theories.
3. October 4, 1997
The Self Psychology of Aggression and Rage
CHARLES B. STROZIER, PhD
Self psychology departs sharply from classical psychoanalysis in its understanding of aggression. Dr. Strozier contends that there can be no more important topic, both in the clinical encounter and in understanding history and culture. His workshop explores the varied meanings of aggression in psychoanalytic theory and how Kohut gave it new meaning.
4. October 18, 1997
The Analyst’s Relation to the "Good"
GEORGE HAGMAN, CSW
DISCUSSANT: ALAN ROLAND, PhDAccording to Dr. Hagman, strong moral valuations, specifically one’s experience of one’s relationship to what one considers to be the "good," forms the framework of self experience. Yet psychoanalysis lacks a clinically useful model of values. In his presentation, Dr. Hagman examines the place of morals in psychoanalytic theory, the relationship between affect and values, and, most importantly, the ways in which our relationship to a system of values (both conscious and unconscious) is continually reevaluated. Dr. Hagman also discusses the clinical manifestations of the analyst’s sense of his or her relation to the good, especially in terms of countertransference.
5. November 1, 1997
Unconscious Fantasy: The Influence of Gender and Selfobject Experience on a Couples’ Relationship
NANCY HICKS, PsyD, MDiv
DISCUSSANT: JAN CRAWFORD, CSWThe treatment of couples from a self-psychological perspective is an emergent form. This workshop focuses on the nature of unconscious fantasy as it is expressed in and shapes the relationship of a heterosexual couple. Unconscious selfobject fantasy is explored as a constituent of individual identity and as a unitary phenomenon in which both partners share, especially in regard to issues of gender. A clinical case is used to illustrate these ideas.
6. November 8, 1997
Alleviating Self-Criticism
LAWRENCE JOSEPHS, PhD
Self-criticism is one of the most pervasive and troubling symptoms for which patients seek relief. It is so commonplace and experience-near that it often becomes taken-for-granted and invisible. The discussion will center on applying the attitude of sustained empathic inquiry to the exploration and alleviation of self-criticism. The relationship between the patient’s self-criticism and experiences of the analyst as critical, moralistic, and demanding will be examined.
7. November 22, 1997
Is Self Psychology a Means Toward Full Self Realization?
JAN CRAWFORD, CSW
Drawing on the work of Kohut and on A. H. Almaas’s recent book, The Point of Existence, Ms. Crawford examines clinical material from three spiritually-oriented patients. Focussing on the patients’ articulated expectations of treatment and life, she considers the ways in which self- psychological theory and practice helps and/or impedes their movement toward their goals.
8. December 13, 1997
"Inside a Coffin": A Recurrent Daydream
MARTIN S. LIVINGSTON, PhD
Deep in Lisa’s inner closet is a secret — a recurrent daydream that she has never shared with anyone. "I am inside a coffin. I’m removed, but I can see and hear." Dr. Livingston’s presentation reveals how this recurrent daydream served as a shorthand communication that facilitated the working-through process. It also illustrates the usefulness of a story-writing process as a form of self-supervision. Additionally, in sharing these sessions, Dr. Livingston attempts to convey both the difficulty and the significance of the therapist "getting" the message that he or she has contributed to the patient’s distress.
9. December 20, 1997
Treating Holocaust Survivors and their Families in Short-Term Groups
KAREN BINDER-BRYNES, PhD
DISCUSSANT: ANNA ORNSTEIN, MDUsing a relational perspective, Dr. Binder-Brynes presents a clinical overview of the treatment of Holocaust survivors and their families in step-wise, short-term groups. She describes survivor groups, offspring-of- survivor groups and transgenerational groups. Her presentation includes a discussion of posttraumatic stress disorder and its vicissitudes in two different generations of survivors. She illustrates her discussion with clinical vignettes.
10. January 10, 1998
Analyst Self-Disclosure: The Search for Authenticity in the Psychoanalytic Situation
ARNOLD WM. RACHMAN, PhD
A major aspect of Heinz Kohut’s theoretical legacy and ethos of therapeutic action centers around his suggestion that structure building occurs not only through interpretative behavior but through reparative selfobject experiences. Dr. Rachman believes Kohut experimented informally with analyst self-disclosure, a significant dimension of Sándor Ferenczi’s theory of trauma. In his presentation Dr. Rachman shows how Ferenczi’s ideas and techniques anticipated Kohut’s. Using illustrative examples from the analytic process, he also demonstrates how judicious self-disclosure aids structure building through reparative selfobject experiences.
11. January 24, 1998
Shared Fantasies Of Gender in Cross-Gender Treatment
JOENINE E. ROBERTS, CSW
In this presentation, Ms. Roberts examines the complex nature of gender and the ways in which it challenges clinicians both personally and in their clinical work. Specifically, we are confronted by questions about how a secure sense of masculinity or femininity develops and how parental fantasies affect one’s gendered sense of self. Using clinical illustrations, Ms. Roberts explores shared fantasies of gender in terms of intersubjectivity. In one case example, a female analyst’s gendered experience supports a male patient’s fantasy of twinship.
12. February 7, 1998
The Gendered Self: A Question Of Subjectivities
ADRIA E. SCHWARTZ, PhD
DISCUSSANT: ARLEEN BANDLER, CSW, CASACWithin the psychoanalytic world there has been a slow but steady revolution brewing in the ways in which we analyze and conceptualize gender. Informed by postmodern/ post-structuralist critiques, we ask whether we really need to keep on "doing sex and gender" as we have in the past? Is a fixed, discrete, or coherent gendered sense of self intrinsic to our experience of actualized well-being? Does that gendered sense of self have to correspond to some objective reality about the sexed body? Taking a relational perspective, Dr. Schwartz examines the ways in which our gendered selves and the bodies they inhabit are given meaning as a function of internalized relations with significant others and the cultural/ linguistic matrix into which we are born. Clinical material illustrates and amplifies the discussion.
13. February 21, 1998
Dreams, Medicine, and Therapy
JEFFREY DIETZ, MD
In this workshop, Dr. Dietz offers clinical material from several patients with major affective disorders whose presentation included significant resistance to antidepressant and/or mood stabilizing medication.The self psychological perspective used in working with these patients, some of whom were in psychotherapy with other therapists, led to a working through and acceptance of the need to participate cooperatively in pharmacotherapy. Empathic attention to patients’ dreams was essential in assessing the meaning and experience of medication therapy.
14. March 7, 1998
Expressive Relating
LYNN PRESTON, MA, MS
The new relational emphasis in psychoanalysis challenges self psychologists to broaden their understanding of the workings of empathic attunement to include the bi-directional nature of empathy and the place of the analyst’s subjectivity in the facilitation of selfobject experience. Expressive relating refers to the conscious use in treatment of the analyst’s thoughts, feelings, and reactions to the patient. The analyst’s "personness" is highlighted, emphasizing selfobject particularity and the vitalizing nature of personal, intimate interaction. The presentation includes a clinical illustration and theoretical guidelines for the use of the analyst’s subjectivity.
15. March 14, 1998
From Technique To Practice
In PsychoanalysisDONNA ORANGE, PhD, PsyD.
Conceiving psychoanalytic work as technical has had many harmful effects on our work and on our thinking. Dr. Orange proposes to replace this idea with the ancient and modern understanding of practical wisdom, the kind of knowing appropriate to work with human being. The topic of self-disclosure can serve as an example of the way this shift in thinking affects our clinical work.
16. APRIL 4, 1998
The Self Psychology of Despair
PETER ZIMMERMANN, PhD
Based on Freud’s famous paper, "Mourning and Melancholia" (1917), Dr. Zimmermann offers a reappraisal of depression from a self-psychological perspective. At the heart of his theory is the notion that despair is the affective response to the loss of vital aspects of the self, which the person feels unable to regain. This results in depression, if no attuned receiver is available to permit the mourning process. The specific treatment principles that derive from this formulation are discussed.
17. April 25, 1998
Bilateral Healing: The Self Psychology Patient’s Contributions to the Analyst’s Development
DORIS BROTHERS, PhD and
ELLEN LEWINBERG, CSWIn contrast to the traditional psychoanalytic preoccupation with psychopathology, Kohut’s radical and transformative conception of self-experience emphasizes the individual’s healthy developmental strivings. This presentation attempts to demonstrate that it is not merely the patient’s development that receives a forward thrust in the course of self psychological treatment, but also the analyst’s. After reviewing aspects of existing theory that support and impede recognition of bilateral healing, two illustrative clinical examples are presented.
18. May 2, 1998
The Pregnant Analyst and the Idealized Mother: A Self-Psychological Perspective
AVIVA ROHDE, PhD
DISCUSSANT: LAURA JOSEPHS, PhDThe pregnancy of the analyst—an event of major significance in any psychoanalytic treatment—is often thought to elicit feelings of rage, betrayal, envy, abandonment, etc. in the transference. From a self-psychological perspective, however, experiences of restorative self-development may be found in the patient’s transference with a pregnant analyst. Using clinical examples, Dr. Rohde discusses her patients’ experiences of her pregnancy. She pays special attention to the facilitation of the idealizing transference as it relates to the child’s yearning for an idealizable mother. Implications for the role of the idealized mother in self psychology in general will also be discussed.
19. MAY 9, 1998
Hunger and Betrayal: A Self-Trust Perspective on the Treatment of Eating Disorders
DONNA FELLENBERG, CSW and
JANE LEWIS, CSWThe relationship between trauma and the development of eating disorders has found increasing acknowledgment in the recent literature. In this presentation, two clinicians with different theoretical orientations extend Brothers’ self-trust approach to trauma to the understanding and treatment of eating-disordered patients. Using a self-psychological perspective, Ms. Fellenberg describes her treatment of a purging bulimic woman from the standpoint of the patient’s and the analyst’s self-trust organization. Ms. Lewis combines Karen Horney’s concept of "externalized living" with self-psychological and self-trust approaches to treatment. Clinical material from the 9-year treatment of a young woman with bulimia is used to illustrate the therapeutic task of fostering a shift from outer to inner life.
20. May 16, 1998
The Punishment of Prometheus: Creativity and Loneliness in the Writings of Otto Rank and Heinz Kohut
CLAUDE BARBRE, MDiv, MPhil
Anticipating Kohut’s writing on the narcissistic dynamic inherent in creative endeavors, Otto Rank emphasized that creativeness lies equally at the root of artistic production and of life experience. The expression of this striving, Rank’s "creative will," is accompanied by anxiety since it involves a separation from an "other" or affirming group. Therein lies a dramatic human struggle: how to live out one’s unique creative expression when it opposes the wishes and needs of another or the expectations of society. Using the Promethean myth as an organizing metaphor, Mr. Barbre explores the dilemma of separation and relatedness in regard to Rank’s thinking on the creative process and the will-guilt conflict, and Kohut’s writing on "the transference of creativity." Case examples are included.
FACULTY
Arleen Bandler, CSW, CASAC is a 4th year TRISP candidate and a supervisor at Albert Einstein College of Medicine Substance Abuse Service. Private practice, Nyack, N.Y. and Manhattan.
Claude Barbre, MDiv, MPhil is managing editor of The Journal of Religion and Health, and assistant director, child psychotherapist, and training and supervising analyst of The Harlem Family Institute. Author of prize-winning poetry and articles, he has recently edited two books by Dr. Esther Menaker entitled The Freedom to Inquire (Jason Aronson, 1995) and Separation, Will and Creativity: The Wisdom of Otto Rank (Jason Aronson, 1996). Private practice, New York City.
Karen Binder-Brynes, PhD is a clinical instructor and clinical supervisor in the Department of Psychiatry at The Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York City. She is co-founder and faculty supervisor of the Specialized Treatment Program for Holocaust Survivors and their families at Mt. Sinai. She acts a consultant/trainer for the International Relief Committee. Private practice, New York City.
Doris Brothers PhD, is a founding member, member of the Board of Trustees, and senior faculty member of TRISP. She is an author and co-author of presentations and publications including The Shattered Self: A Psychoanalytic Study of Trauma (The Analytic Press, 1988) and Falling Backwards: An Exploration of Trust and Self Experience (Norton, 1995). Private practice, New York City.
Jan Crawford, CSW is a graduate and faculty member of TRISP. She has presented papers at national meetings in self psychology and presented in other TRISP workshop series. Private practice, New York City.
Jeffrey Dietz, MD is a member of the TRISP faculty and the clinical faculty of Albert Einstein College of Medicine. He is the author of presentations on self-psychological treatment and bipolar disorders.
Donna Fellenberg, LCSW, NCPsyA is a clinical social worker, a certified psychoanalyst, and on the faculty of TRISP. She is the author of presentations on eating disorders and women’s issues. Private practice, Verona, NJ.
George Hagman, CSW is on the faculty of TRISP and clinical director of the F. S. DuBois Center in Stamford, Connecticut. He is the author of articles on addiction, bereavement, and self psychology including "Mature Selfobject Experience" Progress in Self Psychology (Vol. 13) and a forthcoming book on the analysis of bereavement for Analytic Press. Private practice, Connecticut and Manhattan.
Nancy Hicks, PsyD, MDiv, is a fourth year candidate at TRISP. Private practice, New York City and Metuchen, NJ.
Laura Josephs, PhD is a TRISP faculty member and clinical instructor of Psychology in Psychiatry at New York Hospital-Cornell University Medical College. She is also a psychological consultant in the OB/GYN Clinic and the Center for Reproductive Medicine/In-Vitro Fertilization Program, New York Hospital. She is an author and co-author of presentations and publications on self psychology. Private practice, New York City.
Lawrence Josephs, PhD is associate professor at the Derner Institute of Advanced Psychological Studies, Adelphi University. Author of Balancing Empathy and Interpretation (Jason Aronson, 1995). Private practice, New York City.
Ellen Lewinberg, MSW is on the TRISP faculty, the director, faculty member, and supervisor at the Institute for the Advancement of Self Psychology in Toronto, and supervisor at the Toronto Child Psychotherapy Program. Author of presentations and publications on self psychology and the treatment of children. Private practice, Toronto.
Jane Lewis, CSW is director of the Eating Disorders Program at Karen Horney Clinic and training and supervising analyst at the American Institute for Psychoanalysis. She is the author of presentations and publications on eating disorders. Private practice, Westchester and Manhattan.
Martin S. Livingston, PhD is on the faculty of TRISP, NYISP and Postgraduate Center for Mental Health. He is the author of Near and Far: Closeness and Distance in Psychotherapy, editor of Issues in Group Therapy and Co-Chair of the Association for Psychoanalytic Self Psychology. Private practice, New York City.
Donna M. Orange, PhD, PsyD is a faculty and supervising analyst at the Institute for the Psychoanalytic Study of Subjectivity in New York City, and the author of Emotional Understanding: Studies in Psychoanalytic Epistemology (1995) and co-author, with George E. Atwood and Robert D.Stolorow, of Working Intersubjectively: Contextualism in Clinical Practice (1997). Private practice, Highland Park, NJ and New York City.
Anna Ornstein, MD, is professor of Child Psychiatry at the University of Cincinnati and co-director of the International Center for the Study of Psychoanalytic Self Psychology at the University of Cincinnati, College of Medicine. She is author of many papers and presentations on self psychology. Private practice, Cincinnati.
Lynn Preston, MA, MS is a psychoanalyst affiliated with PPSC, who has served on the faculty of TRISP and NIP. She has a special interest in experiential teaching. Private practice, New York City.
Arnold Wm. Rachman, PhD, FAGPA, is clinical professor of psychology at the Derner Institute of Adelphi University. Associate clinical professor of psychiatry, NYU Medical Center, training and supervising analyst, Postgraduate Center for Mental Health, and Supervisor, NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychoanalysis. He is the founder of the Ferenczi Institute. Private practice, New York City.
Joenine E. Roberts, CSW is a graduate of TRISP. Private practice, New York City.
Aviva Rohde, PhD is a TRISP graduate and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Psychology and Education at Teachers College, Columbia University. Private practice, New York City.
Alan Roland, PhD is on the faculty of the National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis and the Institute for Expressive Analysis. He is author of In Search of Self in India and Japan: Toward a Cross-Cultural Psychology (Princeton University Press) and Cultural Pluralism and Psychoanalysis: The Asian and North American Experience (Routledge). Private practice, New York City.
Adria E. Schwartz, PhD is a supervisory and training analyst at the New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy; faculty and supervisor at the Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy and the Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Study Center. She is the author of Sexual Subjects: Lesbians, Gender and Psychoanalysis, (Routledge) as well as numerous articles on gender and development.
Charles B. Strozier, PhD is a practicing psychoanalyst and senior faculty member of TRISP, as well as professor of history at CUNY. He is currently writing a biography of Heinz Kohut. Private practice, New York City.
Maxwell S. Sucharov, MD is a board member of the Western Canada Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Society and clinical assistant Professor of Psychiatry, University of British Columbia. He is an author of presentations and publications including "Listening to the Empathic Dance: A Rediscovery of the Therapist’s Subjectivity."
Peter B. Zimmermann, PhD is a founding member, vice president of the Board of Trustees, and senior faculty member of TRISP. He is a senior member, faculty, supervisor and training analyst of the National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis. Dr. Zimmermann is an author and co-author of presentations and publications on select topics in self psychology and intersubjectivity, including "The Case of Ms. M" in Psychoanalysis Today: A Case Book (Charles C. Thomas, 1991) Private Practice, New York City.