For Mental Health Professionals
Continuing Education Courses forMental Health Professionals ...
Attachment, Trauma and Developmental Psychopathology:
A Psychodynamic Perspective
Cleary Eckelman, PhD
January 17, 24, 31, 2012
7:00-8:30 pm
Institute Classroom A
CME/CE: 4.5
Fee: $100
This three-session course will cover the fundamental nature of relational trauma and its impact on self development within a psychodynamic framework. Attachment trauma will be a main focus with special emphasis on the internal processes associated with working models of attachment, internal object relationships, and core defense constellations. There will be two lectures and the third session will consist of a case presentation that will be utilized to provide an integrative framework for elucidating core concepts
Objectives:
- Define the core characteristics of relational trauma
- Identify and describe internal working models of attachment associated with relational trauma
- Define basic intrapsychic defense operations used to cope with traumatic experience
- Define the core features of a psychodynamic approach to self development
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Windows into the Therapy Process
Ruth Altman, MA & Stuart Ozar, MD
January 18, 25, February 1, 8, 15, 22, 29, 2012
7:15-9:15 pm
Institute Classroom A
CME/CE: 14.0
Fee: $225 (includes textbook)
This course will focus on an in-depth discussion of clinical case material in order to shed light on the psychodynamic psychotherapy process. Each class will begin with a brief theoretical description of a core clinical concept, followed by the presentation and discussion of material from a long-term psychotherapy process. We welcome lively discussion, dialogue and debate. While we encourage therapists working from within other theoretical frameworks to take this class, we do expect partcipants to have some knowlege of psychodynamic theory and practice. Classes meet on Wednesday evenings for seven weeks.
Objectives:
1. To provide students exposure to clinical material
2. Clarify the relationship of theory to clinical practice
3. Describe various phases of treatment
4. Understand the experience and use of transference and countertransference
5. Understand the concepts of conflict and compromise formation
6. Review mulitple models of psychological functioning
7. Describe the spectrum of psychodynamic treatments
8. Introduce criteria for assessing suitability for psychodynamic treatments
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I Hate Myself
Understanding the Self-Critical Patient
Peter Ruderman, MSW, LCSW
February 7, 14, 21, 2012
7:15-8:45 pm
Institute Classroom A
CME/CE: 4.5
Fee: $100
Many patients either arrive for treatment or reach a place in treatment when they express a severely self-critical attitude. This psychic configuration can present many challenges for both patient and therapist. The purpose of this course is to explore this dynamic and attempt to understand it both theoretically and clinically.
Objectives:
- Identify the various affect states that can result in this self-condemning experience
- Describe various theorectical models that help explain the self-hate configuration
- Explain counter-transference as it applies to the self-hate concept
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The Unconscious Wide Open:
The Theory and Treatment of Psychosis
J. Todd Dean, MD
April 11, 18, 25, May 2, 2012
7:30-9:00 pm
Institute Classroom A
CME/CE: 6.0
Fee: $100
Freud observed that the psychotic symptom - delusion, hallucination, disturbed thought process - is not the problem so much as the attempted solution to a greater danger: the loss of oneself - a literal loss, for the psychotic.
From this pioneering beginning, Freud and others raised fundamental questions about the relationship between our sense of reality and the nature of the world, between language and what it descries, and between our awareness of self and others. These questions in turn have an impact on the most practical clinical questions: what are the goals of treatment in psychosis and how are they best achieved?
The premise of this course is that psychoanalytic theories of how the mind works provide the most useful inroads to the understanding and treatment of psychosis. Indeed, we will make the case that not only can psychoanalytic theory help mental health professionals to terat psychosis more effectively, but also that the study of psychosis is invaluable for an understanding of how the unconscious mind is put together even in non-psychotic subjects.
Furthermore, we will make the argument that standard treatment for psychosis - which, today, is anchored in antipsychotic medication - is problematic precisely for its lack of the broader perspective psychoanalytic theory provides, as will be shown by reviewing evidence-based literature, as well as by considering a psychoanalytic critique of the therapeutic goals of pharmacotherapy.
Objectives:
- Address questions of diagnosis in potentially psychotic patients using a psychoanalytically informed understanding of the psychotic symptom and discuss when, how and why this would be a useful exercise
- Formulate a psychotherapeutic plan that will allow for individualized treatment of the psychotic patient
- 3. Identify ways in which descriptive psychiatric diagnoses can be invalidated as a result of assumptions in the thory of descriptive psychiatry
- Discuss how a theory of psychosis was generated by Freud through observation of psychotic patients
- Elaborate theoretical arguments based on clinical observations
- Utilize Lacan's theoretical constructs to clarify diagnostic issues in psychotic patients
- Discuss how psychotic speech and behavior can be understood in terms of the psychotic subject's relation to other people, and general principles for how this behaviour might be addressed in the clinical setting
- Verbalize the role of creativity in the development of the psychotic subject
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