Continuing Education
Western New England Psychoanalytic Society
2007-2008
List of Courses
Eating Disorders, Etc.: Case Discussions of Patients with Psychological Disorders Involving Bodily ManipulationsPerspectives on Listening
Reading Group in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy: Listening for the Nonverbal
Sexual Pleasure: Psychoanalytic, Socio-cultural, and Legal Perspectives
The Influence and Use of Psychoanalytic Ideas in Psychotherapy
On Bion: Theoretical Contributions and Clinical Applications
New Links between Contemporary Neuroscience and Psychoanalysis
Courses
Eating Disorders, Etc.: Case Discussions of Patients with Psychological Disorders Involving Bodily ManipulationsInstructors Lynn Reiser, MD 203/562-9094 Susan Bers, PhD 203/562-4462
Objectives: To explore the application of psychoanalytic theory and technique to the treatment of psychological disorders involving bodily manipulations, including eating disorders.
Audience: Mental health professionals; and advanced trainees with permission of the instructors. Priority will be give to past participants. Enrollment will be limited to 8.
Course Description: Participants will present clinical material from their work with patients with current or past symptoms that make use of bodily manipulations. Discussion will focus on the usefulness of psychoanalytic theory and techniques for understanding these cases. Also, the group will consider obstacles and opportunities in the treatment of these patients, examining how a psychoanalytic vantage point can facilitate and illuminate other approaches to these disorders. Readings will be provided as topics arise in the class discussions. The bibliography from our Spring, 2004 Course, Eating Disorders from a Psychoanalytic Perspective will serve as background reading.
Dates: 10 sessions
Mondays, 12:15 to 1:45 pm September 24, October 15, 29, November 12, 26, 2007 March 17, 31, April 14, 28, May 12, 2008
Location: 255 Bradley Street, New Haven
Fee: $450
Perspectives on Listening
Instructor: Stephen Atkins, MD, PhD
Educational Objectives:
1. Recognize the way different psychoanalytic perspectives influence how we listen to patients and how we intervene from those perspectives.
2. Become familiar with different perspectives: ego psychology, self psychology, mentalization, and contemporary Kleinian
3. Begin to understand different views on how therapy works.
Audience: This course may be taken by anyone with some familiarity with psychotherapy.
Course Description: This course attempts to give participants an appreciation of how different psychoanalytic perspectives influence the way we listen to, organize, and respond to clinical material. Using readings and class discussion, we will familiarize ourselves with a variety of psychoanalytic perspectives: ego psychology, self psychology, mentalization, and contemporary Kleinian. We will examine in depth the same clinical material from each perspective to see how each contributes to our understanding of the clinical process. We will attend to how each perspective deals with transference and counter-transference. Readings will include articles by Peter Fonagy, Glen Gabbard, Paul Gray, Heinz Kohut, Donald Meltzer, and Fred Pine.
Dates: 4 sessions
Thursdays, 7:00pm to 8:30 pm October 4, 18, November 1, 15, 2007
Location: 255 Bradley Street
Fee: $180
Reading Group in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy: Listening for the Nonverbal
Instructor: Robert S. White, MD
Educational Objectives: To examine selected topics in the theory and technique of psychoanalytic psychotherapy.
Audience: Mental health professionals or trainees practicing psychoanalysis or psychoanalytic psychotherapy. Preference will be given to those who have completed the Seminars in Psychotherapy series. This is a continuation of a reading group from the previous year but new members are welcome.
Course Description: We will read papers in the Freudian, Kleinian, Interpersonal and French traditions examining both the theoretical understanding of nonverbal communication and the technique of listening in the therapeutic situation. We can select from Freud, T. Reik, J. Arlow, T. Ogden, W. Bion, D. Stern and A. Green. There will be opportunity for clinical presentations.
Dates8 sessions
Thursdays, 6:30 to 8 pm October 11, November 8, December 13, 2007; January 10, February 14, March 13, April 10, May 8, 2008
Location: 255 Bradley Street
Fee: $360
Sexual Pleasure: Psychoanalytic, Socio-cultural, and Legal Perspectives
Instructors: Robert Burt, JD, and Barbara Marcus, PhD
Educational Objectives: To examine basic psychoanalytic, social, and legal conceptualizations of sexuality, their interrelationships, and their implications for sexual expression and regulation.
Audience: Mental health professionals and advanced students, legal professionals and students, and interested colleagues in the humanities.
Course Description: We will examine the intersection of psychoanalytic and sociocultural/ legal perspectives on sexuality and their implications for the expression, inhibition, and regulation of the various form of sexual pleasure, including: (1) sexual fantasy and the use of masturbation and pornography, (2) gender and sexual orientation, (3) partnership (e.g. monogamy vs. polygamy, serial monogamy, and promiscuity), (4) fetishism, exhibitionism < voyeurism, (5) forbidden partnerships (e.g. incest, pederasty, bestiality, power inequalities), (6) prostitution and sexual exploitation, (7) sexual aggression (e.g. rough sex, sexual harassment, stalking, rape, sadomasochism), and (8) erotic transference and counter-transference in the treatment room, classroom, and workplace. We will explore both how the psychological and socio-cultural spheres participate in determining sexual expression as well as the dynamic processes by which sexual attitudes and practice change.
Dates: 9 sessions
Mondays 7-8:30 pm January 14, 21, 28, February 4, 11, 18, 25, March 3, 10, 2008
Location: 255 Bradley Street
Fee: $405
The Influence and Use of Psychoanalytic Ideas in Psychotherapy
Instructors: Richard Briggs, PhD, and Victoria Morrow, MD
Educational Objectives: To examine the key features of psychoanalytic thought which underlie the practice of psychotherapy and to explore technical adaptations of these psychoanalytic ideas that deepen the work of psychotherapy.
Audience: All mental health clinicians.
Course Description: Because psychoanalytic ideas have become so much a part of our culture, psychotherapists trained in a variety of approaches are frequently influenced the these ideas, whether wittingly or not. This six-session course will consider explicitly how several key features of contemporary psychoanalytic thought and technique may be applied in a way that can enrich psychotherapy. Readings will address different forms of treatment, transference and counter transference, therapeutic action, the unconscious, the use of dreams, the defenses, resistance, and an examination of the process of treatment. We will draw from readings that include, among others, Freud, Racker, Winnicott, Gray, Gill, Hoffman, Levenson, Strachey, Loewald and Greenberg.
Dates: 6 sessions
Monday evenings, 7:15 to 8:45 pm April 7, 14, 21, 28, May 5, 12, 2008
Location: This course will meet in Westport. Location TBA.
Fee: $270
On Bion: Theoretical Contributions and Clinical Applications
Instructors: Brian Tobin, MD; Janet Madigan, MD
Educational Objectives: While Melanie Klein first articulated projective identification as a defensive process for expelling intolerable affective states, it was W. Bion who broadened and deepened our understanding of this process. He suggests that projective identification is an important form of communication between patient and analyst and that the analysts capacity to experience this form of communication and make use of it is crucial to the analytic endeavor. Audience: Developmental and mental health professionals and trainees.
Course Description: This course proposes to deepen understanding of Bions theoretical contributions, including normal and pathological projective identification, emotional containing of the personality, and a theory of thinking derived from infantile experiences of emotion in the mother-infant relationship. We will consider how these theoretical contributions apply in the analytic/clinical situation and process; particularly how the analyst contains communicated primitive/preverbal thoughts and feelings, and processes them for interventions that promote the patients own developmental capacities for containing, thinking and learning from experience.
Dates: 8 sessions
Thursday evenings 5:30 7:00 pm April 10, 17, 24, May 1, 8, 15, 22, 29, 2008
Location: 255 Bradley Street
Fee: $360
New Links between Contemporary Neuroscience and Psychoanalysis
Instructor: Linda C. Mayes. MD
Educational Objectives: 1. To understand the potential of new neuroscience techniques to investigate key psychoanalytic concepts such as transference, unconscious processing, and internalization;
2. To gain an appreciation for how to ask psychoanalytically relevant questions that can be addressed with techniques from behavioral neuroscience;
3. To consider how contemporary neuroscience studies of such areas as intentionality, social attachment, and memory may revise psychoanalytic theory
Audience: Residents, postdoctoral fellows, and mental health professionals with some knowledge of psychoanalysis and interest in its interface with behavioral neuroscience
Course Description: In a seminar format, we will discuss three areas that illustrate the interface between behavioral neuroscience and psychoanalysis. These are (a) neurobiology of attachment; (b) subliminal information processing; and (c) attribution of intentionality. Readings will be taken from L. Cozolino (2002) The Neuroscience of Psychotherapy: Building and Rebuilding the Human Brain, A. Damasio (1994) Descartes Error, and (2004) The Feeling of What Happens, E. Kandel (2005) Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis, And The New Biology Of Mind, and J. Ledoux (1998) The Emotional Brain.
Dates: 6 sessions
Time and dates TBA (Spring 2008) Location: 255 Bradley Street
Fee: $270
