Friday Workshops 2008-2009

What Is This Thing Called Love? Psychoanalytic Theories Of Love
Friday, October 17, 2008
12:30 - 3:30pm

Many of those who seek our help are genuinely puzzled and often in pain because of their love problems. Some cannot fall in love; others cannot remain in love; others make bad choices and keep bouncing from one bad relationship to another. The longing to love and be loved is often painfully thwarted. This workshop will explore psychoanalytic perspectives which can help us help our patients with their love dilemmas. We will explore what love is, how people tell if they are "in love," where love comes from, what fosters love and what hinders love.
Presenters: Stephan Pasternak, MD and Curtis Bristol, MD

Who Me? Worried?
Friday, November 14, 2008
9:30am - 12:30pm

Psychoanalytic therapies focus on helping patients understand and relinquish their defenses so that they are free to acknowledge, experience and make adaptive use of their feelings. Unfortunately this process is often thwarted by the patient's unconscious anxiety when it is insufficiently addressed in treatment. This clinical error allows patients to ignore anxiety and causes them to lose touch with themselves and with us! Using videoed case examples, Ms. Reder will explain the neurological and physiological necessity for thoroughly assessing and regulating anxiety in session, the means for doing so, and how to transfer these skills to the patient.
Presenter: Nancy Reder, LCSW

Bridge Over Troubled Waters: Relational Theory In Psychoanalysis
Friday, December 5, 2008
12:45 - 3:45pm (note later time)

In the last few decades, relational theories have evolved within psychoanalysis, making explicit a shift from the one-person psychology of classical theory to a two-person psychology. These theories emphasize the interplay between the interpersonal and the intrapsychic and attempt to bridge the many theories which are fixed on one or the other. They place explicit emphasis on the therapeutic dyad and on the mutual influence that patient and therapist have on each other in the treatment setting. Within our time constraints, we will explore the evolution of the relational approach and look at clinical work through this lens.
Presenter: Molly Donovan, PhD

Note Different Location: Bethesda Library, 7400 Arlington Road, Bethesda

You Must Remember This
Friday, March 20, 2009
9:30am - 12:30pm

For psychoanalytic clinicians, ethics codes can feel alien and alienating. Yet at their structural level, mental health ethics codes are not just friendly to, but structured on, psychoanalytic principles. This workshop will present a framework for thinking about ethics codes and ethical questions as tools and processes that can ground, protect, facilitate, and enrich psychodynamic and psychoanalytic practice. Don't believe it? We will develop together practical, user-friendly, dynamically framed, and creative ethical solutions to specific ethical dilemmas that WSPP members have faced. Perhaps, after this participant-observer experience, you'll come to see ethics codes differently ... as time goes by.
Presenter: Richard Ruth, PhD

Who's Shaming Whom? Shaming and Ashamed In The Therapy Office
Friday, May 8, 2008
9:30am - 12:30pm

This seminar will focus on the powerful and, at times, debilitating emotion of shame. We will especially look at the inner world of shaming objects and ashamed selves and consider the various ways this is manifested in therapy. The following are among the topics to be explored: the physiology and phenomenology of shame; types of shaming objects and shamed selves; shame and Guntrip’s concept of the regressed libidinal ego and the concept of interpersonal truamatization; the therapy setting, technique and countertransference. The presenter will offer many examples from his practice and invite participants to discuss their own experiences, as well.
Presenter: Michael Stadter, PhD


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Friday Workshops Seminar Location: BCC Services Center 4805 Edgemoor Lane Bethesda, Maryland Map and Directions » Registration and CEU's »	Friday Workshops 2008-2009 What Is This Thing Called Love? Psychoanalytic Theories Of Love Friday, October 17, 2008 12:30 - 3:30pm Many of those who seek our help are genuinely puzzled and often in pain because of their love problems. Some cannot fall in love; others cannot remain in love; others make bad choices and keep bouncing from one bad relationship to another. The longing to love and be loved is often painfully thwarted. This workshop will explore psychoanalytic perspectives which can help us help our patients with their love dilemmas. We will explore what love is, how people tell if they are "in love," where love comes from, what fosters love and what hinders love. Presenters: Stephan Pasternak, MD and Curtis Bristol, MD Who Me? Worried? Friday, November 14, 2008 9:30am - 12:30pm Psychoanalytic therapies focus on helping patients understand and relinquish their defenses so that they are free to acknowledge, experience and make adaptive use of their feelings. Unfortunately this process is often thwarted by the patient's unconscious anxiety when it is insufficiently addressed in treatment. This clinical error allows patients to ignore anxiety and causes them to lose touch with themselves and with us! Using videoed case examples, Ms. Reder will explain the neurological and physiological necessity for thoroughly assessing and regulating anxiety in session, the means for doing so, and how to transfer these skills to the patient. Presenter: Nancy Reder, LCSW Bridge Over Troubled Waters: Relational Theory In Psychoanalysis Friday, December 5, 2008 12:45 - 3:45pm (note later time) In the last few decades, relational theories have evolved within psychoanalysis, making explicit a shift from the one-person psychology of classical theory to a two-person psychology. These theories emphasize the interplay between the interpersonal and the intrapsychic and attempt to bridge the many theories which are fixed on one or the other. They place explicit emphasis on the therapeutic dyad and on the mutual influence that patient and therapist have on each other in the treatment setting. Within our time constraints, we will explore the evolution of the relational approach and look at clinical work through this lens. Presenter: Molly Donovan, PhD Note Different Location: Bethesda Library, 7400 Arlington Road, Bethesda You Must Remember This Friday, March 20, 2009 9:30am - 12:30pm For psychoanalytic clinicians, ethics codes can feel alien and alienating. Yet at their structural level, mental health ethics codes are not just friendly to, but structured on, psychoanalytic principles. This workshop will present a framework for thinking about ethics codes and ethical questions as tools and processes that can ground, protect, facilitate, and enrich psychodynamic and psychoanalytic practice. Don't believe it? We will develop together practical, user-friendly, dynamically framed, and creative ethical solutions to specific ethical dilemmas that WSPP members have faced. Perhaps, after this participant-observer experience, you'll come to see ethics codes differently ... as time goes by. Presenter: Richard Ruth, PhD Who's Shaming Whom? Shaming and Ashamed In The Therapy Office Friday, May 8, 2008 9:30am - 12:30pm This seminar will focus on the powerful and, at times, debilitating emotion of shame. We will especially look at the inner world of shaming objects and ashamed selves and consider the various ways this is manifested in therapy. The following are among the topics to be explored: the physiology and phenomenology of shame; types of shaming objects and shamed selves; shame and Guntrip’s concept of the regressed libidinal ego and the concept of interpersonal truamatization; the therapy setting, technique and countertransference. The presenter will offer many examples from his practice and invite participants to discuss their own experiences, as well. Presenter: Michael Stadter, PhD