Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center
401 Shady Ave
Suite B101
Pittsburgh, PA 15206

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SIX-SESSION CHILD
PSYCHODYNAMIC PSYCHOTHERAPY
COURSE

SPRING 2023

 

This six-session child psychotherapy course will focus on illustrating aspects of child development and child therapy, clinical theory, therapeutic listening (to words, communications through nonverbal behaviors and play), and technique. We will present case material and clinical vignettes, supplemented by at least one reading for each session.  One session of the series will focus on consultation with parents, teachers and other professionals, including issues of confidentiality and the choice of material one can present in professional settings.

 

Case material will help participants to understand how clinical interaction brings to life aspects of theory and development, and illustrates clinical impressions, choice of interventions and their impact. Presenters will pay special attention to the interplay between inevitable therapeutic misattunements or ruptures and subsequent repair in the therapeutic relationship. We will also be sensitive to the role of  transference/countertransference and enactments in sessions with children and adolescents. 

This course is designed for child and adult clinicians who have been in practice for at least two years. Questions can be directed to the office and will be responded to as soon as possible.

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Dates:      6 Tuesday evenings as follows: 2/21, 2/28, 3/7, 3/14, 3/21 and 3/28.
Time:       7:00-9:00 p.m. 
Format:    Lecture and discussion
Location: Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center Library
                 401 Shady Ave, Suite B101
                 Pittsburgh PA 15206


12 Continuing Education Credits available for psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers, counselors and other mental health professionals.


Tuition:  Early Registration by January 28, 2023:  $250
               After January 28, 2023: $300
 

IMPORTANT:  This is a clinical course and in order to maintain professional standards of confidentiality we require there be no recording or photographs of course material. Registration for this course constitutes agreement that class participants will not discuss clinical material shared within the class outside of the course. 

 


About the Instructors:

Eleanor C. Irwin, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist and a child and adult certified psychoanalyst. Dr. Irwin is a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh and a faculty member, past president and former chair of the Child Analysis committee of the Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center.  The author of many articles and book chapters about the mental health issues of children and their families, she has also made films about play therapy and the arts in individual, family and group work. 

Ronald G. Jalbert, Ph.D., is a child and adult Jungian analyst and psychologist in private practice.  Dr. Jalbert is a faculty member and chair of the Child Analysis committee of the Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center and an adjunct clinical professor in the Clinical Psychology Department at Duquesne University.  He has presented widely both in the United States and abroad on such topics as dreams, symbol formation, uses of expressive arts in psychodynamic therapy and ethics in the analytic field. Publications include several translations of works by French analysts and, most recently, one essay-review of two analytic books on Hamlet and another on an inaugural issue of a French analytic journal.

Sharon Leak, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist in private practice and on the faculty of the Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center.  She specializes in psychological testing and treatment of children, adolescents, and adults with mood and anxiety disorders, as well as learning disabilities and attention problems.  Dr. Leak integrates psychodynamic and neurocognitive perspectives in psychotherapy, psychological testing, and consultation with schools and clinicians, as well as in her writing of journal articles and book chapters. 

Diana Schwab, M.Ed., LCSW, is a psychotherapist in private practice who focuses on children and families, applying her expertise across a number of settings.  Ms. Schwab is an adjunct faculty member at the University of Pittsburgh, a developmental specialist in international adoption at Kids Plus Pediatrics, and a consultant to a variety of organizations that support children and families.  Understanding the role of development and relationships is at the center of her work, whether working as a psychotherapist or as a consultant providing reflective consultation.

Accreditation Statement:
This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of American Psychoanalytic Association and the Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center. The American Psychoanalytic Association is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

Credit Statement:
The American Psychoanalytic Association designates this Live Activity for a maximum of (12) AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
 
Continuing Education - Psychologists:
Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education programs for psychologists.  Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center maintains responsibility for the program and its content.  

Disclosure Statement:
IMPORTANT DISCLOSURE INFORMATION FOR ALL LEARNERS: None of the planners and presenters for this educational activity have relevant financial relationship(s)* to disclose with ineligible companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients. *Financial relationships are relevant if the educational content an individual can control is related to the business lines or products of the ineligible company.
 
Social Workers, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapists, LPCs:  The Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Centers is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center maintains responsibility for the program and its content. The Pennsylvania Board of Social Work approves of credits issued by APA sponsors. Therefore, the Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center is able to offer continuing education credits to social workers and counselors per Pennsylvania Code, Section 49. 
 
 
TICKETS NOW AVAILABLE VIA TICKETLEAP:
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For more information call: 412-661-4224; visit our website at http://www.pghpsa.org;  or email us at : administration@pghpsa.org.                                                                                      

 

 

 

 

 

 

Psychoanalysis and America's Racial Reckoning:  A Critique of Khilanani and Moss

        Daniel Burston, Ph.D. 

SUGGESTED AUDIENCE:  PSYCHIATRISTS, PSYCHOLOGISTS, SOCIAL WORKERS, COUNSELORS AND OTHER MENTAL HEALTH PROFESSIONALS

  Wednesday, September 21, 2022

                                                               7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.  

Via Zoom 
  
 

COST: 
$40 with CEs/CMEs
$20 without CEs/CMEs

 

This paper examines the impact of America’s racial reckoning on psychoanalytic theory since the murder of George Floyd. It analyzes the claims of two analysts in particular, Dr. Aruna Khilanani and Dr. Donald Moss, both of whom received a lot of adverse publicity for their reflections on “the White unconscious”. 

Learning Objectives:
1). Analyze the importance of psychoanalysis addressing widespread social injustice, and the motives that underlie it.


2). Summarize the dangers of speculating about the “White unconscious," or indeed the "collective unconscious" of any ethnic group.

3). Discuss alternative ways of framing the issues involved in these debates.

 

About Our Presenter:

Daniel Burston, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of Psychology at Duquesne University and the author of numerous books and journal articles on the history of psychoanalysis, psychiatry and psychology.  His most recent (2020) book is entitled Psychoanalysis, Politics and the Postmodern University published by Palgrave MacMillen.

 

Accreditation Statement:
This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of American Psychoanalytic Association and the Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center. The American Psychoanalytic Association is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

The American Psychoanalytic Association designates this Live Activity for a maximum of (2) AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
 

IMPORTANT DISCLOSURE INFORMATION FOR ALL LEARNERS: None of the planners and presenters for this educational activity have relevant financial relationship(s)* to disclose with ineligible companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients. *Financial relationships are relevant if the educational content an individual can control is related to the business lines or products of the ineligible company.

 

Continuing Education - Psychologists
Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education programs for psychologists.  Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center maintains responsibility for the program and its content.  


 
Continuing Education - Social Workers, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapists, LPCs:  The Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education programs. The APA is an approved provider of continuing education programs for Social Workers, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapists and LPCs.  
 

TICKETS NOW AVAILABLE VIA TICKETLEAP:
 http://pittsburgh-psychoanalytic-center.ticketleap.com/
psychoanalysis-and-americas-racial-reckoning-a-critique-of-khil/

 

Need more information?  Call Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center @ 412-661-4224 or email:  administration@pghpsa.org

 

 

A Comprehensive Survey of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud

Classes will be held remotely via Zoom

Comprehensive Survey of the Complete Psychological Works Of Freud

Begins September 2022

 

Although there is no requirement that participants have a background in mental health, the couse is designed for psychologists, social workers, other mental health professionals, and students in university mental health programs.

 

Throughout the course, you will be delving into:  Beyond the Pleasure Principle, Project for a Scientific Psychology, Studies on Hysteria, The Interpretation of Dreams, Three Essays on a Theory of Sexuality, Totem and Taboo, Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego, Analysis Terminable and Interminable, Civilization and Its Discontents, among many others.

 

From the writings of Freud:

"We see then the disappearance of the conscious personality, the predominance of the conscious personality, and the predominance of the unconscious personality, turning by means of suggestion and contagion of feelings and ideas in an identical direction, the tendency to immediately transform the suggest ideas into acts; these, we see are the principle characteristics of the individual forming part of a group." - Group Psychology

 

Format:  Lecture and discussion

Number of Sessions:  20

Location:  PPC Library

401 Shady Avenue, Suite B101

Pittsburgh, PA 15206

Tuition:  $600  Payment plans are available and sliding scale tuition is provided on an as-needed basis.

Continuing Education Credits: 40 credits are available for psychologists, psychiatrists, LPCs, MSWs, and LCSWs if all classes are attended

 

Class Dates:  Monday evenings, 7:00-9:00 p.m. via Zoom. Dates are as follows: 9/19, 10/3, 10/17, 10/31, 11/14, 11/28, 12/12, 1/2, 1/16, 2/6, 2/20, 3/6, 3/20, 4/3, 4/17, 5/1, 5/15, 5/29, 6/5, 6/12

 

Accreditation Statement:
This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of American Psychoanalytic Association and the Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center. The American Psychoanalytic Association is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

The American Psychoanalytic Association designates this Live Activity for a maximum of (40) AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
 

IMPORTANT DISCLOSURE INFORMATION FOR ALL LEARNERS: None of the planners and presenters for this educational activity have relevant financial relationship(s)* to disclose with ineligible companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients. *Financial relationships are relevant if the educational content an individual can control is related to the business lines or products of the ineligible company.

 

Continuing Education - Psychologists
Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education programs for psychologists.  Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center maintains responsibility for the program and its content.  

 
Continuing Education - Social Workers, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapists, LPCs:  The Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education programs. The APA is an approved provider of continuing education programs for Social Workers, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapists and LPCs.  
 

To register, access the application below: 

 

Freud Course 2022-2023 Application
Freud Course Application.doc
Microsoft Word document [85.5 KB]

 


James T. McLaughlin Training Program

in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy  
 
Virtual Classes
Sliding Scale Tuition Available

Registration is now open for the Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center's fall classes in psychodynamic psychotherapy.  Understand, interpret, and explore the in-depth psychological approaches to the complexities of the mind. Classes, which are offered remotely, offer rich and clinically relevant readings on theory and technique to support the professional growth of mental health professionals. (You may participate in Year 1 without making a commitment to the Advanced Year course.)

Continuing Education Credits are available for psychiatrists, psychologists, and LPC, MSW, LCSW’s.  Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center is a member of the American Psychoanalytic Association.

Ye​ar 1 Course: Participants for this program would include anyone who is developing an identity as a psychotherapist and/or would like further knowledge of psychodynamic psychotherapy, or those who are looking to enhance their practices.  (30 Wednesday or Thursday evenings, 7-9 p.m.,classes start in September)  60 CE/CMEs available.
 
Advanced Year Course: Participants would include anyone who participated in Year 1 or has knowledge of psychodynamic psychotherapy but would like to develop greater understanding.  (10 Monday evenings, 7-9 p.m., classes start in October)  20 CE/CMEs available. 



 

Questions?  Call us at: 412-661-4224 or email administration@pghpsa.org.
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Accreditation Statement:
This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of American Psychoanalytic Association and the Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center. The American Psychoanalytic Association is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

The American Psychoanalytic Association designates this Live Activity for a maximum of (60) AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
 

IMPORTANT DISCLOSURE INFORMATION FOR ALL LEARNERS: None of the planners and presenters for this educational activity have relevant financial relationship(s)* to disclose with ineligible companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients. *Financial relationships are relevant if the educational content an individual can control is related to the business lines or products of the ineligible company.

 

Continuing Education - Psychologists
Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education programs for psychologists.  Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center maintains responsibility for the program and its content.  


 
Continuing Education - Social Workers, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapists, LPCs The Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education programs. The APA is an approved provider of continuing education programs for Social Workers, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapists and LPCs.  
 

 


Need more information?  Call us at 412-661-4224; email:  administration@pghpsa.org

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              THIS IS WHAT YOU MISSED IN 2021:                                 

 

 

 

 

Racism as “Enjoyment”: Libido as Substance of Race 

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by Derek Hook, Ph.D. 

 

  Friday, November 19, 2021

     7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.  

via Zoom

                                                      COST: $40 for 2 CMEs/CEs

                                                             $20 without CMEs/CEs

 

Why is libidinal “enjoyment” such an integral part of racism and racial identity? How do such modes of enjoyment – or jouissance – involve attributions of narcissistic libidinal treasures (our country, our culture, our way of life, etc.) that are always at risk of being stolen? How, moreover, do such forms of enjoyment entail the presumption that others are enjoying ‘beyond their station’, in ways are both illicit and that threaten me with castration? This talk will explore how the Lacanian reinvention of the Freudian notion of libido helps shed light on many facets of contemporary racism. It will link ideas of drive, superego, fantasy and excess-stimulation to racism as a type of ‘passionate investment’. In so doing, we will also consider how many of the most common everyday notions pertaining to racism (notions of intolerance, unconscious bias, projection, ignorance) are perhaps inadequate in grappling with the persistence of racism today. 

 

Learning Objectives:

 

After attending this talk participants will be able to:

1. Name and explain the crucial elements of Lacan's notion of jouissance (or libidinal enjoyment) and how this concept helps in understanding racism in the contemporary world.


2. Explain how race can be understood, psychoanalytically, as libidinal, entailing fantasies of narcissistic treasures threatened by other’s usurping and appropriation of these treasures.

 

 

About Our Presenter:

Derek Hook, Ph.D. is an associate professor of psychology and clinical supervisor in the department of psychology at Duquesne University. He is the author of 'Six Moments in Lacan' and 'A Critical Psychology of the Postcolonial' and, along with Calum Neill, he edits to Palgrave Lacan Series. His most recent publication is a volume, edited with Sheldon George, entitled 'Lacan and Race'. Along with Stijn Vanheule and Calum Neill he is the editor of the four-volume series 'Reading Lacan's Ecrits'.
 

Continuing Medical Education Statement 

This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education through the joint providership of the American Psychoanalytic Association and Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center. The American Psychoanalytic Association is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians. The American Psychoanalytic Association designates this Live Activity for a maximum number of (2)  AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™.  Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Important Disclosure Information For All Learners
None of the planners and presenters of this CME program have any relevant financial relationships to disclose.

APA-American Psychological Association Statement
Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education programs for psychologists.
Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center maintains responsibility for the program and its content. 
 

This program is being offered for 2.0 continuing education credits.

Participants must pay tuition fee, sign in, attend the entire seminar, and complete an evaluation in order to receive a certificate of completion. Participants not fulfilling these requirements will not receive a certificate. Partial credit is not available.

 

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Need more information?  Call Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center @ 412-661-4224 or email:  administration@pghpsa.org

 

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Mothering a Child with a

Visible Facial Difference:

The Gaze of the Mother 

and the Gaze of the

Other

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A presentation by:

Sandra G. Hershberg, MD

 

 

 

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2021
Via Zoom
7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.

COST:  $30 with 2 CMEs/CEs
 

Harvey (2020) illuminates the experience of the uncanny gaze in the non-disabled person who encounters a child with a physical difference. "The onlooker is left feeling uncertain as to what category this person falls into, eliciting feelings of both the familiar and unfamiliar, the frightening and the attractive." As the mother of a child with Moebius Syndrome, a congenital form of facial paralysis, whose face looked visibly different from birth, Harvey's observation that "the mother's sense of self, and her own feelings of unfamiliarity within herself, never quite settle because her subjectivity is constantly disrupted by others' responses to her child. . . amplifying her own ambivalence," makes psychological sense of Dr. Hershberg's own unique maternal experience.
 
Dr. Hershberg will describe her maternal self-experience in greater depth with reference to maternal gazes including the loving empathic mother and "the uncanny" ambivalent (m)other, contextualized by Winnicott's (1971) template of the mother’s face as a mirror for the baby's image of herself. In addition, Dr. Hershberg will include the impact of other salient gazes: the paternal gaze, the grandmother’s gaze, the medical gaze and the analyst's gaze. Her daughter's writings and vignettes will provide a window into how a creatively astute, yet vulnerable, child expresses her experiences of alienation, rebellion and reparation, involving her attract ion to superheroes, creation myths and Beauty and the Beast, as well as how her loving and assertive gaze helped her mother.
 
Finally, Dr. Hershberg will examine the way these subjective maternal experiences have contributed to her analytic sensibility and view of difference in her clinical work.
 

Learning Objectives: 

Following this presentation, participants will be able to: 

      1. Identify the emotional impact of the uncanny gaze expressed by a non-

          disabled mother of a child with a visible difference.     

      2. Describe the concept of 'the mother's face as a mirror' described
          by Winnicott.  

      3. Describe the concept of 'abjection' identified by Kristeva. 

      4. Describe how fairytales like Beauty and the Beast embody the uncanny.

 

References:

Harvey, C. (2020). The uncanny effect of disability: Uncomfortable maternal love for a Disabled child. Contemporary Psychoanalysis, 56(1):1-28.


Winnicott, DW(I97l). Mirror-role of mother and family in child development, In
Playing and Reality. New York, NY: Routledge

 

About our Presenter:  
Dr. Sandra Hershberg is a psychoanalyst and adult and child psychiatrist. She is the Director of Psychoanalytic Training, Founding Member and Training and Supervising Analyst at the Institute of Contemporary Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis in Washington, DC. She is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Washington Baltimore Center for Psychoanalysis, where she received an award for excellence in teaching in 2019. Dr.Hershberg is a Geographical Supervising Analyst at the St Louis Institute of Psychoanalysis and the Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center. She is on the Clinical Faculty at Georgetown University Medical School. Dr. Hershberg serves on the Program Committee of the American Psychoanalytic Association. Dr. Hershberg is an Associate Editor of the journal Psychoanalysis, Self and Context and is on the Editorial Board of Psychoanalytic Inquiry.oman on the study of physical and psychological disability.

 

Dr. Hershberg has published and presented numerous papers on a wide variety of subjects including biography and psychoanalysis, pregnancy and creativity, therapeutic action, ethics, and the mother/daughter relationship. Her most recent paper is A Female Gaze in/on the Female Body in Art and Psychoanalysis: Paula Modersohn-Becker. Dr. Hershberg is the Co-Editor and a contributor to the book Psychoanalytic Theory, Research, and Clinical Practice: Reading Joseph D. Lichtenberg published by Routledge in 2016.

Two volumes of Psychoanalytic Inquiry currently in press that she is editing or co-editing include Writing a New Playbook: Confronting Theoretical and Clinical Challenges of the Twin Pandemics of Covid-19 and Systemic Racism and the other entitled Home.

The paper she is presenting today is part of her collaboration with a creative young woman on the study of physical and psychological disability.

 

Continuing Medical Education Statement 

This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education through the joint providership of the American Psychoanalytic Association and Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center. The American Psychoanalytic Association is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians. The American Psychoanalytic Association designates this Live Activity for a maximum number of (2)  AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™ Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Important Disclosure Information For All Learners
None of the planners and presenters of this CME program have any relevant financial relationships to disclose.

APA-American Psychological Association Statement
Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education programs for psychologists. Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center maintains responsibility for the program and its content.  

This program is being offered for 2.0 continuing education credits.

Participants must pay tuition fee, attend the entire seminar, and complete an evaluation in order to receive a certificate of completion. Participants not fulfilling these requirements will not receive a certificate. Partial credit is not available.

 

There is no known commercial support for this program.
 

PURCHASE TICKETS ONLINE NOW!  

 

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Need more information? 
Call Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center @ 412-661-4224 or email:  administration@pghpsa.org

 

   

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Join us for our Eighth Year of Fiction with Freud offered by Mario Fischetti, Ph.D. at the  The Main Carnegie Library in Oakland

 

Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center teams with the Main Carnegie Library in Oakland for the seventh year in a row, to provide a chance to really analyze fiction. PPC faculty member, Mario Fischetti, Ph.D., psychoanalyst and psychologist in private practice, will provide insight and analysis of popular fiction works in an informal discussion held at the Main Carnegie Library in Oakland. Sessions begin in March and will be held on the 1st Saturday of March, April, May and June from 2-3 p.m. Join us for a whole new series!

 

Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center is an accredited nonprofit educational organization that provides quality training and continuing education in psychoanalysis and psychodynamic psychotherapy. PPC serves as a resource to the community through education, consultation, and outreach programs.

 

 

 

Saturday, March 7, 2020:   2:00 p.m.     The Water Cure

                                                                  By Sophie Mackintosh

 

 

 

“A gripping, sinister fable!” —Margaret Atwood, via Twitter


ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR:
NPR • GLAMOUR  GOOD HOUSEKEEPING • LIT HUB • THRILLIST


King has tenderly staked out a territory for his wife and three daughters, Grace, Lia, and Sky. Here on his island, women are protected from the chaos and violence of men on the mainland. The cult-like rituals and therapies they endure fortify them from the spreading toxicity of a degrading world.

But when King disappears and two men and a boy wash ashore, the sisters’ safe world begins to unravel. Over the span of one blistering hot week, a psychological cat-and-mouse game plays out. Sexual tensions and sibling rivalries flare as the sisters are forced to confront the amorphous threat the strangers represent.

A haunting, riveting debut, The Water Cure is a fiercely poetic feminist revenge fantasy that’s a startling reflection of our time.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Saturday, April 4, 2020:   2:00 p.m.       My Sister the Serial Killer                                                                                          By Oyinkan Braithwaite

 

 

 

My Sister, the Serial Killer is a blackly comic novel about how blood is thicker - and more difficult to get out of the carpet - than water...

When Korede's dinner is interrupted one night by a distress call from her sister, Ayoola, she knows what's expected of her: bleach, rubber gloves, nerves of steel and a strong stomach. This'll be the third boyfriend Ayoola's dispatched in, quote, self-defence and the third mess that her lethal little sibling has left Korede to clear away. She should probably go to the police for the good of the menfolk of Nigeria, but she loves her sister and, as they say, family always comes first. Until, that is, Ayoola starts dating the doctor where Korede works as a nurse. Korede's long been in love with him, and isn't prepared to see him wind up with a knife in his back: but to save one would mean sacrificing the other.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Saturday, May 2, 2020: 2:00 p.m.    Idaho 

                                                           By Emily Ruskovich

 

 

 

One hot August day a family drives to a mountain clearing to collect birch wood. Jenny, the mother, is in charge of lopping any small limbs off the logs with a hatchet. Wade, the father, does the stacking. The two daughters, June and May, aged nine and six, drink lemonade, swat away horseflies, bicker, and sing snatches of songs as they while away the time.

But then something unimaginably shocking happens, an act so extreme it will scatter the family in every different direction.

In a story told from multiple perspectives and in razor-sharp prose, we gradually learn more about this act, and the way its violence, love and memory reverberate through the life of every character in Idaho.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Saturday, June 6, 2020: 2:00 p.m.    Normal People                                                                                                        By Sally Rooney

 

 

 

At school Connell and Marianne pretend not to know each other. He’s popular and well-adjusted, star of the school soccer team while she is lonely, proud, and intensely private. But when Connell comes to pick his mother up from her housekeeping job at Marianne’s house, a strange and indelible connection grows between the two teenagers—one they are determined to conceal.

A year later, they’re both studying at Trinity College in Dublin. Marianne has found her feet in a new social world while Connell hangs at the sidelines, shy and uncertain. Throughout their years in college, Marianne and Connell circle one another, straying toward other people and possibilities but always magnetically, irresistibly drawn back together. Then, as she veers into self-destruction and he begins to search for meaning elsewhere, each must confront how far they are willing to go to save the other.

Sally Rooney brings her brilliant psychological acuity and perfectly spare prose to a story that explores the subtleties of class, the electricity of first love, and the complex entanglements of family and friendship.

 

 

 

 

 

 

                       What You Missed in 2019 

 

 

 

 

  

Psychoanalysis and Anti-Semitism 

Daniel Burston, Ph.D. 

 

  In light of the Tree of Life massacre one year ago,
Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center presents a seminar with Visiting Scholar, Duquesne University Associate Professor of Psychology,        Daniel Burston, Ph.D.
 
  

Friday, October 25, 2019

                                                 7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.  

and
Saturday, October 26, 2019
9:00 a.m. -  Noon
 

 

    Kenmawr Building Community Room
     401 Shady Avenue

       Pittsburgh, PA  15206

COST: 
Friday, October 25th Session - $50 with CE/CMEs
$25 without CE/CMEs

 

Saturday, October 26th Session - $75 with CE/CMEs

$40 without CE/CMEs

 

NOTE:  Discounted Price If You Attend Both Sessions!

$100 with CE/CMEs

$50 without CE/CMEs
 

In this seminar we will enumerate and describe several different varieties of anti-Semitism, past and present, addressing their links to White Supremacy, Islamist ideology and their relevance today. We will also explore the role which anti-Semitism played in the history of the early psychoanalytic movement, both as a cause or a catalyst of certain pivotal developments, and as a focus for theoretical conjectures and debate.  Finally, we will discuss some ways it shows up clinically, and the role which the internet and social media play in disseminating and reinforcing anti-Jewish stereotypes and conspiracy theories nowadays.


Learning Objectives Friday, October 25:

1. Participants will be able to name and describe two historic roots of anti-Semitism in the West.


2.  Participants will be able to explain two differences and two similarities between religious and racial anti-Semitism.

 

Learning Objectives Saturday, October 26:

1. Participants will be able to define several differences and several similarities between right-wing and left-wing anti-Semitism.


2.  Participants will be able to analyze the cultural and historical symbiosis between low-brow/high intensity anti-Semitism and high-brow/low intensity anti-Semitism. 

 

3.  Participants will be able to name and explain some factors accounting for the current resurgence of anti-Semitism and hate crimes on the Right and Left. 

 

4.  Participants will be able to develop an answer to the following question:  Is Zionism to Judaism as Islamism is to Islam?

 

About Our Presenter:

Daniel Burston, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of Psychology at Duquesne University and the author of numerous books and journal articles on the history of psychoanalysis, psychiatry and psychology.  His forthcoming book is entitled Psychoanalysis, Politics and the Postmodern University, and will appear with Palgrave MacMillen in 2020.

 

Continuing Medical Education Statement 

This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education through the joint providership of the American Psychoanalytic Association and Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center. The American Psychoanalytic Association is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians. The American Psychoanalytic Association designates this Live Activity for a maximum number of (5)  AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™ Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Important Disclosure Information For All Learners
None of the planners and presenters of this CME program have any relevant financial relationships to disclose.

APA-American Psychological Association Statement
Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education programs for psychologists.
Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center maintains responsibility for the program and its content. 
 


This program is being offered for 5.0 continuing education credits.

 

Participants must pay tuition fee, if applicable, sign in, attend the entire seminar, and complete an evaluation in order to receive a certificate of completion. Participants not fulfilling these requirements will not receive a certificate. Partial credit is not available.                                                                                                                     

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The Nucleation of a Core Psyche and its Implications for Care

Eric Rankin, Ph.D.

 

  SUGGESTED AUDIENCE:  PSYCHIATRISTS, PSYCHOLOGISTS, SOCIAL WORKERS, COUNSELORS AND OTHER MENTAL HEALTH PROFESSIONALS

Wednesday, September 25, 2019

                                                    7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.       
 

    Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center Library 
    401 Shady Ave. Suite B-101

      Pittsburgh, PA  15206

Cost:  $75 with CE/CMEs
     $40 without CE/CMEs  

 

Is it realistic to pursue personality change as a treatment goal? I propose that the foundation of our personality emerges from a pre-drive/object relations phase of development, a core psyche, which leaves an indelible mark on all future development. While this mark falls somewhere between a positive-negative orientation depending upon the neonatal-caregiver fit and its impact can be somewhat mitigated by subsequent psychic development, our core psyche remains essentially immutable. Identifying and addressing aspects of the core psyche pose unique challenges for the clinician and our patients. In this presentation, I will offer a conceptual framework for the genesis of a core psyche, the unique clinical issues that emerge from it as well as some clinical material reflecting my approach to working with patients in this area.

Learning Objectives:

1. Participants will be able to describe the origins and characteristics of the core psyche and its relationship to subsequent psychic development.


2.  Participants will be able to describe potential strategies to assess and intervene with psychopathology associated with the core psyche.

 

About Our Presenter:

Eric Rankin, PhD is a professor in the Department of Behavioral Medicine and Psychiatry at West Virginia University. He is also a member of the faculty at the Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center.  Dr. Rankin is a fellow in the Gerontological Society of America and most of his academic career has focused on clinical gerontology. More recently, he has published a series of psychoanalytic articles related to grieving/forgiveness and the origins of psychic life.

Continuing Medical Education Statement 

This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education through the joint providership of the American Psychoanalytic Association and Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center. The American Psychoanalytic Association is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians. The American Psychoanalytic Association designates this Live Activity for a maximum number of (2)  AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Important Disclosure Information For All Learners
None of the planners and presenters of this CME program have any relevant financial relationships to disclose.

APA-American Psychological Association Statement
Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education programs for psychologists.
Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center maintains responsibility for the program and its content. 
 


This program is being offered for 2.0 continuing education credits.

Participants must pay tuition fee, sign in, attend the entire seminar, and complete an evaluation in order to receive a certificate of completion. Participants not fulfilling these requirements will not receive a certificate. Partial credit is not available.

 

 

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Celebrating the Contributions of Bertram D. Lewin and a Discussion of His Work:  The Psychoanalysis of Elation                  

                  Presented by Mario Fischetti, Ph.D.  

 

   SUGGESTED AUDIENCE:  PSYCHIATRISTS, PSYCHOLOGISTS, SOCIAL WORKERS, COUNSELORS AND OTHER MENTAL HEALTH PROFESSIONALS

  Friday, May 17, 2019

                                                     2:00 p.m. -  3:30 p.m.  
   
 
                                         Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center Library 

     401 Shady Ave. Suite B-101
       Pittsburgh, PA  15206

Cost:  $75 with CE/CMEs
                  $40 without CE/CMEs  

 

Utilizing nine vignettes from the 2012 Denzel Washington movie, Flight, the underlying dynamics of states of elation will be elucidated in this presentation.  Exhilaration, jubilance, exultation, euphoria, and ecstasy are states well captured in dreams of flight.  Underlying elation is the oral triad:  the wish to devour, the wish to be devoured, and the wish to go to sleep.  These concepts are pleasant to devour but difficult to digest.  The presentation will also explore the relationship between "good" sleep, "bad" sleep, and death. Primary sadism and masochism are situated in the nursing situation, active eating to sate hunger, then the ensuing yielding and sleep.  Finally, the relationship of elated states to pharmacothymia, the use of chemicals to achieve elation, i.e., the substance use disorders, will  be discussed. 
 

Learning Objectives:
 

 1. Participants will be able to articulate the similarities and differences between the three phases of the oral triad underlying elated states. 

 2. Participants will be able to distinguish between the defense mechanisms of denial, reaction formations, projections, and introjections, especially as these defense mechanisms relate to hypomania, obsessions, phobia, paranoia, and depression. 


About Our Presenter:

Mario Fischetti, Ph.D. is a psychoanalyst, licensed psychologist in private practice, and a Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center faculty member.  Dr. Fischetti has a specialty in the assessment and treatment of substance use disorders.

Continuing Medical Education Statement
This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education through the joint providership of the American Psychoanalytic Association and Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center. The American Psychoanalytic Association is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians. The American Psychoanalytic Association designates this Live Activity for a maximum number of (1.5)  AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Important Disclosure Information For All Learners

None of the planners and presenters of this CME program have any relevant financial relationships to disclose.

 

APA-American Psychological Association Statement
Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education programs for psychologists.


Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center maintains responsibility for the program and its content.  

This program is being offered for 1.5 continuing education credits.
Participants must pay tuition fee, sign in, attend the entire seminar, and complete an evaluation in order to receive a certificate of completion. Participants not fulfilling these requirements will not receive a certificate. Partial credit is not available.

 

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The Imaginative Bridge to Relational Contact: From the Random to the Meaningful                                         Loren Sobel, M.D. 

 

  SUGGESTED AUDIENCE:  PSYCHIATRISTS, PSYCHOLOGISTS, SOCIAL WORKERS, COUNSELORS AND OTHER MENTAL HEALTH PROFESSIONALS

         Wednesday, May 1, 2019

                                                        7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.       
 

    Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center Library 
     401 Shady Ave. Suite B-101

       Pittsburgh, PA  15206

Cost:  $40 with CEs/CMEs
                  $20 General Admission

 

What unconscious processes may be active within the analytic field of patient and analyst when clinical moments enter the awareness of one or both participants initially feeling random or arbitrary? As these seemingly random and arbitrary moments emerge unbidden, what shape may these emerging experiences take as they effervesce at the fringe of our awareness? How might we capture these emerging experiences in their embryonic form and hold them long enough to grow them into meaningful moments of relational contact? In this presentation I aim to illustrate how clinical moments that initially feel arbitrary or random may capture unconscious bidirectional communications within the analytic field that hold the potential for significant meanings if we can linger in these seemingly random moments long enough to let our imaginations act.

Learning Objectives:


 1. Participants will be able to provide a clinical example where moments that initially feel random or arbitrary may capture unconscious bidirectional communications that hold potential for significant  meanings.

2. Participants will be able to identify how the use of an imaginative object—a shared scene—can form a bridge between initial seemingly random moments and moments of meaningful relational contact and understanding.

3. Participants will be able to discuss how Interpersonal/Relational Field theory may inform technical ways to think about and work with these seemingly random or arbitrary moments.

 

About Our Presenter:

Loren Sobel M.D. earned his medical degree from the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine and completed his psychiatry residency at the Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic at the University of Pittsburgh where he served as Chief Resident for Psychotherapy Training.

He is a recent clinical graduate of the Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center and currently teaches part of the advanced curriculum for the James T. McLaughlin Training Program in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy. He is a volunteer Clinical Faculty member at the University of Pittsburgh where he teaches the introductory course and an advanced elective in psychodynamic psychotherapy to psychiatry residents. Dr. Sobel serves on the board of the Clinic Without Walls, a low-fee clinic that provides psychodynamic psychotherapy to the community for those who are uninsured or underinsured.

Continuing Medical Education Statement 
This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education through the joint providership of the American Psychoanalytic Association and Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center. The American Psychoanalytic Association is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians. The American Psychoanalytic Association designates this Live Activity for a maximum number of (2)  AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Important Disclosure Information For All Learners
None of the planners and presenters of this CME program have any relevant financial relationships to disclose.

APA-American Psychological Association Statement
Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education programs for psychologists.
Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center maintains responsibility for the program and its content. 
 

This program is being offered for 2.0 continuing education credits.
Participants must pay tuition fee, sign in, attend the entire seminar, and complete an evaluation in order to receive a certificate of completion. Participants not fulfilling these requirements will not receive a certificate. Partial credit is not available.

 

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The Death Drive Revisited    
 

     Living in the End Times:            

 Civilization and its Fate


A Colloquium with Jon Mills,

Psy.D., Ph.D., ABPP 

 

Sponsored by Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center  &
C. G. Jung Analytic Training Program of Pittsburgh      

 

SUGGESTED AUDIENCE:  PSYCHIATRISTS, PSYCHOLOGISTS, SOCIAL WORKERS, COUNSELORS AND OTHER MENTAL HEALTH PROFESSIONALS

 Friday, March 15, 2019

                                     7:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.                                     

    

     Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center Library 

     401 Shady Ave. Suite B-101
       Pittsburgh, PA  15206


Cost:  $50 with CE/CMEs
    $25 without CE/CMEs

 

Psychoanalysis has long recognized the role of human aggression and destructiveness as factors in the genesis of anxiety and depression.  But is the increased incidence of anxiety disorders and depression only the result of factors in individuals and their immediate environment?  Or is there a growing sense of unprecedented threats to human civilizations as well, leading to greater degrees of helplessness, hopelessness and meaninglessness.  Is there an unconscious collective self-destructiveness being registered in these states of greater emotional dis-ease?

 

Concerns regarding the end of the world formerly sprang from religious orientations.  In psychoanalysis, end of the world fantasies were attributed to the experience of a sense of annihilation of the self, as in profound psychosis.  But is anxiety about the fate of humanity more plausible and realistic today than in former times?  Are we on the brink of extinction? Is civilization destined toward self-annihilation?

 

Let us examine just a few cold sober facts: We are facing a planetary ecological crisis due to global warming, deforestation, widespread collapse of ecosystems.  World over-population is nearing a record tipping-point, where food and water scarcity will bring about more famine and drought.  Human violence and aggression are on the rise worldwide.  Unbridled capitalistic exploitation of consumer masses leads to obscene disparities in wealth and poverty.  And we see an increase in hegemonic national politics with anti-immigrant campaigns, corrupt government policies, nuclear threats, terrorism, internet espionage, bioterror and other threats to public health.  Regardless of the degree of threat we assign to each of these and other calculated risks, we cannot ignore that an ominous dread is hovering over civilization and its fate.  Is this humanity’s death drive?  Are we and the next few generations living in the end times?

Learning Objectives:
1. Participants will list 5 vast planetary and existential risks to the fate of humanity, the significance of which may be currently underestimated.

 2. Participants will name and define the psychological processes inherent in social collectivities that potentially contribute to a global crisis.

 3. Participants will evaluate the validity of a collective unconscious destructive principle for understanding increased psychological distress in both individuals and in society at large.


About our Presenter:
Jon Mills, Psy.D., Ph.D., ABPP is a philosopher, psychoanalyst and clinical psychologist.  He is Professor of Psychology & Psychoanalysis at the Adler Graduate Professional School in Toronto, is a board certified psychoanalyst and clinical psychologist with the American Board of Professional Psychology, and is a licensed psychologist with the College of Psychologists in Ontario.  Dr. Mills received his Psy.D. in Clinical psychology from the Illinois School of Professional Psychology, his Ph.D. in Philosophy from Vanderbilt University and was a Fulbright scholar in the departments of philosophy at the University of Toronto and York University.  He is author and/or editor of over 100 publications including 20 books.  In 2006, 2011 and 2013 he was recognized with a Gravida Award for his scholarship from the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis in New York City, was given a Significant Contribution to Canadian Psychology Award in 2008, a Goethe Award for best book in 2013, and the Otto Weininger Memorial Award for lifetime achievement in 2015 by the Canadian Psychological Association.  He runs a mental health corporation in Ontario.

 

Suggested Readings:
Freud, S. (1930). Civilization and its Discontents.  Standard Ed., Vol 23. London:     Hogarth Press.
Jung, C.G. (1947). On the Nature of the Psyche. Collected Works, Vol. 8, pp. 159-234.
Kolbert, Elizabeth. (2014). The Sixth Extinction.  New York: Henry Holt & Co.
Lovelock, James. (2006). The Revenge of Gaia: Earth’s Climate Crisis and the Fate of Humanity. New York: Basic Books.
Merkur, D. & Mills, J. (2017). Jung’s Ethics.  London: Routledge.
Rees, Martin. (2003). Our Final Hour. New York: Basic Books.
Zizek, S. (2010). Living in the End Times. New York: Verso.


Continuing Medical Education Statement 

This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education through the joint providership of the American Psychoanalytic Association and Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center. The American Psychoanalytic Association is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians. The American Psychoanalytic Association designates this Live Activity for a maximum number of (2)  AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Important Disclosure Information For All Learners
None of the planners and presenters of this CME program have any relevant financial relationships to disclose.

APA-American Psychological Association Statement
Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education programs for psychologists.
Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center maintains responsibility for the program and its content. 
 

This program is being offered for 2.0 continuing education credits.
Participants must pay tuition fee, sign in, attend the entire seminar, and complete an evaluation in order to receive a certificate of completion. Participants not fulfilling these requirements will not receive a certificate. Partial credit is not available.

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THE DIALECTICS OF INFLUENCE:

An exploration of the seminal papers of

James T. McLaughlin

 


A seminar discussion facilitated by William F. Cornell, editor of The Healer's Bent: Solitude and Dialogue in the Clinical Encounter

      

  SUGGESTED AUDIENCE:  PSYCHIATRISTS, PSYCHOLOGISTS, SOCIAL WORKERS, COUNSELORS AND OTHER MENTAL HEALTH PROFESSIONALS

Wednesday, March 13, 2019

                                                            7:00 p.m. - 9 :00p.m.       
 

    Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center Library 
     401 Shady Ave. Suite B-101

       Pittsburgh, PA  15206

Cost:  $50 with CEs/CMEs
    $25 without CEs/CMEs 

 

In the opening chapter of his book, James T. McLaughlin wrote:


In my earliest papers, my intent was to shed light on what was going on in my patients. I was trained to see impediments as lodged in the patient’s psyche. Instead, as my own experience evolved, I grappled with how it often was also the analyst who impeded progress.
 

In his now classic 1981 paper, “Transference, psychic reality, and countertransference,” written in his early 60’s, Jim declared, “If the past 50 years of analyst watching have clarified anything about the nature of the analyst’s experience, it is that transference is a matter of equal rights, both on and behind the couch.”  The next 25 years witnessed a series of papers challenging psychoanalytic orthodoxies.  Often controversial within his home community of the American Psychoanalytic Association, these papers became foundational in the emerging theories underlying relational psychoanalysis.       

 

Learning Objectives:


1)  Participants will be able to describe aspects of the history of the therapeutic application of   countertransference within the American psychoanalytic traditions.
2)  Participants will be able to identify theoretical antecedents to the relational turn.
3)  Participants will be able to describe the functions of self-analysis.


About Our Presenter:

William F. Cornell, M.A., TSTA-P, studied behavioral psychology at Reed College in Portland, Oregon and phenomenological psychology at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He followed his graduate studies with training in transactional analysis and body-centered psychotherapy and has studied with several mentors and consultants within diverse psychoanalytic perspectives. Bill has maintained an independent practice of psychotherapy, consultation and training for more than 40 years. He introduced and edited The Healer’s
Bent: Solitude and Dialogue in the Clinical Encounter,
the collected papers of James T. McLaughlin and Intimacy and Separateness in Psychoanalysis, the collected papers of Warren Poland. A co-editor of the Transactional Analysis Journal, Bill is the author of Explorations in
Transactional Analysis: The Meech Lake Papers, Somatic Experience in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy: In the expressive language of the living (Routledge), Self-Examination in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy: Countertransference and subjectivity in clinical practice

(Routledge), At the Interface of Transactional Analysis, Psychoanalysis,and Body Psychotherapy: Theoretical and clinical perspectives (Routledge)), Une Vie Pour Etre Soi (Payot), and a co-author and editor of Into TA: A comprehensive textbook (Karnac), as well as numerous articles and book chapters. He is the Editor of the Routledge book series, “Innovations in Transactional Analysis.” Bill is a recipient of the Eric Berne Memorial Award and the European Association for
Transactional Analysis Gold Medal, in recognition of his writing.

 

Continuing Medical Education Statement 
This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education through the joint providership of the American Psychoanalytic Association and Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center. The American Psychoanalytic Association is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians. The American Psychoanalytic Association designates this Live Activity for a maximum number of (2)  AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Important Disclosure Information For All Learners
None of the planners and presenters of this CME program have any relevant financial relationships to disclose.

APA-American Psychological Association Statement
Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education programs for psychologists.

Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center maintains responsibility for the program and its content.  

This program is being offered for 2.0 continuing education credits.
Participants must pay tuition fee, sign in, attend the entire seminar, and complete an evaluation in order to receive a certificate of completion. Participants not fulfilling these requirements will not receive a certificate. Partial credit is not available.

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The Unintended Life:  A Phenomenological Reading of the Early Freud                             by Jeffrey McCurry, Ph.D.

       

 

  SUGGESTED AUDIENCE:  PSYCHIATRISTS, PSYCHOLOGISTS, SOCIAL WORKERS, COUNSELORS AND OTHER MENTAL HEALTH PROFESSIONALS

         Wednesday, February 27, 2019

                                                        7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.       
 

    Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center Library 
     401 Shady Ave. Suite B-101

       Pittsburgh, PA  15206

Cost:  $40 with CEs/CMEs
           $20 General Admission  

 

The early Freud is concerned as much with conscious experience as with the unconscious. Consciousness for Freud creates the unconscious because of consciousness's initial inability to engage the difficult, dangerous, and disturbing dimensions of its conscious experience of self and world. The therapeutic action of psychoanalysis is, therefore, and paradoxically, to return the self to its experience of its own experience. Thus healthy psychological experience, for the early Freud, is not always happy or pleasant. A healthy psychological life is, rather, one that welcomes to conscious experience the full vicissitudes of the flow of all its immediate and spontaneous thoughts, feelings, and wishes, whether these are pleasurable or painful. Such an image of psychologically healthy life disrupts our commonsense understanding of personhood, but it also enriches our conception of what it means to experience self and world more authentically in the aim of living a more fully human life.  

 

Learning Objectives:


 1) Participants will be able to discuss what defines Freud's phenomenological approach to the unconscious in his early case studies on hysteria and how this approach differs from an explanatory approach. Participants will describe how this phenomenological approach to the unconscious, in contrast to an explanatory approach, affects how Freud thinks we can understand neurotic symptom-formation and the therapeutic action of psychoanalytic treatment that can offer a cure.

2) Participants will describe how Freud's phenomenological approach to psychoanalysis in his early case studies offers a vision of human experience and selfhood as internally diverse and incongruous, a vision that is both complementary to and challenging of certain currents in contemporary psychoanalytic thought. 


About Our Presenter:

Dr. Jeffrey McCurry is Director of the Simon Silverman Phenomenology Center at Duquesne University, where he is also Affiliated Faculty in the Department of Philosophy. He is a recent academic-track graduate of the Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center.  In addition to psychoanalysis, his interests include phenomenological philosophy, psychology and religion, and the literature, art, and music of European modernism. Dr. McCurry is in the midst of writing a book entitled "Dangerous Experience: Modernism from Freud to Philosophy."
 

Continuing Medical Education Statement 

This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education through the joint providership of the American Psychoanalytic Association and Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center. The American Psychoanalytic Association is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians. The American Psychoanalytic Association designates this Live Activity for a maximum number of (2)  AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

IMPORTANT DISCLOSURE INFORMATION FOR ALL LEARNERS: 
None of the planners and presenters of this CME program have any relevant financial relationships to disclose.

APA-American Psychological Association Statement:
Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education programs for psychologists.
Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center maintains responsibility for the program and its content. 
 

This program is being offered for 2.0 continuing education credits.
Participants must pay tuition fee, sign in, attend the entire seminar, and complete an evaluation in order to receive a certificate of completion. Participants not fulfilling these requirements will not receive a certificate. Partial credit is not available.

 

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Need more information?  Call Pittsburgh Psychoanaltyic Center @ 412-661-4224 or email:  administration@pghpsa.org

 

 

 

What You Missed in 2018 

Discussion of Supervision and a Clinical Presentation of a Supervision

 

  SUGGESTED AUDIENCE:  psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, counselors and other mental health professionals

Wednesday, December 5, 2018

and 

Wednesday, December 12, 2018

 

                                                   7:00 -9:00 p.m.                                                                                            


Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center
Kenmawr Building 
401 Shady Ave., Suite B-101
Pittsburgh, PA  15206


Cost for both sessions:  $85 - 4 CEs/CMEs awarded
$50 - without CEs/CMEs


Instructors for both sessions: Bruce Fink, Ph.D. and Howard Foster, M.D.
The second session will include a clinical presentation by
Gary Ciuffetelli, M.D. (W.P.I.C. Fourth Year Resident)


Recommended Reading: Weinstein, L., Winer, J., & Ornstein, E. (2009). Supervision and self-disclosure: modes of supervisory interaction. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association 57: 1379-1400. 

The goals of the first session are to compare and to contrast Dr. Fink’s (who has a Lacanian background), and Dr. Foster’s (who has a Freudian background) approaches to supervision.  The format will be each of them presenting their approaches to supervision with ample time for discussion.  Some of the issues discussed will be: supervisory alliance, modes of supervisory intervention (moral mode, therapeutic mode, empirical mode and modeling mode as discussed by Weinstein et al), supervisor encouraging supportive vs. uncovering interventions in psychotherapy and psychoanalysis (e.g. dream work and slips), countertransference issues and parallel process in supervision.   

In the second session, the format will be Dr. Ciuffetelli presenting a case that he works on in supervision with Dr. Foster.  Process notes from the supervision will be presented in order to give data to explore the concepts discussed in the first session.   The goal is to have a discussion of various approaches to supervision, and the pros and cons of these approaches, remembering that the best supervisor is the patient.  

Learning Objectives of Session One:

1. Participants will be able to compare how two analysts, one with a Lacanian background and the other with a Freudian background, carry out supervision.

2. Participants will describe four modes of supervisory interaction: moral, therapeutic, empirical, and modeling.

Learning Objectives of Session Two:

1.  Participants will discuss the four modes of supervisory interactions, as they apply to a clinical presentation of supervision.

2.  Participants will discuss how supervisors work with supervisees on the issue of supportive interventions versus uncovering interventions.

BRUCE FINK, Ph.D. is a practicing Lacanian psychoanalyst and analytic supervisor. He trained as a psychoanalyst in France for seven years with and is now a member of the psychoanalytic institute Jacques Lacan created shortly before his death, the École de la Cause freudienne in Paris, and obtained his Ph.D. from the Department of Psychoanalysis at the University of Paris VIII (Saint-Denis). He served as Duquesne University's Professor of Psychology from 1993 to 2013 and is currently an affiliated member of the Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center.

HOWARD FOSTER, M.D. is a faculty member and training and supervising analyst at the Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center (PPC). He trained at PPC during the 1980's and has been a Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine since 1988.  He is a past president of PPC.


CONTINUING MEDICAL EDUCATION STATEMENT:
This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education through the joint providership of the American Psychoanalytic Association and Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center. The American Psychoanalytic Association is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians. The American Psychoanalytic Association designates this Live Activity for a maximum number of 4 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.


IMPORTANT DISCLOSURE INFORMATION FOR ALL LEARNERS: 

None of the planners and presenters of this CME program have any relevant financial relationships to disclose.

APA --American Psychological Association Statement: 

Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center maintains responsibility for the program and its content.

Social Workers, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapists: 

The Pennsylvania Board of Social Work approves of credits issued by APA sponsors. Therefore the Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center is able to offer continuing education credits to social workers and counselors per Section 49.36(a) (6) ix)of the regulations at the time of offering. 

The accuracy and utility of the material presented has been reviewed by our Education Committee.  While the content of the workshop or course is intended for the further education of professionals in the field, it is by no means comprehensive training, and should not be considered such. Further reading, training and consultation may be required. No treatment should be undertaken outside the limitations of your skills and expertise.  Expressive forms of psychodynamic psychotherapy is contraindicated in the treatment of some mental illnesses and should not be used to treat all kinds of mental illness.

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What You Missed in 2017-2018

 

Join PPC for an In-depth Discussion of the New York Times Best Seller:           

The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump

        Wednesday, May 16, 2018

                         and

        Wednesday, May 23, 2018

                                                                

OPEN TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC
You do not need to be a mental health practitioner to join the discussion! 

TWO SESSIONS:  Wednesday, May 16, 2018 and Wednesday, May 23, 2018
7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.

 

Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center Library
THE KENMAWR
401 Shady Ave., Suite B101
Pittsburgh, PA 15206

 

COST:   $80 - 4 CE/CME Credits (Includes Both Sessions)
        $40 - Without Credits (Includes Both Sessions)
 
PRESENTED BY: Howard K. Foster, M.D.
 
SUGGESTED READING:  Bandy X. Lee, M.D., M.Div. (Edited By) (2017).  The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump. New York:  St. Martin’s Press.
 
OTHER SUGGESTED READINGS:  Donald Trump, with Tony Schwartz. (1987). The Art of the Deal. New York:  Random House.

Green, Joshua (2017). Devil’s Bargain. New York:  Penguin Press.
 
Volken, Vamik (2004).  Blind Trust:  Large Groups and Their Leaders in Times of Crisis and Terror.  Charlottesville, Virginia:  Pitchstone Publishing.
 
LEARNING OBJECTIVES FOR SESSION ONE:
 1.    Participants will be able to explain the pros and cons of diagnosing a patient that a psychiatrist has not evaluated in person.
 2.    Participants will be able to formulate opinions about unconventional leaders' psychiatric and psychoanalytic issues such as:  self-esteem, bullying and regression.
 
LEARNING OBJECTIVES FOR SESSION TWO: 

 1.    Participants will be able to discuss and evaluate unconventional political leaders from a psychoanalytic perspective. 
 2.    Participants will be able to discuss and evaluate possible effects on the country as a whole when faced with unconventional political leaders.

ABOUT OUR PRESENTER:
Howard Foster is a faculty member and training and supervising analyst at the Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center (PPC). He trained at PPC during the 1980's and has been a Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine since 1988.  He is a past president of PPC.

 

Continuing Medical Education Statement: 

This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education through the joint providership of the American Psychoanalytic Association and Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center. The American Psychoanalytic Association is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians. The American Psychoanalytic Association designates this Live Activity for a maximum number of 4 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
IMPORTANT DISCLOSURE INFORMATION FOR ALL LEARNERS: 
None of the planners and presenters of this CME program have any relevant financial relationships to disclose.
APA-American Psychological Association Statement:
Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education programs for psychologists.  Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center maintains responsibility for the program and its content.  
This program is being offered for 4.0 continuing education credits.
Participants must pay tuition fee, sign in, attend the entire seminar, and complete an evaluation in order to receive a certificate of completion.  Participants not fulfilling these requirements will not receive a certificate. Partial credit is not available.

_______________________________________________________

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RELATIONAL FREEDOM AND THERAPEUTIC ACTION 

presented by Donnel B. Stern, Ph.D.

Friday, May 4, 2018  

                                                                                

 

SUGGESTED AUDIENCE:  PSYCHIATRISTS, PSYCHOLOGISTS, SOCIAL WORKERS, COUNSELORS AND OTHER MENTAL HEALTH PROFESSIONALS

 

7PM - 9PM

                                                Kenmawr Building Community Room  

401 Shady Ave. 

Pittsburgh, PA  15206

 

Cost:  $80 with CEs/CMEs
$40 General Admission without Credit

 

Relational freedom is Dr. Stern's own interpersonal and relational conception of the field in psychoanalysis and psychotherapy.  He considers the emergent qualities of the interpersonal field, which never include the patient or analyst alone, but always both participants.  Building on the foundation of unformulated experience, dissociation and enactment, Dr. Stern considers how the interpersonal field can both facilitate and inhibit experiencing.  Greater freedom in the interpersonal field makes the freedom to experience possible, and therefore underpins therapeutic action.  Changes in the kinds of relatedness that are facilitated and inhibited involve a mode of therapeutic action that is always co-present with the more traditional approaches emphasizing understanding and interpretation of transference-countertransference.   Case material will be presented to illustrate these ideas in practice.
 
About Dr. Stern:
 
Donnel B. Stern, Ph.D. is a psychoanalyst and psychotherapist in private practice in New York City.  He is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the William Alanson White Institute in New York and an Adjunct Clinical Professor and Consultant at the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis.  He is the author of Unformulated Experience: From Dissociation to Imagination in Psychoanalysis (1997), Partners in Thought: Working with Unformulated Experience, Dissociation and Enactment (2010), with I. Hirsch, Interpersonal Perspectives in Psychoanalysis, 1960s-1990s: Rethinking Transference and Countertransference (2017), with I. Hirsch, Further Developments in Contemporary Interpersonal Psychoanalysis, 1980s-2010s: Evolving Interest in the Analysts Subjectivity (2017) and The Infinity of the Unsaid: Unformulated experience, Language, and the Nonverbal (2018). The current presentation is drawn from his text Relational Freedom: Emergent Properties of the Interpersonal Field (2015).  He is also the founder and editor of Psychoanalysis in a New Key, a book series published by Routledge.
 
Learning Objectives:
At the conclusion of this presentation, participants will be able to:
1. Define and explain Dr. Sterns conceptions of the interpersonal field, emergent experience as unbidden, enactment as the interpersonalization of dissociation and the freeing of clinical relatedness as an ever-present mode of therapeutic action.
 
2. Analyze a clinical case example, explaining how relaxation of constrictions in the interpersonal field might be mutative and how this might be facilitated.

 

 

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Listening to the Unconscious: Derivative Communication and the Therapeutic Frame

John White, PhD, MA, LPC

Wednesday, April 18, 2018                                                                                                                      

 

7PM - 9PM                                                                                                                                                      Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center Library                                                                                                  401 Shady Ave.                                                                                                                                            Pittsburgh, PA  15206

 

This presentation focuses on part of an analytic case, where issues associated with the "therapeutic frame" seem to cause psychic disturbances in the patient and certainly cause puzzlement on the part of the therapist.  As the case progresses, the therapist begins listening more carefully to derivative communications in the patient's material in order to understand better the sources of his puzzlement, yet with only partial success.  At a point about halfway into treatment, the patient recalls some important childhood and adolescent experiences, which underline why these specific frame issues were so important and what the derivative communications were indicating.  The presentation draws a good deal from both Robert Langs and Carl Jung and attempts to show how reading derivative communications from each point of view can be seen as complementary to the other. 

 

Learning Objectives:

 

1. Participants will be able to demonstrate a basic, theoretical understanding of unconscious mental processes. 

2. Participants will be able to discuss the "frame" of psychotherapy and indications that the frame frequently motivates unconsious reactions. 

3. Participants will be able to provide one method for understanding unconscious processes clinically, namely, "derivative communication."

4. Participants will be able to demonstrate the use of derivative communication clinically by examining its use and value in a specific clinical case. 

 

COST:  $50 - 2 CEs/CMEs

             $25 -  General Admission Without Continuing Education Credit

             

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Jung, C.G. & Hull, R.F.C. (1975). Jung - Collected Works. Vol. 8. The structure and dynamics of the psyche. pp. 14-61.
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Continuing Medical Education Statement 

This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education through the joint providership of the American Psychoanalytic Association and Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center. The American Psychoanalytic Association is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians. The American Psychoanalytic Association designates this Live Activity for a maximum number of (2)  AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

IMPORTANT DISCLOSURE INFORMATION FOR ALL LEARNERS: 
None of the planners and presenters of this CME program have any relevant financial relationships to disclose.

APA-American Psychological Association Statement:
Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education programs for psychologists.  Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center maintains responsibility for the program and its content.  

This program is being offered for 2.0 continuing education credits.
Participants must pay tuition fee, sign in, attend the entire seminar, and complete an evaluation in order to receive a certificate of completion.  Participants not fulfilling these requirements will not receive a certificate. Partial credit is not available.

__________________________________________________________________________________

 

 

A SELF-PSYCHOLOGICAL APPROACH TO THE STUDY OF BIOGRAPHY: THE INTERPLAY OF NARRATIVES IN PSYCHOANALYSIS AND BIOGRAPHY

Presented By:  Sandra Hersherg, M.D.

SUGGESTED AUDIENCE:  PSYCHIATRISTS, PSYCHOLOGISTS, SOCIAL WORKERS, COUNSELORS AND OTHER MENTAL HEALTH PROFESSIONALS

Friday, March 9, 2018
7:00 - 9:00 P.M.

Chatham University
Mellon Board Room
Mellon Administration Building - Lower Level
Woodland Road
Pittsburgh, PA  15232
Parking Available on Campus


Cost:  $80  - 2 CEs/CMEs Awarded
$40 - General Admission (without credit)


About Dr. Hershberg:   

Dr. Sandra Hershberg is a psychoanalyst and adult and child psychiatrist.  She is the Director of Psychoanalytic Training, Founding Member and Training and Supervising Analyst at the Institute of Contemporary Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis in Washington, DC.  She is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Washington Baltimore Center for Psychoanalysis and a Geographical Supervising Analyst at the St Louis Institute of Psychoanalysis.   She is on the Executive Board and a Council Member of the International Association of Psychoanalytic Self Psychology.  Dr. Hershberg serves as an Associate Editor of the Psychoanalysis, Self and Context and is on the Editorial Board of Psychoanalytic Inquiry.   She is the Co-Editor and a contributor to the book Psychoanalytic Theory, Research, and Clinical Practice: Reading Joseph D. Lichtenberg published by Routledge in 2016.  Most recently, she has co-edited and contributed to the latest volume of Psychoanalysis, Self and Context (Vol 4, 2017) entitled, International Perspectives on Child and Adolescent Treatment: In Celebration of Anna Ornstein.

 


Dr. Hershberg has published and presented papers on a wide variety of subjects including biography and psychoanalysis, pregnancy and creativity, therapeutic action, and the mother/daughter relationship.  Currently she is working on two projects:  the  female gaze on the female body in art and psychoanalysis,  focusing on the work of German modernist painter Paula Modersohn-Becker, and second on the study of physical and psychological disability in a creative young woman.         

Dr. Hershberg's presentation explores the psychoanalytic aspects of biography and the biographical aspects of psychoanalysis. The narratives that emerge from biography and psychoanalytic treatment incorporate elements of empathy, ideology (theory), and transference/countertransference and are co-constructed within an intersubjective field involving the subjectivities of both participants, the biographer and her subject, and the analyst and her analysand. Dr. Hershberg will provide examples that demonstrate the way in which the analyst's biography and analysand's autobiography change in the course of the psychoanalytic treatment. Salient difference between biographical and psychoanalytic endeavors are also discussed.

 
Learning Objectives: 
At the conclusion of this presentation, the participant will be able to:
1. identify  ways in which the biographical and psychoanalytic enterprises are similar and gives examples.
2. describe ways in which the biographical and psychoanalytic endeavors are different and give examples.

CONTINUING MEDICAL EDUCATION STATEMENT:
This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education through the joint providership of the American Psychoanalytic Association and the Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center . The American Psychoanalytic Association is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians. The American Psychoanalytic Association designates this Live Activity for a maximum of [2] AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

IMPORTANT DISCLOSURE INFORMATION FOR ALL LEARNERS: 

None of the planners and presenters of this CME program have any relevant financial relationships to disclose.

APA --American Psychological Association Statement: 

Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center maintains responsibility for the program and its content.

Social Workers, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapists: 

The Pennsylvania Board of Social Work approves of credits issued by APA sponsors. Therefore the Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center is able to offer continuing education credits to social workers and counselors per Section 49.36(a) (6) ix)of the regulations at the time of offering. 

The accuracy and utility of the material presented has been reviewed by our Education Committee.  While the content of the workshop or course is intended for the further education of professionals in the field, it is by no means comprehensive training, and should not be considered such. Further reading, training and consultation may be required. No treatment should be undertaken outside the limitations of your skills and expertise.  Expressive forms of psychodynamic psychotherapy is contraindicated in the treatment of some mental illnesses and should not be used to treat all kinds of mental illness.

 
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Continuing Medical Education Statement: 

This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education through the joint providership of the American Psychoanalytic Association and the Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center. The American Psychoanalytic Association is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians. The American Psychoanalytic Association designates this Live Activity for a maximum of [40] AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate

with the extent of their participation in the activity.

 

IMPORTANT DISCLOSURE INFORMATION FOR ALL LEARNERS: 

None of the planners and presenters of this CME program have any relevant financial relationships to disclose.

 

APA --American Psychological Association Statement: 

Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center maintains responsibility for the program and its content. 

 

Social Workers, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapists: 

The Pennsylvania Board of Social Work approves of credits issued by APA sponsors. Therefore the Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center is able to offer continuing education credits to social workers and counselors per Section 49.36(a) (6) (ix) of the regulations at the time of offering. 

 

The accuracy and utility of the material presented has been reviewed by our Education Committee.  While the content of the workshop or course is intended for the further education of professionals in the field, it is by no means comprehensive training, and should not be considered such. Further reading, training and consultation may be required. No treatment should be undertaken outside the limitations of your skills and expertise.  Expressive forms of psychodynamic psychotherapy is contraindicated in the treatment of some mental illnesses and should not be used to treat all kinds of mental illness.

 

How Freud Can Help Us with our Techniques Today

October 25, November 8, November 15, December 6

                                   2017

                                   7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.

Location:  PPC Library
401 Shady Avenue, B101

Pittsburgh, PA 15206


Cost: $200 8 CE / CME credits; $100 without credits

Suggested Audience: Psychiatrists, Psychologists, Social Workers, Counselors, and other Mental Health Professionals.

Presenters:  Sessions 1 and 2: Howard Foster, M.D.; Sessions 3 and 4: Bruce Fink, Ph.D. and Howard Foster, M.D.

 

Required Reading: A Clinical Introduction to Freud: Techniques for Everyday Practice (2017). New York and London, Norton. Available on Amazon.

 

Suggested:  Operational Analysis of the Clinical Goals of Psychoanalytic Technique.  Levey, Mark.  JAPA.  Vol 60. pp.459-482.  (See below for PDF version.) 

 

The goals of the course are to learn about Freud’s crucial concepts and techniques related to exploring and affecting the unconscious, and then to see how these techniques are relevant to the treatment of patients today.  The format of the course assumes that the participants have read Dr. Fink’s book. In the first two sessions, there will be a review and discussion of  Freud’s concepts and techniques as described in A Clinical Introduction to Freud: Techniques for Everyday Practice.  In this book, Dr. Fink explores Freud’s theories in an engaging and useful way through seeing how Freud works with symptoms, dreams, and structure (Cases of the Rat Man and of Dora); Dr. Fink also describes contemporary problems that clinicians face today.  In the second two sessions, the questions that have been formulated in the first two sessions about Freud’s theories and techniques related to investigating the unconscious will be discussed with Dr. Fink, in order to understand these concepts and techniques more fully.  The ultimate goal of the course is to help clinicians have more “tools in their toolboxes” with which to impact their patients’ unconscious and be more effective in helping them change.  

 

Learning Objectives of Session One:

1. Participants will be able to explain how Freud developed his concepts and techniques by exploring his patient’s symptoms.

2. Participants will be able to discuss how to use Freudian approaches to understand dreams. The reaching of these objectives will be shown through the class discussion.

 

Learning Objectives of Session Two:

1.  Participants will be able to discuss how Freud learned and developed techniques to look at the unconscious, through seeing how Freud worked with the Rat Man and Dora, and to deal with patients’ symptoms.

2.  Participants will be able to use new techniques to stir the unconscious and see how contemporary issues can cause counter-transferences issues that interfere with investigating the unconscious.

 

Learning Objectives of Session Three:

I. Participants will be able to discuss how Freud made mistakes with his patients and learned from them, as they ask Dr. Fink about Freud’s strengths and weakness as a therapist.

2. Participants will be able to discuss how to work with patients’ dreams today.

 

Learning Objectives of Session Four:

1.  Participants will be able to discuss how Dr. Fink thinks about therapeutic action and how it changes the patient.

2.  Participants will be able to describe how Freud’s techniques of exploring the unconscious compare with other theoretical points of view (e.g., Lacanian, Relational, and Self-Psychology).  These above objectives will be demonstrated in the lively discussions during the classes. 

 

About Our Presenters:
Bruce Fink is a practicing Lacanian psychoanalyst and analytic supervisor. He trained as a psychoanalyst in France for seven years with and is now a member of the psychoanalytic institute Jacques Lacan created shortly before his death, the École de la Cause freudienne in Paris, and obtained his Ph.D. from the Department of Psychoanalysis at the University of Paris VIII (Saint-Denis). He served as Professor of Psychology from 1993 to 2013 at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and is currently an affiliated member of the Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center.

Dr. Fink is the author of six books on Lacan (which have been translated into many different languages, including Spanish, Portuguese, German, Polish, Croatian, Greek, Turkish, Japanese, Korean, and Chinese):
• The Lacanian Subject: Between Language and Jouissance (Princeton University Press, 1995)
• A Clinical Introduction to Lacanian Psychoanalysis: Theory and Technique (Harvard University Press, 1997)
• Lacan to the Letter: Reading Écrits Closely (University of Minnesota Press, 2004)
• Fundamentals of Psychoanalytic Technique: A Lacanian Approach for Practitioners (W.W. Norton and Co., 2007)
• Against Understanding: Commentary, Cases, and Critique in a Lacanian Key, 2 volumes (London: Routledge, 2013-2014)
 
Howard Foster is a training and supervising analyst at the Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center (PPC). He trained at the PPC during the 1980's and has been a Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine since 1988.  He is a past president of PPC. Currently, he is working on a book review of A Clinical Introduction to Freud: Techniques for Everyday Practice.

 

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Continuing Medical Education Statement 
This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education through the joint providership of the American Psychoanalytic Association and Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center. The American Psychoanalytic Association is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians. The American Psychoanalytic Association designates this Live Activity for a maximum number of (3)  AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

IMPORTANT DISCLOSURE INFORMATION FOR ALL LEARNERS: 
None of the planners and presenters of this CME program have any relevant financial relationships to disclose.

APA-American Psychological Association Statement:
Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education programs for psychologists.  Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center maintains responsibility for the program and its content.  

This program is being offered for 8.0 continuing education credits.
Participants must pay tuition fee, sign in, attend the entire seminar, and complete an evaluation in order to receive a certificate of completion.  Participants not fulfilling these requirements will not receive a certificate. Partial credit is not available.

 

 

 

 

 

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WHAT YOU MISSED IN 2016-2017:

 

Between Counterphobia and Cowardice: Some Reflections

on the Nature of Courage

 

Presented by: Salman Akhtar, M.D.

 

Friday, March 10, 2017
7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m
.

Bigelow Conference Center
4338 Bigelow Boulevard

Pittsburgh, PA 15213


Cost: $80 2  CE / CME credits; $40 without credits

Suggested Audience: Psychiatrists, Psychologists, Social Workers, Counselors, and other Mental Health Professionals.

Salman Akhtar, M.D. is Professor of Psychiatry at Jefferson Medical College and a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia.  He has served on the editorial boards of all the three major psychoanalytic journals, namely, the International Journal of Psychoanalysis, the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, and the Psychoanalytic Quarterly.  Dr. Akhtar has delivered many prestigious addresses and lectures including, most recently, the Inaugural Address at the first IPA-Asia Congress in Beijing, China (2010). Dr. Akhtar is the recipient of the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association's  Best Paper of the Year Award (1995), the Margaret Mahler Literature Prize (1996), the American Society of Psychoanalytic Physicians' Sigmund Freud Award (2000), the American College of Psychoanalysts' Laughlin Award (2003), the American Psychoanalytic Association's Edith Sabshin Award (2000), Columbia University's Robert Liebert Award for Distinguished Contributions to Applied Psychoanalysis (2004), the American Psychiatric Association's Kun Po Soo Award (2004), the Irma Bland Award for being the Outstanding Teacher of Psychiatric Residents in the country (2005), and the Nancy Roeske Award (2012). Most recently, he received the Sigourney Award (2013), which is the most prestigious honor in the field of psychoanalysis.  Dr. Akhtar is an internationally-sought speaker and teacher, and his books have been translated in many languages, including German, Turkish, and Romanian.  His interests are wide and he has served as the Film Review Editor for the International Journal of Psychoanalysis, and is currently serving as the Book Review Editor for the International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies.  He has published 8 collections of poetry and serves as a Scholar-in residence at the Inter-Act Theatre Company in Philadelphia. His more than 300 publications include 85 books. 

          
This presentation will focus on the nature and developmental origins of courage.  Various forms of courage including physical, intellectual and moral courage will be highlighted.  Distinction will be made between primary fearlessness ('un-fear'), secondary fearlessness, and counterphobia on one hand, and courage on the other.  The implications of these ideas to the conduct of psychotherapy and psychoanalysis will be elucidated, especially as these pertain to the patient's courage and to the analyst's courage.  Illustrative vignettes from daily life and culture-at-large will be presented. 

 

Learning Objectives for Continuing Education:

  1. Enumerate various types of courage. .
  2. Distinguish between courage, fearlessness, and counterphobia.
  3. Identify two specific ways in which the concepts of courage, fearlessness and counterphobia apply in clinical work.

Continuing Medical Education Statement 
This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education through the joint providership of the American Psychoanalytic Association and Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center. The American Psychoanalytic Association is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians. The American Psychoanalytic Association designates this Live Activity for a maximum number of (3)  AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

IMPORTANT DISCLOSURE INFORMATION FOR ALL LEARNERS: 
None of the planners and presenters of this CME program have any relevant financial relationships to disclose.

APA-American Psychological Association Statement:
Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education programs for psychologists.  Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center maintains responsibility for the program and its content.  

This program is being offered for 2.0 continuing education credits.
Participants must pay tuition fee, sign in, attend the entire seminar, and complete an evaluation in order to receive a certificate of completion.  Participants not fulfilling these requirements will not receive a certificate. Partial credit is not available.

 

Purchase Tickets via Brown Paper Tickets: 

 

http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/2873302

 

 

Boundaries and Boundary
Violations in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis:
A Special Ethics Session for Mental Health Professionals


Thursday, January 26, 2017
6:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m
.

Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center
401 Shady Avenue, Suite B101


Cost: $120 
3  CE / CME credits will be offered.  Fulfill your continuing education requirements in Ethics Training before the February 28 deadline!

Paula Moreci, M.S.W. is a licensed clinical social worker and psychoanalyst in private practice.  She has been a member of the Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center faculty since 2013 and is President-Elect of the Center's Board of Directors.     

Learning Objectives for Continuing Education:
  1. Explain the difference between boundary crossings and boundary violations.
  2. Explain what puts clinicians at risk for boundary crossings and violations.
  3. Explain how boundaries in "cyberspace" present different challenges to clinicians.

Continuing Medical Education Statement 
This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education through the joint providership of the American Psychoanalytic Association and Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center. The American Psychoanalytic Association is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians. The American Psychoanalytic Association designates this Live Activity for a maximum number of (3)  AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

IMPORTANT DISCLOSURE INFORMATION FOR ALL LEARNERS: 
None of the planners and presenters of this CME program have any relevant financial relationships to disclose.

APA-American Psychological Association Statement:
Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education programs for psychologists.  Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center maintains responsibility for the program and its content.  

Social Workers, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapists:
The Pennsylvania Board of Social Work approves of credits issued by APA sponsors. Therefore, Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center is able to offer continuing education credits to social workers and counselors per Section 49.36(a)(6)(ix) of the regulations at the time of offering.

This program is being offered for 3.0 continuing education credits.
Participants must pay tuition fee, sign in, attend the entire seminar, and complete an evaluation in order to receive a certificate of completion.  Participants not fulfilling these requirements will not receive a certificate. Partial credit is not available.

 

Purchase Tickets via Brown Paper Tickets: 

 

http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/2728050

 

 

Self Psychology with Richard Geist, Ed.D. (Live Video Presentation in PPC Library) 

 

Dates: September 21 and October 5, 2016

Location: PPC Library via Live Video Presentation

401 Shady Ave, Suite B101

Pittsburgh, PA 15206

Time: 7:00-9:00 p.m.

Cost: $40 per session including 2 CE/CME credits per session

$20 for general admission with no CE/CME credits

 

About the Event:

This session will focus on major clinical concepts from contemporary Self Psychology and, through the use of verbatim clinical dialogue, study their implications for conducting dynamic psychotherapy. Emphasizing patient centered rather than theory centered treatment, we will focus on implementing an empathic listening stance and understanding the basic theoretical concepts underlying self psychological treatment. 

 

About the Instructor:

Richard A. Geist, Ed.D. received his undergraduate degree and his doctorate in Psychology from Harvard University, and for 35 years was on the faculty of Harvard Medical School.  He is a Founding Member of both MAPP and MIP, faculty, supervising analyst, and former member of the Board of Directors of MIP. In addition, Dr. Geist is on the Executive Board of the International Association of Psychoanalytic Self Psychology.  He has written numerous papers on clinical self psychology, many of which have emphasized the theme of connectedness in clinical practice.  He is currently working on a book entitled Connectedness: the clinical application of contemporary self psychological theory.  He maintains a private practice in psychoanalysis and psychotherapy in Newton, MA where he sees children, adolescents, adults, and couples, in addition to doing private supervision.

 

Learning Objectives:

After the program the participants will be able to:

1.  Discuss the theoretical underpinnings of self psychology

2.  Discuss the use of defense analysis in analytic work

3.  Discuss how the theory alters our clinical perspective high level self disorders

 

TO REGISTER CLICK THE BUTTON BELOW

http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/2595103

 

 

 Required Readings for September 21:

 

Do Words Still Matter.doc
Microsoft Word document [86.0 KB]
Terman oedipus complex.docx
Microsoft Word document [140.6 KB]

 

Required Readings for October 5:

Two analyses of Mr. Z..docx
Microsoft Word document [183.1 KB]
Bacal Optimal Responsiveness.pdf
Adobe Acrobat document [187.2 KB]

 

Continuing Medical Education Statement: 

This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education through the joint providership of the American Psychoanalytic Association and the Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center . The American Psychoanalytic Association is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians. The American Psychoanalytic Association designates this Live Activity for a maximum of [2] AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate

with the extent of their participation in the activity.

 

IMPORTANT DISCLOSURE INFORMATION FOR ALL LEARNERS: 

None of the planners and presenters of this CME program have any relevant financial relationships to disclose.

 

APA --American Psychological Association Statement: 

Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center maintains responsibility for the program and its content.

 

Social Workers, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapists: 

The Pennsylvania Board of Social Work approves of credits issued by APA sponsors. Therefore the Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center is able to offer continuing education credits to social workers and counselors per Section 49.36(a) (6) ix)of the regulations at the time of offering. 

 

The accuracy and utility of the material presented has been reviewed by our Education Committee.  While the content of the workshop or course is intended for the further education of professionals in the field, it is by no means comprehensive training, and should not be considered such. Further reading, training and consultation may be required. No treatment should be undertaken outside the limitations of your skills and expertise.  Expressive forms of psychodynamic psychotherapy is contraindicated in the treatment of some mental illnesses and should not be used to treat all kinds of mental illness.

New Sessions with renowned Lacanian Scholar Bruce Fink, Ph.D. - Lacan on Love

UPDATED Dates: December 7 and December 14, 2016

Location: PPC Library 

401 Shady Ave, Suite B101

Pittsburgh, PA 15206

Time: 7:00-9:00 p.m.

Cost: $100 for both sessions including 2 CE/CME credits per session

Earlybird discount $80.00 if registered by November 15. This event is open to the public and mental health professionals.

 
About the Sessions:
 
Required Reading:  Plato's Symposium
available at: Amazon ($6.99)
Optional Reading: Lacan's Seminar VIII: Transference
available at: Amazon ($25.00 and up)
 
 

Course objectives on December 7:

By the end of the session participants will be able to: 

1) Discuss the major thrust of Lacan's thesis that "love is giving what you don't have"

2) Discuss Lacan's interpretation of certain parts of Plato's "Symposium"

3) Discuss the many facets of what we mean by the word "love"

 

Course Objectives on December 14:

By the end of the session participants will be able to:

1) Discuss why love involves loving the partner's "warts" (or flaws or defects)

2) Distinguish between love, desire, and jouissance

3) Analyze why Freud says it is impossible to "love thy neighbor"

 

About Our Presenter:
Bruce Fink is a practicing Lacanian psychoanalyst and analytic supervisor. He trained as a psychoanalyst in France for seven years with and is now a member of the psychoanalytic institute Jacques Lacan created shortly before his death, the École de la Cause freudienne in Paris, and obtained his Ph.D. from the Department of Psychoanalysis at the University of Paris VIII (Saint-Denis). He served as Professor of Psychology from 1993 to 2013 at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and is currently an affiliated member of the Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center.

Dr. Fink is the author of six books on Lacan (which have been translated into many different languages, including Spanish, Portuguese, German, Polish, Croatian, Greek, Turkish, Japanese, Korean, and Chinese):
• The Lacanian Subject: Between Language and Jouissance (Princeton University Press, 1995)
• A Clinical Introduction to Lacanian Psychoanalysis: Theory and Technique (Harvard University Press, 1997)
• Lacan to the Letter: Reading Écrits Closely (University of Minnesota Press, 2004)
• Fundamentals of Psychoanalytic Technique: A Lacanian Approach for Practitioners (W.W. Norton and Co., 2007)
• Against Understanding: Commentary, Cases, and Critique in a Lacanian Key, 2 volumes (London: Routledge, 2013-2014)

He has translated several of Lacan’s works, including:
• Écrits: The First Complete Edition in English (New York: Norton, 2006), for which he received a nonfiction translation prize from the French-American Foundation and the Florence Gould Foundation
• The Seminar, Book XX (1972-1973): Encore, On Feminine Sexuality: The Limits of Love and Knowledge (New York: Norton, 1998)
• On the Names-of-the-Father (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2013)
• The Triumph of Religion (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2013)

 

For interviews with Bruce Fink regarding this work follow these links:

 
and 
 
 
From Lacan, in a lecture he gave at Johns Hopkins in 1966:


When I began to teach something about Psychoanalysis I lost some of my audience, because I had perceived long before then the simple fact that if you open a book of Freud, and particularly those books which are properly about the unconscious, you can be absolutely sure — it is not a probability but a certitude — to fall on a page where it is not only a question of words — naturally in a book there are always words many printed words — but words which are the object through which one seeks for a way to handle the unconscious. Not even the meaning of the words, but words in their flesh, in their material aspect (fromLacan.com

 

RESERVE SPACE BY CLICKING ON THE TICKET ICON BELOW - please register for only one session, price includes both!

 

Continuing Medical Education Statement: 

This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements

and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education

through joint providership of the American Psychoanalytic Association and the Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center . The American Psychoanalytic Association is accredited

by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

The American Psychoanalytic Association designates this Live Activity for a

maximum of [2] AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should

claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the

activity.

 

IMPORTANT DISCLOSURE INFORMATION FOR ALL LEARNERS: None of the

planners and presenters of this CME program have any relevant financial

relationships to disclose.

 

The accuracy and utility of the material presented has been reviewed by our Education Committee.  While the content of the workshop or course is intended for the further education of professionals in the field, it is by no means comprehensive training, and should not be considered such. Further reading, training and consultation may be required. No treatment should be undertaken outside the limitations of your skills and expertise.  Expressive forms of psychodynamic psychotherapy is contraindicated in the treatment of some mental illnesses and should not be used to treat all kinds of mental illness.

 

APA --American Psychological Association Statement: 

Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center maintains responsibility for the program and its content. 

 

Social Workers, Licenced Marriage and Family Therapists: 

Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center maintains responsibility for the program and its content.

 

The Pennsylvania Board of Social Work approves of credits issued by APA sponsors. Therefore the Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center is able to offer continuing education credits to social workers and counselors per Section 49.36(a) (6) ix)of the regulations at the time of offering. 

What you missed in 2015-2016:

The Work of Michael Eigen: Into the Heart of Psychoanalysis. Please join us for this presentation by Marlene Goldsmith, Ph.D.

Date: Friday, February 26, 2016                        

Time: 6:30 p.m. Reception /7-9 p.m. Presentation                           

Cost: $35                                              

Location: 401 Shady Ave., Community Room downstairs                                 Continuing Education Credits/CME: 2               

The Work of Michael Eigen, Into The Heart Of Psychoanalysis    

Presenter: Marlene Goldsmith, Ph.D.

Dr. Goldsmith will be presentating her chapter from the recently published book, Living Moments, On the Work of Michael Eigen. Eigen, an internationally renowned psychoanalyst, recently received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis (November 2015). The chapter concerns four central dimensions of his work: the boundless unknown, feeling, faith, and emotional transformation. Through an exploration of these dimensions, it will be shown how Eigen endows psychoanalysis with a heart both in its core subject matter (the heart of the matter) and in the passion, lifeblood, and humanity enlivening that subject matter (a heart of flesh). He develops this heart through a poetic style of writing, a unitary and dynamic, rather than atomistic, understanding of phenomena, and a paradoxical, multi-dimensional approach to phenomena.   Through endowing psychoanalysis with heart, Eigen transfigures how psyche itself is understood.

 

Learning Objectives

At the end of the session participants will: 

1. Understand in detail four central dimensions of Eigen’s work: the    

boundless unknown, feeling, faith, and emotional transformation.

2. Understand the term heart and how it applies to Eigen’s work.

3. Recognize the modes through which Eigen develops the heart in psychoanalysis. 

4. Recognize how Eigen re-envisions the psychoanalytic 

 concept of psyche.

 

About Our Presenter 

Marlene Goldsmith, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist in private practice in 

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, as well as an award-winning poet whose work has 

appeared both in the U.S.A. and abroad.  She is a published writer, researcher, and lecturer in the area of women and creativity. Her writings and presentations have focused on such artists as Frida Kahlo, Georgia O’Keefe, and Martha Graham. Her most recent publication is on the work of the internationally renowned psychoanalyst, Michael Eigen, and is included in the book, Living Moments, On the Work of Michael Eigen, edited by Stephen Bloch and Loray Daws.

Love, Hate and the Maternal Body          a presentation by Visiting Scholar           Jennifer Stuart Ph.D. 

Thank you to all who attended this wonderful evening!

 

This paper takes its inspiration from an unlikely source: Maleficent, a 2014 live-action version of Disney’s iconic, animated Sleeping Beauty (1959). As in the earlier film,Maleficent curses the infant Aurora to a spindle prick and deathlike sleep on her 16th birthday; and to avert this fate three good fairies spirit the princess away, to be raised in safety in the woods.  But in the 2014 film, the good fairies are a bumbling lot; they cannot even manage to feed the infant in their charge.  In an interesting turn on the problem of maternal ambivalence, Maleficent -- always hovering nearby -- finds that she cannot help but fall in love with the baby she has set out to hate.  It is her unseen hand that feeds the infant Aurora, her vigilance that protects the growing child.  Read from the perspective of recent work on the psychology of girls and women (B. Almond; R. Balsam; N. Kulish and D. Holtzman), the film illustrates the developmental importance of loving ties between mother and daughter that are strong enough -- and elastic enough -- to withstand their inevitable, mutual hatred.

 

About Our Presenter:

Dr. Jennifer Stuart is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Institute for Psychoanalytic Education (affiliated with NYU-Langone) Medical Center.  She currently serves as President of the Board of the Sigmund Freud Archives, and on the editorial boards of The Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, The Psychoanalytic Quarterly, Psychoanalytic Psychology, and 

Psychoanalytic Inquiry. 

 

Dr. Stuart has published on paid work and creativity, in relation to motherhood and in context of a decision not to have children; how Freud’s relationship with his mother may have influenced his analysis of “Little Hans”; clinical phenomena surrounding the therapist’s pregnancy in a psychoanalytic treatment; and what happens when an adult psychoanalytic patient brings an infant (actual, not imagined) into the consulting room.  

 

Dr. Stuart has been named the American Psychoanalytic Association’s (APsaA’s) Helen Meyers Traveling Psychoanalytic Scholar for 2015-16.  In 2006, she won the Karl Menninger Memorial Award for a paper presented at APsaA’s National Meeting.

 

Learning Objectives
After attending this session, participants should be able to:

  • Recognize the ordinary interplay of love and hate between mother and daughter, over the lifespan of each.
  • Identify expressions of conflict and compromise that are unique to mothers and daughters, and that implicate their shared bodily experience.
  • Detect unconscious motivations specific to female bodily experience, which may be obscured by automatic reference to the male body.  

 

General Audience $15

Colaborative Perspectives Series       (Final session will be on Mar. 3, 2016)

 
                       

Collaborative 
Perspectives 
Series


Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center will be offering a four-session collaborative series that will include Freudian, Jungian, Gestalt and Transactional Analysis perspectives presented by experienced clinicians who have specialized knowledge in that approach. Four sessions are offered for mental health professionals and academics in the mental health field. Each session will present fundamentals of theory and practice with professionals esteemed in the field.

 

PRICING (INCLUDES FOUR 2-HOUR SESSIONS):

FOR CREDIT

Includes 8 hours of Continuing Eduction credit for mental health professionals. (See details below). To qualify for Early Bird pricemust register by November 1, 2015.
$80 EARLY BIRD | $160


GENERAL ADMISSION
For mental health professionals who are not seeking continuing education credits.

$60

6:30 Reception

7-9 pm Presentation 

401 Shady Suite B101

Space limited must register to attend 

Gestalt 

NOV 19
With Tom Petrone, Ph.D.

Tom Petrone, Ph.D., Executive Director of the Gestalt Institute of Pittsburgh will offer the first session. Tom is the founder of the Gestalt Institute, a Pennsylvania Licensed Psychologist, and is the President and Clinical Director of the Psychological and Counseling Center, Inc. where he has provided psychotherapy, consultation and training for the past 30 years. 

Learning Objectives

At the end of the session participants will be able to:  

  • Summarize the core concepts of Gestalt theory  
  • Apply fundamental aspects of Gestalt theory to diagnosis and treatment planning with mental health clients  
  • Practice Gestalt intervention techniques and analyze their efficacy in applying them to specific clinical settings and populations
 

Freudian Psychoanalysis 

DEC 03
With Thomas Janoski, Ph.D.

President of Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center, Tom has been a faculty member for Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center for nearly a decade and is regularly a presenter on psychoanalytic topics in the Pittsburgh community.

Learning Objectives

At the end of the session participants will be able to:  

  • Participants will explain (a) the role of sexual desire and its aggression in psychological difficulties and (b) how desire is revealed, appreciated and owned through dreams and transference.  
  • Participants will name and describe the various curative factors operative in contemporary psychoanalytic psychotherapy.
 

Jung: Analysis in a Fenceless Field

 JAN 07
With Ronald G. Jalbert, Ph.D.

Ronald Jalbert, Ph.D., Jungian Analyst and a faculty member at Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center. Ronald has presented numerous programs in the Pittsburgh community on Jungian analytic topics. Ronald brings a depth of knowledge and experience to his presentation. He has presented in several venues through out the United States as well as in Canada, France and Switzerland. His most recent publication was a review of La revue de la psychanalyse jungian, in the Journal of Analytical Psychology. 

Learning Objectives

At the end of the session participants will be able to:  

  • Participants will compare and contrast at least two elements of Jung’s and Freud’s approaches to dream analysis.  
  • Participants will explain two contributions that Jungian thought can make to the discussion of the nature of the analytic process.  
 

NOTE: DATE FOR SESSION ON TRANSACTIONAL ANALYSIS HAS CHANGED TO MARCH 3.  

 

Transactional Analysis 

MAR 03
With William Cornell, MA

William Cornell, MA, author of Explorations in Transactional Analysis: The Meech Lake Papers. Bill has presented workshops internationally on the topic. He is the founder of the KOWA group, and has offered Pittsburgh the opportunity to hear from contemporary voices in the field of psychoanalysis and artists in a Unique blend of programming that is intended to bring new vision to the work.

Learning Objectives

At the end of the session, participants will be able to :

  •  Describe the basic theoretical differences between transactional analysis and psychoanalysis
  • Classify levels of psychological and psychopathological organization and relate to treatment choices

 

TO REGISTER CLICK ON THE TICKET BELOW 

 

Reading for Transactional Analysis

Transactional Analysis in Contemporary Psychotherapy, Chapter 4
Transactional Analysis in Contemporary P[...]
Adobe Acrobat document [9.2 MB]

Continuing Medical Education Statement: 

This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements

and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education

through joint providership of the American Psychoanalytic Association and the Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center . The American Psychoanalytic Association is accredited

by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

The American Psychoanalytic Association designates this Live Activity for a

maximum of [2] AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should

claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the

activity.

 

IMPORTANT DISCLOSURE INFORMATION FOR ALL LEARNERS: None of the

planners and presenters of this CME program have any relevant financial

relationships to disclose.

 

The accuracy and utility of the material presented has been reviewed by our Education Committee.  While the content of the workshop or course is intended for the further education of professionals in the field, it is by no means comprehensive training, and should not be considered such. Further reading, training and consultation may be required. No treatment should be undertaken outside the limitations of your skills and expertise.  Expressive forms of psychodynamic psychotherapy is contraindicated in the treatment of some mental illnesses and should not be used to treat all kinds of mental illness.

 

APA --American Psychological Association Statement: 

Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center maintains responsibility for the program and its content. 

 

Social Workers, Licenced Marriage and Family Therapists: 

Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center maintains responsibility for the program and its content.

 

The Pennsylvania Board of Social Work approves of credits issued by APA sponsors. Therefore the Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center is able to offer continuing education credits to social workers and counselors per Section 49.36(a) (6) ix)of the regulations at the time of offering. 

Investigating Murder:  A Detective Walks Through a Case and Two Psychiatrists Analyze the Whys

Date:  Friday, June 26th

Time:  6:30pm Reception, 7:00-9:00pm Discussion

Location:  Pittsburgh Athletic Association Library

                 4215 Fifth Avenue

                 Pittsburgh, PA 15213

Price:  $25 General Public, $15 Students

 

 

About the Program:

Ron Freeman, Dr. Robert Wettstein, and Dr. Howard Foster will participate in a discussion on police work, psychology, and murder.

 

Ron Freeman worked 38 years with the Pittsburgh Police, 19 years as a Homicide Detective, and 14 years as Commander of Homicide.  He will discuss the investigation of Dr. Jeffery Farkas' death and include examples of police use of psychology.

Robert Wettstein, M.D. is a Clinical Professor of psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh and adult and forensic psychiatrist in private practice.  He has written and contributed to many articles, book chapters, and editorial pieces on psychiatry, criminology, and a variety of other topics. 

Howard Foster, M.D., psychoanalyst and psychiatrist in private practice, spent time in the early '80s as a Psychiatric Consultant at Western Pennsylvania Correctional Institute and Allegheny County Behavior Clinic.  He also served as Director of the Mental Health and Forensic Psychiatry Unit at Allegheny County Jail, where he set up a mental health program.

 

Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center invited the public to enjoy a film viewed through the psychoanalytic lens. Discussion followed the film provided by Howard Foster, MD. Dr. Foster focused on how the director and screenwriter portrayed such themes as:  courage, patriotism and terrorism. There was focus on whether a psychoanalytic perspective helped in the understanding of the movie and issues such as courage, patriotism and terrorism. 

 

 


 

Thank you for attending Visiting Analyst Mark Levey, MD  "Interpretation: Why & When"

 About Our Visiting Analyst:             

Mark Levey, MD is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Rush Medical College and a Training and Supervising Analyst.  He also serves as Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry in the  Abraham Lincoln School of Medicine, at University of Illinois. He has been the distinguished recipient of numerous awards including:  Edwin Eissler Prize, Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis, the James Saft Award, and two time recipient of BestTeacher award from the Michael Reese Department of Psychiatry, 1986 & 1992

 
Some of his publications include: 

2012   An Operational Analysis of the Clinical Goals of Psychoanalytic Technique. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 60:3
 
2006   Questioning Authority: Essays In Psychoanalysis, 1970-1996. By Stanley A. Leavy. Victoria, British Columbia Trafford Publishing. 2005. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 54:1426-1431.
           
2002   Working Through. in The Freud Encyclopedia: Theory, Therapy, and Culture. ed. Erwin Rutledge Press, New York & London.       
 
2000   Psychological Aspects of Chronic Tonic and Clonic Stuttering: Suggested Therapeutic Approaches. American        Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 70:4 pp 465-473
 
1999   A Clinical Model for Selecting Psychotherapy or Pharmacotherapy. in Psychiatry in the New Millennium. ed. Weissman, Sabshin, & Eist. American Psychiatric Press,       Washington, D.C.     
 
 

What You Missed In 2013-2014

Thank you to all who attended

Friday, November 7th & Sunday, November 9th, 2014 

PPC, in partnership with Chatham University, Filmmakers, and Keeping Our Work Alive (KOWA), is offering a weekend filled with powerful film and intriguing discussion.

 

 

 

Friday, November 7th

Women, Psychoanalysis, and Film

Daughter Rite & Newer Works by Michelle Citron


Time: 6:30pm - 9:30 pm --Reception and Refreshments at 6pm--

Location: Sanger Hall (enter through Coolidge Hall) Chatham University

 

 

PPC and The Film & Digital Technology program at Chatham University are offering a night filled with captivating film and discussion with celebrated Filmmaker, Michelle Citron, Ph.D., Psychoanalyst Christine Fischetti, Ph.D., and Author and Professor of Film Studies Jane Feuer, Ph.D. looking at gender, identity, and the mother/daughter dyad.

 

Michelle Citron, Ph.D.film, video and multimedia artist, scholar and author will discuss her film, Daughter Rite, and it's many connections with feminism and psychoanalysis.  The film is compelling in it's portrayal of the lasting effects of mother-daughter relationships.  During the program, Michelle Citron, Ph.D. will present her expert viewpoints, while showing clips from Daughter Rite to illustrate these points further.  

This discussion will be followed by a response from Christine Fischetti, Ph.D., psychologist and psychoanalyst in private practice in Pittsburgh.  She has longstanding interests in both women's issues and film and is delighted to find the intersection of both in the night's discussion.

"Film represents my personal and psychoanalytic First Amendment:  complete freedom to speak and play about matters normally protected in our analytic cloisters.  Character, history, conflict are openly explored on the screen and bring a lively dialogue to analytic work."

 

Jane Feuer, Ph.D. will also be discussing her insights into the films presented.  Jane is an author and professor of Film Studies at the University of Pittsburgh in the English and Communications departments.  She is a film and television studies scholar and one of the founders of Console-ing Passions, a biennial conference in feminism, television, video, and new media.  She is the author of The Hollywood Musical, Seeing Through the Eighties, and MTM: Quality Television.  She was a Fulbright Distinguished Professor at the University of Tubingen, Germany for the 2009-2010 academic year.

 

Review Summary of Daughter Rite
"Michelle Citron's breakthrough film is a classic feminist study of the nuclear family and its effect on women -- particularly the mother/daughter relationship and relationships between sisters. The film combines home-movie footage and fictional cinéma vérité scenes with a voice-over narration that adds psychological depth and political weight. Provocative but ultimately ambiguous, the film was hailed as a major accomplishment upon its release, and it has become a mainstay of women's studies and cinema studies curricula." ~ Sarah Welsh, Rovi, The New York Times

 

 

Sunday, November 9th

Incendies : A Turbulent Return to Beginnings in the Transgenerational Transmission of Destructive Aggression

 

Incendies is a horror movie, a love story and a mystery, each thread of which is so expertly interwoven into the larger narrative that it is impossible to separate any one strand from the other." - The Washington Post 

 

Location: Melwood Screening Room Part of the Three Rivers Film Festival Schedule 
477 Melwood Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Time: 1:00 pm- 4:00 pm 

The program includes a showing of the film, followed by discussion with Michelle Citron, Ph.D., film, video and multimedia artist, scholar and author and a discussion by Maurice Apprey, Ph.D., DM, FIPA,  Professor of Psychiatry and Dean of African American Affairs at the University of Virginia, Training and Supervising Psychoanalyst, Contemporary Freudian Society and the International Psychoanalytic Association.
Michelle Citron, Ph.D. will offer her viewpoint as an accomplished and acclaimed filmmaker. Her discussion will focus on themes such as repetition, bodies, space versus time, images and metaphors, and circularity.  She will specifically focus on the way the aesthetics of the film fully reinforce the theme. 
Maurice Apprey, Ph.D. 
will offer his expertise from a psychoanalytic angle. He will present points from his paper, "A Pluperfect Errand: A Turbulent Return To Beginnings in the Transgenerational Transmission of Destructive Aggression."  He considers the way the characters feel obligated to carry out an "errand," the urgency they feel, and the way in which action moves from mandate to voluntary.
 

 

Fiction with Freud

June 7th: The Dinner by Herman Koch  

Thanks to all who participated in this lively discussion!

An internationally bestselling phenomenon: the darkly suspenseful, highly controversial tale of two families struggling to make the hardest decision of their lives—all over the course of one meal. It's a summer's evening in Amsterdam, and two couples meet at a fashionable restaurant for dinner. Between mouthfuls of food and over the scrapings of cutlery, the conversation remains a gentle hum of polite discourse. But behind the empty words, terrible things need to be said, and with every forced smile and every new course, the knives are being sharpened. Each couple has a fifteen-year-old son. The two boys are united by their accountability for a single horrific act; an act that has triggered a police investigation and shattered the comfortable, insulated worlds of their families. As the dinner reaches its culinary climax, the conversation finally touches on their children. As civility and friendship disintegrate, each couple show just how far they are prepared to go to protect those they love. Skewering everything from parenting values to pretentious menus to political convictions, this novel reveals the dark side of genteel society and asks what each of us would do in the face of unimaginable tragedy.

The PPC teamed with the Main Carnegie Library in Oakland for the third year in a row, to provide a chance to really analyze fiction. PPC faculty member, Mario Fischetti, Ph.D., psychoanalyst and psychologist in private practice, provided insight and analysis of popular fiction works in an informal discussion held at the Main Carnegie Library in Oakland. Join us next year for a whole new series!

 

Date: Saturday, April 26, 2014

Program: A Dialogue Between Motivational Interviewing and Psychodynamic Psychotherapy About Substance Use and Interfaces with Other Approaches

with Antoine Douaihy, M.D. and Mario Fischetti, Ph.D.

With Presentations by David Atkinson, M.D. and Laura LaPlante, M.D.

Time: 9:00am-3:00pm

 

About the program:

Antoine Douaihy, M.D. is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and Medical Director of Addiction Medicine Services at Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic.  He is a member of the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers (MINT) and he has extensive experience in clinical, research and training applications of motivational interviewing.

Mario Fischetti, Ph.D. is a psychoanalyst in private practice and a member of the Faculty of the Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center, for over 12 years.  He has specialized in helping individuals with substance use through the practice of long-term psychodynamic psychotherapy, and is currently working on a book on the phenomenon of cigarette smoking.

 

Psychoanalytic Perspectives of Attachment & Reflective Parenting

Thank you for attending, we hope to have you join us again!

 

Date: Sunday, April 6th

Program: Psychoanalytic Perspectives of Attachment & Reflective Parenting

Time: 1:00PM - 3:00PM

Audience: Open to the Public/Mental Health and Family/Child/Early Education Professionals encouraged

Location: East Liberty Presbyterian Church in the Social Hall 

Entrance at: 116 S. Highland 

Program Content:

Overview of Attachment Theory and Examples of How Each Pattern of Attachment Might Appear To An Observer

Discussion of the Impact of Attachment on Brain/Mind Development and Future Function

Presentation of Information on The Concept of Reflective Parenting As An Extension of Psychoanalytic Theory and as a Technique to Facilitate Optimal Child and Parent/Caregiver Interaction

 

The program will be provided by Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center Faculty Members

Eleanor Irwin, Ph.D., Chair of the Child Analysis Committee of Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center
Miriam Winikoff, M.Ed. Psychoanalyst and Psychologist in Private Practice
Janet Mooney, L.C.S.W. Psychoanalyst and Psychotherapist in Private Practice

 

 

 

Analytic Flicks: Intouchables

Thank you to all who attended this wonderful night!

 

About the Film:

Based on a true story, Intouchables explores the unlikely friendship between a quadriplegic millionaire (Francois Cluzet) and his ex-con artist caretaker (Omar Sy). This inspiring comedy shows that although the two seem to have nothing in common, trust and human possibility can go a long way. 

 

About our presenter:

Howard K. Foster, M.D. is the President of the Psychoanalytic Center, and a psychoanalyst and psychiatrist in private practice. 

 

 

Thank you to those who attended the kick off a new series of events called Quantum on the Couch, the result of a collaboration with Quantum Theatre! It was a sold out crowd at Quantum Theatre's Parlour Song on Friday, November 15th.  The event included a discussion after the performance that looked at the psychology of the play by Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center's faculty member and psychoanalyst David Orbison, Ph.D., who was joined by Quantum Artist Director Karla Boos. If you're curious about the play, see below. 

 

 

Edgy, funny, and occasionally sinister, Parlour Song explores the mysteries beneath the manicured surface of a suburban housing tract, where all is not well in the lives of two friendly couples. 

 

Reviews: 

 

"As staged and acted with a fluidity that never pushes ominous undertones but lets them float to the surface, "Parlour Song" casually locates the surreal, terrifying center of the common midlife crisis." 

   -NY Times

 

"And therein lies the affecting accomplishment of "Parlour Song." It peels its characters down to emotional nakedness without ever violating the mystery of people who remain mysteries even to themselves."

   -NY Times 

What You Missed In 2012-2013

Maurice Apprey, Ph.D., DM, FIPA
Professor Psychiatry, School of Medicine;
Dean of African American Affairs, University of Virginia;
Training and Supervising Psychoanalyst, Contemporary Freudian Society and the International Psychoanalytic Association

 

Thank you to those who attended this event! Friday, September 6th 2013
6:30-9:30 pm
Room 105 College Hall
Duquesne University

 https://maps.google.com/maps?q=600+Forbes+Avenue+,+Pittsburgh,+PA

 

With introduction by William Cornell, M.A., and discussants Leswin Laubscher, Ph.D., Associate Professor Psychology, Duquesne University, and Thomas Janoski, Ph.D. Faculty Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center

 

Sponsored by:
Duquesne University Department of Psychology
The Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center
With Special thanks to William Cornell, M.A. and the Keeping the Work Alive lecture series

 

Dr. Apprey is one of a select few individuals trained in London by Anna Freud at the Hampstead Clinic, now The Anna Freud Centre, where he graduated in 1979. Dr. Apprey then trained in adult psychoanalysis at the Contemporary Freudian Society, the institute in which he now serves as training and supervising analyst. Interested in the tension between description and interpretation, he continued his studies with Amedeo Giorgi at the Saybrook Institute in San Francisco. It was from that Institute he received a Ph.D. in human science research. In addition he has a Doctor of Management from the Wetherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University where he studied social change management.

 

With his focus on interethnic conflict resolution, he was a member of the interdisciplinary team from the Center for the Study of Mind and Human Interaction of the University of Virginia that managed the transition from Sovietization to the restoration of independence of Estonia in Eastern Europe from 1994 to 1999.

 

 

Thank you to those who attended this event! 

This paper presents ideas in progress about the development of an American Independent Tradition, which the author has tentatively called intersubjective ego psychology. The American Independent Tradition filters and develops ideas found originally in the writings of Hans Loewald. It constitutes a middle ground between egopsychology and relational psychoanalysis.

 

The tradition recognizes the analytic relationship but preserves the individuality and autonomy of each participant.The paper compares and contrasts the American Independent Tradition with the British Independent Tradition and wonders whether we can find independent traditions in other parts of the analytic world. This presentation of ideas in progress is meant to spark discussion and reflection about the trajectory of psychoanalysis in the United States, about the uses of theory,and about alternative ways of conceptualizing and using the relationship in clinical work.

 

Nancy J. Chodorow, Ph.D. is Training and Supervising Analyst, Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute; Geographic Regional Supervising Analyst, Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center; and Faculty, San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis. She is Lecturer on Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School at the Cambridge Health Alliance, and Professor Emerita of Sociology and Clinical Faculty Emerita, University of California, Berkeley. Her books include The Reproduction of Mothering (1978, 2nd. ed., 1999); Feminism and Psychoanalytic Theory (1989); Femininities, Masculinities, Sexualities: Freud and Beyond (1994); The Power of Feelings: Personal Meaning in Psychoanalysis, Gender, and Culture (1999); and Individualizing Gender and Sexuality: Theory and Practice (2012). She is author of numerous articles on comparative psychoanalytic theory and technique, Loewald and the Loewaldian tradition, sexuality, the psychology of women, and gender. She is recipient of numerous awards, prizes, and fellowships. Dr. Chodorow is in private practice in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

 

"Clinical Moment" Open Sessions For Licensed Mental Health Professionals

Join PPC for an evening exploring how an analyst works. If you would like to know more about deepening your work with your clients, or have been considering furthering your training these open sessions will provide you with an opportunity to explore psychoanalysis and psychodynamic psychotherapy through "clinical moments" shared by analysts.

 

Thank you to those who attended this event!

Wednesday, April 10, 2013 --Stacey Wettstein, Ph.D.

Monday, May 13, 2013--Paula Moreci, L.C.S.W. 

7-9 pm 

PPC Library

 

 



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"A Psychotherapy for the People: Toward a Progressive Psychoanalysis," A Discussion of his new book by Lewis Aron, Ph.D. Friday, February 1, 2013

How did psychoanalysis come to define itself as being different from psychotherapy? How have racism, homophobia, misogyny and anti-Semitism converged in the creation of psychotherapy and psychoanalysis? Is psychoanalysis psychotherapy? Is psychoanalysis a "Jewish science"? 

 

In this presentation, Lewis Aron will provide an overview of his recent scholarship on the history of psychotherapy and psychoanalysis and their implications for practice and education.  Inspired by  the progressive and humanistic origins of psychoanalysis, Lewis Aron and Karen Starr pursue Freud's call for psychoanalysis to be a "psychotherapy for the people."  The present a cultural history focusing on how psychoanalysis has always defined itself in relation to an "other."  At first, that other was hypnosis and suggestion; later it was psychotherapy. 

 

Thomas Janoski, Ph.D., a faculty member of Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center, and a Psychoanalyst and Psychotherapist in private-practice will be the discussant. 

 

Lewis Aron, Ph.D. is the Director of the New York University Post doctoral program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis.  He is the author and editor of numerous articles and books on psychotherapy and psychoanalysis, including A Meeting of Minds and the Relational Perspectives Book Series.  He was one of the co-founders of the journal Psychoanalytic Dialogues.  He has served as President of the Division of Psychoanalysis (39) of the American Psychological Association; founding President of the International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy (IARPP); founding President of the Division of Psychologist-Psychoanalysts of the New York State Psychological Association (NYSPA).  He is the co-founder and co-chair of the Sandor Ferenczi Centet of the New School for Social Research, and an Honorary Member of the William Alanson White Psychoanalytic Society.  He practices and leads numerous study groups in New York City and Port Washington, NY.  

 

This program was made possible through the support of William Cornell and the Keeping the Work Alive Series. We would like to express our appreciation for the opportunity. 

 

Analytic Flick: Bon Jour Monsieur Shlomi Friday, February 8, 2013

Bon Jour Monsieur Shlomi will be our next film in the Analytic Flicks series.  You won't want to miss the assortment of characters in this quirky, sweet, funny coming of age story that shows the power of untapped potential. 

 

Our featured guest speaker will be Assistant Superintendent, David May-Stein.  Prior to becoming Assistant Superintendent, Mr. May-Stein served in a variety of educational settings and roles. He started his career in Pittsburgh Public Schools and has worked for two decades to advance the educational system. He taught at Pittsburgh Langley, the Pioneer Education Center, the Secondary Education Center and Allegheny Middle School.  Mr. May-Stein then served as an administrator.  From 1996-2011, he served as the acting principal of the Alternative Education Center, the acting dean of students at Allegheny Middle School, the dean of students at Prospect Middle School and the principal at both Knoxville Elementary l and Pittsburgh Colfax K-8.  He will bring a wealth of knowledge from his experience to share with our audience.  

 

Eleanor Irwin, Ph.D., will provide the psychoanalytic perspective of the film. Dr. Irwin is a psychologist, a Child and Adult Psychoanalyst, and a Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry in the Department of Psychiatry at the University ofPittsburgh. She is a past president of the Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center, where she is on the faculty and Chair of the Child Analysis Committee. Dr. Irwin has made films and written extensively about children and their families in treatment and community settings. In addition to serving as a preschool consultant, she is a co-founder with Judith Rubin, Ph.D., of Expressive Media, Inc., a non-profit organization that makes teaching and training films in mental health.

 

THANK YOU TO THOSE WHO ATTENDED THIS EVENT! 

 

Thank you for attending  Footnote a film exploring the impact of ambition, rivalry and jealousy on the relationship between a father and a son.  The film, by Joseph Cedar, was well-received by critics.  Hannah Brown, of the Jerusalem Post, wrote, "Cedar uses dramatic cinematography, music and visual effects to signal that this is a film about an earth-shaking battle, at least in its protagonists hearts and minds." 

 

The discussion featured faculty member, David Orbison, Ph.D. Psychoanalyst and Psychotherapist in private practice, and Alan Meisel,JD, Director of the Center for Bioethics and Law at the University of Pittsburgh. 

 

 

 

 

Study of Smoke--Rust Colored by Claire Hardy

 

Smoke and Ephemera: A Discussion of Art will feature works of Claire Hardy and other artists on display at the Galerie Werner located in the historic Mansions on Fifth.  The discussion will be a free event for members, and will be open to the public. Due to the popularity of our last member event, we respectfully request that you let us know you are planning to attend so that we may comfortably accommodate everyone.

 



The treatment of borderline and narcissistic patients is one of the most challenging areas in mental health. Transference-Focused Psychotherapy (TFP) is an evidence-based psychodynamic psychotherapy developed by Otto Kernberg, M.D., and colleagues that combines the depth of a psychodynamic approach with a structure that facilitates working with personality disordered patients. A growing body of clinical experience and research shows that TFP can help patients achieve character change, resulting in more stable, productive, and satisfying lives.

 

Two years ago Dr. Barry L. Stern came to Pittsburgh to present a day-long overview of TFP. This year Dr. Stern will return to the PPC to provide a more in-depth TFP training experience that will take place over 3 days and involve 3 independent components.

 

On Friday, Dr. Stern will provide a 3-hour introduction to TFP based on the 2010 training. The Friday component is open to individuals with no prior TFP training, as well as individuals who wish to attend for purpose of review. Saturday will be divided among three issues central to the conduct of TFP treatment: contracting; technical neutrality and countertransference management; and the treatment of narcissistic pathology.

 

The Saturday component is open to individuals who have some prior TFP training, which includes the 2010 PPC training, the Friday overview, or other TFP training.

 

Sunday will feature a peer consultation group lead by Dr. Stern, and modeled on those developed and lead by Drs. Kernberg & Yeomans at the Personality Disorders Institute in New York. This component is limited to 14 participants and will include the presentation and discussion of two cases drawn in advance from the group. Advanced registration is required.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bruce R. Baker, Ph.D. has turned his life long facination with linguistics into a passion for helping individuals wtih physical disabilities.  Dr. Baker, an adjunct associate professor at the University of Pittsburgh's School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, is founder and president of Semantic Compaction Systems.  His company, based in Castle Shannon, develops, translates, and licenses iconic interfaces for computers in a variety of languages.  He was compelled to develop Minspeak in 1980 after meeting intellegent people who were physically unale to write, talk,, or use hand signs.  He used his classic linguistic training to create a patented visual languats system based upon ancient heiroglyphics.

 

Joseph Hinchliffe, M.D., is a volunteer faculty person with Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center. He will present on Silence, issues of treating people with severe communication disabilities, technical and psychoanalytic perspectives, and the Person Within: working with a non speaking individual, and communicating with non-speakers.

 

Jennifer Lowe is a Minspeak user and elloquent provider of the perspective of those individuals with severe communication disability. She is Executive Director of SHOUT and is featured in the film "Only God Can Hear Me."

 

PPC wishes to thank all the participants for their time and energy.

 Writing Your Life: A Journey In Self-Discovery

Inspired by the book, "Growing Old: A Journey of Self-Discovery," this new 'life writing' course was offered to all members of the community, young and old, as a time to reflect on your self-narrative and develop a more cohesive sense of self. Participants requested we offer another session.

 

 

 

Required Continuing Education Information:

Continuing Medical Education Statement: 

This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements

and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education

through joint providership of the American Psychoanalytic Association and the Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center . The American Psychoanalytic Association is accredited

by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

The American Psychoanalytic Association designates this Live Activity for a

maximum of [2] AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should

claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the

activity.

 

IMPORTANT DISCLOSURE INFORMATION FOR ALL LEARNERS: None of the

planners and presenters of this CME program have any relevant financial

relationships to disclose.

 

The accuracy and utility of the material presented has been reviewed by our Education Committee.  While the content of the workshop or course is intended for the further education of professionals in the field, it is by no means comprehensive training, and should not be considered such. Further reading, training and consultation may be required. No treatment should be undertaken outside the limitations of your skills and expertise.  Expressive forms of psychodynamic psychotherapy is contraindicated in the treatment of some mental illnesses and should not be used to treat all kinds of mental illness.

 

APA --American Psychological Association Statement: 

Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center maintains responsibility for the program and its content. 

 

Social Workers, Licenced Marriage and Family Therapists: 

Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center maintains responsibility for the program and its content.

 

The Pennsylvania Board of Social Work approves of credits issued by APA sponsors. Therefore the Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center is able to offer continuing education credits to social workers and counselors per Section 49.36(a) (6) ix)of the regulations at the time of offering. 

Grievance Procedure


PPC is committed to providing quality programs and experiences for our particpants. If you should have any grievance that you would like to bring to the attention of our Education Committee Chair, please do not hesitate to contact us.  We ask that you provide the following information to help us better to respond to your inquiry:

  • Name
  • Telephone
  • Email
  • Date of Program/Name of Program
  • Details of concern

All concerns should be addressed to Tom Janoski, Ph.D., Chair of Education Committee

They can be sent via email to: administration@pghpsa.org

or by mail to:

 

401 Shady Avenue Suite B101

Pittsburgh, PA 15206

 

You are also invited to call and discuss the cocern wtih us at (412) 661-4224. 

 

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