Allan Bloom, MSW, PhD
1. Emotional Blocks to Learning
Paul Brinich, PhD
1. Adoption and some psychological complications
2. Some varieties of bereavement in childhood
3. Death in the schools (death of teacher, student, school staff)
4. Freud's approach to dreams in the 21st century
Heather Craige, LCSW
1. Raising a middle school age daughter
2. Termination of Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy
3. Therapeutic Alliance
4. Family and Peer Relationships During Adolescence
Lucy Daniels, PhD
1. Play and creativity in early childhood
2. Dreams and creativity
3. The impact of divorce and other losses on a child
Susan Eder, MD
1. Joys and sorrows of raising a middle school age child
2. Talking about current events with your child
3. Prevention and Treatment of Eating Disorders
Constance Freeman, LCSW
1. Sibling relationships
2. A Catalogue of Robberies (the variety of losses people experience)
David Freeman, MD
1. Growing Old Gracefully
2. River trip through the Grand Canyon as a metaphor for the therapeutic process (talks about what happens in psychoanalysis and psychotherapy, illustrated by slides of the Grand Canyon) Requires a room dark enough to show slides
3. Joys and Struggles of Parenthood
4. Loss, Mourning and Depression
5. Stress, Anxiety and Depression in Children
6. Impromptu discussions about parenting, psychotherapy and psychoanalysis, discipline, etc
Kathleen Irwin, LCSW
1. Helping children who have difficulty separating from parents
Tom Jones, MD
1. Drug and Alcohol Use
Charles Keith, MD
1. Child and adolescent development
2. Learning and educational problems
3. Aggression in youth
4. Medications, friend or foe?
5. Ways to be a better parent
Harold Kudler, MD
1. Psychic trauma
2. Mesmerism: the origins of hypnotism
3. General principles (personality, neurosis, therapeutic process, etc.)
4. Test anxiety: how to help a child prepare and take tests
Lou Lipsitz, MSW, LCSW
1. Psychoanalytic factors in psychotherapy
2. Men's issues
3. Midlife transitions
4. Depression
5. Poetry and therapy
6. How to learn to be a therapist
William Meyer, MSW, LCSW
1. Caring for the new mother, helping her avoid postpartum depression
Assad Meymandi, MD
1. Psychosocial development
2. Psychology of famous people
Peter Perault, MD
1. Psychology of boys and men
2. Development of self esteem
3. How to be a better father
4. Detecting Depression and Preventing Suicide
Erica Rothman, LCSW
1. "Those who stay behind: when a family member is dying."
2. "When a child is dying."
Donald Rosenblitt, MD
1. Becoming and growing as a parent
2. Infancy and attachment relationships
3. Assisting a child with separations and autonomy
4. Helping children develop healthy self esteem
5. How therapeutic preschools help children
6. Does this child have AD/HD? What then? (In two parts)
7. Approaching discipline and aggression constructively (In two parts)
8. What sexuality means to a child
Barbara Snider, MD
1. Talks about preschool and elementary school children
Roger Spencer, MD
1. Creative writing
John Tisdale, D.Min
1. Talks about spirituality
Landrum Tucker, MD
1. The life cycle: inner and outer worlds
2. Helping step families come together
3. Psychoanalysis and film (may require video player for a film)
4. "We are such stuff as dreams are made of."
5. The birth of psychoanalysis
Lisa Tust, PhD
1. Intellectual Development and its Inhibitions
James Weiss, MD
1. Foundations of self esteem
Jay Williams, MSW, PhD
1. Psychodynamic models of brief therapy
2. A basic overview of depression (for non-professionals)
3. Diagnosis and treatment of personality disorders: a view from the movies (workshop using popular film illustrations of personality disorders)
Theresa Yuschok, MD
1. Moral development
2. Cultivation of joy
3. Boundary issues
4. Problem solving skills
"The First Years Last Forever" -- 29 minute video with discussion by William Meyer or David Freeman. Requires a video player.
Others available to talk with and/or mentor and/or supervise Social Work Students:
· Keith Blanks, MSW
· Martha Chesheir (Boren), MSW, PhD
. Molly Kiefer, MSW
· Pamela Kirkpatrick
· Ema Willingham, MSW
