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...dedicated to training skillful and effective psychotherapists and psychoanalysts |
Dear Readers,
We are really proud of our faculty. Our new editorial staff of Debi Roelke and Andy Roth have been hard at work producing two exciting articles this month - a stimulating article by Harlene Goldschmidt on how developments in brain science support psychoanalytic approaches to therapy and an engaging profile of a leader in our CPPNJ family, Nancy McWilliams.
Both Debi and Andy have generously volunteered their time and talents to get this e-newsletter up and running. I'm so appreciative of their willingness to volunteer to do the hard work of producing this e-newsletter. Their efforts cause me to reflect on all the volunteers within the Center for Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis of New Jersey that give so much of themselves to build and sustain our psychoanalytic community. I always say that my kids are who they are in large part thanks to the wonderful group of people that held and surrounded them as they grew up, and I think about the parallel process to the CPPNJ community as we continue to come together and grow as a new entity.
For me, personally, it is such an exciting time. One of the most rewarding things for me is being part of the CPPNJ community. It holds and nurtures me. I believe that we build community one person at a time. Or to borrow from the Beatles, "the community you take is equal to the community you make."
Wondering what the New Jersey Couples Therapy Training Program has done this year? Read Daniel Goldberg's look at the past year and their exciting plans for the year ahead. And speaking of that, our program in October features Stan Tatkin addressing "Attachment Approaches to Couples Therapy." You will definitely want to attend. Interested in something a bit lighter? We have a new feature called "Ask Dr. Sooz" created by Susan Masluk. Our new advice columnist is just waiting for you to send her questions about problems that come up in your office that you are fumbling over.
So enjoy the comings of Summer, stop to look around at the beauty, breathe in the Summer air...and, oh, yes, ...do volunteer!
Mary Lantz
Editor-in-Chief
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Programs, Classes and Celebrations
October 24, 2010 - Candidates' Workshop
BUILD YOUR PRACTICE!
Mental Health Marketing 101: Declare a Niche and Reach Your Ideal Client
Presented by Leslie Tsukroff, LCSW
10:00 am - 12 noon
October 30, 2010 - AN ALL DAY CONFERENCE
Attachment Approaches to Couples Therapy
Lenfell Hall, The Mansion, Fairleigh Dickinson University, Madison, NJ, 9:00 am - 4:00 pm
Stan Tatkin, PhD |
Stan Tatkin is a clinician, researcher, teacher, and developer of A Psychobiological Approach To Couple TherapyŽ which integrates neuroscience, infant attachment, arousal regulation, and therapeutic enactment applied to adult primary attachment relationships. He lives in Calabasas, California, with his wife and daughter where he also runs his couple therapy practice.
He runs a monthly clinical study group for medical and mental health professionals (www.ahealthymind.org/) and training programs in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle and Austin. Dr. Tatkin received his early training in developmental object relations, Gestalt, psychodrama, and family systems theory.
He is a veteran of Allan Schore's study group and has studied with Mary Main on the clinical uses of the Adult Attachment Interview. He is a Contributing Editor of Allan Schore's Reader's Guide to Intersubjective Neurobiology; and is co-author with Marion Solomon of Love and War in Intimate Relationships: A Psychobiological Approach to Couple Therapy due to be released in March of 2011.
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Our Events
Notes from our May Fundraising Cruise
Eric Sherman and Susan Masluk | CPPNJ took to the seven seas (well, the Hudson River) for its highly-successful first fundraiser on May 23. Some several dozen Institute members and their (ship)mates tried out their sea legs with affiliates of the Academy of Clinical and Applied Psychoanalysts (ACAP) and the New Jersey Institute for Training in Psychoanalysis (NJI) in a thoroughly enjoyable cruise around New York Harbor on the Spirit of New Jersey.
Bob Levine and Sandra Sinicropi |
Despite earlier predictions for thundershowers, Mother Nature was, in fact, a good-enough mother, even supplying a little sunshine to enjoy the spectacular views. Everyone partook in good conversation, an opportunity to meet colleagues from other institutes, lunch and drinks (sip-NJ, anyone?).
The brave among us even dared to line dance. Both revenue and spirits were raised and members were already looking forward to the next CPPNJ event - The Welcome Back Brunch on October 3, 2010.
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Director's Column
By Seth Warren, PhD
I suppose my first column as Director of CPPNJ should have been something special, the expression of a grand vision for our institute, something clever or intellectually challenging, or perhaps filled with some detailed proposals for meeting the challenges we face as an organization.
But, with the busy-ness of the last few weeks including the institute election, the lead-up to our Annual Graduation, and the changing of the guard of the Board of Directors, I have set my goals a bit lower, and at this point I'm hoping mainly to avoid delaying distribution of our second e-newsletter! (I would like to take a moment and digress here to thank our e-newsletter committee, Mary Lantz, Rose Oosting, Debi Roelke, and Andy Roth, for the outstanding work they have done creating this essential new communication tool for our institute - I thought the first e-newsletter was truly incredible: extremely professional, visually appealing, filled with interesting content, and seamlessly linked to our also very professional-looking website - thank you!).
Click HERE to read full article
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Interview with Nancy McWilliams, PhD
By Andy Roth, PhD
Nancy McWilliams, PhD | Nancy McWilliams, PhD, has been an active teacher, supervisor, and therapist in New Jersey for many years, and is one of the founding members of this institute. In 1994, she began a series of wonderfully clear and comprehensive books: Psychoanalytic Diagnosis: Understanding Personality Structure in the Clinical Process (1994), Psychoanalytic Case Formulation (1999), and Psychoanalytic Therapy: A Practitioner's Guide (2004). In 2006, she co-edited The Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual.
Dr. McWilliams recently sat down with CPPNJ candidate Andy Roth, PhD to discuss her career as a psychoanalyst and author, and to talk about psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy: what it means to patients, what it means to therapists, and the empirical research support for its efficacy.
Can you tell us something about your personal history, and why you became a psychoanalyst?
Click HERE to read full article
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Read our CPPNJ Blog
For additional resources and discussions
If you're anything like me (and for your sake, I hope you're not), you were a little unsettled by the recent separation of Al and Tipper Gore. If Washington's charmed couple could come undone after four decades, whose relationship is safe?
Who knows what happened that, seemingly out of the blue, what worked for the Gores for 40 years suddenly no longer did. Was it an affair? A slow drifting apart? After more than 14,000 days spent together, could Tipper no longer stand the toilet seat being left up one more minute?
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Developments in Brain Science Support Psychoanalytic Approaches to Therapy
By Harlene Goldschmidt, PhD
Over the past several decades, innovations in brain science have confirmed much of what therapists intuitively understand about our emotional life and the healing power of relationships. New brain imaging technology has provided a window on the neurophysiological underpinnings of conscious and, more importantly, unconscious mental functioning. As a result, we are beginning to better understand how relationships and brain processes are actively and mutually influential. It's becoming clearer that attachment experiences, including those that develop in ongoing psychotherapy, shape the ways in which our brains process information.
From the beginning, psychoanalysts have striven to acquire the fullest and deepest understanding of how to help patients alleviate suffering and optimize their personal growth. Having concrete, scientific information on the brain's role in our subjective experiences offers more ways to demonstrate the unique benefits of our work to other health professionals, patients, prospective candidates, policy makers, and the general public. This growing body of brain research interfaces with clinical work, as well as developmental and psychoanalytic theory.
Click HERE for full article.
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New Jersey Couples Therapy Training Program
Second Annual Summer Institute Caps Successful First Semester
After two years of planning and faculty development, the Couples Division of CPPNJ held its first two classes with twelve students in each of the theory and clinical classes. There was a unique blend of backgrounds to the students: some were experienced faculty of CPPNJ, others were advanced candidates in the psychoanalysis program, and others were new clinicians wanting to take the two year curriculum and develop their expertise in couples therapy. Tom Johnson, PhD and Daniel Goldberg, PhD used a variety of teaching strategies including lectures, clinical session video tapes, segments from "In Treatment", role play demonstrations, handouts, and guest lecturers from the NJCTTP faculty.
On June 18, 2010, NJCTTP held its second annual Summer Institute, coordinated by Susan D'Aloia, LCSW. The aim of the summer institute was to brainstorm new ideas that were percolating in the minds of faculty. We wanted these topics to be works in progress, not finished papers. The dialogue and questions were brisk, creative, and supportive. Presentations in the Summer Institute included unconscious forces in mate selection (Dr. Charlotte Kahn), issues for the couples therapist in consulting with a partner's individual therapist (Dr. Bob Raymond), contemporary object relations perspectives in couples therapy (Dr. Al Shire), and the application of Jungian concepts in couples treatment (Dr. Daniel Goldberg).
In February of each year, we admit a new group of students into the two year couples therapy training program. People who are interested may take a course before fully committing to the program. We are accepting applications now for the new class. For more information, call Dr. Daniel Goldberg, Director of NJCTTP, at 609-683-8000, or e-mail dcgold@yahoo.com |
Legislative Alert
Your Future Depends on It!
With this issue, Joshua Lerner, PhD, will be writing a column for our newsletter on legislative issues that are coming up or being voted on concerning mental health. As well, he will occasionally address more general issues that affect us as citizens in a period when we are all facing attacks on our emotional, financial and medical well being. The Editors welcome your responses to these columns; your opinions count, too!
Maintaining Health Coverage under new laws? New Jersey Sen. Robert Menendez is deciding whether to vote to extend two critical programs keeping people who have lost their jobs afloat. The jobs crisis is nowhere near over. Without continued aid to states, we're going to lose another 900,000 public- and private-sector jobs-which will pull the rug out from under our fragile economic recovery.
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Ask Dr. Sooz
Advice column by Susan Masluk, LCSW
With this issue of the newsletter, we would like to introduce Dr. Sooz, our advice columnist. We invite you to send her questions regarding yourselves, your practice, and your neighbors. If you want to ask a question about yourself, say it's a friend who wants to know, but if it's really a friend, say it's your neighbor. You know how that goes! Dr. Sooz will answer your questions with a blend of humor, spice and feistyness, leaving you with both a chuckle and a gem of wisdom. Disclaimer: Dr. Sooz is not a doctor, but she is a therapist.
Dear Dr Sooz:
Our 15 year old son got very drunk with his friends last night, and I think he should be grounded as a punishment. My husband says that boys will be boys, and he did the same thing, and it was fine. BTW, my husband drinks a lot, too, which I disapprove of also. What's a mother to do?
Worried in Westfield
Dear Worried,
You would be remiss in your parental responsibilities if you did not hold your son accountable for his actions, which are ILLEGAL, and harmful to his health and well-being. Why is a 15 year old getting so drunk? It's an action that begs a response. And respond you must to the seriousness of this offense. It would be great if Hubby were on board, but he's not. Nothing you can do about that! So it's up to you to be the parent who sets the limits needed to keep Sonny Boy safe. Speaking with a therapist would help as you confront the problems of alcohol in your family. Al Anon would be a great support too.
Dr. Sooz
Are you worried? Puzzled? Wondering what to do? Write to dr.sooz@comcast.net and get her take on your problem. All questions are welcome, though we may not be able to answer all of them. |
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