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...dedicated to training skillful and effective psychotherapists and psychoanalysts |
Summer always reminds me of children and wonderful moments of summer play. Children are great reminders to us of the importance of being in the present in our work as analysts. In this month's e-newsletter Seth Warren and Helge Staby Deaton each write beautifully about a magical moment in their clinical work where what they did mattered - to both the patient and themselves. They give us two examples which provide a window into what makes our work so satisfying, how people take in that we matter to them, how we take in that they matter to us, and a relational moment is born. Healing then takes place.
This month we also have an article on our new One Year Introductory Program in Psychodynamic Theory, notes from our recent summer symposium and a new feature called Getting to Know You that will feature brief profiles of colleagues.
Look for more articles on children, adults and transformative moments in future newsletters. Happy Summer!
Sincerely,
Mary Lantz
Editor-in-Chief |
Advanced Training Options in Psychotherapy
The CPPNJ One Year Introductory Program
The New Jersey Couples Therapy Training Program
CPPNJ is now accepting applications for classes beginning September 13, 2010.
The New Jersey Couples Therapy Training Program is now accepting applications for January, 2011.
Thinking about advanced training? Wishing you could join a professional community? The CPPNJ Introductory Program is a one year track that includes four courses in psychodynamic theory and technique. In these courses you will be exposed to basic psychoanalytic concepts and their relevance to both diagnosis and treatment. In the one year program there is no requirement for a commitment to supervision and personal treatment. It's a great way to answer your questions about psychoanalysis and how it can improve your practice. Classes take place at Fairleigh Dickinson University, Madison, NJ, Wednesdays between 10AM and
1 PM. For further information, go to www.cppnj.org or contact us at cppnj@aol.com.
The New Jersey Couples Therapy Training Program offers a comprehensive two year clinical training program in systemic psychodynamic couples therapy. For further information, go to www.cppnj.org, or contact Daniel Goldberg, PhD at dcgphd@yahoo.com. We are now accepting applications for our 2011 class to begin January, 2011.
CEU's are available for all classes and programs. Contact Us: cppnj@aol.com |
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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
This workshop is intended for clinicians who are interested in developing a viable, profitable and energized business. It is designed for both beginner and veteran private practitioners seeking to expand their marketing toolbox during the current economic climate. When insurance companies are placing more restrictions on access to mental health services, therapists need to implement innovative and highly effective ways of marketing their skills. Come prepared to invigorate your marketing plan. This workshop is FREE for all candidates! Contact cppnj@aol.com for details.
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
Graduation and End of Year Celebration
James Garofallou, Seth Warren and Irwin Badin |
June 11, 2010 was no ordinary evening! It was "some enchanted evening" to be sure - one that will not be replicated ever again. Myra Klein and John Duryee delivered heartfelt reflections on the development of our institutes over the past twenty years. Clearly it was a bittersweet experience for both Irwin and Jim as they reviewed all that culminated in the merger of the two institutes in 2009, and gave what was to be their last talk as Co-Directors of CPPNJ.
Throughout the evening, there were many heartfelt expressions of gratitude for the many people who have made extraordinary contributions to both our former institutes, IPPNJ and CCAPS, over the years. All these efforts culminated in the birth of our new institute, CPPNJ.
It was a proud and historic moment when our Co-Directors, Irwin Badin and James Garofallou, passed the gavel over to Seth Warren, our new Director of CPPNJ. The new Board of Directors was introduced as well. Board members are Michelle Bauer, Daniel Goldberg, Carolynn Hillman, Shawn Sobkowski, Thomas Johnson, Robert Levine, Rose Oosting, Sandra Sinicropi and Susan Stein.
While each graduate came to training with varied and accomplished backgrounds, they all felt that their training experience added a welcome richness and depth to their work. Diane Harth, Janice Peters, and Katherine Barton Weber graduated from the Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy three-year Program and Elizabeth Choby, Maureen Kritzer-Lange and Debra Roelke graduated from the six-year Psychoanalytic Program.
The graduates' comments were filled with laughter and tears as they recounted the many twists and turns of their training. On a humorous note, Jan Peters really had the crowd roaring as she thanked her husband for providing her with much of her material for her personal analysis.
Click HERE to read graduate biographies
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Director's Column
By Seth Warren, PhD
As I prepare to take off for a few weeks it occurred to me to write something about endings, but I have had the occasion this week to think about one ending in particular, and offer some open-ended reflections.
More than 20 years ago, while a psychology intern at St. Vincent's Hospital, I began working with a disturbed youngish woman in individual psychotherapy. I worked with her there for the year, and then she continued to see me after I finished my internship, and had begun to see private patients.
I never really felt certain about her diagnosis, her doctors thought she was bipolar, or schizoaffective, or schizophrenic, but she also struggled with dissociation, some substance abuse, and other types of confusion. She ended her therapy with me after about two years of work during a psychotic decompensation, about which I always felt some guilt, as I had, with the inexperienced zeal of a novice, sought to support her separation from her very disturbed mother, toward some greater independence than her ego could probably have sustained. Click HERE to read full article
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Getting to Know You: Janet Hoffer, MSW
Janet Hoffer, MSW  | Janet Hoffer, MSW is a CPPNJ candidate who is in the final year of her analytic training. She currently serves as Co-Chair of the Candidate's Organization, which supports and represents the professional needs of candidates within the Institute. She also serves on the Board of the New Jersey Association of Women Therapists.
Where do you practice?
My private practice is in West Orange, near Verona Park. I have an office at my house which is separate from my living space. This allows me to have a full work life and be available to raise my children.
Click HERE to read full interview
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Read Our CPPNJ Blog
For additional resources and discussions
Sally Rudoy, LCSW
Woody Allen has
famously been called the "poster child" of psychoanalysis. Ironic isn't it
that the comedian/filmmaker has become the recognized face of
psychoanalysis? Well, perhaps not. Psychoanalysis --
what it is and what happens during sessions has historically been the
butt of jokes in culture, film and literature. Here we tackle a
few myths about what psychoanalysts and their patients actually do
during sessions. We hope to dispel,
elaborate, or corroborate those familiar myths. We invite your
comments and the sharing of your own myths.
MYTH #1
Psychoanalysts encourage patients to re-hash their troubled
childhoods over and over.
FACT
While analysts do encourage exploration of
the patient's experiences in childhood, parental and family
relationships, cultural background, and traumas, they are not the
exclusive focus of attention. What all analysts
share in common is a profound respect for the unconscious: the contents
of mind that operate out of awareness but influence and direct our
thoughts, feelings, behaviors, and relationships. It is usually
problems and disturbing patterns in these areas that bring people to
treatment.
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CPPNJ News
"In Treatment" Discussion Group
Attention fans of the HBO Series, "In Treatment"!! HBO has announced the third season of "In Treatment" beginning sometime in October. CPPNJ is planning to host a weekly discussion group related to each week's sessions. As we all know, there is always much to talk about after seeing how Dr. Paul Weston goes about treating his patients as well as how he fares in his private life.
Come for the fun of it, stay for stimulating conversations as we explore the professional and personal challenges we all face as mental health professionals.
We don't have a specific start date yet, nor a set meeting place. These are things we are working on. We do know that we will be inviting mental health professionals from our community (we encourage you to bring friends-see Seth's comment in last month's newsletter and graduation), that the group will meet on Fridays, probably from 6:00-7:30pm and that it will be moderated by Irwin Badin. As we get more details we will pass them along to you. Looking forward to seeing you there!
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E-Newsletter Clarification
Please note that Eric Sherman's credentials were noted incorrectly in last month's e-newsletter. He is an LCSW.
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What Can Possibly Be The Matter With My Child?
By Helge Staby Deaton, MSW
 The teacher of a class of three-and-a-half year old pre-school children at the daycare in Trenton where I have been consulting for the past eleven years called me late morning one day, greatly distressed, to help her out. She told me that nothing in particular had happened to cause this child's extreme upset, no conflict with another child, no upset about the inability to do something the way he had wanted.
"I've no idea what to do with this little boy. He's been crying for half an hour, saying that his finger hurts. I've done everything I could think of, including putting on a band-aid, only nothing at all has helped! And there are all the other children I need to see to."
I looked at the little fellow. Chad was sitting there in deepest misery with a tear-wet and snotty face, still crying his eyes out, holding up his right hand's middle finger straight up, almost accusingly. He had started pre-school in September. It was now February. Throughout his time since he began attending the nursery he seemed to have adjusted well to this very new life situation: all day away from home. And now these streams of tears!
Click HERE for full article.
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New Jersey Couples Therapy Training Program
Nine Members of the NJ Couples Therapy Training Program (NJCTTP) and CPPNJ Attend EFT Conference with Susan Johnson
From left: Rose Oosting, Daniel Goldberg, Gail Kleinman, Sharon McCombie, Susan Johnson, Tom Johnson (no relation), Sandra Sinicropi, Susan D'Aloia, Bob Raymond and Veronica Horenstein.
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In late June, nine CPPNJ and NJCTTP faculty and candidates attended a 4-day externship in Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT), led by Susan Johnson, PhD, the founder of the theoretical framework.
This approach focuses on attachment issues in the couple, using an emotional focus to illuminate the ways attachment injuries impact the connection within the couple relationship. She builds on the notions of pursuer-distancer dynamics originally developed by Tom Fogarty (a student of Murray Bowen) in the early days of the family therapy movement. Her EFT approach particularly hones in on the interactional cycle where one person "pushes" or protests and the other "withdraws" or protects oneself. In essence, she combines this systemic view with an appreciation for the deep intrapsychic wounding that emerges during breakdowns in a couple's attachment.
The group found the externship, which included didactic lectures, video illustration, live interview, and practice, both rewarding and stimulating. Many of the attendees are eager to follow this up with further study. During the two year couples training program at NJCTTP, we have included readings and clinical practice in the emotionally focused couples therapy developed by Dr. Johnson. |
Summer 2010 Symposium:
Two Views of Treating Paranoid Disorders
Richard Reichbart and Nancy McWilliams |
The Summer Symposium on the 'Two Views of Treating Paranoid Disorders' proved to be very intellectually stimulating indeed. Nancy McWilliams' presentation focused on a diagnostic understanding of paranoid character and its implications for clinical practice. Her focus concerned the relationship between the therapist and the patient, and how paranoid patients might experience the therapist. Richard Reichbart's presentation focused on the internal object relations carried by the paranoid patient in relation to the therapist.
Unfortunately, the DSM IV category for paranoia describes only the severe end of the continuum, lacking a category for the non-psychotic end of the spectrum which constitutes many of the patients we see in our private practices. As a result, clinicians need to become more adept at teasing out the nuances of paranoid dynamics that aren't as flagrant at first glance.
Click HERE for full article
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The Recruitment Report
Dear Faculty, Associates and Candidates,
In the May issue
of this e-newsletter, Al Shire shared with us the story of what drew him to
psychoanalysis: the realization that he could help heal wounded people.
He went on to join with others to shape IPPNJ into a community and
welcomed like-minded people into it from the very beginning.
All of us know
that the best way to do recruiting is through personal contact. Think
about prospective students you may already know. Bring colleagues with
you to CPPNJ programs. And talk both to colleagues and others about what
a useful and flexible treatment modality contemporary psychoanalysis is;
participate in helping others to understand how much psychoanalysis has changed
since it's beginnings.
Finally, the
recruitment committee is sending out a survey through the CPPNJ list serve as a way of
getting data to help us in our efforts to recruit new members. Your input
will provide new ideas on how to help CPPNJ grow. Thank you for
participating in this team effort and a special thanks to all of
the CPPNJ members who have already responded to our survey!
Sincerely,
Gayle Coakley,
Janet Hoffer, Marion Houghton (Chair), Maureen Kritzer-Lange, Robert Levine,
Judi Oshinsky and Debi Roelke
CPPNJ Recruitment Committee
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Legislative Alert
Barry
Helfmann, PsyD, NJPA Director of Professional Affairs, has written an article
on the "Insurance Crisis in NJ" that is published in today's online issue of
"In The Lobby", which is read by the Governor, the entire legislature, state
reporters that cover the political agenda, union leaders, local officials, and
corporate NJ, as well as "Mr. and Mrs. Jones." In the first two hours of
posting, it has been read by over 2,300 individuals. To read Barry's
article, click HERE.
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Thank you for joining us. Look for our next newsletter in September. The featured article will be Developing the Capacity to be Alone: A Case of a Latency Age Boy by Charles Most, PsyD.
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