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...dedicated to training skillful and effective psychotherapists and psychoanalysts |
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Dear Readers,
When I enrolled in our psychoanalytic training program many years ago I didn't worry too much about my ability to describe my clinical work in writing. I think I assumed that the expression of my work would be evident in the relationship between me and my clients, and in the work with my supervisors. Over time, however, the Institute has increased its writing requirements and the importance placed on expressing our work through our writing.
Last Spring I had the pleasure of taking Nina Williams' writing class for my final case presentation class. The eight of us formed a tight group over the months we were together. We laughed, cried and tortured ourselves over our papers and our feedback. That class was one of the most rewarding classes I have taken at CPPNJ. I learned to articulate my analytic identity there and discovered through my writing my "own hidden countertransferential world" as Nina expresses it. In this issue of the newsletter, Nina writes about the relational power of collaboration. I encourage you to read her thoughtful piece on psychoanalytic writing.
This month we are also pleased to introduce you to the nine new candidates that make up the first class of our new Institute. I welcome them to CPPNJ and look forward to getting to know them as colleagues personally in the months to come.
All my best wishes for a peaceful, loving and healthy holiday season!
Sincerely,
Mary Lantz
Editor in Chief
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Programs, Classes and Celebrations
March 20, 2011 - AN ALL DAY CONFERENCE
How the Attachment Patterns of Patient and Therapist Interlock: Nonverbal Experience, Mindfulness, Mentalizing and Change
Lenfell Hall, The Mansion, Fairleigh Dickinson University,
Madison, NJ, 8:30 am - 4:30 pm
 | David Wallin
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In this clinically-focused workshop, David Wallin, author of Attachment in Psychotherapy (Guilford, 2007), translates the findings of attachment theory research, as sparked by Bowlby's original insights, into an innovative framework that grounds adult psychotherapy in the facts of childhood development. Advancing a model of treatment as transformation through relationship, he integrates attachment with neuroscience, trauma studies, relational psychoanalysis, the practice of mindfulness, and a focus on the body to help clinicians become more effective facilitators of growth and healing.
Click HERE to read more
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Spring 2011 All Day Conferences
April 29, 2011 - Women Helping Women Presents
The Inaugural Joan Marie Johnson Symposium on
Women's Mental Health
Susan Gutwill, LCSW: Women, Food and the Body: Culture, Psyche and Treatment
New Brunswick -TBA
9:30 am - 4:00 pm
May 1, 2011 - Culture Conference: Attachments Broken and Repaired: Privilege and Culture in Psychotherapy
Ruth Lijtmaer, Phd: Here and There: Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Immigration
Nina Thomas, PhD: Witnessing in Psychoanalytic and "Extra Analytic" Contexts: Promise and Peril Following Political Violence
Cheryl Thompson, PhD: African-American Males and Disorders of Attachment
Lenfell Hall, The Mansion, Fairleigh Dickinson University, Madison, NJ, 9:00 am - 4:00 pm
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The Psychotherapy Center of CPPNJ : Training and Community Mental Health
By Sandra Sinicropi, LCSW, Director and Debi Roelke, PhD, Coordinator
The Psychotherapy Center of CPPNJ (PC) (www.psychotherapycentercppnj.com/) was established in the late 1980's by the then-treasurer of IPPNJ, Linda Meyers. The idea for a consultation center came from two outstanding needs; one was to provide high quality, long-term analytic therapy to New Jersey residents of modest means or with no access to agencies providing such services. The second reason was to provide candidates in training with referrals of patients for the practice of analysis or psychoanalytically oriented psychotherapy.
The mission statement of the PC has remained the same since its inception, and over the years the clinic has succeeded in helping our candidates develop opportunities to practice analytically. Many referral sources, from academic institutions to social service agencies, use the PC as a trusted source for referring potential patients who they believe could benefit from an open-ended, exploratory-based therapy experience. With the growing constriction of managed care and the overflow of patients inundating mental health clinics, the PC may be one of the few options for intensive, long-term treatment for many people in New Jersey.
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Introducing Our New Training Class
 | | Front row left to right: Margot Schwartz, Mirel Goldstein, Claire Vernaleken and Marissa Koziar. Back row left to right: Tara McSorley, Michael Lepak, Lenore Lerner, Paige Oszmanski and Dennis McGinnis. |
Sally Rudoy, instructor of Introduction to Clinical Process I says, "It has been a pleasure to teach our new candidates. They are a very talented and skilled group . Each member of the class brings a unique blend of professional and life experience that has made for lively, thought-provoking and fun discussions.
They are engaged with the readings and putting what they are learning into practice. Referrals to any of them can be made with confidence. I encourage everyone at CPPNJ to seek out an opportunity to meet and welcome these outstanding individuals to CPPNJ. "
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Getting to Know You: Debbie Frank, LCSW
By Debi Roelke, PhD
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Debbie Frank, LCSW is a CPPNJ candidate who is in her fourth year of analytical training. Throughout her institute training, she has participated in many conferences and events, and is now involved in the Candidates' Organization mentoring program. She also serves on the Board of the New Jersey Association of Women Therapists (NJAWT) in the capacity of President.
Where do you practice?
My private practice has recently moved from Verona to Montclair, where I continue to share my new office suite with three of my colleagues. My new office affords me access to the downtown area of Montclair as well as bringing me closer to my home.
Click HERE to read more
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 Our CPPNJ Blog
By Eric Sherman, LCSW
PTSD: Post-Thanksgiving stress disorder?
Your critical mother was in rare form, simultaneously carving up the turkey and slicing through your self-confidence like so much pumpkin pie. ("I'm just saying how much nicer you would look if you wore a little makeup and lost a few pounds, dear.") By the end of the meal, you had regressed from being a seemingly confident adult to an insecure, acne prone teenager.
All things considered, the turkey got off easy.
There's nothing like the holiday season to re-creating old family dramas. Yet many people are surprised that the scars from childhood remain so raw. What can be most unnerving is the realization that you, too, do your part in the drama, arriving late to (unconsciously) annoy mother, or arguing back in some misguided attempt to finally convince her of your worth, or to prove how she has wronged you for decades. Hasn't enough time gone by to forget about all that?
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Opening Up Psychoanalytic Writing
By Nina Williams, PsyD
I first read Freud in college in a class that was required for English majors but not for psychology students. I liked Freud for the same reason I liked Sherlock Holmes - he provided the pleasure of discovering a world visible only to those who paid careful attention. Freud's confidence in his interpretation of reality was reassuringly absolute, and so I imagined I would be when I became an analyst.
By the time I had finished training, psychoanalysis and I had jointly grieved our imagined authority and come to respect the boundless possibilities of mutuality. One development of particular interest to me is how case writing is changing. No longer the presentation of 'perfectly' perceived reality, the best writing now is the beginning to a conversation. The writer describes a co-created process from which the reader can not only learn but also contribute another subjectivity. The journal Psychoanalytic Dialogues works from this premise when it publishes an original article alongside commentaries by invited readers and response by the author.
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| A Few Spaces Open in Couples Therapy Training Program
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Our second cohort in couples therapy training begins classes at the end of January 2011. We have decided to expand our training this year to a more central Jersey location in Piscataway on the campus of Rutgers in coordination with colleagues at GSAPP. Classes are held on Fridays with the initial theory class, taught by Tom Johnson, beginning at 11 AM and the first clinical class taught by Daniel Goldberg at 1:00 PM. The entire two - year sequence of courses will remain at Rutgers. We expect that next year (January 2012), we will have our third cohort in a more northern location in the Morristown-Montclair area (to be determined). By alternating locations, we hope to accommodate as many interested clinicians as possible.
Application is an easy process. Go to the www.cppnj.org website and send in an application and a copy of your license. A member of our admissions committee (Gail Kleinman or Helene Schwartzbach) will call and set up an interview. For those who are wondering whether to fully commit to the two year sequence, try us out - you can take two courses before deciding on the two year program.
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The Recruitment Report: Growing CPPNJ
By Marion Houghton, EdS and Debi Roelke, PhD
In the spring of 2010, the Recruitment Committee conducted a survey of the CPPNJ community to identify the variety of ways that members came to training. We received 18 replies, evenly split between candidates, faculty, and associates. We would like to thank the individuals who took the time to respond about their experiences.
Personal connections were far and away the most common factor in bringing people into the Institutes. Most of the respondents cited the influence of an analyst or therapist, a supervisor or an instructor who introduced them to either CCAPS or IPPNJ and the idea of advanced training. Colleagues in practice or at agencies were another source of inspiration, with one respondent specifically naming the enthusiasm of the Institute member as a motivating factor. Several respondents mentioned activities sponsored by the institutes such as the annual conferences and the Candidate/Faculty Brunch and the Open House. The ads placed by CCAPS and IPPNJ in the professional newsletters of NASW and NJPA were also cited, validating our PR efforts.
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| Legislative Alert
By Karyn Reader, LCSW
Silent PPOs and a class action suit
Silent PPOs, such as Multi-Plan, Beech Street, Devon and others intrude into your fee arrangement with private pay patients. Brian Hufford, Esq., an attorney is trying to put together information from "providers" and patients that have been affected by these companies and pursue a class action suit. His fee would be a percentage of the damages if he wins the case. Below is a summary of what these companies do.
All of these silent PPOs are setting PPO rates for providers who do not believe that they ever agreed to accept discounts. The key is that a provider would only agree to discounted rates in exchange for having patients directed to them (i.e., to accept lower rates in exchange for higher volume). With these silent PPOs, however, the insurance companies are seeking to impose discounts but without actually directing patients to them, so the providers are not getting anything for their proposed agreement to accept discounts. It would be helpful to keep this issue out there and to try to get more information from as many providers as possible. We need that if a case is to be developed.
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Thank you for joining us. Look for our next newsletter in February when the featured article will be "Scientific Research Validates Treatment: Brain Studies Reinforce Psychoanalytic Knowledge," by Harlene Goldschmidt, PhD and Debi Roelke, PhD.
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