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Dear Readers,
This is an issue (our second annual!) devoted to our talented faculty, the cornerstone of our CPPNJ community. We start off by introducing you to three new faculty members, Maureen Gallagher, Nancy Hicks and Barry Cohen. Then we feature a clinical profile by Martin Silverman. He describes the successful treatment of stuttering in a three year old, a case that comes wonderfully alive as you read it. And, Debi Roelke and Harlene Goldschmidt bring us the second in their three part series on psychoanalysis and the brain. Similar to their first one, this article explores new frontiers and in particular, zeroes in on the effect of trauma on the brain. It's a thought-provoking article and we are grateful to Debi and Harlene for the research and work that went into writing it.
Take a look at our featured program - the Third Annual Summer Institute sponsored by the New Jersey Couples Therapy Training Program. Our guest speaker is Deborah Scimeca-Diaz, LPC who is a master trainer of Sue Johnson's emotionally focused therapy. Her three hour workshop in the morning will focus on engaging the distant partner in a couple.
This issue marks the end of our first year of e-newsletters. We hope you have enjoyed reading them as much as we've enjoyed publishing them. Our goal for next year is to continue to provide you with articles that educate, inform and delight.
Thank you for all your help and feedback, and remember to send e-mails to friends asking them if they'd like to receive information about CPPNJ programs, as Bob Morrow is urging each of us to do. Let's grow our e-mail list!
Mary Lantz, LCSW
Editor-in-Chief
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Programs, Classes and Celebrations
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Friday, June 24, 2011 - 3rd Annual Summer Institute
New Jersey Couples Therapy Training Program
The Recreation Center, Fairleigh Dickinson University
Madison, NJ, 9:30 am - 3:30 pm
Treating difficult cases through EFT (emotionally focused couples therapy) will be the focus of the morning session. Deborah Scimeca-Diaz, a master trainer in EFT, will be using lecture, video tape, and Q & A to further our understanding of engaging distancers and softening anger in partners caught in repetitive, frustrating cycles. All faculty and candidates are welcome to our day-long Summer Institute.
After lunch, we will have a brain storming session of how to integrate various approaches using systemic and psychodynamic perspectives. Video tape will be used to guide the focus of the discussion. It should be a great day. People from outside CPPNJ can attend if space permits. Please bring your own lunch; we'll supply the drinks.
Cost: $35, made out to Deborah Scimeca-Diaz - bring on the day of the workshop
RSVP: Daniel Goldberg at dcgphd@yahoo.com
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Member Publications and Presentations
Sophia Richman Richman, S. (2010). From Hidden Child to Godless Jew: A Personal Journey. Women & Therapy, Special Issue: A Minyan of Women: Family Dynamics, Jewish Identity and Psychotherapy Practice, 33, 189-202.
Richard Reichbart
Reichbart, R. (2011) The Importance of a "Broken Heart", Psychoanalytic Review, 98(3), 351 - 373.
(due out in June)
Reichbart, R. (2011) Presentation "The Therapist Mistaken for a Monster" (read by Monder, B.) at Section I, Division 39, American Psychological Association, Spring Meeting in New York on April 17, 2011 in the panel on "Fulfilling the Promise of Psychoanalyst: When Analyst and Analysand Perservere" with Nancy McWilliams, Ph.D.(presenter), Jane Kupersmidt, Ph.D. and Batya Monder, M.S.W.
Please note: If you have an announcement of either a paper you've recently published or a presentation you've given, let us know - send Cathy Van Voorhees an email at cppnj@aol.com and we will be happy to get the word out.
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Welcome New CPPNJ Faculty |
 Introducing Maureen Gallagher, PhD
I am very excited to be joining the faculty of the psychoanalytic training program and the couples therapy training program of CPPNJ. I'm originally from New York, and relocated to Montclair, NJ about 5 years ago, so I am happy to be finding a new analytic home in NJ.
I completed my analytic training at NIP in 2001, and I've had a private practice in New York City for the last 16 years. I started a practice in Montclair about 4 years ago. I see adults, adolescents and couples.
I am very interested in the integration of relational psychoanalysis, attachment theory, and body inclusive treatment. In addition to being a relational psychoanalyst, I am a somatic experiencing practitioner and have been training in emotionally focused couples therapy for the last few years. I bring my attention to present moment, experientially focused treatment while holding a relational foundation in mind.
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 Introducing Barry Cohen, PhD
I am so happy to be offered this opportunity to introduce myself to the CPPNJ community as a new faculty member, and I look forward to getting to know as many candidates and other faculty members as possible.
I was trained in the Interpersonal Tradition of Psychoanalysis, and as such, I view the work I do with each patient and/or supervisee as unique. In my own training, I was strongly influenced by the writings and work of Sullivan, Ferenczi, Levenson, and Wolstein. In general, I believe that character develops as a unique interaction between our constitutional endowment and the significant relationships with which we engage over the course of our lifetime.
I received my Certificate in Psychoanalysis from the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis in 1999. I currently serve as a Supervisor there in the Interpersonal Track, as well as supervising psychology graduate students at times from Yeshiva, Pace and Rutgers University. In addition, I am a co-chair of NYU's Interpersonal Interest Group Committee, and a member of Postdoc's Recruitment Committee, Professional Will Committee, and the Annual Weekend Retreat Committee. In January, 2011, I was hired by Division 39, the Division of Psychoanalysis of the APA, for a five year term as their Internet Editor, and recently oversaw the "total makeover" of the Division's website. I also served on the Steering Committee of the recently completed Division 39 Spring Meeting in New York City. I maintain a private practice in Teaneck and on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.
Click HERE to read more
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 Director's Column
By Seth Warren, PhD
CPPNJ Graduation
I would like to take the opportunity to congratulate our two graduating candidates, Janet Hoffer and Mary Lantz, and to welcome them to full membership in our Center. I am very pleased to join with our other members and family members here tonight to celebrate their accomplishment.
It has never been easy to become a psychoanalyst, it is a lengthy process, very time-consuming and costly, and has always required a good deal of perseverance and devotion. But in many ways, it has become even more difficult and challenging. Our lives seem busier, the demands on our time greater than ever, and the pace of life in many ways is faster and less conducive to the reflective, expansive space that we seek to create in psychoanalytic work.
We live in a culture, in a time, where the aims and goals of psychoanalytic work are less appreciated. Our culture is one that increasingly values products at the expense of process, efficiency but without a guiding sense or direction, ends without sufficient consideration of the quality of our lives, quality defined not so much in material terms but in terms of how we relate to others in our lives, a sense of connection to our selves, the expression of personality integrity in our work and relationships. To quote the very quotable Yogi Berra, "we're lost but we're making good time."
Click HERE for the rest of the article
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 Our CPPNJ Blog
By Eric Sherman, LCSW
Fat Stigma: What It Is, How It Hurts
Researchers call it "fat stigma." The disapproving glances from complete strangers. The prospective employer who suddenly loses interest when he meets you face to face, or the person who squeezes into the seat next to you at the movies with evident disgust. And of course: "You would look so nice if you just lost some weight."
According to a recent article in the New York Times, the Western prejudice against fat people is now spreading to developing countries. The article quoted a Mexico City man who groused about riding the city's crowded buses.
"The fatties," he said, "take up a lot of space."
Imagine what it's like to be on the receiving end of that kind prejudice every day. As a person who lost 50 pounds a few years ago, I have some understanding of what it's like to be heavy in a society where you can never be too rich or too thin. The sense of shame a fat person feels when they look in the mirror is only intensified by the negative reaction of others.
Click HERE for complete post
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 Introducing Nancy Hicks, PsyD
Becoming part of the CPPNJ community is a wonderful opportunity for me. Since graduating from GSAPP in 1989, my focus has been on expanding my capacity to work sensitively and effectively with my patients. There is so much to know, and so many talented thinkers, writers, teachers, and clinicians from whom to learn.
Several years after starting my first practice in Metuchen, NJ, I began my analytic training at TRISP, the Training and Research Institute for Self Psychology in New York City. The program concentrated on the origins of Self Psychology as typified by its founder, Heinze Kohut, as well as on its subsequent development by writers such as Bacal, Lachman, Beebe, and Fosshage. A second area of emphasis was the work of the Intersubjectivists, especially Stolorow and Atwood, Brandchaft, and Orange. Although they were not emphasized in my training, I have also been influenced by the writings of many Relational analysts.
Click HERE to read the rest
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| Recruitment Report: Review of the Year
By Marion Houghton, EdS
The Recruitment Committee maintained a presence at CPPNJ activities during the course of the year. One such event was the David Wallin conference. A table was set aside at the conference for interested persons to sit with committee members for the purpose of asking questions about CPPNJ. This activity resulted in a small response. The Committee believes that with more publicity about the opportunity to sit with CPPNJ faculty and candidates in such a setting can be much more productive. The suggestion going forward is to provide time during the morning break for such interaction - with attention to this in the program announcements.
Members of the Recruitment Committee along with helpful CPPNJ people were able to be present at the following events during the past year. Debi Roelke attended the Fall 2010 NJPA meeting, Osna Haller attended the Spring 2011 NJPA meeting, Maureen Kritzer-Lange attended the Susan Gutwill presentation at Women Helping Women and Marion Houghton was at the NJCA conference presentation It Ain't Your Grandfather's Freud.
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 Scientific Research Validates Treatment: Brain Studies Reinforce Psychoanalytic Knowledge By Harlene Goldschmidt, PhD and Debi Roelke, PhD  This article is the second in a three part series on psychoanalysis and the brain - it will look at psychological and interpersonal aspects of relational trauma, as well as explore some basic aspects of the neurological underpinnings of such trauma. Patients who have suffered relational trauma have emotional requirements that are often challenging to the therapist. Seeing these requirements and challenges through the lens of neuropsychoanalysis and attachment theory supports therapists' efforts in providing a safe and structured holding environment in which therapeutic change may occur. The intention is to offer therapists a comprehensive and concrete model of relational trauma to serve as an aid in providing psychotherapy. The more we understand about trauma, the more we know about its ongoing impact on the brain. "Relational trauma" is the term used to refer to the accumulation of misattunements, non-availability and failure to repair attachment interactions on the part of early caretakers. When these interactions occur at critical developmental periods or reach an intolerable threshold, the resulting insecure attachment history shapes the way the brain is wired to experience future interactions. These internal working models are the primary focus of therapeutic action. The child who suffers from relational trauma has greater difficulty learning to regulate her affective responses. In the absences of a good model for affect regulation, the child is more easily dysregulated in relationships, and has less ability to extract regulating experiences from caregivers. Click HERE for full article |
 Rapid Cure of Stuttering in a Three-Year-Old as a Result of Psychodynamic Treatment
By Martin Silverman, MD The telephone rang one morning.The caller identified himself as an internist in a distant, southwestern state. He asked me if I could help him find a good speech therapist for his three-and-a-quarter year old nephew, who lived near the town in which I had my practice. His nephew had begun to stutter two or three months earlier, and it was getting more and more severe. The doctor calling me was startled when I suggested that I see his nephew for evaluation before arranging for speech therapy. I explained how emotional factors can contribute to the sudden onset of stuttering. I promised that, after a brief assessment, I would do everything in my power to help his nephew, including arranging for competent speech therapy if it proved to be indicated. He agreed, albeit somewhat reluctantly, to recommend to his distraught sister that she bring her son to me for evaluation. A few days later, Danny's mother informed me that he had always been a healthy, happy, affectionate, bright, lively, energetic youngster. He began to speak at about a year of age, and did so clearly and without impediment until shortly after his parents returned from a week in California. During his parents' absence, he stayed with his grandparents, who reported that they had had a good time together and that nothing occurred to mar the experience. Danny's parents called him every day during their absence, and he appeared to enjoy the telephone calls, although he did say toward the end of the week that he missed them. Click HERE for the rest of the article
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Our Events: Spring Conference with David Wallin A Success
By Eric Sherman, LCSW
CPPNJ is used to people coming from all over the metropolitan area to attend its events. But from St. Louis?
Among the 167 people who filled Fairleigh Dickinson University's Lenfell Hall on March 20, 2011 for CPPNJ's Spring Conference was a woman who had flown in from Missouri just for the symposium. I doubt she was disappointed. The audience, representing a wide cross-section of the therapeutic community, heard David Wallin give a thought-provoking presentation, "How the Attachment Patterns of Patient and Therapist Interlock: Nonverbal Experience, Mindfulness, Mentalizing and Change."
Wallin, author of "Attachment In Psychotherapy" (Guilford, 2007), used case material and videos to show how attending to the attachment patterns of both the patient and therapist in interaction can help work through impasses and deepen the treatment. By being reflective of her own complex states of mind as they are stirred up in the therapeutic interaction, the therapist can utilize these reactions to deepen her understanding of herself and also of the patient, leading to growth and healing in both participants.
Click HERE for the rest of the article
 | | From left to right: Sandra Sinicropi, Carol Marcus, David Wallin, Linda Klempner, Seth Warren, Joan Morgan and Tom Johnson |
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