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Comedy Night at CPPNJ:IDfest 2012!
An Evening of Comedy, Wine and Dessert
May 5, 2012 <> 7:30PM
Silent Auction of Luxury Goods and Services begins 7:30pm
Dessert 8:00pm, Comedy Show 9:00pm
Headliner Jessica Kirson: Best Female Comic
 Headliner Jessica Kirson's unique style and captivating stage presence captures the attention of audiences everywhere. Her wide variety of characters brings a diverse energy to her routine. She has been selected to perform at the Hamptons, Toyota, Marshall's Women in Comedy, Comedy Central's South Beach and HBO's Las Vegas comedy festivals. She has been featured on various television channels and shows including Comedy Central's "Premium Blend" and "Fresh Faces," Showtime's "White Boyz in the Hood," Oxygen's "Can You Tell?," Bravo's "The Great Thing About Being," The Women's Television Network's, "She's So Funny," NBC's "Last Comic Standing," Seasons 2 and 3, and "Last Call with Carson Daly," and "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" as well as shows on Nickelodeon, Noggin, and VH1. Jessica performed at The Stockholm Comedy Festival in the fall of 2009, and in her own LOGO Special, "My Cookie's Gone." She has also starred in a television pilot, "THE JESSY K SHOW," executive produced by Zach Braff. She is not to be missed!
Kelley Lynn
is a stand-up comedian, actor, and writer who  performs comedy all over the East Coast, and is known for her videos on her YouTube Channel.
She is a regular on the Opie and Anthony show and on the Some Guy Show podcasts.
 Host: Mike Keren
Psychologist turned comedian Mike Keren is the host for the evening's festivities following his stellar job as host for IDfest 2011. Mike has appeared on stages from New England to the Carolinas. He produces comedy shows throughout New Jersey including last summer's Asbury Park comedy series "Mikey and Friends Comedy" and The Bear Show.
Cost: $65 per person. Table of 8 is $400 and a table of 10 is $500. Wine, coffee and dessert will be served, along with enriching friendships.
Location: Lenfell Hall, Fairleigh Dickinson University, Florham Park, NJ.
Silent Auction begins 7:30pm, Dessert 8:00pm. Comedy Show 9:00pm
PUBLIC INVITED! BRING YOUR FRIENDS AND NEIGHBORS FOR
SOME EXCELLENT LAUGHS!
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DIRECTORS'S COLUMN
By Seth Warren, PhD
Spring came early this year, a bit uncannily, I thought, with some faint forebodings as to what it might mean, but I am finally finding myself giving in to the pleasure of nice weather, the flowering trees, longer days, and beginning to look forward to the end of the "school year," summer breaks, and vacations.... I won't be worrying so much about climate change again until it hits 110° in August...
As Chance the gardener notes with oracular solemnity in Jerzy Kosinski's Being There, "there will be growth in the spring...." I would like to share my pleasure at the continued growth and success of CPPNJ, and take care of some spring-cleaning - announcements, shameless plugs, and hold-the-dates for some scheduled and upcoming events.
As I have often said, candidates and trainees are our most important resource. We have increased the number of  trainees in all our programs in each of the past three years. One part of that increase is the result of the development and success of the Couples Training Program, which has added some 8 to 10 trainees in each of the three years of its existence. Since that program is designed as a two-year program, the Couples Division is now adding something like 20 trainees per year. But, we have also had several successful incoming classes of candidates into our psychotherapy and psychoanalysis programs, which has expanded our number of trainees significantly as well. In all, we have approximately doubled the total number of active trainees since the beginning of the merger process. This number will likely continue to increase as our candidates progress through the 1-, 2-, 3-, and 6-year programs.
This means also that our Training Committee is offering more classes, and our classes are more fully subscribed. This has meant more opportunities for teaching, both for experienced faculty who have been teaching for years, as well as new instructors, including some of our own graduates who have only recently joined our faculty.
While our Treasurer, Bob Levine, will give a more detailed financial report at our annual Fall Brunch, I want members to know that our Center is doing well financially. Thanks to a series of successful major conferences, as well as to significantly increased enrollment of trainees, our revenues have been steadily increasing over the past several years. This increased revenue has given us a bit more flexibility in doing marketing and outreach, and developing new projects, as well as providing a more secure financial footing for CPPNJ going forward. Please do not misunderstand this success to mean that we do not need your continued support! These figures are relative, and we remain a very small non-profit organization with quite limited resources, only a single paid employee, no offices, and no physical "home." But I do want members to know that, on our own terms, we are in somewhat better shape than in previous years, for both our parent institutes.
I have noted in previous columns that we have added new members to our faculty, and this trend also is continuing, with several new members joining our faculty, including our own CPPNJ graduates. The members we have added contribute to our diversity, and add to our ability to teach new classes across a wide spectrum of psychoanalytic perspectives and approaches. Our next Faculty Forum is scheduled for May 6th in the New Brunswick area, featuring a number of our faculty members who have been involved in treating patients in China via Skype, the third in a series of very well-received and successful such Faculty Forums.
Related to this, I also hope that our members notice that we are working hard to offer events and other ways of connecting for our members further north in Bergen County and also in south and central Jersey. I know that it has seemed to some of our members that they have been geographically excluded from more full participation, but we are hoping to reinstitute regional get-togethers in the north and south regions of the state, as well as to rotate the locations of our conferences and events. This continues to be a challenge, as our membership is relatively far-flung around the state, while a majority of members are located in Essex, Union, and Morris Counties. But we are hopeful that we can restore and maintain our connections with all our valued members.
I also want to announce the implementation of a Psychology Externship training program beginning in the next academic year, a one-year program for advanced candidates in clinical psychology. While this program, with Michelle Bauer coordinating, is a pilot project to explore what is involved in maintaining such an externship program, and to learn about potential problems, if successful we hope to be able to add this component to our training programs on a regular basis, possibly expanding it to include other types of graduate trainees. While an Externship program such as this does not bring in revenues through tuition, and requires that supervision be provided with no compensation, it does promote our institute as a whole, gives us a presence in academic settings, and creates connections to qualified future potential trainees.
We have another new project that I would like to bring to the attention of our membership. Our Board of Directors has approved the creation of a new CPPNJ Scholarship Foundation, with Bob Morrow coordinating. I am very excited about this new way that we can all support CPPNJ and it's activities. The Foundation will be financially separate from the institute as a whole, and will seek to raise funds to help offset the costs of training, and so to increase access to our training programs to those who may need such additional support. I am sure you will be hearing more about our Scholarship Foundation shortly, and encourage you to support it in whatever ways you can.
I also want to announce the creation of a Child and Adolescent Interest Group, coordinated by Debi Roelke, partly arising as the result of her work with Sandra Sinicropi establishing a CPPNJ-sponsored NJ state chapter of A Home Within, a national non-profit organization dedicated to helping foster children obtain therapy services. Please watch for further announcements from Debi regarding an initial planning meeting. Members and candidates who work with children and adolescents, and who wish to develop this clinical specialty, are encouraged to participate in this exciting new project.
Finally, some dates to set aside: IDFest is coming! Saturday, May 5th, please start gathering your group of friends or family to purchase a table now. Our IDFest t-shirts, with original artwork created by our Dean of Students, Shawn Sobkowski, are printed and available - get yours right away, it is a limited print run, and you will be sorely disappointed if they sell out and you miss the chance. We will also be conducting a fund-raising Silent Auction at IDFest. Please contact Mike Keren (who is also our host for the evening) and Sharon Beskin-Goodman with items and services you can contribute to the auction - and bring your checkbooks that night!
As I mentioned, May 6th is the date of our next Faculty Forum, for those of you who wish to save time, we are offering a sleepover in Lenfell Hall so you can go directly to the Forum Sunday morning from IDFest so bring your sleeping bags... (ok, that was just a joke to see if you are still paying attention....).
Our annual CPPNJ Graduation and End-of-Year Celebration is taking place on June 9 at the Rutgers Club in New Brunswick - I hope to see many of you there to celebrate our 2012 graduating candidates.
June 24th is our Couples' Division's major annual conference with Sue Johnson, an internationally-recognized expert in couples and sex therapy, which promises to be a fantastic event. Please register as soon as possible - our organizers tell me Johnson's popularity may result in a sold-out event, so don't wait to register!
And please set aside the date of our Fall Brunch, September 30th, back at the Maplewood Community Center.
By the way, if you subscribe to our CPPNJ Google calendar, all these events will be already automatically calendar-ed for you! Watch for email invitations to add our google calendar to your own phone or ipad or computer.
Have a great spring and spring break - see you all at IDFest!
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| Welcome New CPPNJ Faculty |
Introducing Wendy Winograd, LCSW
I am very excited to join the CPPNJ community and look forward to meeting psychoanalytically minded colleagues and developing new friendships as well. I am a graduate of the New Jersey Institute for Training in Psychoanalysis and recently completed the NJI program, Supervision of the Psychoanalytic Process. I have an undergraduate degree in English and American Literature and graduate degrees in literature and social work. My practice is in my home in Chatham, and I also work part-time in the counseling department at Rutgers Preparatory School in Somerset. I serve on the Boards of the New Jersey Society for Clinical Social Work and the American Association for Psychoanalysis in Clinical Social Work. Together with a colleague, I recently launched the New Jersey chapter of AAPCSW (and we welcome new members). In my practice, I work with adults, adolescents, and couples, and I enjoy doing psychoanalytic supervision. My husband is an artist who works with wood. I have two grown children and three grown step children. For exercise, I walk, run, cycle, and do Okinawan Karate. I'm an avid reader and I love the movies. |
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Introducing Deborah Liner, PhD
Raised outside of Washington D.C., I attended the University of Pennsylvania, majoring in what was then an independent major combining psychology and neurobiology. I went on to receive a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Georgia State University and attended internship at New York Psychiatric Institute/Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center (CPMC). My dissertation examined dissociative phenomena in physically and sexually abused children and I worked with this traumatized population early in my career as a therapist at the Westchester Jewish Community Services Sexual Abuse Program and as assistant director of the Family Center, a child abuse treatment program at CPMC.
When I began my private practice of psychotherapy, I sought supervision within the relational and interpersonal perspectives and participated in a reading group with Stephen Mitchell for seven years. Subsequently, while raising my family and continuing my private practice, I pursued analytic training at the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy, Relational Track, graduating in 2011.
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Spring 2012 Faculty Forum
May 6, 2012 - Psychoanalysis in a New Globalized Key: "Skype" Video Treatment of Patients in China by American Analysts
Chair: Richard Reichbart,PhD
Speakers: Irwin Badin, PhD, Charlotte Kahn, EdD, Lisa Lyons, PhD and Sally Rudoy, LCSW
Institute for Women's Leadership, Ruth Dill Johnson Crockett Building, 162 Ryders Lane, New Brunswick, NJ
10:00am-1:00pm
Analysts will present their experiences in supervising and teaching candidates, as well as treating patients via the internet. Some of the analysts visited China as well and met the students and practitioners whom they had been working with over the internet. We will discuss what it is like treating a patient whom the therapist can see and hear, but who is not physically with the therapist.
Click HERE to register for this program
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All Programs are Co-Sponsored with the New Jersey Society for Clinical Social Workers
The New Jersey Society for Clinical Social Workers (NJSCSW) provides leadership and support to clinical social workers in all practice settings. NJSCSW has given voice to clinical social workers dealing with the health care industry. The organization provides outstanding education programs and opportunities for collegial contact. www.njscsw.org
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Highlighting Our Faculty:
Daniel Goldberg, PhD Maybe becoming a psychoanalyst was destiny. At the age of eight, I made my first visit to the office of a Newton, MA psychoanalyst, taken there to figure out why I didn't want to return to overnight camp in Maine. A serious problem, indeed. This was a particularly puzzling development for my parents especially after I had such a terrific first summer at camp (despite the usual homesickness). The psychoanalyst began his query with a string of questions, but all I remember was staring at this huge jar of M & Ms on his desk. It was no ordinary jar, trust me. There had to be 500 M & M's all in one glass container. Heaven staring right at me. My id was having an Idfest. How could I think of anything else? "Please, let me at 'em. I'll give you any answer you want," I thought. It was torture. I spent at least 15 minutes answering his inane questions! How long do I have to wait for that magical moment of having my eight year-old hand dive into that pile of M & M's? Well, somehow, he found his way into my unconscious and uncovered my fears of inadequacy (frankly, he probably didn't have to search too hard), that the second summer at camp could never be as successful as my first. I was a precocious athlete at eight and somehow he discovered my worries that I could never match my successes from the first summer. Fear of failure, he privately announced to my mom - it was patently clear to him. Say what he wanted, but to me, the only thing that was obvious was I had to wait too damn long for those M & M's. Click HERE to read the rest of this article |
Graduation and End of Year Celebration
Join us on June 9, 2012 for CPPNJ's Annual Graduation and End of Year Celebration to be held at The Rutgers Club in New Brunswick. Invitations are on the way in the mail. We hope to see you there.
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June 24, 2012 All Day Conference
An Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy Approach to Sexual Problems and Crises
Presented by Sue Johnson, PhD
Lenfell Hall, The Mansion, Fairleigh Dickinson University, Madison, NJ
8:30am - 4:00pm
6 CEUs offered for social workers
Sue Johnson is Director of the International Center for Excellence in Emotionally Focused Therapy and Distinguished Research Professor at Alliant University in San Diego, California as well as Professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of Ottawa, Canada. Dr Johnson's best known professional books include, The Practice of Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy: Creating Connection (2004) and Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy with Trauma Survivors (2002). She trains counselors in EFT worldwide and consults to Veterans Affairs, the US and Canadian military and New York City Fire Department.
This workshop will outline EFT, an empirically validated model of couple intervention that focuses on the creation of a secure attachment bond. The evidence is that secure attachment enhances the other two key aspects of love relationships, caregiving and sexuality. This workshop will outline EFT as an attachment intervention. It will then consider how sexuality fits into this perspective and how sexual issues are dealt with in EFT sessions. The day will consist of didactic presentation, discussion, exercises and the viewing of EFT training tapes. Attendees will learn: 1) To understand close relationships from an attachment perspective; 2) To understand EFT as a model of intervention; 3)To link sexuality and attachment, bonding and eroticism; and 4) To describe the way sexual issues are addressed in an experiential attachment oriented therapy.
Click HERE to register for this program
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Our E-Newsletter Editorial Staff
Mary Lantz, LCSW, Editor-in-Chief
Rose Oosting, PhD, Consulting Editor
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 A Home Is More Than Four Walls
By Debi Roelke, PhD Images have a certain power to convey the core values by which we steer our work: a home within; a secure base; a place to live inside oneself; ground to stand on, from which to reach out to the world beyond. Sometimes, it's when these things are missing that we are most profoundly aware of their quiet importance. Theo is a three year old boy I met who keenly felt the lack of that solid inner home. His story is sadly familiar: removed from his birth mother at four months of age, he was moved from one foster home to another as each failed to match, in one way or another, the increasingly pressing needs of this child and the resources of those who offered to take care of him. Four homes in less than two years: the shifting ground is palpable, and its effects were easy to see in every way. Theo was a wiry and petite little boy, tense in his movements and keeping a vigilant eye and ear on everything in the room around him. He darted from one toy or activity to the next, abruptly approaching his foster mother or me to help him with a toy or catch a ball, then just as abruptly breaking away and darting off to something else. Theo was equally restless and erratic at both home and school. Not surprisingly, his schools had begun to change as much as his early home placements had: one by one, his teachers and school directors tried and failed to contain his hyperactive and impulsive behavior. In addition, his physical health was poor: he had chronic respiratory problems, was a fitful sleeper and an inconsistent eater. He was clearly very bright, but his speech was almost impossible to understand - certainly for me, with no base of familiarity, and even his foster mother seemed to struggle with his articulation at times. His motor skills were good, and he was clearly learning all the preschool basics at a brisk pace when you could engage him to sit and focus for a few minutes. What struck me the most, though, both in watching him and in listening to his foster mother's descriptions, was his deep and pervasive anxiety. Theo could never afford to relax and settle inside himself because he was constantly worried that the ground under his feet would be yanked away. If a new person came to the home, Theo would run and hide; later he would pepper his foster mother with questions about whether he was staying, if this was his home, and if she was his mother. If they went away to a new place or for an overnight trip, he would stop listening to her completely, darting away when the opportunity presented itself at a new playground. Later, when he would return to calmer behavior, again came the questions: Is this my home? Are you my mother? In another sadly familiar turn of this story, the answer to these questions began to be yes for the first time in Theo's life. Plans were proceeding for the foster mother to adopt him; but at the eleventh hour, a relative showed up with a claim to custody, and the case went into protracted legal process. A new mother-child dyad had started taking shape, but the ground beneath them shifted yet again, forcing them to carry on in a state of suspended uncertainty. How to help? By working with the foster mother, I was able to help her solidify the arrangements she was making for more stable school and day care settings, support her attempts to pursue her legal case and provide what advocacy I could. We also worked together to understand the kinds of situations that aggravated Theo's internal insecurity so she could minimize his exposure to anxiety-provoking experiences and better anticipate his reactions when something unfamiliar did pop up, allowing her to respond to him in more attuned fashion. Consistent availability and good -enough attunement (including the cycles of disruption and repair) are the daily building blocks of whatever secure base we can build within us. But what of the many others like Theo? Fostercaremonth.org reports that there are currently about 424,000 children across the nation living in out-of-home placements each year. Dr. Toni Heineman, Executive Director of the national non-profit organization A Home Within, says "Many foster children take disappointment for granted. They are placed in foster care because their parents were unable or unwilling to care for them. In the wake of multiple changes in foster homes and caseworkers, childhood joy and curiosity too often give way to loneliness, grief and anger. The impact of chronic loss on the development of children can be profound, placing them at higher risk for serious physical illness, mood disorders and substance dependence. When these children are diagnosed with mental health problems, too frequently they are offered only medication. If referred for therapy, they may be transferred from one therapist to another through the revolving door of the community mental health system." Heineman started the organization A Home Within in 1994 from her San Francisco base to provide pro bono psychotherapy to both current and former foster children. "The mission of A Home Within is simple: 'One child, one therapist, for as long as it takes.'" Click HERE to read the rest of this article |
The Effectiveness of Psychoanalytic Therapy:
Evidence From Research: A three part-series By Nancie Senet, PhD
Part 2: Shedler Tackles the Dodo Verdict
 As you might remember, we last left the Dodo bird as he sat enjoying the continuing success of his famous verdict. But his joy turned out to be short-lived. Even though research had yielded results upholding his verdict that " everyone has won.." i.e. that all of the various forms of psychotherapy were equally successful, his ruling was largely ignored. A particular form of psychotherapy, cognitive-behavioral therapies (CBT), was touted as the only psychotherapy to be validated as effective by research evidence. The American Psychological Association declared 2000-2010 to be "The Decade of Behavior." It issued mandates in a series of Reports for the field of psychology to set upon a course to use and to train psychologists in "empirically supported therapies." The movement gained traction with momentous consequences. Insurance companies, government entities, schools, universities all jumped on board. Cognitive-behavioral therapists and researchers led the way in amassing "empirical data" to support their treatments, treatments that lent themselves to using simple protocols and a time-limited course of therapy. By the time that psychoanalytically trained therapists began to feel the impact of the changed landscape, there was little that could be done to affect the now widespread belief that only the empirically supported therapies, designated so by current research, were valid forms of treatment.
Previous research such as Luborsky's and the Consumer Reports' study were buried under the avalanche of "empirical" data from RCT (randomized controlled trial) methodologies used to validate EST's (empirically supported therapies). Cognitive-behavioral therapies emerged as the only empirically supported method of treatment.
Drew Westen and his researchers, Novotny and Thompson-Brenner, took on the task of questioning the validity of these RCT methodologies. In their comprehensive 2004 article, "The empirical status of empirically supported psychotherapies: Assumptions, findings, and reporting in controlled clinical trials," they provided evidence that the assumptions used in constructing RCT research were faulty, that they are "neither well validated nor broadly applicable to most disorders and treatments." (p.632) The assumptions that Westen et.al considered to be non-validated are the following: 1. That psychopathology is highly malleable 2. That most patients can be treated for a single problem or disorder 3. That psychiatric disorders can be treated independently of personality factors unlikely to change in brief treatments, and 4. That experimental methods provide a gold standard for identifying useful psychotherapeutic packages.
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Unsolicited articles are welcome. Something you'd like to write? Send it to us at cppnj@aol.com. We're happy to hear from you.
Thank you for joining us. Look for our next newsletter in May 2012 when the featured article will be "Part III: Dodo Redux: the next in the series on the effectiveness of psychoanalytic therapy," by Nancie Senet, PhD.
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