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• Clinical Writing and The Personal Essay (February 20 and 27, March 10)

  • Start
    20 Feb 2012
  •  
    7:30 PM
  • End
    10 Mar 2012
  •  
    3:30 PM
  • Location
    31B N. Narberth Ave., Narberth, PA 19072

  The Philadelphia Center for Psychoanalytic Education invites you to:

  PCPE 2012 Writing Workshop: "Clinical Writing and The Personal Essay"

  Invited Presenter: Sandie Friedman, Ph.D.

  
  

  Sandie Friedman Ph.D. is an assistant professor of writing at George Washington University, where she serves as the deputy director of the First-Year Writing program. She is also a graduate and on the faculty of the New Directions Program - Writing and Critical Thinking from a Psychoanalytic Perspective - of the Washington Center for Psychoanalysis. At New Directions, Dr. Friedman has taught workshops on The Art of the Personal Essay and The Writing Group at Work: Offering Constructive Commentary on Drafts. She has also taught writing workshops at Bard College, Princeton University, Barnard College and New York University, and has given many presentations about writing including one at George Mason University titled “Between the Couch and the Desk: A Community of Psychoanalytic Writers” and one at Columbia University titled, “Thinking and Doing: Performance and Text”. Her work has appeared in literary journals and newsletters such as Enculturation, Awakened India and Writing On The Edge.

  Writing Seminar Description

  The intent of this workshop is to help clinicians who want to write about their clinical experiences, locate their own distinctive writing voice through the use of the personal essay. We will focus on the structure and technique used in writing a personal essay, and we will read and discuss examples of essays written by masters of the genre. Participants will be given opportunities to write and share their work, and will learn how to give useful feedback to each other. The Saturday workshop led by Dr. Friedman, will take the form of a writing group in which participants will write, read and receive constructive feedback on their essays. By the end of the day, participants will have a draft of an essay and enough feedback and ideas for a revision.
  

  Learning Objectives

  1.  Participants will discuss how to capture the co-created nature of the psychoanalytic process in creative writing.
  

  2.  Participants will learn about the literary genre of the personal essay and how to use it in the service of clinical writing.
  

  3.  Participants will identify the ethical issues involved in clinical writing.
  

  4.  Participants will learn about the structure and technique involved in writing a personal essay.
  

  5.  Participants will learn about the importance of clarifying their main motive as they go about writing a personal essay.
  

  6.  Participants will learn how to integrate personal narrative with psychoanalytic perspective in essay writing.
  

  7.  Participants will learn the difference between confession and self-investigation that provides motion, purpose, and dramatic tension in essay writing.
  

  8.  Participants will learn how to give constructive and useful feedback to other writers.
  

  9.  Participants will write a rough draft of their own personal essay and will receive feedback on it.
  

  Reading Group Facilitators

  Linda Guerra, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist and certified psychoanalyst in private practice in Philadelphia and in Bala Cynwyd. She is also a past president of The Philadelphia Society for Psychoanalytic Psychology. In 2009, she completed the three year New Directions writing program: New Directions: Writing and Critical Thinking from a Psychoanalytic Perspective at the Washington Center for Psychoanalysis, and is currently engaged in writing about the psychological aspects of breast cancer and breast cancer treatment.
  

  Annette Leavy. MSW, LCSW, BCD is a psychotherapist and certified psychoanalyst in private practice in Philadelphia. She is on the Executive Board as well as on the teaching and supervisory faculties of the Institute for Relational Psychoanalysis of Philadelphia. A former editor of the journal, Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy, she will graduate from New Directions: Writing and Critical Thinking from a Psychoanalytic Perspective of the Washington Center for Psychoanalysis, where she has been writing fiction and clinical essays, in the spring of 2012.
  

  CE Credits  

  Nine (9) CE credits are available. CE credits meet the requirement for PA licensure Ethics CEs.

  Educational Prerequisites

  PCPE welcomes all mental health professionals who hold advanced degrees in their fields, work with psychodynamic approaches in their practices, and have familiarity with the psychoanalytic literature. Individuals from other fields who hold doctoral degrees and who work with psychoanalytic ideas in their scholarly endeavors are also welcome to participate. PCPE does not discriminate according to age, gender, race, ethnic origin, sexual orientation, or physical challenge.
  

  Continuing Education for Psychologists

  The Philadelphia Center for Psychoanalytic Education is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. PCPE maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
  

  Continuing Education for Social Workers

  The Pennsylvania State Board of Social Workers, Marriage and Family Therapists and Professional Counselors now designates APA-approved Continuing Education Sponsors like PCPE as pre-approved providers of continuing education courses and programs for social workers and clinical social workers.
  

  Dates / Times & Location (detailed directions and parking information will be provided upon registration)

  Reading Groups:  Monday February 20th and 27th 7:30 to 9:30 pm

  The Bridge, 31B N. Narberth Ave., Narberth, PA 19072

  Workshop: Saturday, March 10, 9:30 am to 3:30 pm

  Lang Center for Civic and Social Responsibility
  Swarthmore College, 500 College Avenue, Swarthmore, PA 19081

  Registration Fees and Information

  Members of PSPP: $195
  

  Nonmembers of PSPP: $225
  

  Registration: online at www.pcpeonline.org
  

  or mail check to: PCPE, Box 275, Swarthmore, PA 19081
  

  Cancellation and Refund Policy

  We reserve the right to cancel a program if there is insufficient enrollment, at which time all fees will be refunded. If you cancel your registration, a $175 credit will be applied to future programming.
  

  Special Needs Policy

  If you have any special needs related to your participation in our program offerings, please contact Barbara Zimmerman-Slovak, Ph.D., at bzslovak@comcast.net or 610-896-7228.

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• 2012 PSPP Annual Spring Program | "Can You Blame the Vampire?": On the Tyranny of Vulnerability - Darlene Ehrenberg Ph.D., ABPP

  • When
    18 Mar 2012
  •  
    9:15 AM - 4:00 PM
  • Location
    St. Joseph's Hall - Chestnut Hill College
  • Spaces left
    77

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  "Can You Blame the Vampire?": On the Tyranny of Vulnerability
  

  Darlene Bregman Ehrenberg, Ph.D., ABPP

  
  

  Program Description

  My patient asks: “Can you blame the vampire?”  She explains: “The vampire’s dilemma is that they don’t want to kill the person, they are just hungry.”  She adds, “There is no way to undo it.  Once a vampire sucks your blood, you are a vampire forever.”  Her fear is that she is doomed to remain a “bloodsucking vampire."

  How can we work constructively with individuals who cannot bear the vulnerability of desiring, and who, as they begin to  “care” or to “love” feel so desperate and so vulnerable, and whose feelings escalate to proportions that feel so unbearable and unmanageable, that they behave in ways that seem to be anything but “caring” or “loving”?  How can we help individuals who when they “love” or “care” become demanding, possessive, tyrannical, and if they feel hurt or frustrated tend to become consumed with uncontrollable rage?

  Details of clinical process from analytic work with such patients will be presented to illustrate how an engagement in which a sense of adequate safety and trust can be established and can provide a chance to actually discover what happens when such individuals do begin to dare to “care.”  As such a relationship opens onto intense and volatile feelings, and begins to become “messy,” problematic or even “crazy,” the chance to experience those potentially toxic moments of engagement can be dealt with constructively and in a collaborative way, such that lapses on either side can be survived, transcended, and learned from, without the relationship being threatened, and can actually lead to greater closeness through healing “insight.”  This kind of insight in the form of a new and powerful kind of experience in relation is different from the insight that comes from an analyst’s interpretation.

  
  

  This kind of process can allow for working through some of the “fallout” of early traumas, including intergenerational traumas, and the pain and rage and forms of blindness that may have evolved in response and can allow engaging in a necessary process of mourning. 

  
  

  Clinical data will be presented to illustrate how this kind of process can become an important medium of and an important measure of a transforming kind of therapeutic action in analytic work.

  
  

  Darlene Bergman Ehrenberg, Ph.D., ABPP

  Darlene Bregman Ehrenberg, Ph.D., ABPP, is author of “THE INTIMATE EDGE: Extending The Reach Of Psychoanalytic Interaction” (W. W. Norton and Company, Inc., 1992).  She is in private practice in New York City, and is a Training and Supervising Analyst, and on the teaching Faculty, at the William Alanson White Institute, Supervising analyst and Adjunct Clinical Associate Professor, at The New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychoanalysis, Faculty, Mitchell Center for Psychoanalysis, as well as other institutes; on the Editorial Board of Contemporary Psychoanalysis, Associate Editor, Psychoanalytic Dialogues, consulting editor, Psychoanalytic Inquiry).   She is currently working on two new books, one on intergenerational transmission of trauma, and the other focusing on issues of desire and therapeutic action.  

   

  Learning Objectives

   

  At the conclusion of this program, participants will be able to:

   

  1)  Deepen the work in the analytic moment
  2)  Use one's own experience as vital analytic data
  3)  Explain the difference between holding the patient and holding the treatment
  4)  Discuss the importance of dealing with vulnerability and aggression, not one without the other
  5)  Describe differences between dealing with symptoms vs. dealing with the underlying issues

   

  Time and Place
  

  Sunday, March 18, 2012

  9:15 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.

  
  

  St. Joseph's Hall

  Chestnut Hill College (Main Campus)

  9601 Germantown Avenue

  Philadelphia, PA 19118

  
  

  Registration Fees and Policies

  Registration online or postmarked by March 12, 2012

  PSPP members $95

  Non-members $105

  Early career professionals* $60

  Retired members $40

  Graduate students - Free

  Registration online or postmarked after March 12, 2012

  PSPP members $105

  Non-members $115

  Early career professionals* $70

  Retired members $50

  Graduate students - Free

  
  

  *Early career professionals are those within three years of receiving their professional degree.

  
  

  Fees are listed per person.  Space is limited, so please register as soon as possible.  Refunds in full, less a $10 administrative fee, will be made with written request up to 24 hours before the program.  Division 39 and PSPP are committed to accessibility and non-discrimination in their continuing education activities.

  
  

  Registration closes on March 12, 2012. Online registration is available at the PSPP website http://www.pspp.org/ through March 12, 2012. Following this date, participants may register for the program at the door.

  
  

  Participants
  

  
  

  This program is intended for mental health professionals with an intermediate level of knowledge and experience. It is not limited to individuals practicing in a predominately psychoanalytic mode.
  

   

  PSPP and Division 39 are committed to conducting all activities in strict conformity with the American Psychological Association’s Ethical Principles for Psychologists.  If you believe that a violation of ethics has occurred during this presentation, of if you have concerns about such issues as handicapped accessibility, distress with regard to program content or other complaints, please contact Dr. Patricia Rice at (267) 259-6816 or email ricepg@gmail.com. Participants with special needs will be  accommodated if possible. For any questions or other concerns regarding access, confidentiality, privacy or other issues, please contact Jay Moses, Ph.D. at (267) 254-0791 or email mjaymoses@gmail.com.  There is no commercial support for this program nor are there any relationships between the CE sponsor, presenting organization, presenter, program content, research, grants or other funding that could reasonably be construed as conflict of interest. During the program, the presenter will discuss the validity/utility of the content/approach as well as the limitations of the approach and most common risk factors, if any.

  
  

  Program Schedule
  

  9:15 Registration and Breakfast

  9:45  Program with Darlene Ehrenberg Begins

  12:15 Lunch Break

  1:15 Program Continues

  4:00 Program Concludes

  
  

  Continuing Education
  

  PSYCHOLOGISTS: This program is offered for five continuing education credits (5 CEs).  Participants must attend 100% of the program. Upon completion of a conference evaluation form, a certificate will be issued. This serves as documentation of attendance for all participants. Psychologists will have their participation registered through Division 39. Division 39 is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for Psychologists.  Division 39 maintains responsibility for the program and its content.

  SOCIAL WORKERS:  Social Workers, Marriage and Family Therapists, and Professional Counselors in Pennsylvania can receive CE 's from CE providers approved by the APA.  Since Division 39 is approved by the APA to sponsor continuing education, these professionals will be able to fulfill their continuing education requirements by attending PSPP/Division 39 approved programs.

  
  

  Location and Parking

  Directions to St. Joseph's Hall at Chestnut Hill College - Main Campus not Sugarloaf

  We are pleased to hold our program at St. Joseph's Hall at Chestnut Hill College (#11 on the campus map).  To view a map of the campus, please visit the following website: 

  http://www.chc.edu/uploadedImages/directions_and_travel/campusmap_large.jpg)

  For directions to Chestnut Hill College Main Campus, please visit the following website or see below:

  http://www.chc.edu/directions_and_travel/Directions/

  From the North and East 

  Route 95/New Jersey Turnpike South to Exit 6: Pennsylvania Turnpike/Route 276 West to Exit 333: Norristown. From the exit, stay to the right to follow Germantown Pike East toward Philadelphia. Continue for four miles to the College, the entrance is on the left.

  From Northeast Philadelphia

  Follow Cottman Avenue/Route 73 West to Church Road and turn left. Follow to Paper Mill Road and turn left. Continue to Stenton Avenue, follow signs and bear right onto Stenton. Continue for one mile to the intersection of Stenton and Northwestern. Turn left onto Northwestern Avenue; continue past Morris Arboretum, one block to Germantown Avenue, then turn left. The College entrance is on the left.

  From the West

  Route 76 or 276/Pennsylvania Turnpike East to Exit 333: Norristown. From the exit, stay to the right to follow Germantown Pike East toward Philadelphia. Continue for four miles to the College, the entrance is on the left.

  From the South

  I-95 North to Route 476 North to Exit 19: Germantown Pike East. Exit onto Chemical Road to the traffic light. Turn right onto Germantown Pike and continue four miles to the College, the entrance is on the left.

  By Train

  Both the Chestnut Hill East (R7) and the Chestnut Hill West (R8) lines service Chestnut Hill from Center City Philadelphia and 30th Street Station. Chestnut Hill East also provides service from Trenton, N.J. and Northeast Philadelphia. If using Chestnut Hill East (R7), walk two blocks down Chestnut Hill Avenue to Germantown Avenue. Take the “L” Bus to the College entrance, one mile west.

  Bus Directions

  Enter the College at Germantown Avenue and then do either of the following:

  Turn right and stop at the SSJ Green Sticker lot and unload passengers there. Alternatively, you may continue up the hill to the front of Saint Joseph Hall (Do not go into the circle) and unload passengers there and have the bus continue down the hill and park in the lower lot.

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• Spring Brunch Series - "It's not your father's mental conflict..."

  • When
    15 Apr 2012
  •  
    11:00 AM - 1:30 PM
  • Location
    Hosted by Peter Badgio in Narberth. Location to be e-mailed to registrants.
  • Spaces left
    14

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  "It's Not Your Father's Mental Conflict..."

  Psychic Conflict: Its central role in psychoanalytic thinking--its evolution as a concept and its enduring place in clinical work

  Sunday, April 15, 2012 hosted by Peter Badgio

  Presenter - Michael Kowitt, PhD, ABPP

  Psychic conflict was and remains a major component of psychoanalytic thinking over the last 115 years. In this program, we will use clinical examples to demonstrate the ubiquity and importance of mental conflict in psychological life.  We will examine the shifting understanding of this topic from Freud through the austere era of ego psychology, through the general abandonment of libido theory, and on through more current psychological and object related conceptions.  In the course of this discussion, we will note the developing complexity of the classical model to its high point in the post-war era, followed by the growing trend toward simplification and the use of more ad hoc formulations.  We will also explore the enduring role of psychic conflict as it has been shaped and influenced by growing perspectives on trauma, formulations around narcissism, and interpersonal processes. 

  Learning Objectives:

  1. Participants will be able to describe the therapeutic utility of mental conflict as it occurs in a wide array of clinical manifestations.  
  2. Participants will be able to describe the evolution of the concept from its early forms through many modifications up to the present.   

  Michael Kowitt, PhD, ABPP, is Director of Psychology at Pennsylvania Hospital, UPHS.  He is an Associate Clinical Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania’s Perelman School of Medicine.  He is also on the faculty of the Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia where he is a Training and Supervising Analyst.  He has a private practice in psychoanalysis and psychotherapy in Center City and in Bala Cynwyd.  Michael is also a past president of PSPP.

  11:00 A.M. to 11:30 A.M.  Brunch

  11:30 A.M. to 1:30 P.M.    Presentation and Discussion

  Location 
  

  Many thanks to Peter Badgio for hosting this program in his Narberth home!

  Registrants will receive an email confirmation containing directions to his home.

  Participants

  This program is intended for mental health professionals with an intermediate level of knowledge and experience. It is not limited to individuals practicing in a predominately psychoanalytic mode.

  
  

  PSPP and Division 39 are committed to conducting all activities in strict conformity with the American Psychological Association’s Ethical Principles for Psychologists. If you believe that a violation of ethics has occurred during these presentations, of if you have concerns about such issues as handicapped accessibility, distress with regard to program content or other complaints, please contact Dr. Patricia Rice at (267) 259-6816 or email ricepg@gmail.com. Participants with special needs will be accommodated if possible. For any questions or other concerns regarding access, confidentiality, privacy or other issues, please contact Jay Moses, Ph.D. at (267) 254-0791 or email mjaymoses@gmail.com.  There is no commercial support for this program nor are there any relationships between the CE sponsor, presenting organization, presenter, program content, research, grants or other funding that could reasonably be construed as conflict of interest. During the program, the presenter will discuss the validity/utility of the content/approach as well as the limitations of the approach and most common risk factors, if any.

  Continuing Education

  PSYCHOLOGISTS:  This program is offered for 2 continuing education credits (2.0 CE). Participants must attend 100% of the program. Upon completion of a conference evaluation form, a certificate will be issued. This serves as documentation of attendance for all participants. Psychologists will have their participation registered through Division 39. Division 39 is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for Psychologists.  Division 39 maintains responsibility for the program and its content.

  
  

  SOCIAL WORKERS:  Social Workers, Marriage and Family Therapists, and Professional Counselors in Pennsylvania can receive continuing education from continuing education providers approved by the APA.  Since PSPP is approved by APA to sponsor continuing education, licensed social workers, licensed clinical social workers, licensed marriage and family therapists, and licensed professional counselors will be able to fulfill their continuing education requirement by attending PPA continuing education programs.

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• Spring Brunch Series - The Tao of Psychoanalysis: Where Kohut and Mitchell meet Buddha and Lao Tzu

  • When
    03 Jun 2012
  •  
    11:00 AM - 1:30 PM
  • Location
    Hosted by Shobhana Kanal in Bala Cynwyd. Location to be e-mailed to registrants.
  • Spaces left
    3

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  The Tao of Psychoanalysis: Where Kohut and Mitchell meet Buddha and Lao Tzu (And where, via your clinical empathy, so do you...)

  Sunday, June 3, 2012 hosted by Shobhana Kanal
  

  Presenter - Farrell Silverberg, PhD, NCPsyA

  This discussion will highlight empathy as central to our work with clients.  It will include interactive sharing about the experience of empathy in treatment –- including both the obvious and non-obvious versions of co-experiencing. The presenter will offer a discussion of Kohut’s introspective empathy and draw parallels with Eastern thought, will move through the notion of empathy as an outcome of intersubjective experience, and then will take empathy a step furtherundefineda step that most of us may take from time to time while doing analytic workundefinedbut are hesitant to admit out loud for fear of our inner experience being framed as an undignified countertransference instead of an essential connection through which the deepest treatment can be conducted. This conversation will also touch upon the process of welcoming, cultivating and incorporating open-heartedness toward the client into our sessions and interventions as well as discuss the issue of maintaining an optimal balance between containing and releasing attunement-empathically gained experience.

  Learning Objectives:

  1. Attendees will develop an understanding of their own experiences of empathy in conducting psychotherapy and in the countertransference in relation to Eastern concepts of compassion and co-humanity. 
  2. Attendees will better grasp the notion of a main therapeutic path of intentionally cultivating and infusing their own attunement and compassion into analytic work as opposed to viewing empathy as a sidestream to the treatment.
  3. Attendees will be able to better understand and contrast Eastern and Western views of interconnectedness and separateness as these apply to the therapy relationship (including Freud’s “oceanic” experience, Kohut’s “matrix of connection,” Ogden’s “reverie,” “experience-distant/experience-near” and “intersubjectivity”). And, attendees will be able to reconsider and possibly be more welcoming of their own subjective experiences in the treatment setting in light of these views.

  Farrell Silverberg, PhD, NCPsyA,  is a clinical psychologist, a certified psychoanalyst, and the first Western student of Taopsychotherapy master Rhee Dong Shik in Seoul, Korea. Silverberg has lectured internationally and has published in journals in the United States and in Asia. He began integrating psychoanalysis and Eastern philosophy thirty years ago, and his papers on the combined technique include Therapeutic Resonance (1988), Resonance and Exchange in Contemplative Psychotherapy (2008), and, most recently, The Tao of Self Psychology: Was Heinz Kohut a Taoist Sage? (2011). Having served in hospitals and clinics over the years, Silverberg is currently a Supervising and Training psychoanalyst at the Philadelphia School of Psychoanalysis. He is currently working on a paper for IARPP that bridges the work of Stephen Mitchell and the Tibetan Book of the Dead, no less.

  11:00 A.M. to 11:30 A.M.  Brunch

  11:30 A.M. to 1:30 P.M.    Presentation and Discussion

  Location 
  

  Many thanks to Shobhana Kanal for hosting this brunch in her Bala Cynwyd home!

  Registrants will receive an email confirmation containing directions to her home.

  Participants

  This program is intended for mental health professionals with an intermediate level of knowledge and experience. It is not limited to individuals practicing in a predominately psychoanalytic mode.

  
  

  PSPP and Division 39 are committed to conducting all activities in strict conformity with the American Psychological Association’s Ethical Principles for Psychologists. If you believe that a violation of ethics has occurred during these presentations, of if you have concerns about such issues as handicapped accessibility, distress with regard to program content or other complaints, please contact Dr. Patricia Rice at (267) 259-6816 or email ricepg@gmail.com. Participants with special needs will be accommodated if possible. For any questions or other concerns regarding access, confidentiality, privacy or other issues, please contact Jay Moses, Ph.D. at (267) 254-0791 or email mjaymoses@gmail.com.  There is no commercial support for this program nor are there any relationships between the CE sponsor, presenting organization, presenter, program content, research, grants or other funding that could reasonably be construed as conflict of interest. During the program, the presenter will discuss the validity/utility of the content/approach as well as the limitations of the approach and most common risk factors, if any.

  
  

  Continuing Education

  
  

  PSYCHOLOGISTS: This program is offered for 2 continuing education credits (2.0 CE). Participants must attend 100% of the program. Upon completion of a conference evaluation form, a certificate will be issued. This serves as documentation of attendance for all participants. Psychologists will have their participation registered through Division 39. Division 39 is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for Psychologists.  Division 39 maintains responsibility for the program and its content.

  
  

  SOCIAL WORKERS:  Social Workers, Marriage and Family Therapists, and Professional Counselors in Pennsylvania can receive continuing education from continuing education providers approved by the APA.  Since PSPP is approved by APA to sponsor continuing education, licensed social workers, licensed clinical social workers, licensed marriage and family therapists, and licensed professional counselors will be able to fulfill their continuing education requirement by attending PPA continuing education programs.

  
  

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• Spring Brunch Series - Hypnosis and Psychodynamic Psychotherapy: Theory, Research, and Clinical Applications

  • When
    10 Jun 2012
  •  
    11:00 AM - 1:30 PM
  • Location
    Hosted by Phyllis Ditlow & John DesJardins in East Falls. Location to be e-mailed to registrants.
  • Spaces left
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  Hypnosis and Psychodynamic Psychotherapy: Theory, Research, and Clinical Applications

  NEW DATE! Sunday, June 10, 2012 hosted by Phyllis Ditlow and John DesJardins

  Presenter - Eric Spiegel, PhD

  This presentation will introduce, define and explain clinical hypnosis and related hypnotic phenomena; discuss the relationship between hypnosis and psychoanalysis; consider how hypnosis can be integrated into a psychodynamic theoretical orientation, particularly from a relational perspective; and present clinical applications of hypnosis, utilizing case material.

  Learning Objectives:

  1. Provide a definition of clinical hypnosis and explain how it is applicable in practice
  2. Describe some of the evidence base for clinical hypnosis, as well as further research needed
  3. Understand how hypnosis and psychoanalysis are related, and explain how hypnosis can be integrated into a psychodynamic practice
  4. Describe where to receive further reliable information and training about clinical hypnosis 

  Eric Spiegel, PhD, is a licensed psychologist in private practice in Philadelphia and Bryn Mawr, PA.  He specializes in mind-body psychology, anxiety and mood disorders, relational concerns, and trauma.  In 2007, he was credentialed with a Certification in Clinical Hypnosis by the American Society of Clinical Hypnosis (ASCH), indicating that he had met the educational qualifications and required training in clinical hypnosis.  He is also the incoming Moderator-Elect for the Board of Governors of ASCH.  Eric has presented on clinical hypnosis to a variety of student and professional groups in the Philadelphia area.  He received his Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology from the University of Maryland in 2005.

  11:00 A.M. to 11:30 A.M.  Brunch

  11:30 A.M. to 1:30 P.M.    Presentation and Discussion

  Location 
  

  Many thanks to Phyllis Ditlow and John DesJardins for hosting this program in their East Falls home!

  
  

  Registrants will receive an email confirmation containing directions to their home.

  Participants

  This program is intended for mental health professionals with an intermediate level of knowledge and experience. It is not limited to individuals practicing in a predominately psychoanalytic mode.

  
  

  PSPP and Division 39 are committed to conducting all activities in strict conformity with the American Psychological Association’s Ethical Principles for Psychologists. If you believe that a violation of ethics has occurred during these presentations, of if you have concerns about such issues as handicapped accessibility, distress with regard to program content or other complaints, please contact Dr. Patricia Rice at (267) 259-6816 or email ricepg@gmail.com. Participants with special needs will be accommodated if possible. For any questions or other concerns regarding access, confidentiality, privacy or other issues, please contact Jay Moses, Ph.D. at (267) 254-0791 or email mjaymoses@gmail.com.  There is no commercial support for this program nor are there any relationships between the CE sponsor, presenting organization, presenter, program content, research, grants or other funding that could reasonably be construed as conflict of interest. During the program, the presenter will discuss the validity/utility of the content/approach as well as the limitations of the approach and most common risk factors, if any.

  Continuing Education

  PSYCHOLOGISTS: This program is offered for 2 continuing education credits (2.0 CE). Participants must attend 100% of the program. Upon completion of a conference evaluation form, a certificate will be issued. This serves as documentation of attendance for all participants. Psychologists will have their participation registered through Division 39. Division 39 is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for Psychologists.  Division 39 maintains responsibility for the program and its content.

  
  

  SOCIAL WORKERS:  Social Workers, Marriage and Family Therapists, and Professional Counselors in Pennsylvania can receive continuing education from continuing education providers approved by the APA.  Since PSPP is approved by APA to sponsor continuing education, licensed social workers, licensed clinical social workers, licensed marriage and family therapists, and licensed professional counselors will be able to fulfill their continuing education requirement by attending PPA continuing education programs.

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