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Apr 27, 2002: Seminar II: Charles McCormack, L.C.S.W., B.C.D. |
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Psychoanalytic Couples TherapyInvited Guest - Charles McCormack, L.C.S.W., B.C.D. is a psychotherapist, teacher and author of the book Treating Borderline States in Marriage: Dealing with Oppositionalism, Ruthless Aggression and Severe Resistance (published in 2000 by Jason Aronson). He has been in full time private practice since 1992. He is on the Teaching and Supervisory Faculty of Sheppard-Pratt Hospital where he was in the Long-Term Adult Inpatient Division from 1988 to 1992. He has been on the faculty of the Washington School of Psychiatry, The University of Maryland School of Social Work, and the American HealthCare Institute. He has a Master's degree in Psychology from Loyola College in Maryland. The Maryland Society of Clinical Social Workers named Charles McCormack 1994 "Clinician of the Year". In 2001 he presented a very well received seminar for P.S.P.P. prompting requests to bring Mr. McCormack back for more thorough consideration of his work on psychoanalytic therapy with couples. Program Objectives- Participants in this seminar will closely consider a way of working with couples based on the models of British Object Relations theories and elaborated in Charles' McCormack's book Treating Borderline States in Marriage. This therapeutic methodology is one that facilitates couples reclaiming what was projected onto their partners so that individual development is enhanced and interpersonal conflict is reduced. Participants will learn treatment techniques that promote an outcome in which couples become more objective about their relationship and their respective roles. The methods to be studied are also applicable to work with families and we will engage in discussion about the various challenges, possibilities and experiences discussants bring to couples and family work. The learning objectives of this seminar are: 1) to increase participants' understanding of relevant object relations concepts including those of Fairbairn, Klein, Winnicott, Ogden and Balint; 2) to learn how couples rely on primitive defenses to "interpersonalize the intrapsychic" and recreate the traumas and frustrations of their childhood; 3) to learn techniques in which the therapist creates a holding environment for the couple and engages in separate dyadic interactions; 4) to enhance the therapist's use of self as a transference object in which basic issues of trust and attachment are engaged and in the countertransference to make contact with and return denied and projected aspects of each partner. Reading Group Facilitators - Andrea Katin, M.S.W., J.D. and Fran Gerstein, M.S.W., B.C.D. Andrea Katin, a licensed clinical social worker and former attorney, was trained at the Institute for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy. She currently serves on the Board of Directors of P.S.P.P. and P.C.P.E. She maintains a private practice as a psychotherapist and is a child custody expert providing court evaluations, testimony, mediation and co-parenting counseling. Fran Gerstein is a licensed clinical social worker and has a certificate in psychoanalytically oriented psychotherapy from the Brooklyn Institute of Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. She is currently the Clinical Director of the Renfrew Center in Bryn Mawr where she specializes in eating disorders and she has a private practice treating individuals, couples and families. Reading Group Dates and Times
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Location- Swarthmore College CE Credits-11 For Registration or Information contact: Birgitte Haselgrove, 610-328-8059. |
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