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1. Envy: Why We Feel it and How to Work With It in Treatment New York, NY: May 19, 2012
2. Bipolar Disorder: The Interface Between Medication and Psychotherapy New York, NY: June 12, 2012
3. Treating the Concrete Patient New York, NY: June 16, 2012
4. How to Organize Your Clinical Material or Prepare a Case for Presentation New York, NY: June 18, 2012
5. Thirteen and “Broken-Hearted” New York, NY: June 20, 2012
6. The Good, the Bad and the Very, Very Bad: Bringing the Whole Child into Therapy New York, NY: July 14, 2012

When envy starts is up for debate but that it exists is not. The presenter will look at the types of fantasies that relate to envious feelings and argue for the universality of envy and how early precursors during the first year of life affect development. She will try to show how for many people when they disown desire they are more likely to have severe problems with envy. She will try to show how envy shows itself across the life cycle and particularly how powerful it is between a mother and daughter.

Case examples will highlight how difficult it is to change feelings of destructive envy since they seem to affect the whole sense of self (intellectually, emotionally and even one’s body ego). The group will focus on the different types of envy to show how envy can sometimes be just a painful feeling that is fleeting (from a narcissistic wound) and other times, depending on one’s early development, is more destructive and entrenched. Hopefully, the workshop will also explore how we all experience envy and what makes it tolerable.

Presenter: Carolyn Ellman, PhD, Faculty and Supervisor, Metropolitan Institute for Training in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, Adult Program; Training and Supervising Analyst, Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, New York Freudian Society; Faculty and Supervising Analyst, Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, New York University; Supervisor, Clinical Psychology Program, City College, New York, New York.

Event Contact:
(the link below is available for obtaining more information)

Joyce A Lerner, LCSW, Director, MITPP
160 West 86th Street
New York, NY 10024

212/496-2858

Bipolar Disorder is one of the puzzling diagnoses in psychiatric illnesses. As a result of ongoing clinical practice and neuroscience research, the diagnosis has gone through several revisions and includes a wide spectrum of psychological presentations. While the research evidence for genetic roots and biochemical causes of Bipolar Disorder is rapidly growing, the very basic Kleinian principle of Paranoid-Schizoid Position vs Depressive Position appears to dominate the psychodynamics of most of these patients. These Kleinian positions will be presented and explained. This interactive workshop will review the diagnosis and the psychodynamic and the psychopharmacological aspects of this illness. The interface between medication and psychotherapy together with some clinical case material will be presented.

Presenter: Kamran Rahmani, MD, Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Albert Einstein College of Medicine; Faculty and Supervisor, Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, New York.

Event Contact:
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Joyce A Lerner, LCSW, Director, MITPP
160 West 86th Street
New York, NY 10024

212/496-2858

This mini-course will aim to more fully explore the problem of concreteness as well as several different ways to intervene in order to begin the process of opening up a therapeutic space in which effective interpretation can occur. In other words, how is it possible for both clinician and patient to arrive at a shared sense that anything that goes on in the therapeutic context could ultimately mean something other than its manifest content?

Participants will be encouraged to bring vignettes from their own practices as we work through this most challenging clinical issue.

Presenter: Brian Kloppenberg, MFA, LP, Faculty, Adult Program, Metropolitan Institute for Training in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy; , Adult Program; Board Member, Training and Supervising Analyst,: National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis; Director, Theodore Reik Clinical Center for Psychotherapy.

Event Contact:
(you could use the link below for more detail)

Joyce A Lerner, LCSW, Director, MITPP
160 West 86th Street
New York, NY 10024

212/496-2858

Organizing your clinical work with a patient is a unique endeavor. Most candidates and/or seasoned clinicians find their first experience very challenging because this kind of organizing draws on so many different skills, such as: the capacity to integrate clinical theory with practice, the ability to select and organize the clinical material which best represents your patient and, if you're writing about the case, the ability to write clearly. The hardest part may be conceptualizing the therapeutic process so the patient and the therapist come alive.

This mini course will cover the steps that can help you think about your clinical material in a more useful way or produce a presentation or paper which captures the therapeutic process, represents your understanding of your patient, demonstrates your role in the treatment, and substantiates your dynamic and diagnostic thinking.

Instructor: Louise Crandall, PhD, LCSW, Faculty and Supervisor, Adult Program Metropolitan Institute for Training in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy; Training and Supervising Analyst, New York Freudian Society; Adjunct Associate Professor, School of Social Work, New York University.

Aly, who came to treatment at 13 years old, was born with a congenital heart disease: a failed heart. At that time, open heart surgery was scheduled immediately, followed by medications, emergency room visits and a pacemaker. Her childhood was completely controlled and dictated by her heart. Yet Aly became a powerful presence in and out of therapy yearning for life and normalcy, just wanting to experience freedom. Her complicated family situation—life with a guilty, resentful, intrusive grandmother and a father battling the grandmother for custody from afar—added to the challenges of this treatment.

The therapeutic relationship seemed to gel almost instantly out of the patient’s overwhelming need for help during a period of transition, loss and adjustment. Challenges soon became apparent. In this presentation, a complex treatment of an adolescent with a history of serious medical issues from birth and an embattled family will be discussed.

Presenter: Melba Villar, LMSW.

Event Contact:
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Joyce A Lerner, LCSW, Director, MITPP
160 West 86th Street
New York, NY 10024

212/496-2858

This workshop will focus on ways to bring the whole child into treatment, to work with the loving and aggressive, the anxious and attached, the needy and obstructionist. Case examples will be used to demonstrate how to engage all sides of children in treatment, helping them to bring us their pleasures and pains, anxieties and anger, so that we can work together to help them alleviate their difficulties at home and in school.

Instructor: Jill Bellinson, PhD, Faculty and Supervisor, Child and Adolescent Program Metropolitan Institute for Training in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy; William Alanson White Institute, National Institute for the Psychotherapies, Adelphi University; Supervisor, Clinical Psychology Doctoral Program, City University of New York; Supervisor, Clinical Psychology Doctoral Program, Columbia University.

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