Previous Courses

2010-2011

Hedda Bolgar, PhD

(via Skype)

Clinical Case Conference

Oct 10, 24, Nov 7, 21, 2010
Sundays 1-4

The Chicago School, 325 N Wells, Chicago

Hedda Bolgar, PhD, ABPP, was born in 1909 in Vienna. She received her PhD from the University of Vienna in 1934 and left Austria in 1938, the day of Hitler’s arrival. Dr Bolgar completed her postdoctoral training in Chicago at Michael Reese Hospital and her analytic training at the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis, where she worked with Franz Alexander and Heinz Kohut. A founder of WILA (the Wright Institute Los Angeles) in 1974, an outpatient low fee mental health clinic and training center, Dr Bolgar also played a central role in the founding and development of the Los Angeles Institute and Society for Psychoanalytic Studies. In April, 2010, she received the Lifetime Achievement Award from Division 39 of APA, just prior to her 101st birthday. Throughout her life, Dr Bolgar has focused on the integration of psychic and external realities and the role of the psychoanalyst in political and social realities. She currently teaches, supervises, and sees patients in private practice in Los Angeles.

Gila Ofer, PhD

The Individual, the Interpersonal, and the Social: Readings in Winnicott and Bion

Oct 15-17, 2010: Fri 5:30-9pm for Fridays@CCP
Sat 9-1, 2:30-4:30; Sun 9-1

Fridays@CCP

October 15, 2010, 5:30 - 9PM
The Annual Marcia Adler Memorial Lecture

“Transformations: Healing of Trauma and Oppression” as seen in the 2005 movie “As It Is in Heaven” directed by Kay Pollak.”  The evening will include a viewing of the film, followed by a discussion led by Dr Ofer.

In this course we will focus on two of the greatest psychoanalytic theorists: Donald Winnicott and Wilfred Bion.  Both of them developed a process-based theory of self, a self in process with few fixed points along the journey.  Both refused to be pinned down to rigid systematic explanations.  Both developed fluid and open models of subjectivity, emphasizing the importance of personal meaning as a goal, but within an interpersonal matrix. Both viewed the birth of the baby as profoundly intersubjective, emphasizing the role of the mother who must adapt to the needs of the infant.  They believed in the importance of external reality -- in particular the early maternal environment and the evolution of self and the thought process.  

We will also look at the similarities in perspective (in theory and practice) between Winnicott and Bion, but also at their differences, keeping in mind pluralistic thinking and the ability to shift perspective.  Participants will be asked to share their clinical experiences.

Gila Ofer has a BA in English and French literature from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. She has an MA in clinical psychology from Tel-Aviv University and received her PhD in psychology from Bar-Ilan University, Israel.

Dr. Ofer is a founding member and past president of The Tel-Aviv Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis. She is also a founding member of The Israeli Institute of Group Analysis. She is on the faculty of both institutes as a teacher and supervisor. She is also a supervisor and on the faculty of the Post-Graduate School for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, Tel-Aviv University. She is the past editor and currently an associate editor of “Mikbatz,” the Israeli journal of group psychotherapy.

Dr. Ofer has published her work in leading journals. Her papers deal with diverse topics, such as the influence of the analyst's dreams on the analytic process; the influence of the analyst's illness on the psychoanalytic process; curiosity; love and hate in psychoanalysis; relational psychoanalysis; gender and psychoanalysis; the social unconscious. She has presented her work and taught in Israel, Europe and the US.

Dr. Ofer is a member of the executive board of the European Federation of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (EFPP). She is also a member of the advisory board of CCP.

Readings
  1. Winnicott, D.W. (1967). The location of cultural experience. Int. J. Psycho-Anal., 48.
  2. Winnicott, D.W. (1969). The Use of an Object and Relating through Identifications. In: Playing and Reality (1971).
  3. Winnicott, D.W. (1971). Dreaming, Fantasying, and Living: A Case-history describing a Primary Dissociation. In: Playing and Reality.
  4. Bion, W.R. (1970). Attention and Interpretation. Ch. 2: Medicine as a Model, and ch. 7: container and contained.
  5. Bion, W.R. (1967). A theory of thinking. In: Second thoughts.
  6. Bion, W.R. (1994; 1987). Clinical Seminars: Brasilia. Cases 7 and 8.
Recommended
  1. Symington N. & Symington J. (1996). The clinical thinking of Wilfred Bion. London: Routledge.
  2. Little, M. (1990). Psychotic anxieties and containment. (Epilogue: a comment on Donald Winnicott).

Deborah Luepnitz, PhD

Devotion and Desire: Working with Winnicott and Lacan

Nov 12-14, 2010: Fri 7-9pm for Fridays@CCP
Sat 9-1, 2:30-4:30; Sun 9-1

The Chicago School, 325 N Wells, Chicago

The aim of this course is to bring into provocative contact two of the greatest psychoanalytic originals since Freud: Donald Winnicott and Jacques Lacan. Although American analysts have long appreciated the work of Winnicott and the British Middle Group, they have avoided Lacan, relegating his "obscure" texts to literature and cultural studies departments.

Dr. Deborah Luepnitz is known for her capacity to make Lacan accessible without sacrificing complexity. She will use Winnicott's familiar work as a humanistic counterpoint to Lacan's post-humanism, contrasting their views of: the mirror stage, the goals of treatment, their use of diagnostic categories, and their clinical techniques.

Participants will learn fundamental Lacanian constructs such as: the three registers, the divided subject, the desire of the Other, the family complexes, and the jouissance of the symptom. Clinical examples will illustrate the use of Winnicott and Lacan in her own psychoanalytic practice.

A videotaped interview of Lacan and an audiotaped address by Winnicott will introduce participants to the delightful style and wit of: "Winnicott, the analyst of devotion and Lacan, the analyst of desire."

Deborah Anna Luepnitz is on the clinical Faculty of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. She is the author of The Family Interpreted: Psychoanalysis, Feminism, and Family Therapy (1988) and more recently, Schopenhauer's Porcupines: Intimacy and Its Dilemmas, a book of psychotherapy cases directed towards a general audience. Published in 2001, it has been translated into 6 languages. Dr Luepnitz was also a contributing author to the Cambridge Companion to Lacan. Her article titled “Thinking in the Space Between Winnicott and Lacan” was published last year in the International Journal of Psychoanalysis. Four years ago, Dr Luepnitz founded Insight for All (IFA), which connects pro bono analysts with formerly homeless men and women living in residence. She maintains a private practice in Philadelphia.

Readings
  1. Donald Winnicott, “Mirror Role of Mother and Family in Child Development." In Playing and Reality. London: Tavistock. pp. 111-118
  2. Jacques Lacan. "The mirror stage as formative of the function of the "I" as revealed in psychoanalytic experience." Ecrits: A Selection. NY: Norton, l977, pp 1-7.
  3. Deborah Luepnitz, "Thinking in the Space Between Winnicott and Lacan." International Journal of Psychoanalysis. Vol. 90 (5) October, 2009, pp 957-981.

Gemma Maragoni Ainslie, PhD, ABPP

Gender: Conceptualizations, Clinical Considerations

Feb 11-13, 2011
Fri 7-9pm, Sat 9-1, 2:30-4:30; Sun 9-1

The Chicago School, 325 N Wells, Chicago

This course will examine historical and recent psychoanalytic understandings of gender from a developmental perspective, with an eye towards considering implications of gender in our clinical work. One need pivot Freud’s focus on sexuality only slightly to view gender as his central concern, from his emphasis on the phallus to his puzzlement as to what women want. Not quite a century later, thinkers from multiple disciplines have questioned what in Freud’s time was a given – male or female, male vs. female, a binary assignment and living of gender. In response to both biological possibilities and cultural shifts from the 1960s forward, psychoanalysis, too, has had to review and rethink our theory and our practice regarding gender.

What do we “know” about how gender identity develops? Are there nodal points in development which are particularly salient for gender identity formation? What can we posit about the impact of parents and other significant objects on its formation? What is the relationship between gender identity and sexual orientation? What is gained and what is lost in “committing to” a gender identity?

From a clinical perspective, the presence of two gendered individuals in the intimate exchange of psychoanalysis can be viewed as most salient in the transference-countertransference. From the moment a prospective analysand contacts us, we have a sense of and a response to their gender. This process is so automatic as to be unexamined immediately, except in instances where gender identity or sexual orientation may prove to be of concern to the patient or when in self-examination the clinician finds it to be a concern for his or her self. Attending to how we inevitably fashion our clinical responses on the basis of our own idiosyncratic constructions of gender is essential and case material from class members will be used to illustrate our dilemmas in this regard.

The course will begin with a broad discussion of gender as it enters our consulting room. I will describe how I came to be interested in this topic as well as offer some clinical vignettes. Participants are asked to come prepared with questions about the impact of gender on clinical work and with their own descriptive vignettes.

Gemma Marangoni Ainslie is a psychologist psychoanalyst in private practice in Austin, Texas. She is an adjunct faculty member at the Houston-Galveston Psychoanalytic Institute, has served as President of the Section (III) of Women, Gender and Psychoanalysis, and is currently President of the Section (I) of Psychologist Psychoanalyst Pracitioners of Division 39 of the American Psychological Association. She was co-editor of Psychoanalytic Reflections on a Gender-Free Case: Into the Void (Routledge, 2005) and has presented at national and international meetings on multiple topics, including gender. Her research interests include transsexualism and the mother-daughter relationship at menarche.

Gemma Marangoni Ainslie is a psychologist psychoanalyst in private practice in Austin, Texas. She is an adjunct faculty member at the Houston-Galveston Psychoanalytic Institute, has served as President of the Section (III) of Women, Gender and Psychoanalysis, and is currently President of the Section (I) of Psychologist Psychoanalyst Pracitioners of Division 39 of the American Psychological Association. She was co-editor of Psychoanalytic Reflections on a Gender-free Case: Into the Void (Routledge, 2005) and has presented at national and international meetings on multiple topics, including gender. Her research interests include transsexualism and the mother- daughter relationship at menarche.

Ann-Louise Silver, MD

The Lives and Works of the US Pioneers in the Psychotherapy of the Psychoses

Mar 11-13, 2011: Fri 7-9pm for Fridays@CCP
Sat 9-1, 2:30-4:30; Sun 9-1

The Chicago School, 325 N Wells, Chicago

Fridays@CCP

Lecture and discussion open to the public
Friday March 11, 2011
6:30 Registration and reception
7 - 9PM Lecture and discussion

Emphasizing contributions from the Washington area, beginning with the presentation for Fridays@CCP, this seminar talk include photographs and sound bites of the professional giants and photos of the places where they worked. It will trace the historical development of psychoanalytic interest in treating psychosis, from its earliest days, through the emergence of interpersonal psychotherapy, to its evolution into relational psychotherapy. The presentation aims to inspire participants to delve into the writings of these master clinicians who will then inevitably serve as quasi-supervisors of participants' ongoing clinical work, challenging them to develop increasingly focused awareness of their minute-to-minute emotional responses to their patients/clients.

Ann-Louise S. Silver, was on the medical staff of the Chestnut Lodge Hospital from 1976 until it closed in 2001, where she served as its Director of Education. She currently serves on the faculties of the Washington Center for Psychoanalysis, the Washington School of Psychiatry, the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences and the Department of Psychiatry of the University of Maryland. She organized the United States Chapter of the International Society for the Psychological treatments of the Schizophrenias and other Psychoses and served as its first president, from 1998 to 2008. She served for nine years on the international board of ISPS, the last three as its treasurer.

She is in the private practice of psychiatry and psychoanalysis, working since 1974 in an office in her home in Columbia, Maryland which you can visit at www.mdpsychotherapy.com and where you can read and comment on representative papers by her.

Readings
  1. Silver, Ann-Louise. (1993) "Countertransference, Ferenczi, and Washington, DC." Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis, 21(4), 637-654

Neville Symington, PhD

The Source of Sanity and a Pattern of Madness

April 8-10, 2011: Fri 7-9pm for Fridays@CCP
Sat 9-1, 2:30-4:30; Sun 9-1

The Chicago School, 325 N Wells, Chicago

Fridays@CCP

Friday April 8, 2011
6:30 Registration and reception
7 - 9PM Lecture and discussion
Lecture and discussion open to the public.

Dr Symington’s Fridays@CCP presentation will be “A Pattern of Madness: An Overview." In that talk he will outline his theory of Madness. On Saturday and Sunday he will elaborate on the aspects of his theory, as presented Friday evening.

Neville Symington is a psycho-analyst in private practice with his wife (also a psycho-analyst) in Sydney, Australia. As a young man he took a diploma in Philosophy andthen in Theology. He later did a degree in Psychology and took a diploma in ClinicalPsychology. He did his psycho-analytic training in London and is a Fellow of the British Psycho-Analytical Society. He held a senior staff position in the Adult Department of theTavistock Clinic from 1977-85. He was also Chairman of the Psychology Discipline forthe Adult and Adolescent Departments at the Tavistock Clinic in London.. In 1986 he migrated to Sydney, Australia where he was Chairman of the Sydney Institute for Psycho-Analysis from 1987-93. He was President of the Australian Psycho-Analytic Society from 1999-2002.

He is the author of The Analytic Experience (Free Association Press and St. Martins Press); Emotion and Spirit (published by Cassell and later re-published by Karnac Books); Narcissism: A New Theory; The Making of a Psychotherapist; The Spirit of Sanity; A Pattern of Madness; How to Choose a Psychotherapist; The Blind Man Sees: Freud's Awakening and Other Essays; A Healing Conversation: How Healing Happens; and Becoming a Person Through Psychoanalysis, all published by Karnac Books. He is joint-author with Joan Symington of The Clinical Thinking of Wilfred Bion (Routledge). He also published a novel called A Priest's Affair (Free Association Press) and a book of poetry In-gratitude and Other Poems (Karnac). He has lectured in Britain, Norway, Denmark, Poland, Germany, the United States, Brazil, Israel, India, Japan, New Zealand and Australia. He has a website at www.nevillesymington.com

Readings
  1. Symington, Neville, (2002) A Pattern of Madness (Karnac)
  2. Symington, Neville (1993) Narcissism: A New Theory

Jane Gallop, PhD

Gender, Sexuality, Psychoanalysis

May 13-15, 2011: Fri 7-9pm for Fridays@CCP
Sat 9-1, 2:30-4:30; Sun 9-1

The Chicago School, 325 N Wells, Chicago

Fridays@CCP

Friday May 13, 2011
6:30 Registration and reception
7 - 9PM Lecture and discussion

Dr Gallopʼs seminar will offer an overview of Psychoanalysis and Feminism and how that strain of psychoanalytic thinking evolved into Psychoanalysis and Queer Theory, the site of current thought.

Jane Gallop is Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Wisconsin -- Milwaukee. She has published a number of books at the intersection of poststructuralist feminist and psychoanalytic theory, including: The Daughter's Seduction: Feminism and Psychoanalysis (1982), Reading Lacan (1985), Thinking Through the Body (1987), and Anecdotal Theory (2002). She has also published a pair of hybrid memoir/theory books reflecting on her work and home life: Feminist Accused of Sexual Harassment (1997) and Living with His Camera (2003). Gallop is currently doing work in Queer Theory and has just completed a book on the queer temporality of writing, how the reader and the writer are haunted by the death of the author.

2009-2010

Johanna Tabin, PhD, ABPP

The Opening Phase of an Analysis

Sept 20, Oct 11, 25, Nov 15; Sundays 1-4pm

The Chicago School, 325 N Wells, Chicago

Theodore Jacobs, MD

Countertransference and the Analyst's Subjectivity

Oct 16-18, 2009: Fri 7-9pm for Fridays@CCP

Sat 9-1, 2:30-4:30; Sun 9-1

The Chicago School, 325 N Wells, Chicago

Arnold Tobin, MD

Freud's Papers

Dec 7, 2009, Jan 18, Feb 8 Mar 8, Apr 5 May 3, 2010: Mondays 7-9pm

The Chicago School, 325 N Wells, Chicago

Frank Summers, PhD

Treating the Unanalyzable Patient with Analysis

Jan 22, 2010: Fri 7-9pm for Fridays@CCP

Fridays: Feb 5, 19 Mar 5, 19, Apr 2, 10am-12pm

McClurg Court, 333 E Ontario, Ste 4509B, Chicago

Marilyn Charles, PhD

"Dreaming, Fantasying, and Living": Creativity and the Art of Psychoanalysis

Feb 26-28, 2010: Fri 7-9pm for Fridays@CCP

Sat 9-1, 2:30-4:30; Sun 9-1

The Chicago School, 325 N Wells, Chicago

Peter Shabad, PhD

Passions, Losses, and Shame: The Challenge of Mourning and Change

March 28, April 11, 2010: Sundays 9-1 and 2:30-4:30

The Chicago School, 325 N Wells, Chicago

Stefanie Glennon, PhD

Issues around Termination in Psychoanalysis and Mourning

May 7-9, 2010: Fri 7-9pm for Fridays@CCP

Sat 9-1; 2:30-4:30 Sun 9-1

The Chicago School, 325 N Wells, Chicago

2008-2009

Anna Aragno, PhD

The witch's tale: Psychoanalytic method, methodology, models, and metapsychology; Let's sort the whole thing out.

October 3-5, 2008

Revisioning Metapsychology: In today's atheoretical psychoanalytic climate there is no longer any mention of, or interest in, metapsychology. Yet this aspect of psychoanalysis was deemed by Freud to be of the utmost importance, indeed the bedrock and potentially the explanatory foundation for our field. Rather than coming together for rigorous interdisciplinary and epistemological discussion, the field has continued to move on by dissention and division, so that while there are now 12 or so different psychoanalytic "schools," all practicing a "talking" clinical method, there are no consensually agreed upon, or metatheoretical principles, that explain how dialogues work or how "talking" cures.

The overall purpose of this seminar is to identify and discuss the implications of our field's ignoring the need to update, revise and integrate our metapsychology, and to propose new, explanatory foundations within a unified system of ideas from a semiotic and discourse conceptual framework.

Born in Rome, Italy, Anna Aragno first trained and performed as a prima ballerina, winning international acclaim at age 13 for her performance in Giselle, and later, in Raymonda. At 18 she danced solo parts with the Bolshoi Ballet in Moscow; one year later, she won a Fulbright Scholarship to the US, where she gained principal ballerina status with the New York's Metropolitan Opera Ballet.

In her second professional life, Dr Anna Aragno, is a psychoanalyst in private practice in New York and affiliated with the Postgraduate Center for Mental Health and the Washington Square Institute. She is an alumna of the New School and the author of two books: Symbolization; Proposing a Developmental Paradigm for a New Psychoanalytic Model of Mind (1997) and Forms of Knowledge (2008, in press).

Anna Ornstein, MD and Paul Ornstein, MD

Self-psychology: Clinical consequences of a theoretical framework

November 7-9, 2008

Together, Anna and Paul Ornstein, were pioneers --with Heinz Kohut-- in the evolution of the theory of self-psychology. As a result of their long-term collaboration, they have co-authored countless articles and presentations and have presented self-psychology to national and international audiences. Their ongoing interest in self-psychology continues to involve the treatment process.

Anna Ornstein, MD, is Professor Emerita of Child Psychiatry, the University of Cincinnati; Co-Director, International Center for the Study of Psychoanalytic Self-Psychology; and Lecturer in Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School. Dr. Ornstein received her medical degree in Heidelberg, Germany. She completed her psychiatric and child psychiatric training at the University of Cincinnati and is a graduate of the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis. Dr Ornstein is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Cincinnati Psychoanalytic Institute and a Supervising Analyst at the Boston Psychoanalytic Institute. Dr Ornstein's extensive publications include articles on the interpretive process in psychoanalysis, psychoanalytic psychotherapy, child psychopathology, the treatment of children and families, and the process of recovery following the survival of extreme conditions. Dr Ornstein is the recipient of several awards and honors, including the Distinguished Psychiatrist Lecturer Award (American Psychiatric Association, 1989), the Rosenberry Award for Dedication to the care of children (1991), the University of Cincinnati Award for Excellence in Research and Scholarship (1996), and Special Presidential Commendation (American Psychiatric Association, 2000). Anna Ornstein's book, My Mother's Eyes: Holocaust Memories of a Young Girl, (2004) retells her family stories and describes her experience and survival of Auschwitz.

Paul H. Ornstein, MD received his medical degree in Heidelberg, Germany and his psychiatric training at the University of Cincinnati. He is Professor of Psychiatry [Emeritus] and Professor of Psychoanalysis [Emeritus] at the University of Cincinnati. He is Co-Director of the International Center for the Study of Psychoanalytic Self Psychology. He is a graduate of the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis and is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Cincinnati Psychoanalytic Institute and Supervising Analyst at the Boston Psychoanalytic Institute. He is currently Lecturer in Psychiatry at Harvard University Medical School (Massachusetts Mental Health Center) and is a faculty member of the Psychoanalytic Institute New England East and of the Boston Psychoanalytic Institute. Since 1999, he serves as chair of the Training Committee for the Tel Aviv Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis. Dr Ornstein is a former member of the editorial boards of the Journal of the American Psychological Association and Psychoanalytic Inquiry.

Dr. Ornstein has written on psychoanalytic psychotherapy and the interpretive process in psychoanalysis (many of these were jointly written with his wife Anna and on the topic of self psychology). He has co-authored a book with Michael Balint on Focal Psychotherapy and edited and introduced the collection of Heinz Kohut's Selected Writings: The Search for the Self, Volumes I-IV. Dr. Ornstein has nearly one hundred and twenty scientific publications to his credit. Both alone and with his wife, he has conducted more than three-hundred seminars and workshops in most major training centers in the United States and some abroad, including Argentina, Austria, Australia, Canada, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Holland, Israel, Italy, Indonesia (Bali & Yogyakarta) Norway, Peru, Spain, Sweden Switzerland and Turkey.

Stuart Twemlow, MD; Marie Rudden, MD; and others.

Community Psychoanalysis

In collaboration with ICSW, Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis, and Chicago Psychoanalytic Society

December 5-7, 2008

We are planning a weekend-long course (with perhaps some video-conferencing follow-up afterwards) on Community Psychoanalysis to be taught by Stuart Twemlow, Marie Rudden and others. This will be a joint project of the Institute for Clinical Social Work, the Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis, the Institute for Psychoanalysis, and the Chicago Psychoanalytic Society. The idea behind this is to become more thoroughly knowledgeable about the very interesting applications of psychoanalytic thought to community and social issues, and the kinds of interventions that are possible in settings outside of psychotherapy and psychoanalysis, which Stuart Twenlow and his colleagues have been developing over the years.

The course would begin with a Friday night public lecture by Stuart Twemlow on the topic of violence in schools and society, the bully-bystander dynamic, and application of psychoanalytic understanding to intervention in these situations. This will be followed by a seminar style course on Saturday and Sunday, presumably about 10 hours altogether over those two days. Marie Rudden will discuss psychoanalytic theory about group regression, leadership, and applications to community work. She and/or Stuart Twemlow will discuss Vamik Volkan's contributions to theory of large group intervention and international projects. Other subject areas will be covered, such as Gilda Sherwin on intergenerational transmission of trauma, using her experience with second generation Holocaust survivors and with torture victims seeking asylum., and Jeffrey Taxman on post 9/11 and post tsunami interventions. Finally, Stuart Twemlow and Marie Rudden will discuss prejudice and a framework for interventions in racial or class divided situations.

Nancy McWilliams, PhD

Psychoanalytic Understanding of Psychodiagnosis

February 6-8, 2009

Dr McWilliams ideas, to be presented and discussed in this seminar, will be invaluable for recognizing patterns that have therapeutic implications.

Nancy McWilliams, who teaches at the Graduate School of Applied & Professional Psychology at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, is author of Psychoanalytic Diagnosis: Understanding Personality Structure in the Clinical Process (1994), Psychoanalytic Case Formulation (1999), and Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy: A Practitioner's Guide (2004), and is Associate Editor of the Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual (2006). She is President of the Division of sPsychoanalysis (39) of the American Psychological Association, Associate Editor of the Psychoanalytic Review, and on the editorial board of Psychoanalytic Psychology.

Dr. McWilliams has written widely on personality structure and personality disorders, psychodiagnosis, sex and gender, trauma, intensive psychotherapy, and contemporary challenges to the humanistic tradition in psychotherapy. Her books have been translated into twelve languages, and she has lectured widely both nationally and internationally. Her book on case formulation received the Gradiva Award for best psychoanalytic clinical book of 1999; in 2004 she was given the Rosalee Weiss Award for contributions to practice by the Division of Independent Practitioners of the American Psychological Association; and in 2006 she was made an Honorary Member of the American Psychoanalytic Association. A graduate of the National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis, she is also affiliated with the Institute for Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy of New Jersey and the National Training Program of the National Institute for the Psychotherapies in New York City. She has a private practice in Flemington, New Jersey.

Danielle Bergeron, MD

Psychosis à la Lacan

February 20-22, 2009

This seminar will be of interest to participants for its combined focus on Lacanian psychoanalysis as well as possibilities for the treatment of psychosis today.

Danielle Bergeron, MD, is a training analyst and associate professor of psychiatry at the University of Laval, Canada, and a fellow of the American Psychiatric Association. She has numerous publications, including Traiter la Psychose (1990), which she co-authored with Willy Apollon and Lucie Cantin and After Lacan: Clinical Practice and the Subject of the Unconscious (2002). Her writing covers topics ranging from the treatment of psychosis and neurosis to femininity, art and aesthetics.

Dr. Bergeron is the director of the "388," the Psychoanalytic Treatment Center for Young Psychotic Adults, is in charge of the short-term analytic therapy service at Robert-Giffard hospital, and serves as coordinator of education and training for the Center for Training, Research and Cooperation of GIFRIC , as well as coordinator for the GIFRIC'S Clinical Council.

Paul Lippmann, PhD

Nocturnes: On listening to Dreams

March 20-22, 2009

Dr Lippmann's book, Nocturnes: On Listening to Dreams, takes the reader on a poetic journey of dreams, dream interpretation, and the influence and use of dreams in human history. Beginning with the powerful authority given to dreams in ancient civilizations and continuing to the intimate and inseparable relationship between dreams and Freud's psychoanalysis, Dr Lippmann takes us to the decline in the significance of the dream in modern life and current psychoanalysis. Yet, he reminds us that dreams still serve as a powerful source of information about the creativity of the unconscious mind, and that "dreams and therapy go together" as they find their way to the secrets of the soul.

Dr Paul Lippmann is a Fellow, Faculty, Training and Supervising Analyst, WAWI; and member of the faculty at the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. He serves as director of the Stockbridge Dream Society and is the author of Nocturnes:: On Listening to Dreams.

Samuel Gerson, PhD

The Play of the Unconscious

May 15-17, 2009

Theater has always provided us with incisive portrayals of lives propelled by unconscious conflict and the intergenerational transmission of trauma. Among the classics of contemporary drama are plays that center on the enduring impact of a dead child on the life of the family. In this seminar, we will consider Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey into Night, Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolff, and Martin McDonagh's The Pillowman as texts that yield rich insights into the unconscious personal, familial, and cultural forces that inform our own daily clinical work. These literary texts will be coupled with readings of current relational perspectives on the unconscious and thirdness, with the aim of elucidating how ghosts of the past are embedded in unconscious phantasy and maintained and enacted through the relational unconscious that informs clinical process.

Sam Gerson, PhD is a founder and Past-President of both the Northern California Society for Psychoanalytic Psychology and the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California (PINC) where he is currently on the faculty and is a Personal and Supervising Analyst. Dr. Gerson, a Professor at the California School of Professional Psychology, is an Associate Editor of Psychoanalytic Dialogues, and is an Editor for Studies in Gender and Sexuality and the Psychoanalytic Quarterly. Prior to moving to San Francisco he was on the faculty of Harvard Medical School and Director of Out-Patient Mental Health Services at the Cambridge Hospital. He has written extensively on intersubjective aspects of unconscious life including "Unconscious Phantasy and Relational Reality" in Psychoanalytic Inquiry (2008) and "The Relational Unconscious" in Psychoanalytic Quarterly (2004). He received the Elise M. Hayman Award for the Study of Genocide and the Holocaust from the International Psychoanalytic Association (Berlin, 2007) for his paper entitled "When the Third is Dead: Memory, Mourning and Witnessing in the Aftermath of the Holocaust."

2007-2008 Courses

Gila Ofer, PhD

Love and Hate in Psychoanalysis

October 19-21 2007

Patrick Kavanaugh PhD.

Psychoanalysis and Medication: Clinical Implications

February 22-24, 2008

Lewis Aron, PhD.

Relational Psychoanalysis

March 7-9, 2008

Suzanne Gassner, PhD.

Unconscious Scripts: Control Mastery Theory

April 2008

Robert Waska, PhD.

The Danger of Change: The Kleinian Approach with Patients who Experience Progress as Trauma

May 9-11, 2008

Arnold Tobin, MD and Eva Lichtenberg, PhD

Psychoanalysis and Literature: How Literature Illuminates Psychoanalysis

Michael Hoit, MD

Clinical Case Seminar

2006-2007 Courses

James Grotstein, MD

Bion

October 6-8, 2006

James Grotstein, MD
Training and Supervising Analyst, Los Angeles Psychoanalytic Institute and Psychoanalytic Center of California. Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA. Past North American President, International Psychoanalytic Association.Dr. Grotstein is an internationally renowned psychoanalyst and the author of seven books and hundreds of articles on psychoanalysis and Bion, including: Do I Dare Disturb the Universe: A Memorial to Wilfred Bion (ed.), and Fairbairn and the Origin of Object Relations (ed.), Splitting and Projective Identification, Who is the Dreamer Who Dreams the Dream: A Study in Psychic Presences, and But at the Same Time and On a Another Level – Psychoanalytic Technique in the Kleinian/NeoKleinian/Bionian Mode: A Beginning.

Johanna Tabin, PhD

The Trajectory of Early Development and Severe Psychopathology

November 7 and December 3, 2006

Johanna Tabin, PhD
Johanna Krout Tabin, PhD, ABPP is a founding member of CCP. In over one hundred publications and professional presentations, her interests have ranged from critiques of psychotherapeutic processes to universal symbolism. As in her book, On the Way to Self: Ego and Early Oedipal Development, a special interest of hers has been and remains the relationship between ego formation and subsequent behavior. She received Lifetime Achievement awards from both Division 39, Section I (psychoanalytic practitioners) and Section III (women's issues). Dr. Tabin recommends that the best preparation for her seminar will be to observe children as much as possible during the period when their egos first coalesce, which is from approximately fifteen months to two and a half years of age.

Ghislaine Boulanger, PhD

Trauma and Psychoanalysis

March 10-12, 2007

Ghislaine Boulanger, PhD: Member, teaching faculty, Clinical Psychology Program at Teachers College, Columbia University. When Dr. Boulanger was obtaining her PhD in the late seventies, she joined a congressionally mandated research team to do an epidemiological study of Vietnam veterans. She was particularly interested in what had caused the psychological breakdown of so many Vietnam veterans upon their return home. Consistent with her psychodynamic training, she was sure that she would find predisposing factors leading men (there were no women in the study) to breakdown. She was wrong, and found that at the most intense levels of combat, predisposition played no role in determining who would become dysfunctional. Wondering about these findings set her on a course that led to a career of writing and teaching about the psychodynamic causes and consequences of adult trauma - a topic that went largely unrecognized by psychoanalysts until 9/11/2001.

Marion Tolpin

Self Psychology

April 14-16, 2007

Kerry and Jack Novick, PhD

May 18-20, 2007

Kerry Kelly Novick and Jack Novick, PhD:
Faculty, Michigan Psychoanalytic Institute.
Faculty, Michigan Psychoanalytic Council.Kerry Kelly Novick and Jack Novick are child, adolescent and adult psychoanalysts. They trained with Anna Freud in London and have been working with children and families for 35 years. They are active in teaching, research, and their community, and joined other colleagues to found a non-profit psychoanalytic school, Allen Creek Preschool, in Ann Arbor. Both Jack and Kerry Novick have written extensively, with many articles published in major professional journals, on topics of defense, termination, development, verbalization, sadomasochism, the therapeutic alliance, and omnipotence. Their first book, Fearful Symmetry: the Development and Treatment of Sadomasochism, appeared in 1996, followed by Working with Parents Makes Therapy Work, in 2005.

Arnold Tobin, MD

Freud's Papers

Mondays: 9/25, 10/16, 11/13,1 2/4, 1/8/07, 2/05/07

Arnold Tobin, MD
Faculty, Institute for Psychoanalysis.
Training and Supervising Analyst, Institute for Psychoanalysis.Arnold Tobin, MD, was born and raised in Chicago, and also received his training here. He had a psychiatric residence at P&PI, Michael Reese Hospital, under Roy Grinker, MD, and also completed his psychoanalytic training here, at the Institute for Psychoanalysis. He has taught several courses, currently on Freudian theory and practice, and previously on dreams and on Freud's case histories. Dr. Tobin became aware of the complexities of PTSD while in the US Navy, where he ran the Admissions Ward for Marines who broke down during combat. He since was involved in a number of forensic PTSD cases, including the first case in which PTSD was used successfully as a defense.

Henry Evans, MD

Case Conference

Henry Evans, MD: Faculty, Institute for Psychoanalysis.
Member, Governing Council, Institute for Psychoanalysis.
Secretary of the Board and Instructor of the Second Year Theory of Technique course in the Core Curriculum of the Psychoanalytic Training Program.
Training and Supervising Analyst, Institute for Psychoanalysis.
Chair, Training Analyst Committee, Institute for Psychoanalysis.
Chair and the Founder, Local Fellowship Program, Institute for Psychoanalysis. Founding member and Principal, Analytic Consultants, Ltd., a consulting firm offering analytically informed consultation to businesses and professional organizations and individuals.
Member, American Psychoanalytic Association, Committee On Institutes.
Editorial Board, Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association. Dr. Evans' theoretical interests are eclectic, including object relations theory, self psychology, some aspects of conflict theory, attachment concepts, and the interface between psychoanalysis and neuroscience.

2005-2006 Courses

Paul Roazen, PhD

The History of Politics and Psychoanalysis After Freud

Paul Roazen, PhD
Professor emeritus of Social and Political Science at York University and a Harvard University Academician. Dr.Roazen is an authority on the history of psychoanalysis and on political psychology. He was, educated as a political theorist at Harvard, Chicago, and Oxford, has spent his career approaching psychoanalysis as an aspect of intellectual history. Issues of a moral and philosophic nature remain central to the tradition of thought that Freud initiated, and help account for the unfortunate sectarianism that has afflicted the field. Dr. Roazen is the author of seminal books and articles in the history of psychoanalysis. "On the Freud Watch: Public Memoirs" opens and closes with autobiographical pieces, but the book as a whole reflects an intensely personal account of how Roazen became known as a "controversial" figure within psychoanalysis. His impressive bibliography also includes such classics as Freud: Political and Social Thought; Brother Animal: The Story of Freud and Tausk; Freud and His Followers; Erik H. Erikson: The Power and Limits of a Vision; and Helene Deutsch: A Psychoanalyst's Life.

Bruce Fink, PhD

Lacan

Bruce Fink, PhD:
Psychoanalyst and Professor of Psychology is a practicing Lacanian psychoanalyst, analytic supervisor, and professor of psychology at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh. He obtained his PhD in Psychoanalysis from the University of Paris and his clinical training at l'Ecole de la Cause freudienne, also in Paris. Dr. Fink is the author of two books, A Clinical Introduction to Lacanian Psychoanalysis (Harvard Press, 1997) and The
Lacanian Subject: Between Knowledge and Jouissance (Princeton Press, 1995). He has also edited two collections of essays and written numerous other essays. He has translated several books of Lacan: Seminar XX: On Feminine Sexuality: The Limits of Love and Knowledge (Norton, 1998) and the revised Ecrits: A Selection (Norton, 2002). He is currently preparing a translation of the complete Ecrits and Seminar VIII, On the Transference.

Marilyn Charles, PhD

Non-Verbal Communication

Marilyn Charles, PhD:
Psychologist and psychoanalyst in practice in East Lansing, Michigan, who works extensively with artists, writers, and musicians. A poet and an artist, herself, Dr. Charles has had a special interest in the creative process and in facilitating creativity in patients and in clinicians. As a Training and Supervising Analyst with the Michigan Psychoanalytic Council and Adjunct Professor of Clinical Psychology at Michigan State
University, she is committed to mentoring the next generation of clinicians, for whom issues of creativity and generativity are of particular importance. Dr. Charles has presented her work widely and has published extensively in psychoanalytic journals. She is the author of Patterns: Building Blocks of Experience (2002) and Learning From Experience: A Clinician's Guide (2004), both published by the Analytic Press, and
Constructing Realities: Transformations in Myth and Metaphor, forthcoming from Rodopi.

Herbert Schlesinger, PhD

Resistance, Defense, Regression

Leon Wurmser, MD

Affect in Psychoanalysis

Leon Wurmser, MD:
Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the University of West Virginia, and training and supervising analyst of the New York Freudian Society. Dr. Wurmser was formerly Professor of Psychiatry and Director of the Alcohol and Drug Abuse Program at the University of Maryland. He continues to teach here and in several European countries. His other honors include the Lewis B. Hill Award of the Baltimore-D.C. Institute for psychoanalysis, an award from the American Mental Health Foundation, and honorary membership in the Czech Psychoanalytic Society. His publications include The Mask of Shame and The Hidden Dimension, along with some 300 scientific articles.

Bertram Cohler, PhD

Freud's Papers

Bert Cohler, PhD:
William Rainey Harper Professor of Social Sciences in the College, and Professor, Departments of Psychology, Education, and Psychiatry, the University of Chicago. Dr. Cohler is a graduate of the Institute for Psychoanalysis in Chicago. He received an A.B. in Human Development from the Univesity of Chicago in 1961 and a PhD from Harvard in 1967. He returned to Chicago in 1969 to become Director of the Orthogenic School. His interests presently include life-story and response to adversity and stigma. Dr. Cohler studies lives over time and within context, using both narrative and counted data perspectives; developmental psychopathology and family process, family and personality development, aging, self and family. (Human Development, Developmental Psychology, Mental Health). He is the author of many publications and has received two Quantrell awards for undergraduate teaching excellence at the University of Chicago.

Henry Evans, MD

Case Conference

Henry Evans, MD:
Faculty of the Institute for Psychoanalysis, member of the governing Council, Secretary of the Board and Instructor of the Second Year Theory of Technique course in the Core Curriculum of the psychoanalytic training program. Training and Supervising Analyst and Chair of the Training Analyst Committee. Chair and and the founder of the Local Fellowship Program at the Institute. Founding member and Principal of Analytic Consultants, Ltd., a consulting firm offering analytically informed consultation to businesses and professional organizations and individuals. Member of the American Psychoanalytic Association, Committee On Institutes, serves on the Editorial Board of the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association. Theoretical interests are eclectic, including object relations theory, self psychology, some aspects of conflict theory, attachment concepts and interest in the interface between psychoanalysis and neuroscience.

2004-2005 Courses

Arnold Tobin, MD

Continuing Case Conference

Christopher Bollas, PhD

Hysteria

Lawrence Friedman, PhD

Psychoanalytic Technique II

Kerry Novick and Jack Novick, PhD

Reclaiming the Land - Integrating Developmental Theories with the Psychoanalysis of Adults

Bertram Cohler, PhD

Freud's Papers

Arnold Tobin, MD

Continuing Case Conference

Frank Summers, PhD

Clinical Seminar based on Object Relations Theories

The prerequisite for participation is a theoretical knowledge of Object Relations Theories

Martin Bergmann, PhD

Love and Termination

2003-2004 Courses

Leo Rangell, MD

The Human Core: The Intrapsychic Base of Behavior

Christopher Bollas, PhD

Frank Summers, PhD

Theories of Object Relations

Salman Akhtar, MD

Self-hate and the Hate of Others

Irwin Hoffman, PhD

Dialectical Reconstructivism

Frank Lachmann PhD

Implications of Infant Research for Psychoanalysis

Judith Vida, PhD

Introduction to the Life and Work of Sandor Ferenczi

Lawrence Friedman, MD

Psychoanalytic Technique I

Dale Boesky, MD

The Methodology of Psychoanalytic Evidence

Jerry Vogel, MD

Hans W. Loewald

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January 27, 2012

Brian Koehler, PhD
“The Neuroscience of Relational Trauma, Dissociation, Social Isolation and Loneliness: A Neuropsychoanalytic Model of Psychotic Disorders”

March 9, 2012

Ken Corbett, PhD
“Yes, The Constitutive Necessity of Perversion”

April 27, 2012

Irwin Hoffmann, PhD
“Clinical, Epistemological, and Moral Dimensions of “Dialectical Constructivism”

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