Study Groups @ CCP

The tradition of the Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis is one of openness and flexibility. Its members are committed to making psychoanalytic thought and practice accessible to those who are serious in their desire to grow personally and professionally. Through its psychoanalytic training programs, fellowship programs, newly-forming psychoanalytic psychotherapy program and open forums like the popular Fridays@CCP and Sundays@CCP, the Center has consistently provided opportunities for both its own candidates and the larger analytically-interested community to hear, question and study with outstanding thinkers in the field. Those engaged in the practice of psychoanalytic psychotherapy and psychoanalysis are invited to make use of these CCP-sponsored study groups as additional resources.

Julia Brown, PhD

I Case Presentation

II Reading Focus Group

In keeping with the tradition of innovation and flexibility at the Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis, two study groups are being organized for experienced clinicians. The groups will provide an opportunity for members to think more deeply about the work we do. One group will be a Practice Group in which members will share and comment on each other’s case material. The second group, a Focus Group, will read and study topics of interest to its members. The groups, though independent of CCP, will be able to draw on the resources of that organization.

Julia Brown, Ph.D., is currently a candidate at CCP. As a beginning high school English teacher, she was introduced to psychoanalytic thinking through the Teacher Education Program at the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis, earning a Ph.D. at Northwestern University in counseling psychology where her research focused on non-academic variables that might foster a love of learning in adolescents at high risk of failure. She holds a certificate in infant development from Erikson Institute and is a graduate of the Adult Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Program at the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis. She is currently the Director of the Kathy and Grant Pick Writing Program at Erikson. In addition, she works with families and infants in the State of Illinois Early Intervention Program and consults with Child Development Specialists and service coordinators in that program. She has a private practice in which she sees adults, adolescents and parents of infants and young children.

Time: Sundays, 11:30-1:30
Location: Evanston
Fee: free of charge

For further information contact Julia Brown (jbrown@ccpsa.org) or 847.328.9017.

Charles Turk, MD

Psychoanalysis: the Treatment of Choice for the Psychotic

This assertion runs counter to prevailing ideas about psychosis that hold its cause to be a genetically based neurophysiologic defect requiring medication and behavioral interventions to correct its effects. While genetic factors must be taken into account, exclusive reliance on this view narrow the range of interventions employed – and do not address – and often make worse – the difficulties of the psychotic as a subject imprisoned in his illness.

This study group will explore the psychoanalytic approach to the psychotic developed at “388”, a psychoanalytic treatment program for psychotic young adults founded in 1982 in Quebec City. At “388” each psychotic enters psychoanalysis, a mode of treatment made possible because the psychotic is concurrently involved in a specifically designed program that functions as a holding environment.

We will study selections from Traiter la psychose – (Treating Psychosis) - a work authored by the analysts who developed “388.” It explicates both the theory that underlies the treatment and the design of the elements of the program and the different roles the staff assume. The program gradually evolved through a process where clinical experience informed theoretic modifications which in turn influenced the conduct of the treatment and the composition of the milieu.

Since its inception, over 600 patients - mostly chronic schizophrenics - have been treated. 60% of them have been restored to productive lives in the community and are now taxpaying citizens.

Charles Turk is a practicing psychiatrist who obtained psychoanalytic training at the Center for Psychoanalytic Study in Chicago. He pursued his interest in treating psychotic and other severely ill individuals as medical director of a partial hospitalization program in a community mental health center in suburban Chicago, for which he received an Exemplary Psychiatrist Award from the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill in 1992.

He has continued his psychoanalytic studies at the Ecole Freudienne du Quebec (EFQ) and is a founding member of the Chicago Circle Association, an affiliate of the EFQ. He is a member of GIFRIC (Interdiscipinary Freudian Group for Research and Clinical Intervention), the parent organization of the EFQ. In 2004 he received a Local Educator award from the International Federation for Psychoanalytic Education.

Time: 6 Mondays from 7 to 9PM, starting date TBA
Location: Chicago School, 325 N Wells, Chicago
Fee per meeting: Students: $20
Non-students: $40
CCP Affiliates: $36

For further information contact Charles Turk 312-269-9180 or charlesturk1@gmail.com.

Peter Shabad, PhD

Case Study and Psychoanalytic/Existential Readings

Peter Shabad, PhD, is a graduate of CCP. He is an Associate Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at Northwestern University Medical School and Adjunct Professor at the Chicago School of Professional Psychology. He is co-editor of The Problem of Loss and Mourning: Psychoanalytic Perspectives (published in 1989) and more recently, he authored a book entitled Despair and the Return of Hope: Echoes of Mourning in Psychotherapy (Aronson, 2001). In addition to teaching and supervising, Dr. Shabad has been in private practice in Chicago for the past twenty years.

Organizational Meeting Date: Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Time: 7 to 8:30PM
Fee per meeting: Students: $25 Non-students: $40 CCP Affiliates: $36
For further information contact:
pshabad@aol.com or 312.739.0092 (office) 773.539.6009 (office)

Nancy Burke, PhD

Case-based seminar

This seminar will be devoted primarily to clinical consultation in a group setting, with the possibility of supplementing case discussion with readings. The group will also be open to discussion of other theory- or practiced-based issues, depending on the needs of its members.

Nancy Burke, PhD, is currently Treasurer and an advanced candidate at CCP. She is an Associate Clinical Professor, Northwestern University Medical School. Previously, she had been a Staff Psychologist and Director of Training at the Rehabilitation Program, Northwestern Memorial Hospital, a teaching clinic serving severely mentally ill outpatient adults. She received her BA in Philosophy from Carleton College, and her MA and PhD in Human Development from the University of Chicago. She maintains a private practice in adult and adolescent psychotherapy in Evanston and Chicago.

Time: 10-11:30 on the first and third Mondays of the month in Evanston or
10:30-12 on the first and third Mondays of the month in Chicago.
Fee per meeting: Students: $10
Non-students: $30
CCP Affiliates: $27

For information contact: Nancy Burke (nburke@ccpsa.org) or 312.335.0311

Nancy Burke, PhD, and Nancy Peltzman, LCSW

Psychoanalytic Writing Support Group

The writing support group is intended to be a forum in which individuals can come together and share their thoughts about psychoanalytic writing and works in progress in a supportive atmosphere. Those who have attended the group have brought a variety of interests and purposes to it. Some are interested in getting help articulating their clinical work more fully as they write reports about a case that is underway. Others feel the need to write about their work simply to gain more conceptual clarity about what is unfolding between analyst and patient. While some have already been engaged in theoretical writing but would like to turn their attention to clinical issues, other members are sidling up to a project involving psychoanalytic theory. Most of the participants have expressed an active interest in discussing a range of issues related to writing a case study--ethical, methodological, and philosophical. We also have members who consider writing as a goal for the future and wish only to be stimulated to begin gathering their thoughts on the subject for the present. All are welcome, regardless of their present relationship to producing written work. Participants are welcome to bring work to be shared but are not required to. Each meeting of this group has been lively and provocative, with everyone present adding uniquely to our joint inquiry into the usefulness and potential contributions of transforming work between the analyst and patient that is otherwise intensely private and inaccessible, into material for communal discussion about the course, methods and outcomes of psychoanalytic treatment.

Nancy Burke (see above)

Nancy Peltzman is an LCSW with Masters Degrees in Clinical Social Work and Philosophy from the University of Chicago and graduate training in Human Development. She has a full time private practice and is particularly interested in intensive psychotherapy. She has been a consultant for IDCFS, the Jane Addams Juvenile Court Foundation, and the Juvenile Protective Association, where she trained DCFS employees and helped to develop a pilot program for parent coaching using a relational perspective. She has also been a clinical and organizational consultant at Lawrence Hall Youth Services, a long term milieu treatment center for adolescent wards of the State. She is currently a candidate at CCP

Time: Sunday mornings at intervals determined by the members.
Location: determined by members
Fee: free of charge
Open to: CCP candidates, Fellows, CCP Alumnae and board members

Contact information: Nancy Burke: nburke@ccpsa.org or 312. 332.1404 or Nancy Peltzman: npeltzman@ccpsa.org or 733.339.0607

Study Group in Louisville, KY

Kaveh Zamanian, PhD

The Study Group in Louisville is designed for experienced clinicians who are interested in depth-oriented psychotherapy and seek personal and professional growth. The study group will provide an opportunity for members to share and comment on each other’s case material and think more deeply about their clinical work. The group is independent of CCP but will be able to draw on its resources.

Dr. Zamanian is a clinical psychologist with over twenty years of clinical experience. He has completed two post-doctoral fellowships in psychoanalysis and psychoanalytically oriented psychotherapy. The first was a two-year fellowship at Northwestern University Medical School and the second at the American Institute for Psychoanalysis. He is currently a candidate at the Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis.

Time: TBA
Location: Louisville, KY
Fee per meeting: Student: $25
Non-student: $35
Affiliates: $30

For further information contact Dr. Zamanian (kzamanian@ccpsa.org) or 502.377.5594