November 9, 2015

2015-16 Lecture Details

Friday nights, 7-9pm    





























12/4

Frank Lachmann, PhD

Treating the Difficult-to-Treat Patient

2 CEUs approved


Psychotherapists are encountering and are often stymied by an increasingly diverse patient population in which character pathology rather than symptoms predominate. Hence traditional psychotherapeutic techniques have to be stretched to treat this challenging population. This seminar will enrich the therapist’s repertoire by increasing an understanding of, and treatment of this group of patients. The focus will be on two sources: one, the contribution from empirical studies of mother-infant interactions that document the co-creation of later entrenched relational difficulties and self-destructive and self-limiting behaviours. Two, Self Psychology which offers a conceptual base that embraces these findings. This theory and its treatment implications offers therapists a way of framing interventions that are well suited to emotionally engage this difficult-to-treat patient group.



Frank M. Lachmann, PhD is a teacher and supervisor as a member of the Founding Faculty of the Institute for the Psychoanalytic Study of Subjectivity, New York; and a Clinical Assistant Professor, in the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. He is author or co-author of more than 150 journal publications. He has been a co-author with Joe Lichtenberg and Jim Fosshage on five books including: Self and Motivational Systems (Analytic Press, 1992), The Clinical Exchange (Analytic Press, 1996), A Spirit of Inquiry: Communication in Psychoanalysis (Analytic Press, 2002), Psychoanalysis and Motivational Systems: A New Look (Routledge, 2010}, and Enlivening the Self (Routledge, 2015). With Beatrice Beebe he wrote Infant Research and Adult Treatment: Co-Constructing Interactions (Analytic Press, 2002) and The Origins of Attachment (Routledge, 2014). He is sole author of Transforming Aggression: Psychotherapy with the Difficult-to-Treat Patient (Aronson, 2000) and Transforming Narcissism: Reflections on Empathy, Humor, and Expectations (Analytic Press, 2008). He is a member of the Council of the International Association of Psychoanalytic Self Psychology, and an Honorary member of the Vienna Circle for Self Psychology, the William Alanson White Society, and the American Psychoanalytic Association. 











1/29 

Steven Knoblauch, PhD 

Bodies of Emotion in Interaction: 

A Field of Rhythms

Through shared words and movement, Dr. Knoblauch will invite us into an experience/vision of psychoanalysis which shifts the focus of the analyst's activity from, predominantly, an emphasis on mentation and conversation, to include attention to embodied gut reaction/response. both the analyst's and the patient's.  The experience will encompass shared movement exercises (easy and fun), theoretical visions, his own woven with those of Racker, Reis Daniel Stern, Civitarese and Ferro and a contemporary chorus of relationally identified colleagues, as well as clinical narrative.  Dr. Knoblauch's papers and texts The Musical Edge of Therapeutic Dialogue (2000, The Analytic Press, reprinted in paperback, 2015, Taylor and Francis) and Forms of Intersubjectivity in Infant Research and Adult Treatment (2005, Other Press), authored with Beebe, Rustin and Sorter,  have used a musical metaphor and systems perspective to capture the difficult to define flow of emotions in an analytic process.  This approach encompasses embodied dimensions of exchange including facial expression, gaze, posture, breath but also the rhythms and tonality/intensity of voice and gesture.





Dr. Steven Knoblauch is an internationally recognized clinician, teacher and lecturer on psychoanalysis and psychotherapy. He serves as  faculty and clinical consultant at The New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, The Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy, The Institute for the Psychoanalytic Study of Subjectivity and a number of other training programs in New York City and abroad.  He is the author of numerous papers published over the last 2 decades and The Musical Edge of Therapeutic Dialogue (2000, The Analytic Press, reproduced in paperback, 2015, Taylor and Francis).  This text has been translated in Japanese and a Spanish translation is in process.  He is also co-author with Beatrice Beebe, Judith Rustin and Dorienne Sorter,  of Forms of Intersubjectivity in Infant Research and Adult Treatment (2005, Other Press).  He is on the editorial boards of Psychoanalytic Dialogues, Psychoanalytic Perspectives and The International Journal of Psychoanalytic Self Psychology. He also serves on the Board of Directors of The International Association of Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychology. 









3/11


Steven Kuchuck, LCSW


When the Personal Becomes Professional:

Clinical Implications of the Psychoanalyst’s Subjectivity

In this paper, Steven Kuchuck explores the impact of the psychoanalyst’s life experience and psychological make-up on the treatment. By expanding psychoanalytic study beyond theory and technique to include an examination of events in the clinician’s childhood and adult life as well as related psychodynamic issues, Kuchuck focuses on ways in which these experiences, crises, and dynamics affect both clinical choices and the tenor of the therapist’s presence in the consulting room. Related, he looks at the relationship between the clinician’s subjectivity, theoretical interests, and technique, and explores areas of overlap and differentiation between two phenomena that are often confused; the larger issue of the therapist’s subjectivity, and self-disclosure.
When subjectivity becomes bracketed or dissociated, access to countertransference and insight into how the analyst affects the patient becomes limited; therapeutic data may be missed. Kuchuck therefore addresses various ways of tracking and using subjectivity in order to further the therapeutic action. He also considers the impact on the treatment of the therapist’s temperament, conflicts around being seen, and struggles with self-care.




Steven Kuchuck, LCSW is the Editor-in-Chief of Psychoanalytic Perspectives, Associate Editor of 
Routledge’s Relational Perspectives Book Series, Board Member,  supervisor, faculty and Co-Director of Curriculum for the training program in adult psychoanalysis at the National Institute for the Psychotherapies (NIP), and faculty/supervisor at the NIP National Training Program, the Stephen Mitchell Center for Relational Studies, and other institutes. He is on the Board of the International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy where he co-chairs the Local (international) Chapters Committee, on the steering committee for the 2017 APA Division 39 annual conference, and co-chair of the Division 39 International Outreach Task Force. His writing focuses primarily on the analyst’s subjectivity and most recently, he is a contributor to and editor of Clinical Implications of the Psychoanalyst’s Life Experience: When the Personal Becomes Professional (Routledge, 2014), The Legacy of Sandor Ferenczi: From Ghost to Ancestor (co-edited with Adrienne Harris, Routledge, 2015), and an upcoming volume of analysts writing about the professional impact of their own analysis (Routledge, in press).









5/6


The Schwartz Memorial Lecture

co-sponsored with ICP


Jeremy Safran, PhD


Agency, Surrender and Grace in Psychoanalysis



There is a vital dialectic between agency and surrender in life and in the analytic process. Without an ability to will one cannot choose one’s actions; one becomes a passive victim of circumstances rather than an agent who can influence one’s own destiny. On the other hand, an exaggerated sense of agency fails to take into account the limits of our ability to control life, and is associated with a type of narcissistic omnipotence that can be associated with an experience of isolation. In this article I explore the some of the subtleties of the interplay between willing and surrendering in the analytic process. I also examine the way in which an inability to surrender can impede the patient’s ability to take in what the analyst has to offer. And finally I adapt the concept of grace from theological discourse to highlight a dimension of the analytic process that involves an emergence of the patient’s capacity to make constructive use of the analyst’s interventions.





Jeremy D. Safran, PhD is Chair & Professor of Psychology at the New School for Social Research, and former Director of Clinical Psychology. His research program on therapeutic impasses and alliance ruptures has been funded by two National Institute of Mental Health grants. He is a faculty member at New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy & Psychoanalysis and The Stephen A. Mitchell Center for Relational Studies.

He is also Co-founder and Co-chair (along with Lewis Aron & Adrienne Harris) of The Sandor Ferenczi Center at the New School for Social Research. In addition he is Past-President of The International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis & Psychotherapy. Dr. Safran serves an associate editor for the journal, Psychoanalytic Dialogues, and is on the editorial boards of a number of other journals including Psychotherapy Research, and Psychoanalytic Psychology.

Dr. Safran has published several books including: Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Therapies, the winner of the 2013 Gradiva Award; Negotiating the Therapeutic Alliance: A Relational Treatment Guide; Psychoanalysis & Buddhism: An Unfolding Dialogue; Emotion in Psychotherapy; and Interpersonal Process in Cognitive Therapy.

He has also been featured in two training DVDs produced by the American Psychological Association: American Psychological Association: 1) Relational Psychotherapy, and 2) Psychoanalytic Therapy Over Time.
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CEUs HAVE NOW BEEN APPROVED for all of this year's SICP lectures. All CEUs are offered under the auspices of The Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy.

Contact Betsy Levine, LCSW at sicp.lectures@gmail.com or Barbara Bolas, PhD at sicp.lectures.barbara@gmail.com for information or to register. 

The Registration Form is posted on this blog.

All lectures are Friday nights, 7-9 pm. Registration starts at 6:30.
Location: ICP Library, 1841 Broadway, 4th floor, NY, NY 10023 (enter on 60th St)


Payment must be received 1 week before the lecture. After that time, please email sicp.lectures.barbara@gmail.com and we will reserve your seat and add you to the “pay at the door” list. There is a $10 charge for payment at the door. Refunds are available until 1 week before the event. 







Friday, 12/4 - Frank Lachmann, PhD - 2 CEUs approved

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12/4

Frank Lachmann, PhD

Treating the Difficult-to-Treat Patient



Psychotherapists are encountering and are often stymied by an increasingly diverse patient population in which character pathology rather than symptoms predominate. Hence traditional psychotherapeutic techniques have to be stretched to treat this challenging population. This seminar will enrich the therapist’s repertoire by increasing an understanding of, and treatment of this group of patients. The focus will be on two sources: one, the contribution from empirical studies of mother-infant interactions that document the co-creation of later entrenched relational difficulties and self-destructive and self-limiting behaviours. Two, Self Psychology which offers a conceptual base that embraces these findings. This theory and its treatment implications offers therapists a way of framing interventions that are well suited to emotionally engage this difficult-to-treat patient group.



Frank M. Lachmann, PhD is a teacher and supervisor as a member of the Founding Faculty of the Institute for the Psychoanalytic Study of Subjectivity, New York; and a Clinical Assistant Professor, in the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. He is author or co-author of more than 150 journal publications. He has been a co-author with Joe Lichtenberg and Jim Fosshage on five books including: Self and Motivational Systems (Analytic Press, 1992), The Clinical Exchange (Analytic Press, 1996), A Spirit of Inquiry: Communication in Psychoanalysis (Analytic Press, 2002), Psychoanalysis and Motivational Systems: A New Look (Routledge, 2010}, and Enlivening the Self (Routledge, 2015). With Beatrice Beebe he wrote Infant Research and Adult Treatment: Co-Constructing Interactions (Analytic Press, 2002) and The Origins of Attachment (Routledge, 2014). He is sole author of Transforming Aggression: Psychotherapy with the Difficult-to-Treat Patient (Aronson, 2000) and Transforming Narcissism: Reflections on Empathy, Humor, and Expectations (Analytic Press, 2008). He is a member of the Council of the International Association of Psychoanalytic Self Psychology, and an Honorary member of the Vienna Circle for Self Psychology, the William Alanson White Society, and the American Psychoanalytic Association. 

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Contact Betsy Levine, LCSW at sicp.lectures@gmail.com or Barbara Bolas, PhD at sicp.lectures.barbara@gmail.com for information or to register. 

The Registration Form is posted on this blog.

All lectures are Friday nights, 7-9 pm. Registration starts at 6:30.
Location: ICP Library, 1841 Broadway, 4th floor, NY, NY 10023 (enter on 60th St)

Payment must be received 1 week before the lecture. After that time, please email sicp.lectures.barbara@gmail.com and we will reserve your seat and add you to the “pay at the door” list. There is a $10 charge for payment at the door. Refunds are available until 1 week before the event.