October 18, 2016

2016-17 SICP Lecture Series











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Thursday
10/20      
Donald Kuspit, PhD, D.Phil. 
First Annual Judith Kuspit Memorial Lecture
Hosted by ICP, Co-hosted by The 4-Year Analytic Program and SICP
Dealing with Death
Dying a Noble Death—A Part of Life Therapists Often Ignore
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Friday
1/27        
Andrew Tatarsky, PhD
The Scientific Revolution in Addiction Treatment
From Disease Model to Psychobiosocial Model, From
Abstinence-Only to Integrative Harm Reduction Psychotherapy
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Friday 
3/24       
Jody Messler Davies, PhD
The Man Who Would Be Everything (To Everyone)
The Unconscious Realities & Fantasies of Psychic Truth & Change
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Friday 
5/5            
Margaret Black Mitchell, LCSW
The Schwartz Memorial Lecture
Sources of Energy
“Now Moments” meet Relational Process
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Time: 7-9 pm. Registration starts at 6:30
Location: The ICP Library, 1841 Broadway, 4th fl, New York, NY 10023 (enter on 60th St)

CE credit pending for the 1/27, 3/24 and 5/5 lectures

To register for the 10/20 lecture, go to http://icpnyc.org/general-icp/
To register for the other lectures, go to http://icpnyc.org/sicp/
For information, contact sicp.lectures@gmail.com

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Details of each lecture are below.

Thursday
10/20      
Donald Kuspit, PhD, D.Phil. 
First Annual Judith Kuspit Memorial Lecture
Hosted by ICP, Co-hosted by The 4-Year Analytic Program and SICP
Dealing with Death
Dying a Noble Death—A Part of Life Therapists Often Ignore














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Friday
1/27        
Andrew Tatarsky, PhD
The Scientific Revolution in Addiction Treatment
From Disease Model to Psychobiosocial Model, From
Abstinence-Only to Integrative Harm Reduction Psychotherapy


We are in the midst of a global paradigm shift in how we view substance users and the spectrum of problematic substance use. We are moving from moral, criminal and unitary disease models to viewing substance use as a health issue and human rights issue that varies on multiple psychobiosocial dimensions in ways that are unique to each person. This model shift implies the need for a personalized, collaborative integrative harm reduction approach to address the diverse needs of this large undertreated group of people. Dr. Tatarsky will introduce Integrative Harm Reduction Psychotherapy (IHRP), his integration of harm reduction principles into psychotherapy and substance use treatment. IHRP brings together relational psychoanalytic, active cognitive and behavioral skills building and mindfulness techniques in a harm reduction frame to support positive change in substance use and related issues.  He will discuss how IHRP has particular power to attract, engage and facilitate positive change in a group of people that has traditionally been thought to be hard if not impossible to treat in psychotherapy.  


Andrew will discuss the clinical challenges of problematic substance use and the limitations of the prevailing disease model-based abstinence-only treatment. He will explore the theoretical basis for IHRP including a psychobiosocial process view of addiction, the multiple meanings model and the Transtheoretical Stages of Change model. Finally, he will present an overview of IHRP’s 7 therapeutic tasks with emphasis on therapeutic process and technique. Participants will have opportunities to practice skills, discuss difficult cases and discuss application to their settings.








Andrew Tatarsky, PhD 


Author, Harm Reduction Psychotherapy: A New Treatment for Drug and Alcohol Problems. Founder Director, Center for Optimal Living NYC. Professor, Certificate Program in Harm Reduction Psychotherapy at the New School. Member, Clinical and Medical Advisory Boards of New York State Office of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Services. Dr. Tatarsky has trained individuals and organizations in 14 countries.
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Friday
3/24       
Jody Messler Davies, PhD
The Man Who Would Be Everything (To Everyone)
The Unconscious Realities and Fantasies of Psychic Truth and Change


This presentation explores the analytic treatment of a patient who presented himself to the analyst as "a compulsive liar unable to tell the truth."  The work with this patient raises important questions about the importance of "truth" in analytic work, and the relative balance of understanding and insight of actual lived experience, and the co-creation of new experience as it emerges between patient and analyst within their work together.  Are either insight or new experience sufficient, and how does each provide the necessary context for the other.









Jody Messler Davies, PhD 

Dr. Davies is editor in chief emeritus, and current associate editor of Psychoanalytic Dialogues: The International Journal of Relational Perspectives; Faculty, Supervisor and former co-chair of the Relational track, New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis; Founding Vice President of the International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy, Founding Board Member of the Stephen Mitchell Relational Studies Center.  She is on the editorial boards of Gender and Sexuality and Psychoanalytic Perspectives, and is also faculty and supervisor at the National Institute for the Psychotherapies, The Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalysis, and the Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis, Los Angeles.  Dr. Davies is co-author (with Mary-Gail Frawley-O'Dea) of Treating the Adult Survivor of Childhood Sexual Abuse:  A Psychoanalytic Perspective.

She is currently at work on a new book:  Transformations of Desire and Despair:  Clinical Implications of the Theoretical Shift to a Relational Perspective.

Dr. Davies has written on the topics of trauma, dissociation, multiplicity of self organization and termination; as well as a series of papers on sexual and erotic aspects of transference-countertransference processes.
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Friday 
5/5            
Margaret Black Mitchell, LCSW
The Schwartz Memorial Lecture
Sources of Energy
“Now Moments” meet Relational Process


The findings of infancy researchers have been generally resonant with much of the intersubjective emphasis of a relational perspective, recognizing the deep affective and rhythmic connection between mother and child that serves as a crucible of human development. Some more recent developments, however, seem to emphasize contrasting understandings, particularly around the important issue of the process of clinical change. We will explore this issue and in particular the issue of energy, from the perspective of a relational process and from the perspective of some areas of infancy research. We will look at the contributions of Daniel Stern including “now moments” and “vitality affects” and consider how these contributions have been depicted in their clinical application. Are now moments discrete events? Within the course of therapy, do vitality affects exist unto themselves or is their meaningfulness in part a feature of the interrelated polarities, the “ritual and spontaneity” (Hoffman) engendered by a relational clinical process? 










Margaret Black Mitchell, LCSW


is a Founder and Vice-President of IARPP; a Founder, Board Member and Faculty of the Stephen Mitchell Relational Study Center; a Board Director, Director of Continuing Education and Supervisor at NIP; and an Associate Editor of Psychoanalytic Dialogues.
Margaret is co-author, with Stephen Mitchell, of Freud and Beyond, A History of Modern Psychoanalytic Thought, Basic Books 1995. Her published articles concern the relationship between theory and clinical practice.
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Time: 7-9 pm. Registration starts at 6:30
Location: The ICP Library, 1841 Broadway, 4th fl, New York, NY 10023 (enter on 60th St)

CE credit pending for the 1/27, 3/24 and 5/5 lectures

To register for the 10/20 lecture, go to http://icpnyc.org/general-icp/
To register for the other lectures, go to http://icpnyc.org/sicp/
For information, contact sicp.lectures@gmail.com

Thursday, 10/20 - First Annual Judith Kuspit Memorial Lecture - Donald Kuspit, PhD, D.Phil.


Hosted by ICP, Co-hosted by The 4-Year Analytic Program and SICP

Donald Kuspit, PhD, D.Phil.
Dealing with Death
Dying a Noble Death—A Part of Life Therapists Often Ignore

http://icpnyc.org/general-icp/