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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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)
Refreshments will be served

2 CE credits approved

To register, go to http://icpnyc.org/sicp/

For information, contact sicp.lectures@gmail.com

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/

ICP / SICP present - This Friday, May 6 - Jeremy Safran, PhD

5/6

The Schwartz Memorial Lecture

Jeremy Safran, PhD

Agency, Surrender and Grace in Psychoanalysis

2 CE hours

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 presentation I explore 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.

To register, go to icpnyc.org/sicp

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Friday, 3/11 - Steven Kuchuck, LCSW - 2 CEUs approved

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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).

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Friday, 3/11, 7-9 pm
To register, go to icpnyc.org/sicp

Friday, 1/29 -- Steven Knoblauch, PhD-- 2 CEUs approved

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.

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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 

To register

icpnyc.org/sicp

Friday night, 7-9 pm. Registration starts at 6:30.

Location: ICP Library, 1841 Broadway, 4th floor, NY, NY 10023 (enter on 60th St)

Advance payment online is preferred. If you would like to pay at the door,  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.