October 15, 2019

2019-20 SICP Lecture Series


To register, go to icpnyc.org/sicp/ 



Friday, 11/22
Holly Levenkron, LCSW, LICSW
The Interpersonal Play of 
Resilience and Despair
Living in between the paranoid/schizoid and depressive positions


Friday, 1/24
Irwin Hirsch, PhD
Reflections on Therapeutic Action: The Role of Hierarchy, Analysts’ Self-Interest and the Limitations of Insight and Interpretation


Friday, 3/13
Leslie Hendelman, LCSW
Political Divide in the Consulting Room


Friday, 5/1
Kirkland Vaughans, PhD      
The Schwartz Memorial Lecture, cosponsored with ICP
Trauma and Dehumanization
School Curriculum for Black Girls and Boys

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Friday nights
7-9 pm. Doors open at 6:30

At ICP’s new location
33 West 60th Street, 4th floor, in the Library, New York, NY 10023

2 CE credits approved. CE credits are issued under the auspices of The Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy.

To register, go to icpnyc.org/sicp/  
If you scroll down, you will see the Full Series Pass and the individual lectures. 
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Full Series Pass
Current trainee or student  $90 
SICP Member  $120 
General Admission  $140

Individual Lectures
Current trainee or student  $25
SICP Member  $35
General Admission  $40

Please note — CE applications are pending for all lectures and CE credits will be offered at no additional fee.

$10 surcharge for registration at the door.
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With questions about lectures, contact
Barbara Bolas, PhD at sicp.lectures.barbara@gmail.com

For information on joining SICP or the SICP mailing list, contact Betsy Levine, LCSW at sicp.lectures@gmail.com

To register, go to icpnyc.org/sicp/ 
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Friday, 11/22
Holly Levenkron, LCSW, LICSW
The Interpersonal Play of Resilience and Despair
Living in between the paranoid/schizoid and depressive positions

In this presentation, I will highlight the central role of affect in the body as fundamental to movement in the patient’s and analyst’s psychic collapse and vitalization. I’ll consider somatic reverie as it influences voice, containment and affective honesty in tolerating uncertainty and anxiety in the intersubjective field.

Bion’s breakthrough was to see Klein’s paranoid-schizoid position through a relational lens, in an oscillating field. A major contribution was to see how the body/mind system didn’t stand in static positions but, as Ogden described, was in dialectic movement, PS<=>D. I’m suggesting this oscillation or dialectic offers a transformative potential that can help negotiate uncertainty through somatic reverie on the affective level.

Elaborating on aspects of theory from Bion, and Winnicott, I’ll present work with a patient that included somatic manifestations, where dissociation/depersonalization was a central defense against disintegration. For this patient, what felt like the safety of solid ground suddenly would go dark leaving patient and analyst with varying degrees of fear, anger and shame. How can we think about analytic movement occurring during such sudden shared pulls in the field? In discussing this patient’s treatment I draw on Field Theory and include Winnicott’s ideas about transformation, especially focusing on the aspect of the developmental process he termed “personalization”. He suggests an integration of emotionality in the body/skin (soma) with the mind (psyche) that he called the “psyche-soma”. This integration marked the dawning of the intersubjective capacity to take in and hold affective content from the other. I will look at the unlinking of the “psyche-soma”, the separation of the mind-body system, (Gordon and Corrigan) in a paranoid schizoid process. I will consider the fluctuation between “personalization” and rapid “disintegration” in a patient who suffered from gripping panic attacks and further discuss how these concepts apply to our general psychoanalytic work.

Holly Levenkron, LCSW, LICSW received her training in psychoanalysis at ICP, the Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy in NYC where she is a faculty member and supervisor as well as Director of the Psychoanalytic Training Program. She also is faculty and supervising analyst at MIP, the Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalysis. For many years she has been teaching Relational Theory, with a special interest in enactment, dissociation, affect and Comparative Field Theory, the latter which she taught as part of a 6 week Zoom seminar this Fall for the Australian branch of the IARPP. She has published in Psychoanalytic Inquiry and Contemporary Psychoanalysis and has presented at numerous conferences both nationally and internationally. In addition to her work in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy, she specializes in working with Couples and with Adult Autism (Asperger’s Syndrome). She maintains a private practice in New York City and Cambridge, MA.


Friday, 1/24
Irwin Hirsch, PhD
Reflections on Therapeutic Action: 
The Role of Hierarchy, Analysts’ Self-Interest and the Limitations of Insight and Interpretation

Analysts’ pursuit of self-interest must always be considered in the context of trying to understand why any therapeutic process is stalled at what may be a comfortable equilibrium for both patient and therapist. In this context, one common analytic configuration in long analyses is the tendency to view patients as undeveloped children in need of the presence of an analyst who is consistently nurturing and personally allegedly far more mature and emotionally developed than the patient. Therapeutic efforts may focus almost exclusively on patients’ weaknesses and injuries suffered in early life. While these wounds are no doubt likely to  be very real, therapists all too often ignore patients’ agency in unconsciously repeating and perpetuating these wounds in contemporary life. Analysts’ gratification in experiencing a consistent sense of strength in the presence of a presumed weaker other is likely to interfere with patients’ embrace of agency and ultimate independence from early internalized relational configurations.

Irwin Hirsch, PhD is distinguished visiting faculty, William Alanson White Institute; faculty, supervisor and former director, Manhattan Institute for Psychoanalysis; adjunct clinical professor of psychology and supervisor, Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, New York University; and faculty & supervisor, The National Training Program, The National Institute of the Psychotherapies.

He is author of over 80 psychoanalytic articles and book chapters and 4 books: the 2008 Goethe Award winning, “Coasting in the Countertransference: Conflicts of Self-Interest between Analyst and Patient”, Routledge; “The Interpersonal Tradition: The Origins of Psychoanalytic Subjectivity”, Routledge, 2015; co-edited with Donnel Stern,“The Interpersonal Perspective in Psychoanalysis,1960’s – 1990’s: Rethinking Transference and Countertransference”, Routledge, 2017 and also co edited with Donnel Stern, “Further Developments in Interpersonal Psychoanalysis, 1980s-2010s: Evolving Interest in the Analyst’s Subjectivity. Routledge, 2018.


Friday, 3/13
Leslie Hendelman, LCSW
Political Divide in the Consulting Room

This presentation addresses a treatment relationship that tests the analyst’s capacity for empathy within an impinging political context. It involves a Ferenczian “relaxation of technique” within the analytic frame, while the analytic couple attempts to negotiate a polarized transference and countertransference. Specifically, within a long-term treatment imbued with positive transference, my patient becomes openly outraged by my insensitive anti-Trump remarks. Increasing confrontations around the expression of political views illuminate our otherness. He complains of psychic ostracism within a liberal cultural context, which tolerates no divergence from mainstream liberal ideas or discourse. I come to embody the oppressive other: the liberal “thought police”, “silencing” him for his perspective. Empathic breaches between us take center stage: how I don’t see the world as he does, and don’t see or hear him.

Leslie Hendelman, LCSW is a graduate of the ICP Analytic Program who has also focused on trauma utilizing EMDR, and family therapy through studies at The Ackerman Institute. In recent years she has become involved with the International Ferenczi Network where she has been exposed to perspectives which focus on the development of psychoanalytic theory from its inception from a more relational view, particularly taking into account the contributions of Ferenczi. For many years she has held leadership and collaborative roles on significant committees of ICP. She maintains a private practice on the upper west side of NYC.

Friday, 5/1
Kirkland Vaughans, PhD      
          The Schwartz Memorial Lecture, cosponsored with ICP
Trauma and Dehumanization 
School Curriculum for Black Girls and Boys

details TBA

April 16, 2019

May 3 - Ron Taffel - Millennials Rising! - An Enlivened Treatment Frame for Changing Sensibilities - 2 CE's




Individual Lecture
Current trainee or student  $20
SICP Member  $35
General Admission  $40

There is a $10 per lecture
surcharge for registration at the door.
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Friday, March 15
7-9 pm. Doors open at 6:30

In the ICP Library, 1841 Broadway, 4th floor
New York, NY 10023 (enter on 60th Street)
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About lectures, contact Barbara Bolas, PhD

SICP membership is by the calendar year. 
To join SICP, contact Betsy Levine, LCSW
at sicp.lectures@gmail.com

CE credits are issued under the auspices of
The Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy

January 7, 2019

Orna Guralnik, PsyD at ICP - Friday, Feb. 8



Register at icpnyc.org/sicp/

There are 3 lectures remaining in this year's
lecture series, including this one.


Individual Lectures
Current trainee or student  $20
SICP Member  $35
General Admission  $40


There is a $10 per lecture surcharge 

for registration at the door.
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Friday, February 8
7-9 pm. Doors open at 6:30


In the ICP Library, 1841 Broadway, 4th floor
New York, NY 10023 (enter on 60th Street)
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About lectures, contact Barbara Bolas, PhD
at sicp.lectures.barbara@gmail.com


SICP membership is by the calendar year.
To join SICP, contact Betsy Levine, LCSW
at sicp.lectures@gmail.com


CE credits are issued under the auspices of
The Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy