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CONFERENCES


Conference One

The Growth of the Individual: A View Through the Empathic Lens

Saturday September 17, 2011
Featured Speaker: Frank M. Lachmann, PhD


Conference Two

Affects, Intentions and Goals: A New Look At Motivation

Saturday November 19, 2011
Featured Speaker: Joseph D. Lichtenberg, MD


Conference Three

Engagement and Developmental Enactment

Saturday February 4, 2012
Featured Speaker: Donna Orange, PhD


Conference Four

The Clinical Challenge and How We Meet It: Conceptual Guidelines for What We Say and What We Do

Saturday, April 28, 2012
Featured Speakers: James L. Fosshage, PhD & Judith Guss Teicholz, PhD



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Conference Four


The Clinical Challenge and How We Meet It: Conceptual Guidelines for What We Say and What We Do


Saturday, April 28, 2012

Featured Speakers: James L. Fosshage, PhD & Judith Guss Teicholz, PhD Chair: Leslie F. Smith, MSW


This day will offer two perspectives on the challenge of distilling an exciting array of significant advancements in Self Psychology into articulated and demonstrable clinical guidelines for what we say and do when sitting with our patients. Dr. Fosshage will speak to the complex interplay between implicit and explicit systems for therapeutic action by delineating an overarching set of conceptual guidelines. Illustrating a wide range of "curative" pathways, Dr. Teicholz will offer a set of principles that seek to strike an optimal balance between analytic rigor and immediate spontaneous engagement.


Information on the speakers


Schedule

8:00 am Registration and Continental Breakfast
8:45 am Opening Remarks
9:00 am The Clinical Challenge and How We Meet It: Conceptual Guidelines for What We Say and Do
James L. Fosshage, PhD
9:40 am Clarity and Chaos
Judith Guss Teicholz, PhD
10:20 am Break
10:45 am Panel Discussion: Curtis Bristol, MD & Yvonne DeCuir, PhD
11:45 am Audience Discussion
12:00 pm Lunch Buffet - Cosmos Club
1:30 pm Small Group Discussion
2:30 pm Break
2:45 pm Case Presentation: Rosemary Segalla, PhD, James Fosshage, PhD, & Judith Guss Teicholz, PhD
3:45 pm Audience Discussion
4:00 pm Break
4:15 pm Small Group Discussion and Integration
5:35 pm Plenary Discussion
6:00 pm Conference ends

Learning Objectives

From the presentation by James Fosshage, Ph.D., the panel discussion with Curtis Bristol, M.D. and Yvonne DeCuir, Ph.D., and the clinical case presentation with Rosemary Segalla, Ph.D., James Fosshage, Ph.D., and Judith Guss Teicholz, Ph.D. participants will be able to:

  1. Describe a set of conceptual guidelines for facilitating psychoanalytically-informed treatment.
  2. Explain the two fundamental processes that create therapeutic change as described by Fosshage.
  3. Discuss how the original concepts of self psychology have changed in the 40 years since the theory's inception.
  4. Discuss several 21st century concepts in psychoanalysis and explain how they have influenced the further evolution of self psychology.
  5. Apply contemporary self psychology theory to the presented clinical material.

Based on attendance in small group discussion, participants will be able to:

  1. Discuss and analyze the conceptual guidelines for what we do and say in the therapeutic encounter.
  2. Discuss and analyze the presented clinical material from a contemporary self psychology perspective.
  3. State that, "I had the opportunity to ask questions about the presented material."