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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
PRE-CONFERENCES
- Foundations of Self Psychology
September 16, 2011 - Self Psychology and Couples
November 18, 2011 - Self Psychology and Groups
February 3, 2012 - Self Psychology Today
April 27, 2012
Conference One
The Growth of the Individual: A View Through the Empathic Lens
Saturday September 17, 2011
Featured Speaker: Frank M. Lachmann, PhD
Chair: Wendy Fischer, MSW
This day will focus on the application of concepts related to the organization of experience as derived from infant research and shown to be applicable in understanding therapist-patient interactions. These principles — ongoing regulation, disruption and repair, and heightened affect states — arise in early development, operate throughout the life span and enter into the clinical interaction. In this presentation, Dr. Lachmann will describe some of the fascinating studies that illustrate these principles and their clinical implications. The role of expectations met, surpassed or violated in transforming the emotional connection between therapist and patient will be emphasized.
Schedule
| 8:00 am | Registration and Continental Breakfast |
| 8:45 am | Institute Welcome and Opening Remarks Joseph Lichtenberg, MD & Rosemary Segalla, PhD |
| 9:00 am | The Growth of the Individual: A View Through the Empathic Lens Frank M. Lachmann, PhD |
| 10:00 am | Audience Discussion |
| 10:20 am | Break |
| 10:45 am | Panel Discussion: Mauricio Cortina, MD & Cheri Marmarosh, PhD |
| 11:45 am | Audience Discussion |
| 12:00 pm | Lunch (On your own) |
| 1:30 pm | Small Group Discussion |
| 2:30 pm | Break |
| 2:45 pm | Case Presentation: Candace Detchon, PhD & Frank Lachmann, PhD |
| 3:45 pm | Audience Discussion |
| 4:00 pm | Break |
| 4:15 pm | Small Group Discussion |
| 5:35 pm | Plenary Discussion |
| 6:00 pm | Conference ends |
Learning Objectives
From the presentation by Frank Lachmann, Ph.D., the panel discussion with Mauricio Cortina, M.D. and Cheri Marmarosh, Ph.D., and the clinical case presentation with Candace Detchon, Ph.D. and Frank Lachmann, Ph.D., participants will be able to:
- Apply findings from infant research concerning how humans organize their experience to therapist-patient interactions.
- Recognize the role of expectations in the therapeutic interaction and assess the extent to which meeting or violating these expectations has contributed to therapeutic progress or stalemates.
- Apply contemporary self psychology theory to the presented clinical material.
Based on attendance in small group discussion, participants will be able to:
- Discuss and analyze the ways they could incorporate into their work empirically demonstrable principles of therapeutic action described by Lachmann.
- Discuss and analyze the presented clinical material from a contemporary self psychology perspective.
- State that, "I had the opportunity to ask questions about the presented material."