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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



Pre-Conferences


The pre-conference sessions are geared toward both those clinicians new to Self Psychology and for those familiar with Self Psychology who are interested in deepening their understanding of core concepts and applying those concepts to specific clinical modalities. The sessions are intended to provide participants with a more intimate setting and will be limited to 30 people. The sessions will emphasize attendee participation and clinical illustration of concepts. The pre-conferences will consist of four Friday afternoon sessions from 3:00 p.m. to 6:15 p.m. Three CE credits will be awarded per session.


Foundations of Self Psychology

September 16, 2011

Faculty: Elizabeth Carr, MSN, BC and Marie Hellinger, MSW, Case Presentation: Janna Sandmeyer, PhD


This session will cover foundational elements of Self Psychology, including the role of empathy, selfobject transferences, therapeutic action, and disruption and repair. Concepts will be brought alive through discussions of clinical material.


Learning Objectives

  1. Describe the role of empathy and the importance of an "experience near" clinical approach in self psychology.
  2. Explain Kohut's ideas about how selfobject transferences (mirroring, idealizing, and twinship) spontaneously develop via ordinary clinical interactions.
  3. Discuss and analyze the presented clinical material from the perspective of self psychology.

Self Psychology and Couples

November 18, 2011
6256 Clearwood Road, Bethesda, MD 20817

Faculty: Barbara Shapard, MSW and Damon Silvers, PhD, Case Presentation: Sharon Ballard, MSW


This session will address how Self Psychology informs therapeutic work with couples' developmental challenges, selfobject needs, difficult relational patterns and failures of negotiation. There will be a focus on how empathy toward the couples' difficulties diminishes anxiety and promotes the couples' exploration, mutual compassion and negotiation of tensions.


Learning Objectives

  1. Explain how self psychology's theory of empathy toward the couple's emotional difficulties diminishes anxiety and anger and also promotes therapeutic exploration.
  2. Describe how self psychology theory informs an understanding of a couple's developmental challenges and selfobject needs.
  3. Explain how self psychology theory addresses the couple's communication styles, unsatisfying interactional patterns, and internal psychodynamics in the clinical setting.

Self Psychology and Groups

February 3, 2012
3551 Winfield Lane, NW, Washington, DC 20007

Faculty: Rosemary Segalla, PhD and Mary Dluhy, MSW, PhD, Case Presentation: Mary Jean Kane, MSW


This session will present an overview of self psychological, motivational systems and intersubjective perspectives on group therapy. Participants will have the opportunity to explore group treatment, beginning with patient selection through termination from within these theoretical viewpoints.


Learning Objectives

  1. Describe the concept of selfobject transferences.
  2. Explain the concept of multiple selfobject transferences which occur in a therapy group.
  3. Explain the concept of empathic ruptures and how they are addressed in a therapy group.

Self Psychology Today

April 27, 2012
6256 Clearwood Road, Bethesda, MD 20817

Faculty: Joseph Lichtenberg, MD and Russell Carr, MD


This session will track more recent contributions to the concepts of empathy, self, and selfobject experience. There will be a focus on motivational systems and intersubjectivity. The therapeutic management of trauma, enactments, and dissociation will also be emphasized.


Learning Objectives

  1. Describe the advances made in the conceptions of empathy, self, and selfobject within contemporary self psychology.
  2. Assess the interrelation between motivational systems and intersubjectivity systems theories.
  3. Discuss contemporary self psychological-based clinical approaches to trauma, enactments, and dissociation.