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December 2011

Note from the Director and Co-Director

Roger Segalla and Maxine Ellenberg Arnsdorf

As an institute with a significant self psychological orientation, ICP&P is part of a larger international network of psychoanalytic institutes and clinicians which are oriented toward the theories and clinical applications of contemporary self-psychology. This group is represented by the International Association of Psychoanalytic Self Psychology (IAPSP) which produces an annual international conference that brings together traditional and contemporary self psychologists to present and discuss new developments in psychoanalytic treatment. Next year, in October 2012, ICP&P is serving as host to the IAPSP International Conference which will be chaired by our own Joseph Lichtenberg, MD. The 2012 Conference is titled: "Is Self an Illusion?" and is already promising to be an exciting event filled with many nationally and internationally recognized speakers. We also expect to have a large contingent of ICP&P members involved in moderating paper sessfdions and doing case presentations. This event, which will be held at the Marriott Hotel, will begin on Thursday October 18th and end on Sunday October 21st.

The IAPSP is a membership organization and there are a number of advantages to joining. First, members receive a subscription to International Journal of Psychoanalytic Self Psychology (IJPSP), which is published by the IAPSP, as well as substantial member discounts for subscriptions to psychoanalytic journals. In addition, members of IAPSP also get significant discounts on conference fees, enrollment in the IAPSP list serve (a great referral source), access to the IAPSP eForum , access to online forums, a 20% member discount on all psychoanalytic books purchased through Mental Health Resources, and an opportunity to run for and elect members of the IAPSP International Council.

This is a great time to join the IAPSP and reap the benefits of membership in this thriving organization of like-minded clinicians. For more information on the IAPSP you can go to their website at: http://psychologyoftheself.com/iapsp/ To go directly to the membership application go to: http://iapsp.org/iapsp/join.php

On behalf of the ICP&P Board, we wish you a festive holiday season. We look forward to seeing you in the new year.


Note from the Secretary

Leslie Westbrook

In an effort to keep the membership informed about issues that are being discussed by the ICP&P Board, a brief summary of each meeting is published in the Newsletter. If there are items about which you have questions, opinions or concerns, please feel free to contact a Board member. We welcome your input. All Board members are listed in the front of the ICP&P Directory and on the website. Here are some highlights from the November meeting:

  • The Board voted to co-sponsor with the Washington School of Psychiatry a conference on March 16 and 17 based on the Minnesota Longitudinal Studies featuring speaker L. Alan Sroufe, author of The Development of the Person. Contributors to the program will include Mauricio Cortina, Elizabeth Carr and Marie Hellinger.
  • Roger Segalla reported that Cherian Verghese has invited an authority on multiculturalism to be the principal speaker at the Annual Meeting in the spring of 2013. A clinician will also be part of the program.
  • The Board discussed possible speakers for the 2012-13season. Russell Carr and Doris Brothers will be asked to present at one of the half day conferences.
  • The Board also discussed the possibility of sponsoring a day-long conference on the Sunday before the IAPSP Conference in Washington, D.C. in October of 2012. Joe Lichtenberg suggested the topic be 'The Role of Play in All Things Human". There was conditional support for the idea. It will be further explored.
  • Membership Chair Martha Blechar Gibbons reported that 239 members have now paid their membership dues for this year. Roger Segalla suggested that there be a meeting of Study Group Leaders to maintain a better connection with the Membership Committee.
  • On December 5th there will a meeting for faculty of the various Training Programs.
  • Janet Dante, Treasurer, reported that while the budget is in fine shape, there were only fifteen non-ICP&P members at the Lachman and at the Lichtenberg conferences. (Earlier in the meeting the Board had recommended that there be no special advertising of the "After the Affair" Conference because of the high expense of putting an ad in the Washington Post.)

    Note from Coordinator of Programs

    Patricia Olsen

    Our next event is the third weekend of the Self Psychology Institute, which features a pre-conference session devoted to self psychology and groups on Friday, February 3 and a full-day Saturday program entitled Engagement and Developmental Enactment with Donna Orange, PhD as the main speaker. Registration information is available later in the Newsletter, on the ICP&P website, or by contacting Morgan Theriot at icpeastadmin@att.net.


    Note From Psychoanalytic Training Program
    Reading Group for Prospective Members-in-Training

    Elizabeth M. Carr and Linda Kanefield

    We are pleased to announce that we are holding a series of meetings for anyone interested in learning more about the ICP&P Psychoanalytic Training Program. For the first two sessions, we have chosen an exciting group of papers organized around the issue of mutual recognition in the analytic encounter, including papers by Donna Orange, Jessica Benjamin, Malcolm Slavin and Phillip Ringstrom. In this series of papers, the authors engage in a complex examination of the interface between Orange's and Benjamin's broad understandings of the concept of recognition in development and in clinical interaction. We believe our discussion will be of great value to those individuals who will be attending the February 4, 2012 Self Psychology Institute session featuring Donna Orange speaking on the subject of Engagement and Developmental Enactments. All are welcome!

    During the reading group, there will also be an opportunity to ask questions and talk about the experience of doing psychoanalytic training at ICP&P. The meetings will be on Sunday afternoons from 3:30 - 5:30 on January 22, February 26, and March 25. We will meet at the home of Elizabeth Carr at 701 Woodside Parkway in Silver Spring, Maryland. If you are interested, or know anyone who is interested in joining us for the reading group, please contact Linda Kanefield at 301-654-2645 or kaneschn@gmail.com. We will send the readings to those who would like to participate in the group. If you want further information, please contact Linda.

    This has been an exciting year for the ICP&P Psychoanalytic Training Program as several of our current trainees have written, published, and had papers accepted to be presented at international conferences. Russ Carr, MD gave the plenary talk at the IAPSP Conference in Los Angeles, in October 2011 and Shoshana Ringel, PhD will be giving a paper at the IARPP conference in NYC in March 2012. We are very proud of them and believe their accomplishments speak to the creative and stimulating atmosphere of our training program.


    Note from Chair, Psychotherapy Training Program

    Faith Lewis

    I am pleased to introduce two Members-in-Training in the first year class of the Psychotherapy Training Program. Biographies of the three remaining members of the class will appear in future issues of the Newsletter.

    Cornelia R. Groat, JD, MSW

    Cornelia received her MSW in May 2010 and is in the process of working toward independent licensure. Her goals as an MIT are to continue to build her skills as a therapist and to expand her knowledge of contemporary psychodynamic theories. In addition, Cornelia has training in neuroscience, mind body skills, and their application in psychotherapy. Originally from Germany, she is interested in the effects on self development of growing up in two cultures. Before earning her MSW, Cornelia practiced law and raised her children.

    Allyn Enderlyn, MBA, PhD Candidate

    Allyn is a PhD Candidate in Clinical Psychology with a Depth Emphasis, from Pacifica Graduate Institute. She is completing her Dissertation. She has interned at Psychiatric Institute of Washington and externed at Children's National Medical Center Eating Disorders Clinic. Previously, she has interned at St. Elizabeth's Hospital. Allyn spent thirteen years in Geneva, Switzerland as a United Nations diplomat, working in the area of least-developed countries. She works in both English and French, having earned her Proficiency Diploma in French from UNESCO, Paris. A Washington, D.C. native, she earned her MBA in Finance from The George Washington University and her BA in Psychology from The American University. Allyn has been a member of the Developing Group of the International Association for Analytical Psychology (IAAP), Tunis, Tunisia; an auditor at the International School of Analytical Psychology (ISAP), Zurich; and a member of the Philadelphia Association of Jungian Analysts Seminar. She has recently begun a private practice in Bethesda, Maryland, as a Psychology Associate. Allyn is inspired to integrate the advanced training in contemporary psychotherapy and psychoanalysis, particularly self and relational, with her current strong roots in analytical psychology.


    Save the Date – New Program Offering

    Elizabeth M. Carr

    ICP&P is pleased to announce that we have accepted an offer from the Washington School of Psychiatry (The Attachment and Human Development Center and the Seminar on Developmental Psychotherapy) to co-sponsor a conference featuring Alan Sroufe, PhD to be held on Friday evening March 15 and all day Saturday, March 16 2012. Dr. Sroufe is internationally recognized as one of the foremost contributors to our understanding of how attachment relationships and developmental processes influence normal and pathological development through the life span. Dr. Sroufe Friday lecture is titled: The Legacy of Early Development as Seen from the Minnesota Longitudinal Study of Risk and Adaptation and is based on the findings from one of the largest and most comprehensive studies undertaken. The all day Saturday conference is titled: Implications for the Practice of Psychotherapy of Approaches Informed by Attachment Theory and a Developmental Perspective and will feature presentations and discussions by Alan Sroufe, June Sroufe, Mauricio Cortina, Elizabeth Carr, Marie Hellinger and members of the WSP developmental psychotherapy study group. We believe this is an exciting learning opportunity for ICP&P members interested in the clinical application of developmental research. Please save the dates and we will provide further information about the conference in January 2012.


    Scientific Day

    Richard Ogden

    ICP&P's Scientific Day happens every other year and this year it is scheduled for Saturday, March 3, 2012. It is an opportunity for members to present an original paper and to receive feedback from the audience. There are no restrictions in terms of theoretical orientation, format, and topic. Please keep in mind that the paper does not have to be a completed project but might be a discussion of ideas that you are still considering and working with.

    Members are invited to submit one or more abstracts or papers for consideration. Each presentation will be 35 minutes long with 25 additional minutes reserved for discussion with the audience. The deadline for submission is January 15, 2012.

    For consideration as a presenter, please submit the following:

    1. Your paper or abstract
    2. At least one educational objective
    3. A brief curriculum vitae

    Please submit material to: ICP&P, Attn: Morgan Theriot, Administrator, 4601 Connecticut Avenue, Suite 8 Washington, D.C. 20008 or fax to 202-232-2565 (fax), or by email to icpeastadmin@att.net . Please contact me at (301) 986-5499 or rlogden@hotmail.com if you have any questions.


    New Member Introduction

    Martha Blechar Gibbons

    ICP&P welcomes Robert Walters, who has been a licensed psychologist since 2000. Three years ago Robert relocated to Washington, D.C. from New Jersey, where he had maintained a private practice. He was affiliated with Jersey Shore University Medical Center, providing supervision for psychotherapy and psychological testing to pre-doctoral interns. Growing weary of the New Jersey suburbs, Robert made a change of life decision: he moved to the capitol city, where some of his relatives already resided.

    Robert currently practices in Dupont Circle, where he provides psychotherapy to adults and couples. He treats a population manifesting mood disorders, trauma, adjustment issues, and a spectrum of personality disorders. Proposing an expansion of his practice, Robert intends to include psychological evaluation.

    Having developed an interest in self psychology, Robert learned about ICP&P one year ago, and was elated to discover a self psychology institute right in his backyard!

    Robert shares that the move from New Jersey has been an unfolding process of sociological adjustment, but so far he is pleased with his decision. His desire is to become integrated into a community that will provide opportunities for networking, professional stimulation, and growth. Hopefully Robert will find this…and more… as he settles into the ICP&P environs.


    2011-2012 Directories

    Maxine Ellenberg Arnsdorf

    The 2011-2012 printed membership directories are hot off the presses and were distributed to attendees of the December 10 conference. Remaining directories will be distributed through study groups or by mail.

    When you receive your directory, please review your entry and send any edits or corrections to Morgan at icpeastadmin@att.net. Once these are collected, the information will be sent to the membership, along with information regarding members who joined after the directory went to the printer.

    I thought it might be a good time to explain how the individual entries are formatted; this is intended to help members interpret directory listings. (The information that follows is also included on the page 1 of the printed directory).

    For the Population Served category, responses are listed in chronological order from youngest to oldest (not order of preference).

    For the Therapeutic Mode category, responses are listed in alphabetical order (not order of preference). Individual therapy is assumed and therefore is not listed separately.

    For the Specialties category, responses are listed in the order specified by the member, with as many items as space allowed. If no order was indicated, responses are placed in alphabetical order.

    In order to minimize repetition, responses appear in only one category. For example, "Couples" is listed under Therapeutic Mode, not under Specialties. Similarly, "Children" is listed under Populations Served and not under Specialties.

    I would welcome feedback about the formatting procedure and/or suggestions of ways to increase the utility of the directory listings

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    Thoughts on Being a Therapist

    Lauren Brandt and Jeffrey Jay

    Feelings, thoughts, reflections, moments of humor, moments of insight, moments of relief, joy, victory, or defeat in being a therapist?

    We would like to introduce a new occasional column in the newsletter, "Thoughts on Being A Therapist," as a space for ICP&P members to share reflections relating to this audacious, humbling and poignant work of being a therapist. The notes should be no longer than 400 words, but can also be much shorter. In addition to small lessons learned, we welcome personal writing to complement the theory, training, and hard work of treatment. Haikus and less formal expressions are welcome, but no identifying information of clients or breaches of confidentiality, please. Submit your writing for this column to Lauren Brandt or Jeffrey Jay at LBJLS@rcn.com or jeffjayphd@aol.com.


    News and Notes

    ICP&P Yahoo Member Listserv - ICP&P maintains a member listserv which is intended as a place for members to post information (like conferences sponsored by other organizations that would be of interest to ICP&P members) or to ask for information regarding professional issues or resources. As new members join the organization or at any time after that up on request, the ICP&P Administrator will initiate an invitation to join the listserv from Yahoo. The method of posting items on the listserv is as follows: go to Yahoo groups on the Yahoo website and find the group "ICP-Info" under "My Groups". Click that group name. You will enter the ICP&P Yahoo group for members. To send a message, click on "Messages" then click "Post". If you are interested in joining the Yahoo Listserv, please contact Morgan Theriot at icpeastadmin@att.net so that she can send you an invitation.


    UPCOMING EVENTS

    • Friday, February 3, 2012 – ICP&P presents SPI pre-conference session Self Psychology and Groups featuring Rosemary Segalla, PhD and Mary Dluhy, MSW, PhD with a Case Presentation by Mary Jean Kane, MSW from 3:00-6:15pm, 3551 Winfield Lane, NW, Washington, DC.
    • Saturday, February 4, 2012 – ICP&P presents Self Psychology Institute conference three Engagement and Development Enactment with Donna Orange, PhD 8:45-6:00pm. Cosmos Club, 2121 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC.
    • Sunday, February 12, 2012 – Joint Institute Candidates Committee conference, 3-6pm, Rockville, MD.
    • Saturday, March 3, 2012 – ICP&P presents Scientific Day. National 4-H Conference Center, 7100 Connecticut Avenue, Chevy Chase, MD.
    • Friday, March 16 and Saturday March 17, 2012 – ICP&P and the Washington School of Psychiatry present The Legacy of Early Development as Seen from the Minnesota Longitudinal Study of Risk and Adaptation and Implications for the Practice of Psychotherapy of Approaches Informed by Attachment Theory and a Developmental Perspective with Alan Sroufe, PhD and discussion with Alan Sroufe, June Sroufe, Mauricio Cortina, Elizabeth Carr, Marie Hellinger and members of the WSP developmental psychotherapy study group.
    • Friday, April 27, 2012 – ICP&P presents SPI pre-conference session Self Psychology Today featuring Joseph Lichtenberg, MD and Russell Carr, MD from 3:00-6:15pm, 6256 Clearwood Road, Bethesda, MD.
    • Saturday, April 28, 2012 – ICP&P presents Self Psychology Institute conference four The Clinical Challenge and How We Meet It: Conceptual Guidelines For What We Need to Say And What We Need to Do with James Fosshage, PhD and Judith Guss Teicholz, PhD 8:45-6:00pm. Cosmos Club, 2121 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC.
    • October 2012 – ICP&P will host the IAPSP International Conference Is Self an Illusion? in Washington, DC.

    BULLETIN BOARD

    The Policy for Bulletin Board items is: Members can place items three months a year. Items can be up to eight lines in length. Longer items or additional months are available for a fee. Please contact the administrator for the fee schedule.

    • Group for Parents of Children with Life Threatening Illness – Donna Tish and Aziza Jones are forming a new group for those who are experiencing the stress and trauma of raising children with life threatening illnesses. The group will meet Mondays, starting February 13, 2012 at the Wendt Center for Loss and Healing, 4201 Connecticut Ave., NW, Suite 300, Washington. For more information, please call 202-204-5021 or email Donna at donnatish@yahoo.com.
    • Mixed Gender Psychotherapy Group - looking for new members. The group, co-led by Steve Stein and Peggy Miller, meets Wednesday evenings from 5-6:30pm at 3000 Connecticut Ave., NW, Washington, DC. For more information, contact Peggy Miller at 202-265-5071 or by email at pegmill21@msn.com
    • Mixed Therapy Group – is forming for adults in the 40 to 60 year old range. The group is seeking a few more members to fill the group, which will start (tentatively) in January. If you have a client that you think may be appropriate, or if you'd like more information, please get in touch with Ben or Pamela Forman at 301-657-3475 or e-mail Pamela at forman.pamela@gmail.com
    • Seeking Office Space - Looking for office space to rent part-time (not on weekends), preferably in the Bethesda/ Chevy Chase area. Please contact Brigitte Ladisch at 301-652-6250 or 301-651-7592.
    • Office Space Available - in private office with kitchenette and bath in Dupont Circle. Residential building, open 24-hours, with lobby desk monitored. Great place to build a practice -- so far three of my tenants have moved on to their own offices following start-up in my office. Available for whatever time blocks needed mornings Mon - Wed and all day Thursday. Contact Sheila Cahill at sheilacahill@mac.com or call 202-656-2415.
    • Office Space Available - part-time in downtown Bethesda on St. Elmo Ave. Friendly suite with waiting room, kitchenette, fish tank, and more. Half-time to 4/5 time negotiable. Metro accessible. For more information, contact Monica L. Callahan at Callahanml@erols.com or call 301-587-6211.


    The deadline for submitting items for the January 2012 Newsletter is December 28, 2011