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Newsletter: June 2011

Note from the Director and Co-Director

Roger Segalla and Maxine Ellenberg Arnsdorf

As our programming year winds to a close, we would like to thank all those members who worked so hard this year to plan and execute programs, run study groups, develop curricula, teach classes, balance budgets, develop publicity materials, mentor students, register conference participants, develop learning objectives - all the thousands of tasks, big and small, that it takes to run a growing and dynamic training institute. We want you to know that we see you and recognize your hard work and devotion to ICP&P. Thanks for making ICP&P the best little institute in Washington, DC.

We would also like to welcome our newly elected and re-elected board members. Martha Blechar Gibbons will be joining the Board as Membership Coordinator. Debra Caplowe will be taking over the role of Study Group Coordinator. Alison Howard will join us as a Board Representative. Welcome Martha, Debra, and Alison! We would also like to congratulate our re-elected board members Janet Dante who will return for another term as the ICP&P Treasurer and Leslie Westbrook who will return for another term as ICP&P's Secretary. Welcome back Janet and Leslie! Finally, we would also like to welcome Michael Wannon who will take over as Chair of the Couples Training Program and Catherine Bernard who is assuming the role of the Associate Chair of the Couples Program. Welcome aboard!

We trust that you have had the chance to review the Self Psychology Institute brochure. We hope you will consider registering for the Institute and/or the pre-conference sessions. The Institute will offer a rich experience of the latest developments in Self Psychology. Act soon to take advantage of the early registration discount. Registration information is available on the website SPI.html or by emailing the ICP&P office at icpeastadmin@att.net

We hope all of you will have restful and enjoyable summer and we will look forward to seeing all of you at our Annual Potluck Brunch and Town Hall Meeting on Sunday September 11th at 1:00 pm.


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 May meeting:

  • Outgoing Board members were thanked for their contributions and new Board members were welcomed.
  • Membership now stands at 241 members. The Board discussed ways to integrate new members into leadership positions.
  • A free program for members on work with couples will be offered in December of 2011. Scientific Day, also free for members, will be offered in March of 2012. The Annual Meeting in 2012 will focus on Diversity.
  • The Treasurer reported that ICP&P remains in the black. The Treasurer requested that Committee Chairs get their budget requests to her as soon as possible so that the budget for the 2011-2012 year can be prepared.
  • The Board voted to set a reduced fee for the members in training to participate in the Pre-Conference Seminars that occur immediately before the Self Psychology Institute in 2011-2012.
  • The next Board meeting will be September 19, 2011.

Note from the Chair, Couples Training Program

Barbara Shapard

The Couples Training Program is pleased to announce the graduation of: Laura Kasper, Karin Lutwin, Deborah Marks, Rachel Miller, Adrienne Simenhoff and Angela Snyder.

The faculty enjoyed working with this bright enthusiastic class! We wish them every success in their continuing work with couples!


ICP&P's Pot Luck Brunch and Town Hall Meeting

Kathy Beck

Save the Date! ICP&P's Pot Luck Brunch and Town Hall Meeting is scheduled for September 11, 2011 from 1pm - 4pm. We hope that you will plan to join us. This kick-off event gives us a chance to come together as a community to renew ongoing relationships as well as to welcome new members. Members-in-Training and individuals who have joined ICP&P during the last year will be introduced. In addition, we are planning to have a town hall meeting, in which members can be a part of an open discussion about ICP&P, including the year's upcoming programs, planning for future programs and other areas of interest or concern to the ICP&P membership community. The potluck has always been an informal, lively, and fun event with lots of great food! Please mark your calendars!


New Member Introduction

Jeffrey Jay

I want to welcome Cornelia Tietke to ICP&P. Cornelia has taken a most interesting route to her current interest in self and relational theory. Raised in Alabama, and educated at Berkeley, she came to Washington in 1996 as a Presidential Management Fellow. Through the Fellowship she worked at the USDA in affordable housing policy which then led to work for the next ten years at a nonprofit organization focusing on affordable housing development in DC. Cornelia then added Social Work to her career when she returned to school at Catholic University. This led to challenging and fascinating work with trauma and dissociation at The Center for Posttraumatic Disorders Program at PIW. When asked about her work at the Center, she commented that it takes a long time to fully understand dissociation, and that seeing a large number of dissociative patients over the years has been a great teacher. Cornelia has also established a social service program at the nonprofit where she formerly worked and continues to supervise a social work student there. Now she has opened her own private practice and, for fun, takes classes in improv at the Washington Improv Theater. So, now we know that the shortest route from Policy to Improv is through Dissociation. Cornelia, welcome to ICP&P.


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.


"Talk Doesn't Pay" ( NY Times, March 6, 2011)

I love this work. Work? There are times when I'm embarrassed to take money for it, the wonder-task, listening with the heart. Imagine my joy to find that I am one of the only 10% of psychiatrists who actually does his own psychotherapy, intensive psychodynamic at that, not the watered down cognitive behavioral stuff.

Today a woman, 62, whom I have been seeing only 3 months told me: "Prozac has prevented me from engaging in my own life…I always thought, for 20 years, that it was keeping me 1 step away from suicide…You're the 1st psychiatrist or therapist who ever told me I didn't need it…Prozac has been keeping me depressed…I'm not going to sue them but it makes me so angry."

It is so gratifying to break the news to patients, to see a new look of hope, that the only thing wrong with their brain is that which the so-called "anti-depressant" does to it. I tell them they are simply hooked, needing a very slow weaning and ultimately a gentle confrontation of that which was labeled as sick.

I'm glad I gave her a reduced fee. I'll never get rich. I love this work.

Joseph Tarantolo, M.D.


News and Notes

Thomas Hoffman will be delivering a paper at the upcoming Annual Meeting of the International Society for the Psychoanalytic Study of Organizations in Melbourne, Australia. The abstract may be found at: http://www.ispso2011.org/symposium/2011/regeneration-confluence-psychoanalysis-biological-science-and-literature-lessons-grou and the paper may be retrieved online after the symposium. He is also giving a professional development workshop, http://www.ispso2011.org/workshop/2011/pdw-7-role-contemporary-psychoanalytic-theory-practical-business-consultation.


UPCOMING EVENTS

  • Sunday, September 11, 2011 ICP&P's Annual Pot Luck Brunch and Town Hall Meeting. Chevy Chase Village Town Hall, 5906 Connecticut Avenue, Chevy Chase, MD.
  • Saturday, September 17, 2011, November 19, 2011, February 4, 2012 and April 28, 2011 - ICP&P presents Self Psychology Institute. The Cosmos Club, 2121 Massachusetts Ave, NW, Washington, DC.
  • Friday, September 16, 2011, November 18, 2011, February 3, 2011 and April 27, 2011 - ICP&P presents Self Psychology Institute Optional Pre-Conferences.

BULLETIN BOARD

  • Monthly Mediation Group for Therapists - beginning September 2011 focusing on bridging the gap between East and West. The group will meet monthly for 2 hours where both Mindful Meditation (Vipassana) and Kinetic (Dynamic) techniques will be combined to enliven the suppressed and calm the agitated. The model employed will explore bodily, spiritual, and psychological components to our life-long task of healing preoedipal wounds. Please contact Joseph Tarantolo at drtarantolo@earthlink.net
  • Office Space Available - located at Dupont Circle two blocks from the Metro. The office is spacious, charming, sunny, has a waiting room and is available hourly or as a part-time sublet on Fridays. If desired, two parking spaces available, 1 for renter (inside garage), 1 for renter's patients (outside garage.) Contact Sarah Pillsbury at 202-332-9473.

The Washington School of Psychiatry Presents

The Infant and Young Child Mental Health Seminar 2011-2012 Series Therapeutic Presence: Reflections on Countertransference

This nine month seminar series begins Friday, September 16, 2011 from 12:15-3:15pm at 5028 Wisconsin Ave., NW, WDC 20016. Sessions include a case presentation followed by faculty and student discussion.

Presenters:

  • Mauricio Cortina, MD
  • Georgia DeGangi, PhD
  • Griffin Doyle, PhD
  • Kristin Lee, PhD
  • Gwen Martinsen, PhD
  • Elizabeth Maury, PhD
  • Marc Nemiroff, PhD
  • James Venza, PhD Ruth Zitner, PhD

For additional information or to register, call 202-237-2700 or email wspdc.info@wspdc.org

27 CE credits awarded for full attendance

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The deadline for submitting items for the Summer 2011 Newsletter is July 8, 2011