Note from the Director and Co-Director

Roger Segalla and Maxine Ellenberg Arnsdorf

Though you are probably focused on upcoming vacations or enjoying the summer, we are going to ask you to think ahead to fall and the programs that are being offered by ICP&P for 2011-2012. Many of you have registered for the Self Psychology Institute, which consists of 4 full day Saturday programs from 8:30am to 6:00pm and optional 3 hour Friday afternoon pre-conference sessions on specific topics. Participants will hear outstanding speakers and case conferences and also have the opportunity for consistent small group discussion experiences that were so valued during the Relational Perspectives Institute. If you are interested in registering for the Institute, please contact Morgan or register online as space is limited.

Of course, there will be options available for those of you who are not registering for the full institute. First, the Friday afternoon pre-conference sessions are open to anyone and registration for individual sessions or the package of all 4 meetings is still available. Space permitting, we will open up the individual Saturday SPI sessions. Registration is now being accepted for the Saturday, September 17 program featuring Dr. Frank Lachmann. This Saturday's conference is titled: The Growth of the Individual: A View Through An Empathic Lens. The program will run from 9:00am to 4:00 pm for 5 CE credits and will cost $180.00 for ICP&P members, $205.00 for non-members and $80.00 for students.

We also have a rich slate of short course offerings planned for the first half of the year. Elsewhere in the Newsletter, there is a flyer for an infant observation course offered by Jaedene Levy. Other offerings, which will be described in future Newsletters, will include courses on couples therapy and mind-body integration.

Finally, spaces are available in the psychotherapy training program starting in September. If you are interested, please contact Susan Gorman, Coordinator of Training, at 703-356-8839 or susnlgorman@gmail.com soon.

Note on Study Groups

Debra Caplowe

As many of you know, study groups are a central aspect of ICP&P membership, providing a great opportunity to grow clinically, stay in touch with one another, and form new collegial relationships and friendships. ICP&P currently has several study groups seeking members, and if you have been thinking of joining one, now is an ideal time to do so.

If you are interested in joining one of these groups, please contact the Study Group Leader directly.

Intersubjectivity Study Group

Janet Dante, MSW janet.dante@yahoo.com; 301-652-5507
3rd Friday of every month (Sept - June), 10am to 11:30am
5207 Hampden Lane, Bethesda, MD 20814

This study group started last September. The focus of the group is on developing and deepening our capacity to work intersubjectively with our patients. The format of the group is to discuss the reading, and to try to deepen our understanding through bringing in our own clinical examples and challenges. The book we will be reading this coming year is Toward an Emancipatory Psychoanalysis: Brandchaft's Intersubjective Vision by Doctors, Sorter, and Brandchaft. (2010).

Interpersonal Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis

Adina Shapiro, LCSW,adinsh@aol.com; 703-761-3939
4th Friday of every month, 3pm – 4:30pm
ICP&P office, 4601 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Suite 8, Washington, DC 20008

This study group is for those interested in learning more about interpersonal theory and technique. We will read Ferenczi, Sullivan, Fiscalini, Mann, Wolstein and others, depending on interest. Emphasis will be placed on locating interpersonal theory within the context of other relational theories, including self psychology. Participants are also encouraged to bring in case material spurred by the readings.

Mindfulness Meditation

William Harman, PhD williamfharman@verizon.net; 202-986-3828
1st and 3rd Monday of every month from 6:30pm–8pm beginning Sept. 12, 2011
2701 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Suite 606, Washington, DC (Across from the Woodley Park Metro)

This is a new study group for clinicians interested in learning more about mindfulness meditation and how to integrate it into their therapy practices. There are many levels of integration - from just using it yourself to deepen your listening skills to using guided meditations with your clients/patients for specific purposes. Although there will be a list of suggested readings, the group will decide on readings either from the list or from other selections suggested by group members. Although primarily a study group, we may choose to practice some experiential exercises together and discuss how to apply what we're learning together to specific cases.

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

Kathy Beck

ICP&P's Annual Pot Luck Brunch and Fall Kick-off
Sunday, September 11, 2011 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM Chevy Chase Village Town Hall
5906 Connecticut Avenue, Chevy Chase, MD 20815 (a couple of blocks north of Chevy Chase Circle)

Please park on the street.

This event is free to ICP&P Members

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 participate in 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!

As our potluck will be held on the 10th anniversary of September 11th, we will take a moment as a community to observe silence in commemoration of that day.

It is important that you RSVP to this event!! We expect a large turn-out and we may need to make special arrangements for parking, depending on the number of attendees. If you are able to carpool, that would be terrific!

Please respond by email to Kathy Beck at kathy.beck@rcn.com indicating whether you plan to bring: *appetizer *side dish *fruit salad *green salad *entrée *dessert *beer/wine *non-alcoholic beverage

*notify me and I'll bring whatever is most needed.

* Also please indicate whether you are available to help with set-up or clean-up. Thank you! We look forward to seeing you there!

UPCOMING EVENTS

• Wednesdays September 7, September 14, September 21, October 5, October 12 and November 2, 2011 ICP&P presents Short Course – Infant Observation 6:30 – 8:00pm with Jaedene Levy, MBA, MSW. 5816 Brookside Drive, Chevy Chase, MD.
• 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.
• Friday, September 16, 2011, November 18, 2011, February 3, 2011 and April 27, 2011 – ICP&P presents Self Psychology Institute Optional Pre-Conferences.
• 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.
• Thursday, October 13, 2011 – Saturday October 15, 2011 – the International Association for Psychoanalytic Self Psychology presents its annual conference The Influence of Attitude in Psychoanalysis at the Omni Hotel at California Plaza in Los Angeles, CA. For more information, visit www.iapsp.org
• Friday, October 14, 2011 - ICP&P presents Short Course – A Dialogue on Couples Therapy from the Perspective of Two Complementary Contemporary Theories with Mary O'Farrell, PhD and John Gualtieri, PhD. 11:30am – 2:30pm. ICP&P Office, 4601 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Suite 8, Washington, DC.
• Saturday, December 10, 2011 – ICP&P presents After the Affair: From Trauma to Reconnection with Janis Abrahms Spring, PhD, ABPP. 9:00am – 12:30pm. National 4-H Conference Center, 7100 Connecticut Avenue, Chevy Chase, MD.

BULLETIN BOARD

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• New Experiential Consultation Group - Monica Leonie Callahan is offering a biweekly consultation group to begin in September, meeting every other Friday from 12:00 to 1:30 in her office in Bethesda. The group will address members' clinical experiences utilizing a combination of contemporary theory (self psychological, relational, intersubjective, etc.) and psychodrama-based action methods. Psychodrama is particularly well suited to exploring nonverbal elements of the therapy relationship, including mutual enactments, role responsiveness, and "countertransference," and allows for experimenting with alternative interventions. For more information, contact Monica at 301 587 6211 or callahanml@erols.com
• 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 – in McLean, VA for a mental health professional. The suite consists of 4 offices with a large waiting room, kitchen and a group room The office has large windows and has been recently been refurbished. It is situated on the ground floor and is easily accessible. There is ample parking. Please contact Beulah Levy at beulahalevy@gmail.com or at 703-356 8994.
• Office Space Available - Cozy, window office in attractive suite with waiting room, private kitchen and bathroom. Collegial atmosphere with two social workers and one psychologist. Professional building in convenient Vienna, Va. location with plentiful, free parking and handicap access. $650/mo. Contact Alexandra Kaghan at askaghan@yahoo.com or 703-319-1436 or Barbara Caceres at bzcaceres@gmail.com or 703-242-8223.
• 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.



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The deadline for submitting items for the September 2011 Newsletter is August 25, 2011