Note from the Director and Co-Director

Roger Segalla and Maxine Ellenberg Arnsdorf

As this new year gets under way, Maxine and I would like to take a moment to acknowledge the efforts of a couple of hardworking committees that toil away behind the scenes to keep ICP&P ticking along. We would also like to announce the creation of new committee and invite you, our membership, to become involved.

First, we'd like to thank and acknowledge the diligent work of the ICP&P Branding Committee. This committee was charged with the task of developing a new visual image for ICP&P. The committee worked for almost two years discussing the question of the ICP&P brand, interviewing and hiring a suitable graphic designer, and finally selecting a design that graphically represented ICP&P as a forward thinking contemporary psychoanalytic institute (see sample at left). Because real care and thoughtfulness went into this task, the Branding Committee put in many hours working through this process. This committee was very capably chaired by Sharon Ballard and included, Elizabeth Carr, Jeffery Jay, Tripp Reed, Roger Segalla and Maxine Arnsdorf. Thank you all! Look for this new logo to be incorporated into letterhead, our websites, emails, announcements, etc. in the very near future.

We would also like to acknowledge the very capable and carefully diligent CME committee which is chaired by Allan Melmed and includes Eleanor Howe, Elizabeth Carr, and Deborah Marks. This committee has been hard at work assembling a vast complexity of documentation, forms and data needed for our first site visit by the MedChi CME survey committee. This is a very important site visit that is critical to our continued accreditation as a Continuing Medical Education provider. We are very much in debt to all the members of this committee who have spent countless hours preparing for this visit. Thanks so much for all your hard work!

Finally, we would like to announce the creation of an IAPSP Conference Committee, which is being assembled to prepare for the upcoming International Association of Psychoanalytic Self Psychology International Conference. ICP&P is the host institute for this conference which will take place in Washington beginning Thursday, October 17 through Sunday, October 21. This is a great opportunity to become more involved with the IAPSP, a great organization that attracts the top names in Self Psychology from around the world. If you would like to become involved please contact our administrator Morgan Theriot at: icpeastadmin@att.net.

Board Meeting Summary

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. Alison Howard took notes during the December meeting and Maxine Ellenberg Arnsdrof has summarized them below:

• Several program issues were discussed, including: the Dec 10 couples speaker and the feedback received from the evaluations; the upcoming SPI program in February; the decision to join other analytic institutes in the metropolitan area in co-sponsoring a performance of the play "Red" at Arena stage; and possible speakers for the 2012 - 13 program year.
• A decision was reached regarding the Bruce Wine Memorial Conference, which will be titled "The Role of Play in All Things Human". The conference is scheduled to dovetail with the IAPSP conference in October 2012 and will feature several international speakers
• Dates for graduation were discussed. Susan Gorman will consult with the Chairs of the Psychotherapy and Psychoanalytic programs.
• Several new members joined in the last month. The Board discussed growth and the impact a larger membership has on the culture and the functioning of the institute.
• The development of a more systematic fundraising strategy is in the planning stages.
• Committee activities included a report from the Outreach Committee, the ongoing search for someone to lead the Library Committee, and the formation of an Internet Committee to be chaired by MIT representative Liz Merrill

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, Couples Therapy Training Program

Michael Wannon

ICP&P's Couples Training Program will have their annual Pot Luck dinner on Friday, March 9 at 7:00pm. All graduates of the program, as well as anyone interested in learning more about couples training, are invited to attend.

Come and enjoy good food and good company. The dinner will be held at 7307 Baltimore Avenue, Takoma Park, Maryland. Please RSVP to Catherine Bernard. catherinebernard@starpower.net

Note from Chair, Psychotherapy Training Program

Faith Lewis

I am pleased to introduce the two additional Members-in-Training in the first year class of the Psychotherapy Training Program. Biographies of the remaining member will appear in a future issue of the Newsletter.

Preet Kang, MSW holds undergraduate degrees in Business and Journalism. She also holds graduate degrees in Social Work and Economics. She currently has a private practice in the Foggy Bottom area. She has been a social worker for close to 10 years. Prior to her career in social work, she was a public policy and communications professional.

Joanne E. Hesse, LCPC received her MS in Clinical Community Counseling from the Johns Hopkins School of Education in 2006, followed by training at the Gestalt Institute of Cleveland (2007-2008) and the Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute (2010 – present). As a member of ICP&P since 2007, she has been learning the theory and practice of self psychology, intersubjectivity, and motivational systems. She has been a Licensed Professional Counselor since 2010. In addition to her private practice in Bethesda, she is a staff clinician at the Wendt Center for Loss and Healing. Before becoming a psychotherapist, Joanne earned her PhD in Genetics at the University of Chicago, and has conducted bio-medical research, first at the University of Chicago for 12 years (1971-1983) and then at the National Institutes of Health (1983 – present). As an MIT, Joanne is delighted to deepen her involvement in the ICP&P community and excited to further integrate contemporary psychodynamic psychotherapy with her ongoing interests in interpersonal neurobiology, attachment theory, Gestalt, and approaches that integrate the cognitive, affective, and sensorimotor dimensions of experience.

Scientific Day

Richard Ogden

If you are thinking about submitting a paper for consideration for this year's Scientific Day, there is still time to let me know. This is a great opportunity to present your ideas to and to receive feedback from other ICP&P members in a supportive and collegial environment. Even if you do not have a completed paper or abstract to send in right now, please contact me at my office at (301) 986-5499 or by email at rlogden@hotmail.com to talk about the possibility or to ask any questions that you might have.

As I have mentioned in previous newsletters, ICP&P's Scientific Day happens every other year and this year it is scheduled for Saturday, March 3, 2012. It is a half-day event. Each presenter will read a paper, after which there will be time for discussion with 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.

I hope that you will consider participating in this event.

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.

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 16 and all day Saturday, March 17, 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's 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. A link to the conference brochure is on the ICP&P website.

New Member Introduction

Martha Blechar Gibbons

ICP&P welcomes Jessica Brown, who completed her analytic training as a psychiatrist with the Baltimore Washington Institute of Psychoanalysis in 2006. For a period following this graduation she limited her psychiatric practice to allow time to focus on her family, including her now 9 and 15 year old daughters. As a new member, she finds ICP&P's "open mindedness in different ways of approaching psychoanalysis" to be appealing. Jessica also appreciates that the organization appears to be "made up of people who think in diverse ways."

Jessica is the recipient of the Lewis B. Hill award, presented by the Baltimore Washington Institute for Psychoanalysis to acknowledge excellence in psychoanalytic writing, and she has presented this paper at the Baltimore Washington Institute. Among her many interests, Jessica has experience in teaching and supervision and would like to develop herself further in these areas.

Looking forward to becoming involved in ICP&P, Jessica acknowledges that "you need a supportive environment to help you do the work…a good network to lean on." In her practice at 3000 Connecticut Avenue, N.W., in Washington, D.C. she provides psychotherapy and psychoanalysis to adults of college age and older, promoting self-exploration and self-development.

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?

Please consider submitting to our 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 or laurengbrandt@gmail.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 – ICPamp;&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 5, 2012 – The Consortium For Psychoanalytic Research, Inc. 19th Annual Conference Blind Men, Elephants and Psychotherapy Effectiveness: Skewed Views of Treatment Realities and How to Fix Them. With Dr. J. Christopher Fowler. The George Washington University Hospital Auditorium, Washington, DC. Visit www.cprincdc.org for more information.
• Sunday, February 5, 2012 RED - Artistic and Psychoanalytic Approaches to Understanding Character and Conflict from 2-3pm at Arena Stage, Washington, DC.
• Sunday, February 12, 2012 – Joint Institute Candidates Committee conference, 3-6pm, Rockville, MD. See flyer.
• 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. For more information, call 202-237-2700, email lhead@wspdc.org or go to the ICP&P to a link to the brochure.
• 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.

• Mixed Gender Experiential Psychotherapy Group – Tybe Diamond is currently recruiting members for a group beginning February 13. The age range is 28 and up. (most members are in the 30-50 range and all are high functioning). She welcomes collaboration with individual therapists. The group will meet weekly in the evening from 6:30 – 8:00pm. For more information, contact Tybe Diamond at 202-966-1381 or ibtybe@aol.com .
• 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 from 6:30 – 8:00pm at the Wendt Center for Loss and Healing, 4201 Connecticut Ave., NW, Suite 300, Washington, DC 20008. 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 – Mixed gender therapy group forming for adults in the 40 to 60 year old range. We're seeking a few more members to fill the group, which will start February 7th. 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) 657-347, or you can e-mail Pamela at forman.pamela@gmail.com .
• Office Space Available - in Woodley Park. Unfurnished office in a quiet sunlit suite that is currently shared by two therapists. Metro accessible, secured building, in-suite waiting room and bathroom. Utilities and wireless internet access included. $800/month. Contact Beth Parker at 202-722-1002 or beth.parker.msw@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 – large 380 square foot office with gorgeous view overlooking Potomac River and Key Bridge is available for sublet February 1, at 1010 Wisconsin Ave NW. Suite includes a total of seven offices with waiting room, restrooms and kitchen. Parking available under the building and on the street. Rent is $1450 including daily cleaning and maintenance. Contact Susan in Robert Rix's office suite at susandiamond@use.net or at 202-333-3100.
• Office Space Available - Beautifully furnished, spacious, sunny office space in downtown DC at 17th & K Sts NW; 1 ½ blocks from Red and Blue Lines & close to Yellow Line; centrally located near several law firms, lobbyists, NGOs, international students, and other professionals, giving easy access to you. Large, one side fully windowed, beautifully furnished suite with two psychiatrists and a psychologist. Shared waiting room, and large utility room with kitchenette. Free use of fax, copy machine, and file cabinets. Available 2 - 2 1/2 days with negotiable days and times. Must have practice liability insurance. Contact Yu Ling Han at 202-213-1876 or ylhan@starpower.net
• 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 Mon. and Wed. mornings. Contact Sheila Cahill at sheilacahill@mac.com or call 202-656-2415.

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