Note from the Director and Co-Director
Elizabeth Carr and Maxine Ellenberg Arnsdorf

We wish you a healthy and happy new year and look forward to seeing you at the upcoming ICP&P events.

We want to thank the many members who gave generously to ICP&P during 2008. We received many financial contributions from our end-of-the-year fundraising drive for which we are very grateful. Additionally, we appreciate all the contributions of time and effort made by so many of our members.

As indicated in the December Newsletter, we are well on our way toward developing a new website for ICP&P. Faith Lewis is leading this effort and we are working with a talented web designer, Victoria Pickering. Right now, the content of the website is being revised by membership, training, programs, and so on. We plan to have our new state-of-art, user-friendly website up and operational by the end of January. The website will include the capacity to do online registration for our conferences.

We are looking for an image to put on the website that will represent ICP&P. In thinking about this, we decided to use the creativity and talents of our members in finding "our" image. We invite you to contribute an image for consideration. Please email your visual image to icpeastadmin@att.net. We look forward to seeing your creative ideas.

We want to let you know that we are in the process of planning a memorial service for Fred Hilkert and Bruce Wine which we hope will be held in February. Maxine is heading this up and would welcome your assistance and your ideas. If you would like to get involved, contact Maxine directly at 301-593-6194 or meaphd@hotmail.com. We appreciate that this is a matter of great importance to the membership and welcome your input about the memorial as well as ways to honor Fred and Bruce. We will keep you informed as plans are developed.

Note from the Secretary
Janice Sanchez

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, options 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 of the highlights from the December meeting (written by Elizabeth Carr):

• Susan Gorman reported that three MIT's in the Psychotherapy Training Program withdrew from the program during the fall semester. Subsequently, a decision was made to suspend training until the fall of 2009 when the three remaining members of the class will repeat the semester with new MIT's as a larger class. In the meantime, they will participate in a study group and continue with their supervision.
• Maxine reported that the Bruce Wine Memorial Fund now contains approximately $4500 and that a meeting with Joyce Lowenstein has been arranged to discuss how to allocate these donations. Also, we are planning a memorial service to commemorate the loss of Bruce and Fred Hilkert.
• Susan Gorman reported on the status of a low-fee referral service. This included the requirement that MIT's obtain malpractice insurance. We are exploring the legal ramifications of such a program.
• Deborah Marks, Chair of CE, was joined by Allan Melmed to update to the Board on the CE Program and on our application to become a provider of CME credit. We also discussed the planning and evaluation processes for ICP&P's conference offerings.
• Jeffrey Jay suggested that we consider developing a conference that considers the social context and toll of the recession on our patients and on the ICP&P membership. The Board agreed to discuss this further.

Note from the Program Co-Chairs
Sharon Ballard and Tripp Reed

Joe Lichtenberg's presentation, Sensuality and Sexuality Across the Divide of Shame on December 6, 2008 was a great success. We had over one hundred people in attendance from both ICP&P and the larger mental health community. Joe engaged the audience with his thought provoking ideas about sensuality and sexuality, encouraging us to consider how we think about and work clinically with these fundamentally important issues.

Our next program, Facing the Inevitable: Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Mortality, will take place on March 7, 2009 and will feature Gary Rodin, M.D., a psychoanalyst from Toronto who currently leads a research team investigating the psychological impact of advanced and terminal illness on patients and their families. Dr. Rodin will present an approach to psychotherapeutic intervention which draws upon recent developments in psychoanalytic theory and will address the inevitable existential questions that arise for both therapist and patient. This program will be free for ICP&P members.

When ICP&P's website is up and running, it will allow for on line registration and payment for our conferences. It will allow easier registration and more accessible recordkeeping for registrants and ICP&P administration.

Relational Perspectives Institute
Roger Segalla

The long awaited, much talked about, one-year Relational Perspectives Institute will soon be sending our brochure to the printer and turning on our brand new website. All the work and planning has produced an exciting one-year, four-weekend, institute that promises to be very popular. Below you will find summaries of the four weekend conferences to whet your appetite. When you sign up for the Institute, which will be held at the Cosmos Club in Dupont Circle, you will attend all four weekend conferences, and you are placed in an on-going discussion and integration group. Institute tuition includes (8) continental breakfasts, (4) buffet lunches, and refreshments at most breaks. Watch for your RPI brochure in early February.

Study Groups Update
Kathy Beck

There are still a few spaces available a new couples therapy study group that Sharon Ballard and Peggy Miller are starting. The group will begin meeting on 2/13/09 the 2nd Friday of each month from 12:30-2pm in Washington, DC. The challenges of working with difficult couples will be explored through readings and clinical discussion. Topics will include working with oppositional couples, infidelity, countertransference dilemmas, loss and blended families. Additional topics will be determined by the interests of group participants. Group members should be actively working with couples. To register, please contact Kathy Beck at 202- 462-0404. For more information, contact Sharon Ballard at 301-681-9809 or Peggy Miller at 202-265-5071.

Upcoming Events

• Sunday, February 1, 2008 The Consortium for Psychoanalytic Research is sponsoring a one-day conference (8:30am - 4:30pm) The Effect of Suicide on Clinicians: A Research Perspective with Jane G. Tillman, PhD Sibley Memorial Hospital, Washington, DC. Additional information is at www.cprincdc.org.
• Saturday, February 7, 2008 - The Attachment and Human Development Center, part of The Washington School of Psychiatry presents The Circle of Security: Integrating over 50 years of Attachment Research into a Video-Based Intervention for Children & Parents with Robert S. Marvin, PhD. For more information call 202-237-2700.
• Saturday, March 7, 2009 The Institute of Contemporary Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis presents Facing the Inevitable: Psychoanalytic Reflections on Mortality with Gary Rodin, MD at the National 4-H Conference Center in Chevy Chase, MD.
• Saturday, May 2, 2009 The Institute of Contemporary Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis presents its Annual Conference Infant Research and the Implications for Adult Treatment with Beatrice Beebe, PhD at the Johns Hopkins University Center in Rockville, MD.

Bulletin Board

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• Peer Supervision Group - ongoing peer supervision group meeting in Maryland for those with ongoing clinical experience. For more information, contact David Wyner at 718- 884-9574.
• Consultation Group for Therapists - meeting monthly (1st Wednesday of the month) with Christine Courtois and Jeffrey Jay on the treatment of psychological trauma. Contact Jeffrey Jay at jeffjayphd@aol.com or 202-362-0063 for more information.
• Office Space Available - Full and part time office space available in the Dupont Circle area. We are a group practice that has been together for many years. We are looking for someone who would like to join us. Please contact Pat Petrash at 202-328-2283.
• Office Sublet Available - sunny corner office suite in Kensington, MD available immediately. Congenial long-time psychotherapy, Imago, and addictions practice. Referrals when appropriate. Excellent location at corner of Connecticut and Knowles with parking, on the bus line, and two blocks from MARC train. Wonderful opportunity to increase accessibility for potential clients with a second practice location with little financial risk to the practitioner - always a good thing in the current economy! If interested or a little curious, contact Nancy Wolfson at 301-509-2429 or nkwolfson@comcast.net
• Office Space Available - for full-time use 2 blocks from Bethesda Metro with free patient parking in building. This lovely office is part of 20-year-old, 5-office suite shared with 4 other therapists. The office was the master bedroom in previous 3-bedroom apartment before conversion. Suite includes waiting room, full bath and kitchen, wi-fi- fax, Drink-More water, maid service, magazines, etc. This office has its own full private bath, picture window, and large walk-in closet. Current rent $831 monthly (plus quarterly shared suite expenses ($100-300/quarter), and shared real-estate tax 4% yearly escalation. Utilities included and 1 reserved parking for therapist. Call Steve Schulman 301-657-3733.
• Office Space Available - starting immediately for full-time use in a friendly suite with 2 other therapists in a beautifully maintained building in Silver Spring, MD (3 blocks to Metro). The suite has a waiting room, full kitchen, and bathroom and the office has a wall of windows and is partially furnished (optional). $565/month plus $100/month for parking in building garage (optional). Public parking also available. Contact Liz Nicholas at 301-495-9523 or email liznicholas@earthlink.net
• Office Space Available - two days a week in Downtown Washington, DC (17th and K Streets). Large, sunny, one side fully windowed and beautifully furnished office in suite with 2 psychiatrists and a psychologist. Shared waiting room and utility room with kitchenette. Great location, one block from both the Red and Blue lines, easy walk to Yellow line. $630 per month. Contact Yu Ling Han at 202-213-1876 or Leslie Goranssonat 202-296-4531.
• Office Sublet Available - spacious, sunny, furnished office at Dupont Circle in a charming building to share with 4 psychotherapists, available immediately on Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays. Please contact Kathy Beck at kathy.beck@rcn.com or call 202-462-0404.
• Looking for Office Space - Seeking office space in DC preferably in Dupont Circle near the metro for afternoon and evening hours. Contact Nancy Meyer at 301-873-6740 or nrmeyer@aol.com
• Office Sublet Available - Sunny, large office at Connecticut and Nebraska Avenues (Chevy Chase/Washington, DC) with parking for clinician; plenty of street parking for clients. Kitchen, two bathrooms, spacious waiting room and full-time concierge. Many hours and days available. Call Deborah Shulman at 301-986-0099.

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The deadline for submitting items for the February 2009 Newsletter is January 23, 2009

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