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

ICP&P is hosting a memorial service to honor and celebrate the lives of our friends and colleagues, the late Fred Hilkert and the late Bruce Wine, on February 22, 2009 from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. The program will be held at the Chevy Chase Village Town Hall, 5906 Connecticut Ave, Chevy Chase, Maryland. Please RSVP after you receive the mailed invitation.

We (Elizabeth and Maxine) met with Joyce Lowenstein and Rosemary Segalla to discuss ideas for the Bruce Wine Memorial Fund. Joyce proposed that the fund be used to sponsor a conference series that promotes the work of established and emerging experts in the field of relational psychotherapy. During the conference, young clinicians would be given an opportunity to present their work and to support their professional development, reflecting Bruce’s contributions to so many at ICP&P. These ideas were discussed at the January Board meeting and approved. The Board will work out an agreement with Joyce who is serving as the primary representative for the Bruce Wine Memorial Fund. We will continue to keep the community informed of all developments.

ICP&P will be holding an election in the spring for the following positions: Secretary, Treasurer, Coordinator of Membership, and one Board Representative. Candance Detchon has agreed to serve as Chair of the Nominations Committee. We encourage you to consider serving on the Board. Participation on the Board is a way to become more integrated into ICP&P and is also a wonderful way to get to know people more fully. If you have any questions about the roles and responsibilities of the open positions, please contact Elizabeth or Maxine.

Maxine and Brad Brenner are in the process of developing a survey to identify learning needs in the membership. Please look for an email which will link you to the survey. Your input is valuable so please take the time to complete the survey.

We recently learned that Ann Aukamp is stepping down as ICP&P’s representative to The Consortium for Psychoanalytic Research. We appreciate Ann’s years of service on behalf of ICP&P. If you are interested in being ICP&P’s representative to the Consortium, please contact Elizabeth or Maxine.

The brochures for the Relational Perspectives Institute are in the process of being printed and will be mail in the next week to the membership and to 4800 individuals. Please keep an eye out for the mailing.

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 January 15th meeting:

• A nominating committee is being formed to prepare for our spring election.
• We discussed and continue to work on a good tag line for our web site. It needs to capture the attention of those who might be interested in our organization.
• ICP&P member Nancy Meyer will present a program called, The Impact of Suicide on Therapists on Feb. 2 at Mount Vernon College.
• ICP&P has recently received many book donations, and Rachel Freedman could use some help in organizing them.
• A memorial service is being planned for Fred Hilkert and Bruce Wine on Feb. 22 at the Chevy Chase Village Town Hall.
• A draft of the low fee referral service brochure is finished and is being reviewed.

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

Please mark your calendars for our next morning conference on March 7, 2009. Dr. Gary Rodin's presentation, Facing the Inevitable: Psychoanalytic Reflections on Mortality will give us the opportunity to explore significant issues around death and dying that we all face both professionally and personally (please see the attached flyer for more details). We encourage you to register as soon as possible. This program is free for ICP&P members.

Our 15th annual conference is scheduled for Saturday May 2, 2009 and will feature Beatrice Beebe. Her presentation, Capturing the Image of Mother-Infant Interaction: Links to the Clinical Encounter will explore face-to -face interactive processes that inform both mother-infant communication and adult treatment. In addition to discussing the implications of her research on attachment in infancy, Dr. Beebe will discus her recent project, "Videotaping the Analyst's Face," which demonstrates the pivotal nature of the therapist's nonverbal communication. An integrated verbal and nonverbal theory of interactive process will enhance our understanding of therapeutic action.

Note from Chair, Couples Training Program
Barbara Shapard

The Couples Training Program would like to invite you to our annual dinner on March 20, 2009 at the home of Barbara Shapard in Arlington, VA. All members-in-training from the training program, as well as ICP&P members who are interested in learning more about the Couples Training curriculum and program, are welcome to attend. Eat, share and enjoy! RSVP to Barbara Shapard at barbshapard@gmail.com or call 703-243-1804.

Study Groups Update
Kathy Beck

Sharon Ballard and Peggy Miller, both graduates of ICP&P's Couples Training Program, will be starting a couples study group beginning in February. It will be meeting on Friday afternoons, the particular Friday of the month and the exact time are still be worked out based on the needs of the group members. The meeting will take place at Peggy Miller's office at 3000 Connecticut Avenue, N.W. Please contact either Peggy (202 265-5071; pegmill21@msn.com) or Sharon (301 681-9809; sfballard@gmail.com) if you are interested in learning more about the group. A brief description of the group follows:

COUPLE STUDY GROUP

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.

Note on Membership
Judy Hoffman

Thank you to Jeffrey Jay, who has volunteered to write the new member introductions for our monthly Newsletter. Because of the large number of people who joined ICP&P since the summer, Jeffrey, who joined ICP&P in fall, 2007, has inherited a huge job! Over the next few months, all the new members will be contacted by him to have their brief bio compiled and submitted to the Newsletter. This introduction is one of the ways ICP&P welcomes our new members and hopefully, helps to make them feel a part of the group as quickly as possible. It appears to have worked with Jeffrey! We appreciate Jeffrey's taking on this role.

New Member Introduction
Jeffrey Jay

Diane Schank, PhD has a peripatetic professional career: born and bred in Brooklyn, she returned to school at Yale after her children were grown, then continued her studies to graduate from Northwestern, set up a private practice in Chicago and recently arrived in Washington in July of last year to begin a new practice near her son and his young family. Diane describes herself as a generalist, but has expertise in treating clients presenting with sexual issues and she has worked extensively in the gay, lesbian and bisexual community. With an outsider’s perspective, she reports that Washington offers rich and diverse intellectual and professional opportunities. Since her clinical heart is based on self psychology, she is most impressed with ICP&P’s reputation for friendliness. 202-898-2416.

Joyce Lowenstein, Ph.D. is new to ICP&P only in the most literal sense as a full member, because when ICP&P was newly established, Joyce was asked to be one of the first teachers of Klein and Object Relations; she has provided supervision groups for many ICP&P members over the years; and she is warmly regarded as Bruce Wine’s life partner. In addition to private practice which includes couples and adult families, Joyce is the Co-Chair of the Washington School of Psychiatry’s Couples Training, and she is on the Board of the APA Division 39, the Couples and Family Section. In their many years of working together, she and Bruce kept up the lively dialogue that only a Kleinian and self psychologist could do. After many years, and Bruce’s passing, ICP&P welcomes Joyce as a full member. 202-333-7860.

Tracey Spencer, Ph.D. comes to ICP&P with a hands-on interest in working with relationships and self psychology, particularly relationships in development as she has worked for the past decade in college counseling centers, most recently four years at Georgetown University. But, even more immediate, when we spoke, her hands were literally involved in holding her seventeen month old daughter with whom she is now spending days rich with object relations. Tracey’s practice, on Wisconsin Ave, focuses on older adolescents and young adults, and, in a world of specialization, she offers one of the rare qualities of private practice: Saturday office hours. 301-675-9578.

Flora Ingenhousz, LCSW, started her career in Holland studying counseling and criminology and Gestalt therapy. After arriving in the Unites States, and adding a social work degree, she began a private practice that includes a focus on clients with chronic and stress related illnesses. She conducts support groups for the Montgomery County Stroke Association. As if that were not interesting enough, she is also certified in Imago therapy. In recent years she has become more engaged in self psychology after completing the group therapy program at the Washington School and looks forward to further study through ICP&P. 301-649-5525

Upcoming Events

• Tuesday, February 24, 2009 – Barbara Oakley, PhD, PE from Oakland University in Rochester, MI presents Bad to the Bone: Horrors!—Can Our Genes Help Make Us Act Badly at Marymount Manhattan College, New York, NY. For more information, call 248-370-2435 or email oakley@oakland.edu
• Friday, February 27, 2009 and Saturday, February 28, 2009 – The Washington School of Psychiatry presents Learning From Children on the Autistic Spectrum: Perspectives from Infant Observation, Developmental Research and Psychodynamic Clinical Work with Maria Rhode, MACP in Washington, DC. For more information call 202-237-2700.
• Friday, March 6, 2009 – GWSCSW presents The Role of Social Workers in Stroke Recovery with Flora Ingenhousz, MSW and Melinda Salzman, MSW in Silver Spring, MD. For more information, visit www.gwscsw@gmail.com
• Saturday, March 7, 2009 ICP&P presents Facing the Inevitable: Psychoanalytic Reflections on Mortality with Gary Rodin, MD at the National 4-H Conference Center in Chevy Chase, MD.
• Friday, April 3, 2009 – ICP&P presents Short Course – An Introduction to Psychopharmacology and an Update on Current Practice with Allan Melmed, MD at the ICP&P office, 4601 Connecticut Avenue, Suite 8, NW, Washington, DC.
• Saturday, May 2, 2009 ICP&P’s Annual Conference Capturing the Image of Mother-Infant Interaction: Links to the Clinical Encounter with Beatrice Beebe, PhD at the Johns Hopkins University Center in Rockville, MD.

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.

• Adult Psychotherapy Group Forming – Members being recruited for a new group that will focus on relational issues. The members should be somewhat psychologically sophisticated and able to tolerate the immediacy of "here and now" interventions. The fee will be kept reasonable so that members can continue their individual treatment. The group will meet from 7:00pm - 8:15 pm, the day to be determined, in Upper Northwest - 4601 Connecticut Avenue. Please email Gail Winston at gwinston@gail.winston.com or call 202-686-1177 for further information.
• Sublet Available – in Tenelytown area of DC directly across from the Tenley/AU Metro. Furnished office space can be rented by the hour or for a flat rate on a monthly basis. Plenty of street parking available and close to Best Buy and Whole Foods. Please contact Alison Howard at 202-368-3501.
• 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.

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The deadline for submitting items for the March 2009 Newsletter is February 25, 2009

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