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

At the December meeting, the Board approved a proposal to place the membership roster on the ICP&P website in order to aid new Members-in-Training in finding supervisors as well as keep membership information up-to-date. It was also decided that each member will be asked for express consent regarding what (if any) professional contact information they want posted. Questions regarding what information to include and whether the information will be password protected or open to anyone who accesses the website were deferred in order to consult with the membership. For example, these matters will be discussed in study groups and training classes. We are very interested in member feedback. We encourage you to contact Elizabeth, Maxine or any Board member to give your opinion.

We are greatly anticipating our Scientific Day program on January 23 - more information and registration. In addition to three papers on aspects of trauma (given by Sheila Cahill, Russell Carr and Richard Chefetz), Jeffrey Jay will present a paper on financial issues in clinical practice related to the recession. This presentation is based on the survey members completed late last spring. The results of this survey will be sent to all members in advance of the program. We hope you will review the survey, want to learn more, and join us for a stimulating discussion.

As we mentioned previously, we are interested in developing a new look for our print and website publicity. A committee comprised of Sharon Ballard, Elizabeth Carr, Jeffrey Jay and Tripp Reed has been formed to spearhead this project. Anyone interested in joining this effort can contact Sharon or Tripp. We will keep the membership informed as this unfolds.

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 December 17th meeting:

• ICP&P continues to be in the black.
• Plans for the upcoming conferences are in order. The December Stern conference went well and final plans for Scientific Day in January are being made. The Board is considering renaming Scientific Day after the 2010 conference. Educational conferences for 2010-11 will be decided in January after the Board has solicited input from the core disciplines and from the Continuing Education Needs Assessment Survey.
• The Snow Policy for the Training Programs is that a decision to cancel a class will be made by 4:00 p.m. on the day of the class.
• ICP&P Bylaws will be reviewed by a sub-committee of the Board in January.
• There was discussion about future needs in maintaining and revising the ICP&P website. The Board will continue to work with the present professional who designed the website.
• The CME site visit is anticipated to occur sometime in January or February of 2010.

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

On Saturday, December 5th, in conjunction with the Relational Perspectives Institute, Donnel Stern offered an extremely engaging and thought-provoking presentation about therapeutic action. He shared his ideas about unformulated experience and enactment, utilizing rich clinical material to illustrate how these concepts may unfold and be utilized in the clinical encounter.

Our next program is Scientific Day, scheduled for Saturday, January 23, 2010 at the National 4-H Conference Center. Four very interesting papers from our members have been selected for presentation - more information. In order to allow enough time for the program, the morning will be extended by thirty minutes, to 1:00 PM. Scientific Day has always been an enriching clinical forum for our members and we hope that many of you will attend. As always, we look forward to an opportunity for lively, stimulating clinical exchange. This program is offered free of charge to ICP&P members.

On February 27, 2010, Margaret Black will present, The Creation of Analytic Space: Dissociation, Enactment and the Transformative Potential of the Analytic Relationship. Please register early as space is limited.

On March 27, 2010. Elizabeth Carr and Mauricio Cortina will be present their fascinating new paper, Kohut & Bowlby: The Men, Their Ideas and the Clinical Exchange. This presentation will explore the historical and personal contexts that contributed to the major theoretical ideas of these prominent thinkers. Clinical material will be an integral part of the presentation. This program is free of charge to ICP&P members. Registration.

Note from Chair, Psychoanalytic Training Program
Sandra Hershberg

The first year psychoanalytic class has been an extremely engaging and curious group and the faculty has very much enjoyed teaching and getting to know each Member-In-Training. Comprised of five mature, intellectually curious and articulate individuals, they have come together to form a group that works very well together, enlarging and supporting each one’s clinical and theoretical understandings as each pursues a range of personal and professional interests. Each one has contributed a short biography as a way to introduce themselves to all of you. Please welcome them to the greater ICP&P community.

Russell Carr, MD – Russell completed a BA with highest honors in Russian language and literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1995. He subsequently received a medical degree at the University of Tennessee at Memphis in 1999.

While attending medical school, Dr. Carr joined the U.S. Navy. Upon graduation, he then entered active duty service in the Navy as a lieutenant and began an internship in psychiatry at Naval Medical Center Portsmouth, VA. After finishing his internship in 2000, Dr. Carr served as the general medical officer and medical department head on board the USS SEATTLE (AOE-3). After a two-year tour on board the SEATTLE, Dr. Carr was then stationed at Naval Support Activity Gaeta, Italy, for three years.

Dr. Carr returned to graduate medical education in 2005 as a psychiatry resident at the National Capital Consortium Psychiatry Residency, a military program in Washington, DC, involving Walter Reed Army Medical Center and The National Naval Medical Center. In 2005, Dr. Carr was also promoted to the rank of lieutenant commander. During his final year of residency, he completed his first year as a candidate in adult psychoanalysis at the Washington Institute for Psychoanalysis.

Upon completion of residency in 2008, Dr. Carr was assigned to The National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, MD as s staff psychiatrist. In July 2008, he deployed to Iraq with an Army Combat Stress Unit, for approximately six months. Since he returned from this deployment, Dr. Carr has been named the chief of inpatient psychiatry at the naval hospital. He transferred his psychoanalytic training to ICP&P.

Tom Gray, PhD – Tom holds a Ph.D. in rural sociology and has worked in research for the USDA in the areas of co-operative organization, family farms, globalization, and social justice for several years and has published various papers and research monographs in the US and Canada. He holds degrees from Cornell and Ohio State Universities and has a MSW degree from Catholic University. He practices psychoanalytic psychotherapy at the Washington School of Psychiatry in Northwest DC, and in a small private practice in Silver Spring, Maryland. His specialties include treatment of depression, anxiety, affect phobia, and cognitive-affect-somatic integration, with developing areas in self and relationally informed psychoanalysis and supervision. Some of his more synthetic interests include sociologically constructed understandings and determinants of mental illness, anxiety and depression. He is the incoming President-Elect of the Southern Rural Sociology Association.

Gwendolyn W. Pla, PhD, MSW – Gwendolyn is a nutritionist, psychotherapist, researcher and educator. Her educational background includes degrees in chemistry, biochemistry, nutritional sciences and social work. She has worked extensively with minority populations, specifically African American and Hispanic, and understands the nuances of working with such populations. She is a tenured associate professor at Howard University and her current research and practice focus on psychosocial factors in eating behaviors, particularly disordered eating in patients with nutrition related generative diseases. Dr. Pla is particularly interested in obesity. Her training in nutrition science and psychotherapy provides a pivotal background for understanding the numerous interrelated factors in the etiology and treatment of obesity. These factors include not only energy balance (caloric intake and output), but also contributing environmental and psychosocial factors. She also has experience in program development, having established a nutrition component in the College of Dentistry at Howard University; and, was a public health policy analyst at the Office of Management and Budget, Executive Office of the President. Dr. Pla has published numerous articles, including those related to the biological availability of minerals, two book chapters on obesity, and program development in nutrition/oral health.

Shoshana Ringel, PhD, LCSW-C - Shoshana received her PhD from Smith College, School for Social Work. She completed a two year relational psychoanalytic psychotherapy program at the Tufts University Counseling Center in Boston, MA. Dr. Ringel is an associate professor at the University of Maryland at Baltimore, School of Social Work where she teachers advanced clinical courses and is the co-chair of the clinical concentration. Her published research includes her work on attitudes towards intimate partner violence in faith based communities (Orthodox Jewish, Evangelical Christians and Muslims). She has published many clinical papers and two books, Attachment and Dynamic Practice with Dr. Brandell, from Columbia University Press, 2007 and Advanced Clinical Social Work Practice: Relational Principles and Techniques with Dor. Goldstein and Dr. Miehls, from Columbia University Press, 2009. She is currently working on her third book, co-edited with Dr. Brandell, Contemporary Directions in Trauma: Research, Theory and Practice, from Sage Publications. Dr. Ringel has a private practice in Baltimore.

Eileen Rustgi, PhD – Eileen is a clinical psychologist in private practice in Bethesda. She enjoys working in psychotherapy and assessment with adults and adolescents.

Eileen earned her BA at Yale University, and her PhD at Catholic University in Washington, DC. In 1999, Eileen graduated from the Modern Psychotherapy Program at the Washington Center for Psychoanalysis. She completed her Residency in Psychology at Chestnut Lodge Hospital and later became a staff psychologist there. At Chestnut Lodge, Eileen worked as the unit psychologist on the adult inpatient unit, and later became director of the partial hospital program for patients with severe mental illness. Since 1999, Eileen has been an assessment supervisor for students at GWU’s PsyD program. For the past five years, Eileen has worked in the Mood and Anxiety Disorders Program at the National Institute of Mental Health, and has been a co-author on papers on developmental issues in bipolar disorder. Eileen has a special interest in the treatment of bipolar and other mood disorders.

Eileen is excited to be a member of the incoming class of psychoanalytic candidates, and is looking forward to being part of the ICP&P community.

Upcoming Events

• Saturday, January 23, 2010 ICP&P presents Scientific Day at the National 4-H Center, 7100 Connecticut Avenue, Chevy Chase, MD. More information
• Tuesday, February 16, 2010 – Tuesday, March 16, 2010 ICP&P presents Short Course – Business and Organizational Consulting Using Psychoanalytic Principles with a Self psychology Emphasis with Thomas Hoffman, MD in Bethesda, MD. More information
• Sunday, February 21, 2010 The Consortium for Psychoanalytic Research presents its 17th Annual Conference Mentalization as a Multidimensional Concept: Implications for the treatment of Patients with Trauma-Related Psychopathology with Patrick Luyten, PhD in Washington, DC. Visit www.cprincdc.org for more information. ICP&P is a member of the consortium.
• Saturday, February 27, 2010 ICP&P presents The Creation of Analytic Space: Dissociation, Enactment and the Transformative Potential of the Analytic Relationship with Margaret Black, LCSW. The Cosmos Club, 2121 Massachusetts Ave. NW, Washington, DC. More information
• Saturday, March 27, 2010 ICP&P presents Kohut & Bowlby: The Men, Their Ideas and the Clinical Exchange with Elizabeth Carr, APRN, MSN, BC and Mauricio Cortina, MD. National 4-H Conference Center, 7100 Connecticut Ave., Chevy Chase, MD. More information

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• Openings in Mixed Adult Groups - Therapists David Flohr and Katherine Williams have two groups with availability, including one group with younger members ages 30’s to 40’s, and a second group with members ages 40’s to 60’s. Groups meet just off Route 66, near East Falls Church Metro. Contact Katherine Williams at 703-533-5825, x 107.
• Weekly Supervision Group - for clinicians who run groups. The supervision group will meet on Tuesdays from 12:15 to 1:30 PM at 4501 Connecticut Ave., NW, Suite 109. For further information you may contact Mary Dluhy at mdd23@georgetown.edu or at 202-237-5150.
• Caregivers Support Group – Meeting every other week in the middle of the day in Silver Spring, MD near the intersection of Georgia Ave. and University Blvd. This support group provides an opportunity to meet with other caregivers to discuss the realities of this new role, and the many feelings that come with it. Special focus is on balancing the needs of the patient and the needs of the caregiver. Contact Flora Ingenhousz (specializes in the treatment of individuals, couples and families struggling with depression and/or anxiety associated with serious health issues such as stroke, diabetes, heart disease, cancer, chronic fatigue, MS, and fibromyalgia) at 301-649-5525 or flora-lcsw@comcast.net
• Eating Disorders Psychotherapy Group - Monica L. Callahan has openings in her ongoing therapy group for women over 35 with eating disorders and related issues. The group combines interpersonal and experiential approaches, and concurrent individual therapy is recommended. For further information, please contact Monica Callahan at 301 587 6211, or email at Callahanml@erols.com
• Office space available - in downtown Silver Spring with congenial group of therapists. Hourly or half time, reasonable rates. Close to metro. Contact Katherine Richardson at (301) 588-4183 or richpoint@verizon.net
• Office Space Available in Falls Church Professional Center. As the result of a colleague retiring, a lovely office will be available full time starting March 1, 2010 in a sunny suite shared by three other mental health professionals. Part-time hours can be arranged as needed prior to March 1. Ample waiting room area, windows, kitchen, parking and convenient to Metro/Route 66. Contact Lauren Brandt at bjls@rcn.com or at 703-533-0380.
• Office Space Available to Sublet – Beautiful fully furnished office in great location overlooking Dupont Circle at 1301 Connecticut Ave in NW available Mondays and Fridays. There are 5 other therapists in the suite. Contact Elaine Hoffman at 202-841-0270 or elaineshoffman@msn.com