Baltimore Washington Psychoanalysts
 
Current Lectures and Seminars 2011 - 2012: Psychoanalytic Forum

Sponsored by the Baltimore Washington Society for Psychoanalysis

Saturdays 5:00 - 6:30 p.m.

For programs at the Center, please join us for refreshments from:

4:30 - 5:00 p.m.

 

Saturday, October 29, 2011


“The Psychoanalyst as Consultant in a Therapeutic Classroom: A Case Study”

Speakers: Kathleen Miller, Ph.D. and Anne Jaegerman, M.S.

The presenters will discuss case material to illustrate the role of the psychoanalyst as a consultant to educators in the classroom. Special emphasis will be placed on the importance of careful observation in the understanding of a young child’s adaptation to life’s challenges.

Kathleen Miller, Ph.D., is a psychoanalyst in private practice in Bethesda, Maryland. She is the director of the Jenny Waelder Hall Center for Children which included the Jenny School, a model nursery school program formerly located in Washington D.C. She is a Teaching Analyst and is the Director of the Baltimore Washington Institute for Psychoanalysis.

Anne Jaegerman, M.S has worked with young children in childcare and preschool settings for over 20 years.  She was a teacher in the nursery school program of the Jenny Waelder Hall Center for Children.

Participants Objectives: After attending this Forum, participants should be able to:

  1. Understand the basic principles of the psychoanalyst’s role as a consultant in early childhood educational settings.
  2. Understand the role of careful observation in the evaluation of your children.
  3. Evaluate specific techniques of consultation in the preschool classroom
  4. Increase effectiveness in the consultant-educator collaboration.

This Psychoanalytic Forum is intended for mental health professionals, either graduates or in training, who use psychoanalytic therapy as a treatment modality.


This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the Essential Areas and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education through the joint sponsorship of the American Psychoanalytic Association and the Baltimore Washington Society for Psychoanalysis, Inc.  The American Psychoanalytic Association is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

The American Psychoanalytic Association designates this Live Activity for a maximum of 1.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s) TM.  Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

IMPORTANT DISCLOSURE INFORMATION FOR ALL LEARNERS: None of the planners and presenters of this CME program have any relevant financial relationship to disclose.

The Baltimore Washington Society for Psychoanalysis, Inc., is recognized by the Maryland Board of Social Work Examiners as a sponsor of continuing education activities. The AMA is an authorized sponsor of continuing education credit for Maryland and District of Columbia licensed psychologists.

This Program is directed towards:  Members, Corresponding Members, Affiliate Members, Candidates, APT Members, Speaker’s Seminar participants

There will be a $30.00 charge ($20 per hour for 1.5 hours) for non-member participants who wish to receive a confirmation of attendance.  Please make your check payable to the Baltimore Washington INSTITUTE for Psychoanalysis and bring it to the Forum.  The confirmation of attendance will be available upon completion of an evaluation form.  A link to the evaluation form will be emailed to attendees after the Forum.

 

 

 

Saturday, December 10, 2011


“The Perils of Subjectivity"

Speaker: Sander Abend, M.D.

Sander Abend is a graduate of the University of Chicago School of Medicine, and after psychiatric residency and military service, he was trained in psychoanalysis at the New York Psychoanalytic Institute. He is a Training and Supervising analyst at that Institute, and has served as its President, and as a member of its Education Committee

He has occupied a number of positions in the American Psychoanalytic Associations, including Chair of the Committee on Psychoanalytic Education, Councilor-at-Large, and Secretary of the Association. He has also served on the Board of Directors of the International Psychoanalytic Association, and chaired its first committee to assist the Pacific Rim societies and study groups.

He has had more than 30 articles published in our literature, and has served as the Editor-in-Chief of the Psychoanalytic Quarterly

Participant Objectives:

1.     Participants will learn about the issue of subjectivity in the analyst and how our awareness of that subjectivity influences our technique

2.     Participants will learn how our awareness of the analyst's subjectivity influences our thinking about the analyst's capacity for objectivity and basis for professional authority

3.     Participants will lean how modern conflict theorists view the subject of the analyst's subjectivity, as it pertains to analysts' use of their own counter-transference, as well as to an understanding of projective identification. intersubjectivity and applications of post modern thinking to psychoanalysis

This Psychoanalytic Forum is intended for mental health professionals, either graduates or in training, who use psychoanalytic therapy as a treatment modality.

This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the Essential Areas and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education through the joint sponsorship of the American Psychoanalytic Association and the Baltimore Washington Society for Psychoanalysis, Inc.  The American Psychoanalytic Association is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

The American Psychoanalytic Association designates this Live Activity for a maximum of 1.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s) TM.  Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

IMPORTANT DISCLOSURE INFORMATION FOR ALL LEARNERS: None of the planners and presenters of this CME program have any relevant financial relationship to disclose.

The Baltimore Washington Society for Psychoanalysis, Inc., is recognized by the Maryland Board of Social Work Examiners as a sponsor of continuing education activities. The AMA is an authorized sponsor of continuing education credit for Maryland and District of Columbia licensed psychologists.

This Program is directed towards:  Members, Corresponding Members, Affiliate Members, Candidates, APT Members, Speaker’s Seminar participants

There will be a $30.00 charge ($20 per hour for 1.5 hours) for non-member participants who wish to receive a confirmation of attendance.  Please make your check payable to the Baltimore Washington INSTITUTE for Psychoanalysis and bring it to the Forum.  The confirmation of attendance will be available upon completion of an evaluation form.  A link to the evaluation form will be emailed to attendees after the Forum.

 

 

February 4, 2012

 

"Culture Shock: A Causal Factor in Dissociative Identity Disorder”

Speaker: Molly Jones-Quinn, Ph.D. / Discussant: Catherine Anderson, Ph.D.

Dr. Jones Quinn is a Training/Supervising Analyst with the New York (soon to be the ‘Contemporary’) Freudian Society, who spent her early clinical years in the Indian Health Service and is presently in private practice on Capitol Hill.

Dr. Anderson is a member of the Contemporary Freudian Society (formerly the New York Freudian Society) and has a private practice in Bethesda, M.D.

Participant Objectives:

l. Participants will be reminded of the diagnostic history of dissociative disorders in the DSM series.

2. Participants will consider the impact of various kinds of trauma in creating this condition.

3. The possibility that positive early attachments, followed by later trauma, indicate good treatment prognosis will be explored.


This Psychoanalytic Forum is intended for mental health professionals, either graduates or in training, who use psychoanalytic therapy as a treatment modality.

This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the Essential Areas and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education through the joint sponsorship of the American Psychoanalytic Association and the Baltimore Washington Society for Psychoanalysis, Inc.  The American Psychoanalytic Association is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

The American Psychoanalytic Association designates this Live Activity for a maximum of 1.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s) TM.  Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

IMPORTANT DISCLOSURE INFORMATION FOR ALL LEARNERS: None of the planners and presenters of this CME program have any relevant financial relationship to disclose.

The Baltimore Washington Society for Psychoanalysis, Inc., is recognized by the Maryland Board of Social Work Examiners as a sponsor of continuing education activities. The AMA is an authorized sponsor of continuing education credit for Maryland and District of Columbia licensed psychologists.

This Program is directed towards:  Members, Corresponding Members, Affiliate Members, Candidates, APT Members, Speaker’s Seminar participants

There will be a $30.00 charge ($20 per hour for 1.5 hours) for non-member participants who wish to receive a confirmation of attendance.  Please make your check payable to the Baltimore Washington INSTITUTE for Psychoanalysis and bring it to the Forum.  The confirmation of attendance will be available upon completion of an evaluation form.  A link to the evaluation form will be emailed to attendees after the Forum.

 

March 31, 2012

 

Eighth Annual Paul Gray Visiting Scholar Program

“Identification with the Aggressor and Projective Identification: What’s the Difference?”

Speaker: Joseph Fernando, MDCM

Joseph Fernando, M.D,.C.M. teaches clinical and theoretical classes in psychotherapy and psychoanalysis at the Toronto Psychoanalytic Society and the Toronto Institute of Psychoanalysis, where he is also a training and supervising analyst. He has had a full-time private practice in psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy for over twenty years.

Participant Objectives:

1.  To be able to differentiate the two defenses of identification with the aggressor and projective identification based on their clinical presentation.

2. To understand the clinical importance and usefulness of being able to make this distinction, and to learn some of the different ways in which these two defenses need to be analyzed.

3. To understand the larger theoretical implications of this differentiation between these two forms of defines.

This Psychoanalytic Forum is intended for mental health professionals, either graduates or in training, who use psychoanalytic therapy as a treatment modality.

This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the Essential Areas and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education through the joint sponsorship of the American Psychoanalytic Association and the Baltimore Washington Society for Psychoanalysis, Inc.  The American Psychoanalytic Association is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

The American Psychoanalytic Association designates this Live Activity for a maximum of 1.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s) TM.  Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

IMPORTANT DISCLOSURE INFORMATION FOR ALL LEARNERS: None of the planners and presenters of this CME program have any relevant financial relationship to disclose.

The Baltimore Washington Society for Psychoanalysis, Inc., is recognized by the Maryland Board of Social Work Examiners as a sponsor of continuing education activities. The AMA is an authorized sponsor of continuing education credit for Maryland and District of Columbia licensed psychologists.

This Program is directed towards:  Members, Corresponding Members, Affiliate Members, Candidates, APT Members, Speaker’s Seminar participants

There will be a $30.00 charge ($20 per hour for 1.5 hours) for non-member participants who wish to receive a confirmation of attendance.  Please make your check payable to the Baltimore Washington INSTITUTE for Psychoanalysis and bring it to the Forum.  The confirmation of attendance will be available upon completion of an evaluation form.  A link to the evaluation form will be emailed to attendees after the Forum.

 

April 1, 2012       

Colloquium.  Eighth Annual Paul Gray Visiting Scholar Program. 

“Trauma, Drives and Reality:  How Clinical Experience Led to a Revised Theory of Defenses.” 

Presenter:  Joseph Fernando, MDCM. 

9:30 a.m.-noon.  By subscription.
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