Baltimore Washington Psychoanalysts
 
Current Lectures and Seminars 2008 - 2009: 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, September 20, 2008

“Interpersonal Psychoanalysis: Therapeutic Action and the Analyst’s Emotional Preparation for Practice”

Sandra Buechler, Ph.D.

 

Overview

Relying on Interpersonal Psychoanalysis and emotion theory, Sandra Buechler, Ph.D., focuses on emotional experience to understand the nature of therapeutic action in the clinical setting. She suggests that through an active empathic engagement with the patient and an awareness of the healing potential inherent in each of our fundamental emotions, the clinician can make a substantial difference in patients’ lives. At this Forum, Dr. Buechler will discuss the process of the analyst’s emotional preparation for a sustained career of clinical work, based on her book Making a Difference in Patients’ Lives: Emotional Experience in the Therapeutic Setting. Following her description, Cindy Mendelson, Ph.D., a recent graduate of the New York Freudian Society Psychoanalytic Training Institute, and Curtis Bristol, M.D., a seasoned analyst with the Baltimore Washington Center for Psychoanalysis, will discuss the relevance of Buechler’s ideas to their personal and clinical experiences. There will be ample time for group discussion.

Sandra Buechler, Ph.D., is Training and Supervising Analyst at the William Alanson White Institute in New York City.  She also supervises at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center and at the Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy.  A member of the editorial board of Contemporary Psychoanalysis, she is the author of Clinical Values: Emotions that Guide Psychoanalytic Treatment (Analytic Press, 2004) and Making a Difference in Patients’ Lives: Emotional Experience in the Therapeutic Setting (Routledge, 2008).

 
 Preparatory Reading

Participants are encouraged to read Chapter 9 of Dr. Buechler’s book in preparation for this Forum. For a copy of the chapter, contact program co-chair, Beverly Betz, M.S.W., at 410-464-9756 or email bbetzmsw@comcast.net.

Educational Goals

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

1. Participants should be able to identify similarities and difference s between the nature of therapeutic action in the interpersonal and ego psychological models.

2. Participants should apply the principles of the analyst’s emotional preparation to their own clinical experiences to assess the relevance of the principles for their practices. 

 

 

Saturday, December 6, 2008

 

Lewis B. Hill Award Presentation


“Whose Termination is it anyway? Can Analysis be Forced to End?”

 

Thomas Hoffman, MD.


Saturday, February 7, 2009


“Issues in Pre-Termination and Termination."

 

Kerry Kelly Novick and Jack Novick, PhD.

 


Saturday, April 18, 2009

Fifth Annual Paul Gray Visiting Scholar Program.

 

“Technique and Freedom.”

 

Jonathan Lear, PhD.

 

 

Sunday, April 19, 2009   

9:30 am.-12:00 noon. By subscription.

Colloquium. Fifth Annual Paul Gray Visiting Scholar Program

 

“Technique and Freedom.”

 

Jonathan Lear, PhD.

 

 

Continuing Education

There will be a $30.00 charge ($20 per hour for 1.5 hours) for non-member participants who wish to receive a CEU/CME certificate.  Please make your check payable to the Baltimore Washington Institute for Psychoanalysis and bring it to the Forum.  Continuing education credit certificates will only be available at the time of the meeting.  BWCP members receive CEUs/CMEs at no charge.

This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the Essential Areas and Policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) 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 and takes responsibility for the content, quality, and scientific integrity of this CME activity. The American Psychoanalytic Association designates this educational activity for a maximum of 1.5 hours in Category I credit towards the AMA Physician’s Recognition Award.  Each physician should claim only those hours of credit that he/she actually spent in the educational activity. Disclosure information is on record indicating that participating faculty members have no significant financial relationships to disclose. The Baltimore Washington Society for Psychoanalysis, Inc., is recognized by the Maryland Board of Examiners of Psychologists as a sponsor of continuing education activities.  The Baltimore Washington Society for Psychoanalysis, Inc., is recognized by the Maryland Board of Social Work Examiners as a sponsor of continuing education activities.

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

 

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