November 5, 2008  11:00 a.m.

"Listening to Patients -- Some Thoughts on Technique in Child Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis "

Kal Kolansky, M.D.

Drawing on recent research on the efficacy of psychoanalytically-oriented treatments for patients with complex psychological problems, Dr. Kolansky outlines a theory of the nature of therapeutic action in child psychoanalysis and psychotherapy.  Detailed clinical material beautifully illustrating how attention to a child's defenses sets a therapeutic process in motion is then presented.  Dr. Kolansky's commentary on the thinking underlying his therapeutic approach provides an additional dimension to his presentation

Dr. Kal Kolansky is a Distinguished Life Fellow in the American Psychiatric Association and recipient of the Edith Sabshin award for teaching in the American Psychoanalytic Association and a recipient of a Vicennial Silver Medal for Teaching at Georgetown University School of Medicine. He was Elected Councilor (2008-2011) and Member Executive Committee Association for Child Psychoanalysis. He engages in a number of professional activities.  He teaches at St. Elizabeth Hospital in Washington, DC, where he is Coordinator for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Training in the General Psychiatry Program.   In the past, he has been the Associate Chair for Child Psychiatry Training and the Acting Director of the Psychiatry Residency at St. Elizabeth Hospital.  He is a Teaching Analyst in the Baltimore-Washington Psychoanalytic Institute and an Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Georgetown University School of Medicine.  At the George Washington University he is on the Teaching and Supervisor Faculty of the Center for Professional Psychology, PsyD Program in Clinical Psychology.  He is Board Certified in Adult and Child Psychiatry.  In 2008, he was named Supervisor of the Year for Child Psychiatry in the Saint Elizabeths Hospital Psychiatry Residency Training Program and Outstanding Supervisor of the Year Child Psychiatry 2003-2007.

He has an active private practice in Adult and Child Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis in Old Town Alexandria, Virginia.