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    To Have and to Hold: Understanding and Treating the Compulsive Hoarder

    WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 25, 2017 • 9:30 - 11:30 AM

    2 CE CREDITS FOR LICENSED PSYCHOANALYSTS, SOCIAL WORKERS, AND PSYCHOLOGISTS

    This workshop will give an overview of hoarding and the diagnostic categories in which it may be a factor. We will examine the beliefs commonly held by hoarders and will explore the syndrome’s underpinnings, including neurological factors and psychodynamics. 

    Patrice La Mariana, MA, LP, is on the faculty of CMPS and NYGSP. 

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    EVENT CANCELED: Contemporary Psychoanalytic Field Theory: Analytic Listening and the Use of the Analyst's Mind

    FRIDAY, OCTOBER 13, 2017 • 7:30 - 9:30 PM

    2 CE CREDITS FOR LICENSED PSYCHOANALYSTS, SOCIAL WORKERS, AND PSYCHOLOGISTS

    Montana Katz will describe the motivation for the development of psychoanalytic field theory as well as the various psychoanalytic field theory models that have been developed in different contexts and parts of the world. She will explore whether and how psychoanalytic field theory models offer something new and useful to the theory and practice of psychoanalysis and other clinical modalities.

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    June Workshop: Can Love Last? Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Couples Therapy and Sexuality

    Tuesdays: June 6, 13, 20, 27, 2017  |  7:00 - 8:30 PM

    6 CE CREDITS FOR LICENSED PSYCHOANALYSTS, SOCIAL WORKERS, AND PSYCHOLOGISTS

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    What makes it so difficult to keep the flame alive? Is mature love a myth? How do unconscious conflicts dampen desire?

    June Workshop: Sex in the Consulting Room: Decoding the Hidden Meanings of Erotic Transference

    Thursdays: June 1, 8, 22, 29, 2017  |  7:00- 8:30 PM

    6 CE CREDITS FOR LICENSED PSYCHOANALYSTS, SOCIAL WORKERS AND PSYCHOLOGISTS

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    The taboo on—as well as the inevitability of—sexual feelings in the treatment room has been an issue inpsychoanalysis since its inception, and the challenge of working with these feelingsis an integral part of its fabric.

    June Workshop: Being Apart to Be Together: Helping Group Members Tolerate the Tension of Intimacy

    Mondays: June 5 and 12, 2017  |  7:00 - 8:30 PM

    CANCELLED 3 CE Credits for Licensed Psychoanalysts, Social Workers, and Psychologists. This workshop will explore how the ability to set flexible/dynamic boundaries in group is integral to members’ being able to sustain intimacy with one another.  The presenter will also briefly discuss how boundaries can serve as roadblocks to intimacy, and she will demonstrate, via an experimental process group, techniques that can assist in resolving these resistances.  Teresa Solomita, LCSW-R,is a graduate of CMPS, Hunter College School of Social Work, and The Couples Institute, and is an advanced student at The Group Center.  Ms. Solomita is in private practice in NYC and Brooklyn. Tuition: 0

    Introducing Bion: Some Basic Dimensions

    FRIDAY, MAY 5 • 7:30–9:30 PM

    2 CE CREDITS FOR PSYCHOANALYSTS, SOCIAL WORKERS AND PSYCHOLOGISTS

    James Ogilvie will introduce an aspect of Bion’s psychoanalytic engagement with the “primitive mind,” focusing on some of the basic turns through which he engages us. Bion has a remarkable ability to bring us into a more immediate, “from the inside” contact with areas of psychic fragmentation and rebirth.

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    On Subjective Space

    FRIDAY, APRIL 28, 2017 • 7:30–9:30 PM

    2 CE CREDITS FOR SOCIAL WORKERS AND PSYCHOLOGISTS

    Practitioners and General Public: ; Students: Free

    Paola Mieli, PhD, is a psychoanalyst in New York City. She is a founding member and president of the Freudian-Lacanian Après-Coup Psychoanalytic Association (New York).

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    The Contributions of Gaetano Benedetti to the Psychoanalytic Therapy of Persons Experiencing Distressing Psychotic States, in the Light of Contemporary Affective and Social Neuroscience

    FRIDAY, APRIL 7, 2017 • 7:30–9:30 PM

    2 CE CREDITS FOR SOCIAL WORKERS AND PSYCHOLOGISTS

    Practitioners and General Public: ; Students: Free

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    Gaetano Benedetti has been working psychoanalytically with schizophrenic patients for over 50 years at the Burghölzli, the psychiatric hospital of the University of Zürich. Brian Koehler will review Benedetti’s contributions to the psychoanalytic therapy of persons experiencing distressing psychotic states.

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    Holding, Humor, and Shame: Some New Ideas About an Old One

    Friday, December 2, 2016, 7:30–9:30 PM
     

    2 CE CREDITS FOR SOCIAL WORKERS AND PSYCHOLOGISTS

    When does Winnicott’s concept of holding fit within a contemporary relational frame? Can we invoke a parental metaphor without thinning the work we do? If so, what is holding’s underlying therapeutic function? Reviewing the evolution of the parental metaphor and its current place in our thinking, Slochower theorizes about holding’s dynamic function.

    Joyce Slochower, PhD, APBB, presents

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    The Psychoanalysis of Madness: A Fight Against Perversion

    Wednesday, October 26, 2016, 1:00–3:00 PM

    2 CE CREDITS FOR SOCIAL WORKERS AND PSYCHOLOGISTS

    Françoise Davoine has published two books on Don Quixote and the psychoanalysis of madness. She views this “greatest of all novels” as Cervantes’ attempt to find his way out of madness with his “son,” Don Quixote, as his guide. He has been a guide for Davoine as well in her own work with madness and trauma.

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