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    CMPS, through its Extension Division, schedules seminars, lectures, and summer workshops open to the professional community and interested public. CMPS maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

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    Modern Psychoanalytic Approaches to Understanding and Treating Addictive Disorders

    WEDNESDAYS, MAY 22 – JUNE 26, 2019  |  7:00 – 8:30 PM

    Short Course

    9 CE CREDITS FOR LICENSED PSYCHOANALYSTS, SOCIAL WORKERS, AND CASACS

    6 CLASSES: 0

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    Intensive Weekend Clinical Seminar: Emotional Communication

    FRIDAY, JUNE 22, 2018 • 2:30 - 6:30 PM
    SATURDAY, JUNE 23, 2018 • 9:00 AM - 3:30 PM

    7.5 CE Credits for Licensed Psychoanalysts, Social Workers, and Psychologists

    This intensive clinical seminar will focus on the theory and practice of using emotional communication in treatment. [read more . . .]

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    Networking: A Skill for Life

    Tuesday, June 12, 2018  |  6:00-7:30 PM

    June Workshop

    Being able to meet people, form a connection, and build a relationship is central to professional, business, and personal life. This workshop will provide practical advice on how to overcome both fear of failure and fear of success.

    With Ernest Brod

    Short Course: Modern Psychoanalytic Approaches to Understanding and Treating Addictive Disorders

    WEDNESDAYS, MAY 23 – JUNE 27, 2018 • 7:00–8:30 PM

    9 CE CREDITS FOR PSYCHOANALYSTS, SOCIAL WORKERS, PSYCHOLOGISTS, AND CASACS

    ​This course will focus on understanding addiction as a form of self-medication, a maladaptive defense for managing unacceptable thoughts and feelings, and will emphasize treatment methods that combine psychoanalytic theory and technique with harm-reduction approaches. Case studies will be used to illustrate the theoretical material.

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    CANCELLED: The Business of Psychoanalytic Practice: Strategies for Success

    Wednesdays, June 13 and 27, 2018  |  5:30-7:00 PM

    This June Workshop has been cancelled

    This workshop will address the fundamentals of establishing a private practice.
     
    With Dr. Theodore Lacquercia
     

    D. W. Winnicott and the Middle School of British Psychoanalysis

    SATURDAY, APRIL 21, 2018 • 9:00 AM–1:00 PM

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

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    Donald Winnicott was one of the most original thinkers in the history of psychoanalysis. His conceptualizations—of transitional objects and the false self, for example—are now embedded within psychoanalytic discourse; [Read more]

    M. Gerard Fromm, PhD, presents

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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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    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

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