Tampa Bay Psychoanalytic Society, Inc.

Scientific Program 2011-2011

***REGISTER ONLINE AND/OR MAKE PAYPAL PAYMENT at http://www.tbpsychoanalytic.org

Pre-registration/lunch reservation deadline -- one week prior to presentation

LOCATION: Memorial Hospital Auditorium, 2901 West Swann Avenue, Tampa, Florida 33609

CHARGE: Unless otherwise stated, charges are as follows:

Pre-Meeting $15 to all (1 hr. CEU/CME credit upon request)

AM Presentation: Free to all. ($45 non-members if requesting CE credits; CE credits

free to members upon request – 3 hrs. CEU/CME credits)

PM Presentation:$45 to non-members/$35 charge to members (3 hrs. CEU/CME credits upon request)

LUNCH: Unless otherwise noted, boxed lunch will be available by reservation for $12.00-- $15 after registration deadline (bring-your-own bag lunch optional)

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Saturday, September 17, 2011

CHARGE: PM Presentation: $30 to ALL (2 hrs. CE credits upon request) ** Co-Sponsored by the Florida Psychological Association Bay Chapter

LUNCH: Boxed lunch will be available by reservation for $20.00, pre-paid (bring-your-own bag lunch optional) Details and information/menus to follow.

Note: This lunch is a special fund-raising function which will take place during the noticed business meeting. Prices and menus will revert back to the same as last year for subsequent programs

Stanley A. Tsigounis, PhD

Director of the Contemporary Institute for Integrative Psychotherapy & Psychoanalysis of Florida, an advanced training program for practicing psychotherapists; Co-Editor of the text “Self Hatred in Psychoanalysis, Detoxifying the Persecutory Object.” Core faculties of the International Institute for Psychoanalytic Training & International Psychotherapy Institute; has presented papers & workshops nationally & internationally including being the Keynote presenter at the New South Wales Institute for Family Therapy Convention in Sydney Australia

“Hope, Kindness, Surprise and Confusion:

Analytic Listening From the Independent Psychoanalytic Tradition”

AM Presentation (9:30 am-12:30 pm)

Description: What does it mean to be an Independent Psychoanalytic Thinker and Practitioner? What are we listening to? What are we listening for? And what position are we listening from? How do the paradoxes of life affect our style of listening? This presentation will provide a framework for us to think together about what it means to be engaged in a psychoanalytic discourse with our clients from an independent tradition that values unconscious communication, reverie, kindness, surprise and confusion.

Objectives:

This workshop will identify the difference between working “in” the transference and working “with” the transference;

Participants will learn a “theory free” model of analytic listening;

Participants will learn what makes the Independent Tradition truly independent; and

Participants will learn 10 factors that make dynamic therapy “curative.”

Robert Porter, PhD

President-Bay Chapter, Florida Psychological Association; Treasurer- Florida Psychological Association; Member of Board of Directors-Tampa Bay Psychoanalytic Society; Psychologist in Private Practice, Tampa Heights, Lutz, & Westchase, Tampa; Principle Partner and CEO, Psychology Services Associates, LLC, and Serenity Center for Wellness, LLC

“A Medical Errors Workshop

For Non-Medical, Mental-Health Providers and Students”

PM Presentation (1:30-3:30 pm)

$30 to ALL (2 hrs. CE credits upon request)

** Co-Sponsored by the Florida Psychological Association Bay Chapter

Description: The purpose of this course is to enable mental health care professionals to meet the requirements of the Florida law, with special attention to sentinel errors, root cause analysis, error reduction and prevention strategies, and practice errors impacting the safety of the client and others and the effective mental health treatment of the patient. Examples include improper diagnosis, failure to comply with mandatory abuse reporting laws, inadequate assessment of potential for violence (e.g., suicide, homicide), failure to detect medical conditions presenting as a psychological/psychiatric disorder.

Objectives:

Describe the definition of medical errors according to the Institute of Medicine (“To Err is Human”);

Describe sentinel events and list a representative of each type of error as noted by the Joint Commission on accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO).; Describe how JCAHO defines root cause analysis and what constitutes a “thorough and credible” analysis; and

Identify the three main areas of mental health practice errors and provide an example for each.

Saturday, October 15, 2011

A Day with Theodore J. Jacobs, M.D.

Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, New York University School of Medicine; Teacher-Course on Instinctual Drives, New York;

Psychoanalytic Institute, Co-Chairman, Division of Postgraduate Education, New York Psychoanalytic Institute; Editorial Board, The International Journal of Psychoanalysis; Editorial Board, The International Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy

“A Conversation with Dr. Theodore Jacobs”

Small Group Discussion (8:15-9:15 am)

A small discussion group will precede the main presentation. This group is designed to offer all participants the opportunity to meet and talk with the speaker. In this meeting, Dr. Jacobs will respond to questions and comments about his work. He will also discuss current views of enactment, counter-transference, and the role of the analyst's subjectivity in analytic work.

“Imaginary Gardens, Real Toads: On Memory and its Uses in the Analytic Process”

AM Presentation (9:30 am-12:30 pm)

Description: In this presentation I focus on the current controversy over memory and its place in the analytic process. I will distinguish two kinds of memory; implicit and explicit memory, and through clinical and literary examples will attempt to demonstrate the value of recovering explicit memories in analysis.

Objectives:

Participants should be able to identify two forms of memory;

Participants should be able to understand the differences; and

Participants should be able to understand the role that the recovery of explicit memories plays in the analytic process.

“Listening, Sharing, Dreaming: On Uses of the Analyst’s Inner Experience”

PM Presentation (1:30-4:30 pm)

Description: In this presentation Dr. Jacobs will discuss the complex nature of analytic listening and will attempt to demonstrate the contributions that the inner experience of the analyst make to creative listening in analytic work.

Objectives:

Participants should be able to understand the role that the analyst’s inner experiences play in analytic listening;

Participants should be able to understand the value of the concept of analytic instrument; and

Participants should be able to understand those situations in which sharing of the analyst’s subjective reactions in sessions may prove useful.

Saturday, November 12, 2011

A Day with Shelley R. Doctors, Ph.D.

Faculty member & Supervising Analyst-Institute for the Psychoanalytic Study of Subjectivity; National Institute for the Psychotherapies (formerly in the adult and child programs, currently in the National Training Program in Psychoanalysis); Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis & Psychotherapy, Washington, D.C.; member-International Council for Psychoanalytic Self Psychology; Advisory Board of the International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis & Psychotherapy; and Editorial Board-International Journal of Psychoanalytic Self Psychology.

“A Conversation with Dr. Shelley Doctors: on the Under-recognized Importance of Understanding the Attachment Paradigm”

Small Discussion Group (8:15 to 9:15 am)

Description: Dr. Shelley Doctors will discuss the relationship between attachment ideas and self psychology as well as the place of attachment ideas in the intersubjective perspective.

Objectives:

Participants will understand the relationship between self psychology and attachment;

Participants will understand the place of attachment theory in the intersubjective perspective; and

Participants will have a clearer understanding of the clinical importance of understanding attachment ideas.

"An Introduction to Toward an Emancipatory Psychoanalysis: Brandchaft's Intersubjective Vision"
AM Presentation (9:30 am-12:30 pm)

Description: This presentation will introduce Dr. Bernard Brandchaft, psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, to the group. It will describe his innovative approach to trauma and affect and will focus on his signature contribution, "Systems of Pathological Accommodation." Pathological Accommodation will be explained in considerable detail, developmentally and clinically, for the phrase in the book title "Emancipatory Psychoanalysis" refers to liberation from systems of pathological accommodation and its self-constricting ways. Brandchaft's concern about pathological structures of accommodation in therapists will be discussed and his contribution, which he sometimes calls "the dread not to repeat" will be distinguished from the well-know defense referred to by Anna Ornstein as "the dread to repeat". Dr. Doctors will present an anecdote that illustrates how system of pathological accommodation intrude into mental functioning.
Objectives:

Participants will understand the term "systems of pathological accommodation" developmentally;

Participants will understand the term "systems of pathological accommodation" clinically; and

Participants will understand how the term "systems of pathological accommodation" applies to therapists.

“Clinical Perspectives on Pathological Accommodation."

Participants will receive Chapter 7 of ‘Toward an Emancipatory Psychoanalysis:Brandchaft's Intersubjective Vision’

PM Presentation (1:30-4:30 pm)

Description: This previously unpublished case study provides a more extensive and detailed view of Brandchaft’s clinical approach than anything he has offered elsewhere. The analysand, William, suffered with an obsessive preoccupation with clouds, lightening, and thunder, several phobias, including the fear of flying, and a profound malaise and despair that had been refractory to previous long-term, intensive analytic efforts. Bernie’s task was to help him to see that this conviction was an acquired “process of mind which had become tyrannizing” (Brandchaft, Doctors, & Sorter, 2010, p. 63) rather than a bedrock truth and to transform his obsessive fears and compulsive temper tantrums psychoanalytically. **Prior to the conference participants will be asked to read the chapter and bring it along with them for the discussion at the conference. The title of Chapter 7 is "Whose Self is it Anyway: The Case of William."
Objectives:

Following the conference, participants will better understand the clinical approach to pathological accommodation;

Participants will better understand how Brandchaft works with pathological accommodation in the transference; and

Participants will better understand the role of attachment in pathological accommodation and how to work with patients' fear of change.

Saturday, January 14, 2012

A Day with Bruce Herzog M.D., F.R.C.P ( C )

Faculty and Board Member, Institute for the Advancement of Self Psychology; Faculty Member, Toronto Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis Council Member, International Association for Psychoanalytic Self Psychology

“A Conversation with Dr. Bruce Herzog”

Small Class Presentation (8:15-9:15 am)

Discussion: This presentation will involve a meeting between Dr. Herzog and participants in an informal setting. The discussion will center primarily on whatever is of interest to the group, but can be used to explore topics brought up by the papers to be presented later in the day, or by any other of Dr. Herzog’s published or previously presented works.

Objectives:

The participant will be able to clarify concepts in the papers about to be presented;

The participant will learn about the origins and directions of template theory; and

The participants will be free to discuss any related topic that is of interest to them.

“Shifting Relational States, Activators, and the Variable Unconscious: Towards a New Psychoanalytic Theory of Awareness”

AM Presentation (9:30 am-12:30 pm)

Discussion: This paper proposes a revised model of the unconscious, arising from a conceptual expansion of template theory, which views the individual as possessing multiple relational templates, each consisting of clinically observable automatic behaviors, which are manifestations of an internalized pattern of relatedness that is encoded through repeated exposure during development. A relational template contains two roles, each role having it’s own corresponding affects and memories. It is this grouping of template role, affect and memory that is recognized as a relational state, occupied by the individual at any given point in time. Every relational state has its own level of awareness, which changes when a shift to another relational state is initiated by an associated activator. State shifting also results in a changing level of unawareness, creating a fluctuating unconscious, identified as the variable unconscious. The controlled movement between relational states is facilitated by the observing and overriding function of an individual’s reflective abilities, constituting a discreet state of its own. This reflective state is encouraged by analytic interpretation, which converts procedural, non-verbal phenomena into symbolic, verbally mediated thought. Therapeutic interactions lead to the formation of alternative relational templates, and the individual’s awareness of these new ways of being, from within a reflective state, allows for increased and controlled access to them.

Objectives

The participant will gain a basic understanding of template theory, a modern derivative of relational self psychology;

The participant will learn a new model of unconscious process; and

The participant will learn how the act of analytic interpretation can strengthen reflective capacity and enhance it’s ability to override more reflexive relational states.

“The Love and Death: Affect Sharing in the Treatment of the Dying”

PM Presentation (1:30-4:30 pm)

Discussion: The need for companionship involves a universal human requirement to share one’s experience and it’s associated affect with another. This view narrows down the companionship experience to focus on one of its primary elements: we need to know that others are feeling what we feel. I have named this phenomenon affect sharing - a specific event which can occur within the analytic dyad, where the patient attempts to communicate a feeling state in such a way that it reverberates within the therapist, so that the therapist suspects he or she is feeling what the patient feels. When this happens, the therapist’s communication to the patient that the patient’s affect state has been felt, may have a profound impact. Through the use of two clinical examples, I have attempted to demonstrate that when we are confronted with patients who are terminally ill, the ability of the therapist to share in their affective experience is essential. It can be the principal element in converting a tragic and lonely process of dying into one that is considerably more comforting and humane.

Objectives:

The participant will expand their knowledge of empathy to include the concept of affect sharing;

The participant will learn new techniques useful in the treatment of the dying patient; and

participant will learn how to recognize attempts by their patients to communicate their affective experience and how to respond.

“Repulsion in the Analyst and Its Impact on Empathic Capacity”

Discussion: For a successful treatment process to occur, it’s necessary for there to be a few areas of significant empathic contact. This requires some matching up of relational premises between analyst and patient. If the number of areas of fit are not sufficient, or if there is an area where an overwhelming sense of repulsion is created in the analyst, the analyst is precluded from entering into the world of the patient, and the analysis may fail. In this paper, three clinical vignettes are used to illustrate how the experience of disgust in the therapist can both effectively or unsuccessfully be dealt with in the consultation room. Techniques that the therapist might employ to make use of the experience of revulsion are explored, including the application of an other centered listening position (Fosshage), which can be intentionally shifted to, in order to deepen understanding and prevent the analyst from feeling affectively “off center”. Interpreting from the other centered position, however, can be potentially harmful, if the analyst is unaware that the shift away from an empathic listening mode has been used to avoid a feeling of repulsion - this is because it could create a actualization of a traumatic relational template of an unacceptable child and an unempathic caregiver. Fostering awareness of the origins, acceptability, and ways to cope with repulsion in the analyst, helps the analyst to maintain his reflective state, minimize interference with his empathic capacity, and improve the chances for a successful analysis to take place.

Objectives:

The participant will be able to explain how feelings of repulsion in the analyst can interfere with empathic functioning and reflective capacity;

The participant will learn some clinical techniques that can be employed in the event of severe discordance between the relational premises of therapist and patient; and

The participant will learn how to recognize and cope with the occurrence of repulsion in the analyst.

Saturday, February 11, 2012

A Day with Jay R. Greenberg, Ph.D.

Training and Supervising Analyst, William Alanson White Institute; editor, The Psychoanalytic Quarterly; co-author with Stephen Mitchell, Object Relations in Psychoanalytic Theory; author Oedipus and Beyond: A Clinical Theory

“A Conversation with Dr. Jay Greenberg”

Small Class Presentation (8:15-9:15 am)

A small discussion group will precede the presentation: “A Conversation with Dr. Jay Greenberg.” This group is designed to offer all participants the opportunity to meet & talk with the speaker. There will be a discussion on areas of interest in contemporary psychoanalytic thinking, the ways in which this thinking affects clinical practice, and will described alternate views of psychoanalytic process and the psychoanalytic situation.

“Desire in the Consulting Room”

AM Presentation (9:30 am-12:30 pm)

Description: The psychoanalytic situation has traditionally been viewed as the meeting of a patient, filled with conflicted and thwarted desire, and an analyst who meets that desire with more or less detached interest and curiosity. For the most part, whatever desire the analyst feels is understood as responsive to the desire of the patient. In this paper, I examine the assumptions that underlie this vision. Exploring both literary and clinical material, I will develop the implications that come with a full appreciation of conceptualizing an interaction involving two active agents, each of whom brings their own desire to the encounter.

Objectives:

To discuss traditional views of desire as they have been developed in psychoanalytic thinking;

To evaluate the ways in which these views color our understanding of the psychoanalytic situation; and

To describe alternative perspectives and their clinical implications.

“Empathy, Skepticism, and the Analytic Attitude”

PM Presentation (1:30-4:30 pm)

Description: In every analytic encounter, we struggle to create and refine a way of listening that will move us toward the expansion of awareness that is our goal. In this paper, I will begin to develop a way of thinking about the analyst’s stance that captures the need to establish an empathic connection between patient and analyst while remaining mindful of the inescapable otherness of both participants.

Objectives:

To analyze the nature of psychoanalytic listening;

To examine the role of otherness in psychoanalytic listening; and

To describe an updated version of analytic neutrality as an aspect of the clinician's way of engaging patients.

Saturday, March 10, 2012

A Day with Doris Brothers, Ph.D.

Training & Research in Self Psychology Foundation; Co-founder; member of the board of trustees; training & supervising analyst; co-chair, the Admissions Committee; Yeshiva University: Adjunct Assistant Professor at Ferkauf Graduate School; Council Member: International Association for Psychoanalytic Self Psychology; Member: National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis, American Psychological Association, The Institute for the Advancement of Self Psychology, Toronto, Canada; Institute of Contemporary Psychotherapy, New South Wales, Australia

“A Conversation with Dr. Doris Brothers”

Small Class Presentation (8:15-9:15 am)

Description: A small discussion group will precede the presentation. This group is designed to offer all participants the opportunity to meet & talk with the speaker. Dr. Brothers will discuss the development of her theoretical perspective and her approach to treatment.

Objectives:

Participants will be able to identify the topics that Dr. Brothers has explored in her writing;

Participants will be able to explain Dr. Brothers’ approach to treatment; and

Participants will be able to describe new areas of interest for Dr. Brothers.

“Trauma-Centered Psychoanalysis: Transforming Experience of Unbearable Uncertainty”

AM Presentation (9:30 am-12:30 pm)

Description: By destroying the certainties that pattern psychological life, trauma plunges a relational system into chaos and exposes its victims to experiences of unbearable uncertainty. When viewed from this perspective, trauma regains its original position at the heart of psychoanalysis. To show how this conceptualization grows out of and improves upon her earlier writings, the author traces the evolution of three ideas that have informed her work for over 20 years: (1) trauma is relational, (2) trauma is a complex phenomenon involving both a shattering experience and efforts at restoration, and (3) trauma goes hand with dissociation.

Objectives:

Participants will be able to describe a relational systems perspective on trauma;

Participants will be able to outline three components of trauma: (a) trauma is relational; (b) trauma involves both a shattering experience and efforts at restoration; and (c) trauma goes hand in hand with dissociation; and

Participants will be able to recognize manifestations of the “tyranny of hope.”

“The Intersubjectivity of Promise-Making and the Ethically Committed Analyst”

PM Presentation (1:30-4:30 pm)

Description: This presentation tackles the complexities involved in relinquishing the role of silent bystander in
the analytic space as well as on the world stage through an examination of the concept of promise making. A clinical example illustrates how the complicated and demanding of making and keeping promises affected a therapeutic process.

Objectives:

Participants will be able to explain the role of promise-making in the analytic situation;Participants will be able to describe how promise-making contributes to an “ethic of commitment;” andParticipants will be able to demonstrate the interrelatedness of psychoanalysis and the social/political realm.

Saturday, April 21 28, 2012

Frederic J. Levine, Ph.D.

Voluntary Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences University of Miami School of Medicine, Miami, FL; Board of Directors Pennsylvania Psychological Association; Member: American Psychoanalytic Association, International Psycho-Analytical Association American Psychological Association, Div. 39, China-American Psychoanalytic Alliance, Florida Psychoanalytic Society, Florida Psychoanalytic Institute Southeast Florida Association for Psychoanalytic Psychology, New York Freudian Society

“Magic and Reality: Unconscious Longing for an Omnipotent Protector”

AM Presentation (9:30 am-12:30 pm)

Description: Among the important aims of psychoanalytic therapy is reducing the analysand’s intrapsychic attachment to the fantasy of an omnipotent, authoritarian protector or idealized object. Symptoms of this attachment include tendencies to be irrationally judgmental and punitive toward self or others; to submit to seemingly powerful people and groups, or people in authority, in order to obtain (fantasied) protection and support – and yet often to feel oppressed by them; to think in terms of arbitrary rules and idealized belief systems; and to cognitively organize the world in rigid, authoritarian ways that reduce the individual’s intellectual skills.

Analysts refer to resolving these tendencies as analyzing and reducing primitive aspects of the ego and superego, something which has long been recognized as central to the therapeutic process. What has been less widely discussed is that analysis of these tendencies leads to advances across a wide spectrum of adaptive functions: thought processes become more differentiated and abstract; object relations deeper and richer; and the relation to reality more complex, less superficial. Examples will be presented to clarify the role of the analytic relationship in this process and why an ideally complete “dissolution” of the transference is not likely to occur.

These tendencies are influential not only in psychotherapy, but they also have many implications in everyday life, especially in organizations and in politics. Examples of these phenomena will be presented.

Objectives:

Participants will achieve understanding of pathological coping mechanisms that impair effective mental and personality functioning in many situations;

Participants will gain deeper knowledge of developmental and therapeutic processes that lead to progressive improvements in independent cognitive and interpersonal functioning; and

Participants will gain insight into mechanisms in the treatment relationship that are integral to facilitating patients’ achievement of more advanced and autonomous mental processes, and they will be able to apply these to their own clinical work.