INTERNATIONAL PSYCHOTHERAPY INSTITUTE: METRO PROGRAM
2010-2011
CAROLINE M. SEHON, MD, Chair
Bonnie S. Eisenberg, PHD, Associate Chair

IPI Metro serves the DC metropolitan area and provides a variety of programs in connection with the International Psychotherapy Institute. We are a leading resource for continuing education of students, residents and professionals in the mental health field and allied professions. We study a contemporary multidimensional perspective derived from psychoanalysis and from individual, couple, and family psychotherapies. We come together as teachers and learners in many formats – in person, by telephone, by video link, and through our website. We welcome you to join our vibrant learning community to further your professional growth!

PROGRAMS

CLINICAL ETHICS FOR PSYCHOTHERAPISTS
(3 hours CE)

CONTEMPORARY DYNAMIC PSYCHOTHERAPY TRAINING PROGRAM
(16 hours CE)

Course Description: This monthly seminar is designed for new psychotherapists or those new to psychodynamic thinking. Through readings and discussions of clinical case material, participants will learn theoretical concepts and psychotherapy techniques that they can apply directly to their psychotherapy work. Seminar leaders are national and local IPI Metro faculty. This 8-session course will be provided once monthly over 8 (2-hour) Saturday mornings, beginning September 25 thru May, inclusive. (Future dates TBA)

Fees: Students may register using the form in this brochure. $550 for the full conference series.

CE Credit: 16 hours. Participation in the entire course is required.

CONTEMPORARY DYNAMIC PSYCHOTHERAPY TRAINING PROGRAM
for PSYCHIATRY RESIDENTS

Course Description: This weekly seminar is designed for psychiatry residents who wish to advance their knowledge of psychodynamic theory and practice. Through readings and discussions of clinical case material, participants will learn theoretical concepts and psychotherapy techniques that they can apply directly to their work as residents and future psychiatrists. Seminar leaders are national and local IPI Metro faculty. This 23-session course will be provided on Thursday evenings (2-hour), beginning September 23 thru May, inclusive. (Future dates TBA)

Fees: TBD in negotiation with Program Directors of DC Metropolitan General Psychiatry Training Programs.

PSYCHODYNAMIC MODULES (8 hours CE each) LINKED to IPI WEEKEND CONFERENCES
(Approx. 15 hours CE)

Course Description: Each module is designed to accompany each IPI Weekend Conference, listed below. Each 8 hour module consists of 4 consecutive Tuesday evenings (2 hours per evening session). Participants will work with national and local IPI faculty to integrate the conference readings and thereby gain an in-depth understanding of the advanced material covered at each conference. Participants may elect to participate in one or more modules over the course of the year.

Fees: Students may register using the form in this brochure. $175 for each module. Weekend conference fees separate.

CE Credit: 8 hours. Participation in the entire course is required.

IPI Metro Module linked to IPI Weekend (NOVEMBER 12-14, 2010)
Weekend Conference: The Work of Transformation in Psychoanalytic Practice Jorge Canestri, MD (from Rome)
Psychodynamic Module: November 2, 9, 16, 23, 2010 (Tuesday evenings @ 7-9 pm)

IPI Metro Module linked to IPI Weekend (JANUARY 21-23, 2011)
Weekend Conference: The Mysterious Leap from Soma into Psyche Marilia Aisenstein (from Paris)
Psychodynamic Module: January 11, 18, 25 & Feb. 1, 2011 (Tuesday evenings at 7-9 pm)

IPI Metro Module linked to IPI Weekend (MARCH 25-27, 2011)
Weekend Conference: Why has Psychoanalysis Lost the Person? Neville Symington
Psychodynamic Module: March 22, 29 & April 5, 12, 2011 (Tuesday evenings @ 7-9 pm)

IPI Metro Module linked to IPI Weekend (APRIL 29-MAY 1, 2011)
Weekend Conference: Countertransference,Neutrality and the Analytic Field Claudio Eizirk, MD (from Puerto Alegre, Brazil)
Psychodynamic Module: April 19, 26 & MAY 3, 10, 2011 (Tuesday evenings @ 7-9 pm)

IPI WEEKEND CONFERENCES

Conferences begin at 9:00 a.m. on Friday and end at 1:00 p.m. on Sunday. Saturday morning workshops, 9:00 – 10:30 a.m. are open to all mental health professionals, and will be followed by a reception and an optional small group discussion from 11:00 a.m. to noon for participants attending the workshop; the cost for Saturday morning only is $30 (IPI Members can attend for free with a guest). Pre-registration is required. Held in the Washington, DC area, with the exception of the March 25-27, 2011 weekend to be held in Indianapolis, Indiana. Fees: $485 21 days in advance, $505 thereafter. Pre-registration required. CE: Approx. 15 hours per conference; 2.5 hours for Saturday workshops and small group.

November 12-14, 2010
The work of transformation in psychoanalytic practice
With Jorge Canestri, M.D., from Rome, Italy
Jorge Canestri is Training and Supervising Analyst for the Italian and Argentine Psychoanalytic Association, President, Italian Psychoanalytical Association, European Editor, International Journal of Psycho-Analysis; Chair of the IPA’s New Groups Committee. He has edited and authored many books papers. Co-author, The Babel of the Unconscious: Mother tongue and Foreign Languages in the Psychoanalytic Dimension; Director of the webpage: Psychoanalysis and logical mathematical thought. In this weekend, Dr. Canestri will lead us in thinking about modern ideas of change in psychoanalytic therapy, and his emerging ideas of psychoanalytic growth.
Saturday morning workshop: Interpretations and Constructions.

January 21-23, 2011
The mysterious leap of soma into psyche
With Marilia Aisenstein, from Paris, France
Marilia Aisenstein is Training-analyst, Paris and Hellenic Psychoanalytical Societies; Past President Paris Psychoanalytic, Past Chair of IPA’s New Groups Committee, Past Editor, French Revue of Psychoanalysis, and 1992 recipient of “Prix Maurice Bouvet” for a psychoanalytic work. She has written 130 books and articles. In this weekend, Marilia Aisenstein will focus on the interrelationship of body, physical and emotional development, symptom and psychic process in the great tradition of French psychosomatic theorists.
Saturday morning workshop: On transference and counter-transference with difficult cases

March 25-27, 2011 – Join us for this special weekend in Indianapolis, Indiana
Why has Psycho-Analysis Lost the Person ?
With Neville Symington, from Sydney, Australia
Training Analyst, Sydney Psychoanalytic; former President, Australian Psychoanalytic; Former chair Psychology, Tavistock Clinic, London; Diplomate, philosophy and theology; 12 books including The Analytic Experience and Emotion and Spirit; a novel, A Priest’s Affair, and a book of poetry IN-GRATITUDE and other POEMS. Neville Symington is widely known for his probing thought on spirituality and psychic process, original ideas on narcissism, and his breadth of original analytic theorizing. This weekend will feature these themes and an exploration of the elusive question of the person in psychoanalysis.
Saturday morning workshop: Spiritual Detachment - Essential in the Treatment of Psychosis.

April 29-May 1, 2011
Countertransference, Neutrality and the Analytic Field.
With Claudio Eizirik, M.D. from Porto Alegre, Brazil
Claudio Eizirik is Training and Supervising Analyst, Porto Alegre Psychoanalytic Society, Adjunct Professor, Federal University, Rio Grande do Sul; Former President, International Psychoanalytic Association. Many books and papers on analytic technique and the relation of psychoanalysis and culture including a recent paper on the therapeutic action of psychoanalysis. Dr. Eizirik will lead us in looking at current issues in the practice of analytic therapy, including the concept of the analytic field, the maintenance of an analytic persona, and the uses and misuses of countertransference and neutrality.
Saturday morning workshop: How to become and remain a psychoanalyst.

MASTER SPEAKER VIDEOCONFERENCE SEMINAR SERIES
(up to 18 hours CE)

Course Description: This once monthly 2-hour seminar features outstanding therapists and analysts from across the U.S. and abroad who join students from around the U.S. and abroad, united by videoconference technology. Participants are linked between Washington, DC (IPI Metro),Salt Lake City, UT, Indianapolis, IN, Long Island, NY, and Omaha, NE, and students in other locations who can join from their own computer, or via streaming video or by telephone (contact info@theipi.org for details). The video conference seminars are 2 hours each, one Friday a month from 9:00 – 11:00 a.m. ET. Speakers present on a selected topic with group discussion across the participating sites facilitated by IPI faculty. Advance readings provided.

September 24, 2010
Mike Stadter, PhD in Washington, DC
Time, Psychotherapy and the Times

October 8
David Bell, MD, Tavistock Clinic, London
Construction in Psychoanalysis, From Freud to Modern Approaches

November 5
C. Fred Alford, PhD, University of Maryland, in Washington, DC
Melanie Klein as a Social Theorist

December 3
David Celani, PhD, in Salt Lake City
Applying Fairbairn’s Concepts to Treating Difficult Patients

January 28, 2011
Carl Bagnini, MSW, in Long Island
Tracking, Thinking and Deciding on the Use of Transference

February 11
Margot Waddell, Tavistock Clinic, London
From Resemblance to Identity: The Internal Narrative of a Fifty-minute Hour

March 18
Claire Teng, M.D. in Taipei, Taiwan
Issues in Treating Patients in Chinese Cultures

April 8
Jane Hall, LCSW, in Long Island
Attachment to Abuse

May 6
Kate Scharff, MSW, IPI, in Omaha, NE
Dynamics of Divorce

Fees: To register for the Master Speaker Videoconference Series in the Washington DC/Chevy Chase area, please contact Anna Innes at 301-215-7377 or annainnes@theipi.org.

FOUNDATIONS OF PSYCHOANALYTIC COUPLE THERAPY
(14 hours CE)

The Theory, Technique, and Practice of Couple Therapy in the Early to Middle Stage
September 22, 2010 – December 15, 2010
7 sessions of two hours each, 9:45-11:45 a.m. Eastern Time

Course Description: The Fall Semester of the Couple Therapy Course, given jointly with the Tavistock Centre for Couple Relationships, will focus on issues and problems frequently encountered in the early stages of therapy, but which can then emerge at any stage of the work. Teachers will be drawn from the IPI faculty and faculty of the Tavistock Centre for Couple Relationships in London. Participants may join the course at several IPI videoconference sites including Chevy Chase, MD, Indianapolis, IN, Long Island, NY Salt Lake City, UT, and Panama City, Panama, or may join individually by videoconference program or by phone or video streaming. Information at info@theipi.org or 301 215-7377.

September 22 David Scharff, IPI
Topic: Now we have a plan, why won’t you do it? Transitioning from evaluation to treatment
The couple disagrees with the treatment recommendations; One partner is motivated, but the other is not; Deciding between individual and couple work

October 6 Carl Bagnini, IPI
Topic: Containment in couple work
What is containment and how is it built? How does containment differ in individual and couple work? Common challenges to containment

October 20 David Hewison, TCCR
Topic: Shifting projections: What’s mine and what’s yours?
Addressing projective identification within the couple relationship; Identifying and using projective identification in the transference relationship

November 3 Christopher Clulow, TCCR
Topic: Applying attachment theory to couple work: How is this helpful?
Understanding individual attachment styles and the couple interplay; The impact of the therapist’s own attachment style

November 17 Norma Caruso, IPI
Topic: Addressing sexual issues in the early stage
When sex is a primary issue; When sex is never mentioned; Combining dynamic understanding with practical solutions

December 1 Jill Scharff, IPI
Topic: Trauma within the couple
Traumatic histories of one or both partners; Trauma as an organizing or disorganizing couple dynamic; When the couple is traumatized

December 15 Christopher Vincent, TCCR
Topic: Incorporating non-analytic interventions in couple work: When is this appropriate?
Differentiating necessary non-analytic work from defensive non-analytic alternatives; Managing escalations of fighting and threats of separation; Deciding what to do when one partner “no shows” for the session; When is it appropriate to give advice?

Fee: $295 (participants register for the full course of seven sessions – not open to registration for individual sessions)
CE Credit: 14 hours

For more information, Contact IPI at info@theipi.org or 301-215-7377 for more information on any of the IPI Metro programs, including objectives, target audience, instructional level of the activity, schedule, cost, refund/cancellation policy, instructor credentials and CE credit.