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A therapist shares knowledge gained from two decades of teaching online. Familiarity with the experience of online therapy can help ameliorate stress, both on therapists and our patients. Online learning opportunities abound for mental health professionals, particularly in this era. The ongoing stressors of the pandemic will affect individuals, couples, and families differently. It has …
A lecture-discussion by Dominique Scarfone Today is Saturday April, 10, 2021, and I am at the IPI Saturday morning guest lecture by Dominic Scarfone. I am sitting here in my Zoom window along with clinician colleagues from thirteen countries (Austria, Canada, India, Iran, Japan, Macao, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Panama, Phillipines, Romania, and South Africa) …
Karen Mohatt, March 24, 2021 A day after the latest shooting and tragedy in Boulder, CO I was thankful to still be home-officing because my office is only 4 blocks from that King Sooper’s Store. I used to go to the Starbucks located inside for coffee or tea. Boulder does have a small town feel …
Jill Savege Scharff I am sitting in my home office, in front of my Zoom screen, where I sit often these days. But today is a special day. I am attending an IPI virtual conference that is timely and of much importance to therapists and psychoanalysts. The conference is called “Be Thoughtful and Act: …
Be Thoughtful and Act: Confronting Racism Inside and Outside of Our Minds Reflections of the IPI Weekend Conference by Dra. Iraira Butcher After finding much needed containment in the approximately biweekly town hall meetings with IPI and after the recent escalation in my frustration due to my inability to find a space to explore …
Change across a completed analysis assessed using a modified Three-Level Model Jill Savege Scharff & Pat Hedegard The authors present their design for a clinical teaching exercise to study transformation in psychoanalysis. They chose a completed analysis from which to select the sessions retrospectively so that the clinical review exercise would not influence ongoing analytic …
Jill Savege Scharff Because of physical distancing to combat COVID-19, the International Psychotherapy Institute (IPI) moved its April weekend conference on sex and gender and its student graduation ceremony from the usual site in Rockville to IPI’s 1000-capacity Zoom room online. I thought it was a good decision, and I planned to be there. I …
April 2020 Yolanda Varela, PhD, President, IPA Panamanian Association of Psychoanalysis (Provisional Society); supervising analyst, IPA; supervising analyst and graduate, APsaA International Institute for Psychoanalytic Training. Thoughts arising at Town Hall Meeting: Changes in Frames: COVID-19 and Teleanalysis With so many countries under lockdown to flatten the curve of the COVID-19 pandemic, …
In preparing to write this blog on our recent weekend exploring French Psychoanalytic thought and its contribution to understanding psychotic and borderline states, I found myself worrying about using too many “I” statements in my reflections. This urge to avoid writing “I” too many times in this composition, I think speaks to the theme and …
During the November 8th through 10th weekend of 2019, the International Psychotherapy Institute hosted the French psychoanalyst Alain Gibeault. French analytic writing is often criticized by British and American analysts as overly abstract, lacking in clinical detail, and often difficult to follow; nonetheless, Dr. Gibeault’s presentation, particularly the video recordings of his patient Francois – …
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