Weekend Conference November 11-13, 2022 will be offered Online. Open to any mental health professional or mental health professional-in-training.
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IPI welcomes all Clinicians, beginner to advanced, who practice individual child and/or adult therapy, as well as all conducting couple and family therapy to attend this weekend event.
Program Date(s):
November 11, 2022 - November 13, 2022Weekend Overview
Although most therapists work individually with clients, there isn’t a patient without a couple and family. IPI and adjunct faculty will examine how the couple and family therapy lens informs individual psychotherapy practice. The analytic couple, the parental couple, as well as sibling, romantic and friendship dyads, populate patients’ internal worlds and conflicts. How can this be understood when framed by the therapist’s couple state of mind (Morgan, 2019)? How does theory and technique relevant to couple and family work expand or enhance treatment? Conference participants are invited to consider the role of their own internal couple and family in the consulting context, as well as to explore the nuances and rewards of doing psychodynamic couple, child and family therapy.
Please join us for theoretical and case presentations by IPI faculty and adjunct faculty including Anabella de Brostella, Damian McCann, Hanni Mann Shalvi, Elizabeth Palacios, David Scharff, Jill Scharff, Janine Wanlass, and Rich Zeitner. Participants will learn in large group settings and in small affective learning groups using IPI’s signature Group Affective Model.
The course will use lecture, large group discussion, small group/GAM group discussion, case presentation and discussion and informal discussion to achieve the course objectives.
General weekend schedule
Friday 9:40am – 6:10 pm US ET
Saturday 9:45am – 6:15pm US ET
Sunday 10:00am – 2:00pm US ET
Detailed schedules, reading lists, and educational objectives will be provided to registered participants.
Faculty Presenters
David E. Scharff, M.D. is Co-Founder and Former Director, International Psychotherapy Institute; Chair, The International Psychoanalytic Association’s Committee on Family and Couple Psychoanalysis; Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences and Georgetown University; Supervising Analyst, International Institute for Psychoanalytic Training; Honorary Fellow, Tavistock Relationships, London; Former President, American Association of Sex Educators, Counselors and Therapists, and former Vice-President, International Association for Couple and Family Psychoanalysis. He is editor of the journal Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy in China, and Director of the Training Programs in Analytic Couple and Family Therapy in Beijing and Moscow. He is a Child and Adult Analyst in Private Practice with children, adults, couples and families in Chevy Chase, Maryland.
Jill Savege Scharff, M.D.
Dr. Jill Savege Scharff is an internationally known psychoanalyst for children and adults, couples and families. She is the co-founder and formerly co-director of the International Psychotherapy Institute; founding Chair of the International Institute for Psychoanalytic Training, and founder of IPI’s child therapy and psychoanalytic programs. She has published numerous books and articles, most recently on teleanalysis and teletherapy. She is the co-recipient of the 2021 Mary Sigourney Award for the enhancement of psychoanalysis. Her private practice is in Chevy Chase, MD.
Janine Wanlass, Ph.D. is a psychoanalyst and psychologist in Salt Lake City, Utah, where she treats children, families, couples, and adults. She is the former Director of the International Psychotherapy Institute, where she currently serves as faculty member and chair of the child psychotherapy track. She is a professor of mental health counseling at Westminster College. Her involvement in couple therapy training and supervision extends internationally to Israel, China, Russia, and Panama. She has authored publications addressing couple and family assessment, the couple as parents, and the treatment of addictions in couple work.
Adjunct Faculty Presenters
Damian McCann, D.Sys.Psych, is a couple psychoanalytic psychotherapist working as head of learning and development at Tavistock Relationships, London, and is an adjunct faculty member of the International Psychotherapy Institute (IPI) Washington, DC. He is also a consultant systemic psychotherapist and has many years’ experience of working with children, adolescents and their families and of supervising a range of professionals both individually and in groups. He has a particular interest in working with gender and sexual diversity in psychoanalytic practice and has published and taught widely on this topic. His doctoral research was concerned with understanding the meaning and impact of violence in the couple relationships of gay men and he is involved in developing approaches to working with couples in which there is violence and abuse.
Elizabeth Palacios MD. is a Psychiatrist, Psychoanalyst, and Training analyst of the Madrid Psychoanalytic (APM) and International Psychoanalytic Associations. She is Chair of the Couple and Family Committee (COFAP) of the International Psychoanalytic Association and co-editor of books on couple and family psychoanalysis: with D. Scharff, on global perspectives, and with T. Keogh on interpretation. She founded the Aragon Society for Psychic Research in Children and Adolescents and is Coordinator of the Madrid Psychoanalytic Association Couple and Family Working Group. She was the winner of the IPA’S Second Community award on Covid Community projects for the leadership of this project in APM.Schedule of Presentations
coming soon
Educational Objectives
Friday November 11, 2022
How does couple psychotherapy allow for and respond to the individual?
- Identify two elements of couple dynamics that represent individual projection
- Develop two intervention strategies for dealing with individual projection in couple therapy.
GAM Group
- Explain three elements of family life that have featured in the development of their individual patients.
- Describe two innovative ways of introducing family and couple-based interpretations into their individual work.
Three Couples: A Workshop on Projection into Technology
- Discuss two effects of immigration in one member of a couple in two generations
- Apply three principles of couple teleanalysis to teletherapy with a multicultural couple.
GAM Group
- Explain three elements of family life that have featured in the development of their individual patients.
- Describe two innovative ways of introducing family and couple-based interpretations into their individual work.
Saturday November 12, 2022
Aggression in the Family
- Describe two basic forms of developmental aggression.
- Give three examples of how families can contribute to exacerbation or mitigation of aggressive problems in childhood.
GAM Group
- Explain three elements of family life that have featured in the development of their individual patients.
- Describe two innovative ways of introducing family and couple-based interpretations into their individual work.
The importance of family work when working with children and adolescents
- Identify three ways that parents employ ideas about their children to realize their own unconscious wishes
- Describe two strategies for helping parents and children own their unconscious projections and enhance their individual self-images.
GAM Group:
- Explain three elements of family life that have featured in the development of their individual patients.
- Describe two innovative ways of introducing family and couple-based interpretations into their individual work.
Plenary
- Describe 3 difficulties in presenting and absorbing concepts about families that have been presented throughout the conference
- Describe two aspects of the participant’s own learning process and how this resonates with the institutional issues about learning about the influence of family and couple life on each individual.
Sunday November 13, 2022
Screaming To Be Seen: 5-year-old Cassandra and Her Family
- Participants will articulate 3 reasons to include parents and family in child treatment, supporting the importance of combined individual and family work.
- Drawing from the case presentation, participants will identify 2 countertransference responses to the child or her parents.
GAM Group
- Explain three elements of family life that have featured in the development of their individual patients.
- Describe two innovative ways of introducing family and couple-based interpretations into their individual work.
Closing Dialogue:
- Explain three elements of family life that have featured in the development of their individual patients.
- Describe two innovative ways of introducing family and couple-based interpretations into their individual work.
Registration
Registration options:
- Full Conference
- $497 up to 21 days in advance; $517 thereafter
- *Full members: $359
- *Associate members: $410
- Full time students: $150
- Saturday One Day (morning and afternoon): $150
- Saturday Morning only: $45
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Tuition and Fees
See costs above
Limited scholarship funds are available for this training: https://theipi.org/scholarships/
Continuing Education Credit Hours
Weekend Conference:
14.5 CE/CME credits
Saturday One Day:
6 CE/CME credits
Saturday Morning only:
2.5 CE/CME credits
Program Chair
David E. Scharff, MD and Carla Trusty-Smith, PhD, LMHC, CAC
David E. Scharff, MD is Co-Founder and Former Director, International Psychotherapy Institute; Chair, The International Psychoanalytic Association’s Committee on Family and Couple Psychoanalysis; Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences and Georgetown University; Supervising Analyst, International Institute for Psychoanalytic Training; Honorary Fellow, Tavistock Relationships, London; Former President, American Association of Sex Educators, Counselors and Therapists, and former Vice-President, International Association for Couple and Family Psychoanalysis. He is editor of the journal Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy in China, and Director of the Training Programs in Analytic Couple and Family Therapy in Beijing and Moscow. He is a Child and Adult Analyst in Private Practice with children, adults, couples and families in Chevy Chase, Maryland.
Dr. Scharff has been author and editor of more than 30 books, with foundational texts on family, couple and individual psychoanalytic therapy, the work of Ronald Fairbairn and of Enrique Pichon Riviѐre, sexual difficulty, and innovative training of psychotherapists and psychoanalysts. He has organized more than 100 conferences in the United States and abroad, and taught internationally on five continents including 30 countries. His recent initiatives involve organizing training programs in China and Russia. To this end he is founder of a journal devoted to the newly emergent field of psychoanalysis in China, called “Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy in China.” As Chair of the Couple and Family Psychoanalysis Committee of the International Psychoanalytic Association, he has, together with members of the group, organized meetings of the committee and international congresses that further the study of family and couple psychoanalysis around the world.
His book “The Sexual Relationship” in 1982 has been followed by more than 30 books and 90 articles including the classics “Object Relations Family Therapy” and “Object Relations Couple Therapy”, both with Jill Savege Scharff. Recent publications have included “Psychoanalytic Couple Therapy” edited with Jill Scharff; “Fairbairn and the Object Relations Tradition,” edited with Graham Clarke; “Psychoanalysis in China,” edited with Sverre Varvin; and “The Interpersonal Unconscious,” written with Jill Scharff; “The Linked Self in Psychoanalysis: The Pioneering Work of Enrique Pichon Riviѐre: Pioneer of the Link” edited with Roberto Losso and Lea Setton; and “Family and Couple Psychoanalysis: A Global Perspective”, edited with Elizabeth Palacios. His most recent books are “The Use of the Self in Psychoanalysis,” (2019) and “Marriage and Family in Modern China: A Psychoanalytic Exploration” (Routledge, 2021).
Carla Trusty-Smith, PhD, LMHC, CAC is Chair of the Couple, Child and Family Program, on the faculty at the International Psychotherapy Institute (IPI). She teaches in various IPI programs, including seminars in Beijing and Moscow. She currently serves on the IPI Steering Committee, Faculty Development Committee and Colleague Assistance Committee. She also serves as local faculty in Indianapolis, IN where she has been in full-time private practice for over 25 years seeing individuals and Couples; as well as providing training and supervision for couple therapists and couple retreats. Carla is a member of the Editorial Advisory Board for the Couple and Family Psychoanalysis Journal.
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Continuing Education Information
This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint provider ship of American Psychoanalytic Association and the International Psychotherapy Institute. The American Psychoanalytic Association is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
The American Psychoanalytic Association designates this Live Activity for a maximum of 14.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
IMPORTANT DISCLOSURE INFORMATION FOR ALL LEARNERS: None of the planners and presenters for this educational activity have relevant financial relationship(s)* to disclose with ineligible companies* whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.
*Financial relationships are relevant if the educational content an individual can control is related to the business lines or products of the ineligible company. -Updated July 2021-
The International Psychotherapy Institute, IPI, is approved by The American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. IPI maintains responsibility for the program and its content. The International Psychotherapy Institute has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 6017. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. The International Psychotherapy Institute is responsible for all aspects of the programs. The International Psychotherapy Institute is an approved sponsor of the Maryland Board of Social Work Examiners for continuing education credits for licensed social workers in Maryland. The International Psychotherapy Institute is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0299.
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