"Science and Psychoanalysis: After Freud"
Rebecca Coleman Curtis, Professor, Gordon F. Derner Institute of Advanced Psychological Studies
September 12, 2009
BookHampton
41 Main Street, East Hampton, New York
Her book, "Desire, Self, Mind and the Psychotherapies: Unifying Psychological Science and Psychoanalysis" will be available at a discounted price.
For more information, please contact Professor Rebecca Coleman Curtis at rcurtis.curtis@gmail.com
Expanding Your Clinical Practice:
Current Applications of Psychoanalytic Technique
Saturday, June 13, 2009
Ruth S. Harley University Center
Whether working with adults, children, adolescents, couples, groups, or in a school setting, today's practitioners benefit from a broad repertoire of clinical skills. Faculty from each of our postgraduate programs will offer 10 workshops that demonstrate the interface between psuchoanalutic techniwue and fine treatment modalities. These workshops will have practical applications and relevance to your professional work.
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Adelphi University Postgraduate Program in Marriage & Couple Therapy
Three Workshops Designed to Enhance Your Treatment of Couples
Sexual and Intimacy Problems In Couple Therapy
Carl Bagnini, LCSW, BCD
May 23, 2009
Intimacy fears and childhood trauma are often related and can result in sexual problems in marriage. This workshop utilizes an Object Relations approach to assessment and treatment of a variety of intimacy and sexual difficulties commonly encountered in couple therapy.
Where Do We Go From Here?
Clinical Choice Points: Why we conduct couples therapy the way we do.
Michael D. Zentman, Ph.D
June 6, 2009
Clinical choice points are moments when we decide to act or not act. In any session, as soon as we decide what to address we decide what to overlook. For every issue we place in the clinical foreground, others are consigned to the background. These choices shape a session and influence the course of treatment. This workshop, using a video taped couple session, offers participants an opportunity to examine and explore how this process unfolds.
Object Relations Theory: A Bridge Between the Intrapsychic and the Interpersonal
Carol Sussal, D.S.W.
June 20, 2009
Object Relations Theory can help therapists navigate between psychodynamic and systemic theories when treating individuals, couples and families. This workshop we will explore ORT concepts that can facilitate a clinician’s work on a couple’s presenting problem and each individual’s unfinished issues from the past. We will also examine how decisions are made about where to target our clinical interventions: the individual, the couple or the family.
Adelphi University Derner Institute's Colloquium Series of Spring 2009
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Lindemann Lecture and C.O.A.C.H. Roundtable
Jerome C. Wakefield, D.S.W., Ph.D.
"The Loss of Sadness: Are We Misdiagnosing Normal Human Emotion as Clinical Depression?"
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Ruth S. Harley University Center, Thomas Dixon Lovely Ballroom
Remarks by special guests Dr. Morris Eagle and Dr. Melba Vasquez
Professor of Social Work, Professor of the Conceptual Foundations of Psychiatry, and Affiliate Faculty of Bioethics at New York University, Dr. Wakefield is also Lecturer in Psychiatry at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and has previously held faculty positions at the University of Chicago, Columbia University, and Rutgers University. He holds two doctorates, one in social work and one in philosophy as well as a masters degree in mathematics, all from the University of California at Berkeley. He is the author of more than 150 publications on the conceptual foundations of the mental health professions, appearing in journals in psychiatry, psychology, psychoanalysis, and social work. With Alan Hurwitz, he co-authored The Loss of Sadness: How Psychiatry Transformed Normal Human Sorrow into Depressive Disorder (Oxford, 2007). The book was named best psychology book of 2007 by the American Association of Professional and Scholarly Publishers.
Expanding Your Clinical Practice: Current Applications of Psychoanalytic Technique
Saturday, November 1, 2008
Adelphi University, Manhattan Center
Whether working with adults, children, adolescents, couples, groups, or in a school setting, today’s practitioners benefit from a broad repertoire of clinical skills. Faculty from each of our postgraduate programs will offer ten workshops that demonstrate the interface between psychoanalytic
technique and five treatment modalities. These workshops will have practical application and relevance to your professional work.
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Paul Eckman Ph.D.
Honorary Degree Recipient
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
University Center Ballroom, Adelphi Univiersity
Degree Conferral Ceremony and Short Address:
“Emotional Awareness: Overcoming Obstacles to Psychological Balance and Compassion”
Paul Ekman Ph.D. ’58, a pioneering psychologist in the field of emotion and its physical expression, will receive an honorary doctor of science degree from Adelphi University at a ceremony on Wednesday, September 24, 2008. Following the conferring of the degree, Dr. Ekman will deliver a short address, “Emotional Awareness: A Conversation Between the Dalai Lama and Paul Ekman.” during which he will talk about his recent meetings with the Dalai Lama, spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhists.
Public Lecture:
“A Career Trajectory to Alleviate Suffering: From Psychotherapy, to Research and Training”
In his evening lecture, Dr. Ekman will discuss how to understand emotion through facial expression using his ground-breaking Facial Action Coding System (FACS), a method of detecting emotion by the observation of facial muscle movements.
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Workshops, Conferences and Symposia
Workshops in Psychodynamic Child Psychotherapy
The Postdoctoral Program in Child, Adolescent, and Family Psychotherapy will sponsor a
series of two workshops in psychodynamic child psychotherapy.
The workshops will focus on the use of play, verbal communication, and the therapeutic
relationship, to enhance children’s awareness of their affective experience and inner world.
In each workshop, the instructor will review technical issues and the group will discuss
clinical material presented by the instructor and group members.
Dr. Robert Drago and Dr. Ionas Sapountzis, Faculty members and Supervisors in the Postgraduate
Program, will lead the workshops. Dr. Drago was codirector of the Child and Adolescent
Training Program at the Advanced Center for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy. Dr. Sapountzis
is a Professor of School Psychology at Long Island University. Both are graduates of the
Postdoctoral Program in Child, Adolescent, and Family Psychotherapy and of the Postdoctoral
Program in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy at the Derner Institute, Adelphi University.
The workshops are open to licensed and license-eligible mental health professionals,
graduates, and students of training programs for mental health professionals who work with
children and adolescents.
"Shut Up and Move" Working with Structured Board Games in Child Psychotherapy
Children in therapy grow out of dramatic play long before they develop the ability to talk about
their difficulties in life. At this stage, they are most comfortable playing board games—a modality
that makes many therapists feel untrained and uncomfortable. This workshop will focus on ways to
find meaning in the structured board game play of children in psychotherapy, and ways to use those
games therapeutically. Case examples will be used to demonstrate the latent meaning of structured
game play and to turn board games sessions into therapy sessions.
Jill Bellinson, Ph.D. is author of the book Children’s Use of Board Games in Psychotherapy. She
is a Faculty member and Supervisor in the Postgraduate Program in Child, Adolescent, and Family
Psychotherapy at the Derner Institute at Adelphi University and the William Alanson White Institute.
The workshops are open to licensed and license-eligible mental health professionals, graduates, and
students of training programs for mental health professionals who work with children and adolescents.
“STOP! WAIT! THINK!”
Helping Children with Challenges in Self-Regulation
Become More Successful in School
The focus of this workshop will be the classical challenge faced by clinicians who work
with children—how to help the child, his/her parents, teachers, and other school personnel
identify and treat problems in self-regulation.
Ron Balamuth, Ph.D., is a graduate of the NYU Postdoctoral Program
in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. He is a faculty member and a
supervisor at the William Alanson White Institute’s Program for Child
and Adolescent Psychotherapy. In addition, he is a faculty member at
the National Institute for the Psychotherapies. He is also an associate
adjunct professor at Teacher’s College, Columbia University, and is on
the faculty of the DIR/Floortime Institute in Washington, D.C., founded
by Dr. Stanley Greenspan, where he has been teaching and supervising
in the U.S. and abroad.
Dan Gensler, Ph.D., is a licensed clinical psychologist in private practice,
practicing psychotherapy and psychological testing in Manhattan and
Great Neck, New York, where he works with adults, families, couples,
adolescents, and children. He has worked in hospitals, schools,
corporate, and clinical settings, and has made many professional
presentations throughout his career. Currently, he is director of the
Child and Family Center at the William Alanson White Institute in
New York, supervising analyst and instructor at White, and supervisor
and instructor at Adelphi University. He is coauthor of Relational Child
Psychotherapy (Other Press, 2002), and has also published several
articles and chapters in professional literature.
Dr. Gensler received his doctorate degree in psychology from Ferkauf
Graduate School of Yeshiva University in 1980, and his certificate in
psychoanalysis from the William Alanson White Institute in 1987.
Reception Celebrating the George Stricker Fund for the Derner Institute of Advanced Psychological Studies
June 11, 2007
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Workshops, Conferences and Symposia
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Sibling Relationships: How They Influence Our Choices and Voices
A psychoanalytic film symposium held on Adelphi's Garden City campus
Clinicians have traditionally emphasized the importance of early parent-child interaction, with minimal importance placed on the effect siblings can have on each other. Family therapy has customarily applies a wider lens that encompassed the complex interactions of all family members but rarely recognized the unique nature of siblings as a distinct and powerful subgroup. This symposium will examine the impact of sibling relationships on couple relationships.
The School-Age Autism Spectrum Child: Fostering Relatedness and Emotional Growth by Integrating DIR/Floortime and Psychodynamic Approaches
Conference presented by Postgraduate Programs in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy
This conference is designed for clinical psychologists, school psychologists, educators, special educators, social workers, other professionals, and parents who seek new insights and skills that can be utilized with children who have Autistic Spectrum Disorders (ASD) including Pervasive Developmental Disorders (PDD) and Asperger’s Syndrome (AS).
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