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The Metropolitan Institute for Training in
Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy,
The Metropolitan Center for Mental Health and
The Metropolitan Society of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapists
Invite you to a Scientific Meeting

ON LOOKING AND BEING LOOKED AT:
THE ANALYST AS RELUCTANT SPECTATOR

Friday, February 3, 2012 at 8:00 P.M.

Presenter: Janice S. Lieberman, Ph.D.

In my treatment of patients obsessed with the way they look and the way others look I have come to believe that they make use of the analyst as a "spectator" (often a reluctant one). I attempt to link the development of language and thought, from concreteness to symbolization and metaphor, to thoughts about the body and body narcissism. The concerns and the language these patients use is concrete, language that stems from that time in their development in which the integration of body narcissism was an important task. There is an historic link between the development of language and that of body narcissism.

The analyst’s focus on the body enables these patients to supplement its insufficient cathexis. Statements that indicate to them quite concretely the analyst's awareness of small bodily changes, or changes in clothing, that is, of what is on the surface, rather than within the psyche, should be made. The analyst should address what is seen, rather than what is heard. Seemingly mundane statements have a mutative influence. The analyst must stay linguistically attuned, using the concrete language used by the patient, rather than “rush to metaphor.”

JaniceS. Lieberman, Ph.D. is a Training and Supervising Analyst and Faculty member at The Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research. Dr. Lieberman is on the Editorial Board of The Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association. She is a member of IPA (Consultant to the Public Information Committee); APsaA; Psychoanalytic Association of New York: Contributing Book Editor, PANY Bulletin; Docent: The Whitney Museum of American Art. Dr. Lieberman is the author of Body Talk: Looking and Being Looked at in Psychotherapy (Jason Aronson, Inc., 2000) and co-author of The Many Faces of Deceit: Omissions, Lies and Disguise in Psychotherapy (Jason Aronson, Inc., 1996). She has written numerous articles and book reviews on gender issues, body image, deception, perversion, greed, art and psychoanalysis.

No registration or fee required. Refreshments served following the presentation.

Meeting Will Be Held At:
The Karen Horney Psychoanalytic Institute andCenter
329 East 62nd Street (1st & 2nd Avenues)
1st Floor Auditorium, New York, NY 10021



Program Committee: Alexandra Cattaruzza, MS, LP, Co-Chair * Rosemarie Verderame, LMSW, Co-Chair Debra Gill, LCSW * Joyce A. Lerner, LCSW * Thomas McCoy, M. Div., LCSW *
Barbara Reichenthal, LCSW, BCD * Ivy Vale, BFA *

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OPEN HOUSE LUNCHEON & CLINICAL PRESENTATION
FOR THOSE CONSIDERING POSTGRADUATE TRAINING

THE HELP-REJECTING PATIENT

Wednesday, April 11, 2012
1:00 PM – 2:30 PM

Often therapists find themselves stymied by their patients’ denial of the conflict between the need for help vs. need to reject it. This case represents a dramatic version of a conflict that is present to one degree or other--or at one time or other in most treatments. The presentation will focus on the transference/counter transference dynamics of work with a 27year old professional who is deeply involved in treatment. While intellectually grasping her problems, she shows a subtle but strong pull to avoid what she feels could be overwhelming emotions: guilt, self-criticism, issues of disappointment in herself and others, as well as feelings of loss. Despite considerable improvement in her understanding of herself, her troubled  marriage, what is behind the need to avoid looking at disturbing issues within herself, she simultaneously struggles with a powerful underlying wish to getaway from treatment-and from her therapist. This may take the form of coming as much as 20 minutes late or missing sessions entirely. At other times it may take a more overt form in her expression of her need/wish to leave altogether. The nature of her anxiety of her attachment to her therapist and her attempts to understand the nature of her anxiety and fear of being intruded upon will be considered. Additionally, the therapist will discuss how she utilizes her own countertransference reactions to help interpret the patient’s need to devalue the treatment, especially the more the patient feels a need for help.

PRESENTER: Ann Rudovsky, L.C.S.W. Certificate in Psychoanalysis, New York Freudian Society. Advanced Candidate in Child and Adolescent Analysis: New York University Psychoanalytic Institute, New York University Medical School.  Faculty and Supervisor: Metropolitan Institute for Training in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, Adult and Child and Adolescent Programs. Training and Supervising Analyst, Faculty, Board Member: New York Freudian Society. Member: International Psychoanalytical Association.

LOCATION: 160 West 86thStreet (outside entrance, between Amsterdam& Columbus Avenues)

RSVP: Space is limited. There is no fee but you must reserve in advance. For reservations: please contact Ivy Vale, Registrar, at (212) 496-2858 or email mitppnyc@aol.com.

Training opportunities, including flexible scheduling and financial options to fit individual needs, will be described following thepresentation.

Refreshments will be served

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THE  METROPOLITAN CENTER FOR MENTAL HEALTH
and
THE METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE
FOR TRAINING IN PSYCHOANALYTIC PSYCHOTHERAPY


TREATING THE CHILD WHO LEARNS DIFFERENTLY

Saturday, April 14, 2012

Presenter: Rena Matison Greenblatt, Ph.D.

Children who learn differently present several challenges for the treating therapist. In this workshop, Dr. Greenblatt will teach the ways to recognize whether a patient may have a learning disorder, and if so, how psychological testing may be useful for the patient and family as well as for the treatment. She will discuss how to read a report and understand what it says. She will discuss how the learning challenges may manifest themselves in treatment. Another focus will be how the therapist may help a child with a learning disability and the challenges children may face in school, with family and with peers. Dr. Greenblatt will show in what ways working with a child with a learning disability may be similar to a standard child psychotherapy and in what ways it may be different. She will describe how she works with such patients, what resistances tend to manifest themselves most commonly and what real limitations these children may face, all of which impact upon the treatment. Also highlighted will be the transference and countertransference manifestations that come up in such work and the self-esteem issues that are so common. Finally, there will be an emphasis on how to help the child and  family so they may work together to focus on the child’s strengths and successes.

Rena Matison Greenblatt, Ph.D. Faculty: Metropolitan Institute for Training in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, Adult and Child and Adolescent Programs; Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, Adult and Child Programs. Supervisor: Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, Child Program.  Adjunct Associate Professor: New York University School of Social Work. Member: Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, International Psychoanalytical Association, American Psychological Association.

TIME: 10:00AM - 1:00 PM, Breakfast at 9:30 AM
LOCATION: The Metropolitan Center for Mental Health
1090 St. Nicholas Avenue (located on West 165th Street
between St. Nicholas and Amsterdam Avenues, downstairs
level next to Church Santa Rosa de Lima)
FEE: $50includes breakfast (no fee to MCMH staff)
$30Student Fee (includes breakfast), with proof of student status
On site registration: $60 or $40 (students with proof of student status)
No fee to MCMH Staff members.

REGISTRATION DEADLINE IS APRIL 12, 2012.

SPACE FOR THE WORKSHOP IS LIMITED. REGISTRATION IS ACCEPTED
ON A FIRST-COME FIRST-SERVED BASIS.




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Return to: Joyce A. Lerner, L.C.S.W., Director, MITPP
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(212)496-2858 mitppnyc@aol.com

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The Metropolitan Institute for Training in
Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy,
The Metropolitan Society of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapists
The Metropolitan Center for Mental Health and
Invite you to a Scientific Meeting


Friday, April 20, 2012
at 8:00 P.M.


NEGATIVE TRANSFERENCE IN THE
ANALYSIS OF A TRAUMATIZED GIRL

Presenter: David Pollens, Ph.D.


This presentation recounts the clinical process of a four-year-long analytic treatment of a traumatized school-age girl. The description of the clinical process focuses on the vicissitudes of the transference and the salience of negative transference in the treatment. Various meanings and the defensive and therapeutic roles of the negative transference in the treatment are discussed, along with the way it was handled clinically and the intermittent emergence of positive transference feelings. Special note is made of the successful alleviation of many of the child’s difficulties in a treatment in which a negative transference predominated.

David Pollens, Ph.D., is on the faculty of the Adult and Child and Adolescent Analytic Training Programs of The New York Psychoanalytic Institute, where he is also Assistant Director of the Treatment Center. He has provided plenary presentations at two annual meetings of The Association for Child Psychoanalysis. Before becoming a psychoanalyst, Dr. Pollens ran a therapeutic nursery for emotionally disturbed preschool-aged children at The University of Medicine and Dentistry in Newark, NJ for over a decade.

No registration or fee required. Refreshments served following the presentation.

Meeting Will Be Held At:
The Karen Horney Psychoanalytic Institute and Center
329 East 62ndStreet (1st & 2nd Avenues)
1st Floor Auditorium, New York, NY 10021



Program Committee: Alexandra Cattaruzza, MS, LP, Co-Chair * Rosemarie Verderame, LMSW, Co-Chair *Debra Gill, LCSW * Joyce A. Lerner, LCSW *
Thomas McCoy, M. Div., LCSW* Barbara Reichenthal, LCSW, BCD * Ivy Vale, BFA