Book Publication
Please come celebrate the publication of the two volume books: GHOSTS IN THE CONSULTING ROOM AND DEMONS IN THE CONSULTING ROOM
Editors: Adrienne Harris, Margery Kalk, AND Susan Klebanoff
AT THE SANDOR FERENCZI CENTER New School For Social Research
Thursday Oct. 6, 2016, 7-9pm.
Wollman Hall Eugene Lang Building
65 W. 11th Street, 5th floor.
With special guest Dr. Sam Gerson.
Wine and Cheese Reception. All welcome, admission free.
Contributors include: Galit Atlas, Daniel G. Butler, Muriel Dimen,Jack Drescher, Joshua Durban, Alexander Etkind, Heather Ferguson, Michael J. Feldman, Arthur Fox, Sam Gerson, Sue Grand, Janice Gump, Adrienne Harris, Margery Kalb, Gil Katz, Douglas Kirshner, Susan Klebanoff, Susan Kraemer & Zina Steinberg, Emily Kuriloff, Jade McGleughlin, Maria McVarish & Julie Leavitt, Michael S. Roth,Michael Sebek, and Don Troise
Register: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ghosts-and-demons-the-consulting-room-tickets-26741484500
Into the Mind of the Analyst: When the Personal Becomes Professional
An Afternoon with Steven Kuchuck, LCSW
Saturday, October 15, 2016
at ICP
10780 Santa Monica Blvd., Suite #350
Los Angeles, CA 90025
1:00pm – 5:00pm
*Live Online Video Streaming Available*
3.5 CEUs/CMEs will be provided for all in attendance and those live-streaming during the event
In this workshop, Steven Kuchuck explores the impact of the therapist’s life experience and psychological make-up on the treatment process. By expanding psychoanalytic study beyond theory and technique, Kuchuck focuses on ways in which experiences in the clinician’s childhood and adult life affect his or her clinical choices as well as the tenor of the therapist’s presence in the consulting room. Related to these themes, Kuchuck looks at the relationship among the clinician’s subjectivity, theoretical interests, and technique, exploring areas of overlap and differentiation between two phenomena that are often confused: self-disclosure and the larger issue of the therapist’s subjectivity.
Expressive Therapies Summit, NYC, Nov 10-13 2016
24 CE Credits Available. NBCC, ASWP, APT, APA
REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN AT WWW.EXPRESSIVETHERAPIESSUMMIT.COM
Several IEA members will be presenting at the Expressive Therapies Summit this fall in NYC.
Alchemy and the Expressive Arts Therapies: A Multimodal Experiential Journey
Thursday, November 10
Description: Thousands of years ago humans knew that the inner and outer worlds are connected. The core text of alchemy, The Emerald Tablet, states: “That which is below is like to that which is above.” This is the same as the isomorphic principle! Jung rediscovered alchemy and applied its symbolism to dreams and art.
Using images, visualization, energy exercises, film, music, and art making, we will find out the basics of its history, identify the symbolism of the 7 basic stages, and discuss how this knowledge is useful in our work and lives. You will get a key to understanding alchemy’s complex and rich symbolism, and see how it identifies psychological process in art and dreams and its application to clinical work.
Claudia Bader, MPS, ATR-BC, NCPsyA, LCAT, LP teaches art diagnosis at Pratt, SVA, and The New School. A licensed psychoanalyst in practice since 1985, she graduated from the Institute for Expressive Analysis and served as director of education and as executive director. Claudia has written articles exploring psychoanalysis, astrology, alchemy, masks, and mandalas. She teaches Symbolism in Art Therapy at The New School, and Symbolization and Creativity, and Alchemy for IEA. Claudia is a MARI® Mandala teacher and practitioner.
Deep Clay: Getting the Inside Out
Friday November 11
Description: The beauty of clay is that it can take any form; the tactile experience of working with it in therapy can enhance and enrich the process of self-exploration and transformation. This daylong Master Class will explore this shape-shifting medium through an in-depth, hands-on approach. Coupled with journaling and peer discussion, participants will have the opportunity to experience the use of clay as a way to relieve stress, stimulate the imagination, and discover deep connections within. We’ll also explore the interrelationships of developmental levels of expression, play, resistance, diagnosis, psychotherapeutic interaction, and the limits and advantages of ceramic materials and techniques in the therapeutic context. The information and experiences offered will be applicable to clinical treatment with diverse populations.
Michelle Rhodes, ATR-BC, LCSW-R, NCPsyA completed graduate studies in Art Therapy/Expressive Therapy at Lesley University and in Social Work at Adelphi University. She completed Psychoanalytic training at The Institute for Expressive Analysis in NYC. Prior to becoming a therapist, and continuing into the present, she has been a potter and clay artist. Her clinical writing has been published in two books, Speaking About the Unspeakable and Deep Play, both edited by Dennis McCarthy and published by Jessica Kingsley. She is an editor of the Journal of the Association for the Healing Power of Imagination in which she has also published. She maintains a private practice in the Mid-Hudson Valley and in New York City.
Processing Dreams Using Photography, Sculpture & Expressive Techniques
Friday, November 11
Description: This 6-hour master class will provide participants with experiences in a variety of creative modalities that can then be used to process patients’ dreams within most any clinical setting. Photography, sculpture and expressive arts techniques will be illustrated, demonstrated, and/or engaged in to process participants’ own dreams in order to teach them how these techniques and processes can be used to facilitate the goals of their clients in a number of treatment settings.
Robert Irwin Wolf, MPS, ATR-BC, NCPsya, LP, LCAT trained in fine art and art therapy at Pratt Institute. He went on for psychoanalytic training at the Nat’l Psych Assn for Psychoanalysis, where he’s currently a training analyst and faculty member. Robert is art therapy faculty at The College of New Rochelle and Pratt Institute. He is president of the Institute for Expressive Analysis. Robert has written on many topics, including a chapter on the therapeutic uses of photography in play therapy in Integrating Expressive Arts and Play Therapy with Children and Adolescents.
Beyond Rorschach: The Interplay of Psycho-Aesthetic Assessment & Therapeutic Processing
Saturday, November 12
Description: Inextricably linked, diagnostic assessment and therapeutic processing ebb and flow during the course of treatment. This 3-hour workshop expands on the principles behind the classic Rorschach ink blot test, seeking to create a new, unique assessment that helps creative arts therapists and their clients push through the ebbs in treatment by accessing the nonverbal. Combining lecture, case histories, and experientials, the speaker will lead participants through the process of making ink blots in response to different interpersonal situations in order to capture fleeting moments in time. Participants will then analyze these handmade “snapshots,” looking at structural and expressive determinants (e.g., space, form, volume, color, and rhythm) individually and together in their unique combinations, their unique compositions. The end results of this process of analysis include drawing inferences regarding internal conflicts, approaches to particular situations, and personal communication styles. This process might not be medical model-oriented, but it honors—and goes to the core of—the creative arts therapies, accessing the unspoken and using the sensory-motor to create nonverbal compositions, “snapshots,” and “portraits” that access and express the ineffable and inexpressible.
Arthur Robbins, EdD, ATR, HLM is a licensed psychologist and certified psychoanalyst. He has been in the mental health field for over 50 years. Arthur is the founder of the Institute of Expressive Analysis, the co-founder of the Pratt Institute art therapy program, and is now professor emeritus of creative art therapy at Pratt. He is author of seven books, numerous articles and has given a variety of presentations, both as keynote speaker and workshop leader. See www.arthur-robbins.com.
Zen & Bion’s Clinical Practice, Personal Integration
Saturday, November 12
Description: Zazen (Zen meditation) functions as the core practice and foundational teaching of the Zen Buddhist tradition. Shared group practice in a supportive setting provides the opportunity to fine-tune and deepen personal insights, which can lead to further discourse in the integration of both traditions. This 6-hour Master Class integrates experiential and didactic learning and self-discovery opportunities through periods of silent meditation and discussion. Readings from the Soto Zen scriptural and koan literature and psychoanalytic readings drawn from the Bionic development and from the integrative literature on Zen and psychoanalysis serve to inform and structure our explorations with emphasis on the clinical relevance of these two highly experiential disciplines.
Seiso Paul C. Cooper, Sensei, LP Founding member, Director and Guiding Teacher: Two Rivers Zen Community, Honesdale, P.A. and the Zen & Psychoanalysis Realizational Practice Study Institute, N.Y.C.; Member: Soto Zen Buddhist Association & the American Zen Teacher’s Association; Head Priest: Lincoln Zen Center, Lincoln, NE; National Zen retreat master; Practicing psychoanalyst; former Dean of Training, senior member, faculty, clinical supervisor and training analyst: National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis; Faculty, clinical supervisor and training analyst: Institute for Expressive Analysis; Former Board of Directors and Chair of the Spirituality and the Psyche Committee for the International Forum for Psychoanalytic Education; Writer of numerous award-winning poems and articles. His books include: The Zen Impulse and the Psychoanalytic Encounter, Into the Mountain Stream: Psychotherapy and Buddhist Experience and Still Standing: Three Stones Haiku. Seiso maintains a private psychotherapy practice in Manhattan and in Honesdale, PA. and is available for individual and group Zen training on location or via internet.
Psychoanalytic Thought, Creative Process, and the Personal: Clinical Intersections
Saturday, November 12
Description: This 90-minute workshop combines case material, discussion, and art making in response to Freud’s classic 1908 article, “Creative Writers and Day-Dreamers.” In it, Freud presents the creative person as one whose abilities and dreaminess harken from the past, functions in the present, and affects our sense of future. From this vantage, participants will explore the intersections among psychoanalysis, the creative process, and the personal, especially as they pertain to Freud’s oft-cited article. Artwork will be made in response to the content of the article, which addresses the unconscious aspects of our daily “dream” life, thus making the connection between creativity and the unconscious more available to therapist and client for their work together. Participants are encouraged to bring pertinent personal and professional experiences for group discussion.
Mari Grande, MFA, MSW, NCPsyA, EMDR Therapist, LCSW-R, LCAT has a private practice in New York City. She has almost 20 years of experience working with individuals, couples, families, and trauma. Mari earned her master’s degree in social work from New York University, and a master’s in fine arts with a specialization in art therapy from Pratt Institute. Mari is a board certified registered art therapist and graduate of the Institute for Expressive Analysis (IEA), and a certified psychoanalyst. She is currently the director of admissions and faculty member of IEA.
Patanjali’s Sutras in Psychotherapy, Counseling & Psychoanalysis
Saturday, November 12
Description: Patanjali’s yoga sutras offer down-to-earth approaches to the problems of daily life. They are pertinent today in clinical diagnosis and treatment, as meditation has been shown to increase the efficacy of psychotherapy through mindfulness and focus. This 90-minute session offers a review of Patanjali’s sutras and demonstrates how clearing the mind, meditating, and redirecting the thoughts can alleviate anxiety, decrease depression, and lessen post-traumatic stress. Case study presentations will illustrate how to combine sutras and psychotherapy, how to integrate ideas from East and West. Specifically, participants will learn how to incorporate Patanjali’s sutras into a responsible psychotherapy treatment plan, what techniques to use, and when the sutras are contraindicated.
Lynn Anjali Somerstein, PhD, NCPsyA, LP, RYT is a psychoanalyst and a yoga therapist specializing in the treatment of anxiety, depression and PTSD.
Improving Family Attunement at Home and in Treatment through Expressive Therapy
Sunday, November 13
Description: This 90-minute paper session focuses on attunement within a family structure, following one child and his parents through several years of treatment. This case study lecture and discussion encompasses both individual and family work, highlighting the viewpoints of each family member as well as the dynamics of the family structure from the perspectives of the therapist and psychiatrist. The presenters will describe and show how expressive therapy in the individual work benefited both the child and his parents. As for the family work, the presenters will share the interventions used to increase attunement between mother and child and between mother and her partner and will detail how the family structure and the relationships between the clients and the therapist and psychiatrist changed as a result.
Kristin Long, RDT, BCT, LCAT, LP has a private practice in New York City. As a graduate of the Institute for Expressive Analysis in 2010, she currently serves as public relations chair. Kristin also teaches and supervises at the postgraduate institute. She has taught expressive therapy with children at New York University’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study. Kristin is working toward being certified in EMDR and has a specific interest in the transmission of intergenerational trauma.
Scott Palyo, MD, board-certified psychiatrist and medical director at Safe Horizon Counseling Center. He works at NYU Langone-Lutheran Medical Center and is an assistant professor in psychiatry and behavioral sciences at NY Medical College. Scott attended Emory Univ. and Univ. of Texas and completed his residencies at St. Vincent’s Hospital/NY Medical College. He serves as president of the NY Council on Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, AACAP early career psychiatrist rep to the national assembly, and executive board member to the AACAP.
The link below will take you to Tracy Morgan’s New Books In Psychoanalysis audio interview with Galit Atlas, IEA graduate and faculty member, and author of The Enigma of Desire, published by Routledge’s Relational Perspectives Book Series.
http://newbooksnetwork.com/galit-atlas-the-enigma-of-desir…/
In a discussion held October 2015 at The National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis, and moderated by Dr. Alan Roland, Dr. Arthur Robbins, Founding Director and Professor Robert Irwin Wolf, current President of The Institute for Expressive Analysis, discuss how their work as artists impact their work as psychoanalysts. The discussion explores their unique conceptualizations regarding the integration of creativity and psychoanalysis as well as focusing on the process of stone carving as providing a paradigm for deeper understanding of clinical phenomena. Please see the above link for a video about this workshop.
Dreaming in the Matrix: Social Dreaming Workshop, Accessing our Abundant Creativity
Karen Morris, LP, NCPsyA, Facilitator
Social dreaming is a method of non-interpretative listening to dreams within a “matrix” or group of participants. As participants’ dreams are recalled and shared, images are further amplified through associations within the matrix. This is done in a non-interactive manner. In this way the greater social context of inter-connection becomes evident as patterns of deeper meaning begin to take form. This method of dream-work in a social context is not reliant upon symbol systems, rather one’s own ability to reckon with what life is expressing as presented to us through our dreams. Listening to one another’s dreams in this way has many implications for artists and writers and those who want to enrich their lives through an exploration of unfathomable depths, the well of our deeper aliveness and creativity.
Social Dreaming has been practiced in many forms throughout history. While half the world is waking the other half is just drifting off to sleep, in continual rising and falling. We live in a world that is constructed through the projections of our thought processes and evacuation of emotions as worked on by our dreaming mind. This falls somewhere between our paradise fantasies and totalitarian nightmares. As we know, the resonance of one dream may be felt throughout the world. The attack on the World Trade Center on 9/11 first took the form of a dream shared by one of Bin Laden’s group, and later devised into a plan for the attack on the World Trade Center. This process is what I call the group dream in its most dynamic expression of destructiveness. People from all around the world report having had dream-like or wide-awake-dream experiences of terror the day before that attack. A dream-matrix may be imagined as “Indra’s Net” or “The Jewel Net of Indra,” a fundamental image from early Indian Buddhism, which provides a model for the teaching of inter-dependent co-arising, in which we see everything in the world reflected in everything else. Because of this, that arises…and so on and on. Nothing is left out. Participation in the social dreaming matrix is one way to discover the treasures that lay waiting to be discovered in the jewel net of dreams that is our life.
Karen Morris, LP, NCPsyA, is a psychoanalyst in private practice in New York City and Honesdale, PA. She is co-founder of Two Rivers Zen Center in Honesdale, where she also runs a social dreaming matrix and dream study group. She is the author of numerous professional articles and the recipient of the prestigious Gradiva Award (2010, NAAP) for her article on Abu-Ghraib through the lens of professional ethics and classical Persian and Sufi poetry. Her most recent book of poems CATACLYSM and Other Arrangements received the 2015 Gradiva Award for poetry. She is co-author with Mary Greene and Marcia Nehemiah of the chapter, “Dreaming in the Matrix,” from the proposed book, The Art of Sleep, ed. Daria Dorosh.
Social Dreaming Matrix Workshop Sat., February 6, 2016, 10:00 – 3:00
The Workshop will be held at: Beaverbrook Cottage, 1256 Crystal Lake Road, Narrowsburg, NY 12764
$50.00 includes a healthy lunch.
Please pre-register by Jan. 30. Space is limited. For more information contact Karen Morris: klmplex108@gmail.com or (212) 920-4831 or beaverbrookcottage@gmail.com or (845) 252-7506.
THIS EVENT IS SPONSORED BY THE UPPER DELAWARE WRITER”S COLLECTIVE
IEA graduate Karen Morris recently received her second Gradiva win! Karen is a former board member and faculty member. With IEA’s emphasis on creativity & psychoanalysis, which makes our institute unique, Karen clearly demonstrates this integration in the fact that she was awarded this year’s Gradiva for her poetry collection Cataclysm & Other Arrangements (2014, Three Stones Press). Congratulations, Karen! http://naap.org/website/awards
IEA congratulates our faculty member and graduate Steven Kuchuck for winning the Gradiva Award for Books/Edited. http://naap.org/website/awards
Congratulations to IEA member Mike Eigen for receiving NAAP’s Lifetime Achievement Award. Additional details about Mike’s recent work can be found in our weekly newsletter.
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Below from IEA faculty member Bonnie Allie:
I am opening a supervision/reading group with an emphasis on infant, child and adolescent development. Some of the literature we will be mining is from the Tavistock clinicians in England including Margaret Rustin, Pam Sorensen and Lisa Miller. Work with parents, couples and individuals in addition to children will be an integral part the group work. The group will meet Tuesday morning from 9-10:30. This time is subject to change based on the needs of the group. Please call Bonnie Allie at 914-649-5236 or e-mail bonnieallie60@gmail.com if you are interested.
Listen to Recorded Past Workshops
Panel Discussion: Preparing for the New York Psychoanalytic Licensing Exam
Panelists: Isolde Keilhofer, LP; Kristin Long, LCAT, LP; Tarz Palomba, JD, LP; Carter Thornton, LCAT, LP; Christian J Churchill, PhD, LP; Victoria Malkin, Phd, LP; Maggie M. Robbins, MPS, LP (thoughts relayed in absentia).
A presentation by panelists who have recently sat for New York’s psychoanalytic case narrative exam. Panelists describe their experiences, thoughts and recommendations related to the test and discuss preparation, ways of organizing information, aspects of testing criteria and logistical as well as environmental challenges in sitting for this challenging exam. The second half of the event is dedicated to questions, answers and audience participation. Presented Spring 2013.
Total Exertion: A Zen Perspective on Psychoanalysis & Creativity
Presenter: Paul Cooper, LP, NCPsyA
Discussant: Mark Finn, PhD
This talk by presenter Paul Cooper and discussant Mark Finn centers on the Zen concept of gujin (total exertion), elaborating on the profound implications that the notion of total exertion has for the psychoanalytic encounter and the psychotherapist’s capacity for maintaining an optimal attentional stance. It also explores anxiety-driven interferences to the psychoanalytic process, creativity and deepened Zen practice. Clinical vignettes, personal experiences, poetry and psychoanalytic theory all serve to demonstrate the more abstract aspects of the discussion. Introduction by Pilar Jennings. Presented as IEA’s Winter 2013 Scientific Meeting.
Kabbalah and Psychoanalysis Seminars
by Michael Eigen, PhD
These two Kabbalah and Psychoanalysis seminars were given following an invitation from the New York University Contemplative Studies Project. The subject was not something I thought of doing myself but once proposed, made sense.
Much of my work has links with Kabbalistic themes and this is deeply true of Bion’s work. Bion brought up the Kabbalah when we met and I’ve been thinking of some of his words ever since. He said, “I use the Kabbalah as a framework for psychoanalysis.” Themes in his work of faith and catastrophe and “transformations in O” have profound Kabbalistic resonance (O – unknown reality, emotional reality for psychoanalysis, Bion adds, unknowable infinite reality).
The two seminars, one given in fall, 2010, the other in spring, 2011, are deeply personal; a sharing from my depths to yours. I hope you find them worthwhile. They are flawed, but I hope the underlying spirit comes through. A third related seminar, sponsored by the Contemplative Studies Project, is scheduled for April 29, 2012, 10-1. You can contact Michael if interested:mikeigen@aol.com.
About Michael:
Michael Eigen, PhD, is the author of twenty books, including Feeling Matters, The Sensitive Self, Faith and Transformation, The Psychoanalytic Mystic, and Flames from the Unconscious: Trauma, Madness and Faith. He was the first DIrector of Educational Training and the Institute for Expressive Analysis. He currently teaches and supervises at the National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis and the New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis.
Yoga and Psychoanalysis
IEA’s Director, Lynn Somerstein, was interviewed by Serge Prengel for Somatic Perspectives. She discusses yoga and psychoanalysis. Listen to the interview here.
