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IPI Metro Director, Kate Scharff with Prospective Students
Contemporary Dynamic Psychotherapy Program (CDPP)
Course Chair: Bonnie Eisenberg, Ph.D.
Course description:
This course has been designed for new practitioners or those new to psychodynamic thinking, and includes didactic, supervisory, and clinical components. On Thursday evenings, students will attend one-hour group supervision, followed by a two-hour class. In addition, students will be required to see two patients (at a frequency of 1 time per week) in the IPI Metro Psychotherapy Center, and to attend one hour per week of individual supervision with an IPI Metro faculty member. Individual supervision will be conducted in the supervisor’s office or on the telephone. Whenever possible, treatment cases and supervisory assignments will be made with consideration to each student’s geographical and scheduling concerns and clinical interests.
Learning objectives:
Participants will gain an introductory knowledge of:
• The psychodynamic attitude
• Psychodynamic assessment
- Holding and containment
- Defense and Resistance
- Interpretive techniques
• Psychodynamic therapeutic process
• The clinical frame
• The characteristics of the beginning, middle, and termination phases of treatment
Group Supervision & Classes:
Thursday evenings, September–May. Group supervision from 5:45–6:45 pm. Didactic and clinical classes from 7:00–9:00 pm. (See IPI Metro Schedule 2008-2009)
Individual Supervision:
1 hour per week, to be scheduled for mutual convenience by each supervisor/supervisee.
Supervised Clinical Work:
1-2 hours per week in the IPI Psychotherapy Center
Cost:
$1,450 per year or $150 per month (includes individual and group supervision and Associate Membership in IPI (see “Membership”)
Continuing Education:
90 hours per year
Individual Supervision:
30 hours per year
Location:
Offices of IPI Metro
Faculty:
Bonnie Eisenberg, PhD
Rachel Kaplan, MSW
Mona Mendelson, MSW
Patrizia Pallaro, LMFT
Jane Prelinger, MSW
Kate Scharff, MSW
Guest Lecturers:
Sheila Hill, MSW
Chris Paranicas, MSW
Judith Rovner, MSW
David Scharff, MD
Jill Scharff, MD
Michael Stadter,
PhD
For More Information:
Please call at 301-951-3782 , or email your questions to: info@thecrt.com
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Clinical Seminar Program (CSP)
Course Chair, Sheila Hill, MSW
Course Description:
This program offers both beginning and experienced clinicians the opportunity for in-depth study of the central concepts of Object Relations Theory. The focus of our studies will be on the notion of containment and this concept will be directly applied to our clinical work through discussion of cases. The program consists of a series of nine seminars (held on Saturday morning per month for nine months). In Part I of each seminar (1.5 hours), participants will read together and discuss selected papers by Bick, Bion, Ferro, Klein, Meltzer, Odgen, Spillius, and Symington. In Part II (1.5 hours), participants will take turns presenting their clinical work for group discussion through the lens of the concepts studied.
Learning Objectives:
Participants will:
• Develop an increased capacity for close reading of theoretical writings
• Develop and enhance their understanding of containment as central concept of Object Relations Theory
• Enhance their capacity to formulate and present their clinical work
• Be able to integrate their understanding of theoretical material into their clinical work
Seminars:
One Saturday per month, September–May, 9:00 am–12:15 pm
Dates:
September 20
October 25
November 15
December 20
January 17
February 21
March 21
April 18
May 16
Cost:
$730 per year, or $70 per month. Includes Associate Membership in IPI (see “Membership”)
Continuing Education:
27 hours
Location:
Offices of IPI Metro
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Sex and Sexuality in Contemporary Psychotherapy
Course Director, Kate Scharff, MSW
Course Coordinator, Mona Mendelson, MSW
Course Description:
Issues of sex and sexuality are ubiquitous in life and in psychotherapy. Nevertheless, most mental health training programs do not give sex the attention it deserves. Many seasoned clinicians still feel awkward or untrained in dealing with sex and sexual themes in practice, creating a safe psychological space for sexual ideas to emerge, or in helping clients with sexual problems. In recognition of the need to re-open and update our examination of sex and sex therapy, IPI Metro is pleased to offer this rich and unique curriculum, taught by leaders in the field of human sexuality.
This course will meet one Saturday per month for nine months (September–May), from 9:00 am to 1:30 pm.
Learning Objectives:
Participants will:
• Develop an enhanced awareness of their own feelings and ideas about sexuality
• Gain an enhanced comfort in dealing with sex and sexuality in their clinical practices
Participants will gain an introductory knowledge of:
• Human sexual development through the lifespan (including childhood sexual trauma)
• How to take sexual history and formulate psychosexual assessment
• Therapist/client boundaries around the discussion of sexual issues
• The range of sex therapy interventions (and when to make a referral to a specialist)
• Male and Female Sexual Dysfunction
• Paraphilias and Sexual Compulsions
• A Medical View of Sexual Dysfunction (including the use of medications or collaborating with a medicating psychiatrist)
• Sexual issues in clinical work with gay, lesbian, bisexual, and heterosexual couples
• Diagnosing, understanding, and treating gender identity disorders
• Sex in monogamous and non-monogamous relationships (including fantasy, desire and affairs)
• The integration of psychodynamic and cognitive behavioral approaches in the treatment of sexual problems
• Sex and the physically disabled
• Learn the fundamentals of treating sexual offenders
•Learn the fundamentals of working with children who have been molested
COURSE SCHEDULE:
September 13: Mike Plaut, Ph.D.
Part I: Psychosexual Assessment
Part II: Review of Sex Therapy Interventions
October 4: Greg Lehne, Ph.D.
Development of Sexuality
November 8:
Mary Lindahl, Ph.D.: Part I: Clinical work with Sex Offenders
Lisa Hunt, Ph.D.: Part II: Clinical work with Children who have been molested
December 13: Barry McCarthy, Ph.D.
Male Sexual Dysfunction
January 10: Hani Miletski, Ph.D.
Female Sexual Dysfunction
February 21: Greg Lehne, Ph.D.
Paraphilias and Sexual Behavior Problems
March 21: Kate Thomas, Ph.D.
Part I: Gender Identity Disorders
Part II: A Medical View of Sexual Disorders
April 18: Suzanne Iasenza, Ph.D.
Sex Therapy with Gay, Lesbian, Bi-Sexual, Transgendered, and Straight Clients
May 2: David Scharff, M.D.
A Psychoanalytic View of Sexual Development Through the Lifespan
Course Faculty:
Suzanne Iasenza, Ph. D.
Dr. Iasenza, a clinical psychologist, is Adjunct Professor of Counseling at John Jay College, City University of New York, and a faculty member at the Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. She maintains a private practice of psychotherapy and sex therapy in New York City. Dr. Iasenza has co-edited two books: Lesbians and Psychoanalysis: Revolutions in Theory and Practice (2000), and Lesbians, Feminism, and Psychoanalysis: The Second Wave (2004).
Gregory Lehne, Ph. D.
Dr. Lehne, a medical psychologist, is Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Johns Hopkins University of Science School of Medicine.
Barry McCarthy, Ph. D.
Dr. McCarthy is a professor of psychology at American University and practices individual, couple, and sex therapy at the Washington Psychological Center. He is co-author of 9 books, including Rekindling Desire (2003), Coping with Premature Ejaculation (2003), Getting It Right the First Time (2004), and Coping with Erectile Dysfunction (2004).
Hani Miletski, M.S.W., Ph. D.
Dr. Miletski is an AASECT Certified Sex Therapist (Diplomate) and Supervisor in private practice in Bethesda, Maryland. Dr. Miletski trains professionals in the field of human sexuality, and has lectured nationally and internationally. She is the author of several professional articles, book chapters, and two books: Mother-Son Incest; The Unthinkable Broken Taboo and Understanding Bestiality and Zoophilia.
Michael Plaut, Ph. D.
Dr. Plaut is Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Assistant Dean for Student Affairs at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. He has served as course director for the school's required course in Intimate Human Behavior for the last 16 years. A licensed psychologist, he is certified as both a sex therapist and sex educator, and maintains a practice through the Department of Psychiatry. He is a past president of the Society for Sex Therapy and Research (SSTAR), and has served as editor of the Journal of Sex Education and Therapy. In 2004, he published Fast Facts: Sexual Dysfunction, co-authored with a gynecologist and a urologist.
David Scharff, M.D.
Dr. Scharff is Co-Director of the International Psychotherapy Institute (IPI). In addition to maintaining a private practice of psychotherapy (including sex therapy) and psychoanalysis, he is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences and at Georgetown University, a Teaching Analyst at the Washington Psychoanalytic Institute, a former President of The American Association of Sex Educators, Counselors, and Therapists (AASECT), and on the editorial boards of several journals. Dr. Scharff is the author, editor, or co-editor of over 25 books, including The Sexual Relationship: An Object Relations Approach to Sex and the Family (1982), and (with Jill S. Scharff, M.D.) Object Relations Couple Therapy (1991), Object Relations Therapy of Physical and Sexual Trauma (1994), and Treating Relationships (2005).
Kathryn Thomas, Ph. D.
Dr. Thomas has worked in the area of sexuality/gender for 20 years. She holds faculty positions at several area colleges and universities including Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, and has lectured extensively nationally and internationally on related topics. She maintains a private psychotherapy practice devoted to patients with sexual and gender concerns, and has contributed several articles and book chapters on the subject.
Mary Lindahl, Ph.D.
Mary Lindahl,Ph. D. is a psychologist and Chair of the Department of Forensic Psychology at Marymount University. She maintains a private practice of psychotherapy and supervision, with a specialty in child and adult trauma, child abuse, and forensic medicine. Dr. Lindahl has served as an expert witness in matters related to posttraumatic stress, child psychology, child trauma, and child abuse and neglect.
Lisa Hunt, Ph.D.
Cost:
Entire Series: $1,450 (or $161/month) Includes Associate Membership in IPI (see “Membership”)
Individual Sessions: Participants may opt to register for one or more individual session at a cost of $200 per four hour session (please indicate which sessions you wish to attend on your registration form).
Continuing Education:
36 hours (or 4 hours per individual session). This course has been approved for 36 continuing education hours by the American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors, and Therapists (AASECT)
Location:
Offices of IPI Metro
For More Information:
Please call the Course Director, Kate Scharff at 301-951-3776, or email your questions to: info@thecrt.com
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*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. IPI is recognized by the National Board of Certified Counselors to offer continuing education for counselors (provider #6017). IPI adheres to NBCC Continuing Education Guidelines. Application will be made to NASW to provide Continuing Education for social workers.
Chair: Rachel Kaplan, MSW
This seminar will utilize selected readings and case discussions to focus on early intervention and ongoing child therapy practice. The course is open to clinicians who work with children in any setting (including schools, parent guidance, and counseling settings) , but is particularly appropriate for less experienced therapists who wish to increase their effectiveness in play therapy and early intervention with parents and infants.
OBJECTIVES:
Participants will be able to:
• Assess child-based developmental and behavioral issues.
• Learn how the parent-child relationship influences how children cope with developmental tasks, including school, social settings, and extended family relationships.
• Understand a psychodynamic approach to child therapy and use of self when encountering the internal world of children.
• Examine how other therapists deal with a variety of treatment situations through case discussions.
• Develop an appreciation for transference and countertransference as central psychological factors in working effectively with children and parents.
FORMAT:
The class will meet monthly over 9 Saturdays. In each seminar participants will read together one article, each of which have been carefully chosen because they have been written transparently, and show therapists making mistakes, repairing, and learning. Participants will examine, in depth, cases with familiar presenting problems, and will consider work by therapists with many theoretical approaches. Each month, by turns, a seminar member will present for group discussion a single session from a difficult ongoing case.
TIME:
10am-1:15pm
DATES:
September 13
October 4
November 8
December 13
January 10
February 21
March 14
April 18
May 2
CONTINUING EDUCATION:
27 hours
COST:
$730/year or $70 per month (includes associate membership in IPI)
Location:
Offices of IPI Metro
For More Information:
Please call at 301-951-3782, or email your questions to: info@thecrt.com
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Master Speaker Seminar Series
David E. Scharff, Chair
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
Beginning in September, the 2008-2009 Master Speaker monthly videoconference seminar will link Washington, DC, Salt Lake City, UT, Long Island, NY, and Omaha, NE with major contributors from the U.S. and abroad. Participants not located in these cities may elect to participate by telephone. The video conference seminars are each two hours, one Friday a month from 9:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. Eastern Time. Guest speakers have included Otto Kernberg, Christopher Bollas, Alvaro Rey de Castro, Theodore Jacobs, Steven Ellman, Paul Williams and many others. The 2008-2009 speakers will begin with Nancy McWilliams on September 26, 2008. Other speakers to be announced.
Look for more information in our Fall 2008 brochure or on the IPI website: www.theipi.org .
DATES:
September 26,
October 24,
November 14,
December 5,
January 16,
February 13,
March 20,
April 17,
May 8.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
Participants will:
• Learn about, or enhance their understanding of, the essentials tenets of Object Relations Theory and Therapy
•Learn the latest developments in the field of Object Relations Theory and Therapy
• Be able to apply the above concepts in their clinical work
• Gain an enhanced capacity to present their clinical work
SEMINARS:
One Friday per month, September–May, 9:00 am – 1:15 pm
COST:
$1,450, or $161/month, includes Associate
Membership
Full time graduate students: $370 per year,
includes Associate Membership in IPI
(see “Membership”)
Note: This series is offered free-of-charge to enrollees in any of the above programs. For more information contact our offices.
CONTINUING EDUCATION:
31 hours
LOCATION:
Offices of IPI, 6612 Kennedy Drive, Chevy Chase, MD 20815
REGISTER:
To register go to: www.theipi.org
Group Supervision, 2007