Thursday, September 10, 2020
8:00 – 9:00 pm
Please join colleagues for virtual introductions to kick off the 2020-2021 academic year.
Tuesday, September 15, 2020
8:00 – 10:00 pm
This meeting is virtual. ZOOM invite will be emailed to all registrants on the day of the event.
Panelists: Drs. Leon Hoffman (moderator), Tracy A. Prout, Katie Aafjes-van Doorn, Vera Békés
Remote therapy has been used by analytic therapists for a long time. Many, however, have been reluctant to use it regularly due to concerns regarding the distortion of the analytic frame and relational dynamics. The COVID-19 pandemic forced therapists and analysts to switch suddenly to remote therapy from in-person sessions. The panelists will discuss among themselves and with the audience findings from surveys they have recently conducted with therapists and analysts. These concern the previous experience of analytic therapists with remote therapy; the multiple ways in which the clinicians prepared themselves and their patients for the transition; how competent clinicians feel in online as opposed to in-person sessions; the strength of the therapeutic relationship in view of the technical and relational challenges posed by online therapy sessions. Have experiences during the pandemic resulted in more positive views about online therapy, in general? Do most feel online therapy less effective than in-person sessions? Are many willing to continue using remote therapy even with improvement of the public health situation? These and other such questions will be the focus of this meeting.
2 Contact Hours. 2 CME/CE credits offered.
Leon Hoffman, M.D. (moderator) is certified in Adult, Adolescent, and Child Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis. He is Training and Supervising Analyst, Supervisor in Child and Adolescent Psychoanalysis, and Co-Director of the Pacella Research Center at the New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute; Faculty, Icahn School of Medicine, Mount Sinai; and Chief Psychiatrist/Psychoanalyst at West End Day School. Dr. Hoffman is senior author (along with Drs. Timothy Rice and Tracy Prout) of “Regulation-Focused Psychotherapy for Children with Externalizing Behaviors (RFP-C): A Psychodynamic Approach.” An RCT has recently been completed at Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology in New York, with Tracy Prout as PI (https://www.rfp-c.com). Among several papers from this work, findings from a pilot study were published in the American Journal of Psychotherapy in 2019.
Tracy A. Prout, Ph.D. is Associate Professor of Psychology at the Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology at Yeshiva University. She teaches psychodynamic psychotherapy in the School-Clinical Child Combined Doctoral Program, supervises advanced graduate students in the psychodynamic psychotherapy practicum, and leads the psychodynamic psychotherapy lab at Ferkauf. Dr. Prout earned a certificate in psychodynamic psychotherapy from the Institute for Psychoanalytic Education at NYU Medical Center. She currently serves as co-chair of the Fellowship Committee of the American Psychoanalytic Association and the Research Committee of Division 39.
Katie Aafjes-van Doorn, D.Clin.Psy. is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychology at the Clinical Psychology Program of the Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology, Yeshiva University, NY. She received an MSc in Clinical Psychology from the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, as well as an MSc in Psychological Research and a doctorate in Clinical Psychology from University of Oxford, UK. Over the years, she has worked clinically in different settings within the National Health Service, and most recently at a psychoanalytic community clinic in San Francisco. Dr. Aafjes-van Doorn completed a one-year postdoctoral research fellowship at the Derner Institute for Psychological Services, Adelphi University. Her research focuses on psychotherapy process in different modalities, therapist training, and the use of technology by therapists and researchers. She is currently associate editor of the journal Clinical Psychology: Science & Practice.
Vera Békés, Ph.D. is Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychology at Ferkuaf Graduate School of Psychology, Yeshiva University, NY. Her research focuses on trauma and PTSD and the psychotherapy process in various settings, including online interventions. She is especially interested in the role of the therapeutic relationship in symptom improvement. Dr. Békés is co-director of the Psychodynamic Track at Ferkauf Adult Clinical Doctoral Program where she teaches courses on psychodynamic psychotherapy, qualitative methods, and multicultural issues. She is also a fellow at the American Psychoanalytic Association this year.
Educational Objectives: Upon completion of this activity, participants should be able to:
Tuesday, April 14, 2020
8:00 – 10:00 pm
Presenter: John Tisdale, D.Min.
Peter Blos Sr. brought the developmental concept of an adolescent’s second individuation into the mainstream of psychoanalytic theorizing and discussion. He proposed this concept, among other things, as a 4th phase of psychosexual development propelling an adolescent toward the emergence of a more complex, rich, and, individualized identity as a sexually mature person. Blos Sr. emphasized the adolescent’s task involved revisiting their inherited identity first established as a pre-oedipal child in order to consolidate a new identity independent from the parents and embraced by the adolescent as his/her own. Typically, the primary focus of this concept has been on the vertical relationship between the parents and adolescent. In two decades of learning and practicing psychoanalysis, Dr. Tisdale has had what he has come to believe is a somewhat unique experience among practicing child and adolescent analysts — almost 70% of his analytic patients, and many more of the total number of his psychotherapy patients over the years, have had siblings with mental and/or medical conditions profoundly impacting their process of psychic individuation. Using close process vignettes from a three-time-a-week adolescent psychoanalysis, lasting three and one-half years, he will explore the influence of a sibling’s chronic medical condition on one adolescent’s psychic development, and specifically, the interference these circumstances posed to his subjective experience of owning for himself this developmental phase of emerging psychic second individuation.
2 CME/CE credits offered.
John Tisdale, D.Min. holds a B.A. from High Point University, a Master’s of Divinity degree from Duke University and a Doctorate of Ministry degree (D.Min.) in Pastoral Counseling from the Graduate Theological Foundation. He is an ordained United Methodist Minister and a child and adolescent psychoanalyst, graduating from the APsaA member, Psychoanalytic Center of the Carolinas. His first professional job was with the N.C. Juvenile Court. While at the N.C. Court, he took a leave of absence to attend the Harry Wendelstedt Umpire School. Although tempted to pursue a career in professional baseball, Dr. Tisdale answered a higher calling and entered Duke Divinity School; after graduation, he pastored a local congregation for 6 years in rural N.C. and worked on licensing to practice psychotherapy full-time. During his 25-plus year career in clinical practice, he has worked in a variety of settings, including hospitals, a denominationally-sponsored counseling center, a private group practice, and a school-based practice. The last six years he served as the Associate Executive and Clinical Director of the Lucy Daniels Center, a non-profit therapeutic organization serving the social and emotional needs of children age birth to 12 years of age and their families. In September, 2019 he opened a private practice with two offices in Cary and Durham, N.C. Dr. Tisdale most recently presented a case at the 2019 Annual Meeting of Association for Child Psychoanalysis in Miami entitled, “Salmon Falls, One Important Stop in a Latency Age Boy’s Quest to Find a Good Enough Defense!”
Educational Objectives: Upon completion of this activity, participants should be able to:
Panelists: Mark Homonoff, M.D., Sanders Markx, M.D., Lois Oppenheim, Ph.D. (moderator)
1 CME/CE credit offered.
Mark Homonoff, M.D. is a neurologist affiliated with Baylor University Medical Center and Mt. Sinai Hospital in New York. He received his medical education at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine which was followed by an internship in Internal Medicine at Philadelphia General Hospital and a Residency in Neurology at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center. Dr. Homonoff is a former health economist at Inter-American Development Bank in Washington, D.C.
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