NYIPSP Extension Center for the Study of the Self
Spring 2012 Seminars

The Extension Center offers a stimulating series of workshops, seminars and courses for the advanced study of the self. It has two audiences:
- The professional who wishes to learn more about self psychology.
- The community at large who can benefit from an appreciation of self psychology in daily life.

Extending Kohut’s Legacy – Clinical and Theoretical Innovations

Crayton Rowe, MSW, BCD-P

Crayton Rowe is the author, Treating the Basic Self and co-author of Empathic Attunement: The “Technique” of Psychoanalytic Self Psychology with David MacIsaac, Ph.D. He is a contributor to Progress in Self Psychology and author of a number of psychoanalytic papers. He is founder of the American Association for Psychoanalysis in Clinical Social Work and founding and faculty member of The New York Institute for Psychoanalytic Self Psychology. He is a member of the National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis, the New York Freudian Society and the International Psychoanalytical Association.

This clinical seminar will offer all participants the opportunity of adding to their treatment approaches through an in depth consideration of Kohut’s concepts. A major focus will be on empathy, selfobject, and Rowe’s extension of selfobject, the undifferentiated selfobject.

The seminar will begin March 7, 2012 and continue through June 13, 2012 for a total of 15 sessions.

Participants will meet from 7:30 PM to 9:00 PM at the offices of the New York Institute for Psychoanalytic Self Psychology, 230 West End Avenue (Entrance on 70th Street and West End Avenue).

Learning Objectives

At the end of the seminar, participants will be able to:

Further the understanding of Kohut's concepts with a focus on his concept of selfobjects and selfobject transferences.
Demonstrate the use of Kohut's conceptualizations in the clinical situation with a focus on the therapist identifying and allowing emerging selfobject needs to develop as critical to the treatment.

This seminar is a curriculum course of the New York Institute for Psychoanalytic Self Psychology. NYIPSP is chartered by the University of the State of New York and registered by the New York State Education Department.

Continuing education credits offered: one credit for each hour of attendance.

Fee is $400.00
Please send checks to:
New York Institute for Psychoanalytic Self Psychology
230 West End Avenue Suite 1D
New York, NY 10023-3662

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