Most courses meet once a week for 15 weeks, at 90 minutes per session. In order to receive credit for a course, no more than three absences are permitted during a semester. In extenuating circumstances, the candidate may request from the instructor permission to do extra work as compensation for further absences.
501.0 An Experiential Workshop
This workshop will be an ongoing group meeting in which students of the Institute will have an opportunity to develop their empathic abilities. Various exercises will be employed to assist participants in attaining this goal. This workshop will meet at planned intervals over the course of training.
503.0 Seminar on Final Case Presentation
This seminar will focus on the written case for Final Case Presentation. Along with a review of the format for the written case, there will be particular focus on how to demonstrate the candidate's theoretical and clinical knowledge through the presentation of experience-near data that leads to the unfolding of the patient's resistances and transference.
504.1 Depression and Suicide: A Practicum
This seminar will focus on the theory of depression as it applies to clinical practice. Particular attention will be given to the different meanings of depression in the psychoanalytic literature and how they differ from the understanding of depression, from an empathic perspective, as an addiction. Substantiation of this postulation will be found in empirical research.
505.0 Seminar on Countertransference
This seminar will differentiate countertransference proper from contertransference reactions. Examples of countertransference as it relates to the various selfobject transferences such as undifferentiated, mirroring, idealizing, and twinship will be provided. Readings and clinical material will be assigned.
600.0 Seminar on Supervision
This seminar is offered to graduates of the various programs to prepare them to supervise as faculty supervisors in the Institute.Understanding Kohut’s Legacy:Tracing the Development of Self Psychology in His Original Works
David MacIsaac PhD, ABPP
Co-founder of NYIPSP and Director of the New Jersey Extension, Dr. MacIsaac has co-authored with Crayton Rowe, MSW, Empathic Attunement: The “Technique” of Psychoanalytic Self Psychology. He has also lectured, presented and published papers on numerous topics on self psychology. He has a private practice in psychoanalysis and psychotherapy in Englewood, NJ.
Through select readings of Heinz Kohut’s significant works, this seminar will examine his radical shift from the experience-distant, outside observer perspective to the experience-near empathic treatment stance that led to his discovery of the self and its development.
Tying theory closely to practice, the course’s curriculum will employ Kohut’s clinical case material to demonstrate his theoretical and clinical constructs such as selfobject, defense and resistance, the place of sex and aggression in development, and the curative process in treatment.
For those wishing to continue, a second half of this seminar will be offered in the fall for eight more sessions.*
The seminar will begin April 11, 2012 and continue through May 23, 2012
for a total of 7 sessions.
Participants will meet from 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM at the New Jersey offices of the New York Institute for Psychoanalytic Self Psychology,
163 Engle Street, Bldg 1A, Englewood, N.J..
Learning Objectives
At the end of the seminar, participants will be able to:- Explain the relevance of Kohut’s significant contributions to their clinical work.
- Distinguish clinically the traditional treatment perspective from the empathic stance.
- Define the meaning of the self object and how it differs from the object concept of traditional analysis.
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New York Institute for Psychoanalytic Self Psychology
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Joseph Walsh, MSW
Two Fox Hunt Lane
Cold Spring Harbor, NY 11724
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