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The Therapeutic Action of Psychodynamic Psychotherapy: Current Concepts of Cure

Co-sponsored by: Massachusetts Mental Health Center, Harvard Medical School, Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology, Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, Boston Institute for the Development of Infants and Parents (BIDIP) and Three Ripley Street.

Friday, April 9, 2010
Attachment, Development and Clinical Applications

Saturday, April 10, 2010
Relational and Contemporary Approaches

Date: Friday & Saturday, April 9 & 10, 2010
Time: 8:30 am - 5:00 pm both days
(Registration begins 7:45 am on Friday)
Program No: PP10
CE Credits: 12 CE/CME Credits
Tuition: Cost per Person:
Doctoral Level $350
Master's Level $325
Fellows, Interns, Students $175

Reduced Tuition
If attending BOTH this session AND the Pre-Conference session: Working with Borderline Personality Disorders Using a Mentalization-Based Approach
Doctoral Level $495 (save $50)
Master's Level $450 (save $50)
Fellows, Interns, Students $245 (save $25)
Instructor: Course Directors:
Lawrence Lifson, M.D.
Martha Stark, M.D.

Instructors:
Steven L. Ablon, MD
Judith Arons, LICSW
Joseph Cambray, PhD
Andrea Celenza, PhD
Jody Davies, PhD
George G. Fishman, MD
Jay Greenberg, PhD
James Herzog, MD
Frank Lachmann, PhD
Randall H. Paulsen, MD
Allan Pollack, MD
Carl Salzman, MD
Allan Schore, MD
Martha Stark, MD
Robert J. Waldinger, MD
Location: Fairmont Copley Plaza Hotel, Boston, MA
Description: This is the sixth extraordinary two-day conference that will feature many of the most prominent psychodynamic psychotherapists presenting their innovative and evolving ideas about the therapeutic action of psychotherapy. They will offer differing perspectives from attachment, development and clinical applications to relational and contemporary approaches. These approaches will widen the scope of applicability of psychodynamic psychotherapy. The overriding intent of this conference will be to deepen the understanding of the curative process with special attention to the contributions of both patient and therapist in the unfolding of the ‘cure’.

Friday, April 9, 2010
Attachment, Development and Clinical Applications
8:30 am Welcoming Remarks and Overview
Randall H. Paulsen, MD
8:45 am The Neurobiology of Attachment
Carl Salzman, MD
9:30 am Advances in Regulation Theory: An Interpersonal-Neurobiological Model of Psychotherapeutic Change
Allan Schore, PhD
10:15 am Break
10:45 am Play in Child and Adult Analysis
James Herzog, MD
11:30 am Panel Discussion–Faculty & Audience
12:15 pm Lunch (on your own)
1:45 pm Attachment, Development and Psychotherapy
Frank Lachmann, PhD
2:30 pm “Will You Still Need Me?: Attachment in Couples in Late Life”
Robert Waldinger, MD
3:15 pm Break
3:30 pm Spectrum Disorders and The Game of Life: Therapeutic Implications
Steven L. Ablon, MD
4:15 pm Panel Discussion–Faculty & Audience
5:00 pm Adjourn

Saturday, April 10, 2010
Relational and Contemporary Approaches
8:30 am Welcoming Remarks and Overview
Allan Pollack, MD
8:45 am Empathy, Skepticism, and the Analytic Attitude
Jay Greenberg, PhD
9:30 am Navigating Therapeutic Impasse: Does Developmental Theory Help?
George Fishman, MD and Judy Arons, LICSW
10:15 am Break
10:45 am Enigmatic Action: A Jungian View of the Therapeutic Field
Joseph Cambray, PhD
11:30 am Panel Discussion–Faculty & Audience
12:15 pm Lunch (on your own)
1:45 pm Multiplicity, Therapeutic Action and the Guilty Pleasure of Erotic Countertransferences
Andrea Celenza, PhD
2:30 pm From Enactment to Accountability: The Negotiation of Therapeutic Impasse
Martha Stark, MD
3:15 pm Break
3:30 pm Killing the Patient with Kindness: Explorations on the “Dark Side” of the Therapeutic Relationship
Jody Davies, PhD
4:15 pm Panel Discussion–Faculty & Audience
5:00 pm Adjourn
Objective: The educational objectives will be to:
  • elucidate the therapeutic action of psychodynamic psychotherapy
  • define the contributions of differing theories to therapeutic change, and
  • integrate current theories into clinical practice
Pre-Requisite: N/A
To Register: PDF Registration Form; How to Register

Updated 2/20/10