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Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy

Featuring: Thomas Brod, MD

Jon Frederickson, MSW

Sunday, June 6 - Friday, June 11, 2010

Imagine you are studying with highly skilled Short Term Dynamic Therapy clinicians within a group of devoted students, surrounded by the mountains of the Shenandoah National Park.  You are able to study videotapes and discuss clinical issues all day long and party all night with your new-found friends.  Surrounded by nature, in the early evening you watch black bears amble down from the mountains to nibble cherries from the nearby orchard. You sit on the porch in front of your room gazing out over the mountain valleys watching the sunset.  This is not a fantasy.  It is the Summer School of the Washington School of Psychiatry Intensive Short Term Dynamic Psychotherapy Training Program.  The course is open to all mental health practitioners. Come join us for our annual intensive training week!

Building a Conscious Therapeutic Alliance Throughout the Spectrum of Superego Pathology

By Jon Frederickson, MSW

During this immersion we will focus on the interaction and mobilization of the conscious and unconscious therapeutic alliances within ISTDP.  Although we hope to establish a healing secure attachment in the form of a therapeutic alliance, the patient often unconsciously attempts to establish an insecure attachment in the form of a misalliance.  The patient does to himself, others, or the therapist what was done to him by his caretakers.  Identifying with pathological figures, the patient enacts those identifications in the form of character defenses.  And those pathological identifications acting together form what we call the pathological superego.  Thus, with many of our patients addressing superego pathology is essential if we are to develop a conscious therapeutic alliance.

Superego pathology occurs across a spectrum and takes many different forms.  We will view a series of cases across that spectrum to illustrate different forms of superego pathology and different forms of intervention.  We will show ways of intervening with character defenses, the transference resistance, projection of the superego, identification with the superego, and splitting and projection within the borderline level of character pathology.

Naturally Flowing Treatment in Davanloo's Approach to Pathogenic Unconscious Complexes

By Thomas Brod, MD

Habib Davanloo’s use of the term therapeutic alliance is technically different than its previous uses in psychoanalytic psychotherapy. Two naturalistic processes move unconscious pathogenic complexes into consciousness. The conscious therapeutic alliance puts pressure on the unconscious system while the Unconscious Therapeutic Alliance (UTA) works to alleviate the painful guilt complexes at the base of most-imposed suffering.  

In this Summer School, Dr. Brod will focus on the naturalistic elements in Davanloo's Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy and why the achievement of the conscious experience of guilt is therapeutic.  Dr. Brod will offer vignettes of restructuring fragile ego states using guided affective imagery in the context of ISTDP clinical practice.

Learning Objectives

After participating in this workshop participants will be able to:

1.  Identify superego pathology.

2.  Address and help the patient turn against character defenses.

3.  Help the patient access repressed feelings.

Who Should Attend 

This conference is designed for licensed mental health professionals: psychologists, social workers, psychiatrists, and licensed professional counselors.

Faculty       

Jon Frederickson, MSW, is the co-chair of the ISTDP training program at the Washington School of Psychiatry.  He is the author of Psychodynamic Psychotherapy: Learning to Listen from Multiple Perspectives and several articles on ISTDP.

Thomas M. Brod, MD is an Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Geffen UCLA School of Medicine, and senior faculty, New Center for Psychoanalysis, Los Angeles.  He is a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association.  He has a private practice practice specializing in intensive dynamic psychotherapy and self-regulation medicine.  Additionally, Dr. Brod has organized a number of interdisciplinary conferences for the arts and psychoanalytic communities.  More information at http://tbrod.bol.ucla.edu

Summer School 2010 Schedule   

Sunday, June 6            Arrival and registration

                                    2-5 pm  Jon Frederickson---The spectrum of Superego pathology           

Monday, June 7            9-1       Jon Frederickson---Character defenses and Transference

                                                 Resistance

                                    1-2       Lunch

                                    2-5       Jon Frederickson---Splitting and projection of the

                                                Superego in a borderline patient

                                    6:30     Dinner 

Tuesday, June 8           9-1      Tom Brod---Unconscious therapeutic alliance

                                    1-2       Lunch

                                    2-4       Tom Brod---Unconscious guilt

                                    4-5       Group Process

                                    6:30     Dinner

Wednesday, June 9     9-12     Tom Brod---Mobilization of the unconscious

                                   12-6      Play day: go for a hike, go on a horse ride, visit a local winery.   

* Note - Registrants interested in a winery visit plus extravagant lunch with wine sampling (your expense) should contact Jon at jfrederickson@verizon.net by May 10 to reserve a space.  This is the best winery in Virginia.

                                    6:30     Dinner 

Thursday, June 10       9-1       Group Supervision

                                    1-2       Lunch

                                    2-5       Group Supervision

                                    6:30     Dinner

                                    8 pm    Cabaret put on by participants 

Friday, June 11            9-12     Group Supervision    

                                   12-1      Group Process and Goodbye

                                    1           Afternoon departure. 

* Note - Given Friday rush hour near Washington D.C., plan on arriving at Dulles airport no earlier than 5 pm.

Location

Graves Mountain Lodge,

Syria, Virginia  22743. 

This is a two and one half hour drive from Washington, D.C. 

To learn more about Graves Mountain Lodge, go to www.gravesmountain.com   From past experience we can guarantee it is far more beautiful than what you see on the web.

Housing

The fee includes tuition, housing and meals.  Rooms are modest but nice, usually with a wonderful view of the valley, single and double rooms are available.  The lodge is in the mountains and the temperature will probably be in the 70’s to low 80’s during the day and cool down at night into the fifties.  Hiking, fishing, horse riding, and swimming are all possible at Graves Mountain Lodge.

Nota Bene

When we say this is out in the country, we aren’t kidding!  There is no cell phone service available.  You must drive about ten miles away to get cell phone service.

Meals

The fee covers dinner Sunday, all meals Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday, breakfast and dinner on Wednesday, and breakfast on Friday.   Meals are buffet style in a Southern country style.  In the past, everyone found the food tasty and plentiful. 

Travel

For those traveling by airplane, Dulles International Airport is closest to the summer school.  Next closest is Reagan/National Airport.  For directions, see below. 

CE/CME: 31 

Fee:  $1750 includes tuition, lodging, and meals.

Continuing Education

The Washington School of Psychiatry is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The Washington School of Psychiatry maintains responsibility for the program and its content.

The School is approved by the Social Work Board of the State of Maryland as a provider of continuing education for social workers.

The School is approved by the Medical Society of Maryland (MEDCHI) for continuing education for psychiatrists.

The School is recognized by the National Board of Certified Counselors to offer continuing education for National Certified Counselors.  We adhere to the NBCC Continuing Education Guidelines.  Provider # 6388 31 hours

Registration

Please call the School at 202-237-2700 to register. You can also use the conference registration form to register for this seminar by faxing it to WSP at 202-237-2730, or mail the form to: Washington School of Psychiatry, 5028 Wisconsin Ave., NW, Ste. 400, Washington, DC 20016.

Space is limited.  Your space is reserved once we receive your fee.

Cancellations and Refunds

Refunds will be made for cancellations received at the School office in writing prior to May 24, 2010 and are subject to a non-refundable administrative fee of $50.

For more information, contact Jon Frederickson at jfrederickson@verizon.net

Disclosure of Commercial Support and the Unlabeled use of a commercial product.  No member of the planning committee and no member of the faculty for this event have a financial interest or other relationship with any commercial product(s) discussed in this educational presentation