Psychoanalytic Brooklyn: Invites you to a Continuing Education Seminar The Frame – Part II * Friday, February 15, 2019 1:00 to 2:30pm

* As each session stands on its own, the first is not a prerequisite for the second.

We’re familiar with the usual ways patients use the frame to communicate with us – lateness, cancellations, payment issues, etc. But what about the more subtle, idiosyncratic ways? Where and how a patient sits? How s/he enters and leaves? Eating/drinking in sessions, behaviors in our waiting room, use of the bathroom, etc. As clinicians, we open ourselves up to observing – warmly, non-judgmentally, compassionately – all the ways our patients communicate with us.

How can thinking about these seemingly peripheral aspects of the frame more explicitly, and more deeply, enrich our clinical work? In this hour-and-a-half workshop, we will discuss these unconscious communications. We will explore ways that adherence to, and departure from the frame, by patients and clinicians, can be put to valuable clinical use.

Join Josh Wolf-Powers, MBA, LCSW, and Jules Owen, SJD, LP, advanced candidates at the Contemporary Freudian Society’s Psychoanalytic Training Institute, as we explore these topics.

Jules Owen is a psychotherapist.  He was a lawyer and law professor prior to his psychoanalytic training.

Josh Wolf-Powers, a psychotherapist in private practice, is affiliated with the Sexuality, Attachment & Trauma Project, where he specializes in attachment and other traumas as well as ego dystonic sexual behaviors.  Prior to becoming a psychotherapist, he worked as a private equity investor.

Learning Objectives:

At the end of this didactic/experiential workshop participants will have learned the following:

1) To identify non-verbal behaviors patients use to communicate hopes, fears, desires, and needs;

2) To distinguish between neutral manifestations of reality in the consulting room and more laden unconscious communications; and

3) To recognize, and analyze, ways that clients/patients attempt to cause us to satisfy their unconscious fantasies.

Gloria Demby, LCSW

Chair, Psychoanalytic Brooklyn Seminar Series

gdemby465@gmail.com

Location: CFS Brooklyn, 26 Court Street, Suite 1412, Brooklyn NY 11201

Register early as space is limited

Program Fee:  $40 General/$30 for Candidates & Students

REGISTER ONLINE

Who Should Attend: The instructional level for this activity is advanced.  Mental Health Professionals (psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, licensed professional counselors, e.g. LPs, LCATs, and pastoral counselors) and those with an interest in psychodynamic and psychoanalytic thinking and clinical applications.

Continuing Education Credits:

Social Workers: The Psychoanalytic Training Institute of the Contemporary Freudian Society SW CPE is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #0087.  CE credits are granted to participants with documented attendance of the entire program and completed online evaluation form.  No partial credits will be offered.  It is the responsibility of the participants seeking CE credits to comply with these requirements.  Upon completion of this program and online evaluation form, participants will be granted 1.5 CE credits.

Psychoanalysts: The Psychoanalytic Training Institute of the Contemporary Freudian Society is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychoanalysts #P-0021.  CE credits are granted to participants with documented attendance of the entire program and completed online evaluation form.  No partial credits will be offered.  It is the responsibility of the participants seeking CE credits to comply with these requirements.  Upon completion of this program and online evaluation form, participants will be granted 1.5 CE credits.

Important Disclosure Information:

None of the planners and presenters of this program have any relevant financial relationships to disclose.