Author: Tamar Schwartz

Digging Deeper with an Anxious Adolescent with Christina Garidis at MITPP
By Categories: EVENTS, Psychoanalysis

THE METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE FOR TRAINING IN PSYCHOANALYTIC PSYCHOTHERAPY 160 West 86th Street, New York, NY 10024 · (212) 496-2858
mitppnyc@aol.com · www.MITPP.org · on Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn OPEN HOUSE LUNCHEON & CLINICAL PRESENTATION FOR THOSE CONSIDERING POSTGRADUATE TRAINING Wednesday, May 9, 2018 1:00 PM –2:30 PM DIGGING DEEPER WITH AN ANXIOUS ADOLESCENT

A 15 year-old girl sought treatment for severe anxiety believing her symptoms were related primarily to fears that she would not achieve academic success. Beneath her academic distress were issues independent of academic achievement including an insecure attachment to her parents, and an enmeshment communicated both emotionally and physically. At times the patient expressed her feelings about her parents through rage, and at other times guilt, pity, sadness and fear of loss. These shifting expressions were often dependent upon the interplay with her therapist. The therapist regularly experienced a sense of constriction in the room, and the feeling that she “couldn’t get it right” in responding to the patient. These interactions provided the therapist with clues about the patient’s need to remain connected and attached while simultaneously becoming an autonomous individual. Continue reading Digging Deeper with an Anxious Adolescent with Christina Garidis at MITPP

WCSPP Spring Events 2018
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WESTCHESTER CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF PSYCHOANALYSIS AND PSYCHOTHERAPY: SPRING EVENTS 2018 WCSPP Open House
Saturday, April 28, 9:00-10:30 am, Learn about Training Opportunities for Fall 2018, Come learn about post graduate training opportunities for Fall 2018
which have been restructured to allow more individual flexibility in the timing and content of training
Hear more about our Foundational Principles and Techniques of Psychodynamic Psychotherapy and our Advancd Psychoanalytic Training Program

At the Office of Suzanne Weisman, 188 East Post Road, Suite 303, White Plains, NY 10601 (Ample Parking Nearby) RSVP to info@wcspp.org or call (914) 997-7500. Child and Adolescent Training Program Open House
Friday, May 4, 6:15-8:00 pm (immediately preceding the below Scientific Meeting)
Learn about Training Opportunities for Fall 2018
A Roundtable discussion with Faculty and Candidates of the Child and Adolescent Training Program and a clinical presentation
Suggested contribution for Scientific Meeting at 8 pm waived for attendees
Light dinner served
RSVP (914) 997-7500 or info@wcspp.org

Scientific Meeting (2 CE available for $10)
Friday, May 4, 8:00 p.m. – “Why is it Easier to be Mad than to Feel Sad?”
Speaker: Leon Hoffman, MD Continue reading WCSPP Spring Events 2018