OPEN HOUSE & CLINICAL PRESENTATION FOR THOSE CONSIDERING POSTGRADUATE TRAINING  Saturday, June 13, 2020      2:00 PM – 4:00 PM
LIFECYCLE TRANSITIONS: A YOUNG WOMAN’S JOURNEY TO MOTHERHOOD

A young, talented student entered treatment fraught with anxiety as she prepared to fulfill life-long professional ambitions. Presenting complaints included concerns about her perfectionist tendencies and a history of psychosomatic illness. The therapist’s countertransference was crucial in recognizing and understanding this patient’s characteristic defenses which kept her removed from her emotions and frustrated in her attachment to others, despite her superior intellectual gifts. As treatment unfolded, the patient was helped to acknowledge and experience her inner world and the early disappointments that contributed to her difficulties.  Analysis of unresolved conflicts regarding aspects of her identity led to a shift in her career aspirations and allowed her to experience gratification not only through her professional successes, but also as a result of the pleasure and sense of competence she experienced in her personal life. The impact on the treatment process of the therapist’s experience will be discussed.

Learning Objectives:
Participants will: 1) consider how early role models and gender identifications influence and potentially interfere with adult career paths, 2) recognize the ways a patient’s experience of the therapist in the transference can shift over the course of a long term treatment, and 3) recognize how a psychosomatic symptom expresses underlying conflict.

PRESENTER: Beth Rabinove, LCSW Certificate in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, Metropolitan Institute for Training in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, Adult Program. Faculty and Supervisor: Metropolitan Institute for Training in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, Adult and Child and Adolescent Programs. Past President: Board of Trustees, Metropolitan Institute for Training in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy. Member: Board of Trustees, Metropolitan Institute for Training in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, Metropolitan Society of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapists.

LOCATION:  ONLINE VIA ZOOM
Zoom instructions and meeting link will be emailed to participants prior to the workshop.

RSVP:  There is no fee but you must reserve in advance.
For reservations: please email Ivy Vale, Registrar, at info@mitpp.org.

MITPP, originally established in 1962 to train MCMH clinicians and chartered by the New York State Board of Regents, offers three certificate programs: a three year program in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy with Adults, a two year program in Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy, and a program leading to the New York State license in Psychoanalysis. Social Workers may qualify for the LCSW through their training at MITPP. Matriculants see patients at the Metropolitan Center for Mental Health, which is licensed by the Office of Mental Health.  Truly affordable training: Low tuition of $1,300 per semester includes both individual and group supervision and up to three courses. Courses are also offered on a non-matriculated basis and, upon matriculation, are applied toward a certificate. Candidates begin seeing patients as soon as they are processed.
MITPP CANDIDATES ARE ELIGIBLE TO RECEIVE SOCIAL WORK CONTACT HOURS FOR CONTINUING EDUCATION IN MITPP COURSES.

Applications are currently being accepted for the Fall 2020 semester.