20th Annual Conference on The Psychology of The Self
CHALLENGES IN SELF PSYCHOLOGY
November 13-16, 1997
The Renaissance
Chicago Hotel
Chicago, IL
Presented by:
International
Council for Psychoanalytic Self Psychology
Sponsored by:
The
Institute for Psychoanalysis of Chicago
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Participants interested in registering for the Pre-Conference Program have the option of selecting one of five sessions offered:
1. Introductory Course
2. Advanced Course
3. Child Therapy Course
4. Brief Therapy Course
5. Marital and Family Therapy Course
This course, intended for registrants who wish to become more familiar with the basic theory and practice in Self Psychology, consists of two didactic sessions followed by a case presentation and discussion.
a. Introductory Course Didactic Sessions
Thursday evening: 7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Friday morning: 8:30 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. *
Co-Leaders: Robert J. Leider, MD
Salee A. Jenkins, PhD
b. Introductory Course Case Discussion
Friday morning: 10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Case Presentation: Taras Babiak, MD, FRCP(C)
Chair and Discussant: Howard A. Bacal, MD, FRCP(C)
This course, intended for registrants already familiar with the practice of Self Psychology, consists of a theoretical presentation and Master Classes in the form of small group supervision.
a. The THEORETICAL SECTION of the Advanced Course consists of
a formal presentation with discussants:
Thursday evening: 7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Title: Aggression: Reactive and Transformed
Chair: Hans-Peter Hartmann, MD
Presenter: Frank M. Lachmann, PhD
Discussant: Ernest S. Wolf, MD
b. CLINICAL SECTION (Advanced Course)
The CLINICAL SECTION consists of Master Classes in the form of a clinical case presentation with the discussion led by a senior Self Psychologist. Please rank in order your first 5 preferences from the list on the conference registration form. Master Class groups will be assigned on a first come (paid), first served basis. Those interested in attending a Master Class of their choice should apply early. We regret that exceptions cannot be made to allow additional registrants once a Master Class has reached maximum capacity.
Friday morning 9:00 - 11:30 a.m. *
*Coffee and breakfast rolls will be provided on
Friday morning from 8:00 to 9:00 a.m. Chairs and Iris Hilke, MA
Presenters: Mark D. Smaller, PhD
Discussants: Robert M. Galatzer-Levy, MD
Rosalind C. Kindler, MFA, RDT, MCAPCT
Thursday Evening 7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. Theoretical and Clinical
Foundations
Friday Morning 8:30 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. * Case Presentation
10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Integrative Discussion
Chairs and Anna Ornstein, MD
Presenters: Paul H. Ornstein, MD
Thursday Evening 7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. Historical-Conceptual
Foundations
Friday Morning 8:30 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. * Videotape Presentation
10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Establishing the Focus
Chair: Martin S. Livingston, PhD
Presenters: Philip A. Ringstrom, PhD, PsyD
Carla M. Leone, PhD
Thursday Evening 7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. Models of Couples
Therapy
Friday Morning 8:30 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.* Models of Family
Therapy
10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m Working with Conflict
and Aggression
*Coffee and breakfast rolls will be provided on Friday morning
from 8:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m.
PLEASE NOTE: A maximum capacity will be strictly adhered to for the Child Therapy, Brief Therapy and Marital and Family Therapy courses and SPACE IS LIMITED. Early registration is strongly recommended. We regret that exceptions cannot be made to allow additional registrants once maximum capacity has been reached.
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1:00 - 1:15 pm WELCOME
Paula B. Fuqua, MD and Jill R. Gardner, PhD
Co-Chairs, 20th Annual Conference
Thomas J. Pappadis, MD
Director, Institute for Psychoanalysis of Chicago
1:15 - 2:45 Panel I
Title: Narcissistic Behavior Disorders
Chair: Sheldon J. Meyers, MD
Presenters: Barbara Fajardo, PhD
Jeffrey S. Stern, PhD
Discussant: Arnold Goldberg, MD
Presenters' Response and Open Discussion
2:45 - 3:15 Coffee Break
3:15 - 4:45 Panel II
Title: Self Psychologists Consider Boundaries
Chair: Shelley R. Doctors, PhD
Presenters: Mark J. Gehrie, PhD
Morton Shane, MD
Discussant: Linda A. Chernus, MSW
Presenters' Response and Open Discussion
7:30 - 8:30 am Coffee and Breakfast Rolls
8:30 - 10:00 Discussion Groups for Panels I and II, led by
International Council Members paired with experienced
clinicians.
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break
10:30 - 12:00 pm Original Papers/Workshops
Session A
1. Title: The Selfobject Transferences
Reconsidered
Presenter: Crayton E. Rowe, Jr., MSW
Chair: David M. Terman, MD
Discussant: Robert L. Kuykendal, MD
2. Title: The Primacy of Meaning in
Analytic Decision Making
Presenter: Julia M. Schwartz, MD
Chair: Jill R. Gardner, PhD
Discussant: Sandra M. Kiersky, PhD
3. Title: Changing Patterns of Parenting:
Comments on the Sources of Unmodified
Grandiosity in Children
Presenter: Anna Ornstein, MD
Chair &
Discussant: Morton Shane, MD
4. Title: The Selfobject Function of
Interpretation
Presenters: Peter Buirski, PhD
Pamela E. Haglund, PsyD
Chair: Peter Kaufmann, PhD
Discussant: Gary M. Rodin, MD
5. Title: Listening for Deep Structure: Between
the A Priori and the Intersubjective
Presenter: Jill T. Gentile, PhD
Chair: Edwin L. Hersch, MA, MD, FRCP(C)
Discussant: Barry Magid, MD
6. Title: The Treatment of Eating Disorders:
Facilitating a Shift from Outer to
Inner Life
Presenter: Jane R. Lewis, CSW
Chair: Brenda C. Solomon, MD
Discussant: Susan H. Sands, PhD
7. Title: Patterns of Attachment and Organizing
Principles in Relationship Seeking
Presenter: Mary E. Connors, PhD, ABPP
Chair: Bernard Brandchaft, MD
Discussant: Peter A. Lessem, PhD
8. Workshop: Growth and Change in Later Life:
Working with the Elderly Through the
Lens of Self Psychology
Presenters: Miriam A. Elson, AM
Bertram J. Cohler, PhD
9. Title: The Sharing of Affective Experience
as an Optimal Response
Presenter: Bruce D. Herzog, BA, MD, FRCP(C)
Chair: Marian D. Tolpin, MD
Discussant: Jackie J. Gotthold, PsyD
12:15 - 2:00 Optional Luncheon
(An additional fee will be charged for the meal. Those who do not elect to eat but wish to attend the lecture after the meal may do so based on space availability.)
1:00 - 2:00 Kohut Memorial Lecture
Title: Death and the Self
Introduction: Arnold I. Goldberg, MD
Presenter: Charles B. Strozier, PhD
2:15 - 3:45 pm Original Papers/Workshops
Session B
1. Title: The Recognition and Treatment of
Traumatic States
Presenter: Joseph M. Jones, MD
Chair: Diane L. Martinez, MD
Discussant: Joan A. Lang, MD
2. Title: A Life of One's Own: A Case Study of
the Loss and Restoration of the Sense
of Personal Agency
Presenters: Dorthy M. Levinson, MSW
George E. Atwood, PhD
Chair: Steven H. Knoblauch, PhD
Discussant: William J. Coburn, PhD
3. Title: The Use and Misuse of 'Mirroring' in
the Transformation of Primitive
Grandiosity (UPDATED 7/24/97)
Presenter: Kim Richardson, MA
Chair: David S. Solomon, MD
Discussant: Mary E. Gales, MD
4. Title: How Can Something That Feels So Good Be
a Bad Thing? Pedophilic Behavior, Shame
and Self-Cohesion: A Case Study
Presenter: Judith Aronson, MA
Chair: Hazel R. Ipp, PhD
Discussant: Caryle Perlman, MSW
5. Workshop
On History: Klein and Kohut: An Odd Couple Or
Secretly Related
Presenter: James Grotstein, MD
Chair &
Discussant: Malcolm Owen Slavin, PhD
6. Workshop: Psychotherapy Outcome Research and Self
Psychology: Encouraging Results
Presenters: Russell A. Meares, MBBS, MD, Acad DPM
Jon T. Monsen, PhD
Chair &
Discussant: Howard S. Baker, MD
7. Workshop: Recent Advances in the Application
of Self Psychological Principles to
Group Psychotherapy
Presenters: Rosemary A. Segalla, PhD
Damon L. Silvers, PhD
Bruce S. Wine, PhD
8. Round Table The Origins of Self Psychology:
A Conversation
Discussion:
-Moderator: Charles B. Strozier, PhD
-Discussants: Arnold I. Goldberg, MD
Anna Ornstein, MD
Paul H. Ornstein, MD
Marian D. Tolpin, MD
Paul H. Tolpin, MD
Ernest S. Wolf, MD
3:45 - 4:15 Coffee Break
4:15 - 5:45 Original Papers/Workshops
Session C
1. Title: The Self and Its Past:
A Self Psychological Approach to
Understanding Certain Effects of
"History" on Individual Psychological
Development
Presenter: Martin W. Gossmann, MD
Chair: Constance O. Goldberg, MS, BCD
Discussant: Paul H. Ornstein, MD
2. Title: Towards a Model of Contemporary
Child Psychoanalysis
Presenter: Sally Howard, PhD, PsyD
Chair &
Discussant: Estelle Shane, PhD
3. Title: Unconscious Fantasy: The Influence of
Gender and Selfobject Experience on a
Couple's Relationship
Presenter: Nancy R. Hicks, PsyD, MDiv
Chair: Arthur A. Gray, PhD
Discussant: Philip A. Ringstrom, PhD, PsyD
4. Title: Harvest of Fire: Twinship and
Fundamental Conflict in Group Process
Presenter: Martin S. Livingston, PhD
Chair: Arthur C. Nielsen, MD
Discussant: James E. Gorney, PhD
5. Title: Clinical Implications of the Concept of
Mature Selfobject Experience
Presenter: George A. Hagman, MSW
Chair: Paula B. Fuqua, MD
Discussant: Judith Gillard-Kaufman, PhD
6. Title: Secret Conversations with My Father:
The Human Contextualization of
Theoretical Discourse
Presenter: Maxwell S. Sucharov, MD
Chair: Gianni Nebbiosi, PhD
Discussant: Robert M. Galatzer-Levy, MD
7. Title: Investment and Divestment:
Agentic Relatedness, Oneness and Self
Psychology's Tripartite Model of the
Person
Presenter: David S. Klugman, MSW
Chair: Susan G. Lazar, MD
Discussant: Carolyn S. Clement, PhD
8. Meet The Authors:
With Donna M. Orange, PhD, PsyD, George E. Atwood, PhD
and Robert D. Stolorow, PhD discussing their book:
Working Intersubjectively: Contextualism in
Psychoanalytic Practice
6:15 - 7:30 Conference Reception
Hors d'oeuvres, Cash Bar)
7:30 - 10:00 Dancing and Cash Bar7:30 - 8:30 am Coffee and Breakfast Rolls
8:30 - 10:00 Original Papers/Workshops
Session D
1. Title: When the Analyst Gets Divorced...And
Other Matters
Presenter: Kati Breckenridge, PhD
Chair: Floyd Galler, MD, LFAPA
Discussant: Judith Rustin, MSW
2. Title: Exploding the Myth of Unilateral
Healing: Self Psychological Treatment
and the Analyst's Development
Presenters: Doris Brothers, PhD
Ellen J. Lewinberg, MSW
Chair: Paul H. Tolpin, MD
Discussant: Henry J. Friedman, MD
3. Title: Analyst Self-Disclosure: The Search for
Authenticity in the Psychoanalytic
Situation
Presenter: Arnold Wm. Rachman, PhD
Chair: Harvey M. Freed, MD
Discussant: Dorienne Sorter, PhD
4. Title: Insight, Empathy and Projective
Identification
Presenter: Craig Powell, MBBS, FRANZCP
Chair: Henry M. Evans, MD
Discussant: Donna M. Orange, PhD, PsyD
5. Title: Building Emotional Resilience:
Integrating Clinical and Empirical
Findings
Presenter: Elizabeth M. Carr, RNCS, MSN
Chair: Andrew P. Morrison, MD
Discussant: Amanda E. Kottler, MA
6. Workshop
On History: Winnicott and Kohut: Making the Analyst
Useable
Presenter: Kenneth Newman, MD
Chair &
Discussant: Malcolm Owen Slavin, PhD
7. Workshop: Reconceptualizing the Frame: Combining
Couples and Individual Therapy
Presenters: Luba S. Fischer, PhD
David R. Shaddock, MA
Jeffrey L. Trop, MD
8. Workshop: Clinical Encounters and Their Emotional
Content
Presenters: Anna Ornstein, MD
Francesca von Broembsen, PhD, PsyD
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break
10:30 - 12:30 pm Panel III
Title: Three Perspectives on a Clinical
Vignette
Chair: James M. Fisch, MD
Presenter: Alan R. Kindler, MBBS, FRCP(C)
Discussants: James L. Fosshage, PhD
Paul H. Ornstein, MD
Robert D. Stolorow, PhD
Summation: James M. Fisch, MD
Discussion Between Panelists and Audience
Closing Remarks: Paula B. Fuqua, MD
Jill R. Gardner, PhD
12:30 FINAL ADJOURNMENT
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