UPCOMING EVENTS

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Infant Research and Adult Treatment*

Presenters: Beatrice Beebe, PhD 

Date: Saturday, September 14th, 2024 

Time:  12:00 pm - 4:00 pm 

Location: In-Person at Rockland

4 CE/CME's Available

FREE for PCOP Members & Students 

Students and members are welcome to arrive at Rockland early at 11:30 am for a light breakfast of bagels and coffee. The workshop will kick off at 12:00 pm.

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Infant Research and Adult Treatment

In this seminar you will (a) become familiar with mother-infant communication patterns identified by infant research; (b) become more aware of your own nonverbal communication patterns and their contribution to treatment cases; (c) learn about the potential role of video for traumatized patients who cannot look directly into the face of another person.

Morning: How Can We See What We Don’t See: Contributions of Video Microanalysis to Mother-Infant Communication

(1) Case of Linda and Dan: Mother suicidal at birth

(2) Origins of disorganized attachment at 4 months

I present real-time film and contrast it with video microanalysis. 

Afternoon: Contributions of Video Feedback Treatment to an Ongoing Psychoanalytic Treatment: A Patient Who Does Not Look 

I present a case of a patient who does not look. She is in an ongoing 20+ year intensive treatment with Dr. Larry Sandberg, and I collaborated as the video feedback therapist for over two decades (Sandberg & Beebe, 2020). My face, but not the patient’s face, is videotaped during psychotherapy sessions. The patient and I then review segments of the videotaped session, collaboratively observing and thinking together, translating between the verbal dialogue and the therapist’s implicit action dialogue. The video provides a unique opportunity to learn about the therapist’s collaborative participation (Lyons-Ruth, 1999) outside the verbal narrative. The therapist's face, as well as bodily gestures of head and hands, and the background vocal rhythm and turn taking of the narrative, are relatively unexplored avenues of therapeutic action in adult treatment. We will discuss how this process helped this patient.

About Beatrice Beebe, PhD 

Beatrice Beebe is Clinical Professor of Psychology (in Psychiatry), College of Physicians & Surgeons, Columbia University Medical Center, New York State Psychiatric Institute. She is an infant researcher and a psychoanalyst, known for video microanalysis of mother-infant interaction and its implications for infant and adult treatment. Her frame-by-frame video microanalyses provide a “social microscope” that reveals subtle details of interactions too rapid to grasp in real time with the naked eye. Her research investigates early mother-infant face-to-face communication: the effects of maternal distress (depression, anxiety, trauma of being pregnant and widowed on 9/11), the prediction of infant attachment patterns, and the long-term continuity of communication from infancy to adulthood. More than 150 students have been trained in her research laboratory over the last three decades.  Her recent book is: The mother-infant interaction picture book: Origins of attachment (Beebe, Cohen & Lachman, Norton, 2016).  She has a YouTube account: http://youtube.com/@dr.beatricebeebe8658  She is Multi-PI, with Julie Herbstman, R01ES027424-01A1, of Prenatal endocrine-disrupting chemicals and social/cognitive risk in mothers and infants: Potential biologic pathways.

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The Robert Waelder Memorial Lecture

"Can Psychoanalysts Listen to Each Other?" 

Presenter: Stanley J. Coen, MD

Date: Wednesday, September 18, 2024

Time: 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm EDT

Location: In person at Rockland & Virtual via Zoom

2 CE/CME's Available

Program Abstract 

The 2 recent explosions within the Program Committee and then within the American Psychoanalytic Association are examined, from an insider's perspective, as analysts' difficulties with listening to each other. Analysts' anxiety with erotic excitement, especially with racial erotics, even when used for self-affirmation, is discussed. So too is the need for  'Othering' and the need for those who have been 'Othered' to validate themselves, using anger for self-affirmation. Not primarily psychoanalytic ethics, ethics for psychoanalysts, but human ethics, valuing of the other, of our relationship with the other, becomes the pathway for psychoanalysts to listen to the other. Emmanuel Levinas and his psychoanalytic elaborator, Viviane Chetrit-Vatine, are seen as triumphing over their own personal Holocaust trauma via their model of ethical behavior with others.  Other prominent contemporary thinkers will be cited, including Frantz Fanon. The author emphasizes our failures, including his own.

About  Stanley J. Coen, MD

Stanley J. Coen, MD, is a Training and Supervising Analyst and has been Senior Associate Director for Academic Affairs, Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research; Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons, and a member of the editorial boards of the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, Journal of Clinical Psychoanalysis, and the International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies. He is the author of The Misuse of Persons: Analyzing Pathological Dependency, 1992, The Analytic Press; Between Author and Reader: A Psychoanalytic Approach to Writing and Reading, 1994, Columbia University Press; and Affect Intolerance in Patient and Analyst, 2002, Jason Aronson. He has published extensively on problems in clinical psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic literary criticism. He chairs (now co-chairs) the subcommittee on University Forum of the APsA Program Committee, which has recently produced the outstanding series, Racism in America. He has chaired the Interdisciplinary Colloquium on Psychoanalysis and Literary Criticism of APsA since 1981. He was the 2018 Plenary Lecturer, American Psychoanalytic Association. 

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 The Importance of Group Experience During Adolescence and Beyond: Pathways from Trauma to Growth

Presenter: Frederic M. Baurer, MD &  Andrew I. Smolar MD

Date: Saturday, October 19th, 2024

Time: 10:00 am - 12:00 pm EDT

Location: In person at Rockland & Virtual via Zoom

2 CE/CME's Available

Program Description

About Frederic M. Baurer, MD

Dr. Fred Baurer is a graduate of Wesleyan University and Temple University School of Medicine. At Wesleyan, Fred learned to cultivate spontaneity through the medium of improvisational dance, which informs his clinical work to this day. He completed psychiatric residency at the Institute of PA Hospital and psychoanalytic training at the Philadelphia Psychoanalytic Institute. Fred pursued his interest in addiction psychiatry at the Strecker Program under the mentorship of Dr. Donald Gill. With the closing of the Institute in 1997, Fred remained on site as the facility transformed into the Kirkbride Center, where he was instrumental in developing addiction treatment services, in particular integrating pharmacologic approaches, including methadone, with psychosocial and psychotherapeutic modalities. He has served as president of the PA Society of Addiction Medicine and has worked extensively with physicians in recovery from addiction. He is a faculty member and Supervising Analyst at PCOP.

Addictions and psychoanalysis are not common bedfellows, but Fred has devoted his career to the melding of these. Through clinical work and teaching, he has learned to work with substance using patients through a psychoanalytic lens. He teaches classes and seminars in this approach through PCOP, and published a paper describing this approach in 2021. He seeks to engage his patients as partners in a collaborative process, believing that people recover from addictions when they join this partnership and become pro-active in their recovery, not so much when they are passive recipients of care. 

Since retiring from Kirkbride, Dr. Baurer has devoted himself to intensive psychotherapeutic and psychoanalytic work with addicted and non-addicted patients. He continues to teach, mentor, supervise, and serve on committees of PCOP.

About Andrew I. Smolar MD

Andrew I. Smolar MD, is Training and Supervising Analyst at the Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia and Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Temple University School of Medicine. He has been in the private practice of adolescent and adult psychiatry in Wynnewood, PA since 1998. Dr. Smolar served as President of the Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia from 2015-2017; he has also served here as Chairman of the Education Committee, Training and Supervising Analyst Committee, co-Chair of the Supervision Study Group for Supervising Analysts, and is co-Director of the Developmental Pathway for recent graduates. Dr. Smolar has contributed to the academic literature by writing on the following subjects: analytic work with an immigrant analysand, group therapy in various clinical settings, combining analytic treatment with group therapy techniques, and most recently, psychotherapy during this era of political turmoil, contributions of group fragmentation toward national discord, and the role of group identifications during normative development. He is co-investigator of research of American citizens suffering from conspiracy thinking. He has also published op-eds on mental health subjects in the Philadelphia Inquirer and in the Pittsburgh Tribune Review, where he is a regular contributor.

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