Attachment and Adult Psychotherapy [Archive]
Credits: [9 ]
Dates:
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The point of departure and primary intellectual motivations for the development of attachment theory were Bowlby’s dissatisfactions with aspects of Freudian and Kleinian theory and his desire to place psychoanalysis on a more solid scientific footing by grounding it more fully in empirical data and theoretical concepts from other scientific disciplines. Despite this, for many years attachment theory and research developed relatively independently of psychoanalysis. However, during the last few years, the links between attachment theory and psychoanalysis have been re-forged, and it is important now to look anew at the relationship between the two fields. The psychoanalytic community has adopted a more favorable stance toward attachment theory and has shown great interest in empirical and theoretical work in this area. Though much of the clinical focus in this area has been on problematic parent-child-interactions and, in particular, the prevention of insecure attachment and/or the facilitation of secure attachment in the child through work with caregivers, the focus of this conference will be on the psychodynamic treatment of adults in individual and couple therapy.
There have been numerous attempts to relate different therapeutic approaches to attachment theory and to offer workshops and publish articles and books on purported attachment-based approaches to therapy. However, a careful examination of this material suggests that attachment research and theory do not offer a specific blueprint for carrying out psychotherapy. Ideally, the relationship between the two disciplines should be one where the findings and concepts from attachment serve to sensitize therapists to certain clinical issues, and, on the other hand, phenomena emerging from the clinical situation should serve to challenge and refine the formulations of attachment theory.
Papers to be discussed (distributed to those who register for the conference) and leadoff discussants:
Adult Psychotherapy: The Perspectives of Attachment Theory and Psychoanalysis.
Authors: Morris Eagle and David L. Wolitzky
Leadoff discussant: Doris Silverman, Ph.D.
Attachment theory, transference and the psychoanalytic process.
Authors: Mauricio Cortina and Mario Marrone
In Attachment Theory and the Psychoanalytic Process.
Mauricio Cortina and Mario Marrone (Eds.)
Leadoff discussant: Morris Eagle, Ph.D.
Attachment Theory: A Guide for Couples Therapy.
Susan Johnson
COST:
Registration Fee: $177 for non-PsyBC Members
Test for CE Credits: $45. (Free for PsyBC members.)
NOTE: Test is purchased separately in PsyBC Testing Center
Note: This conference is a “two-fer”. Registration also includes access to the “Attachment and Sexuality” online conference. Two for the price of one.
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Faculty
Mauricio Cortina, M.D.
Mauricio Cortina, MD, is a faculty member at The Washington School of Psychiatry and The Institute of Contemporary Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis in Washington, D.C. He is a member of the Seminario de Socio-psicoanalisis in Mexico City and is an associate professor in the Department of Psychiatry at George Washington University. Early in his career he worked with Michael Maccoby in extending Erich Fromm’s socio-psychoanalytic approach to understanding character and its relationship to work. He has directed and worked as a consultant with agencies and clinics serving children and families with psychiatric and emotional problems. During the past 15 years he has been teaching and writing on the clinical, developmental and social implications of attachment theory and research. He has a full time clinical practice in Washington, D.C.
Gary Cox-Steiner, Ph.D.
Gary Cox-Steiner, Ph.D. is Clinical Associate Professor of Psychology,
The Derner Institute of Advanced Psychological Studies at Adelphi University, and one of the co-founders of the New York Attachment Consortium. He is also co-founder and president of the Center for Mental Health Promotion, a non-profit organization that supports research in developmental psychopathology.
Joanne Davlia, Ph.D.
Joanne Davila, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of Psychology at Stony Brook University. She received her PhD in psychology from UCLA in 1993. Her expertise lies in the areas of adolescent and adult psychopathology (particularly depression and anxiety) and interpersonal functioning. She has published widely on these topics and has received funding from the National Institute of Mental Health and the National Science Foundation to conduct her research. She is the Director of the Relationship Development Center at Stony Brook University, where she and her research team are conducting projects on the development of romantic competence in adolescence, associations between interpersonal functioning and psychopathology, and the development and course of attachment security in relationships over time. Dr. Davila has served on the editorial boards of numerous psychology journals and is currently an Associate Editor at the Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology and a grant reviewer for NIMH. She is a licensed psychologist and is interested in interventions that attempt to remediate or prevent interpersonal dysfunction, depression, and anxiety.
Morris Eagle, Ph.D.
Morris Eagle is Professor Emeritus, Derner Institute of Advanced Psychological Studies, Adelphi University; ABPP (psychoanalysis). He is Former President of the Division of Psychoanalysis (39), American Psychological Association. He is the author of Recent developments in psychoanalysis: A critical evaluation, and Co-editor of Interface between psychoanalysis and psychology, and Co-author of Psychoanalysis as health care. He is co-editor of monograph on "Attachment: Current research, theory, and clinical practice," and the author and co-author of about 150 journal articles and about 100 chapters in edited books. He is in private practice; working on two books, one on critical evaluation of contemporary psychoanalysis and other on attachment and psychoanalysis.
Mary Joan Gerson, Ph.D.
Mary-Joan Gerson, Ph.D. is Clinical Professor and Supervisor, New York University Post-Doctoral Program in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy. In addition, she is the Director of the Advanced Specialization in Couple and Family Therapy, and Co-Director, Project in Family Theory and Therapy in that program. She is also the Founding President, Section VIII (Couples and Family Therapy), Division 39, of the American Psychological Association. She also serves as the Co-Chair, Task Force on Psychoanalysis and Health Care, Division 39 (Psychoanalysis), American Psychological Association, and is on the faculty, Division of Gastroenterology, Mount Sinai School of Medicine.
Dr. Gerson is recognized internationally for her integrative writing about psychoanalysis and family therapy. She has published numerous articles as well as a book, The Embedded Self: A Psychoanalytic Guide to Family Therapy (Analytic Press, 1996).
Geoff Goodman, Ph.D.
Geoff Goodman, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Psychology at Long Island University. He is also a licensed clinical and school psychologist with a private practice in Manhattan and New City, New York. Dr. Goodman received a Bachelor of Science degree from M.I.T. in 1983, a Master of Arts degree in Developmental Psychology from Columbia University in 1986, and a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Clinical Psychology from Northwestern University in 1991. He completed a child clinical psychology internship at Babies Hospital, Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, in 1991, a two-year postdoctoral fellowship in developmental research at Columbia University under Larry Aber in 1993, and a two-year postdoctoral fellowship in the research and treatment of borderline personality disorder under Frank Yeomans and Otto Kernberg in 1995. Dr. Goodman was Instructor of Psychology in Psychiatry at Cornell University Medical College from 1995 to 1998 and was Assistant Unit Chief of the children’s psychiatric inpatient unit. He also holds adjunct faculty positions at Columbia University and Weill Medical College of Cornell University, and is an advanced candidate in the child and adult programs at the Psychoanalytic Training Institute of the New York Freudian Society. Dr. Goodman is the author of over a dozen articles on the development of psychopathology in high-risk infants, children, and adults. He published his first book, The Internal World and Attachment (The Analytic Press), in December of 2002. On April 27, Long Island University awarded Dr. Goodman the Trustees Award for Scholarly Achievement for his book.
Sue Johnson
Dr. Sue Johnson is Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry at Ottawa University and Director of the Ottawa Couple and Family Institute. Until recently she was also the Director of the Couple and Family Clinic at the Ottawa Hospital. She received her doctorate in Counselling Psychology from the University of British Columbia in 1984. She is a registered psychologist in the province of Ontario, Canada and a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Marital and Family Therapy.
She is one of the originators of Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy (EFT), now one of the best validated couples interventions in North America. In the past ten years she has authored two books on EFT, Emotionally Focused Therapy for Couples (1988, Guilford Press) with Leslie Greenberg and, most recently, The Practice of Emotionally Focused Marital Therapy : Creating Connection (1996, Brunner/Mazel). She was also Senior Editor of The Heart of the Matter : Perspectives on Emotion in Marital Therapy, (1944, Brunner/Mazel). She has also authored numerous articles and research studies on couples therapy.
Sue Johnson is an Approved Supervisor for the American Association of Marriage and Family Therapy and is internationally known for her workshops and presentations on practice, theory and research in marital therapy. She maintains a private practice and lives in Ottawa, the capital of Canada, with her husband and two children.
Joseph Lichtenberg, M.D.
Joseph Lichtenberg, M.D., is a practicing psychoanalyst in Washington, D.C. He has written numerous articles about psychoses, psychosomatic illnesses, literature and creativity, psychoanalytic theory, attachment theory and research, and the technique of psychotherapy and psychoanalysis. He is the editor-in-chief of Psychoanalytic Inquiry and the Psychoanalytic Inquiry Book Series. He is also on the editorial boards of the Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic, Psychoanalytic Dialogues, and Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy. He is a founder and director emeritus of the Institute of Contemporary Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis (Washington, D.C.). He is the author of more than 10 books, including Psychoanalysis and Infant Research (1983), Psychoanalysis and Motivation (1989), and The Clinical Exchange: Techniques Derived from Self and Motivational Systems (1996). His most recent books are A Spirit of Inquiry: Communication and Psychoanalysis (2002) and Craft and Spirit: A Guide for the Exploratory Psychotherapies (2005) and the to be published Sensuality and Sexuality Across the Divide of Shame (2007).
Doris Silverman, Ph.D.
Doris Silverman, Ph.D. is a Training and Supervising Analyst and Faculty, Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, and Supervisor and Faculty, NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. She was a member of the Task Force on empirical based practice in psychotherapy that was sponsored by the American Psychological Association.
Miriam Steele, Ph.D.
Miriam Steele, Ph.D. is currently an Associate Professor and Assistant Director of Clinical Psychology in the Graduate Faculty at the New School University. While training as a child psychoanalyst at the Anna Freud Centre in London, England, Miriam Steele received her Ph.D. from the Department of Psychology at University College London. Her interest has been in bridging the world of psychoanalytic thinking and clinical practice with contemporary research in child development. Her research began with the study of ³Intergenerational Patterns of Attachment² which embodied one of the first prospective longitudinal studies incorporating the Adult Attachment Interview and Strange Situation paradigms. This study has followed 100 families into the children's 17th year of life. The study was important in initiating the concept of 'reflective functioning' and providing empirical data to demonstrate the importance of parental states of mind in the social and emotional development of their children. More recently, Dr. Steele has become interested in the field of adoption and foster care with a view to understanding the impact of attachment representations from both the adopters and the children's perspectives. In a large longitudinal study of previously maltreated children who had been recently adopted, she demonstrated the utility in employing state-of-the-art measures of attachment representations in understanding issues of matching adopter's and children's characteristics, the resolution of trauma, and change in the internal world of the children as a result of the dramatic intervention of the adoptive process.
David L. Wolitzky, Ph.D.
David L. Wolitzky, PhD, is currently director of the New York University Psychology Clinic and Associate Professor of Psychology, New York University. He is also a supervising analyst of the faculty of the New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. He is a graduate of the New York Psychoanalytic Institute and a former director of doctoral and postdoctoral training in clinical psychology at New York University. His interest is in psychodynamic theories of psychopathology and psychotherapy. The phenomena and concepts of particular interest are: the nature of clinical inference, panic disorder and agoraphobia, empathy, depersonalization and derealization, the development of and correlates of self-reflection and psychological-mindedness, and countertransference. He co-edited Psychoanalytic Therapy as Health Care: Effectiveness and Economics in the 21st Century with Harriette Kaley and Morris Eagle and also co-edited Interface of Psychoanalysis and Psychology with James W. Barron and Morris N. Eagle.
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