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PsyBC's Third Annual
Affect Regulation 2010 Conference
Development, Trauma and Treatment of the Brain Mind Body

Beyond Words
Implicit Communication &
Therapeutic Change in Humans and Animals

November 13-14, 2010 REGISTRATION

Faculty:

• Philip Bromberg
• Gay Bradshaw
• Efrat Ginot
• Karen Maroda
• Pat Ogden
• Allan Schore

CONFERENCE DESCRIPTION:

Over the last two decades we have witnessed remarkable advances in both science and clinical practice. The once impenetrable gap between researchers and psychotherapists has now been bridged by an expanding dialogue on common matters. Clinical models rest on fundamental constructs that previously were seen to be metapsychological, yet all of these basic mechanisms of the change process are currently being explored by science. As opposed to imprecise speculations of the last century we now have a coherent theory of emotion, and this emotional revolution has provided us with a neuropsychoanalytic model of unconscious affect and a neurobiological understanding of affect and affect regulation. We also have a theoretical perspective that bypasses Descartes error and describes how brain, mind, and body interact, and thereby a heuristic biopsychosocial theory that integrates the psychological and biological realms across species.

At the same time, clinicians in all mental health disciplines are incorporating data on nonverbal affective communications and the neurobiology of attachment into an overarching developmental theory, and studies of relational trauma and pathological dissociation into a more complex conception of psychopathogenesis. Current relational models in psychology, research on implicit processes in neuroscience, and neuropsychoanalytic descriptions of a relational unconscious fit nicely with recent clinical interests in intersubjectivity and enactments. Integrating all these trends, we now have an emerging neurobiological conception of the Freudian unconscious, a mapping of this early developing system in the right brain, and a heuristic model of how interpersonal experiences change the evolution of psychic structure (for better or worse). In total, these rapid expansions in knowledge are revealing essential mechanisms of the change process, common to both development and all forms of psychotherapy.

PsyBC'S Third Affect Regulation conference will continue to focus on the direct relevance of the ongoing paradigm shift for models of psychotherapeutic change, especially in individuals, human and non-human, with a history of attachment trauma. The faculty, all with extensive clinical experience, represent different disciplines - psychoanalysis, neuroscience, ethology and traumatology. Yet all are converging on a relational model of therapeutic action that emphasizes the unconscious communication and regulation of affect rather than interpretation and conscious cognition to be at the core of the change mechanism. This state-of-the-art conference will be structured to give presenters ample time to present various aspects of their latest work, as well as to allow for significant dialogue both between the presenters and with the audience.

Dates and Times:

Saturday, Nov 13     9:00am - 5:15pm
Sunday, Nov 14     9:00am - 12:45pm

Location:

Stern Auditorium
Mt. Sinai Medical Center
5th Ave. & 101 St.
NYC

Fees:

Early Registration: $295
To Register online Click Here

Special Fees:

Full-time Graduate Students, Interns and Residents: $195
Analytic Candidates: $245
To get special Student/Intern/Analytic Candidate rates please download form and submit with proof of status.

Group of 5 or more (no exceptions): $275/person
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CE Credits: 9

Faculty and Presentations

Philip Bromberg

Ordinary Minds, Extraordinary Reach: Thoughts on Embodiment, State-Sharing, and the Lived Unconscious

The biologist Rupert Sheldrake proposed that our minds are not confined inside of our heads, but stretch out beyond them. From this perspective I offer the view that the future of human mental development is not only relational but that it is intersubjective in ways that go beyond what we can now accept as possible an ongoing process of "playing with boundaries" whereby an affectively embodied self-and-other are jointly constructing an intersubjective realm in which the coexistence of seemingly incompatible perspectives on reality become possible because they are experienced as part of a greater whole that neither alone defines. What I call, metaphorically, "playing with boundaries," overlaps dramatically at the neurobiological level with what Allan Schore writes about as a right-brain to right-brain channel of affective communication a dialogue that takes place through dynamically fluctuating moment-to-moment state-sharing. It also overlaps with Pat Ogden's focus on the body as the context for relationally expanding regulatory boundaries of the "window of affect tolerance" for experiencing "not-me" self-states, and with Robert Bosnak's focus on the body in "Dreamwork" the relational process of reentering and reliving one's dream. I refer to this shared space as "a lived unconscious," and will explore some of its features as they are manifested during the process of "enactment" in treatment, including its "uncanny" aspects. Note: This is a working title and abstract subject to the outcome of Dr. Bromberg's self-states' negotiations

Efrat Ginot

Encountering the implicit self in psychotherapy: Intersubjective and neuropsychological underpinnings to knowing the other

This presentation will tackle one of the most intriguing clinical issues today: in light of omnipresent implicit brain processes, how do we access and get to know nonconscious memories, as well as implicit emotional and relational patterns? Although out of awareness, these encoded patterns developed within the context of early intersubjective interactions, affect all aspects of one s sense of self and typical ways of being. As verbal interchanges alone are insufficient to provide a full picture of implicit emotional and relational schemas, a range of psychotherapeutic processes that facilitate direct experiential connections to the implicit and dissociated are explored, all underpinned by recent exciting findings from neuroscience. Mutual nonconscious communication, the therapist s use of self, enactments, self-disclosure and the affective meaning of the patient s verbal self-narratives, can all enhance direct emotional knowing of nonconscious but frequently enacted self-states. Their transformation within the context of the therapeutic relationship, will lead to an integration of somatic, affective and cognitive self-aspects.

Gay Bradshaw

My Analyst is an Elephant: Trans-species Perspectives on Psychotherapy and Theory of the Self

Along with reintegrating mind with body, neuroscience with psychology, and emotion with cognition, psychology has embarked on perhaps on the most challenging of all reunions: humans with other animals. Discovery of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) in elephants and other wildlife has made explicit the unitary, species-common model of brain, mind, and behaviour that has quietly guided neurosciences for decades. This radical paradigm shift not only has profound ethical and cultural implications, but also raises intriguing questions conceptually. If elephants, humans, and even, some argue, invertebrates such as the taxonomically-made-low octopus, share what were once considered to be uniquely human qualities—sense of self, consciousness, and the capacity for the full spectrum of subjective experience—then what does it mean to be human? What do we learn about the human psyche when examined from the standpoint of an elephant, cat, or butterfly?

Karen Moroda

Does what we know and do matter as much as what we feel? Implications of neuroscience research for psychotherapeutic theory and technique

Neuroscience research continues to confirm the realities of right-brain unconscious emotional communication and the role of the therapist as facilitator of affect regulation. . The fact that most communication is nonverbal, including facial expression and body language, however, offers some challenge to the verbal interventions traditionally offered by therapists. What are the critical elements of therapeutic action beyond our empathic attunement with the client, if any? Is what we feel more important than what we do? To the extent that verbal reasoning is important, how can it be utilized to maximize the affective experience required for real change?

Pat Ogden

The Role of the Body in Forecasting the Future

Body-to-body "conversation"-- prosody, facial expression, posture and movement--relationally conveys and sustains implicit, unconscious beliefs and affects that have anticipatory and predictive functions, often based in the past. Highlighting the communicative role of the "somatic narrative," this presentation illustrates the significance of body experience as a primary source of therapeutic action and explores the physical conversation between therapist and patient that takes place along with the words.

Allan Schore

Therapeutic enactments: working in right brain windows of affect tolerance

Advances in our understanding of the essential roles of nonverbal communications, dysregulated affect and arousal, and dissociation are altering clinical models for treating developmental relational trauma. These new data are being incorporated into more complex trauma-focused psychotherapeutic perspectives that emphasize the critical importance of enactments in patients with a history of attachment trauma. As opposed to earlier conceptions, enactments are currently viewed as ubiquitous and inevitable repetitions of past events that are expressed in ruptures of the transference-countertransference relationship as intense, overwhelming unconscious affects. In line with current relational models these affective entanglements are understood to be co-creations of converging emotional scenarios from both the patient s and the therapist s early experiences. These most stressful moments of the treatment induce intense affect-arousal dysregulation in both, yet at the same time represent an invaluable inroad into deeply traumatized areas, an essential context for encountering dissociated aspects of the patient, and an opportunity to alter implicit memories and promote integration and growth. This PowerPoint lecture on enactments will use regulation theory to offer a clinically grounded model of the right brain-to-right brain communications that occur at the edges of the regulatory boundaries of both the patient s and therapist s windows of affect tolerance. The rapid interpersonal neurobiological change mechanism of an enactment can alter the patient s implicit capacities to process emotions and regulate relational stress.

Educational Objectives:

The participant will learn about:

• Current integration of psychoanalytic concepts of the relational unconscious and the interpersonal neurobiology of the right brain into more complex clinical models of unconscious communication and intersubjectivity.
• Very recent understandings of the psychotherapeutic change mechanism of clinical enactments.
• The paradigm shift in working with defenses: from repression to pathological dissociation.
• Applications of current neurobiological, relational, and regulation data to models of psychotherapy with other species.

Continuing Education Accreditations:

Counselors
PsyBC is an approved sponsor of CEU's for counselors by the National Board of Certified Counselors. Provider #5751

MFT's and LCSW's
PsyBC has been approved by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences to offer CE credits to licensed clinical social workers (LCSW's) and licensed marriage, family therapists (MFT's) in the state of Californio Provider #PCE439

Psychoanalysts
PsyBC has been approved by NAAP for psychoanalysts.

Psychologists
PsyBC is approved by the American Psychological Association (provider #10801) to offer continuing education for psychologists. PsyBC maintains responsibility for the program. Approved by the CA Board of Behavioral Sciences (PCE #439).

Social Workers
This program is approved by the National Association of Social Workers (Provider #886357582) for 13 continuing education contact hours (pending approval by the NASW).

Psy Broadcasting Corporation, is approved as a provider for social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) www.aswb.org, through the Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Psy Broadcasting Corporation is provider #1099 and maintains responsibility for the program. Social workers should contact their regulatory board to review the current continuing education requirements for licensure renewal.

States Approved by ASWB:Alaska, Alberta Canada, Connecticut, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Manitoba Canada, Maryland, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, Virginia, Virgin Islands, Wisconsin, Wyoming

Faculty Bio's:

Philip Bromberg, Ph.D.
Philip Bromberg, Ph.D. is a Training and Supervising Analyst of the William Alanson White Institute, and Clinical Professor of Psychology at the New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. He is an Editorial Board member of Contemporary Psychoanalysis, Psychoanalytic Dialogues, & Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis, and is a Consulting Editor of Psychoanalytic Inquiry, In addition to his numerous journal articles, Dr. Bromberg is perhaps most widely recognized as author of Standing in the Spaces: Essays on Clinical Process, Trauma, and Dissociation(1998), and Awakening the Dreamer: Clinical Journeys (2006), both volumes published by The Analytic Press.

G.A. Bradshaw, Ph.D.
Gay Arndt Bradshaw. is Executive Director of The Kerulos Center. She holds doctorate degrees in ecology and psychology, and has published, taught, and lectured widely in these fields both in the U.S. and internationally. She is the author of Elephants on the Edge: What Animals Teach Us about Humanity, published by Yale University Press, an in-depth psychological portrait of elephants in captivity and in the wild.

Dr. Bradshaw's work focuses on trans-species psychology, the theory and methods for the study and care of animal psychological wellbeing and wildlife self-determination. Her research expertise includes the effects of violence on and trauma recovery elephants, grizzly bears, chimpanzees, and parrots, and other species in captivity. She established the new field of trans-species psychology upon which the work and principles of The Kerulos Center are based.

From 1992-2002, Dr. Bradshaw was a research mathematician with the USDA Forest Service, holding faculty positions at Oregon State University (Departments of Computer and Electrical Engineering; Environmental Sciences Graduate Program) and at Pacifica Graduate Institute. In 2000, she was a Fellow at the National Science Foundation National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS), Santa Barbara, California, USA. Her research has been featured in diverse media including the New York Times, Time Magazine, National Geographic, Smithsonian, The London Times, ABC s 20/20, and several documentary films.

Efrat Ginot, Ph.D.
Efrat Ginot is a graduate of the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychoanalysis. She is teaches at the Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy, and supervises at The Fifth Avenue Counseling Center. She has a private practice in NYC. Dr. Ginot has published and presented papers dealing with the therapeutic importance of nonconscious intersubjective processes and their neuroscientific underpinnings. Her focus has been an enhanced understanding of complex psychotherapeutic processes such as enactments, and their importance to therapeutic growth.

Karan Maroda, Ph.D., ABPP
Karen J. Maroda is Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the Medical College of Wisconsin and in private practice in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She is the past ethics chair and board member of Division 39 (Psychoanalysis) of APA, and past president of Section III, Women, Gender and Psychoanalysis s, of Div. 39. The author of three books, The Power of Countertransference, and Seduction, Surrender and Transformation, and the recently released Psychodynamic Techniques: Working with emotion in the therapeutic relationship. Dr. Maroda has also published numerous journal articles, book chapters and book reviews.

Pat Ogden, Ph.D.
Pat Ogden, Ph.D. is a pioneer in somatic psychology and the founder/director of the Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute, an internationally recognized school specializing in somatic cognitive approaches for the treatment of posttraumatic stress disorder and attachment failure. She is a clinician, consultant, international lecturer, trainer, and author, co-founder of the Hakomi Institute, and faculty of the Naropa University. Dr. Ogden is the first author of the groundbreaking book, Trauma and the Body: A Sensorimotor Approach to Psychotherapy and is currently working on her second book, The Body as Resource: Sensorimotor Interventions for the Treatment of Trauma

Allan Schore, Ph.D.
Allan Schore is on the clinical faculty of the Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine. He is author of the seminal volume Affect Regulation and the Origin of the Self, and two recent books Affect Dysregulation and Disorders of the Self and Affect Regulation and the Repair of the Self. His ground-breaking contributions have impacted the fields of psychoanalysis, affective neuroscience, neuropsychiatry, developmental psychopathology, trauma theory, infant mental health, psychotherapy, and behavioral biology. Described as "the American Bowlby" and "world's leading authority on neuropsychoanalysis," he is Editor of the Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology, is on the editorial staff and reviewer of 27 journals, is involved in psychiatric neuroimaging research, lectures internationally to a variety of clinical and scientific audiences, and has practiced psychotherapy for four decades.