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The Edith Laufer Neuropsychoanalytic Clinical Study Center of NPAP Presents "Science of the Art of Psychotherapy" Facilitator: Ann Rose Simon, LCSW Contributor: Walter Nieves, MD, Consulting Neurologist
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The Edith Laufer Neuropsychoanalytic
Clinical Study Center of NPAP Presents
“Science of the Art of Psychotherapy”
Facilitator:
Ann Rose Simon, LCSW
Contributor:
Walter Nieves, MD, Consulting Neurologist
Friday, March 7, 2025
2:30pm – 4pm
Live In Online via Zoom
(Registration is required in order to receive the zoom link)
Registration will close
Friday, March 7, at 1pm
YOU WILL RECEIVE THE ZOOM LINK
BETWEEN 1PM AND 2PM
ON FRIDAY, MARCH 7
Registration is Closed
The group will read, study, and discuss books and papers by distinguished authors and researchers that explore some of the seminal concepts and clinical issues in neuropsychoanalytically informed psychotherapy. For this meeting date, we will read Chapter 6, Pages 223-242, “Affect Regulation, and the Developing Right Brain: Linking Developmental Neuroscience to Pediatrics” in the Science of the Art of Psychotherapy by Allan N. Schore. In this 2012 publication, Allan Schore, the internationally acclaimed clinician and writer, synthesizes research from the fields of psychoanalysis and neurobiology. From the vantage point of brain development, he touches upon such topics as affect regulation, attachment, developmental neuroscience, trauma and dissociation. Schore focuses not only on the brain changes that can occur in the patient during psychotherapy, but also on how clinical experience with the patient can have a neurobiological impact on the therapist. This book is a readable, clinically-based compilation of contemporary research and theory related to affect regulation – how humans regulate their emotions. As a central element of optimal human development and functioning, affect regulation is a central focus of psychoanalysis and other forms of psychotherapy. While this book draws heavily on the theories of Allan Schore, it integrates attachment theory, affective neurobiology, cognitive neurobiology, mother-infant studies, and developmental psychoanalysis.
All participants are advised to purchase a copy.
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Learning Objectives: After attending the presentation, participants will be able to
– Describe how interactively regulated synchronized interactions between the caretaker and infant promote the infant’s regulatory capacities and are fundamental to the infant’s healthy affective development.
– Enumerate the milestone changes that occur in the infant brain during the critical period of development that begins at about 8 weeks.
– Explain how the diagnostic armamentarium of the practicing pediatrician can be enhanced by measurement tools for assessing attachment relationships, affect regulation, and infant mental health.
Open to:
NPAP members I $20.00
Other Professionals I $30.00
Candidates I $15.00
Contribution I Strongly Encouraged
1.5 CE contact hours will be granted to participants with documented attendance and complete evaluation form. It is the responsibility of the participants seeking CE credits to comply with these requirements. Upon completion, a Certificate of Attendance will be emailed to all participants.
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National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0139.
National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychoanalysts. #P-0010.
The National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis, Inc., is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychologists #PSY-0137.
Time
(Friday) 2:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Location
National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis (NPAP)
40 W 13th St, New York, NY 10011
30mar5:00 pm7:00 pmContinuing Education Seminar
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The Continuing Education Program Committee of NPAP Presents Wondering and Wandering -- In Defense of Free Association and the Fundamental Rule Presenter: Richard Reichbart, PhD
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The Continuing Education Program
Committee of NPAP
Presents
Wondering and Wandering — In Defense of Free Association and the Fundamental Rule
Presenter: Richard Reichbart, PhD
Moderator: Isolde Kielhofer
Sunday, March 30, 2025
5pm – 7pm
Live Online via Zoom: Workshop
(Registration is required in order to receive the zoom link)
Registration will close
Friday, March 28, at 1pm
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BETWEEN 1PM AND 2PM
FRIDAY, MARCH 28
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“Free association” and the “fundamental rule” are bedrock for psychoanalytic therapy and apply to what both patient and analyst should experience in the process. In this presentation, the author traces Sigmund Freud’s recognition of the importance of free association that began with his tribute to the works of Ludwig Borne and Fredric Schiller. The author invokes similar proposals akin to free association made by artists and scientists including Keats, Dickens, Frost, Kuhn, Koestler, and Einstein. The emphasis is not only the importance of free association to effective treatment, but for both patient and analyst it is the “moral press” that permits free associative thoughts, particularly to question assumptions about how things are supposed to be. Lastly, the author suggests that for the patient the hope and purpose of therapy is to provide – in addition to solace – an encouragement of creativity.
Learning Objectives: After attending this presentation, participants will be able to
– Discuss how the “moral press” that lies behind the free associative rule is received by the patient and is essential to defense analysis.
– Assess how the “moral press” leads to questioning and curiosity on the part of both analyst and patient and how encouraging creativity in the patient is a — too often unrecognized — goal of treatment.
Open to:
NPAP Members I $25
Other Professionals I $40
Other Candidates/Students I $15
Contribution I Strongly Encouraged
2 CE contact hours will be granted to participants with documented attendance and complete evaluation form. It is the responsibility of the participants seeking CE credits to comply with these requirements. Upon completion, a Certificate of Attendance will be emailed to all participants.
National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0139.
National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychoanalysts. #P-0010.
The National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis, Inc. is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Psychology as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychologists #PSY-0137.
Time
(Sunday) 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
The Edith Laufer Neuropsychoanalytic Clinical Study Center provides emotional support in the next step of your recovery process after a brain injury.
Our licensed professionals treat the symptoms and psychological sequelae of stroke, TBIs, and other brain injuries. These symptoms may include depression, anxiety, identity issues and the feeling that you are just not your old self. After medical intervention and rehab, the next step is to address the psychological, social, familial and environmental challenges. When changes in the brain occur, these changes also affect how we feel about ourselves and how we relate to family and friends.
Our licensed clinicians are trained and highly experienced in this next step of the recovery process. The brain has an innate neuroplasticity and we are here to facilitate your recovery and to enhance your sense of well-being.
Call us today at (212) 924-7440 or email [email protected] for a free consultation.
What We Offer
Brain-injured patients often experience symptoms of depression, anxiety and a sense that they are not the person they once were. Often they find that psychological services are not available to them after they complete their rehabilitation treatment.
Psychodynamic psychotherapy can help these individuals reduce their psychological symptoms and reestablish a sense of identity and well-being.
How?
In the psychotherapeutic process, we work with you to facilitate your recovery and to reestablish a sense of self.
Who?
We are licensed clinical social workers, psychologists and psychoanalysts, collaborating with an educational consultant and a neurologist.
Educational Outreach
The Center’s licensed clinicians provide ongoing education, facilitate reading groups, give presentations at national and international conferences and contribute to scholarly journals.
About Our Fees
• Medicare and many other insurances are accepted.
• Flexible fee schedule.
• Funding may be available for patients without insurance.
