The Edith Laufer Neuropsychoanalytic Clinical Study Center

The Edith Laufer Neuropsychoanalytic
Clinical Study Center of NPAP Presents

Affect Regulation Theory: A Clinical Model

By Daniel Hill (2015)
W.W. Norton & Company, New York

Facilitator:
Ann Rose Simon, LCSW

Contributor:
Walter Nieves, MD,
Consulting Neurologist

Friday, March 3, 2023
2:30pm – 4pm

 All participants are advised to purchase a copy.
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Live Online via Zoom
(Registration is required in order to receive the zoom link)
Registration will close
Friday, March 3, at 1pm

YOU WILL RECEIVE THE ZOOM LINK
BETWEEN 1PM AND 2PM
ON FRIDAY, MARCH 3

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. During the academic year 2022-23, we will be reading selected chapters of the book Affect Regulation Theory: A Clinical Model by Daniel Hill (2015) W.W. Norton & Company, New York. 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. For February 3, we will discuss the following sections of the book:

Chapter 6: Mentalization: The Secondary Affect-Regulating System, pp. 98-111

Learning Objectives: After attending the presentation, participants will be able to
– Describe the work of Bowlby and his concept of “The Internal Working Model.”
– Define what is meant by “the assimilative function” and how that is adaptive.
– Explain what Mary Main’s Adult Attachment Interview is and how it measures “metacognition.”

Gavriel Reisner, PhD, LP

Moderator:
Alice Entin, LCSW

Sunday, March 19, 2023
5pm – 7pm

Live Online via Zoom: Workshop
(Registration is required in order to receive the zoom link)
Registration will close
Friday, March 17, at 1pm

YOU WILL RECEIVE THE ZOOM LINK
BETWEEN 1PM AND 2PM
FRIDAY, MARCH 17

Registration is Closed

In his nuanced discussion of “The Uncanny” Freud’s strongest example of Das Unheimliche is the secret body of woman, man’s estranged home. That desired/feared source and goal goes back to Oedipal longing. Love-relationships are, therefore, often based on two derivatives of Oedipal longing: The Deep Woman (return to original connection) and The Modeled Woman (return to original passion). Alfred Hitchcock, always Freudian, illustrates these two kinds of love-objects through Midge (as Deep Woman) and Madeline (as Modeled Woman) in his much-admired masterpiece, Vertigo.

Learning Objectives: After attending this presentation, participants will be able to
– Identify the female gaze as having a vitalizing or castrating effect on men who are far more vulnerable than feminist theory, with its emphasis on the objectifying “male gaze,” acknowledges.
– Discuss how the whorl in the bun in Carlotta Valdez’s seductive hair style represents the hidden female body, the whirling circle at the center of the film’s cinematic image-making.
– Describe how to untangle the intricate web of truth and fiction that weaves together in the film’s complicated narrative presentation.

Bio: Gavriel Reisner, PhD, LP Graduate, NPAP (2019). Past Lecturer in English at The Hebrew University and Lecturer in English and Visiting Senior Lecturer in Multidisciplinary Studies at Tel Aviv University. He has authored books, articles, chapters in compilations, and reviews on literature and, more recently, on literature-and-psychoanalysis. Reisner’s present work-in-progress is Suffering a Sea-Change: Going from Ghosts to Ancestors in Narrative. The lead essay in the projected volume, “On Ghosted and Ancestral Selves in Hamlet: Loewald’s ‘Present Life’ and Winnicott’s ‘Potential Space’ in Shakespeare’s Play” won the Peter Loewenberg (CORST) Prize from the American Psychoanalytic Society in 2015. In 2019 a revised version of this article received the JAPA-New Author’s Prize. He is in private practice near Lincoln Center in Manhattan.

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.

Instructor:
Anthony P. Bossis, PhD

Saturdays:
March 18, 2023 & March 25, 2023
12:30 – 5pm (each day)

Live Online via Zoom (registration is required in order to receive the zoom link)
In-Person (limited capacity)

Registration will close
Friday, March 17, at 1pm

YOU WILL RECEIVE THE ZOOM LINK
BETWEEN 1PM AND 2PM
ON FRIDAY, MARCH 17

Registration is Closed

Separating the science from hype: What does the research evidence show? This two-day course will review the history and scientific findings of psychedelic research, current FDA-approved clinical trials, and the therapeutic implications of psychedelic psychotherapies’ utility in mental health. A detailed review of the history and research with psychedelics for end-of-life existential distress and implications for palliative care will be presented, along with an overview of psychedelic research in other clinical disorders. Additional topics include the implications of psychedelics for studying meaning-making, spirituality, and consciousness research. The course will primarily focus on classic psychedelics, a class of serotonergic compounds that includes psilocybin and will also review research with other compounds.

Learning Objectives: After attending the presentation, participants will be able to
– Identify the primary psychedelic (hallucinogens) used in psychedelic clinical research.
– Demonstrate general knowledge of the scientific findings from psilocybin cancer-anxiety research and other contemporary research findings.
– Identify common features of existential and psychological distress observed in cancer and end-of-life patients.
– Describe and identify the primary components of the psychedelic psychotherapy treatment model including an understanding of set and setting.
– Describe the features of a psychedelic-generated mystical experience (shown to be correlated with enhanced outcomes in some psychedelic therapies).

Note: This course does not provide instruction on how to use psychedelics, provide instruction or training on how to be a psychedelic therapist, or will discuss the use of psychedelics outside of academic clinical research and the history of psychedelics. Most psychedelic drugs are federally identified as Schedule 1 and will be referenced only regarding FDA clinical trials.

Open to:
NPAP Members I $225
Candidates I $225 (register as usual for coursework)
Other Professionals I $285
Student Guest Rate I $120 (Inquiries: vicki.vs.reed@gmail.com )
Contribution I Encouraged

9.0 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.

Bio: Anthony P. Bossis, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist and clinical assistant professor of psychiatry at NYU School of Medicine, an adjunct professor of classics and religious studies at the University of Ottawa, and an Investigator at The Lundquist Institute for Biomedical Innovation. Since 2006, he has been conducting FDA-approved clinical research with the psychedelic compound psilocybin. Dr. Bossis was director of palliative care research and co-principal investigator on a 2016 clinical trial demonstrating a significant reduction in emotional and existential distress from a single psilocybin session in persons with cancer along with improvements in spiritual well-being and quality of life. He is the study director and lead therapist on a clinical trial investigating a psilocybin-generated mystical experience upon religious leaders. Dr. Bossis is a training supervisor of psychotherapy at NYU-Bellevue Hospital and co-founder and former co-director of the Bellevue Hospital Palliative Care Service. He is on the faculty at The Center for Psychedelic Therapies and Research at the California Institute of Integral Studies. His primary research interests in the study of psychedelics are for the treatment of end-of-life existential distress and to advance our understanding of consciousness, meaning, and spirituality. He maintains a private psychotherapy and consulting practice in NYC.

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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.

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 marriage and family therapists #MFT-0093.