Intimacy:  Fear and Fascination

 

 

AAP Summer Workshop

Deer Creek State Park, Columbus, Ohio

June 9-13, 2004

 

Advanced Training for Experienced Psychotherapists


2004 Summer Workshop Theme

What is it that draws us to and repels us from intimate connections with others?  What is our yearning?  What is it we fear?  Why is shame connected to our need for intimacy and the need so often disclaimed?  Is the prospect of transcending our isolation balanced by our fear of engulfment and loss?  Although the culture claims intimacy as a solely positive aspect of life, we know there’s much more to the story.  If intimate contact involves a mutual sharing of self through vulnerable revelation, then it’s no surprise that the prospect and process of intimate connection evoke an extensive range of affective and behavioral responses.  Fascination and fear name two of a possibly infinite list of reactions.

 

The Academy, with its commitments to self-examination, self-awareness, and to the person of the therapist, is arguably the field’s expert body on intimacy.   A central tenet of existential humanistic psychotherapy holds that relationship is foundational to both psychopathology and healing.  Thus, every day in our work we strive to engage and “be there” with others and ourselves, and try to forge a relationship based on authentic, vulnerable connection.  Of course, our own issues with intimacy inevitably impact our work and our clients.  To do this work is to struggle with intimacy.  Join us at Deer Creek as we continue our personal and professional struggles to intimately engage.

 

Purpose of AAP

The purpose of the American Academy of Psychotherapists is:

-To enhance the person of the psychotherapist

-To challenge the experienced psychotherapist to professional excellence

-To explore the relationship of person and process to psychotherapy

 

Learning Objectives

Participants at this AAP Summer Workshop will engage in theme-focused workshops and process groups in which they will have the opportunity to:

 

Acquire new skills regarding the recognition and treatment of intimacy-based interpersonal difficulties for clients.

 

Explore various clinical approaches to intervention aimed at the barriers to intimacy for the client and his/her significant others.

 

Enhance therapists’ ability to identify their own barriers to intimacy and the subsequent countertransferential implications.

 

Interact with other therapists around personal and professional issues generated by aspects of intimacy in their personal and professional lives.

 

Meeting policies

Confidentiality regarding personal material is expected from everyone. 

Workshops are smoke free and may not be recorded by participants.

Workshops will start on time and latecomers may be refused entry.

 

Workshop Committee

Welcome!  Welcome back.  We are eager to present this workshop to you for your education, sustenance, and delight.  We hope you will join us in what we assure you will be a program filled with intimacy and challenge, anxiety and growth.  We look forward to sharing with you this savory banquet, this moveable feast that is the AAP Summer Workshop.

 

Roy and Phyllis Clymer, Co-Chairs

Joel H. Marcus (Program Co-chair with Phyllis), Jeri Bonner, Tom Burns, Ellen Carr, Cindy Galinski, Burt Grenell, Susan Jacobson, Lucy Kerewsky, Tamara Lubliner, Deborah Winegar, Jack Winegar.

Nancy Hunt, Consultant: Questions?

(510) 268-1786, aapoffice@sbcglobal.net

 

 

The Meeting Site 

We return to Deer Creek Resort & Conference Center (www.visitdeercreek.com, (740) 869-2020), which is located just south of Columbus, Ohio.  Knowing full well that if two AAPers get together, there will be three opinions about any and everything; most people seem to have a positive memory of our last workshop there in 1999.

 

The Conference Center is, as you may remember, situated beside a lake in the midst of hiking trails, flowers, trees, and wildlife.  There are indoor and outdoor pools, Jacuzzi, sauna, fitness center, and places to sit, relax, and enjoy the view.  You can ride horseback, fish, boat, and play basketball, softball, golf and tennis.

 

The Center has 110 guest rooms, all ours!  Rooms with balconies, kings and lofts are available.  All meeting rooms and many guest rooms are handicapped accessible.  Members arriving before  Wednesday must contact the hotel for rooms.

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Conference Center is 45 minutes from the Columbus airport and not far from Interstates 70 and

71 for those driving.  We will have transportation from the Columbus airport available for those arriving on Wednesday and leaving on Sunday.  We look forward to intimate encounters with all of you in the woods and rooms of Deer Creek.

 

Continuing Education

This program is co-sponsored by the American College of Forensic Examiners International / American Psychotherapy Association and American Academy of Psychotherapists.  The American College of Forensic Examiners International / American Psychotherapy Association (ACFEI/APA) is approved by the American Psychological Association to offer continuing education for psychologists.  ACFEI/APA maintains responsibility for the program.

 

ACFEI is recognized by the National Board for Certified Counselors to offer continuing education for National Certified Counselors.  We adhere to NBCC Continuing Education Guidelines.

 

ACFEI (provider #1052), is approved as a provider for social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB, www.aswb.org, telephone: 1-800-225-6880), through the Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program.  ACFEI maintains responsibility.

 

ACFEI is an approved provider of the California Board of Behavioral Sciences, (approval PCE 1896).

 

The American Academy of Psychotherapists is approved by the National Association of Drug and Alcohol Counselors (NAADAC) to offer continuing education for Alcohol and Drug Abuse Counselors, and is also accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to sponsor continuing medical education for physicians.

 

 

 

Schedule at a Glance

 

Wednesday, June 9, 2004

1:00-5:00          Pre-conference activities

1:00-6:00          Registration

2:00-5:00          Ongoing Training Institutes

5:30-7:00          Welcome Reception/Social gathering

7:00-8:30          Dinner

8:30-10:00         Opening Experience

10:00                New members’ Process Group

 

Thursday, June 10, 2004

7:00-8:50          Breakfast

9:00-12:00         Workshops

12:00-1:30         Lunch

1:30-3:00          Community Meeting

3:00-6:00          Activities/Grouping

6:30-8:00          Dinner (Barbecue)

8:00-????          Free time/Grouping

 

Friday, June 11, 2004

7:00-8:50          Breakfast

9:00-12:00         Workshops

12:00-1:00         AA/NA Meeting

12:00-1:30         Lunch

1:30-3:00          Community/Business Meeting

3:00-6:00          Activities/Grouping

7:00-8:30          Dinner

9:00-????          Dance with Soulutions

 

Saturday, June 12, 2004

7:00-8:50          Breakfast

9:00-12:00         Workshops

12:00-1:30         Lunch

1:30-3:00          Community Meeting

3:00-6:00          Activities/Grouping

5:30-6:30          CE forms collected

7:00-8:30          Dinner

8:30-????          Camp AAP

 

Sunday, June 13, 2004

7:00-8:30          Breakfast

8:30-9:30          Community Meeting/Closing

 

 


The Program

 

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 9

Afternoon (2-5 PM)

 

T1-ONGOING TRAINING INSTITUTE I

Woman Therapist/Woman Client

Traditional therapeutic dynamics take on a particular form and valence when experienced by women together.  The deep therapy relationship becomes the container for intense experiences of love and hate, desire and repulsion, hope and fear.  Through case materials, readings and discussion we will explore these complex but potentially transforming relationships. Continues Thursday morning, 9:00-12:00.  (12 ongoing members, Closed) 6 CE credits

Lorrie Hallman, Ph.D. is a seasoned therapist who has focused on women’s issues, including feminist theory, depression, anxiety, and the experience of sexual orientation.  She remains fascinated by the intra-psychic life of the individual and the influence of the psychotherapy relationship.

 

T2-ONGOING TRAINING INSTITUTE II

The Borderline Relationship:  Vicissitudes, Promise and Healing

In order to understand the borderline relationship cognitively and emotionally we will make use of a variety of frameworks.  These will include psychodynamic theory of borderline personality development, experiential and psychomotor psychotherapy approaches, neurophysiological models of trauma and post traumatic reaction, spiritual practices and, not least, our common humanness.  Continues Thursday morning, 9:00-12:00.  (14 ongoing members, Closed) 6 CE credits

Bruce Schell, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist who has practiced psychotherapy for over 30 years.  As a professor of Family and Preventative Medicine, he has taught medical students for the last 18 years.  He has published numerous articles and presented at local and national meetings.

 

THURSDAY, JUNE 10

MORNING (9 AM TO NOON)

 

T-1 CONTINUED

T-2 CONTINUED

 

#1-The Courage to be Intimate After Loss

In the aftermath of significant loss like the death of a loved one, the end of a marriage or partnership, the loss of physical abilities due to illness or accident people often experience residual conflict about such profound change. Such losses compel us to examine our working understandings and constructs about ourselves, our relationships with others and our lives.  On one side is a very strong and real urgency to incorporate the loss and move on.  An equally powerful opposite pull is to resist change and to yearn for the familiar past.  This 2-day process group will strive to create a space for these conflicting pulls with an emphasis on creating relationships that speak to both sides of this human condition.  (Limit 15) 6 CE credits

Adam Klein, Ph.D., is a licensed psychologist in Maryland.  He has a full-time private practice, which he splits between Annapolis and Bethesda.  He works with adults, couples, adolescents, families and groups.  The recent loss of his father, Frederick L. Klein, has placed him in a position to be able to speak to and relate to others about the courage to be intimate in the face of loss.

Lisa McPherson Robinson, MSW, LCSW-C, has a full-time private practice in Bethesda, Maryland.  She conducts psychotherapy with adults, couples, families and groups.

 

 

#2-Fascinating Fiddling on a Fearsome Roof

Marc Chagall’s depiction of “The Fiddler on the Roof” captures an essential human dilemma:  how can we live and express ourselves fully, authentically, passionately without losing our balance in a dangerous, hurtful world.  Nowhere is this paradox more salient than in the intimate work of Experiential Psychotherapy, where openness, authenticity and immediacy are essential yet where reflection, thoughtfulness and constructive circumspection must prevail.  This 2-day process group will provide attendees opportunities to practice this seemingly paradoxical skill in a non-directive group where sharing, exploring, and constructive responding will be the group task. (Limit 24) 6 CE credits

Marc Feldman, Ph.D., has been a psychotherapist in Washington, DC since 1978.  He works with adults and families and currently enjoys playing drums with “The District Jazz Quartet”.

 

 

#3-Explorations in Intimacy:  Confronting Fear and Fascination in a Process Group

Intimacy is a state of encountering others that attracts and repels us.  This 2-day process group will explore the edge between fascination with and fear of intimacy that is engendered in a process group.  (Limit 15) 6 CE credits

Murray Scher, Ph.D., has been leading groups for more than thirty years.  He has long been interested in issues involving intimacy.  A well published and experienced psychologist, he is a past president of AAP.

Lyn Sommer, Ph.D., enjoys confronting the challenge of intimacy in her work with couples, parent-child dyads and groups in her Connecticut psychotherapy practice.  She has taught group process in university settings and currently sits on AAP’s Executive Council.

 

 

#4-The Terror of Attachment:  Can Surrender be Sweet?

In therapy and in other relationships, moments arise when a choice is made to surrender to an internal directive which risks much, or to back off and play it safe.  Each of us has done both.  What allows for the choice for surrender at a given moment?  We will explore this question, both in ourselves and with each other.  (Limit 14) 3 CE credits

Molly Donovan, Ph.D., is Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the Georgetown University Medical Center and a Clinical Supervisor in the Department of Psychology at the George Washington University.  A co-founder of the seminar series, The Conversation between the Arts and Psychotherapy, she maintains a private practice in Washington, D.C., where she has practiced for over 25 years.

 

 

#5-Who Is Your Practice?  Relating to Your Practice As If It Were A Significant Other

We project our history with significant others—parents, siblings, spouses, and friends—not only onto our patients but also our practice, as if it were a human entity.  Our psychotherapy practices thus may become objects for us that at different moments are good and bad, nurturing and depriving, abandoning and engulfing, predictable and capricious, stimulating and deadening, affirming and diminishing, etc.  These and other projected inner states and irrational attachments powerfully affect our passion for the work and the success of our practice.  This workshop will encourage participants to explore frightening and fascinating connections to their practices and will employ personal sharing, imaging, experiential exercises and the use of the group process.  (Limit 15) 3 CE credits

Stephen Shere, Ph.D., has maintained a full time practice in Washington, D.C. for over thirty years.  His practice has focused particularly on providing psychodynamic and experientially oriented group psychotherapy and group supervision.  He has a special interest in the personal attributes, internal objects, and idiosyncratic narratives, which shape a therapist’s character and relationship to their practice.

 

 

#6-Therapeutic Connections and Disconnections

We sit together in the therapeutic hour.  What contributed to the presence or distance in our clients and us?  How do we overcome the fear/anxiety/excitement of closeness?  We will explore these themes in the processes of the group, role-play, and videotapes of therapy sessions.  (Limit 12) 3 CE credits

Grover Criswell, M.DIV., has been a pastoral psychotherapist and teacher of psychotherapy since 1968.  His academic training was at Phillips University and Yale University.  His clinical training took place at Albany Center Hospital and Hartford Hospital.  He has trained with many nationally known teachers, most recently, seven years with Richard Erskine, in Integrative Psychotherapy.  He will bring this training and experience to the tasks of this workshop. He has conducted numerous workshops and training groups in the United States, and will be using concepts from Gestalt, Experiential, and Perceptual Psychologies, and Bioenergetics in this workshop.  Mr. Criswell is in practice in Dayton, Ohio.

 

 

#7-Focus on Friendship:  Experiencing and Exploring the Dark Side of Nonsexual Intimate Relationships

This theme-flavored process group offers an opportunity to experience and explore similarities and differences in the ways that female-female, male-male, and female-male pairs of friends deal with competition, envy, jealousy, manipulation, lies, betrayal, fears of all sorts.  Come on your own… or come with a friend.  (Limit 16) 3 CE credits

Penelope Penland, Ed.D., a 27-year AAP member, holds a B.A. in English from Agnes Scott College and a M.Ed. and Ed.D. in Counseling Psychology from Boston University.  A licensed psychologist, she practices as psychotherapist, mediator, and business/life coach in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

 

 

#8-Fear and Fascination with the Creative Process:  Building a Deeper Intimacy

What are your fears and/or fascinations when engaging creativity in the therapeutic process?  In this workshop, participants will share their history of creative endeavors both in and out of the therapy room (samples and/or photos are welcome); hand paint a piece of clothing (something brought from home); and gain insight into how their fear and fascination with the creative process affect intimacy in their practices and lives.  (Limit 8) 3 CE credits  Note: Materials fee of $10 paid to the leader at the workshop

Pati Young, LCSW-C, is a licensed clinical social worker/artist with over 13 years experience.  Her current clinical practice uses a self-developed model of psychotherapy called “Creative Process Psychotherapy”.  This is a short-term complementary psychotherapeutic process aimed at enlivening the client’s creativity as a personal growth tool both within and outside the treatment room.  She also designs and hand-paints wearable art clothing.

 

 

#9-Daughters’ Anger for our Fathers:  The Intimate Crucible

We will gather in a sacred circle of women to address our anger for the wounding received from our fathers.  Using large group sharing and small group work with a body-based, bioenergetics, experiential process, we will explore that which remains held, stored, believed, and possibly even cherished in us.  (Limit 15 women) 3 CE credits

Laura June, Ph.D., is a licensed psychologist with a private practice of adult psychotherapy in Baltimore, Maryland.  She obtained her doctorate in Clinical Psychology from the University of Tennessee and a bachelor’s in biology and psychology from Duke University.  She has additional certification in Imago Relationship Therapy.  This workshop evolved from her personal as well as professional interest in the process of reclaiming the power of the feminine through an integration of the masculine.

 

 

#10-To What are we Entitled in Intimate Relationships?  The Good! The Bad! The Ugly!

Who are we in intimate relationships?  To what do we feel entitled?  Do we forego feeling entitled to much of anything in our most important relationships?  This workshop will encourage participants to examine the dance between ourselves and those with whom we are intimate.  Is the dance one of loving embrace or of martyred deprivation?  We will explore what we expect for ourselves including the good, the bad, and the ugly.  (Limit 15) 3 CE credits

Ellen Weber Libby, Ph.D., is a psychotherapist in Washington, D.C. where she has been doing individual, group, family therapy, and supervision for over 25 years.  Both in her practice and in her life she remains vigilant to those feelings of entitlement that define intimate relationships.

 

 

#11-Competition and Intimacy Between Teammates and Opponents

We learn much about our real, politically incorrect Selves during competition.  Whether vying for the winning basket, scarce resources, or attention to an emotional need, competition brings out a zest for life and for pushing ourselves to achieve as much as possible.  It can also push us over the edge into rage, depression, and entitlement.  How we each do on this score is central to who we are as people and as therapists.  (Limit 20)  Participants will choose up sides and play a game of pick-up basketball. Afterwards we will process the experience.  All skill levels, genders and other demographic variables welcomed.

Note: This workshop will meet from 8:30 am to 12:30 pm.  No CE credits offered

Nicholas Kirsch, Ph.D., a lifelong jock and competition junkie is fascinated at how competition increases and decreases performance, enjoyment, and intimacy in sports and in all significant relationships.  He wonders if he could live without the raw energy, joy and camaraderie that come with playing competitive team sports.

 

 

#12-The Harmful Effects of Chemical Dependency

This workshop will focus on chemically dependency including an exploration and discussion of what sort of patterns are set, not only in the people who are chemically dependent, but in their families as well.  Participants will have an opportunity for intimate sharing as they look at some of these effects, and discuss their own cases and situations that are of interest. This workshop meets criteria for Ethics CE.  (Limit 20)  3 CE credits

Phillip Guinsburg, Ph.D., is a licensed Alcohol and Drug Abuse Counselor, who is currently President Elect of the American Academy of Psychotherapists, and President of the Tennessee Association of Alcoholism and Drug Abuse Counselors. He has worked with chemically dependent individuals and their family members over the last thirty years. 

 

 

#13-Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea

This workshop offers an experiential, interactive opportunity to explore the vicissitudes of intimacy in a psychotherapeutic setting; especially as it relates to the relationship between patient and therapist.  Participants will focus on their own fear and fascination with the nature of intimacy and how it manifests itself in the work.  (Limit 12) 3 CE credits

Elliott Blum, Ph.D., has been in private practice for over 30 years.  He has directed clinical psychology and research training programs for over 20 years.

Ronnie Koenig, Ph.D., has been in the private practice of psychotherapy for over 25 years, and in AAP for almost that long.  Both venues have offered opportunities to experience fearful and fascinating aspects of intimacy.

 

FRIDAY, JUNE 11

MORNING (9 AM TO NOON)

 

#1 KLEIN AND ROBINSON CONTINUED

#2 FELDMAN CONTINUED

#3 SCHER AND SOMMER CONTINUED

 

#14-A Master Class…Offering Participants the Opportunity to Experience the Fear of Participation and the Fascination of Observing

Each day we will present a live demonstration showing how we work with individuals within the context of a group.  This will be followed by a didactic discussion focused on the therapeutic stance of each therapist, within the container of the group.  (Limit 50) 6 CE credits

Jack Kehoe, M.D., practiced as a physician for several years before his training as a psychiatrist in the psychoanalytic and community psychiatry tradition in the sixties.  Dr. Kehoe spent many years working with the late Sheldon Kopp, Ph.D., which led to his spending the majority of his professional life working in long-term experiential psychotherapy blended with the biological approach.  He has worked in many clinics and hospitals, public, private and military, and has held numerous consultantships.  In addition to presenting workshops and countless groups, he has been in the private practice of psychiatry for over twenty years.  Much of his understanding of the nature of psychotherapy has come through his long association with AAP.

Jack Mulgrew, Ph.D., A.B.P.P., is a professor in the Marriage and Family Therapy program at Appalachian State University.  He has been conducting experiential training workshops for psychotherapists for the past 30 years.

Barry S. Sternfeld, Ph.D., has been training and supervising psychotherapists for nearly 30 years. He is in private practice in Silver Spring, Maryland.

 

 

#15-Do I Dare Eat a Peach?

J. Alfred Prufrock knew the score.

There is a risk in going for more.

Yet we, like him, need never lack

The perverse satisfaction of holding back. 

 

Participants in this 2-day experience will be encouraged to investigate their resistance to approaching the resources of the group.  (Limit 12 moderately experienced to experienced therapists) 6 CE credits

David Hawkins, M.D., CGP, is a Board Certified Psychiatrist in private practice in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.  He is a Past President of AAP and the American Group Psychotherapy Association.

 

 

#16-Alive in the Underground:  the Fear and Fascination of Intimacy---A Process Group

To be intimate we must risk surfacing things about ourselves that we’d prefer not to see (and have seen).  Yet to live only in the surface litter makes real connection impossible.  This is a 6-hour process group for people who are fascinated with the possibility of intimacy, and not dissuaded by their fear.  (Limit 12) 6 CE credits

Barry Wepman, Ph.D., is a psychologist in Washington, DC.  He has been in practice since 1976, and a member of AAP since 1981.  He does long-term psychotherapy with individuals and couples, and psychotherapy supervision.  He is a faculty member at the Washington School of Psychiatry, and Clinical Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at Georgetown University School of Medicine, where for the past 9 years he has run a process group for psychiatry residents.

 

 

#17-The Transformation of Shame:  A Barrier to Intimacy

Participants will have an opportunity to explore issues related to shame, including how shame obstructs intimacy.  Through the group process, participants may transcend some of shame’s immobilizing aspects.  Our hope is to facilitate participants’ liberation from the “House of Shame”.  Reading selections will be assigned prior to the Summer Workshop.  (Limit 15) 6 CE credits

Stephanie Ezust, Ph.D., earned her degree in Clinical Psychology from Georgia State University.  She has practiced psychotherapy for more than 25 years and is currently in practice in Decatur, Georgia.  She has specialized in women’s issues and trauma recovery, which often includes a significant component of shame.  She supervises and trains developing therapists, and has facilitated many presentations and workshops on shame, Experiential Psychotherapy and Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT). She also serves on the Southern Region Committee of AAP.

Jennifer Savitz, Ph.D., has her Ph.D. in Counseling, and also practices as a Clinical Nurse Specialist in Columbia, South Carolina.  She has practiced psychotherapy for over 30 years and has taught at the University of South Carolina in several departments.  Jennifer has offered more than 30 presentations focused on sexual abuse and post-trauma.  She has been a member of AAP for twenty years and has served on many committees.  She has presented two workshops on shame and guilt for the Academy.

 

 

#18-Facing Ourselves, Facing Others

One of our most intimate connections is with our own faces.  Through them we connect powerfully and intimately with others.  Changing one’s face through elective cosmetic surgery raises both intra-psychic and interpersonal issues in our personal and professional lives.  This workshop is for those who are contemplating or who have undertaken such surgery and wish to explore the fear, fascination and clinical practice issues associated with this change.  (Limit 14) 3 CE credits

Rhona Engels, A.C.S.W., has practiced in New York City for 22 years.  She works with individuals, couples and groups, and provides supervision.  She did psychoanalytic training at the Karen Horney Institute, and received her certificate in Psychoanalytic Group Psychotherapy from the Post Graduate Institute, all in New York.  She has also taught and published papers on countertransference and self-disclosure.  In her practice, Rhona is particularly interested in addressing the impact of negative belief systems and perceived self worth.  She is currently serving on the AAP Executive Council.

Marcia  Warrant, LICSW, has been in private practice in Washington, DC for over 30 years.  She supervises clinicians and was a consultant to the IVF Program at the Columbia Hospital for Women.  She has been a member of AAP since 1974.

 

 

#19-Retirement:  An Intimate Encounter with Fear and Fascination

As in all stages of our life’s journey, the transitions, rites of passage, etc., retirement is a process.  The passage to full  retirement courses through interesting fearful and dynamic challenges that we meet on the way.  We come together to share our journey and in this coming together, we hope to experience the intimacy that comes from exchanging our revelations and discoveries.  (Limit 15) 3 CE credits

Estelle Charles, MSW, worked as a legal paraprofessional when she began wondering about the “whys” of behavior, including her own. This eventually led to her own psychotherapy where she became fascinated with the process of psychoanalyzing her own behavior.  That led to her MSW and then to the Metropolitan Institute of Psychoanalysis, in order to learn how to practice psychotherapy, in which she has been engaged for about 30 years.  Still fascinated, Estelle is not retired, and works 2 days per week.

Dick Robertson, Ph.D., used his GI bill to attend the University of Chicago, where a buddy dragged him to a course given by Carl Rodgers.  He gravitated to Human Development, which contained some pre-med and anthropology instead of “rat” psychology.  Later he practiced Client Centered therapy in Chicago, and began teaching psychology for Northeastern Illinois University.  He is now retired from teaching, and is gradually diminishing his private practice.

 

 

#20-Intimacy in Dying:  Opportunities at the Bedside

Being present at a birth can almost always be arranged and is experienced as a continuing miracle.  To be at someone’s bedside when the final breath goes out of him or her is like catching a falling star out of the corner of your eye.  Most of us would not choose this experience.  For some of us who have had it, our lives have been changed forever.  It is an extremely intimate experience to be connected to someone in their dying.  Yet often guilt and fear drive us to shun the experience.  Using Ernest Becker’s “Denial of Death” as a backdrop, we will explore these fears and aim to tolerate the intimacies that witnessing death affords; thus making us more open to life.  (Limit 12) 3 CE credits

Lenore Pomerance, MSW, LICSW, is a clinical social worker in private practice in the District of Columbia.  She has led groups for people with cancer and HIV/AIDS, and other chronic illness such as asthma and multiple sclerosis.  She is a Certified Menopause Educator and counsels individuals and couples around midlife issues of aging and menopause.  She has co-led workshops at AGPA and AAP.

 

 

#21-Art Therapy as a Vehicle for Exploring Intimacy

What is it about the creative process that enhances intimacy?  This question will be explored in this workshop, in which one therapeutic modality, stone carving, will be used as a vehicle to explore the healing potential of the creative process.  Through their own stone carving process, participants will experience the intimate relationship between the creative process and healing.  (Limit 15) 6 CE credits Note: This 2 session workshop will occur on one full day, morning and afternoon.  A $35 materials fee is payable to the leader at the workshop.

Arthur S. Weinfeld, Ed.D. is a clinical psychologist who has had many years of experience integrating one artistic modality, stone carving, into psychotherapeutic process.  He has presented many workshops on this topic including Omega Institute, Esalen, and The Haven.  He maintains a private practice in Lincolnshire and Arlington Heights, Illinois.

 

 

#22-Enhancing Intimacy with Oneself Through the Use of Dreams:  Re-owning Disowned Aspects of the Self

The learning experience will be facilitated by:  a brief informational lecture with emphasis on the Gestalt Therapy approach; video presentation; live demonstration; opportunity for participants to work with each others’ dreams.  (Limit 16) 3 CE credits

Sol Rosenberg, Ph.D., Past President of AAP and of the Illinois Psychological Association, has been engaged in the practice and teaching of psychotherapy for the past 53 years.  Originally trained psychoanalytically, he practices a more humanistic-existential version of the art in Sarasota, Florida.

 

 

#23-Men and Intimacy (and Women Too)

In this workshop we will explore the dynamics involved in achieving and sustaining intimacy, and the special problems that arise as gender issues.  What makes intimacy seem so problematic and even dangerous a times?  Is it really more difficult for men than for women, and if so, why?  How do the gender expectations of our patriarchal culture get in the way?  What are the special issues and challenges involved when we work with men in therapy, individually and in couples?  (Limit 30) 3 CE credits

Stephen Howard, M.D., is an experiential psychotherapist, family therapist and teacher.  He has practiced and written in the field of psychotherapy for more than thirty years, with special interest in the dynamics of marriage and other intimate relationships.  He anticipates the publication of his book, The Practice of Loving, and is working on another entitled Intimate Couples.  He has presented many times for the AAP.

 

 

#24-Facing Old Age:  It’s Upside/Downside

‘You are old Father Williams,’ the young man said,

   ‘And your hair has turned perfectly white;

And yet you incessantly stand on your head --

  Do you think at your age that is right?’

 

‘In my youth,’ Father Williams replied to his son,

  ‘ I feared it might injure the brain;

But, now that I’m perfectly sure I have none,

  Why,  I do it again and again.’

      Lewis Carroll

 

In this workshop we will be considering old age as it impacts us both emotionally and physiologically.  Can we find meaning and purpose in our life as we prepare for retirement?  We will be dealing with the positive and negative sides of aging; what we have garnered over the years and what we have left to offer.  (Limit 15 therapists at least 60 years old) 3 CE credits

Mildred Kagan, LCSW, is in her mid-80’s.  She received her MSW from Columbia University in 1946.  Her private practice, which includes individual, couple and group therapy, began in 1966 and continues to date.  She has written on the subject of aging for Voices entitled “Old Age the Third Act:  Finding Meaning and Passion”.  She is currently “semi retired”.

 

SATURDAY, JUNE 11

MORNING (9 AM TO NOON)

 

#14 MULGREW, KEHOE, STERNFELD CONTINUED

#15 HAWKINS CONTINUED

#16 WEPMAN CONTINUED

#17 EZUST AND SAVITZ CONTINUED

 

#25-Intimacy with The Divine:  Implications for Other Relationships

In this didactic and experiential workshop we will explore how we conceptualize and experience our relationship with that which is usually called “God”, including the conceptualization that God does not exist.  We will then examine how this relationship interacts with our relationships with all other humans, including our patients, and especially those in the workshop.  (Limit 15) 3 CE credits

John Rhead, Ph.D., received his B.A. (Phi Beta Kappa) from Dartmouth, and his Ph.D. in Psychology from Stanford.  Dr. Rhead has a private practice in Columbia, Maryland, which focuses on psychotherapy and consultation. He is has been on the faculty of the School of Medicine of the University of Maryland, for approximately 25 years, first in the Department of Psychiatry and now in the Department of Medicine.

 

 

#26-The Fear and Fascination of Projective Identification:  The Unconscious Intimate Communication

Projective identification is a powerful dynamic in psychotherapy.  Thorough understanding of this process enables the therapist to better navigate the patient’s internal experience, and minimize the worst-case scenario of being colonized by the patient’s psyche.  Through didactic presentation, case presentation, and discussion, participants will learn about this concept and its’ use in the psychotherapeutic setting.  (Limit 16) 3 CE credits

Barbara L. Nama, LCSW, is a clinical social worker, who has been in practice for over 27 years.  She received her M.S.W. from the University of Michigan and worked in a variety of mental health clinic settings before moving to Atlanta, where she has been in full-time private practice since 1987. Specializing in long-term psychotherapy, her primary interest is in working with attachment disorders and disorders of the self.

 

 

#27-Intimacy in the Supervisory Process:  Fear and Fascination

We will explore the parallel processes that exist between our clients’ presenting problems, the issues we present in supervision, the issues we ourselves struggle with and the issues of our supervisors.  Complicated stuff; awe inspiring; difficult to unravel; fearsome to examine, yet fascinating to explore!  Participants are to send a one page case summary to the presenter six weeks prior to the workshop.  We will mine our “clinical nuggets” into pure therapeutic gold.  (Limit 8) 3 CE credits

Manny Silverman, Ph.D., was a university faculty member for 35 years.  During that time he continually struggled with the fear of intimacy in teaching, therapy, supervision and life in general.  Mentors and friends in AAP continually reminded him of how fascinating his struggles appeared to them.  Through their genuine investment, his familiar fear and trepidation were regularly attacked, leading to increases in his ability to experience intimacy.  This workshop will allow him to return the favor.

 

 

#28-Our Field of Dreams:  A Container for the Intimate Sharing and Learning from our Dream Worlds

We have always been fascinated and frightened by our dreams. Participants are asked to bring a recent or recurring dream to share in a structured small group setting.  The process of dream sharing can enhance intimate connections to our inner worlds and to each other.  (Limit 20 experienced therapists divided into groups of 4) 3 CE credits

Ann Spadone Jacobson, Ph.D., is a licensed Psychologist in private practice in Hermosa Beach, California for twenty-five years.  She has also taught and supervised the clinical work of students.  Ann has participated in a monthly “Dream Group” for several years.

 

#29-How Our Early Masters Did It

An essential characteristic of the Academy’s early members was a willingness to show vulnerability in intimate contact with patients and each other.   In this workshop we will explore, in their own words, how this took place.  Using our rich AAP Tape Library, we will reacquaint ourselves with those who inspire us to this day.  Our process, arising from the experience of listening to these tapes, may deepen our ability to struggle with being in intimate contact in our work.  (Limit Open) 3 CE credits

Vivian Guze, B.A., has been in the practice of psychotherapy for many years, starting out as a hospital psychologist for 16 years.  Her ongoing interest is in the realm of somatic psychotherapy, and how to harness the brains of the body to make behavior change.  She has served on the Executive Council of AAP, the International Institute for Bioenergetic Analysis, and the New York State Psychological Association.  Her special training relevant to this presentation:  Longevity in AAP.

 

 

#30-Ethics and the Law:  Fear and Fascination, an Intimate Conversation

The word, “ethics” has at its’ origins the Greek word, “ethos”, meaning, “to do the right thing”.  With the purity of Greek philosophy supporting their thinking at the time, the system of law was established to provide a framework for the upholding of ethics.  In this way, law and ethics have held hands, theoretically, through the ages.  In the current climate, we psychotherapists often find our ethical beliefs contrary to laws and rules to which we are held accountable.  How do we, as therapists, resolve the conflicts encountered when professional ethics and law or governing boards are in conflict?  This workshop meets criteria for Ethics CE.  (Limit 12) 3 CE credits

Pat Webster, Ph.D. R.N., C.S., received her undergraduate degree in nursing, her master’s in psychiatric nursing, and her doctorate in clinical psychology.  She is a licensed clinical psychologist and psychiatric nurse specialist in North Carolina, where she has been in private practice for twenty-four years.  She is chair of the Ethics Committee for the American Academy of Psychotherapists.

 

 

#31-Meditation:  An Adjunct to Intimacy in Psychotherapy

Being there with Self is a precursor to intimacy with others.  Participants will have the opportunity to explore various techniques to access their own sense of spirituality, find their own center, speak their own truth and process their own reality: fears and fascinations.  We will experience the quiet mind and viability of using these tools in psychotherapy.:  Mantra and Zen Meditation, Movement (yoga, Qigong, breathing) and Sound (chanting and Tibetan Bowls) will be used. (Limit 20) 3 CE credits

Angela Gould, Ph.D., a 26-year clinical psychologist, has utilized various methods and techniques to integrate body, mind, and spirit in her psychotherapy practice and hospice groups in Boulder, Colorado.

 

 

#32-Women, Sex, and Money:  How We Regulate our Fear and Fascination

This workshop combines self-reflection, guided imagery, group process and didactic components to explore the relationship women have with money, and in particular the ways that money intertwines with sexual power, control, and intimacy.  Areas of exploration will include:  shame about power and money; unconscious cultural expectations; interrelationship of dependency/power/submission/ control in the realms of sex and money.  (Limit 20 women) 3 CE credits

Pamela Finnerty, Ph.D., has been in the field of counseling and psychotherapy for over 30 years.  Throughout her graduate training at the University of Florida and Florida State University, she was interested in sexuality, ranging from male involvement among college students in the area of birth control, to sexuality and aging in her gerontology training. She was an Associate Professor of Education and Associate Research Professor of Psychiatry at George Washington University, and has had a private practice in Washington, DC and Virginia for twenty years.

 

#33 Ecstatic Body Postures:  Intimate Contact with Spirit

Ecstatic body postures can be seen in the artwork of indigenous people around the world.  These non-ordinary postures, when used in conjunction with rattling or drumming, alter the body’s functioning and allow us to perceive and experience non-ordinary reality; the spirit counterpart of the world we know through the five senses.  Through slide, lecture, and experiential components, participants in this workshop will expand their understanding of posturally induced trance and the value of such an experience to the process of change in the clinical setting.  Drums and rattles are welcome.  (Limit 15) 3 CE credits

Judy Lazarus, LCSW-C, is a clinical social worker in the Counseling Center at St. Johns College in Annapolis, and has maintained a private practice in Davidsonville, Maryland for over 25 years.  She has taught ritual posture workshops in Maryland and New Mexico and serves on the Board of Directors for the Cuyamungue Institute, a center for research and education about ritual body postures

 

Each presenter of a workshop for CE Credit at an AAP-sponsored event has agreed to do so without promoting, advertising, or soliciting any training for profit or other personal gain, or which promotes an institution with which the presenter is affiliated, and the presenter agrees that this presentation is intended solely for the advanced training of psychotherapist participants.

Each presenter of a workshop for CE credit also agrees that material presented at this workshop addresses subject matter described in the brochure printed for this workshop, and that material being presented in this workshop is considered to be within the parameters of standard professional practice, ethical guidelines, and good patient care, and consistent with the mandates of their respective professional affiliations and disciplines.

 

 

 

PRE-WORKSHOP ACTIVITIES

 

We suggest these local activities to enrich your experience at Deer Creek.  Frank Nosek will offer a tennis clinic from 5 to 6 PM on Wednesday, June 9th.  Francis Compton is organizing the golf tournament, time TBA.  We will have several capable massage therapists available to us on site throughout the conference.  If there is sufficient demand, we can arrange for pre-conference onsite massages on Wednesday June 9th.  There are wonderful Native American archeological sites in the area;  the closest is Hopewell Cultural Natural Historical Park (707-774-1126), thirty minutes south of Deer Creek.  Ft. Ancient in Lebanon is also interesting.  Paint Creek Stables (740-437-7325) is 10 minutes away, offering hour and a half trail rides for $20. Deer Creek Marina (740-869-4543) is just around the corner, offering a wide variety of watercraft from canoes to powerboats.  Deer Creek State Park (740-869-3124) is nearby and offers woods and beach trails for the nature lover.  Inveterate shoppers note: Jeffersonville Prime Outlets has 110 stores and is just 20 minutes away.  Burt Grenell will be happy make efforts to coordinate transportation and reservations for those who want to make use of these activities- contact him at 202-337-2999 and let him know when and what you would like to do and whether you can help with transportation for others. 

Registration Form

Summer Workshop 2004

June 9-13, 2004 Deer Creek, OH

 


 

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Single room                               $1025

 

Double room                             $725

 

Triple                                       $705

 

Four to a room                          $685

(room has 2 double beds plus loft with bunk beds)

 

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Intimacy: Fear and Fascination

AAP Summer Workshop

Deer Creek State Park, Columbus, Ohio

June 9-13, 2004

Advanced Training for Experienced Psychotherapists

 

 

Mission Statement

  • To provide a meeting ground for trained and experienced practicing psychotherapists of widely differing backgrounds and orientations.
  • To facilitate cross discipline thinking, planning and researching psychotherapy. To encourage and sponsor significant research into the fundamental problems of psychotherapy, and particularly to aid cooperative research projects in the field.
  • To encourage high standards of training, experience, and ethical practice in psychotherapy, in order to provide maximum service and protection for the public as well as maximum professional growth for the practitioner.