OR, pay here if you want to attend the conference as part of a CCMPS one credit conference call class. This class offers another 4.5 CE credits, for Counselors and Social Workers, in addition to the 6 CEs Conference credits that apply to Psychologists as well.

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Courses and Conference

Courses

GROUP ANALYSIS (PT 413)

This course will cover the theory and technique of group analysis from a Modern Psychoanalytic perspective. Process teaching will be used to simulate an analytic group setting. Process/dydactic teaching will be utilized. The main focus will be on resolving resistances to cooperation among group members.

Instructor: Kathy Macleay, PhD NCPsyA
Starts: Friday, September 30, 2011, 8:30-10:00am PST
Information: 818 365 9092 or seldomrestfarm@ca.rr.com

• PT 413 $290
  

CHARACTER ANALYSIS (PT 19)

Over the course of a child's development, s'he experiments with a great variety of adaptive coping skills and finds some of them more effective than others, and selects the ones that work best. Over time they become habitual, unconscious and deeply ingrained in the brain, in a manner known as implicit, or procedural memory. One can say that doing things the way that has always worked best becomes a person's character, their personality.

In direct proportion to a subject's degree of trauma, this character structure will form in a more brittle and fear based manner, and therefore will have to be guarded ever more anxiously, with a defensive rigidity equal to the perceived danger of losing the only adaptations that work. Even if they are ultimately dysfunctional, the source of pain, conflict and interpersonal alienation.

It is important to keep in mind that this adaptive self-structure is unconscious, taken for granted as the air we breath. and deeply personal. It's who we are, and how we think of ourselves. As such, character is something that is both the deepest level on which a person needs to heal, and the hardest one for the clinician to address.

We will study the different theories about character, aka personality. Starting with Wilhelm Reich's Character Analysis followed by neurobiological and cognitive-neuroscience, our focus will be on understanding the clinical usefulness, even necessity of addressing characterological problems. A definition of insanity is to keep doing what you are doing despite the fact that it is not working. In terms of character structures, they work in the moment, but create long term suffering.

How does one confront the problem of habitual adaptations without causing narcissistic injuries to patients by pointing their defenses out to them? When is interpretation needed, and how can one address a personality with both truth and empathic soothing? after all, when we address a very deep structure, we have to offer a great degree of psychological support.

Just like individual organisms, institutions also develop a character, an accepted, automaton-like way of functioning that creates a box in which individuals must fit in, adapt to at the expense of their individuality and creativity. Since we live and practice in systems, we need to understand and learn how to work with institutional personalities. There will be some sociological discussion based on contemporary social media and institutionality.

Instructor: Jan Middeldorf, PsyD, NCPsyA
Starts: Wednesday, January 18, 2012, 11:30am-1:00pm MT
Meets: By teleconference. Students will receive call-in instructions following registration.
Information: 505 296 6508 or jmiddel@pipeline.com

• PT 19 $290
  

CLASS SUPERVISION (PT 111/211)

This class will introduce students to the principles of modern psychoanalysis, both in theory and practice. We will examine different transferences, counter-transferences, and how patients induce feeling in us. We will look at what interventions are useful in resolving resistances, especially in the case of highly traumatized and therefore 'difficult' people. Part of the focus will be on the role of the destructive drives in psychopatholgy. We will also learn how to deal with the stress of working with such patients and how to keep ourselves from burning out or developing reactions that could negatively impact our own lives.

Instructor: Helene Stilman, PsyD, NCPsyA
Starts: Tuesday, January 17, 2012, 10:30am to 12:00pm MT
Meets: By Teleconference
Information: 505 296 5861 or hstilman@pipeline.com

• PT 111/211 $290
  

Registration, Fees and Requirements

Semester registration fee $30
• Class, individual $290
• Half Course $175
• Single class session $25

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TO RECEIVE CREDIT FOR A CLASS

Students must: pay the course tuition, submit 14 class logs, 15 reading logs, 1 course evaluation log and 1 self-evaluation log submitted to the instructor no more than 30 days after the end of class, and have no more than two absences per semester (lateness over 15 minutes is considered an absence).

In order for faculty to arrange their schedules, we request the courtesy of an RSVP for classes at least two weeks before the beginning of the semester. Of course anyone is welcome at any time! To receive credit for a course, tuition payments and registration forms must be current by that time. Any other payment arrangements must be made with the office before classes begin.

• Semester registration fee $30
  
  
• Transcript $5
  
• Individual class $25