Winter Seminars- Training Institute for Mental Health

Dr. Susan Spieler, Director of Continuing Education is pleased to announce the   Winter 2015 Continuing Education Series   Advancing the Mind-Body Connection Seeking Embodiment in the Psychotherapeutic Process February 21, 28, and March 7 1:15 P.M. â€‘ 4:30 P.M. Register for one, two, or all three.  Light refreshments will be served. THE BODY SPEAKS Toward integration of the Nonverbal and the Verbal in Adult Treatment February 21, 2015   All body actions have the potential to be communications. As maps of our life histories, bodies tell stories that speak of our experiences.   Our nonverbal styles of engaging provide clues to the quality of our earliest relationships.  Being aware of and understanding what these key nonverbal qualities are, how they originate through our early primary attachment relationships, and how they manifest in our current lives can help us understand adult psychotherapy patients. These points will be discussed and explored through the presentation of an adult case study co- treatment with psychiatrist Dr. Larry Sandberg and Dance Movement Psychotherapist, Dr. Suzi Tortora. Dr. Suzi Tortora, EdD, BC-DMT, LCAT, LMHC is nonverbal analyst consultant for the Mothers, Infants and Young Children of September 11, 2001: A Primary Prevention Project, Dept. of Psychiatry, Columbia Univ. under Dr. Beatrice Beebe. She has a dance/movement psychotherapy practice in NYC and Cold Spring, NY, She manages Integrative Medicine Services Dréas Dream dance/movement therapy program for pediatrics at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. She is internationally known for her trainings, and publications including The Dancing Dialogue: Using the Communicative Power of Movement with Young Children. She has been featured on “Good Morning America”, “Eyewitness News” ABC –TV and in Malcolm Gladwell’s book, What the Dog Saw. Dr. Larry Sandberg, MD is clinical associate professor of psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical Center and co-chair of the interdisciplinary theory course at Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research where he teaches affective neuroscience and embodiment.  He has written on mirror neuron theories of empathy and non-mentalized aspects of anxiety disorders.  Since 2007, he has been collaborating with Dr. Tortora combining their respective treatment modalities in their work with traumatized patients. They have presented this work on a national and local level. Dr. Sandberg maintains a private practice in NYC where he practices psychoanalysis and psychotherapy.   WHEN THE MIND HAS A BODY OF ITS OWN Eating Disorders February 28, 2015   An approach to the treatment of anorexia, bulimia and binge-eating disorders beyond symptom alleviation will be presented. The initial treatment phase involves direct symptom intervention within the framework of an interpersonal model and includes an understanding of neurobiology, attachment, self-regulation, affect regulation, dissociation, self-states and body-states theory. Cultural influence, etiology, clinical conundrums, countertransferential reactions, and roadblocks are considered in  reaching often "unreachable" patients. Body obsession, assessing level of care, appetites and urges, contracting, food charts and journaling are viewed as part of the bridge one builds to enter the ritual-filled world of the eating-disordered patient. Dr. Jean Petrucelli, PhD is Director & Co-Founder of the Eating Disorders, Compulsions & Addictions Service, Supervising Analyst, Faculty, Conference Advisory Board Chair, William Alanson White Psychoanalytic Institute; Adjunct Clinical Professor, NYU Postdoc Program; Associate Editor for Contemporary Psychoanalysis; Editor of the books Body-States: Interpersonal and Relational Perspectives on the Treatment of Eating Disorders;  Knowing, Not-Knowing & Sort-of-Knowing: Psychoanalysis & the Experience of Uncertainty (2010); Longing: Psychoanalytic Musings on Desire (2006); and Co-editor of the book Hungers and Compulsions: The Psychodynamic Treatment of Eating Disorders and Addictions (2001 & 2009). She is in private practice in Manhattan.   RECOVERING FROM OVERWHELMING EXPERIENCES Bringing the Body Into the Work March 7, 2015   The somatic, implicit, and nonverbal impact of overwhelming emotional and physical experiences will be explored in this seminar.  Silent guided experiential processes will teach clinicians how to track somatic, emotional, and cognitive responses to clinical material, illuminating Bucci's Multiple Code Theory as a theoretical model for understanding and treating trauma. Recent advances in the neuroscience of trauma will be explicated.  Discussion of detailed clinical process will afford opportunities to identify the implications of Bucci's model and enhance clinical skill in engaging the unspoken dimension in helping people recover from overwhelming experiences. Dr. Frances Sommer Anderson, PhD, SEP, Psychologist, psychoanalyst, pain and trauma specialist, is recognized internationally for psychoanalytic publications about the body; books include Relational Perspectives on the Body (1998) and Bodies in Treatment (2007).  Dr. Anderson and Eric Sherman, PsyD co-authored Pathways to Pain Relief (2013), a collection of case studies illustrating their psychodynamic treatment of chronic pain. She will give the 22nd Annual John Bowlby Lecture in London (April 2015), using clinical examples to elaborate how early attachment disruptions can be related to the development of chronic pain in later life; she will also give a workshop on Experiencing the Pain Matrix ® at the Bowlby Centre. She practices in Manhattan.     Fees: Mental Health and Body-Oriented Professionals: $40 – Each session* $105 – Series of Three (Includes all three sessions)* Graduate students and candidates of institutes: (Please bring proof of status at door.) $20 ­– For each session* *based on availability   To pay by PayPal please see the bottom of our calendar page at : http://timh.org/calendar.html OR   To mail in your registration with check or provide credit card #:   ATTN: Caitlin McMullen The Training Institute for Mental Health 115 W 27th Street New York, NY 10001 1(212)-627-8181   I am Registering for: Series of 3____  Individual Dates: 2/21__ 2/28__ 3/7__ Send Check To: Training Institute for Mental Health