The New York Institute for Psychoanalytic Self Psychology

The New York Institute for Psychoanalytic Self Psychology (NYIPSP), SW CPE 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 #0369.

Courses Offered October 2016 - June 2017 CE Live / In-person

The one-year Continuing Education program for licensed mental health professionals. All courses in the NYIPSP training programs have been approved for CE credit for licensed social workers by New York State.

101.2 Personality Development and Psychoanalytic Perspective I

Florence Rowe, 22.5 contact hours

Cost: $450 for the 15-week course. Refunds are available no later than one week after the first session of the course. A $30 administrative fee will be charged for a refund request.

Meets WEDNESDAY 7:00 p.m.-8:30 p.m. February 1, 8, 15, 22; March 1, 8, 15, 22, 29; April 5, 19, 26; May 3, 10, 17 2017. New York, NY

This is the first of a two-part course that compares and contrasts different psychoanalytic models of development that have evolved from the understanding of human personality development. Freudian topographical and structural models, American Developmental Ego Psychology, British Object Relations, Modern Interpersonal, Intersubjectivity, and Psychoanalytic Self Psychology will be studied, establishing a framework along which essential developmental concepts of Personality can be examined.

After attending the course, participants will be able to:
  • - Identify the development of personality as seen from a variety of psychoanalytic theories.
  • - Delineate the specific aspects of personality, such as character structure, narcissistic personality, selfselfobject development.
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102.1 Psychoanalytic Process I: A Practicum in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Different Psychopathological Conditions

Crayton Rowe, 22.5 contact hours

Cost: $450 for the 15-week course. Refunds are available no later than one week after the first session of the course. A $30 administrative fee will be charged for a refund request.

Meets MONDAY 7:00 p.m.-8:30 p.m. October 10, 17, 24, 31; November 7, 14, 21, 28; December 5, 12, 19 2016; January 9, 16, 23, 30 2017. New York, NY

This course will introduce the student to the psychoanalytic situation. Emphasis will be upon the beginning phases of treatment, with particular focus on the experience-near empathic treatment stance. The course will also deal with major clinical issues such as transference, resistance, and free association. The student will learn how to diagnose and treat the different psychopathological conditions of the self.

After attending the course, participants will be able to:
  • - Explain the beginning phase of diagnosis and treatment from a self psychology perspective with the use case material.
  • - Discuss the use of Kohut's concept of empathy as a data gathering tool vital to the process of deepening the understanding of the patient.
  • - Illustrate Kohut's idea of vicarious introspection and empathic immersion, using clinical examples.
  • - Define the concepts of selfobject transference.
  • - Explain Kohut's view of resistance and free association, utilizing case material.
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103.0 Introduction to the Work of Heinz Kohut I

David MacIsaac, 22.5 contact hours

Cost: $450 for the 15-week course. Refunds are available no later than one week after the first session of the course. A $30 administrative fee will be charged for a refund request.

Meets WEDNESDAY 7:00 p.m.-8:30 p.m. February 1, 8, 15, 22; March 1, 8, 15, 22, 29; April 5, 19, 26; May 3, 10, 17 2017, Englewood, NJ

This course will focus on the early writings of Kohut. These include his early papers on music, empathy, narcissism, self, and selfobject. Particular emphasis will be placed on the fundamental switch from a biological-based drive/defense psychology to a psychology based on selfobject needs. The course will culminate with a close-up reading of Kohut's most significant work, The Analysis of the Self.

After attending the course, participants will be able to:
  • - Define the concepts of selfobjects: idealizing, twinship, mirroring.
  • - Demonstrate how the empathic stance leads to the development of the selfobject transferences.
  • - Explain the resistances to the development of selfobject transferences.
  • - Describe Kohut's concepts of horizontal and vertical splits.
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103.1 Psychoanalytic Theory of Psychodiagnosis: Introduction to the Works of Heinz Kohut I

Sandra Rzetlny, 22.5 contact hours

Cost: $450 for the 15-week course. Refunds are available no later than one week after the first session of the course. A $30 administrative fee will be charged for a refund request.

Meets MONDAY 7:00 p.m.-8:30 p.m.; February 6, 13, 20, 27; March 6, 13, 20, 27; April 3, 17, 24; May 1, 8, 15, 22 2017, Teaneck, NJ

This course will familiarize the candidate with the psychoanalytic theory of psychodiagnosis through an examination of the early writings of Heinz Kohut, in particular with a close reading of his 1971 monograph, The Analysis of the Self. Throughout this review, the focus will be on the experience.near empathic treatment stance as the method by which Kohut arrived at his diagnostic understanding of the narcissistic transferences, and how these are distinguished from the transference neurosis, the borderline personality disorder, and the psychotic/schizophrenic self disorders.

After attending the course participants will be able to:
  • - Describe how Kohut's concept of the experience-near empathic stance is used as a diagnostic tool.
  • - Illustrate how the empathic stance is used to diagnose narcissism, transference neurosis, borderline and psychotic disorders.
  • - Explain Kohut's concept of transferences as differentiated from a Freudian view of transference.
  • - Differentiate archaic fragmented self states from higher level disorders.
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