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Insatiable Hungers: Itches, Urges, and Lusts
EDCAS 2022-2023
The EDCAS program is a 37-week comprehensive course of study. The program focuses on integrating principles of interpersonal psychoanalysis with other treatment modalities. Theory and clinical casework are explored in the areas of eating disorders and disordered eating issues, body image, affect regulation, addiction to substances, relationships, exercise, and internet use. The curriculum combines 37 classes of didactic and clinical seminars, guest lectures, case conferences, individual and/or group supervision. Its aim is to provide a concentrated, practice-oriented educational experience to mental health professionals who want to use the interpersonal perspective in working with people who have eating disorders, compulsions, or addictions. Each participant will be assigned a mentor who will be available for consultation and support throughout the program. Individual and group supervisory consultation are optional for licensed program participants and offered in the private offices of the program faculty for a period of 20 weeks for a reduced fee of $75 per session for individual and $50 for group. This is a separate fee from program tuition. Participants are invited to attend the EDCAS Clinical Service meetings.
Preference will be given to licensed mental health professionals practicing psychotherapy, either privately or in institutional settings. Therapists possessing a different educational background or professional experience may also apply. Participants are required to carry malpractice insurance and to provide their own psychotherapy patients for supervision.
All faculty and supervisors are graduates of the William Alanson White Institute, or EDCAS, with the exception of guest speakers from other analytic institutes or disciplines.
All classes will integrate clinical case material. Case material by participants will be encouraged. ALL CLASSES WILL BE HELD VIRTUALLY ON ZOOM FRIDAYS from 2:00-4:00pm with the exception of 4 CLASSES that will use a HYBRID format. These HYBRID classes will allow virtual students to participate and students who can meet in person at THE WILLIAM ALANSON WHITE INSTITUTE, 20 WEST 74th St., NYC. Classes will begin on September 16th, 2022
The Program tuition is $3850 and is non-refundable after the first three weeks of the start of the program. Should a participant choose to withdraw within the first three weeks, a penalty fee of $250 will be incurred. Early application is encouraged. Continuing Education credits for physicians, psychologists, social workers, Licensed Psychoanalysts, Licensed Mental Health Counselors and Licensed Marriage and Family Therapists are provided. Application deadline is September 1st, 2022 and admissions are on a rolling basis of acceptance as space is limited.
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This program is approved for 70 Continuing Education Contact Hours, (CE, CME credits) for Psychologists, Physicians, Social Workers, Licensed Mental Health Counselors, Licensed Creative Arts Therapists, Licensed Marriage & Family Therapists. Credits are calculated on a credit per hour basis.
September 16th, 2022 6:00 to 8:00pm FRIDAY EVENING EVENT HYBRID MEETING - IN PERSON AND VIRTUAL, 20 West 74th St., NYC
INTRODUCTION: INTERPERSONAL PERSPECTIVES ON EATING DISORDERS, COMPULSIONS & ADDICTIONS.
Welcome by Jean Petrucelli, Ph.D., CEDS-S, Director, and Co-Founder of EDCAS, Training & Supervising Analyst, Faculty
The Interpersonal Perspective in Clinical Treatment
Anton Hart, Ph.D. Training & Supervising Analyst, Faculty
Orientation: Meet and greet participants and faculty
Wine and Cheese Reception
WEEKS 2 & 3 September 23rd and 30th 2:00 to 4:00pm
EATING DISORDERS: CLINICAL APPLICATIONS UTILIZING THE INTERFACE OF CONCEPTS OF ATTACHMENT, SELF REGULATION, AFFECT REGULATION, NEUROBIOLOGY AND THE ANALYTIC RELATIONSHIP
Course Instructor: Jean Petrucelli, Ph.D., CEDS-S
Using clinical case material, this course will present a detailed, practical exploration of how one works analytically with anorexic, bulimic, and binge-eating patients beyond symptom alleviation. Understanding the neurobiological underpinnings and the implications of these findings in clinical treatment, the concepts of attachment theory, self-regulation and affect regulation will be viewed as interpersonal constructs. The need for novelty will be illustrated in clinical moments where the relational field shifts. The ongoing exploration of interactions between patient and therapist, the many "bodies" in the room, why a particular intervention is chosen, as well as transferential and countertransferential concerns will be discussed. Issues of the often-neglected work with male eating disordered patients, body obsession, diagnosis, assessing the level of care, and techniques involving contracts, food charts, and food language as metaphor, will be viewed as part of the bridge one builds to enter the ritual-filled world of the eating disordered patient.
WEEK 4 October 7th
GIRLS! DEVELOPMENTAL CHALLENGES FROM PUBERTY TO ADOLESCENCE
Course Instructor: Jacqueline Ferraro, D.M.H.
This class will focus on puberty and developmental issues in girls, taking into account efforts to develop an identity and sense of self as girls move through this critical period in their lives. The transition through puberty into adolescence involves significant changes in their physiology, body image, and cognition, with accompanying social and emotional elements. Coping with all these changes can involve efforts to control weight (restricting and/or bingeing), cutting, drug and alcohol use, and sexual experimentation and activity. Relevant vignettes will be incorporated into class discussion.
WEEKS 5 & 6 October 14th and October 21st
EATING DISORDERS: THE INTERPERSONAL TREATMENT OF THE INDIVIDUAL AND THE FAMILY
Course Instructor: Judith Brisman, Ph.D.
This class will present an interpersonal approach to the treatment of anorexia, bulimia, and binge eating disorder, with a particular focus on the role of the family in the treatment of children, adolescents, and young adults. Because of the complexity of eating-disordered patients' dynamics and the urgency of life-debilitating symptoms, treatment often involves extension of the boundaries of traditional analytic work -- both with the individual and the family. An approach is offered in which direct symptom intervention occurs within the framework of an interpersonally based analytic approach. Work with the family in that regard will be considered, contrasting it to the evolving family-based treatment models in which direct re-feeding by parents is urged. When is direct re-feeding helpful? When does it hurt? Questions regarding treatment choice will be explored and discussed. Complications, roadblocks, and treatment goals will be considered in developing an understanding of how best to reach these often-unreachable patients.
WEEK 7 October 28th
TACKLING OBESITY: PRACTICAL ADAPTATIONS, INTERPERSONAL TECHNIQUES
Course Instructor: Janet Tintner, Psy.D.
High recidivism rates and the frequency of redo bariatric surgeries highlight intractability in this arena. Meta analysis of research indicates short term weight loss is achievable. It is long-term maintenance that is crucial, but elusive. We must adapt to tackle this thorny issue. This course deals with this question practically, in a review of bariatric surgical options. Surgery is viewed as a tool (not a solution) in working with despair and intransigence in treating obesity. Psychological concerns, pre and post-surgery, will be described. Clinically, this course demonstrates the use and import of the detailed inquiry as a means to facilitate awareness of eating in the here and now, as well as a means to demonstrate enactments of childhood experiences in current patterns.
WEEK 8 November 4th
Course Instructor: Stephanie Roth Goldberg, LCSW-R, CEDS
This class will explore the range of bingeing experiences through a Health at Every Size lens. We will consider the pressure of culture to be thin and add an analytic framework to our thinking about how the influence of culture contributes to one's dissociated hunger. We will explore the range of bingeing experiences, those that are part of a bulimia diagnosis, Binge Eating Disorder and those that follow a period of anorexia. In addition, this class will examine one's embodied and disembodied experiences during a binge and connect that to the range of emotional experiences with the aim of providing an interpersonal/relational perspective on the treatment of bingeing.
WEEK 9 November 11th
THE MALE EXPERIENCE OF EATING DISORDERS
Course Instructor: Tom Wooldridge, Psy.D., ABPP, FIPA, CEDS-S
Although eating disorders are usually associated with women, many men suffer from eating disorders. These lectures will look at the role of gender identity in the patient's experience and how it may be addressed in the treatment situation. We will discuss the role of identification in the development of gender identity, including identification with the father. We will also discuss muscle dysmorphia, a disorder that is more common in men than in women.
WEEK 10 November 18th
EATING AND THE GENDERED SELF
Course Instructor: Sarah Schoen, Ph.D.
This course will consider how cultural, developmental, and psychological forces influence the relationship between eating and gendered identity. The focus will be on how feelings about eating and bodies are tied to a person's experience of themselves as a man, or as a woman. For people with eating problems, experiences of self as desiring and desirable are often played out in relationship to food and body size. Clinical material will be used to explore how both the patient's and therapist's gendered selves, including feelings about their bodies and appetites, shape and transform the interpersonal field.
WEEK 11 December 2nd 2:00 to 4:30pm
INVITED GUEST SPEAKERS ******HYBRID MEETING - EXTENDED TIME SESSION*****
THE ROLE OF THE NUTRITIONIST & MEDICAL PRACTITIONERS in the Treatment of Eating Disorders
Moderator: Jean Petrucelli, Ph.D., CEDS-S
Guest Speakers will include Judy Schwartz, MD; Karen Rosewater, MD; Wendy S. Ziecheck, MD; Theresa Kinsella, MS, RD.; Robin Millet, MS, RD, CDN; Marina S. Kurian, MD, FACS
A multi-disciplinary approach to treatment involving the use of adjunct modalities will be examined in a roundtable discussion. Guest Speakers will include Nutritionists, Internists, Gynecologist, and a Bariatric Surgeon.
WEEK 12 December 9th
Course Instructor: Elizabeth Halsted, Ph.D.
This class will explore the deep and complex psychological elements constituting the dynamic body image. We will identify the vital functions produced by a stable body image and the symptoms that arise from an unstable body image. Students and the instructor will offer clinical material and formulate interventions that generate the creation of new and more resilient body images.
WEEK 13 December 16th
ENTERING THROUGH THE BODY: SOMATIC INTERVENTIONS IN THE THERAPEUTIC PROCESS
Course Instructors: Elizabeth Halsted, Ph.D. & Steven Tublin, Ph.D.
Psychoanalysis, with its emphases on meaning and understanding, can be considered a top-down model of human experience. What we call "the mind" is the central player. Somatic psychology begins with bodily experience – sensation, kinetic impulses – and physiological models of emotion and phenomenology. With the body as central player, somatic approaches are thought to be bottom up. The two approaches combined provide a more thorough understanding of experience and a wider array of clinical interventions than either alone. In this class, we will introduce a somatic model and some interventions derived from it, that support emotional regulation and facilitate psychoanalytic inquiry.
WEEK 14 January 6th
BRIDGING THEORY AND PRACTICE: CLINICAL CONUNDRUMS
Course Instructors: Sarah Schoen, Ph.D.; Jean Petrucelli, Ph.D., CEDS-S, and members of the EDCAS Steering Committee
This course will use transference and countertransference data to bridge theoretical knowledge and clinical experience. Students will be encouraged to raise clinical dilemmas in an informal and spontaneous discussion. Themes in clinical material that integrate interpersonal and relational concepts in work with eating disordered patients will be highlighted.
WEEK 15 January 13th
EATING DISORDERS AND THE ORTHODOX JEWISH COMMUNITY: IT'S COMPLICATED
Course Instructors: Sharon Kofman, Ph.D. & Caryn Gorden, Psy.D.
This course will explore the increased incidence of eating disorders within the Orthodox Jewish population from a psychoanalytic perspective. Contemporary socio-cultural, historical, and religious factors that contribute to Jewish identity will be examined. The role of ritual and eating practices, family and gender dynamics, and cultural issues specific to the body, desire, and sexuality will be discussed. We will consider the role of unconscious historical influences, such as the legacy of persecution, genocide, and intergenerational transmission of trauma, as critically contributing to this symptom picture in survivor families. Discussion will involve noteworthy clinical features, treatment dilemmas and countertransference experiences.
BLENDING CBT/DBT AND INTERPERSONAL PSYCHOTHERAPY IN THE TREATMENT OF EATING DISORDERS
Course Instructor: Carrie Gottlieb, Ph.D.
This course will examine the similarities and differences between cognitive behavioral and dialectical behavior therapies and interpersonal psychotherapy. The integration of these therapies will be explored as they pertain to treatment and conceptualization of individuals with eating disorders. Discussion will focus on the blending of these approaches in treatment.
EMOTIONAL MODULATION
Course Instructor: Sandra Buechler, Ph.D.
Emotions are a primary means of intrapersonal and interpersonal communication. As clinicians and as human beings, how can we best hear and use their messages? How can we learn to modulate them, to bring out their potential to enhance life, rather than detract from it? These questions will be explored in this course, with an emphasis on their clinical applications and a focus on the emotional cues that form a vital part of the fabric of the treatment interchange, as well as the rest of human experience.
WEEK 18 February 3rd
THE HORMONAL BODY AND ITS IMPACT ON THE PSYCHE
Course Instructor: Sue Kolod, Ph.D.
The impact of hormones on the psyche, of particular relevance to sexuality, appetite and self-experience, has been largely avoided in contemporary psychoanalytic thought. Psychoanalytic treatment has focused on the ways in which the mind affects the body, i.e., how psychological conflict can be expressed through physical symptoms. This class will explore how the body can affect the mind. Research will be cited from evolutionary biology and endocrinology and case material will be used to demonstrate how an inquiry into hormonal experience can inform clinical work.
WEEK 19 February 10th
EATING DISORDERS IN THE CONFLUENCE OF RACIAL DIVERSITY AND CULTURAL PLURALISM
Course Instructors: Toni Andrews, Ph.D.; Rosa Lim, Ph.D.
Eating disorders are not just white, middle-class, heterosexual, cisgender, and able-bodied, young girls' illnesses. This class explores personal, political, and clinical issues of race in eating disorder treatment including differences between the impact of oppression and assimilation stress on identity development, and culturally relevant treatment implications.
WEEK 20 February 17th (HYBRID)
"KNOWING THE SELF THROUGH THE BODY: DEVELOPING THE ANALYST'S INTERIOR WITNESS"
Course Instructors: Julia Shiang, Ed.D., Ph.D. & Zeynep Catay, Ph.D.
Learning to listen to the impulses of our own body movements provides a way to know the therapist's interior landscape. This landscape is made up of many identities, many selves, all in interaction. Can we become conscious of which self is operating in each moment? The ability to witness these various selves, to discern their assumptions may allow the therapist to new paths of self-knowledge and in the process further attune to the here-and-now of the therapist-client relationship. This class will be an exploration of the therapists' own interior witness as understood through body movements that arise spontaneously. Understanding how we witness ourselves through these impulses may help us uncover our own cultural frames, biases, and our unwitting contributions to ruptures. Participants will engage in experiential exercises within a body movement structure to learn how the theoretical frame widen our ways of seeing bringing greater self-knowing to the therapist's contribution to the process of change.
CASE PRESENTATION AND DISCUSSION BY CANDIDATES
Course Instructors: Discussion by EDCAS Faculty members and class participants
WEEK 22 March 3rd
CULTIVATING CURIOSITY IN EXERCISE ADDICTION
Course Instructor: Anton Hart, Ph.D.
This course will present an overview of the concept of cultivating curiosity. It will address the ways in which addictive and compulsive symptoms can be seen as problematic ways of dealing with the difficulties of lived experience. Practical considerations for cultivating curiosity in patients with addictive and compulsive exercise and body-image symptoms will be presented.
WEEK 23 March 10th
INTERNET ADDICTION and the use of TECHNOLOGY MEDIATED COMPULSIVE RELATIONSHIPS
Course Instructor: Phillip Blumberg, Ph.D.
This class will situate on-line addictions within the broader context of sexual compulsions. Psychobiological and psychodynamic processes, including impairments in self-regulating systems, as well as separation-individuation conflicts which have been associated with on-line compulsions, will be reviewed. The class will examine the "virtual" nature of cyber sexuality--including chat rooms, interactive games, erotic e-mail, and web cams--and what it indicates about the changing nature of the contemporary American social character.
WHEN COMPULSIONS ARE SOLUTIONS: CYBERSEX AND INTERNET PORN
Course Instructor: Todd Essig, Ph.D.
This course will explore clinical examples in which seemingly compulsive technologically-mediated sexual activity is later understood to have served crucial developmental and transitional functions. A treatment strategy is presented in which both the gains and losses of technology-mediated sexual experiences are explored. Three general questions are addressed: How does it work that technology can successfully mediate relationship experience? How and when does such mediation fail? What are the important differences between technologically-mediated relationship experiences and those experiences that come from being bodies together?
SEXUAL ABUSE, COMPULSION, & DYSFUNCTION
Course Instructor: Richard B. Gartner, Ph.D.
This course will explore how sexual abuse, sexual compulsivity, and sexual dysfunction are interrelated factors in understanding compulsive, "anorectic," and/or kinky sexual behavior. We will focus on clarifying and sorting through the potential meanings of patients' sexual expression. Additionally, we will look at treatments that either develop alternate sexual expression or help the patient feel more comfortable with sexual patterns that he or she perceives as shameful or abnormal.
WEEK 26 March 31st
TREATING ADDICTIONS FROM AN INTERPERSONAL & RELATIONAL APPROACH
The treatment of substance abuse, be it alcohol or drugs, presents clinicians with patients who are psychotherapeutically difficult to reach and who create unique transference/countertransference patterns. Case material will be used to explore the interplay between attending directly to the addiction and disengaging from the pull to do so between therapist and patient. The emphasis in treatment is on how relational interactions contribute to and maintain addictive patterns. Using a multiple states dissociative model, this class will focus on various treatment issues and concerns including: how the addiction functions as an attempt to repair, the myths of addiction, affect regulation, and the concepts of mindfulness, helplessness and powerlessness.
WEEK 27 April 7th
TREATING ADDICTION IN THE ADOLESCENT AND COLLEGE STUDENT
Course Instructors: Patricia Bellucci, Ph.D. & Michelle Kennedy, LCSW
This course will address questions of use and abuse of drugs and alcohol among young adults and adolescents. Developmental conflicts, self-medication, and the social context in which this population functions --i.e., school, peer group, family-- will be discussed. The use of consultation, transference, countertransference, and referral to adjunct treatments will be considered.
WEEK 28 April 14th
THE CONVERGENCE OF HARM REDUCTION THERAPY AND RELATIONAL PSYCHOANALYSIS IN TREATING SUBSTANCE MISUSE
Course Instructor: Debra Rothschild, Ph.D.
Harm Reduction Therapy is a form of treating substance misuse that expands the traditional "disease concept" model to one that allows for an individualized approach based on the needs of each patient. Harm Reduction Therapy aims to reduce any harm or risk that substance use may impose on the user or on others, and its practice is collaborative and emphasizes respect for the individual and treatment of a whole person in context. In this respect, it differs from the traditional treatment of alcoholism or substance abuse that has focused on the elimination of misuse or addiction. We will introduce and review psychoanalytic theories specifically relevant to the treatment of substance misuse and show how they dovetail with Harm Reduction therapy. Clinical material will be used to demonstrate an integrated approach to treatment based on the converging principles of Harm Reduction and Relational Psychoanalysis.
WEEK 29 April 21st
SEEING WITHOUT THE SELF: PSYCHEDELIC ASSISTED THERAPY
Course Instructor: Jeffrey Guss, M.D.
This class will consist of a close reading of Lawrence Fischman's foundational paper Seeing Without the "Self: Discovering new meaning with psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy", published in Neuropsychoanalysis in 2019. This paper introduces core phenomena of the psychedelic experience in psychoanalytic and neuropsychoanalytic terms. Concepts examined include ego dissolution, oceanic union/connection, primary process, defense mechanisms, regression and mentalization as they occur in psychedelic work but described in the language of psychoanalysis. This class will provide fluency with a variety of experiences common in psychedelic work as they are described in psychoanalytic terminology.
THE PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY OF ADDICTIONS AND EATING DISORDERS
Course Instructors: A. Mittsi Crossman, M.D. & Melanie Israelovitch, M.D.
The psychopharmacology of substance disorders, including those involving food, encompasses a complex interplay between biological, psychological, and sociological factors intrinsic to the disorders and to their treatments. This course will address the indications and contraindications for the application of a variety of psychopharmacological agents as a component of treatment. Participants will be encouraged to present questions from their own practices.
WEEK 31 May 5th
THE INTERFACE OF SPIRITUALITY, PSYCHOANALYSIS AND ADDICTION IN WORKING WITH PATIENTS IN RECOVERY
Course Instructor: Annie Chanler, Ph.D.
This class will focus on the interface of spirituality, with particular attention paid to mindfulness and psychoanalysis when working with patients in recovery. We will consider the value of loving kindness while peeling away the layers of deeply embedded feelings of inadequacy, pain and anger. Spirituality helps addicts connect to suffering with compassion. Like psychoanalysis, it encourages reflection and non-judgmental self-awareness. It creates an internal spaciousness through non-reaction and helps build self-respect. Both inspire a generosity towards self, self-confidence, and a positive self-identity. Discussion of how the interpretation of events-- not the events themselves-- that cause distress will be explored.
WEEK 32 May 12th
DISSOCIATIVE IDENTITY DISORDER: THE REAL MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR
Course Instructor: Sheldon Itzkowitz, Ph.D.,ABPP
Clinicians frequently miss subtle state changes that accompany normal dissociative processes. Patients at the extreme end of the continuum of dissociative disorders often display noticeable self-state changes/switches that can dramatic and disarming. These switches function to keep information (feelings, thoughts, memories) compartmentalized as a means of maintaining a level of emotional equilibrium, staving off further emotional dysregulation. Pathological dissociation caused by unprocessable shock and betrayal trauma results in the mind becoming compartmentalized and structured by dissociation. Dissociated self-states/alter personalities become islands of "personified selves" most frequently unknowable to each other.
Dr. Itzkowitz will present a series of video clips of his work with patients who suffer from DID to show how shifts in self states occur. He will demonstrate how he engages these states and uses his experience intersubjectively to help patients loosen their defensive reliance on dissociation.
COUPLES UNCONSCIOUS COLLUSION IN COMPULSIONS
Course Instructor: Shelly Goldklank, Ph.D.
Birds of a feather flock together and opposites attract. Clinical couples often present with a similarity of underlying fears and a complementarity of styles in dealing with those fears. Thus, in some clinical couples, addictions or eating disorders present in one partner are consistent with attributes that initially attracted that partner to the other because of shared unresolved dilemmas. They have fundamentally similar issues which they have coped with in opposite styles. The complaints about the disorder are, therefore, not only telling about the partner who has them, but also about unresolved issues in the mate. Participants in this class will use this understanding to gain leverage in helping the couple change.
ELUSIVE LOVE IN LOVE AND FANTASY
PART ONE: SEARCHING FOR LOVE FROM THE OUTSIDE IN
Course Instructor: Sivan Baron, J.D., LCSW
Part one will explore the ways in which patients with eating disorders, compulsions and addiction are in "relationship" with their object of abuse/addiction. We will also look at the way that fantasies about romantic love/partnership operate as solutions to conscious and unconscious depressive anxieties. In fantasy, the romantic partner becomes the object that magically delivers happiness, wholeness and even thinness. Case material will be presented for discussion.
PART TWO: IN LOVE AND FANTASY
Course Instructor: Evelyn Hartman, Ph.D.
This course will examine addictions and obsessions with different types of fantasies of love, whether actualized or not, that impede having fulfilling love relationships. The focus will be on understanding the factors that contribute to creating these fantasies as well as the power that sustains them.
WEEK 35 June 2nd
ENSLAVED BY DESIRE: RELATIONSHIP ADDICTION
Course Instructor: Jill Howard, Ph.D.
This course will use Fairbairn's theory of the exciting-rejecting object as a way to think about addictive relationships. We will consider this theory as one explanation for people being unable to sustain long-term monogamous relationships. This issue will be explored, through readings and case material, as a dynamic that helps explain the difficulty, we see with patients getting married and with people having extra-marital affairs.
WEEK 36 June 9th
THE MINDBRAIN AND DREAMS
Course Instructor: Mark Blechner, Ph.D.
This class argues that the mind and brain should be understood as a single unit – the "mindbrain" – which manipulates our raw perceptions of the world and reshapes that world through dreams, thoughts, and artistic creation. You will explore how dreams are key to understanding mental processes, and how working with dreams clinically with individuals and groups provides an essential route towards achieving transformation within the psychoanalytic process. Covering such key topics as knowledge, emotion, metaphor, and memory, this class sets out a radical new agenda for understanding the importance of dreams in human thought and their clinical importance in psychoanalysis. Blechner draws on the latest neuroscientific findings to set out a new way of how the mindbrain constructs reality and provides guidance on how best to help clinicians understand their patients as well as their own dreams.
WEEK 37 June 16th (HYBRID)
Time: 200 to 4:00pm followed by:
GRADUATION CEREMONY FRIDAY EVENING 4:00 to 5:00pm
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EDCAS 2022-2023 CALENDAR for TUESDAY 10:00 CONFERENCES ON ZOOM
These conferences are open to all EDCAS students—past and current—in addition to members of the WAWI. It is not mandatory to attend….just icing on the cake.
TIME: 10:00 – 11:30am (ZOOM)
PLACE: The William Alanson White Institute, (ZOOM)
DATE: Tuesday, October 4th, 2022
TITLE: Body Experience in Older Age
PRESENTER: Susan H. Sands, Ph.D.
PLACE: The William Alanson White Institute (ZOOM)
DATE: Tuesday, December 6th, 2022
TITLE: When Secrets Emerge in Psychotherapy: New Perspectives on The Body, Somatic Countertransference and Self-Care in the Treatment of Eating Disorders
PRESENTER: Kathryn J. Zerbe, M.D.
DATE: Tuesday, March 7th, 2023
TITLE: Does Psychedelic Therapy Need a Therapeutic Platform?
PRESENTER: Jeffrey Guss, M.D.
DATE: Tuesday, May 2nd, 2023
TITLE: Ruptures and Crises in Termination
PRESENTER: Jill Salberg, Ph.D., ABPP