Saturday, October 12 - Friday, November 8, 2019
Martha Stark, MD, Instructor
Long intrigued by the idea that superimposing an acute injury on top of a chronic one is sometimes exactly what the body needs in order to heal, Martha has come to appreciate that, so too with respect to the mind, the therapeutic provision of “optimal stress”—against the backdrop of an empathically attuned and authentically engaged therapy relationship—is sometimes the magic ingredient needed to overcome the inherent resistance to change so frequently manifested by clients with longstanding emotional injuries and scars. And so it is that Martha, over the course of the four weeks, will demonstrate the transformative power of “superimposed” optimally stressful psychotherapeutic interventions specifically designed “to precipitate disruption in order to trigger repair.” By prompting clients to tap into their inborn ability to self-heal in the face of optimal stress, strategically formulated interventions—that alternately challenge (when possible) and support (when necessary)— will therapeutically induce healing cycles of defensive destabilization followed by adaptive restabilization at ever-higher levels of integration, functionality, and resilience.
Martha Stark, MD , Faculty, Harvard Medical School; CEO, SynergyMed for MindBodyHealth; Adjunct Faculty, Smith College School for Social Work; and Former Faculty, Boston Psychoanalytic Institute and Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalysis. Author: Working with Resistance; A Primer on Working with Resistance; Modes of Therapeutic Action; The Transformative Power of Optimal Stress; and Psychotherapeutic Moments. She is Co-Director (with Andrea Celenza, PhD) of the Center for Psychoanalytic Studies.
18 CE Credits | $450
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Andrea Celenza, PhD, Assistant Clinical Professor, Harvard Medical School; Training/Supervising Analyst and Faculty, Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute and Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalysis. Author, Erotic Revelations: Clinical Applications and Perverse Scenarios (2014) and Sexual Boundary Violations: Therapeutic, Supervisory and Academic Contexts (2007). She is Co-Director (with Martha Stark, MD) of the Center for Psychoanalytic Studies.
Lew Aron, PhD
Darlene Bregman Ehrenberg, PhD, Author, The Intimate Edge: Extending The Reach Of Psychoanalytic Interaction; Training and Supervising Analyst, and teaching Faculty, William Alanson White Institute, Supervising analyst and Adjunct Clinical Associate Professor, The New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychoanalysis, Faculty, Mitchell Center for Psychoanalysis, Supervising analyst Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis, Los Angeles, California; Editorial Board, Contemporary Psychoanalysis, and Associate Editor, Psychoanalytic Dialogues.
Patrick Casement, Author, Learning from the Patient, Learning from our Mistakes, and Learning from Life and others. Patrick Casement is one of the most influential psychoanalysts of this past century. Allied with the British Independents who place relationships, humanity, and an anti-dogmatic attitude at the heart of psychoanalytic work, Casement offers a personal and emotional account of his journey in as a psychoanalyst with unusual honesty and humility. Associate of the International Psychoanalytic Association, Fellow of the Institute of Psychoanalysis (London), Training analyst (retired) of the British Psychoanalytic Society. 
Glen O. Gabbard, MD, Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Baylor College of Medicine in Houston; Professor of Psychiatry, SUNY Upstate Medical University in Syracuse; Training and Supervising Analyst, Center for Psychoanalytic Studies in Houston.
Frank M. Lachmann, PhD, is a founding faculty member of the Institute for the Psychoanalytic Study of Subjectivity; Training and Supervising Analyst, Postgraduate Center for Mental Health; and Clinical Assistant Professor at the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. He has contributed over 100 articles to the journal literature and is author of Transforming Aggression and co-author of Self and Motivational Systems, The Clinical Exchange, and Infant Research and Adult Treatment.
Joseph D. Lichtenberg, MD, is Editor-in-Chief of Psychoanalytic Inquiry, Director Emeritus of the Institute of Contemporary Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, past President of the International Council for Psychoanalytic Self Psychology, and member of the Program Committee of the American Psychoanalytic Association. He has authored and edited numerous books and articles, including Craft and Spirit: A Guide to the Exploratory Psychotherapies and Sensuality and Sexuality across the Divide of Shame.
Allan N. Schore, PhD, is on the clinical faculty of the Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, and at the UCLA Center for Culture, Brain, and Development. He is the author of four seminal volumes: Affect Regulation and the Origin of the Self; Affect Dysregulation and Disorders of the Self; Affect Regulation and the Repair of the Self; and The Science of the Art of Psychotherapy, as well as numerous articles and chapters.
Donnel Stern, PhD, Training and Supervising Analyst, Teaching Faculty, William Alanson White Institute of Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis and Psychology, New York City; Adjunct Clinical Professor and Clinical Consultant, New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis; Founder and Editor, "Psychoanalysis in a New Key" Book Series; Board of Directors, International Association of Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy.
