ENTRANCE LEVEL COURSES

NEUROSIS This course focuses on the mechanisms and features which characterize symptom and character neurosis. The relationship between diagnosis and treatment is examined, using Freud’s formulations and the contributions of later theorists.  Topics addressed include anxiety states, hysteria, obsession and compulsion, defenses and Oedipal conflict.
	Instructor:	Julie May
	Place:	TBA 718-930-0854
		jmaynyc@gmail.com
	Dates:	Sept. 14, 21, Oct. 5, 12, 19, 26, Nov. 2, 9
	Time:	6:30 – 8:00 pm

CASE SEMINAR II Students must have a clinical practice to register for Case Seminars. This course is a continuation of Case Seminar I. Students are provided an opportunity to present cases in a group format. Basic clinical concepts of transference, countertransference, resistance, diagnosis and technique are discussed in the context of case presentations.
	Instructor:	Lynn Somerstein
	Place:	150 East 84th Street, #2P. 212-861-6818
		Smrstn@aol.com
	Dates:	Sept. 14, 21, Oct. 5, 12, 19, 26, Nov. 2, 9
	Time:	8:30 – 10:00 pm

FREUD I This course traces the evolution of psychoanalytic theory through selected readings of Freud’s writings to 1917. Topics include sexuality, the topographical model, techniques, psychopathologies, (trauma and symptom formation, neurosis, etc.) and other Freudian conceptualizations of mental functioning and clinical practice.
	Instructor:	Stefanie Teitelbaum
	Place:	99 University Place, 4th Floor, #9. (212) 255-3284
		stef.teitelbaum@live.com
	Dates:	Nov. 16, 23, 30, Dec. 7, 14, Jan. 4, 11, 18
	Time:	8:30 – 10:00 pm

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ADVANCED COURSES

TRANSFERENCE AND COUNTERTRANSFERENCE I This course focuses on classical and current psychoanalytic concepts of transference and countertransference. Topics include induced countertransference, hate in the countertransference, working with positive and negative transference, self-object transference, and regression. The course addresses the problems and creative uses of countertransference, integrating theory with clinical practice.
	Instructor:	Paul Cooper
	Place:	145 East 35th Street, #5FE. (212) 779-2425
		pshaku@aol.com
	Dates:	Sept. 14, 21, Oct. 5, 12, 19, 26, Nov. 2, 9
	Time:	6:30 – 8:00 pm

CHARACTER PATHOLOGY This course differentiates character pathologies from the neuroses and other pathologies, integrating theory and clinical applications. Topics discussed include diagnosis, ego-syntonic character traits, resistance, transference and countertransference, and technique.
	Instructor:	Karen Morris
	Place:	145 East 35th Street. (212) 920-4831
		KLMPLEX@aol.com
	Dates:	Sept 14, 21, Oct. 5, 12, 19, 26, Nov. 2, 9
	Time:	8:30 - 10:00pm

CONTEMPORARY PERSPECTIVES II: INTERSUBJECTIVITY This course will offer a more in depth analysis of concepts explored in Contemporary Perspectives I, including a comparative study of intersubjectivity.
	Instructor:	Steven Kuchuck
	Place:	222 West 14th Street, #5M. (212) 463-0758
		StevenKuchuck@gmail.com
	Dates:	Nov. 16, 23, 30, Dec. 7, 14, Jan. 4, 11, 18
	Time:	6:30 - 8:00 pm

DREAM II Since the 1950s dreams have been seen more as communication than a means of disguise. In our readings and case discussions we’ll explore how we can work with both aspects, the manifest content of the dream and the latent content as it surfaces in associations. We begin with Ella Freeman Sharpe and move on to object relations, self-psychological theorists as well as Jung’s concepts of archetypes and the collective unconscious.
	Instructor:	Suzanne Bien-Bonet
	Place:	54 Riverside Drive, GRB2.  (212) 877-1764
		suzb1@mac.com
	Dates:	Nov. 16, 23, 30, Dec. 7, 14, Jan. 4, 11, 18
	Time:	8:30 - 10:00 pm

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LATE WINTER and SPRING SEMESTER REGISTRATION for BOTH SEMESTERS by DECEMBER 18, 2009
	» First Eight Weeks:	January 25 - March 22
	» Second Eight Weeks:	April 12 - June 7
	» No meeting February 15, March 29, April 5 and May 31

ENTRANCE LEVEL COURSES

FREUD II Prerequisite: Freud I or the equivalent. Freud II addresses the papers beginning 1918 on meta theory and technique, which represent the ideas that dominated Freud’s thinking in the later part of his life. Topics include the structural theory, psychosis, anxiety, dual instinct theory and the implications of the death instinct in masochism and therapeutic impasse, the limitations of psychoanalysis, the conflict between the individual psyche and civilization, and religion.
	Instructor:	Stefanie Teitelbaum
	Place:	99 University Place, 4th Floor, #9. (212) 255-3284
		stef.teitelbaum@live.com
	Dates:	Jan. 25, Feb. 1, 8, 22, Mar. 1, 8, 15, 22
	Time:	8:30 - 10:00 pm

BASIC CLINICAL CONCEPTS II This course is a continuation of Basic Clinical Concepts I which addresses the basic concepts of psychoanalytic psychotherapy as they apply to clinical work, focusing on early engagement, the working alliance, diagnosis, resistance, transference, countertransference and interventions.
	Instructor:	Hillary Grill
	Place:	141 E. 33rd St., Suite 1A, NY,NY 10016, phone: 212-545-8482
		hgrillcsw@hotmail.com.
	Dates:	Apr. 12, 19, 26, May 3, 10, 17, 24, June 7
	Time:	6:30 - 8:00 pm

PYSCHOPATHOLOGY I: NON-NEUROTIC DEFENSES IN NON-PSYCHOTIC PATIENTS This course will explore the ‘in-between’ personalities that are dominated by non-neurotic defenses. We will summarize borderline, perverse, addictive, psychosomatic and psychotic features of depression and trauma as defending against psychotic collapse. The course will include multiple perspectives on clinical interventions with such defenses. Student’s clinical material will be presented in class.
	Instructor:	Stefanie Teitelbaum
	Place:	99 University Place, 4th Floor, #9. (212) 255-3284
		stef.teitelbaum@live.com
	Dates:	Apr. 12, 19, 26, May 3, 10, 17, 24, June 7
	Time:	8:30  - 10:00pm

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ADVANCED COURSES

**ELECTIVE** INFANT RESEARCH AND ADULT TREATMENT In recent decades there has been an explosion of research on infancy and the findings of this research have had a significant impact on psychoanalytic theory and practice. This course will introduce methods for applying infant research to adult treatment, as well as contemporary psychoanalytic concepts discovered or verified by these recent studies. It will also consider co-construction, self and interactive regulation, and ways in which attachment theory and infancy observation clarify the elusive concept of intersubjectivity. Readings will include works by Beatrice Beebe, Franck Lachmann, Daniel Stern, Karlen Lyons-Ruth, Boston Process Change Study Group, Mark Sossin and others.
	Instructor:	Galit Atlas-Koch
	Place:	80 East 11th Street, Suite 301C (917) 322-9704
		galit@ikoch.com
	Dates:	Jan. 25, Feb. 1, 8, 22, Mar. 1, 8, 15, 22
	Time:	8:30 - 10:00pm

RESISTANCE I This course focuses on classical and current psychoanalytic concepts of resistance manifestations in the treatment situation, beginning with the formulations of Sigmund Freud, and continuing with theorists such as Anna Freud, Fairbairn, Glover, Reich, and Spotnitz.
	Instructor:	Joel Gavriele-Gold
	Place:	205 West 89 Street, #1A. (212) 362-2167
		drjoelgold@aol.com
	Dates:	Jan. 25, Feb. 1, 8, 22, Mar. 1, 8, 15, 22
	Time:	6:30 - 10:00 pm

TRAUMA Most patients present with some degree of trauma, even if not always initially articulated or diagnosed. This course will teach the understanding and treatment of traumatized individuals through a consideration of classic and contemporary trauma literature, attachment theory and neuroscience. Class discussion and student presentations will be integrated throughout the course in order to allow for application of theory to case material.
	Instructor:	Karen Morris
	Place:	145 East 35th St., Suite 5FE 212 920-4831
		KLMPLEX@aol.com
	Dates:	Jan. 25, Feb. 1, 8, 22, Mar. 1, 8, 15, 22
	Time:	8:30 - 10:00 pm

NARCISSISM AND SELF PSYCHOLOGY This course presents the psychoanalytic theories of narcissism, including the formulations of Sigmund Freud, and emphasizing the work of Kohut and other self-psychology theorists such as Stolorow. Topics addressed include self-object transference dynamics, the role of countertransference, self-experience, and the meaning of empathy and empathic capability.
	Instructor:	Loveleen Posmentier
	Place:	50 West 97th Street, #1H. (212) 595-3325
		lposmentier@earthlink.net
	Dates:	Apr. 12, 19, 26, May 3, 10, 17, 24, June 7
	Time:	6:30 - 8:00 pm

**Elective** DOUBLE INDEMNITY: SEEKING THE POINT OF CONTACT IN COUPLES THERAPY This course seeks to uncover the secret agreements sustaining relationships that are operative, overtly or silently, between the most disparate seeming partners. We will study projective identification, projections, and ritual acting out between couples. We will examine cover stories, countertransference, and covert contracts, which, if unexamined, can expand to include the unwitting therapist.
	Instructor:	Gladys Foxe
	Place:	133 West 72nd Street.   (212) 721-4649
		GFoxe@nyc.rr.com
	Dates:	Apr. 12, 19, 26, May 3, 10, 17, 24, June 7
	Time:	8:30 - 10:00 pm

**Elective** LACAN For Lacan, as guardian of the Unconscious, being a subject implies being subject to forces which pre-existed one’s birth and which determine who one must be to survive. This course explores Lacan’s thought and praxis in response to one’s fundamental alienation from oneself as manifest in the unconscious formations emerging in a psychoanalysis. The text for this course will be: Fundamentals of Psychoanalytic Technique: A Lacanian Approach for Practioners by Bruce Fink.
	Instructor:	Larry Wetzler
	Place:	250 West 90th Street #7A. (212) 874-5511
		Elijak@aol.com
	Dates:	Apr. 12, 19, 26, May 3, 10, 17, 24, June 7
	Time:	8:30 - 10:00 pm

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REQUIRED ENTRANCE LEVEL WEEKEND COURSE

REQUIRED ENTRANCE LEVEL WEEKEND COURSE

SYMBOLIZATION AND CREATIVITY This course explores the symbolization processes at work in the unconscious from Freudian, neo-Freudian, and Jungian perspectives. Using didactic and experiential methods, we will explore what symbols are, how they function, and systems for understanding how to interpret and work with symbolization in treatment. Neurobiological perspectives will be included. This course aims to help students develop the ability to recognize and use symbolic process with their patients verbal, somatic and dream material.
	Instructor:	Claudia Bader
	Place:	50 West 97th Street, #1H (212) 874-7441
		ABZUDUSK@aol.com
	Dates:	Sunday Sept. 13, Sunday Sept. 20, Saturday Sept. 26 and Saturday Oct. 3.
	Time:	12:00 - 3:00 PM

REQUIRED ENTRANCE LEVEL WEEKEND COURSE

THE POLARITY OF CHAOS AND DISCIPLINE: UNDERPINNINGS OF PSYCHOANALYTIC CREATIVITY We will explore the interface of verbal and non-verbal communication, alternate levels of consciousness and the transference/countertransference dialogue and the forces of energy that enter into a creative psychoanalytic process.
	Instructor:	Art Robbins and Sandra Robbins
	Place:	325 West End Avenue, #12B. (212) 877-7384
		sandyartrobbins@yahoo.com
	Dates:	Friday Feb. 19 and Saturday Feb. 20
	Time:	12 hour format:  Fri. 5:00 -10:00 pm Sat. 9:00am -12:00pm and 1:00 -5:00pm.

ELECTIVE WEEKEND COURSE (open to all levels)

**ELECTIVE** THE HISTORY OF PSYCHOANALYSIS This course will broadly trace the origins and development of early psychoanalytic thought in mid-nineteenth century philosophy, science and medicine. We will trace these influences on Freud. Then we will examine his early followers, how they were influenced by Freud’s thinking and important disagreements which they had with him. In looking at the work of Jung, Anna Freud, Melanie Klein, Otto Rank, Sandor Ferenczi, Alfred Adler and Erich Fromm, we will also notice how the “second generation of psychoanalysts and the schools of thought that flowed from their work both built on and diverged from Freud’s ideas.”
	Instructor:	Janet Sullivan
	Place:	344 West 72nd Street, #1E (212) 874-2236
		jansull@msn.com
	Dates:	Sundays:  Jan. 17, 24, 31, Feb. 7
	Time:	2 – 5PM

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GALIT ATLAS-KOCH, Ph.D.NCPsyA, LP.  Psychoanalyst, licensed creative arts therapist and clinical supervisor in private practice in Manhattan, Director of Admissions of IEA, author of several psychoanalytic articles and a former psychology columnist for SBC publishing house, Israel.  Her work as a musician and writer has been performed and published in Hebrew.

CLAUDIA BADER, MPS, LCAT, NCPsyA, LP. Private practice, former Executive Director, faculty, supervisor, graduate, IEA. Adjunct faculty, Graduate Art Therapy Dept., Pratt Institute of Design. Creative Therapy Program, New School for Social Research, former dancer and puppeteer.

SUZANNE BIEN-BONET, MPS, NCPsyA, LCAT, LP.  Private practice.  Faculty, supervisor, Director of Education, Board of Directors, IEA.

PAUL  C. COOPER, M.S., NCPsyA, LP.  Private practice.  Training/control analyst, supervisor, faculty, NPAP. Published articles and poems on Buddhism and psychoanalysis.  Ernest Angel Award recipient. Co-edited Religion and Psychotherapy: Many Paths, One Journey, Jason Aronson, 2005. Editorial Board, The Psychoanalytic Review.

GLADYS FOXE, Ph.D., LCSW, Certified Psychoanalyst in private practice.  Faculty, supervisor, The Object Relations Institute and The Training Institute for Mental Health. Instructor, IEA. Author of numerous articles.  The most recent is, “I will not let you go unless you bless me”: Wrestling with the Angel of History in the Aftermath of Work between a German-Jewish-descended Analyst and a German-Nazi-descended Patient, The Psychoanalytic Review, 2006.

JOEL R. GAVRIELE-GOLD, Ph.D.  Psychoanalyst in private practice.  Faculty, supervisor, training analyst, former Director, IEA.  Senior member, training analyst, supervisor, NPAP.  Member APA, SSP, CPP, NYSCPA, DIP.  Consultant and group facilitator, Organizational and Human Relations Issues. Author: When Pets Come Between Partners.

SUSAN HARDING, MA, ADTR, NCpsyA, LP. Psychoanalyst and dance-movement therapist in private practice. Instructor, Board member, graduate , IEA. Adjunct Faculty, Pacific College of Oriental Medicine. Dancer, choreographer and teacher. Background in theater, music and comedy.

STEVEN KUCHUCK, LCSW, NCPsyA, LP.  Private practice, Faculty, supervisor, Board of Directors, Dean of Training, IEA, Editorial Board and Submissions Editor, Forum for Psychoanalytic Education. Formerly Adjunct Associate Professor at NYU and Board of Trustees, NAAP. Author of articles on relational psychoanalysis, book chapter and encyclopedia entry.

JULIE MAY, MPS, LCAT, NCPsyA, LP.  Psychoanalyst and Creative Arts Therapist in private practice in Brooklyn and Manhattan.  She works with adults and adolescents in individual, group and family therapy.  Graduate, board member and instructor, IEA.

KAREN MORRIS, NCPsyA, LP. Recent publications (Psychoanalytic Review, 2007, and in press), and presentations (APA, 2008) on psychoanalysis, poetics and countertransference processing in socio-political contexts. Currently editor Live Words, Living Traces: The Legacy of Michael Eigen. She is a candidate in the Trauma and Disaster Specialization at NYU postdoctoral program, an IEA graduate, instructor and training supervisor with a private practice in Manhattan and Westchester.

LOVELEEN POSMENTIER, MA, NCPsyA, LP.  Private practice.  Senior member, faculty, training/control analyst, Dean of Faculty and Curriculum, Board of Trustees, NPAP. Supervisor, ICP and Metropolitan Institute for Training in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy.  Board member, CPP.  Faculty, IEA.

ARTHUR ROBBINS, Ed.D., ATR, NCPsyA, LP.  Senior member, faculty, training and control analyst, NPAP. Professor of Art Therapy, Pratt Institute.  Founding Director of the Institute for Expressive Analysis. Author of numerous articles and books, the most recent being Therapeutic Presence, 1998, and  a teaching video on art therapy entitled “Dancing on Blood”, both published by Jessica Kingsley, London.

SANDRA ROBBINS, B.A., Early Childhood Education/Certified Teacher, Brooklyn College. Advanced  study, City College.  Formal arts education: the New Dance Group, Alwin Nikolais, Martha Graham, et al.  Instructor, Pratt Institute Creative Arts Therapy Department.  Teaches worldwide. Founding Director, Shadow Box Theater.  Extensive background in dance, theater, spiritual studies and the healing arts.

LYNN SOMERSTEIN, MA, NCPsyA, LP.  Private practice. Executive Director, IEA. Board of Directors NAAP.  Training analyst, supervisor, faculty, NPAP and IEA.  Faculty, IEA and Harlem Family Institue. Contributing editor to NAAP News.  Bilingual psychoanalyst (SpanishEnglish). Painter and author.

JANET SULLIVAN, MA, CMT, NCPsyA, LP. Analyst and music therapist in private practice.  Senior  music therapist at Gracie Square Hospital.  Member, supervisor, faculty, Board of Directors, IEA.  Extensive background as a singer and music teacher.  Published in EGPS Journal, Spring, ’03.

STEFANIE TEITELBAUM, MSW, NCPsyA. LP.  Private practice. Training analyst, supervisor, participant in “Psyched on Film” series, NPAP. Contributor to Edinburgh International Encyclopedia of Psychoanalysis. Faculty, Board of Directors, IEA. Published film review on ‘The Piano Teacher”, The Psychoanalytic Review, Feb., 2005. Former  opera singer.

LAWRENCE WETZLER, Ph.D. is on the faculties of the Adelphi Postgraduate Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis as well as the Object Relations Institute. He is in private practice in Manhattan and Long Island.  He has written papers on the relationship of music and psychoanalysis and gives yearly piano recitals in the area.

*NCPsyA=Nationally certified psychoanalyst; LP = Licensed Psychoanalyst

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