EVENTS
MITPP is approved by the New York State Education Department as a provider of continuing education for LMSWs, LCSWs, LMHCs, LPs and Licensed Psychologists. Contact hours/CE credits are granted to participants who attend the full program and complete an evaluation. Partial credits cannot be offered. It is the responsibility of the participants seeking contact hours/CE credits to comply with these requirements.
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The Metropolitan Institute for Training in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
The Metropolitan Center for Mental Health and
The Metropolitan Society of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapists
Invite you to a Scientific Meeting
WORKING WITH TRANS CHILDREN: FROM CONTROVERSY TO DIALOGUE
SUNDAY, JANUARY 19, 2025
2:30 PM – 4:30 PM
PRESENTERS: JORDAN OSSERMAN, Ph.D., and
HANNAH WALLERSTEIN, Ph.D., FABP
This talk will explore the insights and tensions that emerged when four psychoanalysts were invited to reflect together upon clinical and theoretical approaches to working with trans and gender diverse children today, as part of a special issue of the journal Psychoanalytic Study of the Child. We will consider the ways that psychoanalysis has been mobilised in relation to debates over trans rights, healthcare and identity; and ask how psychoanalysis's attention to the individual, and to symbolic speech, complicates more simplistic notions of gender.
Learning Objectives:
Participants will:
1) develop an appreciation for how different psychoanalytic approaches work with questions of gender.
2) develop an awareness of how the social and political context affects work with gender diverse young people.
3) have an ability to better interrogate countertransferential responses to gender non-normativity.
PRESENTER: JORDAN OSSERMAN, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies, University of Essex, UK, and a psychoanalytic psychotherapist in East London. Jordan's current research involves an ethnographic study of a publicly funded clinic for children struggling with gender identity. His book, Circumcision on the Couch: The Cultural, Psychological, and Gendered Dimensions of the World's Oldest Surgery was published with Bloomsbury Press.
PRESENTER: HANNAH WALLERSTEIN, Ph.D., FABP is a psychologist and psychoanalyst in Ann Arbor, MI. She serves as faculty at the Michigan Psychoanalytic Institute, adjunct faculty at the Austen Riggs Center, clinical supervisor for the CCNY Doctoral program, and on the editorial boards of The Psychoanalytic Quarterly and The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child. She has published on gender identity and transgender phenomena, psychosis and historical trauma, the function of hope in clinical work, and the collapse between biology and ontology in psychoanalytic thinking on the body. She received the 2016 Symonds Prize for best previously unpublished paper on gender and/or sexuality and has been recognized for her teaching at the Michigan Psychoanalytic Institute.
LOCATION: ONLINE THROUGH ZOOM
FEE: NO FEE
Registration deadline: January 17, 2025
PLEASE USE REGISTRATION FORM AT BOTTOM OF PAGE
Zoom instructions and meeting link will be emailed to participants no later than an hour prior to the workshop.
The New York State Education Department has approved this online workshop for 2 contact hours (CEUs) for LMSWs, LCSWs, LMHCs, LPs and Licensed Psychologists. A certificate will be emailed to those who sign in at the beginning of the session, stay until the end of the session, complete an emailed evaluation and pay a $20 fee. Full session must be attended to be eligible for CEUs/Contact hours. There is no charge for those affiliated with MITPP, MCMH or MSPP.
ZEN BUDDHISM AND PSYCHOANALYSIS:
A REALIZATIONAL PERSPECTIVE
SATURDAY, JANUARY 25, 2025
10:00 AM – 12:00 NOON
PRESENTER: PAUL C. COOPER, Ph.D., LP
This workshop examines the integration of Zen Buddhism and Psychoanalysis in a clinically relevant manner derived from the works of the British psychoanalyst Wilfred Bion and the Soto Zen teacher Eihei Dogen, which is based on and elaborated in terms of these four major points that described as the "Realizational Model." They include:
1. Primacy of experience rooted in the present moment;
2. Radical openness to unknowing;
3. Relationship between intuition and cognition;
4. Shift from an emphasis on static mind states to the fluidity of psychic functions and actional relationships.
It is within the structure provided by these four points that the realizational orientation will be elaborated.
Learning Objectives:
Participants will:
1) become familiar with the four points of the Realizational Model of psychoanalytic theory and practice.
2) understand the clinical application of the Zen concept of dependent co-arising in relation to the transference/countertransference dynamic.
3) understand the Zen practice of "just sitting" meditation and its impact on enhanced psychoanalytic listening.
4) understand the clinical use of “negative” states, such as the analyst’s inattention as related to the patient’s inner world.
PAUL C. COOPER, PH.D., LP is a licensed psychoanalyst; Zen Buddhist Priest and formally transmitted Zen teacher. Faculty and Supervisor: Metropolitan Institute for Training in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, Adult Program. Member: American Zen Teachers Association. Founder: Realizational Practice Studies Group, Montpelier, Vermont; Former Dean of Training: NPAP; Faculty, Training Analyst, Supervisor: IEA. Faculty: Nalanda Institute for Contemplative Science; California Institute for Integral Studies: Clinic Without Walls; Award-winning author: Psychoanalysis & Zen Buddhism: A Realizational Perspective (2023), Zen Insight, Psychoanalytic Action: Two Arrows Meeting (2019), The Zen Impulse and the Psychoanalytic Encounter (2010). He has presented his work on Buddhism and Psychoanalysis internationally. He currently organizes, facilitates and leads retreats especially tailored for mental health professionals that integrate Buddhist theory and practice with psychoanalytic psychotherapy.
LOCATION: ONLINE THROUGH ZOOM
FEE: $60 or $40 for students (with proof of student status)
NO FEE FOR MCMH STAFF THERAPISTS
REGISTRATION DEADLINE: JANUARY 23, 2025
PLEASE USE REGISTRATION FORM AT BOTTOM OF PAGE
The New York State Education Department has approved this online workshop for 2 contact hours (CEUs) for LMSWs, LCSWs, LMHCs, LPs and Licensed Psychologists. A certificate will be emailed to those who sign in at the beginning of the session, stay until the end of the session, complete an emailed evaluation. The evaluation form will be emailed to you within a week of the event and usually much more quickly. Full session must be attended to be eligible for CEUs/Contact hours.
MAINTAINING PROFESSIONAL BOUNDARIES IN CLINICAL PRACTICE
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 2025
1:00 PM – 4:00 PM
THE NEW YORK STATE EDUCATION DEPARTMENT NOW REQUIRES THAT YOU COMPLETE A THREE-HOUR TRAINING ON PROFESSIONAL BOUNDARIES IN ORDER TO MAINTAIN YOUR LICENSE.
Additional information is available at:
HTTPS://WWW.OP.NYSED.GOV/RELEASES/ADVISORY-NOTICES/CONTINUING-EDUCATION
CONTINUING EDUCATION ON APPROPRIATE BOUNDARIES
A licensed psychologist, social worker or mental health practitioner required to complete continuing education must complete 3 hours of acceptable course work in appropriate professional boundaries, in each 3-year registration period starting April 1, 2023.
ON FEBRUARY 8, 2025, JONATHAN D. RUBIN, JD, WILL LEAD A WORKSHOP TO ENABLE PARTICIPANTS TO FULFILL THIS REQUIREMENT. BARBARA L. REICHENTHAL, LCSW, BCD, WILL CONTRIBUTE CLINICALLY.
Learning Objectives:
Participants will be able to identify:
1) two reasons clinicians need to maintain professional boundaries.
2) one boundary challenge they learned about in this seminar.
3) a second boundary challenge they learned about in this seminar.
BARBARA L. REICHENTHAL, LCSW, BCD Certificate in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, Metropolitan Institute for Training in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, Adult Program. Faculty and Supervisor: Metropolitan Institute for Training in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, Adult and Child and Adolescent Program. Past President, Current Board Member: Metropolitan Society of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapists. Past President, Current Board Member: Board of Trustees of the Metropolitan Institute for Training in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy.
JONATHAN D. RUBIN, JD Senior Partner: Kaufman, Borgeest & Ryan LLP. Practice areas include Medical Malpractice Defense, Long Term Care and Nursing Home Defense, Health Care, Products Liability Defense and General Liability Defense Litigation. He represents hospitals, nursing homes, physicians and health care professionals in civil litigation matters in state and federal courts, and has presented on topics including the litigation of complex medical malpractice matters and risk management issues for health professionals. His expertise is in the defense of mental health providers and he has lectured extensively, including ASHRM lectures focused on “Managing Psychiatric Patients in Acute Care Settings,” lectures for NYS Chapter of the American Psychological Association, NASW and other psychoanalytic and psychotherapy organizations.
LOCATION: ONLINE THROUGH ZOOM
FEE: $75 or $50 for students (with proof of student status)
NO FEE FOR MCMH STAFF THERAPISTS
Zoom instructions and meeting link will be emailed to participants prior to the workshop.
REGISTRATION DEADLINE: FEBRUARY 6, 2025
PLEASE USE REGISTRATION FORM AT BOTTOM OF PAGE
MITPP Candidates In-Person Wine and Cheese Reception
Sunday, October 5, 2025 from 3-5 PM.
E.23rd Street, Manhattan location.
Details provided upon registration.
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For questions about payment, please email info@mitpp.org
REGISTRATION FORM
PAYMENT OPTIONS
Zelle – Debit Card or Bank Account
You may use Zelle through your bank or download the Zelle app and follow the instructions. Zelle will not accept credit cards. Payment should be made to: info@mitpp.orgChase QuickPay with Zelle – Access through the Chase app.
For questions about payment, please email info@mitpp.org
Refund Policy
If you find you are unable to attend an event for any reason, you must notify MITPP by email at least 48 hours prior to the time the course/workshop begins in order to receive a full refund. No refunds will be issued after that time.
