Hattie R. Rosenthal College of Psychoanalysis of

HEED UNIVERSITY

Humanistic Education through the External Degree

Announces its Fifth New York Conference:

The Dance of Intimacy: The Rhythm of Expectations and Disappointments


Sunday, October 21, 2007


9:30-10:00am Registration and Coffee

10:00-10:15am Introduction to the Morning Session
Michaela Kane Schaeffer, PhD

Welcoming Remarks
Susan Jakubowicz, PhD, LCSW, LP, Director

10:15-11:00am Keynote Address-"Intimacy: An Object Relations View"
Speaker-Jeffrey Seinfeld, PhD, MSW

Dr. Seinfeld's presentation discusses the impact of early object relations on the ability to form attachments and become intimate. In so doing, it reviews British and American object relations theories, emphasizing contemporary advances especially around issues of trauma and dissociation. An object relations approach to schizoid, borderline and narcissistic states and the transference/ countertransference issues associated with them is discussed.

11:00-11:55am Panel and Audience Discussion
Susan Jakubowicz, PhD, LCSW, LP, Moderator
Panelists will be responding to Dr. Seinfeld's talk and addressing the following topics:

Leslie Rosenthal, PhD - "Relationship Patterns as Revealed in the Ways Group Members Perceive the Group as the Preoedipal Mother"

Phyllis F. Cohen, PhD, LP - "Come Dance with Me": The Covert Message-Threat or Promise?

Jack Weiner, NCPsyA, LP -"Affect: The Musculature and Relationships"

Lee Crespi, LCSW - "Mourning as a Necessary Step in the Deepening of Intimate Relationships"

12:00-1:30pm Lunch on Your Own

1:30-1:45pm Introduction to the Afternoon Session
Michaela Kane Schaeffer, PhD, LP

Presentation of Nathaniel Willis, Sr. Humanitarian Award
2007 Recipient - Susan Jakubowicz, PhD, LCSW, LP
Lynne Sacher, PhD, LP

1:45-3:00pm Workshops Conducted by Heed Faculty

3:00-4:15pm Heed Faculty Panel
Questions from Workshops and Audience Discussion
Susan Jakubowicz, PhD, LCSW, LP-Moderator

4:15-5:15pm Reception in the Grand Central Suite
Please join us for wine and cheese!


About the Keynote Speaker

JEFFREY SEINFELD - is a professor at NYU School of Social Work and
a consultant at the Jewish Board of Family and Children's Services
He is the author of "The Bad Object", "The Empty Core", "Interpreting and Holding", and "Containing Rage, Terror and Despair.". He is in private practice in New York City.

About the Panelists

Phyllis F. Cohen, PhD, LP is an individual and group psychoanalyst, professor and training supervisor practicing in New York City. She is faculty member and Chair of the Psychoanalytic Department of the Blanton-Peale Institute; and faculty at both the Center for Human Development and Heed University. She is past Chairman of the American Board for Accreditation in Psychoanalysis (ABAP) and currently is the Chair of the Committee on Accreditation. Author of many journal articles and speaker at international conferences, she is primarily known for her work in nonverbal and symbolic communication.

Lee Crespi, LCSW is on the Executive Committee of the Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Study Center, where she teaches and supervises. She is a graduate of and supervisor at the Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy. She is the author of numerous articles on countertransference, lesbian relationships, and other related subjects. She is in private practice in Manhattan and Brooklyn.

Leslie Rosenthal, PhD, is a founder and Dean Emeritus of the Group Studies Department at the Center for Modern Psychoanalytic Studies, a Heed faculty member, and on the Board of Consultants for the Group Therapy Program of CHD. He is the author of the classic Resolving Resistance in Group Psychotherapy and of numerous articles on group psychoanalysis and psychotherapy. He is a Life Fellow of the American Group Psychotherapy Association, and has served as group therapy consultant to many social agencies, hospitals, and educational institutions. He is a psychoanalyst in private practice in Manhattan

Jack Wiener, NCPsyA, LP is a psychoanalyst and training analyst at NPAP. He serves as treasurer on the Board of Trustees of NAAP. He was founder/director of The School For Creative Movement from 1962-1992 and is the author of Creative Movement for Children.. His interest in affect through improvisation (free associations) began in 1959 and continues in his work as a psychoanalyst, creative movement teacher and movement analyst in private practice in New York. Currently, he is writing a book on the musculature as a primal, non-verbal source of dissociation to the awareness of affect in relationship to self and others.


About the Director

Susan Jakubowicz, PhD, LCSW, NCPsyA, LP, is the Director of the College of Psychoanalysis of Heed University and an Adjunct Associate Professor at New York University. She is the Co-Founder and Co-Executive Director of the Center for Human Development, Co-Editor of Current Trends in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy and a Founding Member of the Center for the Advancement of Group Studies. She is the author of numerous articles and has done extensive work with the chronic and terminally ill. She devotes a part of her private practice to supervising and running training groups for persons working with this population and serves as a consultant for various agencies. She is an individual and group psychoanalyst and training supervisor, and also works with families, couples and children in her private practice in Manhattan.


About Heed University

Heed University is one of the oldest, most experienced, and prestigious non-traditional institutions of higher education in this country. Heed has pioneered alternative education programs for three decades. The university was established in 1970 and is a founding member of the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis (NAAP) and an Associate Member of The American Board for Accreditation in Psychoanalysis (ABAP). The program in psychoanalysis was implemented in 1974, and the Hattie R. Rosenthal Psychoanalytic Institute was started in 1980. The Psychoanalytic Institute became the Hattie R. Rosenthal College of Psychoanalysis of Heed University in 1999. It offers two doctoral degrees in psychoanalysis-the PhD and the PsyD.

For more information and to request an application, visit our website at www.heed.edu/college_of_psychoanalysis.htm or www.heed.edu. Telephone us at (212) 332-0905, or e-mail us at InfoHR@heed.edu.

Administration
Honorary President Hyman Spotnitz, MD, MedScD
Director Susan Jakubowicz, PhD, LCSW, LP
Research Coordinator Lynne Sacher, PhD, LP
Alumni Assn. Coordinator and
Faculty Liaison to Student Affairs Susan R. Blumenson, PhD, LP

Faculty Members

Director of the College of Psychoanalysis: Susan Jakubowicz, PhD, LCSW, LP


Marge Blaine, PhD, LP
Susan R. Blumenson, PhD, LP
Toby Chuah, PhD, LP .
Phyllis F. Cohen, PhD, LP
Christine Durbak, PhD
Harold Davis, PhD, LP
Jeanine Dropkin, PhD
Gerald Fishbein, PhD
Shirley B. Love, PhD, LP
Gerald Lucas, PhD, LP
Ruth S. Meyers, PhD, LP Michaela Kane Schaeffer, PhD, LP
David Rosenthal, PhD
Leslie Rosenthal, PhD
Lynne Sacher, PhD, LP
Roberta Slavin, PhD
Robert Weinstein, PhD


Conference Committee Chairs
Lynne Sacher, PhD, LP and
Susan R. Blumenson, PhD, LP

Conference Committee
Phyllis F. Cohen, PhD, LP; Joanne Heith, PsyD, LCSW; Barbara Little Horse, PhD, LP, Michaela Kane Schaefer, PhD, LP, Leslie Trawin, LCSW, and Phyllis Tompkins, PhD, LCSW.

Conference Contact
E-mail: conference@heed.edu
Telephone: (212) 332-0905, or toll free (877) 287-2456

Registration Information




We invite all interested persons to attend this conference: We welcome your participation!

Location of Conference
American Conference Center
780 Third Avenue (at 48th Street)
New York, New York 10017

Doctoral Credit
In order to receive doctoral credit for attending this conference, students enrolled at Heed University are required to write an 8-10 page paper based on assigned topics, in consultation with their Mentors. (2 credits will be awarded upon satisfactory completion of the paper.)

Continuing Education Credits
Those who wish to receive Continuing Education credit for attending this conference should contact Dr. Susan R. Blumenson, Conference Co-chair, at the Heed telephone number. Certificates will be available at the registration desk at the end of the conference.




























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