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January, 2010
Dear AAPCSW Members,
We want to hear from you! Please call, write, or email me with your news: graduations, presentations, publications, awards, appointments, exhibits, etc., are all items the AAPCSW membership would like to acknowledge in the “Member News” column. Feel free to include a photo if you like.
Ashley Warner, LCSW, BCD
85 Fifth Avenue, Suite 934
New York, NY 10003
212-561-1729
awarner@hotmail.com
January 2010
Linda G. Beeler, LCSW, Psychotherapist, and Harold B. Beeler, ESQ, former Matrimonial Judge of the NY State Supreme Court, announce the opening of their practice concentrating in divorce and family mediation in New York City. For more information go to www.divorcemediationtoday.com
Joan Berzoff, MSW, EdD just received the “Greatest Contribution to Social Work Education” award from the Massachusetts NASW.
Jerry Brandell, PhD, BCD just completed the thoroughly revised and updated Second Edition of his edited textbook, Theory and Practice in Clinical Social Work (Sage Publications). Consisting of 28 chapters, it is 880 pages in length, and deals with topics as diverse as "Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy of Adults," "Treatment of Infants and Their Families" and "Loss and Mourning Across the Life Cycle." The First Edition, published in 1997, was widely used in graduate social work programs across the US and Canada.
Michael De Simone, Ph.D., LCSW presented a paper titled "Individual Psychotherapy from an Object Relations Perspective of a Borderline Patient with an Intense Sexual Addiction” to the Staten Island Chapter of The New York State Society for Clinical Social Work on November 15th, 2009. He also conducted a seminar for School Social Workers of the Board of Education on Staten Island, "Helping Children and Adolescents Grow Through the Grief Process," on January 19th, 2010.
Margaret Dieter, LCSW will be giving the Psychoanalytic Society of Upstate New York's annual Sandor Feldman Lecture in Rochester on April 17, 2010. The title will be "Themes of Trauma, Dissociation and Transformation in Jane Campion's Film, The Piano.” Additionally, her paper "Adolescence in the Context of Exile and Trauma: A Therapeutic Challenge" will be presented at the Washington Trauma Conference, March 4-6, sponsored by the Washington Center for Psychoanalysis.
On November 7, 2009, Joyce Edward, LCSW, BCD was the keynote speaker at a conference sponsored by the Suffolk Institute for Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis in Melville, New York. The title of the presentation was “Sibling Discord: A Force for Growth or Conflict.” Joyce took the opportunity at the conference to distribute our brochures in the hopes of interesting some of the attendees in joining AAPCSW. She is also currently writing a book about siblings, which will be published by Jason Aronson, Inc.
Sue Fairbanks, LCSW, BCD wants to share with the newsletter that she has set up an endowment for excellence in the Application of Psychoanalytic Knowledge in Social Work at her alma mater, the University of Texas School of Social Work. She began this process in 2006, inspired by Joyce Edward and the program she set up at her alma mater, Case Western.
Sue has been deeply troubled by the neglect of psychoanalytic theory in schools of social work, an issue widely discussed by AAPCSW on the list serve several years ago, which also served as inspiration for the endowment.
In September 2009 the inaugural lecture was given by Dr. Carol Tosone, Associate Professor at New York University Silver School of Social Work and Editor in Chief of the Clinical Social Work Journal, titled "Psychoanalytic Knowledge in a New Key: Implications for Contemporary Social Work Practice.” The lecture challenged the commonly held notion that psychoanalytic theory is outdated and not related to contemporary social work practice. Included were recent advances in attachment theory and research and neuroscience applied to understanding populations at risk, particularly trauma survivors. Also included were core psychoanalytic constructs such as transference, countertransference, projective identification, and resistance, demonstrated using a videotaped reenactment of a student's first session with a client followed by a psychoanalytically oriented supervisory session.
The school set up an Inaugural Lecture Committee ably chaired by Vicki Packheiser, Clinical Associate Professor, to put the program together.
The free afternoon lecture was well-received, filling the 220-seat Utopia theatre at the U.T. School of Social Work. It was open to both social work students and the Austin community of helping professionals. Hopefully the endowment will produce enough funds for the lecture to be given on an annual basis. We also may have made an honorary Texan out of Dr. Carol Tosone!
Susan Gill, PhD, LCSW published the paper, "The Therapist as Psychobiological Regulator: Dissociation, Affect Attunement and Clinical Process" on-line in the Clinical Social Work Journal on May 28, 2009. It will also appear in an upcoming hard copy of CSWJ. The paper can be accessed through Springer publications as well as on Allan Schore's website.
Laura Groshong, LICSW, had a book published by University Press of America, Clinical Social Work Practice and Regulation: An Overview in October. As a practicing clinician for over 32 years, she has provided a summary of clinical social work practice and the basis for all licensure laws, including psychoanalytic social work. In addition, the book provides a review of all clinical social work licensure laws in the United States, based on her 12 years of experience as a mental health advocate, specializing in regulation of clinical social work practice. Building on the 30 states in which she has either written or consulted on the revision of clinical social work licensure laws, she has analyzed all 51 clinical social work licensure laws in 18 different areas. Finally, she offers some recommendations on ways to develop clinical social work licensure and regulation standards that could serve as a ‘floor’ for all clinical social work licensure laws. Reviews of the book can be found at Amazon.com.
In addition, Laura presented two successful trainings on the implementation of requirements for HIPAA compliance for mental health clinicians with fellow AAPCSW member Keith Myers in Wilmington, Delaware and Bryn Mawr College to over 130 people in December.
Robin Halpern, LCSW, DCSW, just launched a new website for her artwork. Check it out at robinhalpern.com
Peggy Horwitz, LCSW is forming a group for mental health professionals in New York City who want to learn and practice mindfulness techniques and incorporate these tools into their practice. Peggy has 20 years of experience as a licensed clinical social worker, psychotherapist and psychoanalyst. She has taught mindfulness techniques for treatment of trauma, stress, for crisis intervention, as well as, for promoting wellness. Ms. Horwitz has taught at organizations including: IRPE at Brooklyn College, Veterans Administration, Corporate Counseling Associates, F.E.G.S., Institute for Urban Family Health, and National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis. She maintains a private practice in Manhattan. "Mindfulness and Therapeutic Presence" will meet tentatively on Mondays in NYC at 2:00. Contact her for more information at 212.971.4422 or peghorwitz@aol.com.
Jerry S. Katz, LCSW, lectured in mid-December in Athens and Istanbul on personality disorders, along with his Masterson Institute colleagues. In the fall he began leading his monthly online study/supervision group with six other therapists from Winter Park, FL.
Susan A. Klett, LCSW-R announces her positions as President of The Postgraduate Psychoanalytic Society and Institute (Member of the International Federation of Psychoanaytic Societies); and Director of Continuing Education at Washington Square Institute.
AAPCSW member Shoshana Ringel, PhD, along with Eda Goldstien, DSW, and Dennis Miehls, PhD, published a book entitled “Advanced clinical social work practice: Relational principles and techniques” from Columbia University Press, 2009.
The New York Institute for Psychoanalytic Self Psychology Extension Center launched a workshop series last fall with the class “Working with the Hard to Reach Patient: Understanding the Selfobject Transferences” taught by AAPCSW founding member Crayton E. Rowe, Jr., MSW, BCD-P. Other presentations included “The Secret Addiction: Suicide” by member Beverly Kolsky, MSW, BCD-P. The spring series includes papers by AAPCSW members Ashley Warner, MSW, BCD “Creativity and Inhibition: A Self-Psychological Approach;" Frances Levine, MSW, BCD-P “The Treatment of a Severely Disturbed Child from A Self-Psychological Perspective;” David MacIsaac, PhD, ABPP, "Empathy in an Unempathic World: Self Psychology in Light of New Selfobject Discoveries" and Daniel Farrell, MSW, “The Study of a Chronic Homeless Mentally Ill Woman: The Use of Empathic Attunement and Positive Selfobject Transference to Facilitate Successful Transition out of Homelessness,” among other programs. Visit www.nyipsp.org for more information.
Deborah Rubin, LCSW, PhD, has broadened the scope of her practice to include specialized coaching in writing and learning for individuals on the college, graduate, and professional level. She has worked with people on writing published novels, finishing dissertations, coping with depression while surviving in grad school, and dealing with academic or professional situations where psychological factors are interfering with optimal functioning. She has direct knowledge of and/or degrees from many kinds of institutions and fields, including Ivy League schools, small liberal arts colleges, and many professional disciplines in the arts, humanities, social sciences, sciences and business/law. Deborah was a college English professor for many years and now works as a psychoanalyst/ clinical social worker in New York City, integrating her past experiences and her work in private practice.
“What Can We Learn from Theseus” by Lee Miriam Whitman-Raymond, PhD, MFA was published in the International Journal of Psychoanalytic Self Psychology in February of this year, as part of a series on recognition. The paper was also given at the annual AAPCSW conference last March. Her paper “The Influence of Class in the Therapeutic Dyad” came out in October of 2009 in the Journal of Contemporary Psychoanalysis. Finally, her book of poems, The light on our faces and other poems was published in January by Pleasureboat studios. It contains a long poem which is an inner dialogue between a psychoanalytic therapist and patient. The book is available to members of AAPCSW for a 20% discount. The website is www.pleasureboatstudio.com.