2015 WINTER & SPRING

EXTENSION PROGRAMS
Complete Course Catalog
Coordinated by
Elizabeth Berlese, Ph.D. & Marjorie Schuman, Ph.D.
Co-Chairs, LAISPS Extension Committee

Course Titles & Description

How Romantic Love Can Change a Life

Instructor: Daniel Paul, Ph.D.
LAISPS Training Analyst

2 Saturdays January 10 & 17, 2015

10:00 AM 1:00 PM
Course
Description:

Needs
Assessment:

One of peoples most universal and powerful desires is to feel the transformational power of love. The selfless aspects of
love mitigate isolation. The experience of merger with another is ecstatic fostering an expansion of the sense of self.
Validation by a lover can recover buried parts of the self furthering personal growth and well being. Psychological points are
illustrated by vignettes from Opera and film.
There is a need for clinicians to be aware of the mechanisms by which romantic love can change a life, the obstacles to allow
oneself to fall in love and the determinants of lasting love.

Educational
Objectives:

Upon completion of this activity, participants should be able to:

1) Distinguish romantic love from affectionate bonding, carnal love from mature sexual love, willful surrender from

masochism, and love from dominance.
2) Understanding the devouring nature of love.
3) Appreciate the barriers to falling in love.
4) Identify the determinants of the timing of love, the choice of lover, and lasting love.

CE/CME Credits: 6.0

FEE:
$120.00
Location:
LAISPS Classrooms
12011 San Vicente Blvd., Suite B3
Los Angeles, CA 90049

The Process of Interpretation: Art and Science

Instructor: Alan P. Spivak, Ph.D.
LAISPS Training Analyst

5 Fridays January 16, 23, 30, February 6 & 13, 2015

9:30 AM 12:30 PM
Course
Description:

Needs:
Assessment:

Educational
Objectives:

Psychic integration through interpretively being understood and recognized by the therapist is a unique contribution of
psychoanalysis to psychotherapy. This course focuses on the power of interpretation to foster psychic growth and
development as well as to resolve symptoms of psychopathology. Guidelines will be offered for constructing and offering
interpretations to patients. Criteria for deciding what or if to interpret in a session will be addressed. Following up the impact
of an interpretation will also be emphasized.
Clinicians are often confused about when and how to best make interpretations. This course will address this treatment
dilemma by clarifying the following issues.
1) Improved psychic integration, not simply insight, is the criterion of change.
2) Interpretation is a process not a one time act.
3) Interpretation helps complete an archaic developmental communication in the patient.
4) Naming inchoate feelings is a first step in an interpretive-developmental process, not an end in itself.
5) Being understood interpretively is simultaneously an intrapsychic and relational experience.
6) The response to interpretation begins a dialectical process cues to which are both conscious and unconscious.
Upon completion of this activity, participants should be able to:
1) Better understand the unique role of interpretation in psychotherapy.
2) Develop improved skill in making interpretations.
3) Describe criteria for deciding what and if to interpret in a session.
4) Learn a unique way to interpret when addressing resistance or impasse.

CE/CME Credits: 15.0

FEE:
$300.00
Location:
LAISPS Classrooms
12011 San Vicente Blvd., Suite B3
Los Angeles, CA 90049

Treating Children and Families of High-Conflict Divorce:

Psychodynamic Perspectives and Attachment Issues
Instructor: Janet Woznica, Ph.D.
LAISPS Member

2 Fridays January 16 & 23, 2015
1:00 AM 3:30 PM

Course
Description:

High conflict divorce often has profound effects on parents and children alike. This course will address the psychodynamics
and attachment issues involved in treating children and families of high-conflict divorce. Treatment issues such as helping
children maintain a sense of stability, identifying and addressing parent alienation syndrome, and maintaining relationships
with parents in conflict will be addressed. Special emphasis will be placed on helping parents and children maintain healthy
relationships and resilience throughout the process of divorce and its aftermath. Case material will illustrate theoretical
concepts.

Needs
Assessment:

Educational needs to be addressed include the need to develop an understanding of psychodynamics and attachment issues
involved in treating families of high-conflict divorce; to learn techniques to help parents and children maintain healthy
relationships; to promote resilience in children of high-conflict divorce.

Educational
Objectives:

Upon completion of this activity, participants should be able to:

1) Gain an understanding of the developmental, clinical, legal and ethical issues in treating children and families of high-
conflict divorce.
2) Identify and address the dynamics of parent alienation syndrome.
3) Employ clinical techniques to help parents and children maintain healthy relationships throughout the process of
divorce and its aftermath.

CE/CME Credits: 5.0

FEE:
$100.00
Location:
Instructors Office
10436 Santa Monica Blvd., #3005
Los Angeles, CA 90025

A New Era Ahead with Alcohol and Drugs:

Reconsidering Our Desires and Redefining Our Problems
Instructor: Margaret Ann Fetting, Ph.D., L.C.S.W.
LAISPS Guest Instructor

2 Saturdays January 24 & 31, 2015
9:30 AM 1:30 PM

Course
Description:

This workshop provides an overview, as well as, a refresher course for the highly opinionated, yet ever-changing field of
substance use disorders (SUDs). Emphasis will be placed on developing a deep appreciation for our ancient and natural desire
for escaping reality through intoxication. We will discuss the historical transformation of this universal desire into a pathological
obsession. Participants will explore ethnocultural, sociocultural and family influences on our thinking and behaviors around the
use and excessive use of substances, the DSM-5-proposed diagnostic changes, eleven psychoactives, ten models of treatment,
nine self-medication theories of SUDs, and a treatment model infused with contemporary psychodynamic and psychoanalytic
concepts. Participants will leave personally and professionally energized with fresh perspectives and with a newly constructed
knowledge base for their clinical use.

Needs
Assessment:

In order to treat substance use disorders, clinicians need to better understand and apply the following:
1. The ancient and universal desire to escape and expand consciousness with alcohol and other drugs.
2. The history of American cultures tendency to impose legal and medical control on habitual and/or excessive use, rather
than allow for the more European reliance on social informal and formal norms to set boundaries.
3. The importance of providing an ongoing relational home for the patient to explore his individual relationship with
substances of pleasure and excess.
4. The value of transforming the patients exaggerated fear of addiction into a thoughtful and reality-based acceptance of the
more destructive aspects of his AOD patterns of use.

Educational
Objectives:

Upon completion of this activity, participants should be able to:

1. Utilize and capitalize on the proposed DSM-5 diagnostic revisions to develop novel and more collaborative assessment
capacities of ones relationship with substances.
2. Describe the psychoactives and models of treatment.
3. Understand self-medication theories of substance use disorders.
4. Employ an Integrative Treatment Model (ITM) infused with psychodynamic and psychoanalytic concepts.

CE/CME Credits: 8.0

FEE:
$160.00
Location:
LAISPS classroom
12011 San Vicente Blvd., Suite B3
Los Angeles, CA 90049

Medication and Its Meaning: Adjunctive Psychotropic Drugs in Psychoanalytic Treatment

Instructor: Jacqueline W. Lichtenstein, M.D.
LAISPS Member

Saturday February 7, 2015
9:00 AM 12:00 PM

Course
Description:

A brief overview will be given of the different classes of psychotropic drugs, as well as their indication, mechanisms of action,
and common side effects. Issues relating to the initiation and effects of combined treatment will be explored. These include
difficulty in shifting between dynamic and phenomenological approaches, facilitating vs. sabotaging effects, the
transference/countertransference meanings of medication, and advantages and disadvantages of split therapy.

Needs
Assessment:

Multiple studies have demonstrated that approximately 30% of patients in psychoanalysis are also prescribed psychotropic
medication, yet little attention is given to how the decision to medicate is made and how it affects of the patient, the analyst,
and the analytic process. There is a need for clinicians to be able to address these questions.

Educational
Objectives:

Upon completion of this activity, participants should be able to:

1) Demonstrate knowledge of different types, indications, mechanisms of action, and side effects of the commonly used
psychotropic drugs
2) Evaluate the need for pharmacological intervention.
3) Understand how the use of medication may affect the psychoanalytic process.
4) Better negotiate a split therapy.

CE/CME Credits: 3.0

FEE:
Location:
LAISPS Classrooms
12011 San Vicente Blvd.
Los Angeles, , CA 90049

$60.00

The Unconscious at Play: The Dream in Clinical Practice

Instructor: Sandra Garfield, Ph.D.
LAISPS Training Analyst

2 Saturdays February 21 & 28, 2015

9:00 AM 12:00 PM
9:00 am 12:00 pm

Course
This course will focus upon the clinical application of dream theories, Freudian and contemporary perspectives upon dream
Description: interpretation, transference and resistance in dreams, the place of the dream in analytic psychotherapy, and the special
opportunities provided by dreams to deepen the therapeutic process will be discussed. Concepts presented will be infused with
illustrative clinical material.

Needs
Clinicians often want to deepen their work through the use of dream interpretation. In order to increase their skills, the
Assessment: following practice gaps will be addressed.
1) Freudian and contemporary dream theories.
2) Concepts related to the formation of a dream.
3) The dream work mechanisms.
4) Manifestations of transference and resistance in dreams.
5) Techniques of dream interpretation.
Educational
Objectives:

Upon completion of this activity, participants should be able to:

1. Describe Freuds seminal contributions to dream theory and technique including the dreams formation.
2. Demonstrate knowledge of select contemporary dream theories and techniques of interpretation.
3. Understand how the clinical use of dreams can deepen the therapeutic process.
4. Develop abilities to understand and interpret dreams in their clinical practices

CE/CME Credits: 6.0

FEE:
Location:
Instructors Office
415 No. Camden Drive, Suite 227
Beverly Hills, CA 90210

$120.00

The Dynamics of Couple Therapy: The Theory And Technique Of Working With Couples
Instructor: Vanessa Bell, Ph.D.
LAISPS Member

4 Thursdays March 5, 12, 19 & 26, 2015

1:00 2:30 PM
Course
Description:

This class will use theory, clinical case presentations and discussion to improve a clinicians understanding and skill working
with couples. Participants will use readings and published clinical material to learn a process of assessment for couples,
techniques for interpretation with couples, impasse management and will have the opportunity to present current case material
from their own practice for discussion.

Needs
Assessment:

In order to work successfully with couples, clinicians need to know how to:
1) Structure the first session, evaluate and diagnose the couple and their capacity for treatment as a couple.
2) Define and demonstrate neutrality, empathy, responsibility.
3) Model listening, understanding and respectfulness, helping partners respond to each other with greater empathy.
4) Introduce historical components to present complaints, linking past and present components of vulnerabilities and
hotspots.
5) Create space for two and three person perspectives within the session as an essential component of successful treatment.

Educational
Objectives:

Upon completion of this activity, participants should be able to:

1) Use the initial session and those that follow to set the tone and frame, to evaluate treatment for a particular couple, and
to diagnose the nature of their object relationships from archaic to mature.
2) Join the system in order to create a therapeutic triangle and an alliance with each partner.
3) Strengthen the couples alliance with each other.
4) Understand and interpret unconscious communication.
5) Recognize and articulate goals and limitations of treatment.
6) Use transference and countertransference in couples therapy.
7) Understand enactment and resolve impasse as it occurs

CE/CME Credits: 6.0

FEE:
$120.00
Location:
Instructors Office
16550 Ventura Blvd., Suite #405
Los Angeles, CA 90049

Treating Primitive Mental States

Instructor: Daniel Paul, Ph.D.
LAISPS Training Analyst

2 Saturdays March 7 & 15, 2015

9:00 AM 1:00 PM
9:00 am 12:00 pm

Course
Enormous demands are often made on therapists trying to help patients suffering from primitive mental states. This course
Description: focuses on helping therapists understand these demands and the impact these demands may have on him/her. This focus serves to
help the therapist be freer to think in the face of demands and thus empowers him/her. Clinical vignettes amply illustrate
theoretical concepts.

Needs
This course focuses on helping therapists understand these demands and the impact these demands may have on him/her.
Assessment: This focus serves to help the therapist be freer to think in the face of demands and thus empowers him/her.

Educational Upon completion of this activity, participants should be able to:
Objectives: 1) Utilize different treatment strategies for patients who have difficulty being weaned and are heavily impacted by
separation and for those who have never bonded, fear any kind of dependency and for whom weaning is not yet an issue.
2) Understand the dynamics of self-mutilation and how to treat this compulsion.
3) Recognize common counter transference patterns and use his/her responses to further treatment.

CE/CME Credits: 8.0

FEE:
$160.00
Location:

Instructors Office
450 No. Bedford Drive, Suite #301
Beverly Hills, CA 90210

Girls To Women, Boys To Men: Gender in Psychoanalytic Treatment

Instructors:
Michael Diamond, Ph.D., LAISPS Training Analyst
Linda Sobelman, Ph.D., LAISPS Training Analyst

4 Fridays March 13, 20, 27 & April 3, 2015

2:00 4:00 PM

Course
The psychoanalytic understanding of gender has evolved in recent years. This four-session course is designed to help
Description: clinicians incorporate contemporary thinking about gender development and gender issues in working with both male and female
patients. Seminal ideas of Freud, Winnicott, Lacan, British independent and French thinkers as well as contemporary theorists
including Balsalm, Bassin, Britton, Chasseguet-Smirgel, Fast, Fogel, Greenson, Herzog, Kestenberg, and the writings of the instructors
are employed to address dyadic and triadic mother- and father-daughter/son dynamics, homo- and hetero-erotics and sexuality,
masculine imperatives and the male ego, female imperatives and femininity, intrapsychic configurations in social-relational context,
and specific transference-countertransference dynamics for female and male therapists treating girls and boys, women and men.
Class discussion will expand on these views and case material will be employed to illustrate the application of theory to
psychoanalytic practice Clinical material will be used throughout to bring the theoretical findings to life.
Needs:
Various gender-specific issues that impact psychoanalytic treatment are insufficiently recognized, and there is a need to
Assessment: address this by incorporating psychoanalytic, developmental understanding of both boys and girls during infancy and pre-oedipal
years, childhood, adolescence, and young adulthood. This course is suitable for beginning as well as advanced mental health
practitioners interested in deepening their work through psychoanalytic understanding.

Educational Upon completion of this activity, participants should be able to:
Objectives: 1) Recognize how female and male gender identity shaped and how it is transformed through infancy and early childhood.
2) Acquire a deeper understanding of the nature and manifestations of the pre-oedipal influences as well as phallic and genital
positions through infancy and early childhood.
3) Relate unconscious psychodynamic issues to the social/cultural factors that influence the girls and boys experience and
behavior.
4) Learn how fathers impact female and male development both as real and symbolic objects and how the fathers relationship with
his partner influences the sons gender-based development.
5) Identify their own stereotypes and biases as well as their unique countertransference experiences when working with female and
male patients along with specific transferences patients bring toward their gendered (female and male) analysts/therapists.
6) Describe the history of psychoanalytic theorizing on gender, femininity, and masculinity including Freuds seminal ideas and their
elaboration and emendation by subsequent and contemporary analysts.

CE/CME Credits: 8.0

FEE:
$160.00
Location:
LAISPS Classrooms
12011 San Vicente Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90049

Victory in Defeat

Instructor: Alan P. Spivak, Ph.D.

LAISPS Training Analyst

3 Fridays April 10, 17 & 24, 2015
9:30 am 12:30 PM
9:00 am 12:00 pm

Course
This course addresses a universal dimension of various psychopathologies that lead individuals, despite their states objectives,
Description: unconsciously to pursue a path of self- defeat and masochism. Core unconscious fantasies will be explicated that motivate an
individual to create disappointments from which both satisfaction and avoidance of anxiety is achieved. Common transference-
countertransference themes and enactments will be described that demonstrate the activation of the intrapsychic self-defeating
process.

Needs
Clinicians are frequently unclear about how to deal with treatment impasses. To this end they need to learn better
Assessment: distinguish environmentally induced pathological behavior and responses from those intrapsychically arranged, to help patients
recognize and alter masochistic and other self defeating behavior through interpretive interventions, and to better deal with
countertransferences responses when faced with intense sadomasochistic pressures.
.
Educational Upon completion of this activity, participants should be able to:
Objectives: 1) Better understand the paradoxical nature of the inner world.
2) Adopt an interpretive attitude to address basic masochism in most patients.
3) Work through treatment impasses involving negative therapeutic reactions .
4) Formulate a treatment strategy for the masochistic dimension of psychopathology

CE/CME Credits: 9.0

FEE:
$180.00
Location:
LAISPS Classrooms
12011 San Vicente Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90049

The Fragmented Self: Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Dissociation

Instructors:
Jacqueline W. Lichtenstein, M.D., LAISPS Member
Roberta Mirisch, L.C.S.W., LAISPS Senior Candidate

2 Saturdays May 2 & 9, 2015
10:00 AM 1:00 PM

Course
This course will provide an overview of past and current concepts of dissociation and dissociative disorders, emphasizing their
Description: application to psychoanalytic work with a variety of patients. Topics include the connection of dissociation to trauma, the etiology
and manifestation of traumatic (unformulated) memories, adaptive versus non-adaptive dissociation, and the representation of
internalized attachment patterns in dissociated self- states. The instructors will present case material related to Dissociative Identity
Disorder to illustrate theoretical, diagnostic and treatment issues.
Needs
Until recently the dissociative structure of the mind did not receive much attention and Dissociative Identity Disorder was thought
Assessment: to be extremely rare. Today, the increased interest in trauma, attachment theory, and relational models is changing the way we
think about development and psychopathology. An understanding of dissociation has broad clinical applications for the
conceptualization and treatment of a variety of disorders.

Educational Upon completion of this activity, participants should be able to:

Objectives:
1) Understand how early trauma can lead to the development of dissociated and contradictory self-states.
2) Recognize dissociative defenses and symptoms and distinguish between repression and dissociative processes.
3) Better negotiate treatment issues, such as the therapeutic use of the analytic frame and the holding environment, the role of
primitive communication, and the response to regressive phenomenon.
4) Identify ways to understand, tolerate and work effectively with intense transference and countertransference dynamics.

CE/CME Credits: 6.0

FEE:
$120.00
Location:
LAISPS Classrooms
12011 San Vicente Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90049

Psychopathology and Literature:

The Internal World of Franz Kafka and The Desire For Nothing
Instructor: Valrie Rubinstein von Raffay, Ph.D.
LAISPS Member

2 Saturdays May 16 & 23, 2015
10:00 AM 12:00 PM

Course
This course will provide an experience of what literature can contribute to psychoanalysis. Literature describes fascinating
Description:
case studies that uniquely bring to life the complexity of human beings and interpersonal relationships. The literary works of
Franz Kafka, a born "psychoanalyst", will be used to explore an internal world filled with terror, the terror of the powerful
paternal introject that reduces him to a "no thing". Concepts of the refusal of desire and human needs and Lacan's idea of
"desire for nothing" (Zizek, S. (2007)) will be emphasized, including how this dynamic relates to anorexia. The short story The
Hunger Artist by Franz Kafka will be used to explore concepts of psychic retreat, the refusal of desire and human needs, which
illuminates Lacans idea of desire for nothing

Needs
The psychoanalytic and clinical understanding of male patients who are dominated by powerful paternal introject that can
Assessment:
result in the avoidance of oedipal rivalry will be enriched by consideration of meanings found in classic literature by Franz
Kafka.
The psychoanalytic and clinical understanding of anorexia will be enriched by consideration of meanings found in classic
literature by Franz Kafka

Educational
Objectives:

Upon completion of this activity, participants should be able to:

1. Describe the relationship between psychoanalysis and literature.
2. Describe how Kafka's conflictual relationship with his father dominated his internal and external world.
3. Describe what is meant by "refusal of desire" and human needs, in relationship to Lacan's idea of "desire for nothing".
4. Give a clinical example of the relationship between "refusal for desire" and the development of anorexia.

CE/CME Credits: 4.0

FEE:
$80.00
Location:
Instructors Office
11340 W. Olympic Blvd., Suite 185
Los Angeles, CA 90049

Continuing Education
Important Disclosure: None of the planes or presenters of these CME/CE programs has any relevant financial
relationship to disclose.
Physicians: LAISPS is accredited by the Institute for Medical Quality California Medical Association (IMQ/CMA) to
provide continuing medical education for physicians. LAISPS takes responsibility for the content, quality and scientific
integrity of these CME activities and designates these educational activities for AMA PRA Category 1 Credits. Physicians
should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. This credit may also be
applied to the CMA Certificate in Continuing Medical Education.
Psychologists: LAISPS is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for
psychologists. LAISPS maintains responsibility for these programs and its content. Full attendance is required for
psychologists to receive credit; partial credit may not be awarded based on APA guidelines. Each activity is designated as
marked for credit hours.
Social Workers and Marriage and Family Therapists: LAISPS is approved by the Board of Behavioral Sciences to grant
continuing education credit to those holding LCSW and MFT licenses (Provider #PCE311). Each activity is designated as
marked for credit hours.
Nurses: LAISPS is approved by the CA Board of Registered Nursing to grant continuing education credit to nurses.

WINTER AND SPRING 2015

EXENSTION PROGRAMS REGISTRATION FORM
Name
Address
City

State

Phone

Zip

Email

Degree

Professional License Number

$120.00

How Romantic Love Can Change A Life Daniel Paul, Ph.D.

January 10 &17, 2015

$300.00

The Process of Interpretation: Art & Science Alan P. Spivak, Ph.D..

January 16, 23, 30, February 6 & 13, 2015

$100.00

Treating Children and Families of High-Conflict Divorce:

Psychodynamic Perspectives and Attachment Issues Janet Woznica, Ph.D.
January 16 & 23, 2015

$160.00

A New Era Ahead with Alcohol and Drugs:

Reconsidering Our Desires and Redefining Our Problems Margaret Ann Fetting, Ph.D., L.C.S.W.
January 24 & 31, 2015

$160.00

Medication and Its Meaning:

Adjunctive Psychotropic Drugs in Psychoanalytic Treatment Jacqueline W. Lichtenstein, M.D.
February 7, 2015

$120.00

The Unconscious at Play: The Dream in Clinical Practice Sandra Garfield, Ph.D.
February 21 & 28, 2015

$120.00

The Dynamics of Couple Therapy:

The Theory And Technique Of Working With Couples Vanessa Bell, Ph.D.
March 5, 12, 19 & 26, 2015

$160.00

Treating Primitive Mental States Daniel Paul, Ph.D.

March 7 & 15, 2015

$160.00

Girls To Women, Boys To Men: Gender In Psychoanalytic Treatment Michael Diamond, Ph.D.
March 13, 20, 27 & April 3, 2015
Linda Sobelman, Ph.D.

$180.00

Victory In Defeat Alan P. Spivak, Ph.D.

April 10, 17 & 24, 2015

$120.00

The Fragmented Self:

Psychoanalytic Perspectives On Dissociation Jacqueline W. Lichtenstein, M.D.
May 2 & 9, 2015
Roberta Mirisch, L.C.S.W.

$80.00

Psychopathology And Literature:

The Internal World Of Franz Kafka And The Desire For Nothing Valrie R. vonRaffay, Ph.D.
May 16 & 23, 2015

Tuition is nonrefundable after the class has begun.

Please make check payable to LAISPS and mail with this Registration Form to:
Los Angeles Institute and Society for Psychoanalytic Studies
12011 San Vicente Blvd., #310, Los Angeles, CA 90049

For further information, please contact:

Phone: (310) 440-0333
Email: admin@laisps.org
www.laisps.org