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COPAT Presents: Addiction, Psychoanalysis, and the Brain

April 24, 2010 - Brian Johnson and Steven Lee, respected speakers in the field of psychoanalysis and addictions, present their findings.

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COPAT Presents:

Addiction, Psychoanalysis, and the Brain

April 24, 2010

Committee on Psychoanalysis and Addiction Treatment (COPAT) 2010 Spring Conference
Presented by Sierra Tucson and Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Study Center (PPSC).
Certificates of attendance and NYS OASAS hours will be available.

Click here to register.

Location:

New York Psychoanalytic
247 East 82nd Street
New York, NY

Agenda:

   9:00 a.m. -    9:45 a.m.    Registration & Breakfast
   9:45 a.m. -  12:30 p.m.    Morning Presentation
 12:30 p.m. -    1:45 p.m.    Lunch Break
   1:45 p.m. -    4:30 p.m.    Afternoon Presentation

Morning Presentation: "When One Is Not Enough: Rebooting Satiation"
Presenter: Brian Johnson, M.D.
Panel Discussant: Brian Koehler, Ph.D.
Addiction has physical as well as psychological aspects. Working psychoanalytically with addicted patients requires one to understand the subcortical changes that drive their addicted behavior because these changes induce unconscious alterations in drives, defenses, and relatedness. Codependence countertransference can be a relational consequence for relatively unaware analysts confronted with the difficulties involved in treating such patients.
Brian Johnson, M.D., is director of addiction psychiatry and associate professor at CUNY Upstate Medical University. He is also co-chair of The Substance-Abusing Patient in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy, the annual workshop of the American Psychoanalytic Association. He is a long-term member of the American Academy of Addiction Psychiatry and a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association. Dr. Johnson's publications focus on the neuropsychoanalytic treatment of patients with addiction, prescription drug abuse, and the treatment of chronic pain. His e-book for children on addiction neuropsychoanalysis, Widespread Zombification in the 21st Century and the Wars of the Zombie Masters, is available at www.gegensatzpress.com/zombies.
Brian Koehler, Ph.D., is an adjunct associate professor at NYU's Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis and Silver School of Social Work and at CUNY. He is faculty and supervisor at the Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Study Center (PPSC). Dr. Koehler is a reviewer for the International Journal of Psychoanalysis. He is also an associate editor of the new international journal Psychosis: Psychological, Social and Integrative Approaches.  As the U.S. chair and executive board member of the International Society for the Psychological Treatments of the Schizophrenias and Other Psychoses (ISPS), he has published many articles on the neuroscience and psychotherapy of psychoses. Dr. Koehler is in private practice in Manhattan and Westchester.

Afternoon Presentation: "Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough: Commonalities of Compulsive Sex and Drug Addiction"
Speaker: Steven J. Lee, M.D.
Panel Discussant: Judith Rustin, L.C.S.W.
Compulsive sex and drug addiction share neurobiological pathways. These common neuropathways explain similarities between sexual compulsion and chemical addiction and also help us understand changes in sexual behavior caused by several well-known addictive substances. Dr. Lee will discuss the clinical presentation of an addicted patient with compulsive sexual behavior, considering therapeutic and pharmacologic interventions.
Steven J. Lee, M.D., is an assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at Columbia University, where he also supervises physicians training in adult psychiatry and the treatment of addictive disorders. He is certified by the American Board of Medical Specialties in adult psychiatry, addiction psychiatry, and addiction medicine, and he is also a Fellow of both the American Society of Addiction Medicine and the American Psychiatric Association. He lectures worldwide on topics of addiction, has been interviewed on radio shows and documentaries, and has written a book entitled Overcoming Crystal Methamphetamine Addiction.
Judith Rustin, L.C.S.W., is faculty, supervisor, and training analyst at the Institute for the Psychoanalytic Study of Subjectivity (IPSS) and the Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Study Center (PPSC) in New York City. She is the author of various papers on both intersubjectivity theory and its integration with infant research. Since 1995 she has been studying, writing, and teaching on the synthesis of neuroscience and psychoanalysis. She is a co-author (with Beatrice Beebe, Steven Knoblauch, and Dorienne Sorter) of the book Forms of Intersubjectivity in Infant Research and Adult Treatment. Currently, she is working on combining the neuroscience of addiction with clinical psychoanalysis.

CE Credit:

Certificates of attendance and NYS OASAS hours will be available.

Cost & Registration:

Professionals - $115 Early Registration until April 10, 2010 ($135 after April 10). Professionals register online by clicking here.

Candidates and Students with ID - $75 Early Registration until April 10, 2010 ($95 after April 10). Candidates and Students with ID register by calling 212-633-9162.