COPAT
Committee on Psychoanalysis and Addictions Treatment
Spring Lecture Series
Countertransferential Dilemmas
With Our Addicted Patients
Secrets of the Hour: Countertransferential Roles in Working With Sexual Addiction
Presenter: Puja Hall, LCSW
Discussant: Nancy Gubman, LCSW
Saturday February 25, 2012
9:30 am to 1:00 pm
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IN WORKING WITH SEX ADDICTION, the therapist can find him or herself caught in a range of roles: the undercover lover, marital savior, or big brother. In her presentation, Puja Hall will touch on some typical countertransference issues in working with sexual addiction. She will then address these roles with two case examples: one in which the patient is seeking therapy himself, the other because the patient was caught and is now "under the gun" by his partner. The presenter will highlight the unique challenge of each of these treatments, discussing the resistances she encounters, as well as the transferences and countertransferences.
Keeping Your Head When the Patient Is Still Using: Integrative Harm Reduction Psychotherapy and the Therapist's Countertransference
Presenter: Andrew Tatarsky, PhD
Discussant: Renee Obstfeld, LCAT, ATR-BC, CASAC
Saturday March 24, 2012
9:30 am to 1:00 pm
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WHEN TREATING EXCESSIVE SUBSTANCE USE and other dangerous behaviors, the therapist's countertransference can often get in the way. Dr. Tatarsky will discuss both the challenges and opportunities inherent in working with active users. Through clinical case examples, the presenter will demonstrate how an integrative harm reduction approach can help the therapist steer an effective course between either enabling or alienating the patient.
Puja Hall, LCSW, a psychotherapist and psychoanalyst, has specialized in the treatment of sex addiction and sexual compulsivity for 14 years. She has consulted with various media outlets on the topic of sex addiction and is a featured speaker at Project Respect, an educational program of the Sex Crimes Unit at the Kings County District Attorney’s Office. She is also a graduate and former board member of the Institute for Expressive Analysis.
Nancy Gubman, LCSW, a graduate of PPSC, is on the faculty and a supervisor there and at ICP. Her interests include attachment theory, sexuality, and working with countertransference. She maintains a private practice in Manhattan, working with individuals and couples.
Andrew Tatarsky, PhD, has specialized in the field of substance use treatment for over 30 years. He has developed a treatment for addictive and risky behavior called Integrative Harm Reduction Psychotherapy, described in his book Harm Reduction Psychotherapy: A New Treatment for Drug and Alcohol Problems. The approach integrates active self-management strategies and the exploration of the multiple meanings of problem behavior within a relational framework. He is the director of the Center for Optimal Living, a treatment and training institute, as well as a founding board member of the Division on Addictions of the New York State Psychological Association, Chairman of the Board of Moderation Management, Clinical Advisor to the New York State Office of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Services, and on the boards of several harm reduction organizations. Dr. Tatarsky trains nationally and internationally and has a private practice in New York City.
Renée Obstfeld, LCAT, ATR-BC, CASAC, has been practicing art therapy since 1986 with adolescents and adults in hospital, outpatient, and private settings. Her experience includes treatment of chemically dependent people (implementing both abstinence-oriented and harm reduction models), survivors of suicide and other trauma, and people who struggle with eating disorders and other compulsions to self-harm. Currently in private practice, Renée is also an adjunct instructor in the graduate art therapy programs at New York University and the School of Visual Arts. She has recently completed psychoanalytic training at the Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Study Center.
**Certificates of attendance and NYS OASAS CASAC hours will be available.
COPAT is the 2011 recipient of the Caron Award for Educational Excellence.
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