The CAP and ITT Programs Present

Rebecca Shaffer Memorial Lecture

Hide and Seek
The Wish to Be Sought and Found
in the Treatment of a Latency-Aged Child

Presenters: Dr. Qian Cao and Dr. Phyllis Beren

Followed by a Q&A with the audience and the CAP Open House

Saturday March 28th

Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research

1651 3rd Ave, suite 205

Presentation: 3-4pm

Open House: 4-5pm

Prospective candidates interested in Open House: Free

Students and candidates auditing (no CE credits): Free

General admission (2 CE credits): $50

Students and Candidates (2 CE credits): $25

This is an in person only event

This presentation explores the treatment of a latency-aged child whose internal world emerged and became thinkable through play. Using clinical vignettes, the therapist and supervisor consider play as a holding environment in which omnipotent fantasy, rage at dependency, and, beneath these, the yearning to be sought and found are enacted and metabolized. Particular attention is given to how the therapist receives and survives the child’s use of her as an object, thereby facilitating new experiences of loving and hating within the therapeutic relationship. The supervisory process is highlighted as a parallel holding space that supports the therapist’s capacity to reflect upon her countertransference so that she may remain available to the child’s developmental struggles.

Qian Cao, Ph.D is an advanced candidate in both the Child and Adolescent Program (CAP) and the Adult Program at IPTAR, and a participant in the IPTAR On-Site School program. She is also Postdoctoral Research Scholar with the Initiative in Ancient and Contemporary Philosophy at Columbia University. Her research develops a distinctive dialogue between ancient Greek philosophy—particularly Plato’s ethics and epistemology—and psychoanalysis.

 

Phyllis Beren, Ph.D is a fellow, on the faculty, and supervising training analyst at IPTAR. She is past president of IPTAR, and past director of the IPTAR Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy Training Program and currently is co-chair of the CAP Training Committee. She is the editor of the book “Narcissistic Disorders in Children and Adolescents: Diagnosis and Treatment”, has published papers about child, adolescent, and adult treatment, has written essays for the magazine ROOM: A Sketchbook for Analytic Action, and serves on their editorial Board. She has also written a memoir.

Learning objectives:

 

Participants will:

Learn about techniques of play therapy with a latency child.

 

Develop better understanding of the concepts of holding environment, omnipotent phantasy and dependency.

 

Understand the dynamics of a parallel process in clinical supervision.

 

 

2 CE credits will be granted to participants who have registered, have documented evidence of attendance of the entire program and have completed the on-line evaluation form. Upon completion of the evaluation form a Certificate of Completion will be emailed to all participants who comply with these requirements.

 

The Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research (1651 3rd Ave, Suite 205, NY, NY 10128) is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Psychology as an approved provider of continuing education for Licensed Psychologists (#PSY-0026), and the State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for Licensed Social Workers (#SW-0226) and the State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for Licensed Psychoanalysts (#P-0011), Licensed Creative Arts Therapists (#CAT-0037) and Licensed Mental Health Counselors (#MHC-0112). This certificate is not applicable to any other New York State profession.

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