Presented by:

Mindy Utay, LCSW, JD

Description: In this workshop, I will explain the concept of the “Psychoanalytic Blackboard” as taught by the esteemed psychoanalyst and teacher Martin Bergmann (1913-2014) in his clinical seminars. Martin considered this framework of analytic inquiry to be his main contribution to the field of psychoanalytic technique. The blackboard provides a framework for questions that help the analyst construct a narrative of the patient’s life and leads to interpretations, reconstructions and other interventions of psychoanalytic importance.

  Mindy Utay, LCSW, JD is a 2008 graduate of NIP’s Adult Training Program. She holds graduate degrees in social work and law.  Ms. Utay’s previous experience as a practicing attorney provides an additional disciplinary approach when conceptualizing conflicts of the mind and relationships. She was supervised by Dr. Martin Bergmann and participated in his weekly seminars for several years before his death. She offers this workshop both as a tribute to her beloved teacher and to share the teachings that have guided her practice. 

Presented by:

Marc Sholes, LCSW

Description: Based on decades of working with patients frustrated by their romantic relationships, I came to realize that their attachment styles, their relational GPS, were organized in such a way that often privileged the needs of others over their own.  At worst, the self can become totally obscured, leading to compensatory behaviors that are self-destructive.  Ultimately, this can wreak havoc for all involved.  I wrote Reset Your Romantic GPS as a guide to help readers gain insight into the power that attachment styles have on relationships, and through this process of becoming aware, to change for the better.  Using clinical examples and personal anecdotes, I will discuss how analysts and therapists can use the concepts and process outlined in this book to help patients struggling with their romantic choices and relationships.

Marc Sholes, LCSW is a Board member, faculty, and supervisor at the National Institute for the Psychotherapies (NIP) and former Co-Director of Curriculum for their Adult Training Program in Psychoanalysis.  He is a Coordinating Committee member at the Institute for The Psychoanalytic Study of Subjectivity (IPSS) and serves on the Council of the International Association for Psychoanalytic Self Psychology.  He maintains a private practice in New York City.  His current interest is the relationship between Attachment Theory, infant research, and Self Psychology, and how shifting from an insecure to more secure attachment style can be facilitated through the application of these theories.

Presented by:

Anthony Bass, PhD

Description: In this workshop, we will consider the challenges and opportunities for therapeutic work in these traumatic times and the implications of working remotely this past year and in the longer term.  Tony Bass will present some recent work in which he considers how patients and analysts work together and live through these times as they try to stay alive, physically and psychically, and use the therapy relationship to heal and grow.  We will have time to discuss seminar participants’ experiences in facing these challenges, and to work together to find creative solutions to the kinds of problems that we must face in these times.

 Anthony Bass, Ph.D. is an associate professor and consulting analyst at the NYU Postdoctoral Program and on the faculty, and training and supervising analyst at the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research.  He is a member of the faculty at the Manhattan Institute, ICP, the National Institute for the Psychotherapies National Training Program, and the Stephen Mitchell Center for Relational Studies, where he is a founder and president.  He is editor emeritus of Psychoanalytic Dialogues, and a founding director of IARPP.

Presented by:

Eileen M. Russell, PhD

Description: One’s sense of agency, the recognition and expression of one’s will, and the clarity and courage around one’s desires are not necessarily byproducts of therapy or healing, particularly for those patients who have experienced relational trauma, neglect, enmeshment or severe illness or disability. Rather, these are core affective experiences that need our explicit focus and facilitation to break into being and enliven the person and the work. This seminar will explore these phenomena through the lens of AEDP (Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy) and contextualize them in developmental theory, relational psychoanalytic theory, and learning theory. Using videotapes of actual sessions, Dr. Russell will illustrate examples of blocked agency as well as techniques for inviting the emergence of agency within the therapeutic relationship.

   Eileen Russell, Ph.D. is a psychologist in private practice in New York City and Montclair, NJ. She is Senior Faculty at the AEDP Institute where she teaches and trains therapists and teaching faculty at NIP’s Integrative Trauma Program. She is author of Restoring Resilience: Discovering Your Clients’ Capacity for Healing and “Agency, Will, and Desire as Core Affective Experience: Undoing Disempowerment to Foster the Emergence of the Agentic Self” in the forthcoming Undoing Aloneness and the Transformation of Suffering Into Flourishing: AEDP 2.0.

Presented by:

Luc Olivier Charlap PhD

Description: This presentation will attempt to address the experience of transitioning later in life and the impact of female socialization in everyday life on this male identified transgender psychoanalyst. Despite valid efforts to maintain a sense of gender fluidity, society’s unrelenting call for a binary expression of gender has never been so stark. Society’s lack of “gender mentalization” and its insistence on defensively and unconsciously concretizing it, as it threatens basic organizing principles, reintroduce a sense of shame, shame which I meant to escape in the first place. I am now hiding in fear of misrecognition, in a new way. Yes, gender as an internal experience is a soft assembly, but in everyday encounters it is mostly rigidified and concrete. Passing as male and required to use the male locker rooms, I shift back and forth between multiple gendered/ungendered self-states, in such a hyper-gendered environment. Using Harris, Orange and Bromberg, I will discuss this forced return and unrequited adoption of the binary and its psychic implications in terms of gender, mentalization, shame and trauma- in the seemingly benign exposures to everyday encounters that lie within the walls of the bare exclusivity of male only spaces.

NIPPA Focus Seminars do not offer CE hours, but they do count toward NIP’s training requirements for candidates in the four-year program.

Virtual Event via Zoom

NIPPA members and NIP candidates: Free 

General Registration fee:  $10.00

All participants must complete online registration.    Learn more and register here

Dr. Luc Olivier Charlap PhD is a psychoanalyst in private practice in New York City. As a faculty member of various psychoanalytic institute he has taught classes on Trauma and its Treatment; Gender and Sexuality; Object Relations; Klein; and Envy, Narcissism and Borderline States. He is also a faculty member at NYU Silver School of Social Work. At present, as a faculty member and training analyst at the Contemporary Institute of Psychotherapy, he teaches Theories of Human Development in the Two-Year psychotherapy program and Narcissism and Borderline States in the Four-Year psychoanalytic program. He also supervises psychotherapy and psychoanalytic candidates.

Presented by:

Eileen M. Russell, PhD

Description: One’s sense of agency, the recognition and expression of one’s will, and the clarity and courage around one’s desires are not necessarily byproducts of therapy or healing, particularly for those patients who have experienced relational trauma, neglect, enmeshment or severe illness or disability. Rather, these are core affective experiences that need our explicit focus and facilitation to break into being and enliven the person and the work. This seminar will explore these phenomena through the lens of AEDP (Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy) and contextualize them in developmental theory, relational psychoanalytic theory, and learning theory. Using videotapes of actual sessions, Dr. Russell will illustrate examples of blocked agency as well as techniques for inviting the emergence of agency within the therapeutic relationship.

   Eileen Russell, Ph.D. is a psychologist in private practice in New York City and Montclair, NJ. She is Senior Faculty at the AEDP Institute where she teaches and trains therapists and teaching faculty at NIP’s Integrative Trauma Program. She is author of Restoring Resilience: Discovering Your Clients’ Capacity for Healing and “Agency, Will, and Desire as Core Affective Experience: Undoing Disempowerment to Foster the Emergence of the Agentic Self” in the forthcoming Undoing Aloneness and the Transformation of Suffering Into Flourishing: AEDP 2.0.

Presented by:

Luc Olivier Charlap PhD

Description: This presentation will attempt to address the experience of transitioning later in life and the impact of female socialization in everyday life on this male identified transgender psychoanalyst. Despite valid efforts to maintain a sense of gender fluidity, society’s unrelenting call for a binary expression of gender has never been so stark. Society’s lack of “gender mentalization” and its insistence on defensively and unconsciously concretizing it, as it threatens basic organizing principles, reintroduce a sense of shame, shame which I meant to escape in the first place. I am now hiding in fear of misrecognition, in a new way. Yes, gender as an internal experience is a soft assembly, but in everyday encounters it is mostly rigidified and concrete. Passing as male and required to use the male locker rooms, I shift back and forth between multiple gendered/ungendered self-states, in such a hyper-gendered environment. Using Harris, Orange and Bromberg, I will discuss this forced return and unrequited adoption of the binary and its psychic implications in terms of gender, mentalization, shame and trauma- in the seemingly benign exposures to everyday encounters that lie within the walls of the bare exclusivity of male only spaces.

NIPPA Focus Seminars do not offer CE hours, but they do count toward NIP’s training requirements for candidates in the four-year program.

Virtual Event via Zoom

NIPPA members and NIP candidates: Free 

General Registration fee:  $10.00

All participants must complete online registration.    Learn more and register here

Dr. Luc Olivier Charlap PhD is a psychoanalyst in private practice in New York City. As a faculty member of various psychoanalytic institute he has taught classes on Trauma and its Treatment; Gender and Sexuality; Object Relations; Klein; and Envy, Narcissism and Borderline States. He is also a faculty member at NYU Silver School of Social Work. At present, as a faculty member and training analyst at the Contemporary Institute of Psychotherapy, he teaches Theories of Human Development in the Two-Year psychotherapy program and Narcissism and Borderline States in the Four-Year psychoanalytic program. He also supervises psychotherapy and psychoanalytic candidates.