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Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Study Center COPAT Spring Lecture Series
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Event Details
Countertransferential Dilemmas
With Our Addicted Patients
Saturday March 24, 2012
9:30 am to 1:00 pm
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
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.
Presenter: Andrew Tatarsky, PhD
Discussant: Renee Obstfeld, LCAT, ATR-BC, CASAC
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.
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 bookHarm 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.
Where
First Presbyterian Church of New York City
12 West 12th Street
(at Fifth Avenue)
New York,
NY 10010
Hosted By
Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Study Center
Committee on Psychoanalysis and Addictions Treatment (COPAT)
COPAT is PPSC's working committee of faculty, supervisors, candidates, and graduates who are experienced in the psychoanalytic treatment of alcoholism and other addictions. It aims to serve as a resource to all PPSC clinicians in the treatment of addictions, while being devoted to study and education that promotes the integration of psychoanalysis and addictions treatment. COPAT is the 2011 recipient of the Caron Award for Educational Excellence.
PPSC is dedicated to using multiple theoretical perspectives to provide high-level training in psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy to psychologists, social workers, and other qualified mental health practitioners. Our goal is to graduate psychoanalysts and psychotherapists who represent our unique tradition of diversity, recognition, and respect for the individual. In the spirit of what we believe psychoanalysis to be, PPSC is committed to community, curiosity, and collegiality that foster openness to learning from each other. This is the foundation of our training of students and how they work with each patient.