Sunday October 9, 2011
11:30-1:30 (Coffee and Conversation
11:00-11:30)
JOINT PRESENTATION with the SOPHIE L.
LOVINGER MEMORIAL FUND
and MICHIGAN PSYCHOANALYTIC COUNCIL
Wired Up: Tweens, Teens, Technology and
Treatment
Moderator: Brenda Lovegrove Lepisto, Psy.D.,
Discussant: Michael Singer, Ph.D.
Electronic Media as a Support to the
Psychotherapeutic Process
Paper Presentation by Charles E. Grayson,
Ph.D
Using the Time We Have (Left) - A
Psychoanalytic Inquiry into Child Work and Technology
Paper Presentation by Barry Dauphin, Ph.D.
ABSTRACT:
Adolescents’ use of technology raises questions about the
development of self and connections to others in a world
where “friend” has been so drastically redefined. Today’s
children are often light years ahead of their parents’ and
therapists’ knowledge of and ability to use technology.
It is our hope to open the discussion of the impact of
technology on psychological development, emotional
connection, therapeutic alliance, and what we can learn
from our children, and what we can teach them.
Dr.Grayson
will present two adolescent psychotherapy cases in which
electronic media became part of the clinical
interaction. In one connection with friends during the
sessions via cell phone appears and in the other,
use of portable electronic media to share music becomes
part of the work. He will elaborate his
understanding of these media as potentially facilitative
of
therapeutic progress.
Dr. Dauphin will
elaborate how our investment in technology with the power
to quell our fears of mortality, children’s
superior expertise with technology poses challenges for
child therapy. We belong to a
graying
profession worried about its relevance/future.
Historically speaking, children, who are said to be “the
future”, are presumed to know less than we do and to allow
us to pass down our wisdom to them. Yet, in the technology
arena, children are often our masters. This paper explores
issues of expertise and the evolving power relationships
between children and adults.
BIOGRAPHICAL STATEMENT:
Charles E. Grayson, Ph.D.
is in private practice in Grand Rapids providing
consultations in psychoanalytic psychotherapy and
psychotherapeutic treatment to adults, adolescents,
and children. As an adjunct Assistant Professor of
Psychiatry at MSU he taught and supervised adult and
adolescent psychotherapy and supervised in the former
University Child Psychiatry Fellowship program. He was a
supervisor in the Pine Rest Clinical Psychology
Internship program. He is a member of the Self Psychology
Study Group at the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis.
Barry Dauphin, Ph.D.
is Associate Professor of Psychology and Director of
Clinical Training at the University of Detroit Mercy PhD
Program in Clinical Psychology. He is the president of the
Michigan Society for Psychoanalytic Psychology and the
Section IV Representative to Division 39. He is the author
of
Tantalizing Times: Excitements, Disconnects, and
Discontents in Contemporary American Society,
published by Peter Lang Publishing (2006).
Moderator:
Brenda Lovegrove Lepisto, Psy.D.,
is a psychologist, adult and child psychoanalyst and
Registered Play Therapist – Supervisor in private practice
in East Lansing. She is an adjunct professor at Michigan
State University in the College of Human Medicine and
Psychology Department.
Discussant:
Michael Singer, Ph.D.
is a Training & Supervising Analyst at the Michigan
Psychoanalytic Institute (MPI) and chairs its Child
/Adolescent Analysis Committee. He’s on the teaching
faculties of MPI and MPC. He works in Ann Arbor, as an
adjunct clinical instructor, Department of Psychiatry, UM,
recent Child Development Director at Allen Creek Preschool
and in a private practice of psychotherapy and
psychoanalysis, with adults, children and adolescents.
Sunday November 13, 2011
11:30-1:30 (Coffee and Conversation
11:00-11:30)
Psychoanalytic Therapy (VIDEO from Systems
of Psychotherapy, APA Video Series)
Nancy McWilliams, Ph.D.
ABSTRACT:
In
Psychoanalytic Therapy, Dr. McWilliams demonstrates
an
integrative psychoanalytic approach
characterized by the effort to create an egalitarian
here-and-now relationship in which therapist and client
may work collaboratively. Her therapeutic process is
organic. She derives her style of working from
psychoanalytic ideas applicable to the particular client
and consistent with her own personality. In this session,
Dr. McWilliams interviews a woman in her mid-30s who is an
apparently abusive, longstanding relationship with a
significantly older man.
BIOGRAPHICAL STATEMENT:
Nancy McWilliams
teaches at Rutgers University and practices in
Flemington, New Jersey. Author of
Psychoanalytic Diagnosis
(1994,
rev. ed. 2011),
Psychoanalytic Case Formulation
(1999),
and
Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
(2004),
and associate editor of the
Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual
(2006), she is a former president of the
American Psychological Association's Division 39.
