IPI Panama City, Panama

IPI COURSE PROGRAM FOR 2006

CONFERENCE: “DREAMS: NEW THEORY AND MEANING” DR. ERNEST HARTMANN (FEBRUARY 10)

Dr. Ernest Hartmann's seminar in Panama

Professor of psychiatry at Tufts University, Boston, Medical Director of the Sleep Disorders Center. Author of Dreaming in Nightmares (1998) and various books and articles on dreams.

Dr. Hartmann validates the study of dreams in therapy, giving relevance to the “central image” as the part of the dream that contains the greatest emotion and helps explore the unconscious.

INTRODUCTION TO PSYCHODYNAMIC PSYCHOTHERAPY

(MARCH-AUGUST) NEXT COURSE (AUGUST-DECEMBER): Weekly Study Group of psychodynamic therapies: Theory of the self, Object Relations and Self. The group studies the works of S. Freud, Anna Freud, Melanie Klein, Bowlby, Kohut, Bion, and Winnicott. It also includes contemporary research such as: Piontelli, Kernberg, Clulow, Guntrip, Rosenfeld, Bleiberg, Bollas, Scharff, Fonagy, Target.

FAMILY THERAPY WITH A PSYCHODYNAMIC FOCUS (MARCH-DECEMBER)

Monthly study group focused on the technique for evaluation, follow-up, and ending of family therapy; the processes of game, the parents’ role, adoption, bonding and separation, loss and mourning, the family as a group, divorce and second marriages, abusive families, and school problems.

STUDY GROUP (WEDNESDAYS)

Led by different IPI members, the group studies pre-selected materials on the psychoanalysis theories from various current psychology magazines. The group discusses their implication on therapy.

SEMINAR: DR. CHRISTOPHER CLULOW ON COUPLES (DECEMBER 2-3)

Dr. Clulow is the director of Tavistock Marital Studies Institute, where he works as a professor, researcher, and couple therapist. He will address the theories of bonding, violence, and infidelity in the couple; and the seminar is aimed at mental health professionals training in Couple Therapy. He will also give a conference on the topic of Violence for the general public.

SEMINAR: INTRODUCTION TO THE OBJECT RELATIONS THEORIES AND THEORIES OF SELF (AUGUST 18-19)

Aimed at psychology students, this seminar conducted by IPI professors, will present the works of Freud, Klein, Fairbairn, Fonagy, Target, Mahler, Kernberg, Kohut, Mitchell, and Winnicott, and the different perspectives of their theories.

MOVIE SESSIONS (MAY-SEPTEMBER)

The program is divided in four modules – childhood, adolescence, adulthood, and old age. Four movies by different directors will be analyzed in every module. The program will be offered to the general public.

FOUNDATION FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF HEALTHY RELATIONS

TEEN SCREEN PROGRAM from Columbia University

This is a suicide prevention and early detection program for adolescents in different situations of risk. We have already approached several public and private schools in the country to offer our help. Once the teens at risk have been diagnosed, a brief psychotherapy program is established to help work on the existing problems and offer hope for a better life.

PROGRAM TO FACILITATE MOTHER-INFANT BONDING

This program is aimed at helping young mothers and pregnant adolescents develop a good bonding with their infants from the beginning. We consider this to be a high-risk group because many of the pregnancies are unwanted, which can cause rejection of the child by the mother. The methodology is through conferences on normal child development, psycho-prophylactic birth preparation, information on fetal alcoholic syndrome, the importance of the father figure, anxiety management and mental health, among others.

HOSPITAL SUPPORT PROGRAM

It focuses on giving emotional support to patients and family members to help reduce pre-surgery anxiety. It also provides psychological pre-surgery preparation using teaching materials while giving children room to speak and work on their treatment and surgery-related anxieties. This has greatly contributed to accepting the situation and avoiding post-surgery trauma. It also helps create sensitivity to human needs in staff and sponsors

FASHION SHOW FOR COMMUNITY SERVICE (JUNE 26)

With the participation of many important local stores, this fashion show has the objective of collecting funds for community service all over the country. Over 70 boys and girls will support the Foundation with their participation!

IPI PROJECTS FOR 2007

GROUP LEADER TRAINING (JANUARY 2007)

This seminar gives participants the opportunity to study the theory, practice the techniques, and obtain supervision.

WEEKEND CONFERENCE OTTO KERNBERG (March 9-11, 2007)

As part of IPI-Washington’s yearly academic program, Dr. Otto Kernberg will give the conference “Inter-phases of Modern Psychoanalysis.” Dr. Kernberg is currently one of the world’s most renowned theorists of psychodynamic diagnosis and the role of affection. He is an analyst, a professor, and a supervisor of the Training and Psychoanalytical Research Center of the University of Columbia. He is a professor of psychiatry at the University of Cornell and an Associate President and Medical Director of the New York Hospital.

PSYCHODYNAMIC THERAPY TECHNIQUES (MARCH-AUGUST)

Weekly study group that analyses the clinical techniques used by contemporary psychoanalysts whose work has influenced clinical work internationally. It studies the therapeutic frame, the interactive aspects of therapy, the psychic change, the organization of experience, and the use of the therapist’s self.

COUPLE THERAPY WITH A PSYCHODYNAMIC APPROACH (APRIL-DECEMBER)

Monthly study group that analyses the processes of projective, introjective, and extractive identification of couples; the concept of “unified personality”; the intergame of identification between therapist and members of the couple; infidelity; homosexuality; sexuality as the relationship’s cement; difficulties of sexuality and their projection on children as well as the latest studies on couple therapy that include the couple’s shared unconscious fantasy.

SEMINAR – DR. EFRAIN BLEIBERG (JUNE 1-2, 2007)

Dr. Bleiberg will address the treatment of children and teens with personality problems, using the mentalization technique. Dr. Bleiberg is Medical Director of Menninger Clinic, vice-director of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, and Director of Baylor College of Medicine. He has ample experience in the diagnosis and treatment of complex psychiatric disorders. He integrates methods of treatment using pharmacology and psychodynamic and systemic therapy.