IPI Faculty and Member Publications

Marianela Altamirano, Ph.D.

Geoffrey Anderson, Ph.D.

Charles Ashbach, Ph.D.

Publications
C. Ashbach & V.L. Schermer (1994). Object Relations, the Self and the Group. London, New York: Taylor & Francis.

Carl Bagnini, C.S.W.

Publications
Two chapters (7, 18) in-Tuning the Therapeutic Instrument: The Affective Learning of Psychotherapy, published by Jason Aronson, June, 2000. Coauthored book chapter with Jill S. Scharff, M.D., Clinical Handbook of Couple Therapy, 3rd Edition, edited by Alan S. Gurman, Ph.D., and Neil Jacobson, Ph.D. Chapter entitled, “Object Relations Couple Therapy”, published July, 2002. Leading Co-author with Jill S. Scharff, “The Narcissistic Disorder”, In Treating Difficult Couples: Managing Emotional, Behavioral and Health Problems in Couple Therapy, edited by Douglas K. Snyder, Ph.D. and Mark A. Wisman, Ph.D., Guilford Publications, Inc., 2003. Chapter in Self-hate in Psychoanalysis, edited by Jill S. Scharff MD, and Stanley Tsigounis, Ph.D., Brunner/Rutledge-London, 2002, entitled: "The persecution of divorce". Book chapter published September 2005, entitled, “Super-vision or Space Invader: Two’s Company and Three Makes for Paranoid Tensions”, In Dimensions of Psychotherapy: Dimensions of Experience, edited by Michael Stadter, Ph.D. and David E. Scharff, M.D., Brunner/Routledge-London, 2005. Paper published, International Journal of Advanced Psychoanalytic Studies, Whurr Publications, summer, 2004, “Applying Fairbairn and Sutherland’s Socio-analytic Concepts to Treatment of a Stepfamily”.

Presentations
International Psychotherapy Institute Psychoanalytic Family Conference (October, 2005) featured paper-On Keeping a Partially Closed Mind: Countertransference Absenteeism In Working With Traumatized Couples and Families.
NY State Society of Clinical Social Work Annual Conference-May 15th, 2004, Infidelity and Intimacy-A Workshop on Working with the Extramarital Affair.
Psychoanalytic Practitioners of Long Island, March 21st, 2004- On Supervising and Being Supervised- Workshop.
Tampa, Florida-January 20th, 2004, The Negative Therapeutic Reaction, Florida Institute of Object Relations Therapy.
Edinburgh, Scotland, Scottish Institute of Human Relations, August 12, 2003, paper- Applying Fairbairn and Sutherland’s Socio-psychoanalytic Ideas to Treatment of a Stepfamily.
New York State Society of Clinical Social Work Annual Conference, April 2002, Workshop: Narcissism in Marriage: An Object Relations Approach
Charlottesville, VA, March 8-9, 2002, Object Relations Weekend Conference on Couple Therapy; guest presenter: The Internal Labyrinth of the Couple: Treating Character Disordered Marriages.
Psychoanalytic Practitioners of Long Island: Workshop on Object Relations Couple Therapy, 2/10/02.
IIORT Weekend Conference on Trauma, November 9-11, 2001, paper entitled: “Confessions of a Wounded Healer at a Time of Trauma”.
“Narcissism in Couple Therapy: Holding and Containment Issues”: a workshop for the psychoanalytic membership society, The Suffolk Institute for Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, February 2, 2001.
Advances in Object Relations Therapy: Presented a paper- The Object Relations of Divorce; I.I.O.R.T Weekend Institute, April 8, 2000.
Guest Lecturer: February Weekend, 1999- Republic of Panama, Panama City: Child, Couple and Family Institute, The International Institute of Object Relations Therapy.
Canadian Society of Clinical Social Work: Toronto, Canada, 1991: “Treatment of the Extra-Marital Affair- An Object Relations Approach”.
New York State Spring Conferences: 1989, 92; Society of Clinical Social Work; “Object Relations Family Therapy”, and “Family Treatment of Suicidal Adolescents”.
Workshops: Nassau County Chapter, Society for Clinical Social Work Annual Conference, 1999; October 23: “The Affective Learning Model in Teaching Psychoanalytic Therapy: The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of”.
Suffolk Chapter, Society for Clinical Social Work Continuing Education Committee: November 7th, 1999, “Enhancing the Emotional Capacity of Therapists in Encountering the Transference”.

Nancy Bakalar, M.D.

Betty Benaim, M.A.

Anabella Brostella, Ph.D. (c)

Norma Caruso, Psy.D.

Publications
Caruso, N. (2003). Object Relations Theory and Technique Applied to Sex and Marital Therapy. Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies, 5(3), 297-308.

Presentations
‘Sexual Desire Disorder: Sequela to Trauma’ IPI Conference "When Trauma Strikes: Psychotherapy With Couples and Families" October, 2005
‘Rekindling Desire: An Object Relations Approach’ IPI Couple, Child and Family Institute, "Exploring Desire and Envy in Couples and Families: Implications for Couple and Family Therapy." July, 2005.
‘Can This Marriage Be Saved? A Case of Marital and Sexual Dysfunction’ IPI Conference, "Object Relations Couple and Family Therapy," January, 2004.
‘The Individual in the Institution’ IPI Conference "The Individual Embedded in the Institution." April, 1999.

Monica Valencia de Castro, Ph.D. (c)

Hope Cooper, M.S.W.

Publications
Intimate Transformations, Coauthor with Jeanne Magagna, Nancy Bakalar, Christine Norman, Jaedene Levy, and Caryoln Shank (2005)
Fairbairn on Trauma: Individual Therapy with a Sexually Abused Child in The Legacy of Fairbairn and Sutheraland: Psychotherapeutic Applications (2005)
Coauthor with David Scharff: Dynamic Mathematics in Mental Experience I: Complex numbers represent psychic object relations and II: Numbers in motion - a dynamic geography of time and space Dimensions of Psychotherapy, Dimensions of Experience: Time, Space Number and State of Mind (2005)

Sharon Dennett, M.S.W.

Douglas Dennett, M.D.

Walton Ehrhardt, Ed.D.

Publications and Presentations
“Narcissistic Couples and Enactments,” chapter in book (in press).
“Working Inside the Trauma: One Therapist’s Perspectives,” presentation to Post-Trauma Assembly, New Orleans Area Therapists, March, 2005.
“Understanding the Traumatized Self,” presentation to Staff, Students, and Mental Health
Clinicians, Trinity Counseling and Training Center, New Orleans, LA, January-February, 2005.
“Missing Pieces in the Therapy of Couples,” presentation to students in New Orleans Satellite of IPI, Winter, 2005.
“Missing Pieces in the Therapy of Couples,” Paper Presented to the Faculty and Students of the IPI Child, Couple, and Family Institute, Summer, 2005.
“Fairbairn’s Legacy in Early Object Relations Developments,” presentation to Faculty and Students of IPI, 2005.
“Transference and Countertransference”, presentation to Students, Summer Institute of IPI, 2005, 2003.
“Therapy of Impact of Multiple Trauma in a Couple,” presentation to Students of Child, Couple, and Family Institute, Summer. 2001.
“Introductory Studies in Narcissism: Object Relations and the Self,” a one year Seminar presented to Students of IPI New Orleans Satellite, 2002-2003
“Perspectives on the Work of Christopher Bollas,” a one year Seminar presented to Students of IPI New Orleans Satellite, 1999-2000.
Child, Couple, and Family Therapy Training, Process Years 1 and 2 presented to Students of IPI New Orleans, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005.
Object Relations Theory and Therapy Training, Process Years 1 and 2 presented to Students of IPI New Orleans, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2004.
Basics in Group Therapy, a 12 hour seminar offered to Staff and Students, Tulane School of Social Work and LA Group Therapy Society, 2002.
“A Study of the Work of W.R.D. Fairbairn,” a one year Seminar presented to Students of IPI New Orleans Satellite, 1998; revised, 2000.

Karen Fraley, M.S.S.

Sheila Hill, M.S.W.

Christine Hill-Melton, Ed.D.

Linda Hopkins

Publications
Hopkins, L. (2006). False Self: The Life of Masud Khan. Other Press. (Reviewed in New York Times Book Review on January 21, 2007).

Michael Kaufman, L.P.C.

Paul Koehler, M.S.W.

Vali Maduro, Ph.D.

Samuel Pinzon, Ph.D.

Mary Jo Pisano, Ph.D.

James Poulton, Ph.D.,

Publications
Poulton, J.L. (2007). The modern furies: projection and superego subversion in the moral justification of violence. International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies (in press).
Poulton, J.L., Norman, C. & Stites, M. (2006). The analytic third, cotransference and the couple therapy process. In J. Scharff & D. Scharff (Eds.) New Paradigms for Treating Relationships. Jason Aronson.
Poulton, J.L. (2005). Number theory, intersubjectivity and schizoid phenomena. In M. Stadter & D. Scharff (Eds.) Dimensions of Psychotherapy, Dimensions of Experience. London: Brunner-Routledge.
Wallis, K., & Poulton, J.L. (2001). Internalization: The Origin and Construction of Inner Reality. London: Open Universities Press.
Cannici, J.P., & Poulton, J. L. (1990). Personal competency training as a preventive intervention. Journal of the Freshman Year Experience. 2 (2).
Caserta, M.S., Connelly, J.R., Lund, D.A., Poulton, J.L. (1987). Older adult caregivers of developmentally disabled household members: Service needs and fulfillment. Journal of Gerontological Social Work, 10 (1/2), 35-50.
Lund, D.A., Caserta, M.S., Poulton, J.L., Dimond, M.F., Johnson, R.J., Connelly, J.R., & Kasteler, J.M. (1985). Identifying elderly with coping difficulties after two years of bereavement. Omega.
Poulton, J.L., & Strassberg, D. (1986). The therapeutic use of reminiscence. International Journal of Group Psychotherapy, 36 (3), 381-398.
Smith, T.W., Pope, M.K., Rhodewalt, F., & Poulton, J.L. (1989). Optimism, neuroticism, coping, and symptom reports: An alternative interpretation of the Life Orientation Test. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 56(4), 640-648.

Kent Ravenscroft, M.D.

Judith Rovner, M.S.W.

Publications
Contributed to Tuning the Therapeutic Instrument, edited by J. Scharff and D. Scharff.
Chapter "Changing Spaces: The Impact of a Change in the Psychotherapeutic Setting" in Dimensions of Psychotherapy, Dimensions of Experience, edited by M. Stadter and D. Scharff.

Robert Rovner, Ph.D.

David Scharff, M.D.

David E. Scharff MD wrote Refinding the Object and Reclaiming the Self (Jason Aronson 1992), and The Sexual Relationship, (Routledge 1982, reprinted Jason Aronson, and in Chinese [in press] and Russian 2008). He co-authored with Jill Savege Scharff Object Relations Individual Therapy (Jason Aronson 1998 and in Korean), Object Relations Therapy of Physical and Sexual Trauma (Jason Aronson 1996), Tuning the Therapeutic Instrument (Jason Aronson 2000), The Legacy of Fairbairn and Sutherland (Routledge 2005), The Primer of Object Relations Theory 2nd edition (Jason Aronson 2005, and in Chinese [in press] and Russian, 2008), Treating Relationships: New Paradigms (Jason Aronson, August 2006 and in German Psychosozial Verlag [in press]), Object Relations Family Therapy (Jason Aronson 1987 and in Chinese [in press]), Object Relations Couple Therapy (Jason Aronson 1991, and in Korean). He edited Object Relations Theory and Practice (Jason Aronson 1998), The Psychoanalytic Century (Analytic Press), From Instinct to Self; Selected Papers of W. R. D. Fairbairn.(Jason Aronson 1994), Dimensions of Psychotherapy, Dimensions of Experience: Time, Space, Number, and State of Mind Routledge 2005). He edited with Neil Skolnick Fairbairn Then and Now (Analytic Press 1998) and with Frederico Pereira Fairbairn and Relational Theory (Karnac2002)

Jill Savege Scharff, M.D.

Jill Scharff MD edited Foundations of Object Relations Family Therapy, (Jason Aronson 1989), The Autonomous Self: The Work of John D. Sutherland (Jason Aronson 1994), and The Psychodynamic Image (Routledge 2007). She wrote Projective and Introjective Identification: The Therapist's Use of Self (Jason Aronson 1992). With David E. Scharff, M.D. she co-authored Object Relations Family Therapy (Jason Aronson 1987), Object Relations Couple Therapy (Jason Aronson 1991), Scharff Notes: A Primer of Object Relations Therapy (Jason Aronson 1992 and 2nd edition 2005), Object Relations Therapy of Physical and Sexual Trauma (Jason Aronson 1994), Object Relations Individual Therapy (Jason Aronson 1998), Tuning the Therapeutic Instrument: The Affective Learning of Psychotherapy (Jason Aronson 2000). With Jaedne Levy she co-authored The Facelift Diaries (Boooksurge 2004). She is the co-editor of Self Hatred in Psychoanalysis:Detoxifying the Persecutory Object (Routledge 2003) and The Legacy of Fairbairn and Sutherland (Routledge 2005). She is series co-editor of the Library of Object Relations at Jason Aronson.

Katherine Scharff, M.S.W.

Kate Scharff MSW wrote Demystifying Therapy (Marlowe, 2004) and contributed a chapter on high conflict divorce and supervised therapeutic visitation to New Paradigms in Treating Relationships.

Lea Setton, Ph.D.

Publications
Contributions in:
Scharff D.E. & Scharff (2000). Tuning the Therapeutic Instrumental. Affective Learning of Psychotherapy. Northvale, NJ: Jason Aronson.
Scharff, J. and Scharff, D. (2005). The Legacy of Fairbairn and Sutherland. Psychotherapeutic applications. New York: Routledge.
Stadter, M. and Scharff, D.E. (2005). Dimensions of Psychotherapy, Dimensions of Experience. London and New York: Routledge.

Michael Stadter, Ph.D.

Publications
Dimensions of Psychotherapy / Dimensions of Experience: Time, Space, Number and State of Mind, ed. Michael Stadter and David Scharff. London: Routledge Press, 2005.
The Consultants As Part Of The Drama In A Family Business. In Self-Hatred in Psychoanalysis, ed. S.Tsigounis and J. S. Scharff. London: Routledge Press. 2003.
Object Relations Brief Therapy. In Brief Therapy with Individuals and Couples, ed. J. Carlson and L. Sperry. Phoenix: Zeig, Zucker & Theisen. (with D. E. Scharff), 2000.
Intensity, Brevity And Focus. In Tuning the Therapeutic Instrument: Affective Learning of Psychotherapy, eds. J. S. Scharff and D. E. Scharff. Northvale, NJ: Jason Aronson. (with J. S. Scharff), 2000.
Object Relations Brief Therapy: The Therapeutic Relationship in Short-Term Work, Northvale, NJ:Jason Aronson 1996.
Brief Therapy with Personality Disorders, American Healthcare Institute: Audio Library Series, 1992.

Paula Swaner, Ph.D.

Stanley Tsigounis, Ph.D.

Yolanda de Varela, Ph.D.

Publications
Scharff, D. E, & Varela, Y. :Object Relations Couple Therapy. Handbook of Couples Therapy. Edit. Michele Harway. John Wiley and Sons. Inc. 2005
Setton, L.; Varela, Y.; Scharff, D.; Scharff, J.: Teaching and learning object relations with the Group Affective Model.  The Legacy of Fairbairn and Sutherland. Routledge, London. 2005
Varela, Y. A Splitting Function of the Dyad and a Containment Function of the Couple  International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies. Volume 1, Number 3, 2004
Varela, Y. The Noise of a Persecutory Object. Like a Roof Caving In
in Self Hatred in Psychoanalysis. Detoxifying the persecutory object (2003)
Edited by Jill S. Scharff, and Stanley A. Tsigounis
Brunner-Routledge, Hove and New York
Scharff, J. & Varela, Y. Tuning the Therapeutic Instrument. Affective Learning of Psychotherapy. Jill S. Scharff and David E. Scharff. Chapter 13: The Course of a Small Group in a Five-Day Conference, in coauthored with Jill S. Scharff. Jason Aronson, Inc, New Jersey, 2000
Scharff, J & Varela, Y. Comparative Treatments for Relationship Dysfunction. Frank M. Dattilio, Louis J. Bevilacqua, Editors. Chapter 6: Object Relations Therapy, coauthored with Jill S. Scharff. Springer Series on Comparative Treatments for Psychological Disorders. New York, 2000
Varela, Y. (1996) El impacto que los problemas emocionales de los padres tienen en el infante. Internet. Psicología en Panamá Web Page
Varela, Y. (1999) Identificación proyectiva e introyecta vista a través de la película “ Otra Mujer” Revista Insight (Asociación Panameña de Psicólogos)
Varela Y. Los Adolescentes y su música. Revista La Antigua (Universidad Santa Maria La Antigua)

Presentations
Varela, Y. El Vórtice de la Fantasia Inconsciente Compartida. Segundo Congreso Internacional de Psicoanalisis de Familia. Montreal, 2006
Varela. Y.   Disfunciones familiares vistos en la obra “La casa de Bernarda Alba” de Federico García Lorca. Congreso Anual de la Asociación Panameña de Psicologos
Varela. Y. Intervenciones tempranas en un caso de Síndrome Munchausen. Asociación Panameña de Psicologos
Varela. Y. Pioneros de las Relaciones Objetales: Melanie Klein.  Instituto Internacional de Psicoterapia
Varela, Y. Operación Sonrisa: El caso de Mario. Asociación Panameña de Psicologos
Varela, Y. La Mente Criminal: Un Homenaje a Arthur Hyatt Williams. Asociación Panameña de Psicologos
Varela, Y. Response to Isabel Menzies Lyth Paper on Pathological Introjections. Washington School of Psychiatry.
Varela, Y. Analysis of an Infant Observation. Washington School of Psychiatry
Varela, Y.  Winnicott. IPI Washington
Varela, Y. Projective and Introjective Identification Mechanisms. IPI Washington
Varela, Y. A Roof Caving In - Case Presentation. IPI Washington
Varela, Y. The Little Musician - Case Presentation. IPI Washington
Varela, Y. The Malignant Countertransference. IPI Washington
Varela, Y. The Group Affective Model.IPI Washington
Varela, Y. Ultrasound infant observation. IPI Washington
Varela, Y. The Splitting function of the Dyad and the Containing function of the Couple. IPI Washington
Varela, Y.  A Life to Spare: Perspectives from an Invaded Country. IPI Washington
Varela, Y. El trabajo sobre simbolismo de Hanna Segal IPI Panama
Varela, Y. Trabajando con el simbolismo: Dracula y la niña. IPI Panama
Varela, Y. Apego Madre-Infante.  Ministerio de la Mujer, la Niñez y la Familia
Varela, Y. Observando al Bebe. APLAFA