Conference: Affect Regulation, Mentalization and the Development of the Self [7 Credits]. Dates: May 03 - May 28, 2004. "Online continuing education for mental health professionals." Psychoanalytic emphasis.

I included this with a backup, so you could read briefly the direction in which mental health is going. I would like you to focus on the fact that this perspective still seems to see mental health as something apart from daily life that can be corrected apart from the social context. This is one of the underlying assumptions that we rarely challenge in the social sciences: that there is no disciplinary division in the real world.

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			Conference: Affect Regulation, Mentalization and the Development of the Self [7 Credits] Dates: May 03 - May 28,2004 In a brilliant examination of the frontiers of human emotion and cognition, four prominent psychoanalysts combine the perspectives of developmental psychology, attachment theory, and psychoanalytic technique. The result of this marriage of disciplines is an ultimately encouraging vision for psychoanalytic treatment. Historically, human emotion has been marginalized within the philosophy of the mind. Fonagy, Gergely, Jurist, and Target argue instead for the importance of attachment and emotionality in the developing consciousness, employing an extensive body of recent literature to support their claims. They explore and refine the concepts of mentalization and affect regulation, then present case studies that illustrate the lasting detriment resulting from environments that do not foster mentalization and affect regulation. But Affect Regulation, Mentalization, and the Development of the Self does not leave us in despair of a potential solution to this developmental obstacle; rather, the authors offer models of psychoanalytic practice that can enable the gradual acquisition of mentalizing skills over time, even in patients with long histories of violence and neglect. The book demonstrates that an analyst can, through an active and supportive therapeutic stance, influence a patient to develop the self-reflective capabilities so necessary to navigating the emotional, cognitive, and profound social world in which we live. Format: The conference will open with papers by several commentators and the authors will respond. After a discussion among the authors and commentators there will then be an open discussion with the attendees for the duration of the conference. Commentators: Sidney J. Blatt, Ph.D. Arnold Cooper, M.D., Kenneth N. Levy, Ph.D. Linda Mayes, M.D., Phil Mollon, Ph.D. Michael Moskowitz Authors: Peter Fonagy, Ph.D. Gyorgy Gergely, Ph.D., Elliot Jurist, Ph.D. Mary Target, Ph.D., Number of CEUs: 7 $10/CEU Click on the title of the book to purchase them from Amazon.com Affect Regulation, Mentalization, and the Development of Self by Peter Fonagy et al. Accreditations: Counselors: PsyBC is an approved sponsor of CEUs for counselors by the National Board of Certified Counselors. Certified Group Therapists: PsyBC panels can be used for recertification by the National Register of Certified Group Psychotherapists in the "Formal Learning Activity" category. MFCCs and LCSWs: PsyBC has been approved by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences to offer CE credits to licensed clinical social workers (LCSWs) and licensed marriage, family and child counselors (MFCCs) in the state of California. Licensed Provider #PCE439 Psychoanalysts: PsyBC has been approved by NAAP for psychoanalysts in Vermont. Psychologists: PsyBC is approved by the American Psychological Association to offer continuing education for psychologists. PsyBC maintains responsibility for the program. Credits for PsyBC's courses are valid for California psychologists				Faculty >back Sidney Blatt Sidney J. Blatt, Ph.D., is Professor in the Departments of Psychiatry and Psychology at Yale University School of Medicine. His work focuses on the development of mental representations (cognitive-affective schema of self and other), their impairment in different forms of psychopathology (especially schizophrenia and depression), and their change in the therapeutic process. He is the author of numerous articles and books, including Therapeutic Change: An Object Relations Perspective (Plenum, 1994). Peter Fonagy Peter Fonagy, Ph.D, FBA, is Freud Memorial Professor of Psychoanalysis and Director of the Sub-Department of Clinical Health Psychology at University College London. He is Chief Executive of the Anna Freud Centre, London. He is a clinical psychologist and a training and supervising analyst in the British Psycho-Analytical Society in child and adult analysis. His clinical interests center around issues of borderline psychopathology, violence, and early attachment relationships. His work attempts to integrate empirical research with psychoanalytic theory. He holds a number of important positions, which include chairing the Research Committee of the International Psychoanalytic Association and Fellowship of the British Academy. He has published over 200 chapters and articles and has authored or edited several books. His most recent books include Attachment Theory and Psychoanalysis (Other Press 2001), What Works for Whom? A Critical Review of Treatments for Children and Adolescents (with M. Target, D. Cottrell, J. Phillips & Z. Kurtz, published by Guilford 2002), Affect Regulation, Mentalization, and the Development of the Self (with G. Gergely, E. Jurist, and M. Target, published by Other Press 2002), and Psychoanalytic Theories: Perspectives from Developmental Psychopathology (with M. Target, published by Whurr Publications 2003). Gyorgy Gergely Gyorgy Gergely, Ph.D., is Director of the Developmental Psychology Laboratory of the Psychology Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and Senior Lecturer at the Cognitive Developmental Doctoral Program of the Eotvos Lorand University in Budapest. He is a clinical psychologist and is on the visiting faculty of the Max Planck Institute for Psychology in Munich, the Child and Family Center at the Menninger Clinic, the Department of Psychology at University College London, and the Dept. of Psychology at Berkeley. He is on the Panel of the European Cognitive Neuroscience Initiative at Trieste, Italy. He is the author of Free Word Order and Discourse Interpretation (published in 1991 by Academic Press of Budapest) and he serves on the editorial boards of several major journals. Elliott Jurist Elliot L. Jurist, Ph.D, Ph.D., is Professor in the Department of Clinical Psychology at the City University Graduate Center and Lecturer in the Department of Psychiatry, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University. He is the author of Beyond Hegel and Nietzsche: Philosophy, Culture, and Agency (published in 2000 by MIT Press) and co-author of Affect Regulation, Mentalization, and the Development of the Self (published in 2002 by Other Press). He is a Member of the Neuropsychiatry Service, New York Presbyterian Hospital, and a Member of the Ethics Committee of the New York State Psychiatric Institute. Linda Mayes Linda Mayes, M.D., a developmental pediatrician and psychoanalyst, is the Arnold Gesell Associate Professor of Child Psychiatry, Pediatrics, and Psychology at the Yale Child Study Center, Faculty Member at the Yale University School of Medicine, Chair of the Directorial Team at the Anna Freud Centre, and is on the Faculty of the Western New England Institute for Psychoanalysis. She is the author, with Donald J. Cohen, M.D., of The Yale Child Study Center Guide to Understanding Your Child: Healthy Development from Birth to Adolescence (Little, Brown and Company, 2002). Phil Mollon Phil Mollon is a psychoanalyst, trained at the London Institute of Psychoanalysis and also at the Tavistock Clinic. He is also a clinical psychologist. He is interested in work with the more severely disturbed patients, and has a full time post at a hospital in the British national health service. For many years he has drawn extensively on the theoretical and clinical tradition of Heinz Kohut. This led to his interest in shame and other disturbances in the experience of self. He has written the following books: 1993. [i]The Fragile Self. The Structure of Narcissistic Disturbance. [/i] Whurr. London. 1996. [i]Multiple Selves, Multiple Voices. Working with Trauma, Violation and Dissociation./i] Wiley. Chichester. 2000. [i]Freud and False Memory Syndrome./i] Icon Books. Cambridge. 2001. [i]The Unconscious./i] Icon Books. Cambridge. 2001. [i]Releasing the Self. The Healing Legacy of Heinz Kohut./i] Whurr. London. 2002. [i]Remembering Trauma/i] (Second Edition). Whurr. London. 2002. [i]Shame and Jealousy/i]. Karnac. London. Michael Moskowitz Michael Moskowitz, Ph.D. is a former publisher at Other Press and Karnac Books. As its editor he was instrumental in developing, and shaping Affect Regulation, Mentalization, and the Development of the Self, working closely with its authors over a three-year period. Dr. Moskowitz currently serves as an acquisitions consultant to Other Press and Karnac Books. He is also an Adjunct Associate Professor at the NYU School of Social Work, and in private practice in NYC. Dr. Moskowitz has published widely, primarily in the area of race, ethnicity, and morality. Co-editor with Rosemarie Perez Foster and Rafael Art Javier, [i]Reading Across Boundaries of Culture and Class: Widening the Scope of Psychotherapy[/i] (Jason Aronson, 1996) Co-editor with Catherine Monk, Carol Kaye, Steven J. Ellman,  [i]The Neurobiological and Developmental Basis for Psychotherapeutic Intervention[/i] Jason Aronson, 1997) Mary Target, Ph.D. is a Senior Lecturer in Psychoanalysis at University College London, and an Associate Member of the British Psychoanalytic Society. She is Professional Director of the Anna Freud Centre, Member of the Curriculum and Scientific Committees, Chairman of the Research Committee of the British Psychoanalytic Society, and Chairman of the Working Party on Psychoanalytic Education of the European Psychoanalytic Federation. She is Course Organiser of the UCL MSc in Psychoanalytic Theory and Academic Course Organiser of the UCL/Anna Freud Centre Doctorate in Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy. She is on the editorial board of several journals including the International Journal of Psycho-Analysis, and she is Joint Series Editor for the New Library of Psychoanalysis, Routledge. She has active research collaborations in many countries in the areas of developmental psychopathology and psychotherapy outcome. Her most recent books include Evidence-Based Child Mental Health: A Comprehensive Review of Treatment Interventions (with P. Fonagy, D. Cottrell, J. Phillips, & Z. Kurtz, published by Guilford 2002), Psychoanalytic Theories: Perspectives from Developmental Psychopathology (with P. Fonagy, published by Whurr Publications 2003), and Affect Regulation, Mentalization, and the Development of the Self (with P. Fonagy, G. Gergely, and E. Jurist, published by Other Press 2002) which received the Gradiva Prize of the American Psychology and Psychotherapy Institute for Best Theoretical and Clinical Contribution of 2003.
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