Continuing Education Credits:
Please contact The Institute for Psychoanalytic studies at ipsinfo@ipsnewjersey.org for information about continuing education credits for social workers.
The Institute for Psychoanalytic Studies, Inc. is an NBCC-Approved Continuing Education Provider (ACEPTM) and may offer NBCC – approved clock hours for events (or programs) that meet NBCC requirements. Sessions (or programs) for which NBCC – approved clock hours will be awarded are identified in the program bulletin (or in the catalogue or Web site). The ACEP is solely responsible for all aspects of the program.
| First Year | |
| Semester 1: | P/G101 – Psychopathology – Instructor: Joel Bernstein, PhD Course Description: The purpose of this course is to introduce mental health professionals to the basic psychopathologies and to show how the basic concepts of psychoanalysis, cathexis, libido, character traits, primary and secondary process, compromise formation, help form the various psychopathologies. This will be colloquium-style lectures. Case examples from practice will be examined to discover how a specific pathology develops from the underlying concepts and dynamics of psychoanalysis. Learning Objectives:
Who should attend This is a first year course for candidates beginning the program. Instructor Joel Bernstein, Ph.D. is the Founder of the Institute of the Psychoanalytic Studies. He has been in private practice in Teaneck, NJ since 1963. He is has been a faculty member of the Institute for Psychoanalytic Studies since 200. Dr. Bernstein was a Co-Director of The New Jersey Institute for Training in Psychoanalysis and he was on the faculty of The New Jersey Institute for Training in Psychoanalysis from 1970 to 2004. He also was a faculty member of Washington Square Institute for 1963 to 1969. He has been a member of NPAP since 1972. Location: 1328 River Road, Teaneck, NJ 07666 Schedule This course meets every other Tuesday evening from 6:30 to 8:30. Classes meet for 10 sessions. Dates of Course 9/13/16, 9/27/16, 10/25/16, 11/8/16, 11/22/16, 12/6/16, 12/20/16, 1/10/17, 1/24/17, 2/7/17 This course is approved by the Association of Social Work Boards – ASWB NJ CE Course Approval Program Provider #98 Course #1008 from 09/13/2016 to 09/13/2018. Social workers will receive the following type and number of credit(s): Clinical Social Work Practice 20. |
| P/G102 – Early Development – Instructor: Lorna Goldberg, LCSW Course Description: Each of the 10 classes will highlight different theories or schools of thought, including drive theory, ego psychology, object relations theory, attachment theory, relational theory, and neuroscience. Each class is 2 hours long without brakes. They also will be focusing upon psychoanalytic research over the years to see how this research has contributed to better treatment of children within institutional and family settings. Students will gain insight into how these theoretical contributors were influenced by their environment and by their unique personalities. In every class, the instructor and the students will discuss how these theories of development might unfold in their own cases and this will give participants an increased appreciation of the complexity of human behavior. It also will allow students to learn how to discuss their cases to gain peer and instructor supervision. Students will be required to prepare for each class by reading several papers and by thinking about how these theories might be applicable to their own cases. At the end of the semester, participants will be able to evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of the course. The instructor will use this information to better tailor this course for her students. Learning Objectives:
Who Should attend: This is a first year course for candidates beginning the program. Instructor: Lorna Goldberg, L.C.S.W. has been the Dean of the Institute for Psychoanalytic Studies since 2004. She had been in private practice since 1976, working with adults, adolescents, and children individually and in groups. Prior to that, she worked at Rockland Children’s Psychiatric Center. She presently is a supervisor of social workers, psychologists and other mental health professionals. From 1991 to 2004 she was Co-Director and Director of the Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy Program of the New Jersey Institute for Training in Psychoanalysis. Location: 171 Meadowbrook Road, Englewood, NJ 07631 Schedule This course meets every other Tuesday evening from 6:30 to 8:30. Classes meet for 10 sessions. Dates of Course: 9/20/16, 10/18/16, 11/1/16, 11/15/16, 11/29/16, 12/13/16, 1/3/17, 1/17/17, 1/31/17, 2/14/17 This course is approved by the Association of Social Work Boards – ASWB NJ CE Course Approval Program Provider #98 Course #1009 from 09/20/2016 to 09/20/2018. Social workers will receive the following type and number of credit(s): Clinical Social Work Practice 20. | |
| G103 – Assessment and Beginning Treatment – Instructors: Regina Minsky, LCSW, Mosse Burns, LCSW, and Carmela Shlahet, MA This course will provide mental health professionals with an introduction to assessment and beginning treatment with senior adults. Students will read papers written by psychotherapists and psychoanalysts who have successfully worked with older patients. We will address persistent stereotypes, barriers and obstacles that interfere with effective work with older patients. The class will learn the value of a thorough diagnostic evaluation as the beginning of sound clinical intervention. The class will gain insight into how the diagnostic process is altered by adult developmental concepts. The instructor and students will discuss concepts as they relate to cases. Students are required to prepare for each class by reading several papers, thinking how the material relates to their own cases and presenting cases to the class. (4 clock hours) | |
| G104 – Issues Affecting Different Stages of Aging: Sexuality, Retirement, Loss, Medical Changes and Chronic Pain – Instructors: Regina Minsky, LCSW, Mosse Burns, LCSW, and Carmela Shlahet, MA This course will provide mental health professionals with an exploration of various issues that affect people at various stages of aging. Readings and discussions will cover sexuality, retirement, loss, medical changes and chronic pain. The course will focus on understanding that patients/clients deal with life changes in different ways based on their character and ways of dealing with anxiety. Students will be required to read the assigned articles and to participate in class discussions. (4 clock hours) | |
| Semester 2: | P/G103 – Transference and Countertransference – Instructor: William Goldberg, LCSW This highly interactive 10 session course will provide mental health professionals with an exploration of methods and concepts related to transference and countertransference in working with clients. Psychodynamic theory has demonstrated the importance of dealing with the clinicians’ emotional responses as well as those of the patient. In order to not defensively distance themselves from the patient, the clinician needs a heightened awareness of their own as well as the patients’ fears and anxieties. For effective treatment of adults, the clinician needs knowledge of the range of complex and intense emotions that are stirred up. The course will provide readings and case studies that will enhance a broader understanding of treatment of adults. (20 clock hours) |
| P/G104 – Readings in Freud I – Instructors: Regina Minsky, LCSW, Mosse Burns, LCSW, and Carmela Shlahet, MA This is the first half of a survey course of the writings of Sigmund Freud. The purpose of the course is to give an idea of the breadth of Freud’s writings. In order to gain focus we will point out the major points of each paper. The papers will be covered in more detail as they are specifically addressed in later courses. Some of the important concepts to appreciate are: the unconscious (topographic theory), structure of the psyche (structural hypothesis), and the multiple contents of symptoms (over determination); symbolic meanings, character traits; libidinal drives, psychosexual stages (oral, anal, urethral, phallic, genital), psychoeconomics, infantile sexuality, centrality of the Oedipus complex. Although Freud wrote some theoretical papers (e.g. “metapsychological papers”), ultimately his writings were based on clinical experience. (20 clock hours) | |
| G105 – Initial Resistances and Transference working with Elderly – Instructors: Regina Minsky, LCSW, Mosse Burns, LCSW, and Carmela Shlahet, MA This highly interactive 4 session course will provide mental health professionals with an exploration of methods and concepts related to transference and countertransference in working with aging clients. Psychodynamic theory has demonstrated the importance of dealing with the clinicians’ emotional responses as well as those of the patient. In order to not defensively distance themselves from the patient, the clinician needs a heightened awareness of their own as well as the patients’ fear of illness and helplessness, and the inevitability of death. For effective treatment of older adults, the clinician needs knowledge of the range of complex and intense emotions that are stirred up. The course will provide readings and case studies that will enhance a broader understanding of treatment of the aging. (4 clock hours) | |
| G106 – Psychopathology in the Elderly – Instructors: Regina Minsky, LCSW, Mosse Burns, LCSW, and Carmela Shlahet, MA This course will provide mental health professionals a survey of developmental psychopathology and developmental character issues in old age. Students will read papers that will explore and describe the above phenomena in older adults and how it affects their ability to cope with life challenges and their relationships. The instructor and students will discuss concepts as they relate to cases. Students are required to prepare for each class by reading assigned papers, thinking how the material relates to their own cases and presenting cases to the class. (4 clock hours) | |
| Second Year | |
| Semester 1: | P/G201 – Character Analysis – Instructor: Joel Bernstein, PhD Course Description: The purpose of this course is to introduce mental health professionals with an understanding of the character (and character traits) as the basic functional organization of the personality, with pleasure inherent in the repetition of various character traits. Through colloquium-style lecture and case examples class members will come to appreciate character traits such as observing ego, pleasure in repetition, defenses, transference; to appreciate that these character traits are ego-syntonic (agreeable to the ego); to appreciate that the work of therapy is to render these character traits ego-dystonic. (20 clock hours) Learning Objectives:
Who Should Attend: This is a second year intermediate course for candidates in our program. Instructor Joel Bernstein, Ph.D. is the Founder of the Institute of the Psychoanalytic Studies. He has been in private practice in Teaneck, NJ since 1963. He has been a faculty member of the Institute for Psychoanalytic Studies since 2004. Dr. Bernstein was Co-Director and faculty member. of The New Jersey Institute for Training in Psychoanalysis from 1970 to 2004. He was a faculty member of Washington Square Institute for 1963 to 1969 and a member of NPAP since 1972. Location: 1328 River Road, Teaneck, NJ 07666 Schedule This course meets every other Tuesday evening from 6:30 to 8:30. Classes meet for 10 sessions. Dates of Course: 9/20/16, 10/18/16, 11/1/16, 11/15/16, 11/29/16, 12/13/16, 1/3/17, 1/17/17, 1/31/17, 2/14/17 This course is approved by the Association of Social Work Boards – ASWB NJ CE Course Approval Program Provider #98 Course #1010 from 09/20/2016 to 09/20/2018. Social workers will receive the following type and number of credit(s): Clinical Social Work Practice 20. |
| P/G202 – Latency through Adolescence – Instructor: Lorna Goldberg, LCSW Course Description: This course will provide mental health professionals with an introduction to psychoanalytic theories of and clinical issues with children, adolescents, and their families. Students will be assigned readings by experienced clinicians who are dealing with a variety of symptoms that are typically handled by clinicians. The instructor will use clinical examples of her own and from the students’ cases to inform the class about how to deal with some of the difficulties that are encountered by social workers who work with children, adolescents, and their families. Students will be helped to gain some knowledge of the complexity of human behavior and begin to see how they might deal with children, adolescents and their families with empathy and respect. Learning Objectives:
Who Should Attend: This is an intermediate course in the second year of our program. Instructor: Lorna Goldberg, L.C.S.W. is the Dean and a faculty member of the Institute for Psychoanalytic Studies since 2004. She had been in private practice since 1976, working with adults, adolescents, and children individually and in groups. Prior to that time, she worked at the Rockland Children’s Psychiatric Center. She is a supervisor of social workers, psychologists and other mental health professionals. From 1991 to 2004, she was Co-director and Director of the Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy Program of the New Jersey Institute for Training in Psychoanalysis. Location: 171 Meadowbrook Road, Englewood, NJ 07631 Schedule This course meets every other Tuesday evening from 6:30 to 8:30. Classes meet for 10 sessions. Dates of Course 9/13/16, 9/27/16, 10/25/16, 11/8/16, 11/22/16, 12/6/16, 12/20/16, 1/10/17, 1/24/17, 2/7/17 “This course is approved by the Association of Social Work Boards – ASWB NJ CE Course Approval Program Provider #98 Course #1011 from 09/13/2016 to 09/13/2018. Social workers will receive the following type and number of credit(s): Clinical Social Work Practice 20.” | |
| G203 – Special Needs of the Elderly and Interactions with Caregivers – Instructors: Regina Minsky, LCSW, Mosse Burns, LCSW, and Carmela Shlahet, MA This course will cover psychodynamics as it relates to the special needs of the elderly and their caregivers. It will address conflicts in perception of needs by the patient and the patients’ family. The course will specifically deal with age related issues such as: cognitive decline, physical limitations, loss of independence and substance abuse. Strategies will be presented for helping the individual to utilize available resources with emphasis on recognition of complex family dynamics. Selective readings, case presentations and film will assist in illustration. (4 clock hours) | |
| G204 – Group Psychotherapy with the Elderly – Instructors: Regina Minsky, LCSW, Mosse Burns, LCSW, and Carmela Shlahet, MA Mental health professionals will learn how group psychotherapy with the elderly can help with social isolation associated with depression, relational issues and interpersonal concerns. The course will focus on developing skills in the therapist as facilitator. The class will include articles, personal observations and movies pertaining to specific issues. (4 clock hours) | |
