BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//WILA Alumni Association - ECPv6.15.20//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:WILA Alumni Association X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://wilaalumni.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for WILA Alumni Association REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20140309T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20141102T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20150308T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20151101T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20160313T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20161106T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20170312T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20171105T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20180311T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20181104T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20190310T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20191103T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20200308T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20201101T090000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190223T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190223T130000 DTSTAMP:20260427T185522 CREATED:20220901T042001Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230301T024253Z UID:221570-1550912400-1550926800@wilaalumni.org SUMMARY:CE: The Frame: Variants and Invariants in the Session - Dr. Tobias DESCRIPTION:Sponsored byThe WILA Alumni Association\n  \nProgram Description\nThis discussion will explore the frame and setting of sessions; that which is constantand that which is tailored to each patient. Examples from clinical and supervisory work willbe used to explore both the firmness and flexibility required of the therapist to allow thepatients’ themes and conflicts to emerge. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Learning Objectives\nUpon completion of the program participants should be able to: \n\nIdentify the aspects of the clinical situation and therapeutic frame that need to remain fixed\nIdentify qualities of mental attitude needed by the therapist to respond to a specificpatient’s oscillating states of mind\nRecognize the aim of both variants and invariants in the frame is to develop potential for transformation within the session\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Presenter\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n LEIGH TOBIAS\, PH.D.\, FIPA\, is the past president of Psychoanalytic Center of California(PCC). She is a Training and Supervising Analyst and member of the Infant ObservationFaculty. She serves on the Teaching and Supervisory Faculty at Wright Institute LosAngeles where she annually teaches “Primitive Mental States.” Dr. Tobias is PastPresident of The Confederation of Independent Psychoanalytic Institutes (CIPS). Sheserved as Secretary of the North American Psychoanalytic Confederation (NAPsaC). Dr.Tobias also maintains a full-time private practice with adults and couples in Beverly Hills. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n CE Information\n\n4.0 CE credits\nWILA is approved by the California Psychological Association so CEs may only be granted to California licensed clinicians\nTo receive CE credit you must attend the entire event\nThis CE is at the advanced level\n\nWright Institute Los Angeles is approved by the California Psychological Association\, which is recognized by the California Board of Psychology (BOP) and the California Board of Behavioral Sciences (BBS) to sponsor continuing education for Psychologists\, Licensed Marriage & Family Therapists\, and Licensed Clinical Social Workers. Wright Institute Los Angeles maintains responsibility for this program and its contents. Full attendance in addition to the completion of the appropriate evaluation form are required in order to receive CE credits. CPA OPD provider number WLA001. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Registration Fees\n\nWILA Alumni Association Members – $120\nGeneral – $130\nStudents/Pre-licensed – $70 URL:https://wilaalumni.org/event/2022-ce-tobias/ LOCATION:WILA\, 11845 W. Olympic Blvd.\, Suite 505W\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90064\, United States CATEGORIES:CE ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://wilaalumni.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/TobiasCE.png ORGANIZER;CN="WILA Alumni Association":MAILTO:info@wilaalumni.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180512T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180512T130000 DTSTAMP:20260427T185523 CREATED:20220901T034343Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220901T035501Z UID:221527-1526115600-1526130000@wilaalumni.org SUMMARY:CE: Life in the Upside Down: Working with Borderline States - Dr. Helscher DESCRIPTION:Sponsored byThe WILA Alumni Association\n  \nProgram Description\nWorking with borderline states is extremely challenging because we often feel invaded\, overwhelmed\, and helpless to make sense of what is happening with the patient. Language\, both ours and the patient’s\, seems inadequate to capture the experience in the room. In this workshop\, I will use Bion’s notion of the failure of the contact barrier to describe these states of mind and explore ways of helping our patients and ourselves find firmer ground. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Learning Objectives\nUpon completion of the program participants should be able to: \n\nUnderstand how the contact barrier divides conscious from unconscious process in the mind\, and how deficits in it manifest in the clinical setting\nUnderstand how to detect projective identifications and how to work with them in the session\nDescribe and interpret the borderline experience of being in the ‘upside down’\nBe able to help their borderline patients begin to ‘mentalize’ their unrepresented emotional experience\nUnderstand how trauma damages the contact barrier and the patient’s ability to emotionally digest their experience\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Presenter\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n THOMAS P. HELSCHER\, PH.D.\, FIPA is a Training and Supervising Analyst at LAISPS and a faculty member at WILA. He is a member of the University of California Interdisciplinary Psychoanalytic Consortium and of the Lacanian Forum\, and teaches in the UC Veterans Writing Workshop. He is in private practice in Santa Monica. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n CE Information\n\n4.0 CE credits\nWILA is approved by the California Psychological Association so CEs may only be granted to California licensed clinicians\nTo receive CE credit you must attend the entire event\nThis CE is at the intermediate level\n\nWright Institute Los Angeles is approved by the California Psychological Association\, which is recognized by the California Board of Psychology (BOP) and the California Board of Behavioral Sciences (BBS) to sponsor continuing education for Psychologists\, Licensed Marriage & Family Therapists\, and Licensed Clinical Social Workers. Wright Institute Los Angeles maintains responsibility for this program and its contents. Full attendance in addition to the completion of the appropriate evaluation form are required in order to receive CE credits. CPA OPD provider number WLA001. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Registration Fees\n\nWILA Alumni Association Members – $120\nGeneral – $130\nStudents/Pre-licensed – $70 URL:https://wilaalumni.org/event/2018-ce-helscher/ LOCATION:WILA\, 11845 W. Olympic Blvd.\, Suite 505W\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90064\, United States CATEGORIES:CE ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://wilaalumni.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/UpsideDown.png ORGANIZER;CN="WILA Alumni Association":MAILTO:info@wilaalumni.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180224T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180224T130000 DTSTAMP:20260427T185523 CREATED:20220901T035740Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220901T040047Z UID:221540-1519462800-1519477200@wilaalumni.org SUMMARY:CE: The Follow Up Interpretation - Dr. Spivak DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by\nThe WILA Alumni Association\n  \nProgram Description\nThe interpretive process is potentially the therapist’s most powerful tool for stimulating personal growth through emotional integration. But\, since an interpretation is aimed to destabilize some aspect of the patient’s neurotically organized internal world\, it can readily be experienced as a threat and therefore warded off. Even when the patient accepts the interpretation\, initially feeling recognized and understood\, unconsciously\, he may be quite threatened by the knowledge about himself that has long been disavowed. Understandable\, the new view of himself may quickly vanish as he is unknowingly desperate to re-stabilize himself by retreating to a familiar\, safer\, albeit self-defeating position. This program focuses on learning to make follow-up interpretations as a vital tool for stemming the patient’s retreat and advancing the treatment.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Learning Objectives\nUpon completion of the program participants should be able to: \n\nThe distinction between the interpretive attitude and the interpretive offering\nCriteria for deciding if to interpret\, when to interpret\, and what to interpret in a session\nTo become more attentive to the immediate and delayed effects of interpretation as they are revealed in unconscious clinical material and countertransference reactions and enactments\nTo interpret at the “appropriate level” in order to help to complete an archaic developmental communication from the patient\nTo construct empathic and sensitive follow up interpretations that can often prevent or work through impasses\nTo attend to and address how the patient hears the interpretation: an understanding; an attack; a seduction; a punishment; an act of jealousy or envy\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Presenter\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ALAN P. SPIVAK\, PH.D. is a Training/Supervising Analyst at the Los Angeles Institute and Society for Psychoanalytic Studies and is on the Faculty of the Wright Institute Los Angeles. Dr. Spivak is a pioneer in creating and presenting psychoanalytically oriented extension programs in Los Angeles. He has presented programs and papers nationally and internationally\, and twice received the Sanville Award for Creative Writing in Psychoanalysis. Dr. Spivak also maintains a private practice in West Los Angeles. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n CE Information\n\n4.0 CE credits\nWILA is approved by the California Psychological Association so CEs may only be granted to California licensed clinicians\nTo receive CE credit you must attend the entire event\nThis CE is at the intermediate level\n\nWright Institute Los Angeles is approved by the California Psychological Association\, which is recognized by the California Board of Psychology (BOP) and the California Board of Behavioral Sciences (BBS) to sponsor continuing education for Psychologists\, Licensed Marriage & Family Therapists\, and Licensed Clinical Social Workers. Wright Institute Los Angeles maintains responsibility for this program and its contents. Full attendance in addition to the completion of the appropriate evaluation form are required in order to receive CE credits. CPA OPD provider number WLA001. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Registration Fees\nEarly Registration before 2/15/21\n\nWILA Alumni Association Members – $120\nGeneral – $130\nStudents/Pre-licensed – $70 URL:https://wilaalumni.org/event/2018-ce-spivak/ LOCATION:WILA\, 11845 W. Olympic Blvd.\, Suite 505W\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90064\, United States CATEGORIES:CE ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://wilaalumni.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Screen-Shot-2022-08-31-at-8.58.35-PM.png ORGANIZER;CN="WILA Alumni Association":MAILTO:info@wilaalumni.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150307T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150307T160000 DTSTAMP:20260427T185523 CREATED:20220901T040514Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220901T041501Z UID:221554-1425718800-1425744000@wilaalumni.org SUMMARY:CE: Individualities: How Personality Differences Matter for Psychotherapy - Dr. McWilliams DESCRIPTION:Co-Sponsored byThe WILA Alumni Association &New Center for Psychoanalysis\n  \nProgram Description\nAppreciating the clinical implications of personality differences has been a central concern for psychotherapists since the early part of the twentieth century. Our patients are unique individuals\, with specific\, personality-related strengths and weaknesses\, and although we may focus on a particular “disorder” that any client describes to us\, we understand that problem in the context of the person’s individuality. Dr. McWilliams discusses the history of the concepts of personality structure and disorder and their relevance to practice\, reviewing ten different psychological lenses through which personality has been viewed: temperament\, attachment\, observed clinical pattern\, defensive structure\, affective organization\, implicit cognition\, drive tendencies\, self-definition versus self-in-relation orientation\, core relational theme\, organizing developmental issue. She explores central tensions between research and clinical paradigms\, between trait-based and theme-based conceptions of personality\, and between the assumptions underlying the DSM and those underlying the Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Learning Objectives\nUpon completion of the program participants should be able to: \n\nDescribe the major differences between categorical and inferential/dimensional approaches to conceptualizing personality differences\nDifferentiate between understanding personality in terms of traits\, even conceived as dimensional\, versus in terms of intersubjective themes\, and to apply that understanding toward a more nuanced formulation of the psychologies of their individual clients\nApply Blatt’s anaclitic-introjective polarity to the improvement of their clinical work\nImprove their capacity to diagnose paranoid themes and psychotic-level preoccupations in their patients\nMake clinical choices that increase their effectiveness with patients who have personality patterns that reflect particular attachment styles\nDevelop a psychotherapy style appropriate for each client’s level and type of personality structure\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Presenter\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n NANCY MCWILLIAMS\, PH.D.\, ABPP\, who teaches at the Graduate School of Applied & Professional Psychology at Rutgers\, is author of Psychoanalytic Diagnosis: Understanding Personality Structure in the Clinical Process (1994\, rev. ed. 2011)\, Psychoanalytic Case Formulation (1999)\, and Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy: A Practitioner’s Guide (2004)\, all with Guilford Press\, and is Associate Editor of the Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual (2006). She is Past President of the Division of Psychoanalysis (39) of the American Psychological Association and is on the editorial board of Psychoanalytic Psychology. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n CE Information\n\n6.0 CE/CME credits\nTo receive CE credit you must attend the entire event\nThis CE is at the intermediate level\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Registration Fees\n\nGeneral – $140\nStudents/Pre-licensed – $70 URL:https://wilaalumni.org/event/2015-ce-mcwilliams/ LOCATION:Olympic Collection\, 11301 Olympic Blvd.\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90064\, United States CATEGORIES:CE ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://wilaalumni.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/McWilliams2015ce.png ORGANIZER;CN="WILA Alumni Association + New Center for Psychoanalysis":MAILTO:info@wilaalumni.org END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR