Note from the Director and Co-Director
Elizabeth Carr and Maxine Ellenberg Arnsdorf

As we come to the end of 2009, we want to express our appreciation to the membership for their support and encouragement. We also want to thank the many individuals who have contributed their time, energy, and ideas toward making ICP&P a successful organization.

We would like to encourage you to keep ICP&P in mind if you are in the position to make a tax deductible charitable donation. Contributions can be made to the general fund, the scholarship fund, the library fund, or the Bruce Wine Memorial Fund. Please look for a letter that will be sent out in early December.

We want to welcome Russell Carr, MD to the Board. Russ, a member of the first year class of the Psychoanalytic Training Program, was recently elected to serve a one-year position as the Member-in-Training Board Representative. He attended the November Board meeting in his official status and we are glad to have him onboard.

We are pleased to announce that Eleanor Howe has begun her tenure in the position of Chair, Continuing Education Committee. For the last six months, she has been working with Deborah Marks to prepare for taking on this most important position. We have already begun working with Eleanor and look forward to our continued efforts in the area of continuing education. We want to express our deep appreciation to Deborah Marks for the tremendous job she has done during her tenure. We are pleased to announce that Deborah will represent ICP&P on The Consortium for Psychoanalytic Research. This group includes representatives from the major mental health organizations with a psychoanalytic orientation and we are pleased to participate with this group.

At the November Board meeting, we began preliminary discussions concerning a project to develop a new look to represent ICP&P in the community. This involves revising all our publicity pieces including brochures, marketing materials, and our website. A committee will be formed to focus on this. We expect this initiative will involve a considerable amount of work. If any of you are interested in getting involved with this project, please contact Elizabeth and Maxine. In any event, we welcome ideas from the membership.

We wish you all the best for a happy, healthy holiday season.

Note from the Secretary
Leslie Westbrook

In an effort to keep the membership informed about issues that are being discussed by the ICP&P Board, a brief summary of each meeting is published in the Newsletter. If there are items about which you have questions, opinions or concerns, please feel free to contact a Board member. We welcome your input. All Board members are listed in the front of the ICP&P Directory and on the website. Here are some highlights from the November meeting:

• The ICP&P Budget is in the black.
• Scientific Day is scheduled for January 23. Several submissions have been received for consideration. The Board discussed possible subjects and presenters for conferences in 2010-2011.
• The Training Programs are going well. Faith Lewis is the Chair of the Psychotherapy Training Program.
• Membership now stands at 241 members, with 22 of the new members coming through the Relational Perspectives Institute.
• Study Groups are going well, with one existing study group looking for new members. Two new offerings did not have registrants. This year’s membership directories will be available in December.
• In the spring, candidates may run for openings on the Board. The membership is invited to consider running for the open positions.
• In the coming months, a new design will be selected for ICP&P printed materials and the new website.
• A committee was established to review the Bylaws and determine whether any amendments are needed.

Note from the Programs Co-Chairs
Sharon Ballard and Tripp Reed

On Saturday morning, January 23, 2010, we will have the pleasure of hearing a range of clinical ideas from our ICP&P colleagues. The program, located at the National 4-H Conference Center in Chevy Chase, will consist of three presentations, offering opportunities for both didactic learning and lively dialogue. As a reminder, Scientific Day is free to members so please plan on attending and supporting our colleagues.

Note from Chair, Psychotherapy Training Program
Faith Lewis

Below is another biography of a Member-in-Training in the first year class of the Psychotherapy Training Program.

Peter Folger LGSW, BA Sociology, Harvard College, MSW Catholic University, 2004.

After receiving my MSW from Catholic University in 2004, I worked in the DC foster care system and did outreach therapy in people's homes. I then settled into my current psychotherapist position at Bowie Counseling Services, where I have been for the last two years. I work with all ages, from 5 to 75, which I like because each situation demands something different from me. By the end of the day, I feel as if I have exercised all my major internal muscle groups! I will be sitting for the LCSW exam in early 2010.

I really like the step-by-step apprenticeship system in social work; it has mirrored well my development as a practitioner. My areas of particular interest in the field are attachment, trauma, family systems, the spiritual angle, and teenagers. I love working with teens because almost all of them come through my door thinking that no adult could possibly understand them. That's an empathic challenge that truly energizes me.

I live in Silver Spring with my three-legged cat Lyle (we have five good legs between us!) and a magic lawn that seems to be fed by some underground water source. You can actually watch this grass grow, and keeping it to a level that avoids neighborhood embarrassment takes up pretty much all my spare time from May to October. A friend recently suggested that I fence it in and purchase a sheep! I'll keep you posted...

Note from Chair, CME Committee
Allan Melmed

By the time that this Newsletter is available, the ICP&P application to grant continuing medical education credits will have been sent to Med Chi, the Maryland State Medical Society. The committee working on this, Elizabeth Carr, Deborah Marks, Dorothy Wine, and I felt a great sense of relief when we put the final touches on the application in November. On the last day, Elizabeth spent five hours working on it so that we could wrap it up that night.

It has been a real team effort and I appreciate so much the interest and support of the Executive Board, the Training Program Chairs, the rest of the folks currently involved with the CE programs and especially Elizabeth, Deborah, and Dorothy. The best case scenario is that we will be able to get provisional accreditation this March. Getting CME’s makes sense for those physicians already in ICP&P and hopefully will make our educational programs even more attractive to others who haven’t participated in the past.

Thanks again to all those who have been involved with this and to our members in general for making this such a worthwhile, vibrant community.

Note on Study Groups
Dorothy Wine

Over the past months I have received some calls asking about study groups. There is one group with several openings:

Nancy Wolfson, MSW, 2nd Friday, 1:00pm-2:30pm in Chevy Chase, MD

Group members determine topics and reading materials. We welcome new members to participate in this process of expanding our interests. Our approach to learning is to integrate the reading with case material as well as with our own life experiences. In this cycle we have studied loss- primarily with a focus on death and dying and on losses suffered by immigrants. Samples of the memoirs, novels, and poetry are: Rowing Without Oars by Vela-Carin Lindquist; A Grief Observed by C. S. Lewis; Losing Julia By Pauline Boss; Lost in Translation by Eva Hoffman.

Next fall we begin a new cycle, so those who are interested in trying another group may do so now. If there are members interested in forming a group, or joining the group with Nancy Wolfson, please contact me directly at dawine99@aol.com or on 571-723-6424.

Note from the Coordinator of Membership
Margo Silberstein

Below is a list of all of the new members for 2009. Future new members will be mentioned in the ICP&P Newsletter as they join. This year’s membership directories will be available for pick up at the conference on December 5th.

• Ruth Baldwin, MSW
• Wendy Berns, LCSW
• Donna Cheri Brister, MD, M,Div
• Elizabeth Brocato, MSW
• Debra Caplowe, MSW
• Elizabeth Carr , PsyD
• Russell Carr, MD
• Scott Conkright, PsyD
• Ann Devaney , MSW
• Pamela DiPesa, PhD, MSW
• Allyn Enderlyn
• Alice Faulkner, MSW
• Alison Fellowes-Comly, MA, LICSW
• Mariana Figueira, MLHR
• Peter Folger, MSW, LGSW
• Garth Gillan , PhD, MS, D.Min
• Patricia Garcia Golding, MSW
• Thomas Gray, PhD, LICSW, LCSW-C
• Cornelia Groat
• Paula Hamm , LPC, PC
• Patricia Hartman, MSW
• Eva Hill, MSW
• Betty Ann Kaplan, PhD
• Lanz Karfgin , PhD
• Alice Kassabian, PhD
• Nadine Lavender-Petersen, LCSW-C
• Nancy Lithgow, MSW
• Bernadette Macdonald, APRN, PMH
• Shawn MacDonald, PhD
• Susan Marks , MSW
• Liz Merrill, MSW
• Deborah Mulhern, PhD
• Barbara Nama, MSW
• Laurel Nelson, MSW
• Jane Nielson, MSW
• Patricia Olson, LCSW-C
• John Paddock, PhD
• Gwendolyn Pla, PhD, MSW
• Christie Platt, PhD
• Shoshana Ringel, PhD, LCSW-C
• Francine Rosenfeld, MSW
• Eileen Rustgi, PhD
• Sara Denman Sakura, PsyD
• Melinda Salzman, MSW
• Denise Shauer , MSW
• Marit Sheffield, MD
• Jonathan Stillerman, PhD, CGP
• Ruth Tifford , Med, MSW, LCSW
• Marion Usher , MSSW, PhD
• Ronald Vande Loo, PhD
• Audrey Thayer Walker, MSW
• Joan McHugh Zang, MSW
• Lisa Zimmerman, MSW

Upcoming Events

• Saturday, December 5, 2009 ICP&P presents Partners in Thought: Witnessing, Enactment and Unformulated Experience with Donnel Stern, PhD. The Cosmos Club, 2121 Massachusetts Ave. NW, Washington, DC.
• Saturday, January 23, 2010 ICP&P presents Scientific Day at the National 4-H Center, Chevy Chase, MD.
• Tuesday, February 16, 2010 – Tuesday, March 16, 2010 ICP&P presents Short Course – Business and Organizational Consulting Using Psychoanalytic Principles with a Self psychology Emphasis with Thomas Hoffman, MD in Bethesda, MD.
• Sunday, February 21, 2010 The consortium for Psychoanalytic Research presents its 17th Annual Conference Mentalization as a Multidimensional Concept: Implications for the treatment of Patients with Trauma-Related Psychopathology with Patrick Luyten, PhD in Washington, DC. Visit www.cprincdc.org for more information.
• Saturday, February 27, 2010 ICP&P presents The Creation of Analytic Space: Dissociation, Enactment and the Transformative Potential of the Analytic Relationship with Margaret Black, LCSW. The Cosmos Club, 2121 Massachusetts Ave. NW, Washington, DC.

Bulletin Board

The Policy for Bulletin Board items is: Members can place items three months a year. Items can be up to eight lines in length. Longer items or additional months are available for a fee. Please contact the administrator for the fee schedule.

• Openings in Mixed Adult Groups - Therapists David Flohr and Katherine Williams have two groups with availability, including one group with younger members ages 30’s to 40’s, and a second group with members ages 40’s to 60’s. Groups meet just off Route 66, near East Falls Church Metro. Contact Katherine Williams at 703-533-5825, x 107.
• Weekly Supervision Group - beginning in December for clinicians who run groups. The supervision group will meet on Tuesdays from 12:15 to 1:30 PM at 4501 Connecticut Ave., NW, Suite 109. For further information you may contact Mary Dluhy at mdd23@georgetown.edu or at 202-237-5150.
• Caregivers Support Group – Meeting every other week in the middle of the day in Silver Spring, MD near the intersection of Georgia Ave. and University Blvd. This support group provides an opportunity to meet with other caregivers to discuss the realities of this new role, and the many feelings that come with it. Special focus is on balancing the needs of the patient and the needs of the caregiver. Contact Flora Ingenhousz (specializes in the treatment of individuals, couples and families struggling with depression and/or anxiety associated with serious health issues such as stroke, diabetes, heart disease, cancer, chronic fatigue, MS, and fibromyalgia) at 301-649-5525 or flora-lcsw@comcast.net
• Relational Supervision Group – Roger Segalla is starting a weekly Relational Supervision Group. To discuss joining this group supervision please contact Roger Segalla at 301-652-1707 or rsegalla@verizon.net
• Eating Disorders Psychotherapy Group - Monica L. Callahan has openings in her ongoing therapy group for women over 35 with eating disorders and related issues. The group combines interpersonal and experiential approaches, and concurrent individual therapy is recommended. For further information, please contact Monica Callahan at 301 587 6211, or email at Callahanml@erols.com
• Early Morning Therapy Hours Available (starting at 7:00am) for individuals or couples. Pamela Forman is a "lark" (a morning person), with a home-office in Chevy Chase, MD and would be delighted to see clients early in the day. Contact Pamela Forman at 301-657-3475.
• Office Space Available in Falls Church Professional Center. As the result of a colleague retiring, a lovely office will be available full time starting March 1, 2010 in a sunny suite shared by three other mental health professionals. Part-time hours can be arranged as needed prior to March 1. Ample waiting room area, windows, kitchen, parking and convenient to Metro/Route 66. Contact Lauren Brandt at bjls@rcn.com or at 703-533-0380.
• Furnished Office Available (Monday, Wednesday & Friday) starting immediately. The office is in a suite across from Farragut Square (910 17th Street - between K & I St, NW). Half a block from the Red and Blue/Orange Metro lines. To learn more, please contact Elizabeth Carr at 202-822-8371 or emcarr@aol.com
• Office Space Available to Sublet – Beautiful fully furnished office in great location overlooking Dupont Circle at 1301 Connecticut Ave in NW available Mondays and Fridays. There are 5 other therapists in the suite. Contact Elaine Hoffman at 202-841-0270 or elaineshoffman@msn.com