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Incorporating Culture and Society into Clinical Theory and Practice Study Group 2020-2021 Learning Objectives

2nd Friday of every month from 2:30-4:00 pm
4400 East-West Highway
Bethesda, MD 20814

This Study Group will include reading and discussing articles and texts that focus on the role that cultural and societal factors play in our deepening understanding of individual psychological functioning, interpersonal relationships, and psychopathology. Such factors as race, ethnicity, class, and gender have been […]

ICP+P2020-08-13T09:23:30-04:00August 13th, 2020|Tags: clinical work, study group, transgenerational trauma|

Transgenerational Trauma Study Group 2019-2020 Learning Objectives

2nd Friday of every month from 2:30-4:00 pm
4400 East-West Highway
Bethesda, MD 20814

The group’s focus will be the study of trauma that is “passed down” from one generation to the next. We will be reading both professional and fictionalized accounts to further our understanding of this topic. In addition, we will be discussing our clinical work […]

ICP+P2020-01-03T14:56:06-05:00September 9th, 2019|Tags: clinical work, study group, transgenerational trauma|

Transgenerational Trauma Study Group 2018-2019 Learning Objectives

2nd Friday of every month from 2:30-4:00 pm
4400 East-West Highway
Bethesda, MD 20814

The group’s focus will be the study of trauma that is “passed down” from one generation to the next. We will be reading both professional and fictionalized accounts to further our understanding of this topic. In addition, we will be discussing our clinical work […]

ICP+P2018-08-10T01:59:19-04:00August 10th, 2018|Tags: clinical work, study group, transgenerational trauma|

The Science, Art, and Application of Psychotherapy Integration Study Group 2018-2019 Learning Objectives

2nd and 4th Wednesday of every month from 11:00 am-12:30 pm
3000 Connecticut Ave, NW, Suite 327, Washington, DC 20008

This study group will focus upon the convergence of selected components of theory and practice that serve to enhance and intensify the therapeutic encounter. The central role of the integration of contemporary psychodynamic approaches, affective and social […]

ICP+P2018-08-10T01:32:27-04:00July 10th, 2018|Tags: Art, Integration, Learning Objectives, Psychotherapy, Science, Study Groups|

Authoritarian Leadership, Mental Health, and Culture Study Group 2019-2020 Learning Objectives

Once a month. 1st, 2nd, or 4th Friday of the month, depending upon preferences of group members, from 2:15-3:45 pm.
Ellicott City, MD

The group will start with reading the book Tyrannical Minds: Psychological Profiling, Narcissism, and Dictatorship by Dean A. Haycock, Ph.D. Goals will include analyzing the personality traits of persons who have become dictatorial leaders, […]

ICP+P2019-07-29T19:07:48-04:00July 29th, 2019|Tags: authoritarian, cultural, dark traits, historical, leadership, Narcissism, personality traits|

Peeking into the Playspace of the Creativity Study Group: Musings on Artistic Process

The creativity study group came together out of a shared interest in the creation and appreciation of art. Many members engage in painting, drawing, collage, dance, photography, music, and writing. All of us are intensely interested in the processes and products of those pursuits and in the […]

ICP+P2018-07-27T18:13:36-04:00January 26th, 2018|

The Science, Art, and Application of Psychotherapy Integration Study Group 2017-2018 Learning Objectives

2nd and 4th Wednesday of every month from 11:00 am-12:30 pm
3000 Connecticut Ave, NW, Suite 327, Washington, DC 20008

This study group will focus upon the convergence of selected components of theory and practice that serve to enhance and intensify the therapeutic encounter. The central role of the integration of contemporary psychodynamic approaches, affective and social […]

ICP+P2018-07-01T01:40:51-04:00September 3rd, 2017|Tags: Art, Integration, Learning Objectives, Psychotherapy, Science, Study Groups|

Experiential and Theoretical Investigation into the Creative Process Study Group 2017-2018 Learning Objectives

Third Tuesday of the month, September through June, 7:30 PM
3715 Alton Place, NW, Washington, DC 20016

Our group views creativity as a capacity that is integral to being human, although the ability to express that creativity may be developed to differing degrees. Our readings have built up a body of thinking about creativity that draws on […]

ICP+P2017-08-22T18:06:16-04:00August 22nd, 2017|Tags: Creative, Learning Objectives, Study Groups|

Affect and Self-Regulation Study Group 2017-2018 Learning Objectives

First Monday of the month, November through May, 7:45 PM
4612 49th ST NW, Washington DC

The overarching frame of reference for our studies is to deepen our understanding of intense affect, a multiple self-state psychology of mind, and the dissociative processes inclusive of all of Anna Freud’s mechanisms of defense as well as those like depersonalization. We […]

ICP+P2018-03-29T18:56:29-04:00March 24th, 2017|Tags: Affect, dissociative, neuroses, Self-Regulation|

Affect and Self-Regulation Study Group 2016-2017 Learning Objectives

First Monday of the month, October through May, 7:30 PM
Washington, DC

The overarching frame of reference for this year of study is to deepen our understanding of what has been called the severe neuroses and typically involves the treatment of borderline and dissociative phenomena. We will explore the extent to which an unconscious need to regulate intense […]

ICP+P2016-08-14T22:52:20-04:00August 14th, 2016|Tags: Creative, Learning Objectives, Study Groups|