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The goal of the New Zealand Society is to be the agency of choice in the provision of community rehabilitation and support services for people with mental illness, or emotional disorder.

The Institute consists of eight regional Centers in the United States with its National Office located in Jupiter, Florida. It also maintains informal relationships with similar organizations in Europe, the Middle East, Australia, and Asia, and it co-sponsored the First International Symposium held at Oxford University, England in 1988.

Conferences, based on the open systems concept of organizational life, are designed to enhance individuals' awareness of group and organizational processes and of their participation in them. Emphasis is placed on issues of authority, responsibility, leadership, and followership. In the past, conference membership has included people from business, govenment, law, health care, education, trade unions, social and community services, the military, religion, and the media. Such conferences have proven useful for people in positions of authority or preparing for such positions.

Center for the Study of Groups and Social Systems [CSGSS] (Boston Center, AK Rice Institute) Box 960 Hanover, NH 03755 617/353-4287
Central States Center, AK Rice Institute 4801 County Road 343 Fulton, MO 65251 James Hunter, MSW, LCSW, President 573/751-8078 Sherilyn Russell, Administrator 573/882-8792
Chicago Center for the Study of Groups and Organizations [CCSGO] 980 North Michigan Avenue Suite 1375 Chicago, IL 60611 Robert M Lipgar, PhD, President 312/266-1170
GREX (West Coast Center, AK Rice Institute) 2425-B Channing Way #487 Berkeley, CA 94704 Suzy J Spradlin, PhD, President 510/339-9731 Marily Drobenaire, Administrator 510/654-4010
Midwest Group Relations Center, AK Rice Institute Psychology Department 400 Dyer Hall University of Cincinnati Cincinnati, OH 45221-0376 Edward B Klein, PhD, President 513/556-5556 Barbara Z Doepke, Administrator 513/561-8582
New York Center, AK Rice Institute 200 West 79-th Street Apartment 12-G New York, NY 10024 Bernard Gertler, PhD, President 212/799-5816
Texas Center, AK Rice Institute PO Box 540693 Houston, TX 77254-0693 Nancy Wilson, PhD, Director 512/419-2426
Washington-Baltimore Center, AK Rice Institute 919 Sixth Street, NW Washington, DC 20001 Leroy Wells, Jr, PhD, President 202/722-6543 Jennifer Jackson, Administrator 202/232-1621

1. The Anxiety in the Negative Therapeutic Reaction (September 16, 2011: Stockbridge, MA)
2. Workshop: The Anxiety in the Negative Therapeutic Reaction (September 17, 2011: Stockbridge, MA)
3. Fall Conference (October 15-16, 2011: Stockbridge, MA)
4. Thinking in the Space Between Winnicott and Lacan (November 4, 2011: Stockbridge, MA)
5. Workshop: An Introduction to Lacan for Clinicians (November 5, 2011: Stockbridge, MA)
6. Homecoming as a Safe Haven or a New Conflict Zone: "Attachment and Detachment in Military Families" (December 9, 2011: Stockbridge, MA)
7. Unlearning and Learning Psychoanalysis (January 27, 2012: Stockbridge, MA)
8. Culture and Storytelling: The Healing Power of Narrative (February 10, 2012: Stockbridge, MA)
9. Psychoanalysis and Sexual Issues (March 30, 2012: Stockbridge, MA)
10. Workshop: Psychoanalysis and Sexual Issues (March 31, 2012: Stockbridge, MA)
11. Urgent Images Require Us to Submit to Them: "The Art of Henry Darger" (April 27, 2012: Stockbridge, MA)
12. Yasmin Roberts Memorial Lecture (May 11, 2012: Stockbridge, MA)

The Anxiety in the Negative Therapeutic Reaction

Sponsor: Austen Riggs Center, Erikson Institute for Education and Research

September 16, 2011
Stockbridge, MA

On the basis of her revised version of the transition of Freud's first to his second drive theory (briefly outlined here), the presenter develops a new understanding of the anxiety in the negative therapeutic reaction, explaining that patients whose self-representations have in part been deadened by trauma, have to tolerate during their treatment a transitional phase with heightened fears of being endangered (increased self-preservative urges), in order to rebuild a sense of being safe.

When the anxiety is intolerable, a patient will show the negative therapeutic reaction. Working through these increased self-preservative (survival) fears will reestablish the representations of a save-enough self and shield the patient from further regressions (withdrawals) into deadened states.

Presenter: Cordelia Schmidt-Hellerau, PhD, Training and Supervising Analyst, Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute; Training and Supervising Analyst, Swiss Psychoanalytic Society; Professor of Clinical Psychology, University of Zurich, Switzerland.

There are up to 2 continuing education credit hour equivalents available for
  -physicians
  -psychologists
  -social workers
  -marriage & family therapists

Event Contact:

Doreen Barscz
Austen Riggs Center
25 Main Street
PO Box 962
Stockbridge, MA 01262-0962

413/931-5273

erikson@austenriggs.net

(If you please, make a point to tell about these Web pages if you inquire about the above meeting.)

Workshop: The Anxiety in the Negative Therapeutic Reaction

Sponsored by: Austen Riggs Center, Erikson Institute for Education and Research

September 17, 2011
Stockbridge, MA

On the basis of her revised version of the transition of Freud's first to his second drive theory (briefly outlined here), the presenter develops a new understanding of the anxiety in the negative therapeutic reaction, explaining that patients whose self-representations have in part been deadened by trauma, have to tolerate during their treatment a transitional phase with heightened fears of being endangered (increased self-preservative urges), in order to rebuild a sense of being safe.

When the anxiety is intolerable, a patient will show the negative therapeutic reaction. Working through these increased self-preservative (survival) fears will reestablish the representations of a save-enough self and shield the patient from further regressions (withdrawals) into deadened states.

Expanding on her exposition of the above theme at the Friday Night Guest Lecture September 16, 2011 (qv) the presenter will deepen understanding of negative therapeutic reactions with the help of a theoretical and clinical discussion.

Presenter: Cordelia Schmidt-Hellerau, PhD, Training and Supervising Analyst, Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute; Training and Supervising Analyst, Swiss Psychoanalytic Society; Professor of Clinical Psychology, University of Zurich, Switzerland.

There are as many as 3 continuing education credit hour equivalents available for
  -physicians
  -psychologists
  -social workers
  -marriage & family therapists

Event Contact:

Doreen Barscz
Austen Riggs Center
25 Main Street
PO Box 962
Stockbridge, MA 01262-0962

413/931-5273

erikson@austenriggs.net

(A request: if inquiring about this event, kindly let them know you heard about it in this resource.)

Fall Conference

Sponsor: Austen Riggs Center, Erikson Institute for Education and Research

October 15-16, 2011
Stockbridge, MA

As many as ? continuing education credit hours available for unspecified professionals.

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Thinking in the Space Between Winnicott and Lacan

Sponsor: Austen Riggs Center, Erikson Institute for Education and Research

November 4, 2011
Stockbridge, MA

Presenter: Deborah Luepnitz, PhD, Clinical Faculty,, Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine; Founder, Insight for All [IFA].

As many as 2 continuing education credit hours available for
  -physicians
  -psychologists
  -social workers
  -marriage & family therapists

Event Contact:

Doreen Barscz
Austen Riggs Center
25 Main Street
PO Box 962
Stockbridge, MA 01262-0962

413/931-5273

erikson@austenriggs.net

(As a courtesy: kindly credit our Web pages if you ask about this event.)

Workshop: An Introduction to Lacan for Clinicians

Sponsored by: Austen Riggs Center, Erikson Institute for Education and Research

November 5, 2011
Stockbridge, MA

Presenter: Deborah Luepnitz, PhD, Clinical Faculty,, Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine; Founder, Insight for All [IFA].

As many as 3 continuing education credit hours available for
  -physicians
  -psychologists
  -social workers
  -marriage & family therapists

Event Contact:

Doreen Barscz
Austen Riggs Center
25 Main Street
PO Box 962
Stockbridge, MA 01262-0962

413/931-5273

erikson@austenriggs.net

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Homecoming as a Safe Haven or a New Conflict Zone
"Attachment and Detachment in Military Families"

Event sponsored by: Austen Riggs Center, Erikson Institute for Education and Research

December 9, 2011
Stockbridge, MA

Presenter: Kathryn Basham, PhD, Professor and co-director, PhD programm, Smith College for Social Work.

As many as 2 continuing education credit hours available for
  -physicians
  -psychologists
  -social workers
  -marriage & family therapists

Event Contact:

Doreen Barscz
Austen Riggs Center
25 Main Street
PO Box 962
Stockbridge, MA 01262-0962

413/931-5273

erikson@austenriggs.net

(A request: please mention our Web pages when inquiring about this.)

Unlearning and Learning Psychoanalysis

Event sponsor: Austen Riggs Center, Erikson Institute for Education and Research

January 27, 2012
Stockbridge, MA

Presenter: Anton O Kris, MD, Training and Supervising Analyst, Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute; Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.

As many as 2 continuing education credit hour equivalents available for
  -physicians
  -psychologists
  -social workers
  -marriage & family therapists

Event Contact:

Doreen Barscz
Austen Riggs Center
25 Main Street
PO Box 962
Stockbridge, MA 01262-0962

413/931-5273

erikson@austenriggs.net

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Culture and Storytelling: The Healing Power of Narrative

Sponsor: Austen Riggs Center, Erikson Institute for Education and Research

February 10, 2012
Stockbridge, MA

Presenter: Shira Nayman, PsyD, Professor, Rutgers University; Professor,Columbia University.

There are up to 2 continuing education credit hours available for
  -physicians
  -psychologists
  -social workers
  -marriage & family therapists

Event Contact:

Doreen Barscz
Austen Riggs Center
25 Main Street
PO Box 962
Stockbridge, MA 01262-0962

413/931-5273

erikson@austenriggs.net

(A request: when you inquire about this meeting, don't forget to mention these Web pages.)

Psychoanalysis and Sexual Issues

Event sponsored by: Austen Riggs Center, Erikson Institute for Education and Research

March 30, 2012
Stockbridge, MA

Presenter: Mark J Blechner, PhD, Training and Supervising Analyst, William Alanson White Institute; Faculty member, New York University.

There can be up to 2 continuing education credit hour equivalents available for
  -physicians
  -psychologists
  -social workers
  -marriage & family therapists

Event Contact:

Doreen Barscz
Austen Riggs Center
25 Main Street
PO Box 962
Stockbridge, MA 01262-0962

413/931-5273

erikson@austenriggs.net

(Please, please let them know you heard about it here when you ask about the above.)

Workshop: Psychoanalysis and Sexual Issues

Sponsored by: Austen Riggs Center, Erikson Institute for Education and Research

March 31, 2012
Stockbridge, MA

Presenter: Mark J Blechner, PhD, Training and Supervising Analyst, William Alanson White Institute; Faculty member, New York University.

As many as 3 continuing education credit hours available for
  -physicians
  -psychologists
  -social workers
  -marriage & family therapists

Event Contact:

Doreen Barscz
Austen Riggs Center
25 Main Street
PO Box 962
Stockbridge, MA 01262-0962

413/931-5273

erikson@austenriggs.net

(A request: when inquiring about the above, don't forget to bring up these Web pages.)

Urgent Images Require Us to Submit to Them
"The Art of Henry Darger"

Event sponsored by: Austen Riggs Center, Erikson Institute for Education and Research

April 27, 2012
Stockbridge, MA

Presenter: Brooke Anderson, Deputy Director for Curatorial Planning, Los Angeles County Museum of Art [LACMA].

There are as many as 2 continuing education credit hours available for
  -physicians
  -psychologists
  -social workers
  -marriage & family therapists

Event Contact:

Doreen Barscz
Austen Riggs Center
25 Main Street
PO Box 962
Stockbridge, MA 01262-0962

413/931-5273

erikson@austenriggs.net

(If you please, when inquiring about this meeting, please do mention our Web pages.)

Yasmin Roberts Memorial Lecture

Sponsor: Austen Riggs Center, Erikson Institute for Education and Research

May 11, 2012
Stockbridge, MA

Presenter: Theodore Jacobs, MD, Training and Supervising Analyst, New York Psychoanalytic Institute; Training and Supervising Analyst, New York University Psychoanalytic Institute; Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Albert Einstein College School of Medicine, New York, New York.

There can be as many as 2 continuing education credit hours available for
  -physicians
  -psychologists
  -social workers
  -marriage & family therapists

Event Contact:

Doreen Barscz
Austen Riggs Center
25 Main Street
PO Box 962
Stockbridge, MA 01262-0962

413/931-5273

erikson@austenriggs.net

(A request: when inquiring about the above meeting, it could be nice of you to mention these World Wide Web pages as your source.)

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