Ronnie Levine

"Exploring Barriers to Intimacy in Psychotherapy"

 

An all day, experiential conference

for individual and group therapists

 and for anyone who works and lives in groups.

 

Saturday, Oct. 29th

9:00 to 5:00

Registration and continental breakfast 8:30-9:00AM

(Lunch on your own)

Group Supervision and Consultation

Friday, Oct. 28th

7:00 to 8:30 PM

Many patients coming to therapy have difficulty in relating: they may not feel lovable, they may not be lovable, and they may have unsuccessful ways of relating. Patients may feel overwhelmed, helpless and engage in destructive ways of communicating intense emotions in their relationships. In this workshop, we will explore some of the challenges in relating, and study the fears, desires and adaptations that interfere with and enhance developing mature intimate relationships.

The workshop is designed to help therapists understand and engage more comfortably with intimate, intense feelings such as love, hate, vulnerability and shame, and to approach barriers to intimacy in the treatment relationship. We will analyze relational and developmental adaptations and barriers to forming intimate relationships from an integrative psychoanalytic developmental perspective that includes modern psychoanalysis, object relations, relational, self psychology and self state theory. We will explore how the therapist and individual and group treatment can be maturational agents of change. The workshop will include didactic and experiential learning.

 

Objectives:

 

·      We will study regression as having an integrative component

·      We will identify relationships along a spectrum from narcissism to mature love

·      We explore how the therapeutic relationship can be used to facilitate healthier forms of relating

·      We will develop interventions to facilitate emotional integration and more mature relating.

·       We will explore how to help the therapist and the patient become more comfortable and effective with uncomfortable feelings

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About the Presenter:

 

Ronnie Levine, Ph.D., CGP, FAGPA, has been practicing psychotherapy for over 30 years with individuals, couples and groups. She was a Harvard Fellow and a graduate of the New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. Dr. Levine has been influenced by Lou Ormont, Modern Psychoanalysis, Object Relations and Relational theories. She enjoys teaching and has been on a number of group training program faculties and was the Director of the Psychology Internship at Rockland Psychiatric Center for 10 years. Dr. Levine serves on the boards of the Eastern Group Psychotherapy Society (EGPS) and the American Group Psychotherapy Association (AGPA) and is on the faculty of the EGPS Group Training Program and The Group Center. She has conducted many workshops and institutes for AGPA and EGPS and has been a frequent conference speaker for local group societies. She also has conducted training workshops in St. Petersburg, Russia and in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

     In 2004, Dr. Levine was awarded Fellow of AGPA. Her papers include “Treating Idealized Hope and Hopelessness” and "Modern Psychoanalysis and Leslie Rosenthal," both published in the International Journal of Group Psychotherapy. She presented the Lou Ormont lecture at the 2009 AGPA annual conference in Chicago. In June 2011, Dr. Levine was honored for outstanding achievement in the field of group psychotherapy by the Eastern Group Psychotherapy Society.

    Dr. Levine’s private practice in New York includes individual, couples, and group psychotherapy and individual and group supervision. She also conducts an ongoing training group in Austin, TX.