Psychotherapy Integration Program

Thursday, June 15, 2017; 7:00 pm

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You are invited to attend the Psychotherapy Integration Program (PIP) Open house, where faculty members will welcome you and discuss your training options. Analytic therapists, increasingly recognizing the complexity of therapeutic action, are more and more seeking out training in additional modalities to improve their therapeutic work. Like most other clinicians today, the majority of analytic therapists describe themselves as integrative. But opportunities to develop the essential skills for combining therapies effectively are few.

The Psychotherapy Integration Program at NIP provides psychodynamic clinicians the skills required for effective integration of multiple therapeutic modalities in their work. In this program, you will:

• Study the history and theory of psychoanalytic psychotherapy integration, in order to establish a conceptual framework for your integrative clinical work.
• Learn how to incorporate concepts and tools from Cognitive Behavior Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy into analytically-based treatment from leading psychodynamic clinicians with proficiency in these modalities.
• Learn specific techniques helpful in changing behavior, regulating affect, and modifying self-defeating thought patterns.
• Receive expert guidance and feedback as you study didactic and clinical material with a workgroup of your peers.
• Become skilled in moving among and blending modalities in a therapeutically relevant way.   

PIP is a nine-month certificate program offering 45 Continuing Education credits to psychologists, New York State social workers, and New York State Licensed Psychoanalysts. Classes and group supervision are held weekly at NIP on Monday afternoons.

Co-Director: Jill Bresler, PhD, is a past Postdoctoral Fellow of the Institute for Rational-Emotive Behavior Therapy and a graduate of the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy, where she is now on the faculty. Her area of interest is the integration of psychoanalysis, CBT, and the mindfulness-based behavior therapies. She is an editor of Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy Integration: An Emerging Synthesis (Routledge, 2015). Dr. Bresler teaches, practices, and supervises in New York City.

Co-Director:  Kenneth A. Frank, PhD, is Co-Founder and Director of Training of NIP and a former Clinical Professor in Psychiatry at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. He is on the teaching and supervisory faculties of the Mitchell Center and CPPNJ, among others, and on the Professional Advisory Board of IARPP. He is also the Senior Consulting Editor of the journal Psychoanalytic Perspectives. Dr. Frank has published over 60 articles, chapters, and books, many in the areas of personality change and his specialty, psychotherapy integration, a topic on which he has lectured nationally and internationally. He practices in Englewood, New Jersey, and New York City.

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