65th Annual Conference

 

Sessions and Workshops

Saturday, February 23

 

Early Bird Open Sessions
7:30 – 8:30 A.M.

 

Session 218: How to Get the Most out of Group Psychotherapy: An Owner's Manual

David Hescheles, Psy.D., CGP, FAGPA, Chair; John Rhead, Ph.D., CGP

 

Session 219: Intolerable Pain and Aggressive Enactments in Group Treatment

Myrna Frank, Ph.D.

 

Session 220: Holding the Hot Potato: Applying Bion's Group Categories to a Peer Supervision for Beginning Supervisors

Karen Shore, Ph.D., CGP, Chair; Catherine Iacuzzi, M.S., M.A., LADC; Lorraine Mangione, Ph.D.; Jennifer Roberts, M.S.

 

Session 221: Group Therapy's Excellent Adventure

Russell Hopfenburg, Ph.D., CGP

 

Session 222: Group Work with Executives in Pharma and Health Care Organizations

Paul Cox, M.D., CGP, Chair; Janet Steinwedel, Ph.D.

 

Session 223: The Peace Seeking Approach of the Erevna International Peace Center

Susan Lazar, M.D.

 

Session 224: Group Therapist and Caregiver: Dynamic Duo Interplay

Dorree Lynn, Ph.D.

 

Session 225: Power, Passion & Politics: The Intersection of Organizational Development Models and Group Process Dynamics in a Pastoral Search Process

Diana Marit Kunkel, Ph.D., M.A.; Landis Vance, Ph.D.

 

Session 226: The Therapist's Professional Will: Ethical and Clinical Benefits of Planning for Expected and Unexpected Absences

Ann E. Steiner, Ph.D., MFT, CGP, FAGPA

 

 

Saturday, February 23
All-Day Workshops

8:45 A.M.– 12:00 P.M. & 2:15 – 5:30 P.M.

 

Workshop 73a: Membership or Merger, Individuation or Repudiation: The Development of the Self in the Group

Robert Berley, Ph.D., CGP

 

Workshop 74a: Passion, Power and Politics Within and Between Group

Ruthellen Josselson, Ph.D.; Dannielle Kennedy, Ph.D.

 

Workshop 75a: Coming to our Senses: Somatic Psychology and Group Therapy

Suzanne Cohen, Ed.D., CGP, FAGPA

 

 

Saturday, February 23
Morning Open Sessions
8:45 A.M. – 12:00 noon

 

Session 313: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Evidence-Based Group Therapy: Evolution of the AGPA Practice Guidelines

Joseph Kobos, Ph.D., ABPP, CGP, FAGPA; Molyn Leszcz, M.D., FRCPC, CGP, Co-Chairs; Gary Burlingame, Ph.D., CGP; Les Greene, Ph.D., FAGPA; Anthony Joyce, Ph.D.; William Piper, Ph.D., CGP, DFAGPA

 

Session 314: Theory and Practice of Functional Subgrouping: The Systems-Centered Method for Resolving conflicts in Power and Passion

Walter Stone, M.D., M.D., CGP, DFAGPA, Chair; Yvonne Agazarian, Ed.D., CGP, DFAGPA; Susan Gantt, Ph.D., ABPP, CGP, FAGPA, Panelists; Mary Dluhy, M.S.W., CGP, FAGPA, Discussant

 

 

Session 316: The Technique of Partial Identification: Waking Up to the World (Louis R. Ormont Lecture)

Lucy Holmes, Ph.D

 

 

Saturday, February 23
Morning Workshops
8:45
A.M. – 12:00 noon

 

Workshop 76: The Therapist's Professional Will: A Practice Necessity?

Ann E. Steiner, Ph.D., MFT, CGP, FAGPA

 

Master Workshop 77: A Continued Group Dialogue about Values and Ethics

Eleanor Komet, Ph.D., CGP, FAGPA; D. Thomas Stone, Jr., Ph.D., CGP, FAGPA

 

Workshop 78: Inadvertent Self Disclosure

Bernard Frankel, Ph.D., ABPP, BCD, LCSW, FAGPA

 

Workshop 79: Let There Be Song: The Impact of Communal Singing on Group Cohesion and Group Development

Geraldine Alpert, Ph.D., CGP, FAGPA; Deborah Cross, M.D., CGP

 

Workshop 80: Co-Therapy: Effectively Negotiating Envy, Competition and Power

Chera Finnis, Psy.D., CGP; Dan Raviv, Ph.D., CGP

 

Workshop 81: Innovations in the Treatment of Severely Mentally Ill Clients in Group Homes: Building Cohesiveness, A Sense of Agency and Reducing Depression with the Group-as-a-Whole Model

Clive Hazell, Ph.D.; Diana Semmelhack, Psy.D., CGP

 

Workshop 82: The Magic of Role Playing: Fantasy Turned into Reality

David Kipper, Ph.D., ABPP, CGP, FAGPA

 

Workshop 83: The Presence of the Ineffable: An Inevitable Dimension of Group Psychotherapy

Hallie Lovett, Ph.D., CGP; Raymond Lovett, LICSW, CGP

 

Workshop 84: Is Your Trauma Showing?: The Recreation of Unconscious Traumatic Experience Between Co-Leaders

Lorraine Wodiska, Ph.D., CGP; Barbara Wood, Ph.D.

 

Workshop 85: Who Says I Have to Stop Drinking?!? Working with Ambivalence about Change in Substance Abuse Groups

Jeannie Little, LCSW, CGP

 

Workshop 86: Engaging with Multicultural Resources

Gwenelle O'Neal, M.S.W., D.S.W.

 

Workshop 87: On the Edge of Goodbye: Complicated Loss in Group Psychotherapy

Jennifer Harp, Ph.D., CGP

 

Workshop 88: Mind and Mindfulness: The Work of Healing Trauma

Gaea Logan, M.A.

 

Workshop 89: Group Therapy for Schizophrenic Patients

Barbara Stuart, Ph.D.

 

 

Saturday, February 23

Group Psychotherapy Foundation Luncheon
12:15 – 2:00 P.M.

 

Capitol Steps

 

 

Saturday, February 23
Afternoon Open Session
2:15 – 5:30 P.M.

 

Session 315: The Large Group

Felix de Mendelssohn, M.S.W.

This session is also being held on Thursday (7:15-8:15 am) and Friday (1:30-2:30 pm)

 

 

Saturday, February 23
Afternoon Workshops
2:15 – 5:30 P.M.

 

Workshop 90: The Group Contract: Growth Opportunities as a Result of Contract Violations

Elizabeth Gaskill, M.S.W., CGP

 

Workshop 91: Passion and Anguish in Group Therapy: Impact on and Transformation in Group Leaders

Fred Wright, Ph.D.

 

Workshop 92: Psychotherapy Meets Neuroscience-Demonstration Group of Body Oriented Group Psychotherapy

David Fogel, M.D., CGP; Ilana Bar-Levav, M.D., CGP

 

Workshop 93: Actualizing Greek Myth as a Metaphor in the Training Process

Petros Polychronis, M.D.; Dionyssios Sakkas, M.D., Ph.D.

 

Workshop 94: Beyond Mindfulness: The Clinical Usefulness of Becoming Aware of Awareness in the Group Psychotherapy Context

Rudolph Bauer, Ph.D., ABPP

 

Workshop 95: Walls of Terror, Enactments of Powerlessness

Kathleen Adams, Ph.D., CGP

 

Workshop 96: Trauma and the Overachiever Victim: Utilizing Group to Revise Brain Patterns that Hamper Intimacy and Connection

Cara Beames, M.A.; Noel Larson, M.S.W., Ph.D.

 

Workshop 97: Blue States/Red States: The Cultural/Political Divide and Depolarization

Tamara Bisbee, M.A., M.S., Lorraine Mangione, Ph.D.

 

Workshop 98: The Star Trek Model of Couples Therapy: "Why We Pick the Mates We Do"

Phyllis Jenkins, M.A., LMFT, CGC; Anne Teachworth, M.A., CGC, CPC

 

Workshop 99: Ending: When It's Hard to Say Goodbye

Jeffrey Mendell, M.D., CGP; Marsha Vannicelli, Ph.D., CGP, FAGPA

 

Workshop 100: Mentalizing with Professionals: A Psychiatric Rehabilitation Approach

Tammy Fountain, M.A., LPC, ATR-BC, CGP; Alinda Gary, M.D.

 

Thursday Sessions and Workshops

 

Friday Sessions and Workshops