Intensifying and Integrating Deep Affect
DYNAMIC EMOTION-FOCUSED THERAPY (DEFT)

Blending the Best of Empirically-Based Attachment Approaches
 

Videotape Analysis, Skill-Building Role Plays, Lectures and Discussion

with

Susan Warren Warshow, LCSW, MFT

10 Saturdays in 2012 from 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 P.M.
February 11, March 10, April 14, and May 12, June 23, July 14,
September 8, October 13 and November 10, December 8

Skirball Cultural Center
2701 N. Sepulveda Blvd., Room 160, Los Angeles, CA 90049
Space is limited.
Buffet luncheon provided.
 

CLICK HERE for registration form

Contact Susan Warshow at swarshow@me.com
or call 818-703-1145 for more information.

Participants will discover a DEFT approach that is accelerated, affect and somatic-focused, experiential and psychodynamic and will have the option to pursue three levels of certification over the course of three years (see below). The skills to be taught produce healing through profoundly intimate, attachment experiences in treatment that transform the relationship to self and others. Clinical video recordings will illustrate the moment-to-moment tracking of anxiety, shame, guilt, and defense that enables the patient to experience and integrate exiled emotional states.
 
The theoretical principles that inspire this course have significant empirical validation with even the most difficult patients. Though the material is complex, the instructors make it “user-friendly” by breaking it down into digestible components and create fun in the process (it helps to be learning in a space that is adjacent to a lovely patio and an exquisite lily pond!).
 
Participants will learn to rapidly identify defenses and help their patients to relinquish them using a compassionate style that incorporates a unique blend of powerful elements. Another signature aspect of this course is the instructors’ attention to the well-being of therapists learning to master challenging new skills. 
 
“Affect phobia,” a term coined by Leigh McCullough, Ph.D., afflicts therapists as well as patients. To desensitize clinicians to their own tendencies to avoid intense affects, the instructors will create a supportive environment that helps to develop “warrior therapists,” able to shepherd their patients over frightening emotional terrain as they face intimidating forces of resistance.
 
Non-verbal signals that heighten attachment will be demonstrated, including attuned body language, facial expression, vocal inflection, and genuine compassion transmitted through gaze. Verbal expressions, such as the use of vivid speech and metaphor, help the patient experience a felt connection to the therapeutic process and will also be illustrated.

CURRICULUM:
 
Each session will include videotape microanalysis, comprehensive skill-building role plays, lectures and discussion.

Topics will include:

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:

Clinicians who attend this workshop will be able to:

Facilitate alliances with anxious and self-destructive patients

This ten-session workshop is intended for licensed clinical psychologists, psychotherapists, psychiatrists, and registered mental health interns.

Faculty:

Susan Warren Warshow, LCSW, MFT, and Board Certified Diplomate, is a national and international presenter and has published several journal articles on short-term psychodynamic treatment. She is on the faculty of the ISTDP Institute, the Southern California Society for ISTDP and is an IEDTA-Accredited Teacher/Supervisor. She has supervision groups and practices individual and marital therapy in Woodland Hills.

CERTIFICATIONS

Three levels of certification are available through the DEFT program and participants will also be eligible for additional certification from the ISTDP Institute (see below).

After completing Level 1, the first 10 month program, all participants will receive a Certificate of Curriculum Completion in DEFT.

Clinicians who continue to Level 2 and complete a second 10 month block will be eligible for a Certificate of Competence in DEFT.  This certificate requires submission of an audio-visual vignette (30 minutes in length) showing qualifying defense work with a moderately fragile or moderately resistant patient.

Clinicians who continue to Level 3 and complete a third 10 month block will be eligible to become a Certified DEFT Therapist.  This certification requires submission of two audio-visual vignettes (30 to 45 minutes in length) showing qualifying work with an extremely “fragile” patient as well as a highly “resistant” patient.

The ISTDP Institute will also provide a Certificate of Curriculum Completion in “Intensifying and Integrating Deep Affect” to participants who complete the three year program outlined above. In addition, participants are eligible to receive a “Certificate of Competency” from the ISTDP Institute upon approval of qualifying videotape (details to be announced).

VIDEOTAPE SUPERVISION IS STRONGLY ENCOURAGED BUT OPTIONAL

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FEE: 10 sessions at $1950.00 (195.00 per day) before January 15, 2012; 10 sessions at $2025.00 thereafter.  Lunch and materials will be included; additional training materials are optional and will carry a fee. Payment plans can be arranged in cases of financial necessity.

LOCATION: Skirball Cultural Center 2701 North Sepulveda Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90049

REGISTRATION: Please contact swarshow@me.com for more details.

CANCELLATIONS AND REFUNDS:  Full refund up to January 6, 2012 minus a $25 fee to cover administrative costs. No refunds after that date.
Important Disclosure and Information for Participants: None of the planners or presenters of this program have any relevant financial relationships to disclose.

CE Units: 65 per 10 month program. The International Experiential Dynamic Therapy Association (Provider #4796) is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. IEDTA maintains responsibility for the Program and its content. Susan Warren Warshow (Provider #PCE 3853) is approved by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences to provide continuing education units for MFTs and LCSWs in California.

This activity is co-sponsored by the IEDTA. IEDTa is approved by the
American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for
psychologists. IEDTA maintains responsibility for the program and it's
content.
 

Intensifying Deep Affective Processing
An Experiential Extended Workshop for Psychotherapists

With Clinical Video Illustrations and Skill Building, Role-Playing Practice

Presented by
Susan Warren Warshow, LCSW
 

Dates:
5 Saturdays: August 13th, Sept. 10th,
Oct. 15th and Nov 12, and January 14, 2012
11:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Buffet lunch and materials included
 

Location:
Skirball Cultural Center
2701 N. Sepulveda Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90049

CLICK HERE for registration form

Contact Susan Warshow at swarshow@me.com
or call 818-703-1145 for more information.

This five-part workshop will provide therapists with clear, practical teaching in the application of an accelerated emotion-focused dynamic psychotherapy. It will include role-playing of specific interventions for different phases of treatment with a broad spectrum of psychoneurotic disorders. Clinical video recordings will illustrate a transformational process that enables patients to experience their deepest emotions and to integrate the avoided parts of the self.

The course is informed by the discoveries of H. Davanloo, the creator of ISTDP, and includes powerful elements that can be integrated into other therapies. This model has empirical validation with even the most difficult patients. A greater capacity for emotional intimacy and successful attachment is a highly valued benefit to most patients.

Topics will include:

• Identifying Goals for Treatment
• Forming Collaborative Alliance
• Strengthening Self-Reflective Capacity
• Maintaining Affective and Intrapsychic Focus
• Theory and Management of Anxiety, Shame and Guilt
• Rapid Identification and Management of Defenses
• Role-playing and group process.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:

Clinicians who attend this workshop will be able to:

• Facilitate alliances with anxious and self-destructive clients/patients.

• Help patients turn against their resistance to treatment.
• Identify the action tendencies of core emotions.

• Help patients defeat the toxic effects of anxiety, shame and guilt.

• Choose interventions weighted toward feeling instead of cognition.
• Identify specific defenses in verbal and non-verbal communications.

• Use "Response to Intervention" to guide treatment.

• Utilize the Triangles of Conflict and Person.

• Recognize indicators of counter-transference difficulties.

This five-session workshop is intended for licensed clinical psychologists, psychotherapists, psychiatrists, and registered mental health interns.

Faculty:

Susan Warren Warshow, LCSW, MFT is a Board Certified Diplomate and is on the faculty of the Southern California Society for Intensive Short- Term Dynamic Psychotherapy and is an IEDTA-accredited teacher and supervisor. She is an international presenter and conducts seminars, training programs and private supervision for professionals in the L.A. area. She has published several journal articles on ISTDP.

FEE: $1000.00

CANCELLATIONS AND REFUNDS: Full refund up to July 23, 2011 minus $25 administrative costs. No refunds after that period.
Important Disclosure: Information for all learners: None of the planners or presenters of this program have any relevant financial relationships to disclose.

CE Units: 20 continuing education units for MFTs and LCSWs in California.
CEU’s for Ph.D.’s to be determined.

CLICK HERE for registration form
 

Monthly Mondays with Susan
Supervision/Training group in ISTDP/EDT

21241 Ventura Blvd., Suite 251
Woodland Hills, CA 91364
818-703-1145

12:30-2:30 p.m.

Next meeting March 28, 2011 and every 4 weeks thereafter.
$100.00 per meeting.

Washington School of Psychiatry
6th Annual Summer Immersion Course
Intensive Short Term Dynamic Psychotherapy

June 5 -10, 2011

Graves Mountain Lodge, Syria, Virginia
22743

Featuring Susan Warshow, MSW and Jon Frederickson, MSW, Chair

Imagine you are studying with highly skilled Short-Term 
Dynamic Therapy clinicians with a group of devoted students, surrounded by the mountains of the Shenandoah National Park. You are able to study videotapes and discuss clinical issues all day long and party all night with your newfound friends. Surrounded by nature, in the early evening you watch black bears amble down from the mountains to nibble cherries from the nearby orchard. You sit on the porch in front of your room gazing over the mountain valleys watching the sunset. 
This is not a fantasy. It is the School of the Washington Scholl of Psychiatry Intensive Short Term Dynamic Psychotherapy Training Program. Come join us for our annual intensive training week.

Awakening Hope to Defeat Resistance
By Susan Warshow, MSW

People often come to us in a state of defeat, skepticism and doubt that we can help them. Disappointing prior therapies and aborted efforts at self-improvement may cause them to ask, “What will be different this time?” “I have nothing left.” “I feel empty.” “What can you do?” Suffering is second nature like a parasitic vine attached to an otherwise healthy tree. Yet as we practice ISTDP
and heighten awareness of the perpetrator system (toxic anxiety, guilt, shame and defense), we often see hope and choice spontaneously and breathtakingly emerge. Hope is not as an end point but is a dynamic process that both initiates and propels therapeutic movement.

J. Weinberger’s review of hundreds of outcome studies tells us that “revival of hope” is among the top curative factors. What occurs both internally and within the therapeutic relationship to help generate hope? Hope surfaces in a millisecond and can easily be undetected. How do we rapidly identify it and mine the therapeutic opportunities that hope presents?

Mobilizing a Therapeutic Alliance
By Jon Fredrickson, MSW

How can we mobilize the conscious and unconscious therapeutic alliances with ISTDP if the patient unconsciously attempts to establish a misalliance? How do we help the patient see how she treats herself cruelly as her molesting father did? We will show how to address defenses and mobilize her conscious therapeutic alliance. Also, we will focus on how to recognize and amplify signals from the unconscious therapeutic alliance to grab hold of what is healthy in the patient. And finally, we will show how to help the patient turn against identification with her molesting father so she can face her rage instead.

Location: Graves Mountain Lodge, Syria, Virginia
22743 (www.gravesmountain.com)

Fee: $1700 includes tuition, lodging and meals. Space is limited. Your space is reserved once we receive your fee.

Registration: Contact Debbie Schechtman at dschechtman@wspdc.org  For more information, contact Jon Fredrickson at jfredrickson@verizon.net

Presenters:

Jon Frederickson, MSW, is the co-chair of the ISTDP training program at the Washington School of Psychiatry, chair of the ISTDP Core Training for the Norwegian Society for ISTDP and on the faculties of the Italian ISTDP Society and the Southern California Society for ISTDP.He is the author of/Psychodynamic Psychotherapy: Learning to Listen from Multiple Perspectives /and several articles on ISTDP.

Susan Warren Warshow, MSW
 

Intensifying Deep Affective Processing
An Extended Workshop for Psychotherapists

with Clinical Video Illustrations

Presented by
Thomas M. Brod, MD and Susan Warren Warshow, LCSW
 

Dates:
5 Saturdays: January 8, February 12, March 12,
April 2, and May 14, 2011
10:30-3:30 p.m.

Location:
Skirball Cultural Center
2701 N. Sepulveda Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90049

This five-part workshop will provide therapists with clear and practical teaching in the application of an accelerated affect-focused dynamic psychotherapy. Clinical video recordings will illustrate a transformational process that enables patients to experience their truest emotional self and also to integrate the avoided parts of the self. The course is informed by the discoveries of H. Davanloo, the creator of ISTDP, and includes powerful elements that can be integrated into other therapies.


This model has empirical validation with even the most difficult patients. A greater capacity for emotional intimacy and successful attachment is perhaps the most valued benefit to most patients.

There will be four hours of lectures, demonstrations and group discussion in each session; a buffet luncheon will be provided.

Topics will include:

• Identifying Goals for Treatment
• Forming a Collaborative Alliance
• Strengthening Self-Reflective Capacity
• Maintaining Affective and Intrapsychic Focus
• Theory and Management of Anxiety, Shame and Guilt
• Rapid Identification and Management of Defenses
• Training group process.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:

Clinicians who attend this workshop will be able to:

• Facilitate alliances with anxious and self-destructive clients/patients.

• Help patients turn against their resistance to treatment.
• Identify the action tendencies of core emotions.

• Help patients defeat the toxic effects of anxiety, shame and guilt.

• Choose interventions weighted toward feeling instead of cognition.
• Identify specific defenses in verbal and non-verbal communications.

• Use "Response to Intervention" to guide treatment.

• Utilize the triangles of conflict and person.

• Recognize indicators of counter-transference difficulties.

This five-session workshop is intended for licensed clinical psychologists, psychotherapists, psychiatrists, and registered mental health interns.

Faculty:

Thomas Brod, MD is Associate Clinical Professor, Psychiatry, Geffen UCLA School of Medicine, faculty New Center for Psychoanalysis, and in private practice. He has studied ISTDP with Robert Neborsky MD and Habib Davanloo MD; he is co-vice-president of the Southern Californian Society for ISTDP.

Susan Warren Warshow, LCSW, MFT is a Board Certified Diplomate and practices psychotherapy in Woodland Hills for individuals and couples. She conducts seminars, training programs and private supervision for professionals in the L.A./Pasadena area. She has presented internationally and published several journal articles on ISTDP.
 

5th International 
Experiential Dynamic Therapy Association (IEDTA) Conference

SHORT TERM DYNAMIC PSYCHOTHERAPY FOR 
TREATMENT-RESISTANT PATIENTS:

FROM FAILURE AND DESPAIR TO HEALTH AND HOPE

JULY 15th-18th, 2010 
University of British Columbia 
Vancouver , BC , Canada