Spend a day with internationally renowned clinician, teacher, author and prolific researcher Dr. Allan Abbass. In this rare Los Angeles appearance, Dr. Abbass will elucidate the powerful metapsychology of ISTDP through lecture, discussion and frequent demonstration using his videotaped sessions. Highlighting material from his new book Reaching Through Resistance, he will offer deep insight into many vital ISTDP constructs including how to:

• Rapidly assess unconscious anxiety
• Regulate anxiety and build anxiety tolerance
• Utilize the techniques of pressure, bracing and recapitulation
• Work with the neurobiological pathways of core emotions
• Activate conscious and unconscious therapeutic alliances

His presentation will enhance your recognition, differentiation, and treatment of a broad spectrum of patients with emphasis on patients with personality disorders and fragile character structure. A decidedly gifted teacher, Dr. Abbass will clarify and make accessible often misunderstood intricacies of ISTDP.

Goals and Objectives

1. Understand foundational theoretical constructs of ISTDP with emphasis on resistance, fragility and personality disorders
2. Learn a rapid approach to assessing personality structure to inform treatment
3. Implement unique ISTDP interventions

When: Friday, Sept 16, 2016, 9:00 AM to 4:15 PM

Where: New Center for Psychoanalysis

             2014 Sawtelle Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90026

Follow the whisper from your unconscious and register today!

Registration Fees:

• General Admission: $135 for mental health professionals and physicians
• Trainee Admission: $40 for graduate students, medical students, interns and residents
• Group Discount Admission: $125 per person for 3 or more concurrent registrants

Registration Procedure: Go to www.eventbrite.com. In the search engine for Browse Events enter “Los Angeles ISTDP”. The course will appear. Click on the title. You will see an information page including a map. To register click on the green TICKETS box. You may also register at the door.

Additional Information:

• As there will be numerous video presentations from patient sessions, attendees are limited to mental health professionals or trainees, and recording of the presentation is not permitted.
• The lunch break is from 12:00 to 1:15 PM. Lunch is on your own. There are numerous restaurants within walking distance.
• The New Center for Psychoanalysis’s parking lot is in the back. The entrance off Beloit Ave. Look for the signage for NCP to identify the lot. There is usually free parking along Beloit Ave. and paid parking at the Olympic Collection, 11301 Olympic Blvd. on the northwest corner of Sawtelle and Olympic Blvd., south of NCP.
• Full refunds prior to 9/9/16, minus a $25 processing fee. No refunds after Friday 9/9/16.

Additional Questions:

If you have any questions you may call: Jackie Meltz, Psy.D., L.C.S.W, (310) 963-2541 or Bruce Spring, M.D., (323) 552-3320.

CE Credit: 6 hours for those who attend the entire presentation. Sign-in and sign-out required.

CPA-OPD Accredited: Alan Karbelnig, Ph.D., ABPP, is approved by the California Psychological Association (CPA) #KAR0005) to provide continuing professional education for Psychologists, Marriage and Family Therapists (MFTs) and Licensed Clinical Social Workers (LCSW). Alan Karbelnig, Ph.D., ABPP maintains responsibility for this program and its contents.

CME Credit: 6 hours. Available through co-sponsorship with the Washington School of

Psychiatry

Consider these other ISTDP-related events:

• Abbass will also present a lecture on treatment resistant depression at the New Center for Psychoanalysis on Thursday, Sept 15th at 8:00 pm
• The annual Susan Warren Warshow (DEFT Institute) and Jon Frederickson (author: Co-Creating Change) weekend: Sept 17-18. For more information: (https://insightcenter.org/schedule/penetrating-defenses/)

Sponsored by the West Coast ISTDP Consortium (WIC)

WIC is an interest group of clinicians engaged in learning and advancing ISTDP