Dialectical Behavior Therapy for Analytic Therapists
Mondays, March 18, 2019 to May 13, 2019 at 1:00 pm – 2:50 pm
Dialectical Behavior Therapy for Analytic Therapists
The National Institute for the Psychotherapies
250 West 57th Street, Suite 501
New York, NY 10107
This course will introduce foundational theoretical and clinical elements of DBT. We will focus on learning to use DBT clinically and on how to integrate it into psychodynamic and psychoanalytic treatment. We will also explore overlaps between DBT and Relational thinking as well as ways that these two quite different approaches to clinical work complement each other.
We will learn ways of thinking about patients and clinical strategies drawn from DBT that while outside the usual boundaries of psychoanalytic work can greatly enhance therapeutic action. Among these are self-regulation skills, mindfulness, DBT validation and dialectical strategies and the incorporation into treatment of ideas from Buddhism. We will additionally consider how to integrate DBT -related clinical structure into psychoanalytic work. Our clinical focus will be both on the self-injuring and suicidal patients for whom DBT was originally designed, and on patients suffering with anxiety, depression, trauma, substance abuse, and difficulties with impulse control..
In class we will learn DBT techniques, discuss clinical cases and learn ways to move seamlessly between DBT and psychodynamic work. We will consider cases both from the instructors practice and from seminar participants’ clinical work. Additionally, there will be an experiential component to the class, as we practice mindfulness and other DBT skills together.
The readings are drawn from the standard texts in DBT, clinical papers on integration, and some psychoanalytic papers that can expand understanding of the overlaps between the two approaches . Authors to be read include Linehan, Koerner, Levy , and Lyons.
This course can be taken as a stand-alone course, or as a required part of NIP’s Certificate Program in Psychotherapy Integration. The course will be taught at NIP in eight seminar-style classes, each lasting one hour and fifty minutes. Class meetings are held on Mondays, March 18,25; April 1,8,15,,22,29; May 13 from 1:00 to 2:50 pm.
Students will be charged $600.
This class is approved for 14.0 CE contact hours for psychologists, social workers, and licensed psychoanalysts.
Learning Objectives
The learning objectives include:
Understand the basic tenets DBT and how they overlap with and differ from the basic tenets of psychoanalysis.
Learn to use a variety of DBT techniques, including distress tolerance skills, validation skills, and Mindfulness skills that target specific difficulties, including anxiety, depression, and impulse control.
Demonstrate skill in identifying when and how to integrate DBT techniques into psychoanalytic practice.
Lisa Lyons, Ph. D. is on the faculties of the Stephen Mitchell Relational Studies Center, the NIP Four Year Psychoanalytic Program and Program in Integrative Psychotherapy, and the ICP Four Year program. She has published and presented on Integrating Relational Psychoanalysis and Dialectical Behavior Therapy, the Intergenerational Transmission of Trauma, Analytic Love, and Psychoanalysis and Culture. She was trained in DBT by Dr. Marsha Linehan, and for six years directed the DBT program at Montefiore Medical Center. She is in private practice in New York and Teaneck, New Jersey.
Continuing Education
This event is approved for 14.0 CE contact hours for psychologists, social workers, and licensed psychoanalysts:
In order to receive CE credits, you cannot arrive more than 15 minutes late to each session or leave 15 minutes to each session. If you miss one session, you will receive partial credit at the discretion of the instructor. No credits will be given if more than one session is missed.
This live in-person course is approved for CE credits for Pscyhologists, Psychoanalysts, LMSWs and LCSWs. This course in not approved for LMHCs.
The National Institute for the Psychotherapies is approved by the American Psychological Association to offer continuing education credits for psychologists. The National Institute for the Psychotherapies maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
The National Institute for the Psychotherapies is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0018.
The National Institute for the Psychotherapies is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychoanalysts #Psyan-0004.
Refunds, & Cancellation Policy
No refunds for partial attendance. Refunds will be given up to a week prior to the first session.