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We're pleased to announce a special program cosponsored by NCP and the Department of Psychoanalytic Education of the American Psychoanalytic Association.

In its efforts to promote excellence in psychoanalytic education, the DPE sponsors a workshop on important and/or controversial issues in psychoanalytic education annually in different regions of the United States. It hopes that these workshops will enable psychoanalytic educators and students as well as all mental health professionals interested in applying psychoanalytic ideas to deepen their knowledge and skills through exposure to experts in the field.

Most mental health professionals learned how to supervise by emulating their best supervisors and avoiding identification with those they regarded as not so helpful. In this workshop, entitled Beginning and Never Endings: Supervision and Consultation in Clinical Practice, analysts and other mental health professionals will gather for a stimulating daylong workshop to share various points of view on supervision and on being supervised.

Experts including Glen Gabbard, MD, Howard Bacal, MD, Richard Tuch, MD, Kyana Barakatt, PsyD, Michele Gomes, PsyD, and Eliane Hary, PhD, will make formal presentations that will seek to capture contemporary thinking on this linchpin of clinical education. Among the provocative and challenging topics will be:

• The disparity between what really happens in an analytic hour and what is reported to the supervisor
  
  
• Skewing the clinical material to what one thinks the supervisor wants to hear
  
  
• The trainee’s need to take care of the supervisor (or at times to keep him/her awake)
  
  
• The need for an in vivo supervisor
  
  
• The lack of clarity in the border between supervision and treatment
  
  
• How the evaluative role of the supervisor may discourage open sharing of struggles by the supervisee
  
  
• The different models of supervision in use today 

Save the date! Registration opens soon.