Dallas Society for Psychoanalytic Psychology
FALL WORKSHOP
 

Saturday April 24, 2004

Texas Scottish Rite Children’s Hospital

WORKSHOP LEADER

Irwin Z. Hoffman, PhD

Dr. Hoffman is a faculty member and supervising analyst at the Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis and is lecturer in Psychiatry at the University of Illinois College of Medicine. He has served on the editorial boards of Psychoanalytic Dialogues and the International Journal of Psychoanalysis, as an editorial reader for the Psychoanalytic Quarterly, and as corresponding editor for Contemporary Psychoanalysis. In his book, Ritual and Spontaneity in the Psychoanalytic Process: A Dialectical-Constructivist View (The Analytic Press, 1998), Dr. Hoffman has collected and revised many of his previously published articles and added several new essays that further develop and illustrate his “constructivist” point of view. These new essays emphasize the implications of mortality and other aspects of the human condition as they bear upon the psychoanalytic situation. What has emerged as a central theme in Dr. Hoffman’s work is the importance of “dialectical thinking” in which many apparent opposites (ritual and spontaneity, meaning and mortality, construction and discovery) are seen as complementary and interdependent. Dr. Hoffman is in private practice in psychoanalytic psychotherapy and psychoanalysis in Chicago.

Case Presentation
Joan Berger, PhD

Dr. Berger is a licensed clinical psychologist and certified psychoanalyst who treats adults, adolescents, and children and provides consultation to other mental health professionals in her private practice. She is a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at UT Southwestern Medical School. Dr. Berger received her doctorate from New York University and her psychoanalytic training from the Dallas Psychoanalytic Institute.
 

• Become familiar with dialectical constructivism
• Be able to differentiate a traditional psychoanalytic view of free association from a dialectical-constructivist view of free association
• Learn how dialectical constructivism is applied clinically

This workshop is approved for 5 continuing medical education credits by UT Southwestern Medical School at Dallas. The workshop is also approved for 5 continuing education credits, category 1, by the Texas State Board of Examiners of Psychologists. Through DSPP, continuing education credits are also approved for Social Workers by the Texas State Board of Examiners of Social Workers and for LPC’s by the Texas State Board of Examiners of Licensed Professional Counselors.

ABOUT DSPP

The Dallas Society for Psychoanalytic Psychology (DSPP) is a local chapter of the Division of Psychoanalysis, Division 39, of the American Psychological Association. Founded in 1983, DSPP directs its efforts to exploring and promoting psychoanalytic theory and its applications as a basis for understanding human experience and for various forms of psychotherapy. DSPP’s members come from a number of mental health fields and include counselors, nurses, psychiatrists, psychoanalysts, psychologists, social workers, and students. DSPP emphasizes the application of psychoanalytic theory to a variety of clinical settings.

Location and Directions

Texas Scottish Rite Children’s Hospital
The Auditorium

2222 Wellborn St. Dallas, Texas 75219

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For additional information call
Steve Patrick, PsyD at 972-934-1485 ext. 5

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