301 S. Livingston Ave., Livingston, NJ 07039

www.acapnj.org

ACAP/ICPS Friday Night Series

Friday, February 17, 7pm - 8:45pm



On Zoom – 2 CEs

Seminar is no charge - $20 donation suggested.

$17 administrative fee for each CE certificate.

While "aha" moments and dramatic breakthroughs are often a part of good-enough therapy, of motivational or reparative interventions, we all have the experience that real change can take a while. It can take a long while, at times! 

There is likely a complex interplay between conscious and unconscious processes: recognizing patterns; understanding historical origins; allowing feelings and ideas into awareness; mentalizing; taking risks within the therapeutic dyad and outside; identifying with the warm, curious, non-judgmental stance of the therapist; and more. 

In this talk, Dr. Zellner will offer neuropsychoanalytically-informed ideas about some processes involved with working through difficult moments, bringing together ideas from affective neuroscience, predictive coding, intervention design, and more. She will discuss ways to consider cases from a neuropsychoanalytic perspective, and how it can impact both the clinician and the course of therapy. You will be able to walk away from this talk with new ideas and tools to immediately apply in your work.

Maggie received her Ph.D. in neuropsychology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York in 2008, doing research on the dopamine system in reward learning, and completed her postdoctoral work with Donald Pfaff at The Rockefeller University. 

Maggie has been active with the International Neuropsychoanalysis Society since its founding in 2000, and is now the Executive Director of the Neuropsychoanalysis Foundation in New York City. She is also the co-editor of Neuropsychoanalysis, an interdisciplinary journal for psychoanalysis and the neurosciences.

She has developed a specialty in teaching neuroscience to psychotherapists, and has a reputation for being able to describe complex and foreign information about the brain in terms that therapists can understand and relate to. She now takes every opportunity to link complex intrapsychic processes to underlying brain mechanisms, so she gets to use terms like “object relations” and “orbitofrontal cortex” in the same sentence.

Contact Dr. Zellner:

[email protected]

Moderator:

Patricia Bratt, PhD

is a psychoanalyst and psychotherapist, practicing in Livingston, NJ and NYC. She is a Director of ACAP, its Trauma and Resilience Programs, and ICPS. Dr. Bratt is President of the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis (NAAP), and of the NJ State Advisory Committee for Psychoanalysis. Her publications include, "Consulting the Patient: The Art of Being Together”, and Mutual Growth in the Psychotherapeutic Relationship: Emotional Resilience, published by Routledge. 

www.patbratt.com [email protected]

Course Objectives – Participants will learn to:

1)   Identify main sites in the brain that impact or control emotions and behavior.

2)  Describe at least two ways in which understanding the relationship between the brain and the mind can help clinicians develop treatment plans.

3)  Recognize ways integrating neuroscience and dynamic therapy may impact the therapist's responses.

4)  Develop a new pattern of listening that enables development of more successful therapeutic and motivational interventions.

For questions or information email Susan Carnes at [email protected] or call 862-216-2400

 For CE Information- visit our website, https://acapnj.org/ce-information/

There is a $17.00 Fee for CE Certification processing.

Counselors, Art Therapists, Marriage/Family Counselors, LPC’s, NJ Social Workers

NY Social Workers, NJ Psychoanalysts, NY Psychoanalysts, NY Creative Art Therapists

Psychologists, Nurses, Coaches

We are pleased to welcome NAAP as cosponsor of this event.

Check the NAAP website for info on all NAAP does for the profession

www.naap.org

Learn about ACAP's CE programs and nationally accredited psychoanalytic program at

www.acapnj.org

Learn about ICPS's regionally accredited MAs in Clinical Mental Health Counseling

and in Psychoanalysis at

icps.bgsp.edu