6th Annual Residents' Conference on Working with Complex, Difficult-to-Treat Patients

This conference, designed for advanced psychiatric residents (PGY3, PGY4, and Fellows), is intended to enhance participants’ capacities to work effectively with difficult-to-treat patients through the integration of psychodynamically-informed and patient-centered perspectives into diverse aspects of the patient’s care. The knowledge, skills, and attitudes of psychodynamic psychiatry are not only useful in the psychotherapy of patients, but also foster leadership skills for addressing systems enactments in relation to challenging patients, and can markedly enhance effectiveness of pharmacotherapy.

10:30-11:00 Introduction, David Mintz, MD

11:00-12:00 A Mentalizing Stance in Psychiatry, Edward Shapiro, M.D.

12:00-1:00 Setting the Frame in Psychotherapy: Roles, Tasks, Boundaries, Jane G. Tillman, PhD, ABPP

01:00-01:10 Discussion

01:10-02:00 Lunch

02:00 -03:00 Impasse in Psychotherapy, Daniel Knauss, PsyD, ABPP

03:00 - 3:10 Discussion

03:10-04:00 Small Groups–applying our learning

10:30-11:30 The Management &Uses of Countertransference, Erin Seery, M.D.

11:30-11:40 Discussion

11:40 12:40 A Psychodynamic Systems Approach to Working with Complex Patients: System Enactment, Cathleen Morey, Ph.D. & Samar Habl, MD

12:40-12:50 Discussion

12:50-01:30 Lunch

01:30-02:30 Psychodynamic Psychopharmacology, David Mintz, MD

02:30-02:45 Discussion

02:45-03:30 Small Groups–applying our learning

03:30-03:45 Lessons Learned, Concluding Remarks, and Feedback