7th Annual Residents' Conference on Working with Complex, Difficult-to-Treat Patients

This conference, designed for advanced psychiatric residents (PGY2s, PGY3s, PGY4s, 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 Taking Charge of the Treatment Frame, Edward Shapiro, MD

12:00 - 12:10 Break

12:10-1:10 Seeing the Whole Patient: Integrating Psychodynamic Insights into Case Formulation and Treatment, Jane G. Tillman, PhD, ABPP

1:10-2:00 Lunch

2:00 -3:00 Impasse in Psychotherapy, Daniel Knauss, PsyD, ABPP

3:00 - 3:10 Break

3:10-4:00 Small Groups–applying our learning

11:00-12:00 The Uses of Countertransference, Erin Seery, MD

12:00-1:00 A Psychodynamic Systems Approach to Working with Complex Patients: System Enactment, Samar Habl, MD

1:00-2:00 Lunch

2:00-3:00 Psychodynamic Psychopharmacology, David Mintz, MD

3:00-3:10 Break

3:10-3:50 Small Groups–applying our learning

3:50-4:00 Lessons Learned, Concluding Remarks, and Feedback