"Beginning the Treatment on a Personal Note:

Creating Emotional Connection"; and

"How I Work with Unconscious Process"

Donnel B. Stern, PhD

Sunday, May 18, 2025

9:00am-12:00pm EST

Live Interactive via Zoom

Zoom Invite Will be Sent to Registrants on May 17, 2025

3 CEs offered for Counselors, Psychologists and Social Workers

Co-Sponsored with NJSCSW (New Jersey Society for Clinical Social Work)

CEs accepted by many states - check with your local boards.

Donnel B. Stern, PhD

Donnel B. Stern, PhD is Training and Supervising Analyst at the William Alanson White Institute; and Adjunct Clinical Professor of Psychology and Clinical Consultant at the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy. He is Founder and Editor of a book series at Routledge, "Psychoanalysis in a New Key,” which has 90 books in print. He is the former Editor-in-Chief of the journal Contemporary Psychoanalysis. He has published psychoanalytic articles and book chapters since he began to write about unformulated experience in his first article in 1983. He has authored five psychoanalytic books and co-edited four others. His first authored book was Unformulated Experience: From Dissociation to Imagination in Psychoanalysis (1983), which was followed by Partners in Thought: Working with Unformulated Experience, Dissociation, and Enactment (2010); Relational Freedom: Emergent Properties of the Interpersonal Field (2015); and The Infinity of the Unsaid: Unformulated Experience, Language, and the Nonverbal (2019). His most recent book, which appeared in September, is On Coming into Possession of Oneself: Transformations of the Interpersonal Field (2024). His four co-edited books are presentations of the theory and practice of interpersonal psychoanalysis. Dr. Stern speaks, teaches, and supervises around the world and is in private practice in New York City. He works with adults and adolescents, conducts supervision, and leads private study groups.

Workshop Description

This program builds on graduate education by contributing advanced clinical understanding and relational psychoanalytic alternatives for clinical practice.

In this way, participants will be able to enhance their treatment of patients, benefitting their patients and any of the general public who seek psychotherapy or psychoanalysis. While this program does not explicitly address issues of culture, race, gender, and sexual orientation, anyone practicing according to the principles being taught in this program will find the revelation and discussion of those matters to be unavoidable and important parts of what they and their patients address.

Learning Objectives

At the conclusion of this workshop, participants will be able to:

1.     Participants will be able to explain and apply the concept of unformulated experience.

2.     Participants will be able to describe and apply in their practices a relational model of beginning the treatment.

3.     Participants will be able to explain and apply in their practices the concept of mutual dissociative enactment.

Target Audience:  Suitable for Psychologists, Social Workers, Licensed Professional Counselors, Psychiatrists, Advanced Practice Nurses, Graduate Students, Marriage and Family Therapists.

Level of Sophistication: This is an introductory level post-graduate continuing education program suitable for all levels of training.

ADA accommodations available upon request (Required at least 14 days prior to course start date).

3 Continuing Education Credits

Counselors:

Counselors: CPPNJ has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 6863. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. CPPNJ is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.

Psychologists:

Psychologists:  CPPNJ is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. CPPNJ maintains responsibility for this program and its contents.

NY Psychologists: Center for Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis of New Jersey is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Psychology as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychologists #PSY-0165. 

Social Workers:

Social Workers: Center for Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis of New Jersey is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0757.

The New Jersey Board of Social Work Examiners, and some other state boards, recognize CEs approved by the New York State Education Department.

COST: Members $75/$90 pre-registration by May 1; CPPNJ Candidates: $45; Students with ID: $15; Non-Members $120/$135 pre-registration by May 1.

Cancellations made prior to three days (72 hours) before the event will receive a full refund minus a $25 administrative fee.  Cancellations made less than 72 hours before the event will be given a refund of half of the registration fees. Refunds will NOT be granted for cancellation requests made on the day of the event.

There is no potential conflict of interest and/or commercial support for this CE event.



For more information or registration, please call 973-912-4432, visit us online at www.cppnj.org, contact us by email at cppnj@cppnj.org or at CPPNJ 235 Main St, Madison, NJ 07940