Date: Sunday, October 15, 2017 from 10am to 4pm (Lunch Included)
Location: Doubletree Hotel, 2117 Route 4 Eastbound, Fort Lee, New Jersey
Description: This conference is offered in conjunction with the publishing of the ICSA book, Cult Recovery: A Clinician’s Guide to Working with Former Members and Families. The book and conference will provide mental health professionals with an understanding of the world of former cult members, cult leaders, and the cult environment. These dynamics also are applicable to those who become involved in any high-demand situation, such as gangs, terrorist organizations, and cases of Parental Alienation Syndrome. The presenters (Steve Eichel, Lorna Goldberg, William Goldberg, Shelly Rosen, and Daniel Shaw) are chapter authors who will provide participants with a road map for understanding the environment of coercive control and for learning how this population can be helped to gain insight into themselves and their experience. Participants will be offered therapeutic approaches for those who have been harmed.
Program
9:15 – 10:00 a.m. Registration
10:00 – 10:15 a.m. Welcome (Lorna Goldberg)
10:15 – 11:00 a.m. Helping Former Cult Members (Lorna Goldberg)
11:00 – 12:00 p.m. Sex Therapy with Former Cult Members (Steve Eichel)
12:00 – 1:30 p.m. Luncheon Talk: The Relational System of the Traumatizing
Narcissist (Daniel Shaw)
1:30 - 2:30 p.m. Cults: A Natural Disaster – Looking at Cult Involvement
Through a Trauma Lens (Shelly Rosen)
2:30 - 3:30 p.m. Working With Families (Bill Goldberg)
3:30 – 4:00 p.m. Questions
CE's: An application has been made for consideration of 6 clinical CE credits for this course.
The Institute for Psychoanalytic Studies and the International Cultic Studies Association are cosponsors of this program. This cosponsorship has been approved by NBCC. The Institute for Psychoanalytic Studies is an NBCC Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 6334. The ACEP solely is responsible for this program, including the awarding of NBCC credit.
Please contact 201-457-0809 for more information on NJ Course Approval.
Learning Objectives:
1. Participants will be able to list several key tactics of a group or individual who uses coercive persuasion.
2. Participants will be able to describe how the restrictions of cult life can impact an individual’s sexual life.
3. Participants will develop skills to utilize a therapeutic approach to help former cult members and their families.
4. Participants will be able to describe several characteristics of a traumatizing narcissist.
Registration
Fees: Regular Registration: $150. (After 8/31/17: $175).
Members of ICSA or IPS: $100. (After 8/31/17: $125).
IPS Candidates or Students with ID: $60. (After 8/31/17: $75.00).
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Speakers
Steve K. D. Eichel, PhD, ABPP, ICSA President, is Past-President of the American Academy of Counseling Psychology and the Greater Philadelphia Society of Clinical Hypnosis. In 1983, Dr. Eichel co-founded the Re-Entry Therapy, Information & Referral Network (RETIRN), one of the field's oldest continuing private providers of psychological services to families and individuals harmed by cultic practices.
Lorna Goldberg, LCSW, PsyA, Board member and past president of ICSA, is a licensed clinical social worker and psychoanalyst in private practice and Director, Institute for Psychoanalytic Studies. In 1976, she and her husband, William Goldberg, began facilitating a support group for former cult members that continues to meet on a monthly basis in their home in Englewood, New Jersey in 1989.
William Goldberg, LCSW, PsyA, is a clinical social worker and psychoanalyst with over forty years’ experience working with former cult members. In 2007, Bill retired from the Rockland County, NY Department of Mental Health He is presently an adjunct professor in the social work and social science departments of Dominican College and he is on the faculty of the Institute for Psychoanalytic Studies.
Shelly Rosen, LCSW, is a psychotherapist with 35 years of clinical experience. In the 1980s and early 1990s she worked at the JBFCS Cult Clinic. Shelly teaches trauma-informed psychotherapy at the Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy, the Training Institute for Mental Health, and the National Institute for the Psychotherapies.
Daniel Shaw, LCSW, is the author of Traumatic Narcissism: Relational Systems of Subjugation, published by Routledge. He is a psychoanalyst in private practice; Faculty and Clinical Supervisor, The National Institute for the Psychotherapies (NIP), New York, NY; Clinical Supervisor and Faculty, Westchester Center for the Study of Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy, NY.
