• ABOUT MAPP

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    Education

    MAPP offers talks and workshops throughout the year that create a forum for lively scholarly and clinical exchange. Many programs offer Continuing Education credits for licensed mental health professionals. Our programs are theoretically stimulating and clinically relevant, focusing on issues of current interest in contemporary psychoanalysis and psychodynamic therapy. Recent local and out-of-town speakers have included Lew Aron, Jessica Benjamin, Dan Buie, Steven Cooper, Darlene Ehrenberg, Virginia Goldner, Irwin Hoffman, Lynne Layton, Karlen Lyons-Ruth, Owen Renik, Roy Schafer, Jonathan Slavin, David Doolittle, Nancy McWilliams, Hannah Levenson, Jonathan Shedler, Richard Schwartz, and many others.

    Community

    MAPP is a place where you can share your clinical work and affiliate in a collegial and informal setting. Join our mailing list to hear about upcoming events. Join our email referral group to receive referrals directly in your email inbox. Connect with other members through our reading groups, supervision/consultation group, discussion listserv, and on our board.

    Graduate Students and Trainees

    We are passionate about making psychoanalytic ideas accessible in plain English and offer many programs suitable for graduate students and trainees in the mental health professions.

     

    To stay updated about upcoming events, please join our mailing list.

  • MEMBERSHIP

    Fall 2024 Student Membership - FREE

    Fall 2024 Student Membership - FREE

    $0.00
    As a student member, you can attend all our events for the Fall of 2024 for free. For current undergraduates, graduate students and trainees, including LCSWs, who do not yet have their independent license as an LMHC, LICSW, Licensed Psychologist, etc.
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    Fall 2024 Early Career Membership - Half Price

    Fall 2024 Early Career Membership - Half Price

    $20.00
    MAPP is offering half price memberships for those who are currently not members but interested in becoming a member for the remainder of 2024. . For clinicians within 10 years of degree conferral.
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    Fall 2024 Regular Membership - Half Price

    Fall 2024 Regular Membership - Half Price

    $40.00
    MAPP is offering half price memberships for those who are currently not members but interested in becoming a member for the remainder of 2024.
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    Fall 2024 Sustaining Membership - Half Price

    Fall 2024 Sustaining Membership - Half Price

    $50.00
    MAPP is offering half price memberships for those who are currently not members but interested in becoming a member for the remainder of 2024. Support MAPP's mission of making psychodynamic ideas accessible to a wider audience, including our outreach efforts to graduate programs in counseling, social work and psychology in Massachusetts and surrounding states.
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  • MAPP PROGRAMS

    Fall 2024

     

    Psychedelics and Psychoanalysis

    Psychedelics and Psychoanalysis

    $0.00 - $75.00
    In this presentation, participants will learn about the major psychedelic agents being used and researched for use with mental health issues. Dr. Megan Rundel will explore the powerful links between psychedelics and psychoanalysis, including opening and working with the unconscious, non-ordinary states, and transference and countertransference. Dr. Megan Rundel will also discuss what analysts need to know about talking with patients interested in psychedelics, so participants can leave feeling well-informed and able to navigate this cutting-edge terrain.
    This event will be recorded. CEs are only given to those who attend live.
    Presented by Megan Rundel, PhD
    Saturday September 14, 2024 from 10:00am-1:15 pm
    Will be held on Zoom. CEs: 3
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    Losing the Thread: The Youth Mental Health Crisis from a Psychoanalytic Lens

    Losing the Thread: The Youth Mental Health Crisis from a Psychoanalytic Lens

    $0.00 - $35.00
    Youth in the United States today are increasingly unwell. The youth mental health crisis that began long before the pandemic of 2020 has been the subject of much epidemiological speculation. Often missing from these considerations are structural dynamics related to unconscious functioning. In presenting a novel exploration of the crisis, this talk will begin with Émile Durkheim’s landmark study Suicide, highlighting the sociological theories at its core. Then, the talk will continue its journey through Sigmund Freud and Jacques Lacan by placing Freud’s mythology in conversation with Lacan’s revision of his work, noting connecting points with and divergences from Durkheim’s ideas.
    After developing these psychoanalytic constructions of the causes of the crisis, discussion will then approach temptations and pitfalls in considering clinical and societal interventions in the crisis. Attendees will be invited to engage in a generative exchange of their ideas on the topic, including possible interventions.
    Presented by Carl Waitz, PsyD
    Wednesday October 9, 2024 from 7:00-9:00 pm
    Will be held on Zoom. CEs: 2
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     Group Psychology and Democracy: Screening the Documentary War Game

    Group Psychology and Democracy: Screening the Documentary War Game

    $0.00 - $25.00
    We are excited to offer an in-person film screening to orient our reflections on psychoanalytic thinking, political polarization, and group psychology. The effects of group psychology on democratic politics is palpable in our society and, for clinicians, in our consulting rooms. The conscious and unconscious forces that move us as individuals move us also as groups. War Game is a documentary by a nonpartisan veterans' group about a simulated political crisis, with real politicians and civil servants, that tests the robustness of our democratic guardrails in the face of disputed election results. We will use some brief remarks to situate our viewing of the film with respect to the effects of unconscious processes on the psyche, with encouragement to take up our own roles in creating civil discourse between ourselves and with our patients. Regardless of our perspectives, how can we pursue the common good?

    MAPP is a 501c3 nonprofit and makes no endorsement of candidates or specific legislation.

    Monday, November 4th, 2024
    6:30 pm - 9:00 pm
    Coolidge Corner Theatre
    290 Harvard St, Brookline, MA 02446
    Tickets are sold exclusively through MAPP for this private screening.
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    Somatic Experiencing: Working to Enhance Containment and Holding for Posttraumatic Dissociation

    Somatic Experiencing: Working to Enhance Containment and Holding for Posttraumatic Dissociation

    $0.00 - $30.00
    This presentation weaves somatic approaches from outside of psychoanalysis into psychoanalytic treatment, especially for patients suffering from early developmental trauma and severe dissociation. Dr. Levit is a psychoanalyst who trained in Somatic Experiencing (SE). Developed originally as a treatment for posttraumatic stress disorder, SE is rooted in neurophysiology, biology and ethology. SE introduces ways of working in the body that are quite different from psychoanalytic modes. Dr. Levit will provide an overview of the SE model, focusing on how somatically based approaches from SE can fold into and enhance psychoanalytic treatment by working intra-somatically. He will present clinical process illustrating forms of responsiveness based on SE. In discussing each vignette, he will invoke Ogden’s notion of looking at clinical process from multiple conceptual vertices. Dr. Levit will consider each vignette from the perspectives of SE, of holding (as variously defined), and of containing. In so doing, he hopes to illustrate the synergy when interweaving SE into psychoanalytic treatment.
    Presented by David Levit, PhD, ABPP, SEP
    Dec. 10 2024, 6:30-8:00 pm
    Held on Zoom. 1.5 CEs
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  • READING & CONSULTATION GROUPS 2024-25

    Reading Group: Lacan and the Formation of the Psychoanalyst
    Three years after Jacques Lacan was famously “ex-communicated” from the Société Parisienne de Psychanalyse, Lacan wrote his ‘Proposition of 9 October 1967 on the Psychoanalyst of the School,’ a landmark in his efforts to articulate the position of the analyst beyond the confines of what he saw as the IPA’s increasing rigidity and medicalization. Working through questions of analytic formation, the organization of a School, and the subject supposed to know as the cause of transference, Lacan arrived at a startling conclusion: ultimately, an analyst is authorized by no one but him or her self. This would become the axiom for an analytic school that refuses a hierarchy of knowledge in order to find its vitality in the diversity of its members’ unique desires.
    Following Lacan’s recommendation, we will begin by reading ‘The position of psychoanalysis and the training of psychoanalysts in 1957,’ before taking up the 1967 Proposition. Reading groups will be held on Zoom on the first and third Wednesdays of the month from 7:30 to 9:00pm, beginning September 4th, 2024.

    To join, please contact Michael Mullahy at michael.j.mullahy@gmail.com

     

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    Office Space Listings

    Arlington Center

    Updated 12/15/23

    Office available for sublet in professional building near Arlington Center. Conveniently

    located near bus line and free parking. Office is within a 9 office Suite with other therapists.

    Suite has a nice waiting room and newly renovated kitchen. Available for sublet on

    Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. Includes Wi-Fi, cleaning, coffee, water cooler.

    Email: ggruner@partners.org

    Phone: 617-600-4089

    Cambridge

    (Last updated 11/10/23)

    Discover a charming 150 sqft office space, thoughtfully furnished and with pleasing natural light. This inviting office is located at 875 Massachusetts Avenue in the heart of Cambridge, ideally positioned between the vibrant Harvard and Central Squares, and a five-minute stroll away from the Red Line T stop.

    Nestled within an 8-story elevator building, this space is professionally managed and offers individual unit control for both central heating and air conditioning. You'll appreciate the convenience of a well-maintained lobby and common areas.

    This office is available for sublet all day on Mondays, Tuesdays, and weekends. For further information and any inquiries, please feel free to get in touch with Vincenzo G. Terán, Psy.D. at drteran@transformativepsych.com.

    Boston/Kenmore Square

    Last update: 9/21/23
    Spacious unfurnished office available in a professional suite on Commonwealth Ave. near Kenmore square.

    Furnished office available in the same suite Monday through Thursday and Saturday

    Please call me if interested.
    Rosely Traube, Ph.D.
    (617)620-0953

    Coolidge Corner

    Last updated: August 10, 2023
    A large full-time office in my three-office suite is coming available Nov. 1 in the S. S. Pierce Building in Coolidge Corner. The building is professionally managed, located in the heart of Coolidge Corner (across from the C line) and has an elevator. Subletting is allowed. The rent is ~$1600/month. For photos and more information please contact:
    Kira Glassman
    kglassmanlicsw@gmail.com

    Cambridge / Porter Square

    Last updated: 7/17/23
    Full days and hourly blocks available in a fully furnished, sunny and peaceful office in a three-office psychotherapy suite located three blocks from the Porter Square T station. The suite has a private waiting room, bathroom, and kitchenette. The office is in a charming 3 story house located on Mass Ave. which is a 3 minute walk from the T, on the bus line (bus stop directly outside), and has on-street metered parking close by. For more information please contact:
    Laura Kalin
    lkalinlmhc@gmail.com 
    617-871-9133.

    Belmont

    Updated: 06/12/2023

    Full office (unfurnished), 3 large rooms with a bathroom. Close to McLean Hospital. Large sunny waiting room. Parking on the street. 1st floor offices. Large front windows. On the Red Line (T).

    Free water. Newly painted and new carpets. Ideal for 2- 3 therapy offices. Ideal for therapy offices.

    Contact:

    Marcia Winters

    617-279-7308

    marciasummer2004@Gmail.com

    Sudbury

    Last updated: 3/16/23
    Nice furnished office with great natural light. Available evenings starting at 6:30 pm, all day Friday, and anytime on weekends. Has an air purifier with hepa filter. Great wifi for virtual sessions. Private waiting area. Nice kitchenette with fridge, microwave, and tea maker. Free and easy parking for you and your clients. Referrals available. Photos available upon request. Located at 323 Boston Post Road in Sudbury.

    Dr. Lotte Smith-Hansen

    Lottesh3@gmail.com

     

    Cambridge / Harvard Square

    Last updated: 09/15/2022

    Lovely furnished windowed office (full-time or part-time) in a renovated psychotherapy suite in a charming historic building in the heart of Harvard Square. Hardwood floors, high ceilings, A/C. Large sunny waiting room. One block from Charles Hotel, Red Line (T) and bus line. Photos available upon request. Discounted parking nearby.

     

    Dr. Carolyn Rieder

    crieder@mclean.harvard.edu

    617-855-3642

    Harvard Square (Cambridge)

    Last updated: 10/25/21

    Full-time (unfurnished) and part-time (fully furnished) offices in beautiful Victorian house steps from Harvard Square. Shared waiting area/bathrooms/kitchen and free WIFI with a great community of clinicians. Interoffice referral opportunities; private practice start-up consultation resources available.

    SIGN 12 MONTH LEASE and GET 1 MONTH FREE.


    Robert Barrientos

    617-299-1345

    alliancegrouprentals@gmail.com

    Brookline/Washington Square (Beacon Street)

    Last updated: 10/18/21

    Fully furnished therapy spaces with parking available for part-time or full-time sublet, in-person and/or Zoom work. High speed internet, cleaning, and all other utilities included. The suite has a waiting room and kitchenette, and each office comes equipped with its own buzzer system.

     

    Roxana A. Sahlean

    781-985-2115

    rox.salhean@gmail.com 

    Cambridge / Harvard Square

    Full-time. Attractive, furnished Harvard Square (corner of Mt Auburn and Willard streets) psychotherapist’s office
    available full time beginning January, 2018 in handsome two office suite.

     

    Dr. Peter Lawner

    617-492-1022

    Brookline / Coolidge Corner

    Part-time. Saturdays are available in beautifully furnished office in Brookline near Coolidge Corner. Large south facing windows overlooking Beacon Street looking out on tree tops in a newly renovated suite available in medical building on Beacon Street. Elevator in building, free parking on the street and MBTA stop in front of the building. Shared waiting room, kitchenette.

     

    Marjorie Siegel

    marjoriesiegel@rcn.com

    Cambridge / Central Square

    Part-time. Monday-Wednesday-Thursday morning-Friday afternoon and weekend. Beautifully furnished large sunny office close to T. Suite is shared with other therapists. Well maintained building with elevators. Fees include utilities, internet, and parking.

     

    Pamela Lamto

    plamto@gmail.com

    Brookline

    Office available in a three office suite in the SS Pierce building (which is currently home to many of our lovely colleagues). If anyone is looking for office space in this fantastic location (I have been working from my office, meeting with patients remotely) please don't hesitate to reach out and I can provide more details. Offices would be available at the end of March, and I'd be happy someone is interested but wants to wait a few months to move in. Possibilities for sooner occupancy also exist.

     

    Eben Lasker

    ebenlaskerpsyd@gmail.com

    Cambridge / Central Square

    A full-time unfurnished office is available in my suite — four offices and a shared waiting room compose the entire space. The space is located on the 8th floor of the 1920s Central Square building (678 Mass. Ave.). It was fully renovated when we took over the space, is ADA compliant, and includes sound proofed walls and a new HVAC system. This office has unobstructed panoramic views of Cambridge looking down Western Ave. toward the Charles River. Security cameras are throughout the building common spaces. $1,050 per/month plus 1/4 of expenses (e.g., Internet, water, electrical etc.). Please let me know if you would like more information.
    Mark Dávila-Witkowski, LICSW

    mark.davila@gmail.com
    617.771.0810

     

     

    Cambridge-Porter Square 

    Large beautifully-furnished sunny office w/ hardwood floors in 3 office therapy suite (with kitchenette, waiting room, and wifi) available for sublet, multiple days per week on Mass. Ave. 5 Min. walk from Porter Sq T, The 96/77 buses stop directly in front as well. Parking spot for clinician included. Please reach out with questions to Chris (617) 231-9751 or Therapy@ChrisKaplanLICSW.com

     

    Cambridge

     

    Subletting office space - full-time or part-time - with an option to take over the lease. It is located at 875 Mass Ave in Cambridge between the Harvard and Central Square T stops. Metered parking is often available on the side streets

    The building (and office!) is modern with elevator access and openings are rare given its coveted location. The office can come furnished if desired and while the space is small it is certainly adequate for work with couples, families and children. Photos available upon request.
     
    Please contact me at iritfeldmanpsyd@gmail.com or 617-435-9762 if you're interested.

    Cambridge's Central Square

     

    Located in Cambridge's Central Square in an accessible building with elevators, right outside the Central T stop. The bright third floor office has a lovely view of the Central Square Church. Option available to rent a parking space for yourself, parking for patients is metered on the street or in nearby metered lots. Close to Whole Foods, Life Alive, several coffee shops and H Mart.

     

    Please reach out to Jennifer Bortle at jenn.bortle@gmail.com if you'd like more information or would like to visit the space.

     

    Have an Office Space Listing to Post?

     

    Email us at: admin@mappsych.org

  • MEET THE BOARD

    Current MAPP Officers

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    Carl Waitz, PsyD

    President

    Attending Psychologist, Boston Children's Hospital; Clinical Instructor, Harvard Medical School; Private practice in Brookline

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    Lotte Smith-Hansen, PhD

    Past President

    Psychologist, private practice in Sudbury

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    Robert Dyer, LMHC

    Treasurer

    Licensed Mental Health Counselor in private practice in Cambridge

    Kristin Hall, LMHC

    Secretary

    Licensed Mental Health Counselor in private practice in Cambridge

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    Laura Captari, PhD

    Member at Large

    Postdoctoral Research Associate and Psychology Fellow, Danielsen Institute

  • Member Publications

    Publications with more than one author have the name of the MAPP member in bold.

    Fosse, M. J. (2021). The many faces of polyamory: Longing and belonging in concurrent relationships. Routledge.

    This volume offers a valuable and compelling account on how to approach polyamorous relationships from the clinical perspective. While there is no uniform answer, Dr. Fosse’s compassionate and discerning approach that combines relative neutrality, an open-minded embrace of nontraditional lifestyle choices, and skilful attention to countertransference dynamics is likely to be inspiring. Dr. Fosse exposes the dynamics of love, sex, jealousy, and compersion as they play out in lives of those interested in polyamory, and more broadly, consensual nonmonogamy. Her focus is on relationships worth having.

    In this paper, I introduce and develop my concept of Body Words and show how they emerge in clinical process in inverse proportion to the Repetition Compulsion. So it is that I see the clinician’s task in every psychoanalytic treatment as involving a particular focus on the reclamation and growth of the availability of Body Words in both participants, which I illustrate in my work with Doreen. This treatment also demonstrates that the forward movement in therapy can be inhibited, as Russell counsels, by the therapist’s resistance to what the patient is feeling. Furthermore, I outline how my writing—whether daily session notes, associative diary entries, or more formally constructed journal articles—serves a self-supervisory function while also providing a sturdy container for evanescent process moments of Body Words. Once written, Body Words take their place as narrative, reflection, and memory, preserving experience for future reverie or conceptualization.

    In Building Bridges, Stuart A. Pizer gives much-needed recognition to the central role of negotiation in the analytic relationship and in the therapeutic process. Building on a Winnicottian perspective that comprehends paradox as the condition for preserving an intrapsychic and relational "potential space," Pizer explores how the straddling of paradox requires an ongoing process of negotiation and demonstrates how such negotiation articulates the creative potential within the potential space of analysis.

    In this paper we explore some of the ways one’s individual sexuality, one’s sexual fingerprint, embodies all of the potential for human experiencing in ourselves and in relationship: the driven and surrendering, the edges of passion and violation, the paradox of relationship and dissociation, attunement and personal desire. Our focus is on sexuality in the powerful, brain-changing interactions between patients and therapists in the treatment process.

    This article explores how these two seemingly different conceptual and developmental frameworks—sexuality as a function of mind, and agency as a derivative of relational experience—may be compatible. Here, I examine the relationship of sexuality and the experience of agency in parent–child and analyst–patient relationships, and suggest that sexuality as such may yet have a central role in contemporary psychoanalytic thinking and in our understanding of the basic nature of psychic functioning.

    The present study examines relationships between patient attachment and therapist countertransference in a large, naturalistic, longitudinal study of psychodynamic psychotherapy in a safety-net hospital. This study explored patterns in the relationship between therapist countertransference and patient attachment in two ways: (a) by studying cross sectional associations between patient-reported attachment and therapist-reported countertransference at 3 months into treatment, and (b) by studying if changes in patient-reported attachment over the course of psychotherapy are associated with changes in therapist-reported countertransference. In a sample of 101 therapy dyads, patients completed self-report attachment domains and therapists completed self-report countertransference measures 3 months following initiation of psychotherapy. Results showed initial significant positive associations between patient-rated attachment anxiety and therapist-rated “parental/protective,” “special/overinvolved,” and “overwhelmed/disorganized” countertransference. A sample of 119 therapy dyads (these included dyads in which therapists and patients completed measures at any point in time) was analyzed using multilevel modeling. Results showed that initial patient-rated attachment anxiety was associated with decreases in therapist-rated parental/protective and special/overinvolved countertransference over time. Decreases in patient-rated attachment anxiety were associated with subsequent increases in therapist reports of feeling overwhelmed/disorganized. These findings provide a greater understanding of how attending to patient attachment and therapist countertransference together may cofacilitate treatment and improve patient outcomes.

    This paper explores the relationships between experienced defect and the subsequent shame and longing for recognition. A clinical vignette is presented in which a young woman sought treatment for her infidelity to her husband: a behavior she found totally mystifying and deeply troubling. Using Bollas’ concept of ‘‘the unthought known,’’ parallels are drawn between this patient, who was adopted at 2 weeks of age, and Oedipus’ experience of knowing and not knowing his fate. A case is made for the idea that we both avoid and seek to know what is unbearable about ourselves, including our sense of defects. One motivation for this is the longing to be seen, recognized, known, and, finally, know one’s self.

    This paper explores questions relating to class differences between patient and analyst and how they might be addressed in the therapeutic dyad. A literature review indicates that a longstanding gap in discussions of social context for psychoanalytic endeavors is beginning to be addressed. The author suggests that issues of shame and envy, on the part of both patient and analyst, can lead to impasses and compromise treatment. Two vignettes are offered in which class differences intersect with more intimate aspects of intersubjective relating. The author employs self-disclosure as a way to foster genuine dialogue regarding the disparities that can impede our work as healers.

    The interactive nature of myth allows us to explore many aspects of human nature. The myth of Theseus is explored as a clinical vignette to explore the function of recognition—and its absence—in the development of self. Recognition in different forms is examined. It is seen as a developmental and an intersubjective process in which one strives to be seen fully by the other. The absence of recognition leads to shame. Paradoxically, the compassionate recognition of shame is essential to self-recognition and to development. This is seen as prerequisite both for intimacy and a sense of coherence. Two forms of recognition are discussed: recognition through shared selfobjects and the concept of part recognition. For recognition to take place, one must tolerate the vicissitudes and vulnerabilities that occur between different subjectivities—and there must be subjectivities available for the task.

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