Upcoming Events
The Clinician’s Reluctance to Begin and Deepen Treatment
Lena Theodorou Ehrlich, Psy.D.
Saturday, June 6 from 12:00 PM to 2:00 PM ET
At a time when the efficacy and value of long-term, depth-oriented treatment are increasingly questioned—even among practitioners themselves—psychoanalysts and psychodynamic psychotherapists may be uniquely positioned to respond to patients’ need for intensive help by first turning inward.
Much has been written about patients’ resistances to deepening treatment, but far less attention has been paid to the clinician’s own fears. Why do some patients appear to us to be ideal candidates for deeper work while we overlook others? Why do we recommend analysis for some and not others? More pointedly, why do we, as clinicians, so often look beyond our current caseload for an “ideal” case rather than beginning with the patients already before us?
Join us for a discussion with Dr. Lena Theodorou Ehrlich, a training and supervising psychoanalyst who has written extensively about psychoanalysts’ reluctance to initiate and deepen analytic treatments. Following Dr. Ehrlich’s opening remarks, a local clinician will present a case, followed by a clinical conversation.
References to be provided on registration. Zoom link will be sent out a week before the event.
Saturday, June 6 from 12:00 PM to 2:00 PM ET
Location: Zoom
Fees:
Free to LPSG Members
$15 for Students and Residents
$25 for Professionals and Clinicians
About Lena Theodorou Ehrlich, Psy.D.
Dr. Lena Theodorou Ehrlich is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Michigan Psychoanalytic Institute and a Visiting Faculty member at the Denver Institute for Psychoanalysis and the Florida Psychoanalytic Center. She is in private practice in Ann Arbor. Her scholarship includes a longstanding interest in how analysts come to think, practice, and remain analytic over time and across settings. Her paper “Teleanalysis: Slippery slope or rich opportunity?” received the 2019 Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association Prize for Excellence, and her book Psychoanalysis from the Inside Out: Developing and Sustaining an Analytic Identity and Practice has been positively reviewed by major psychoanalytic journals. She has been honored for her teaching by the 2024 American Psychoanalytic Association Candidates’ Council Master Teacher Award and serves on the Editorial Board of the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association. Lena is a Greek immigrant, a wife, mother, and grandmother of delightful five-year old twins.
