co-sponsored by: The Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute
Completed Treatment: Fifty years of Research on the Assessment of Change in Psychoanalysis
Presenter: Phil Lebovitz, MD
Tuesday, February 25, 2025, at 7:00 – 9:00 PM Central time
In person at the Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute,
8 S. Michigan Ave, 7th Floor, Chicago, IL
And By Zoom
Phil Lebovitz MD is a Training and Supervising Analyst who is interested in integration of psychoanalysis, psychotherapy and psychopharmacology. He has worked clinically artists of different disciplines and patients who have impacted by loss. A long term follow up project on the assessment of change is a major area of his work. He founded the Institute ’s Frontline Responders program during COVID-19 in Illinois. Dr. Lebovitz served as Lieutenant Commander, US Navy, Great Lakes Naval Base, Illinois. He has been an Adjunct Instructor at Northwestern University Medical School, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science and a Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science. He is Treasurer and Board of Trustees member of the American Board of Psychoanalysis.He graduated from Columbia College of Columbia University, Baylor College of Medicine, completed his psychiatry residency at the University of Minnesota and graduated as a psychoanalyst from the Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute.
Description:
Five decades ago, Robbins and Schlessinger began a collaboration to collect data from interviews of psychoanalytic patients who competed analysis for the purpose of studying the assessment of change. Phil Lebowitz, MD, has continued this research and will present findings focusing on categories and assessment of change, defined qualities of effective change including characterological transference and discuss therapeutic outcomes.
First Hour: presentation
Second Hour: discussion with audience
Learning Objectives
After attending this session, participants should be able to:
- Describe the assessment of change categories as seen in psychoanalysis per research collected in the Robbins and Schlessinger study
- Define qualities of effective change including characterological transference and how they impact therapeutic outcomes in psychoanalysis
Admission is free. Continuing Education Credits are offered exclusively to Society members in all membership categories and those intending to join.
The presenter, Phil Lebovitz, and the organizer, Lisa Karaitis, have no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies to report.
Participants are asked to be aware of the need for privacy and confidentiality throughout the program.
ACCME Accreditation Statement: This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of American Psychoanalytic Association (APsA) and the Chicago Psychoanalytic Society. The American Psychoanalytic Association is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
AMA Credit Designation Statement: The American Psychoanalytic Association designates this live activity for a maximum of 2 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Disclosure Statement: The APsA CE Committee has reviewed the materials for accredited continuing education and has determined that this activity is not related to the product line of ineligible companies and therefore, the activity meets the exception outlined in Standard 3: ACCME's identification, mitigation and disclosure of relevant financial relationship. This activity does not have any known commercial support.
Accreditation Information for Professionals Other Than Physicians. The Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute maintains responsibility for this program and its content, in relation to accreditation for CE credits for non-physicians. CPI is licensed by the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation to sponsor continuing education credits for (license numbers in parentheses): Social Workers (159.000122), Professional Counselors (197.000202), Marriage and Family Therapy Therapists (168.00204), and Clinical Psychologists (268.000091).
Eligible professionals will receive 2.0 continuing education credits for attending the entire program. To receive these credits an evaluation form must be completed online. Learners must claim the amount of time spent in the educational activity and that will be the amount of credit they will earn.
