Program
The program of 28th Annual Congress
【1st Day : 21st Sep, 2024 Sat】
12：00 – Open
12：30 – 12：45 Opening Ceremony
12：45 – 14：00 Congress Chairperson’s Talk
“Why, now, do we need to train our Ego-Toughness and Dynamic Development of the Mind-“[ More Info ]
Speaker：Kazunori Hashimoto Ph.D.
Host：Toshinori Hanai M.A.
14：15 – 17：15 Plenary Workshop
“Creative Ego Functioning and Development: Principle of Entropy Minimization and Decrescence” [ More Info ]
Trainer：Hidefumi Kotani Ph.D.
17：30 – 19：00 Clinical Research Session
Case study/Case report/Study support
Study Workshop “Essential Mental problems in School／The tasks of Leadership” [ More Info ]
Trainer：Hidefumi Kotani Ph.D.
19：00 – 20：00 Dinner
20：15 – 21：30 Welcome Party
【2nd Day : 22nd Sep, 2024 Sun】
8：30 – 9：45 Edward L. Pinny Memorial Talk
“Thoughts on recent psychiatric pathological conditional changes from the aspect of adolescent developmental tasks” [ More Info ]
Speaker：Sadanobu Ushijima M.D.
Host：Yuki Nakamura Ph.D.
10：00 – 13：00 Training Workshop ①
All Day Hidefumi Kotani Ph.D. “You know what to do now! ; Crisis intervention and self-care for specialists in the medicalfield and in the field of education”（Japanese）[ More Info ]
All Day Yukio No “Response Construction Method”（Japanese）[ More Info ]
All Day Yuki Nakamura Ph.D., Toshinori Hanai M.A. “Therapeutic intervention for dynamic changes”（Japanese）[ More Info ]
All Day Kayoko Hige Ph.D. “Group Therapy for Psychotherapists”（Japanese）[More Info ]
All Day Maya Hashimoto M.A. “Train oneself to deal with oneself and make the most of oneself -SMG Experience Seminar-”（Japanese）[ More Info ]
Half Day Ralph Mora Ph.D. MSS, CAIA., Kazuki Shimada M.A. “Assessment Interview for Children”（Japanese and English）[ More Info ]
Half Day Kazunori Hashimoto Ph.D. “Ego-Supportive Therapy: Basic Theory and Techniques”（Japanese）[ More Info ]
13：00 – 14：00 Lunch Time
14：00 – 17：00 Training Workshop ②
All Day Hidefumi Kotani Ph.D. “You know what to do now! ; Crisis intervention and self-care for specialists in the medicalfield and in the field of education”（Japanese）[ More Info ]
All Day Yukio No “Response Construction Method”（Japanese）[ More Info ]
All Day Yuki Nakamura Ph.D., Toshinori Hanai M.A. “Therapeutic intervention for dynamic changes”（Japanese）[ More Info ]
All Day Kayoko Hige Ph.D. “Group Therapy for Psychotherapists”（Japanese）[More Info ]
All Day Maya Hashimoto M.A. “Train oneself to deal with oneself and make the most of oneself -SMG Experience Seminar-”（Japanese）[ More Info ]
Half Day Seth Aronson Psy.D. “Beginning the treatment, engaging with the patient; Interpersonal and Relational principles”（Japanese and English）[ More Info ]
Half Day Kazunori Hashimoto Ph.D., Tsuyoshi Takada M.A. “Crisis Leadership Doc-Power of Leader’s Ego Awakening”（Japanese）[ More Info ]
17：30 – 18：30 “Ego Training” Plenary Group Therapy Experience [ More Info ]
Therapist：Kazunori Hashimoto Ph.D.
19：00 – 21：00 Reception Party “This Year’s Dynamic Dinner” [ More Info ]
fee 6,600(including tax) JPY (Fee is being adjusted, if changed we will let you know)
【3rd Day : 23rd Sep, 2024 Mon】
7：45 – 8：45 Moring Talk [ More Info ]
Session１：Seth Aronson Psy.D., Kazunori Hashimoto Ph.D. “Why War? -psychotherapeutic knowledge for the next 30 years”
Session２：Yuki Nakmura Ph.D. “The Study of Adjustment Disorder”
9：00 – 10：00 General Meeting for IADP members
10：15 – 11：45 Case Supervision
chairman
① Sadanobu Ushijima M.D.（Japanese）
② Yukio No（Japanese）
③ Ralph Mora Ph.D. MSS, CAIA., Seth Aronson Psy.D.（Japanese and English）
④ Kazunori Hashimoto Ph.D.（Japanese）
11：45 – 12：45 Lunch Time
13：00 – 15：00 Plenary Case Seminar [ More Info ]
Conductor：Hidefumi Kotani Ph.D.
Case Presenter：Kazunori Hashimoto Ph.D.
15：00 – 15：15 Closing Ceremony
Program Infomation
Congress Chairperson’s Talk
"Why, now, do we need to train our Ego -Toughness and Dynamic development of the Mind-"
Speaker：Kazunori Hashimoto Ph.D.（Associate Professor, International University of Health and Welfare Graduate School・PAS Institute of Psychoanalytic-Systems Psychothrapy）
Host：Toshinori Hanai M.A.（PAS Institute of Psychoanalytic-Systems Psychothrapy・Institute of Psychotherapy and Counseling in Kichijoji）
Why do I share the theme “Ego Training for Dynamic development” from this post-natural disaster reconstruction place in Fukushima? Ego is the subjective sense of self-management and a core concept of S. Freud’s psychoanalytic theory. The world of the ego is not particularly popular in Japan, where the self is emphasized. However, just as the world seems to have managed to overcome the covid-19 disaster, the “global society” has been burdened and shaken up by invasions, wars, and repeated catastrophes. The crisis depicted by the king of comedy, Chaplin, in which a man loses himself and is trapped as a cog in a wheel of the larger system, has become a reality. It is precisely in these times that we need the strengthened ego and the individual’s ability, that can make crisis an opportunity. How can we capture ego and train it to be stronger in dynamic psychotherapy, and in the educational, clinical, and organizational management that utilize its principles? How does “dynamic development” look like beyond that? I will give a lecture on the essential meaning of “Ego training” using my clinical cases.
Plenary Workshop
Creative Ego Functioning and Development: Principle of Entropy Minimization and Decrescence
Trainer：Hidefumi Kotani Ph.D.（President, PAS Institute of Psychoanalytic-Systems Psychothrapy・Professor Emeritus, International Christian University）
Why Ego-training? Because minimization and decrescence of Entropy in Ego-functioning is ultimate key of creative ego function and development. Entropy in ego-functioning impedes both processes. Any intervention and support in psychotherapy, psychiatric and educational consultation, must keep minimizing entropy in their processes. How are you colleagues dealing with this serious problem. The answer without doubt is the practicing likewise that the practicing period is strongly facilitative process of primary ego development. Fully practicing always minimizes and decreases entropy in ego-functioning and interactive processes between the client and the therapist.
We learn afresh well-functioning ego on both of theoretical and experiential level and how to minimize and decrease the entropy in our therapeutic intervention. Let us train hard our own professional therapist-ego altogether. Then you will meet your own phallic spirits of Ego-functioning.
Hidefumi Kotani Ph.D.（President, PAS Institute of Psychoanalytic-Systems Psychothrapy・Professor Emeritus, International Christian University）
Co-founder and current president of International Association of Dynamic Psychotherapy. He trained at Derner school of psychology at Adelphi University and New York University school of medicine Post-doctoral program of Group Psychotherapy Course. His specialty are psychotherapy and group psychotherapy for difficult patients. In the 1970s, he returned to the U.S. with modern psychoanalysis and systems theory, established psychoanalytic-systems theory (PAS theory), and has continued to work on clinical practice, research, and theory building as one.
Study Workshop
Study Workshop: Essential Mental Problems in School
Trainer：Hidefumi Kotani Ph.D.
Why cannot we stop increasing the mental problems at school? Many children, adolescents, are suffering adjustment disorder at school. It may cause severe depression and self-destructive acting-out like bullying, addiction, bulimia, anorexia, suicide and even homicide. The school that should be a hopeful place and serendipity both for children and teachers becomes a quite a hopeless place. Of course, we can change this kind of miserable systems of school. Let us work to break out this helpless situation.
Prepare for your study materials to share your ideas for the research question of essential mental problems in school. Come and join us, all clinicians, teachers, professors, and scholars who are interested in this study. We do share study materials with each other and discuss to build research hypothesis, strategy, and focal aim for the study of essential mental problems in school.
Edward L. Pinny Memorial Talk
Thoughts on recent psychiatric pathological conditional changes from the aspect of adolescent developmental tasks
Speaker：Sadanobu Ushijima M.D.（Ichigaya Himorogi Clinic）
Host：Yuki Nakamura Ph.D（Faculty, PAS Institute of Psychoanalytic-Systems Psychothrapy・Part-Time Lecturer, Tokyo Medical University）
The borderline-level pathology which was appeared in late 20th century have rarely been seen these days, in which the conditions meet the diagnostic criteria on DSM. Instead, we are required to deal with the conditions that is related to the individual’s inadaptability to the society. In the past, the issue of borderline-level pathology was considered to be caused by the process of mother-child separation and gang group participation (EH. Erikson, P. Bloss), but I believe that it needs to be reconsidered. In this regard, I am considering the pathology of early elementary school children in which their parents are left upstairs and siblings run away from their parents so that they move away from their dependent objects and start to learn to support themselves in the relationships with their neighborhood older adults. That is, the task of building inter-generational boundaries and acquiring social skills by living in the society/community. Here, the psychology of resentment caused by the event such as that the parents and other adults have never helped them from bullying would be important.
Dr. Sadanobu Ushijima（Ichigaya Himorogi Clinic）
Graduated from Kyushu University School of Medicine. Studied at the Institute of Psychiatry, University of London. He has been a professor at Fukuoka University school of Medicine, The Jikei University School of Medicine, Tokyo Women’s University, President of the Japan Psychoanalytical Association, President of Japanese Society for Morita Therapy, The Japan Federation for Psychotherapy, and President of Japanese Society for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. He is one of Japan’s leading psychoanalysts and has made the greatest contributors to psychoanalytic psychiatry by elucidating personality disorders and psychopathology of adolescence, and by leading the practice and research of dynamic psychotherapy.
“Ego Training” Large Group Therapy Experience
Therapist：Kazunori Hashimoto Ph.D.
On the second day of the congress, from 5:30-6:30p.m., there will be a large group therapy experience for all participants. Using the theme of “Ego Training” as the starting point, let’s train each other to feel and express our presence as therapists, as graduate students aspiring to be one, and as leaders and professionals of different kinds, utilizing the minimum ground rules of 1. speak whatever comes to mind, 2. thoroughly feel the person speaking, 3. listen and speak up what came to mind, and 4. keep what is spoken confidential. You will feel bigger and more functional that you don’t usually feel there. Let’s all work on the last mid-day Ego Training!
This Year’s Dynamic Dinner! (Reception Party)
After working hard all day and using your energy, let’s eat good foods, drink good sake, talk with peers, and recharge with new energy. And, let us rejoice and savor the love of being here and now with our peers. When you feel your heat rising, put it out there in words for everyone on the spot. You should feel a strong sense of your presence among your peers.
The reception party in IADP is dynamic group that is more than just a formality or social occasion. The members as well as non-member participants, open program participants, first-time attendees and graduate students are encouraged to attend.
Moring Talk
On the third day of the congress, from 7:45-8:45a.m., there will be morning talk sessions.
The participants gathered together will be welcome to bring what they want to talk about, discuss, or ask as clinicians, and will create a space where they can gather and form groups to talk about what they want to talk about or the themes they want to discuss. Please use the space for you all to talk about themes that each of you have.
And, this is the time to you can talk closer to the guest faculties. It is the precious opportunity, so be proactive and hit on your own theme! From then the dynamics begins to move.
Congress committees will make following two spaces. Other than that, let’s enjoy morning talks according to your interests.
Session１：Seth Aronson Psy.D. / Kazunori Hashimoto Ph.D.
“Why War? -psychotherapeutic knowledge for the next 30 years“
Theoretical physicist Albert Einstein asked psychoanalyst S. Freud “Is there a way of freeing humankind from the threat of war?”. “Why War?”. Will we be able to overcome war and envision the future in 30 years from now? Two experts from the United States and Japan will discuss the possibilities and missions of psychoanalytic psychotherapeutic knowledge across cultures. We hope you will join us.
Session２：Yuki Nakmura Ph.D.
“The Study of Adjustment Disorder”
Currently, the diagnosis of adjustment disorder has been increased. I think that this is due to the persistence of adaptation problems caused by an inclination to respond to external adaptation and a lack of attention to the “development” of internal adaptive capacity. At the present time, dynamic psychotherapy would be the prescription that contribute to the development of adaptive skills. I would like to discuss about the dynamics of contemporary adaptation problems and their therapeutic algorithm.(Supported by the Takeda Psychoanalytic Foundation for Mental Health, 2024)
Plenary Case Seminar
Conductor：Hidefumi Kotani Ph.D.
Case Presenter：Kazunori Hashimoto Ph.D.
The climax of IADP annual congress is plenary case seminar. This is to challenge all participants to examine one case and let the case move forward. All participants, experts, beginners, and faculties become supervisors of the case, participate in the case, assess, create the case formulations, and face the case. In that, everyone can brush up their own clinical skill and learn from the case. Each person uses their clinical skills to the fullest for the case, and their hypotheses fly around the hall, stimulating each other and deepening the understanding of the case.
Let’s check the outcome of three days by using the knowledge, theories, and techniques you will have learned at this congress.
Training Workshop Infomation
You know what to do now! ; Crisis intervention and self-care for specialists in the medicalfield and in the field of education
Trainer：Hidefumi Kotani Ph.D.（President, PAS Institute of Psychoanalytic-Systems Psychothrapy・Professor Emeritus, International Christian University）
Crisis is the very situation that people are facing the moment in between living and dying. There is always the crisis in the base of medical practice, and it becomes daily life in disaster responding work. There are two necessary conditions for effective crisis interventions. One is prompt decision-making and practice to the crisis event based on the PEA theory, that is, strings process theory of perceptive-cognitive, emotive-affective, and action processes. Another is selfcare responsibility. These conditions, however, are always threatened by self-destructive group dynamics. Psychiatric clinical work itself is fundamentally crisis intervention and its dynamic origin is in the psychoanalytic psychotherapy. Essential works are intervening analysis, self-analysis, and group analysis. Let us train these basic skills.
The number limit: none
For doctor, nurse, medical social worker, teacher, and other mental health professionals
Language: Japanese
Response Construction Method
Trainer：Yukio No（PAS Institute of Psychoanalytic-Systems Psychothrapy・Shonan Hospital Counseling room）
Response construction is a training that uses fictional case interview situations to train how to perceive, feel, and understand what has been said in the case, and then to construct and refine responses that is unique to you.
In this workshop, using worksheets, we will separate the client’s comments and feelings from therapist’s own feelings, and then construct our own unique responses. Also experience the reality of responses in the role play, using your or your peer’s responses.
This year, there will be a full six hours of time. I will provide the opportunity to experience therapist’s presence and the meanings of response construction as basic of interview intervention, with focus on response construction. Train your therapist ego, while grasping the joy of using the resource of your professional self to the fullest.
The number limit: 6 persons
For beginners to experts (any number of years of clinical experience). Graduate students who wish to pursue a career in the human service professionals are also welcome.
Language: Japanese
Therapeutic intervention for dynamic changes
Trainer：Yuki Nakamura Ph.D.（Faculty, PAS Institute of Psychoanalytic-Systems Psychothrapy・Part-Time Lecturer, Tokyo Medical University）
Toshinori Hanai M.A.（PAS Institute of Psychoanalytic-Systems Psychothrapy・Institute of Psychotherapy and Counseling in Kichijoji）
The “intervention” of dynamic psychotherapy is used to help clients visualize what they cannot see for themselves, starting with what they can see. People live many different selves in the unconscious world. We “people” live in the multi-worlds. Therapist can approach to energies for changes in clients by following the client’s waves, catching grains of energy in the waves and minimizing its noise. It is the therapist who prevents the client from changing. If therapist changes, client will too. Let the therapists themselves experience the change! Each member should bring fragments of the case with client that felt like impasse, and aim to be engaged in the potential for change in that situation.
The number limit: 12 persons
For graduate students, beginner, intermediate, and advanced therapists pursuing personality change.
Language: Japanese
Group Therapy for Psychotherapists
Trainer：Kayoko Hige Ph.D.（PAS Institute of Psychoanalytic-Systems Psychothrapy）
This is the group therapy for the therapists who want to be able to use Therapist’s ego to the fullest. Train the therapist’s ego by activating it intentionally and functioning it continuously. Train yourself by competing with other therapists and enjoying the sensation of using your own therapist’s ego.
What kind of therapist do you want to be? What kind of therapist are you now? There are no criteria for a number of years of experience. All clinicians who would like to reflect on themselves and train their therapist’s ego sincerely are welcome.
The number limit: 10 persons
Language: Japanese
Train oneself to deal with oneself and make the most of oneself -SMG Experience Seminar-
Trainer：Maya Hashimoto M.A.（PAS Institute of Psychoanalytic-Systems Psychothrapy）
Once one of the Japanese national soccer players reflected on the cause of defeat saying “we could not play our own soccer”. Everyone may have experienced the feeling that they are unable to demonstrate their true potential when it is needed.
To function the power of the ego fully, it is necessary to have a safe space within oneself, and this safe space can be created by the ego. Activating this interaction between self and ego becomes preparation to train therapist’s ego that works in difficult situations and to make it more resilient. SMG (Story Making Group) is developed to help clients who lost this safe space to work the interaction between self and ego. This workshop will focus primarily on experiencing SMG and acquiring experiential concept.
The number limit: 6 persons (minimum of 3 persons)
For beginners to experts
Language: Japanese
Assessment Interview for Children
Trainer：Ralph Mora Ph.D. MSS, CAIA.（Professor, University of Maryland）
Kazuki Shimada M.A.（Shizuoka Children’s Hospital）
Overview: The assessment of children and adolescents requires knowledge of physical,emotional and cognitive development. It also requires methods of inquiry that respond directly to developmental stages. While we assume that children uniformly reach stages of development, this is not the case. Developmental stages should act as a guide rather than as fixed positions. Always, clinicians need to be aware of what the individual has actually attained thus far in their development. Culture, language and socioeconomic opportunities act as mediators. So, it is up to the clinician to develop and use instruments that provide a wide view of the youth’s capacities. These are then assessed as adaptive/maladaptive and as implying indicators of maturity. Despite this caution, there are areas in which all children display some uniformity including fantasy (used most in childhood and much less in adolescence). Likewise, the self-view of an infant (as the whole) becomes separate and individuated, to self-object representational. Critical thinking does not appear until latency age. Fine motor coordination
improves over time. Such general rules are important to take into consideration as we attempt to map out a child’s development.
Assessment requires, as does treatment, the ability to think, feel and behave as a child. This may not be comfortable. But it is possible to reach one’s inner child and develop the capacity to communicate effectively
with children. This workshop will provide a format for communicating with children that is meant to allow us to get a clear picture of each child’s needs.
Language: English (with interpreter for Japanese)
Ralph Mora Ph.D. MSS, CAIA.（Professor, University of Maryland）
He got his doctoral degree from Adelphi University. He completed his graduate studies at the U.S. Army War College and Texas A&M University. For many years, he has been actively involved in the treatment of PTSD in soldiers, the psychological treatment of children of soldiers and soldiers heading to war zones, and the treatment of PTSD in children. He retired from his work with the U.S. Department of Defense in 2014 and currently serves as an adjunct professor at the University of Maryland and also maintains a private practice in Hatsukaichi, Hiroshima Prefecture.
Ego-Supportive Therapy: Basic Theory and Techniques
Trainer：Kazunori Hashimoto Ph.D.（Associate Professor, International University of Health and Welfare Graduate School・PAS Institute of Psychoanalytic-Systems Psychothrapy）
“I’ve decided I’m going to die tomorrow”, “I’m afraid I’m going to abuse”, “I can’t do it anymore. I feel very powerless”. In the daily clinical practice, we witness the close encounter between life and death. While focusing on the content of client’s/patient’s comments but not being bound by it, the therapy can be transformed into a three-dimensional, deep, and lively one simply by having the “glasses” (viewpoints) that catch the individual’s ego (self-management entity) and energy. Above all, you will be able to get the feeling that you are actually helping the client. In this workshop, each participant brings clinical fragments of your daily struggles to practice basic theories and techniques of ego-supportive interview that captures and activates the ego. All professionals (regardless of qualifications or job title) and graduate students interested in ego-supportive interview, from beginner to experts, are welcome!
The number limit: 20 persons
Language: Japanese
Beginning the treatment, engaging with the patient: Interpersonal and Relational principles
Trainer：Seth Aronson Psy.D.（Faculty, William Alanson White Institute）
Harry Stack Sullivan described one of the goals of the interview as discovering the patient’s “characteristic patterns of living”.The therapist does this by being a participant-observer”, using him or herself. Sullivan was the first to describe enactments; that is, the therapist cannot help but participate in the interview- through the questions he/she chooses, the information that he tries to gather and so on.
In this workshop, we will focus on how to use one’s self,as well as which “data” one must gather. We will draw from a number of models, including attachment, ego psychology and interpersonal /relational theory. We will also draw on the work of Edgar Levenson and Phillip Bromberg, both of whom extended Sullivan’ s ideas to looking for gaps and omissions in the patient’s narrative and dissociative processes (particularly following traumatic events, such as the tsunami and earthquake experienced in March 2011).
Participants will be encouraged to share examples from their own work in interviewing.
Language: English (with interpreter for Japanese)
Seth Aronson Psy.D.（Faculty, William Alanson White Institute）
He is a Director of Training, Training and Supervising Analyst, William Alanson White Institute; Program Chair, American Psychoanalytic Association; Adjunct Professor, Long Island University; Fellow, American Group Psychotherapy Association; and Process group leader for rabbinical students at Yeshivah Hovevei Torah.
Crisis Leadership Doc-Power of Leader’s Ego Awakening
Trainer：Kazunori Hashimoto Ph.D.（Associate Professor, International University of Health and Welfare Graduate School・PAS Institute of Psychoanalytic-Systems Psychothrapy）
Tsuyoshi Takada M.A.（Associate Professor, Health Science University）
This workshop is one of special open program in this congress. Many of the leaders, who I have worked with in my clinical work, have done their daily difficult organization management without understanding what “leadership” actually means. It was done by their experience and nerve. Their power is tremendous. But, I have seen over and over again that the power of leaders become even more passionate and stronger when they are endowed with the theory and techniques of their unknown dynamic leadership. If the leader evolves, the organization changes, too. Just as there are regular health checkups through physical checkups, leaders who bear heavy responsibilities on a daily basis should have leadership checkups to examine their leadership skills. In this workshop, first priority is to further awaken the ego of leaders who have gathered, and to inspect each one’s leadership skills, aiming to empower them to unlock the future.
The number limit: 20 persons
For heads of organizations; business owner, director, personnel, manager, leader of disaster recovery communities and organizations, leader of all organizations including households and communities, etc.
Language: Japanese