Our Spring 2011 conference, “Shame and Excitement: Crucial Markers for Group Psychotherapy,” was a lively, intense, often highly personal, and very successful two-day event, held at Saint Elizabeths Hospital in Washington, DC. Guest presenter Stewart Aledort, MD, CGP, led the three plenary sessions, drawing on theories of attachment, development, and neurobiology and on his own… [Read more…]
May 31, 2011 by Rob Williams, MBA, LICSW, CGP
From Emily Lindon, PsyD, George Washington University: I found the spring MAGPS conference very rewarding, particularly as I mulled over the experience during the following days. The evolution of the demonstration group was especially exciting and revealing. Dr. Aledort’s presentation was engrossing and easy to follow. While the small group experience was frustrating at times, it… [Read more…]
May 10, 2011 by Rob Williams, MBA, LICSW, CGP
Congratulations to those students awarded scholarship for the Spring 2011 conference! Shawn Anderson - St. Elizabeths Jennifer Bissell – WSP Nancy Cater - St. Elizabeths Joybell Cherry - St. Elizabeths Jessica Greenberg - GWU Katrin Ana Haller - CUA Soniya Hirachan - St. Elizabeths Annupam Jha -St. Elizabeths Cleopatra Lightfoot-Booker - St. Elizabeths Emily Lindon - GWU Irena Morin- St. Elizabeths Laura Neely - St.… [Read more…]
May 10, 2011 by Rob Williams, MBA, LICSW, CGP
The following members generously donated over $1400 to the scholarship fund to assist us in hosting 13 students for the conference! Those of us who have attended recent conferences had to have been impressed by the quantity and quality of enthusiastic students that we have attracted. Almost all of these students come because they receive… [Read more…]
March 30, 2011 by Reginald Nettles, PhD, CGP
Dear Colleagues, It is with mixed emotions that I write my final “Presidential” message to the Mid-Atlantic Group Psychotherapy Society community. I am as appreciative as I was surprised to have been in this role, preceded by two years as “President-elect”/conference chair. I joined the Board initially as Member-at-Large. After two years of trying to… [Read more…]
August 15, 2011 by Margo London, LICSW, CGP
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