Events Calendar
Special Event: Opening Doors
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September 24, 2016 @ 9:30 am - 6:30 pm
BGSP opens its doors for a special event for all members of the community. Highlights of the day include discussions with alumni from our master’s and doctoral programs, who will present two aspects of their work in panels geared to demonstrate what they accomplish with psychoanalysis in today’s world. The first panelists will talk about how their graduate psychoanalytic education opened doors for them in their careers. The second panel will feature the research of graduates from BGSP’s various programs, including the clinical and culture tracks. Both panels will offer plenty of opportunity for audience discussion.
Prospective Students: Above and beyond our usual information sessions, prospective students can take this time to meet with students, faculty and alumni to find out more about how a BGSP education provides career opportunities after graduating. Follow up with members of the admissions team over shared lunch.
Continuing Education: Learn about the applications of psychoanalytic work to a variety of clinical situations, ranging from private practice to community based therapy and addictions. Learn how psychoanalytic research can inform clinical case work and the understanding of trauma and resilience.
Alumni, Trustees, Donors, and Students: Please join us for a time of reunion and reflection on the BGSP experience. Share stories, accomplishments and challenges.
Schedule of Events:
9:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. – Informal breakfast with the Admissions Department: An opportunity to meet the admissions team.
10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. – Prospective Student Information Session: Learn about BGSP’s programs and more, from the Director of Admissions and current students.
11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. – Alumni Career Panel with Q and A:
Panelists include:
Susan Benson, M.S.W., LICSW. Ms. Benson is a social worker who is a Doctoral Candidate in BGSP’s Psya.D. program. She has worked in outpatient and partial hospitalization programs at Bayridge Hospital and maintains a private practice.
Michael Birnkrant, M.A., earned his master’s in Psychoanalytic Counseling from BGSP. He is now a Doctoral Candidate in BGSP’s Psya.D. program. Mr. Birnkrant has worked as a School-Based Counselor and is the former Inpatient Group Therapy Coordinator and Clinician on the Dual Diagnosis Unit at the Arbour Hospital System. He also is in private practice as a Licensed Mental Health Counselor.
Juan Faraoni, M.A., earned his master’s in Psychoanalytic Counseling from BGSP. He is now a Doctoral Candidate in BGSP’s Psya.D. program. He has worked as a clinician in the Boston Public Schools and now manages a rehabilitation program and serves as a clinician for heroin and opiate addicts at a methadone clinic.
Attila Hochfelner, M.A., earned his master’s in Psychoanalytic Counseling from BGSP. Formerly a School-Based Counselor, he is now a clinician at DCS Mental Health.
1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. – Shared lunch with President Snyder, faculty, alumni, and students: A time to meet the BGSP community or revisit old friends.
2:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. – Alumni Research Panel with Q and A:
Panelists Include:
Patricia Bratt, Ph.D., Psya.D., earned her doctoral degree in Psychoanalysis from BGSP. She is a Director of the Academy of Clinical and Applied Psychoanalysis (ACAP) in Livingston, NJ. She manages the ACAP Trauma and Resilience Program and Applied Psychoanalysis Division, where she developed ACAP’s Critical Incident Stress Management Team that served more than 3,000 victims of the 9/11 tragedy. She has served as faculty and training supervisor at several psychoanalytic institutes and has a private psychoanalytic practice in NJ. Her dissertation, “A Paradox,” asked whether those who work with trauma victims simply by listening to them in certain ways can gain personal benefit. Her research explores the dimensions of this newly studied phenomenon of reciprocal, or vicarious, resilience.
Elizabeth Cerrato, is earning her master’s in Mental Health Counseling from BGSP. Her thesis, “The Induction of Rage: Examining Resistance to Understanding Aggression,” is based on a schizophrenic patient who unconsciously attacked herself with physical illness and who induced almost intolerable feelings of rage and aggression toward the analyst.
Leila Karam, Psya.D., LMHC, LADC, earned her doctoral degree in Psychoanalysis from BGSP. She is the former Director of the Outpartner partial programs at Arbour Hospital and is now in private psychoanalytic practice. She discusses her dissertation, “The Unbearable Drama of Being: Characterizing Change in a Borderline Patient Undergoing Psychoanalytic Treatment.” This study analyzed the characteristics and progress of a borderline, addicted, action-prone patient.
Angela Musolino, M.S.N., Certif. Psya., LP, Doctoral Candidate, Psychoanalysis, Society and Culture Program. Ms. Musolino is on the faculty at NYGSP and CMPS, where she is a training analyst and supervisor and the Administrative Director of the Consultation and Referral Service. She has a private practice in NYC. She is currently writing a dissertation, Women’s Ambition Over Three Decades: A Literary Analysis, on the portrayal of women’s ambition in first novels by female authors before, during and after the feminist movement of the 1960’s
