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North Carolina Psychoanalytic Foundation
Day Long Workshop for Mental Health Professionals and Fourth Annual Public Lecture

The Body in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis

A Five-Hour Continuing Education Program for Mental Health Professionals
10am - 1pm: The Body in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis (Professional Workshop)
3pm - 5pm: Change Your Eating, Change Your Life (Fourth Annual Public Lecture)

Saturday February 26, 2005
The Friday Center for Continuing Education
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Distinguished Speaker: Susie Orbach, PhD
The North Carolina Psychoanalytic Foundation is pleased to present psychoanalyst Susie Orbach, PhD, internationally renowned expert on eating disorders and women's psychology and the critically acclaimed author of Fat Is a Feminist Issue, Hunger Strike and On Eating.

Morning Workshop: The Body in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis
During the 10am-1pm session, Dr. Orbach will discuss the body in psychotherapy

• The body has a psychological and developmental history. Dr. Orbach will speak about the body as the location of desire, including the ways in which desire, as it is met or unmet in early relationships, leads to a fundamental sense of self and a prevailing style of attachment to others.
• Problems with the body, which encompass eating disorders, sexual difficulties, body hatred and mistreatment of the body, are rooted in relationships and express psychic pain.
• The therapist also has a body! Patients may wish to touch or be held by the therapist. Dr. Orbach will demonstrate how therapists may work with patient's wishes and with their own countertransference reactions, including bodily responses, as a path to achieving a deeper understanding of the patient's experience.

Afternoon Session: Change Your Eating, Change Your Life
During the 3-5 pm lecture, Change Your Eating, Change Your Life: Transforming Your Emotional Relationship With Food, Dr. Orbach will explore strategies for changing our relationship with food that go beyond the latest weight-loss fads. She will discuss the ways in which food can be used to meet emotional needs, leaving us vulnerable to eat when we are not hungry or to become dangerously deaf to the body's hunger, as in anorexia. Food becomes dangerous, a source of guilt, fear and unhappiness, while diets provide only temporary solutions because they ignore our emotional relationship with food. Dr. Orbach will teach practical and effective techniques to transform eating that hurts into eating that nourishes and calms.

The afternoon session from 3-5pm coincides with our Fourth Annual Public Lecture, which is open to the general public, nutritionists, mental health and healthcare professionals. To reserve a seat for the Public Lecture only (no CE/CME credit), complete printable Lecture Registration Form.

Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this 5-hour program, participants should be able to:

• Discuss how bodily symptoms may develop in response to failures in early relationships and how these symptoms are perpetuated by internal object relationships.
• Describe the challenges and opportunities that countertransference creates for understanding and working with patients.
• Identify the five keys to restoring a healthy relationship with food.

Book Sale and Signing
At the conclusion of the program Dr. Orbach will be available to sign copies of her books, which will be for sale in the lobby (cash and checks only).

Workshop Fee
Workshop (includes 5 hours CME/CE for physicians and psychologists and letter of attendance for other mental health professionals): $125

Tickets for Public Lecture Only (3-5pm session, no CME/CE credits)
Tickets: $15 for lecture purchased in advance ($20 at the door)

Donor Reception
For an additional $100 tax-deductible donation per person, you are invited to join Dr. Orbach and members of the NCPF Board of Directors for a private reception from 5:30-7:30pm at the Aurora Restaurant in Chapel Hill. Proceeds from the event will support the Foundation's community outreach efforts. Please reserve your tickets for the reception by February 18, 2005.

Deadline
To guarantee space at workshop, public lecture or reception, registration must be received by February 18, 2005. After deadline, call (919) 847-2323 to check space availability. Tickets purchased in advance will be held at the registration desk. Full refund will be given if requested by February 21.

Registration
To reserve your place in the full-day workshop, complete printable Workshop Registration Form. To reserve a seat for the Public Lecture only (3-5pm), complete printable Lecture Registration Form. To view full color brochure using Acrobat Reader, click The Body In Psychotherapy: Brochure

Information
For more information or to request copies of workshop brochure, call the North Carolina Psychoanalytic Foundation at (919) 847-2323 or email info@ncpsychoanalysis.org.

CME and CEU Credits
Psychologists and Physicians attending 100% of the program will receive credit for 5 continuing education contact hours. Letters of attendance documenting 5 hours of continuing professional education will be provided to other mental health professionals.

This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the Essentials Areas and Policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint sponsorship of The American Psychoanalytic Association and the North Carolina Psychoanalytic Foundation. The American Psychoanalytic Association is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians and takes responsibility for the content, quality, and scientific integrity of this CME activity. The American Psychoanalytic Association designates this educational activity for a maximum of 5 hours in category 1 credit towards the AMA Physician's Recognition Award. Each physician should claim only those hours of credit that he/she actually spent in the educational activity. Disclosure information is on record indicating that participating faculty members have no significant financial relationships to disclose. This program is co-sponsored by the North Carolina Psychoanalytic Society and the North Carolina Psychoanalytic Foundation. The North Carolina Psychoanalytic Society is approved by the American Psychological Association to offer continuing education for psychologists. The North Carolina Psychoanalytic Society maintains responsibility for the program.

Directions
The Friday Center is located approximately three miles east of the UNC-Chapel Hill campus, on the south side of Highway 54. The Center is near Interstate 40 (from Raleigh, I-40 exit 273A; from Greensboro, I-40 exit 273). For map, visit The Friday Center.

Private Donor Reception is at the Aurora Restaurant, located on Highway 54, 1.2 miles west of The Friday Center, driving toward Chapel Hill (turn left onto Highway 54 when leaving the Friday Center). .