A Brief Bio of the Presenter: Paul C. Holinger, M.D., M.P.H., is Professor of Psychiatry at Rush University Medical Center. He is also a Training and Supervising Analyst, a Child Supervising Analyst, and Co-Chair of the Child Psychoanalytic Training Program at the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis. In 1990, he was elected a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association

Dr. Holinger has dedicated his career to exploring the emotional lives of people both as individuals and as members of the larger community. He attended Chicago Medical School and graduated with a special interest in psychotherapy. His further training included fellowships in both Psychiatric and Psychosocial Epidemiology as well as in Adult and Child Psychoanalysis. He has done extensive research and written widely about the public health issues of violence and suicide in children, adolescents and young adults with special emphasis on the prediction and prevention of these tragic events. He served on the National Institute of Mental Health’s Task Force on Youth Suicide, in Washington, DC, from 1986-7 and has been on the Scientific Advisory Board of the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention since 1987 He is especially interested in infant and child development and the role of prevention and early intervention.

His published books include Pastoral Care of Severe Emotional Disorders: Principles of Diagnosis and Treatment;  Violent Deaths in the United States: An Epidemiologic Study of Suicide, Homicide, and Accidents; and with co-authors Dan Offer, James Barter and Carl Bell  Suicide and Homicide Among Adolescents. Published in 2003, his popular book What Babies Say Before They Can Talk: The Nine Signals Infants Use to Express Their Feelings presents the most enlightening use to date of the affect psychology of Silvan Tomkins for enhancing parent-child connections.

To learn more about Dr. Holinger’s work, visit his website at: http://www.paulcholinger.com/

Presentation Description: This course is highly recommended for anyone planning to attend the weekend portion of the conference who has little or no prior knowledge of Affect Script Psychology. A basic knowledge of its principles will enrich your understanding of the material presented in every conference track. 

Affect Script Psychology describes a previously unrecognized biological system just as vital to life as our circulatory or immune systems. Only recently has science begun to recognize the need to integrate what we know from the fields of psychology and neuroscience with what each of us experiences subjectively in our daily lives. Affect Script Psychology provides a coherent and comprehensive framework for recognizing and understanding subjective emotional experience and what motivates us within the realm of our interpersonal relationships and lives in general.

A Brief Bio of the Presenter: Dr. Grindlinger’s involvement with affect script psychology began early in his career as he increasingly realized that what he had been taught as the standard theories did not explain what he saw happening in his office.  During his subsequent search for better theoretical explanations, a journal arrived in the mail. In the October 1993 issue of Psychiatric Annals, he was introduced to a completely new theoretical framework for understanding emotion in the work of Tomkins, Nathanson, and Kelly. From that point on he became increasingly involved in the Silvan S. Tomkins Institute. He became an indispensable member of the Institute and was appointed Training Director in 1998 by Executive Director, Donald L. Nathanson, M.D.

Dr. Grindlinger is a psychiatrist in full-time private practice specializing in intensive affect script-based psychotherapy with individuals and couples.

A Brief Bio of the Presenter: Donald L. Nathanson, MD, is a Philadelphia-based psychiatrist and the Founding Executive Director Emeritus of the Tomkins Institute. He is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior at Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia. In 1981, he began to study the way each of us is influenced by the emotions of others, work that drew him to the pioneering writing of psychologist Silvan Tomkins. He and long-time colleague Dr. Vernon C. Kelly founded the Silvan S. Tomkins Institute in 1991.

Among his more than 100 publications in the realm of emotion are the books The Many Faces of Shame (New York: Guilford; 1987) and Shame and Pride: Affect, Sex, and the Birth of the Self (New York: Norton; 1992, paperback 1994). His observation that essentially all episodes of explosive rage are triggered by the unexpected or uncontrollable experience of shame has been central to all successful models for the reduction of interpersonal violence. He has given several hundred public presentations of this material in North America, Europe, Scandinavia, Great Britain, and the Middle East, teaching a new way of understanding the biology and psychology of normal emotion as well as the connections inherent among normal emotion, psychopathology, psychopharmacology, and the full range of known psychotherapeutic techniques. In November 2010, at an international meeting in Dublin organized around his work, Dr. Nathanson’s keynote presentation will deal with the logic underlying the Tomkins Institute’s approach to the reeducation of violent offenders, discuss some of the educational systems that devolve from the Tomkins-Nathanson concepts sketched above, and suggest novel ways that all of us can help calm the epidemic of violence that threatens to overwhelm our society.

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