WOMEN HELPING WOMEN
PRESENTS
THE JOAN MARIE JOHNSON SYMPOSIUM ON WOMEN'S MENTAL HEALTH

Women, Food and the Body: Culture, Psyche, and Treatment

Susan Gutwill, LCSW

Friday, April 29, 2011                                                                       9:30AM - 4:00 PM

This symposium will focus on understanding and treating eating problems and body image distortions as an outcome of psychodynamic as well social and symbolic experience in the larger culture. The training will explore the dynamics of compulsive eating and restriction and of obsessive body image distortion and body hatred. This training will then focus on the specifics of working to heal eating disorders, as well as teach practitioners whose clients do not come in with overt eating problems how to recognize the widespread women?s issue of fear of eating and living in the body, in order to enrich any kind of treatment.

Susan Gutwill, MS, LCSW, CGP, is faculty and supervisor at the Women?s Therapy Centre Institute in New York City and in private practice in Highland Park, NJ. She is a co-author of Eating Problems: A Feminist Psychoanalytic Treatment Model, as well as a co-editor of and contributor to Psychoanalysis, Class and Politics: Encounters in the Clinical Setting. She has lectured widely in area of the culture and psychology for over 25 years.

Cost: $100 (Students and trainees $50; includes lunch)
To register go to www.cppnj.org or send check payable to CPPNJ

Location: The Institute for Women's Leadership, Rutgers University
Ruth Dill Johnson Crockett Building
162 Ryders Lane
New Brunswick, NJ 08901-8555
732.932.1463 Fax 732.932.4739
http://iwl.rutgers.edu/about_direction.html
(for directions and parking information)

This course is approved for continuing education by the National Association of Social Workers NJ Chapter for the Approval Period: September 1, 2010 August 31, 2012. Social workers will receive 4.5 continuing education hours
for participating in this course.