Saturday, January 9th, 2016

8:45-9:30	Registration
9:30- 9:45	Welcome and Introduction Jeffrey A. Lieberman, MD, Chairman, Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons; Director, New York State Psychiatric Institute Alla Landa, PhD, and Harald Gündel, MD
9:45-10:25	Multimodal Treatment for Multimodal Problem: Clinical implications of translational research on chronic pain Alla Landa, PhD Columbia University & NYSPI, New York, NY, USA
10:25-11:05	Developmental Origins of Multimodal Treatment Myron A. Hofer, MD Columbia University & NYSPI, New York, NY, USA
11:05-11:45	Early Life Social Environments: Implications for Pain Sensitivity Frances A. Champagne, PhD Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
11:45-12:00	COFFEE BREAK (refreshments will be served)
12:00-12:40	In- and Out-patient Multimodal Psychotherapeutic Treatment Programs for Chronic Pain in Germany Harald Gündel, MD University of Ulm, Germany
12:40-1:20	Psychodynamic-interpersonal therapy for somatic symptom disorders and chronic pain Peter Henningsen, MD University Hospital, Technical University of Munich, Germany
1:20-2:20	LUNCH (served in the Kolb Atrium)
2:20-3:50	Experiential Workshops(Participants choose one to attend - please scroll down for description of the workshops): Art psychotherapy for patients with somatoform pain: An experiential workshop Alexandra Danner-Weinberger University of Ulm, Germany Working with chronic pain in dance/movement psychotherapy: An experiential workshop Suzi Tortora, EdD, BC-DMT, CMA, LCAT, LMHC Private practice, & Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA Music psychotherapy: experiential workshop demonstrating Analytical Music Therapy interventions for chronic pain and emotional distress Benedikte Scheiby, MA, MMEd, DPMT, CMT, LCAT, MBSR New York University, New York, NY Institute for Music and Neurologic Function, Bronx, New York Institute for Analytical Music Therapy, New York, NY, USA Experiential Workshop: Simple Breath and Movement Practices for Rapid Pain Relief Richard P. Brown, MD Columbia University College of Medicine, New York, NY, USA & Patricia L. Gerbarg, MD New York Medical College, New York, NY, USA Embodied Listening: An experiential workshop Sue Shapiro, PhD NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, New York, NY, USA
3:50-4:05	COFFEE BREAK (refreshments will be served)
4:05-4:45	The Embodied experience: Dance/movement psychotherapy for chronic pain Suzi Tortora, EdD, BC-DMT, CMA, LCAT, LMHC Private Practice & Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA
4:45-5:25	Working with Embodied Emotion in Art psychotherapy for Patients with Somatoform Pain Alexandra Danner-Weinberger University of Ulm, Germany
5:25-6:00	Panel on Multimodal Expressive Psychotherapies for Chronic Pain Moderated by Philip R. Muskin, MD Columbia University & NYSPI, New York, NY, USA

Sunday, January 10th, 2016

10:00-10:40	Central Sensitization Syndrome & Chronic Pain Daniel J Clauw, MD University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
10:40-11:10	Integrating pharmacotherapy in multimodal treatments for somatoform pain Brian A. Fallon, MD, MPH, MED Columbia University & NYSPI, New York, NY, USA
11:10-11:50	Breath-Activated Interoception: The Royal Route to Pain Relief Richard P. Brown, MD Columbia University College of Medicine, New York, NY, USA, Patricia L. Gerbarg, MD New York Medical College, New York, NY, USA
11:50-12:30	The Neurologist's Role: Making the diagnosis and engaging the patient in a multidisciplinary treatment Stanley Fahn, MD Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
12:30-1:25	LUNCH (served in the Kolb Atrium)
1:25-2:25	Discussion Groups moderated by Sue Shapiro, PhD, NYU Postdoc Program in Psychoanalysis, NY, USA Patricia L. Gerbarg, MD, New York Medical College, New York, NY, USA Peter Shapiro, MD, Columbia University, NY, USA Ralph Wharton, MD, Columbia University, NY, USA Harald Gündel, MD,University of Ulm, Germany Brian Fallon, MD, Columbia University, NY, USA Phil Muskin, MD, Columbia University, NY, USA Alla Landa, PhD, Columbia University, NY, USA and others
2:25-3:00	Discussion with all participants moderated by Peter Henningsen, MD University Hospital, Technical University of Munich, Germany
3:00-3:15	COFFEE BREAK (refreshments will be served)
3:15- 3:40	Special Presentation: Honoring the work of Dr. John E. Sarno presentation by Alla Landa, PhD and colleagues Columbia University & NYSPI, New York, NY, USA
3:40-4:20	Cross-Species Affective Neuroscience: From preclinical modeling to a foundation for music psychotherapy interventions Jaak Panksepp, PhD Washington State University, Pullman, WA, USA
4:20-5:10	Panel with All Conference Speakers moderated by Harald Gündel, MD University of Ulm, Germany

Description of Workshops

Art psychotherapy for patients with somatoform pain: An experiential workshop
Alexandra Danner-Weinberger
University of Ulm, Germany

Art psychotherapy promotes patients's awareness and understanding of themselves and their environment through the senses. Art psychotherapy works with the basic human need to express oneself creatively and to get in touch with oneself and others. For patients with somatization disorders the Interdisciplinary Multimodal Treatment is particulrly important. The workshop will demonstrate structured, disorder-specific sequence of art therapeutic interventions for the treatment of chronic pain patients within a four-week inpatient multimodal setting. The focus of interventions lies on a mentalization based psychodynamic attitude. Using patients' images, art psychotherapeutic techniques will be introduced and practiced by workshop participants. These techniques are aimed at supporting the ability to mentalize; promoting emotional competencies; experiencing self-efficacy, and helping handle transference and countertransference.

Working with chronic pain in dance/movement psychotherapy: An experiential workshop
Suzi Tortora, EdD, BC-DMT, CMA, LCAT, LMHC
Private practice, & Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA

The mind body connection is a prominent focus of current neuro-scientific research and clinical practice, shedding light on the origins of empathy, pre-verbal experiences, and how trauma is stored and can be accesses with the individual suffering from chronic pain. Most treatment methods begin the mind-body focus through the mind. This workshop will present dance/movement therapy methods that emphasize the important knowledge and communicative capacity that occurs when the focus is directed on the embodied felt-body experience.

Music psychotherapy: experiential workshop demonstrating Analytical Music Therapy interventions for chronic pain and emotional distress
Benedikte Scheiby, MA, MMEd, DPMT, CMT, LCAT, MBSR
New York University, New York, NY
Institute for Music and Neurologic Function, Bronx, New York
Institute for Analytical Music Therapy, New York, NY, USA

This interactive workshop provides an array of live music interventions and clinical techniques that target: Reduction of somatic pain, reduction of emotional distress, stress and anxiety levels; support persons dealing with trauma; integration of psyche and soma; connection to inner resources. The tools are a wide array of musical instruments that are easy to play on. Participants do not need any musical skills as it is a nonjudgmental and non-performance process oriented approach to the use of music, sound, internal and external listening ability. The personalized music elicits connection to the unconscious and can function as a tool of facilitation of new insights cognitively as well as aromatically. Clinical examples will be used to illustrate how the use of improvised personalized music can engage, affect and transform the brain.

Experiential Workshop: Simple Breath and Movement Practices for Rapid Pain Relief
Richard P. Brown, MD
Columbia University College of Medicine, New York, NY, USA
&
Patricia L. Gerbarg, MD
New York Medical College, New York, NY, USA

Dr. Brown leads an introductory sequence of Voluntarily Regulated Breathing Practices with imagery, sound, and movement that rapidly relieve physical and emotional pain, while Dr. Gerbarg provides individual coaching. Attendees also experience Open Focus Attention Training, a powerful method to change the way the mind experiences pain. Through discussion, questions, and answers, the clinical potential of these practices are explored. Resources on how to pursue further information and training are provided.

Embodied Listening: An experiential workshop
Sue Shapiro, PhD
NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, New York, NY, USA

In this workshop you will first explore ways of becoming attuned to your own physiological responses as you meet with your patients/clients. You will then be invited to deepen your understanding of your more difficult patients through a modified form of embodied supervision first developed by Jon Sletvold. You will discover how implicitly we know a great deal more about the people we work with than what we tell ourselves with words. Embodied supervision can be helpful both when we seek help from a colleague about a difficult patient and also as a tool for our own private use.