Dr. Ellenhorn is a pioneer and leader in the development and promotion of community integration services, types of care that serve and empower individuals diagnosed with psychiatric and/or addiction issues while they remain in their own communities and outside institutional settings.
Trained as a sociologist, psychotherapist and social worker, he created the first fully operating intensive hospital diversion and wrap-around program in Massachusetts. Ellenhorn later created and led one of the first public Programs for Assertive Community Treatment teams in the state. In 2022, Ellenhorn co-founded CARDEA, a psychedelics based practice that assists those who seek recovery from deep and entrenched psychological anguish, from behaviors that are out of control, as well as those who want a more awakened life and expanded sense of existence.
Dr. Ellenhorn has authored three books on human behavior. Parasuicidality and Paradox: Breaking Through the Medical Model addresses psychiatric hospital recidivism and techniques for diverting hospital use. It was published by Springer Publishing in 2007. His most recent book, How We Change (and the Ten Reasons Why We Don’t), takes a deep dive into the dynamics that influence all human change. Published by Harper Collins, and in seven different languages, How We Change was released in May of 2020. Purple Crayons: The Art of Drawing a Life celebrates our inherent “sacred originality” and establishes a new framework for self-reliance. It was published in 2022. He has authored numerous articles, gives talks and seminars throughout the country, and provides consultation to mental health agencies, psychiatric hospitals and addiction programs.
Dr. Ellenhorn is the founder of the Shifting The Paradigm conferences, a bi‑annual series that addresses humanistic and empowering changes in behavioral healthcare. He is the executive producer of the film, Recovering Addiction: A Public Health Rescue Mission, a documentary on new, less‑oppressive means for understanding problematic substance use and other distressing habits.
Dr. Ellenhorn is the first person to receive a joint Ph.D. from Brandeis University’s prestigious Florence Heller School for Social Welfare Policy and Management and the Department of Sociology.
LA Lunch and Learn: Imagining the Holding Environment with Ross Ellenhorn
Holding is not something simply given by one person to another. That is only half the story. Holding, instead, is an event, not a resource, and it is an event that depends completely on one person feeling held. To put it another way, we can be the best holders in the world, but if the comfort we’re providing to someone isn’t felt as so, there is no holding event. In this talk, Dr. Ellenhorn will lay the groundwork for future presentations related to this topic, by providing both a description of the complex act of holding another and a portrait of the corresponding experience of being held. As...Read more well as, discuss barriers in all of us that cause us to reject or resist holding. Less...
Learning Objectives
- Explain the integral relationship between holding and effective psychotherapy.
- Explain the dialectic nature of holding.
- Describe the relationship between feeling upheld and issues of loneliness.
Target Audience
This activity is designed for psychiatrists, clinical psychologists, social workers, licensed professional counselors, licensed marriage-and-family therapists, addictions professionals and other mental-health professionals in the greater mental-health community. All levels of experience are welcome.
Learning Levels
- All levels are welcome.
Thursday, January 23, 2025
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12:00 PM PST - 01:00 PM PST
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About the speaker
Ross Ellenhorn, MSW, PhD
Founder and CEO of Ellenhorn
Agenda
11:30 AM - 12:00 PM - Networking
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM CE Presentation
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