International Psychoanalysis

Click Here to Read:  Ruth Stein’s Introduction to the Panel, “Instinct and Drive, Seduction and Otherness” at the Berlin Congress on July 26, 2007.

An editorial by Jane S. Hall

I am dizzy, perplexed, confused, and distracted by all the debates on standards and credentials taking place in the United States. At APsaA there is something called certification after graduation that many see as unfair and archaic; at CIPS people have differing opinions about the NAAP inspired licensing bill; at NYFS there are some (not many) who disagree with the new, non-evaluatory policy about selection of training analysts; in California, a state where people have to drive sometimes long distances for therapy, some analysts in training wish that three times a week was acceptable for a training case; and surely, there are other debates I know nothing about. Instead of focusing on the facts that psychoanalysis is far from the public’s mind and that there is a dearth of candidates, too much energy is being spent on deciding just how many hoops one must jump through to call themselves an analyst and then a training analyst. My plea is for ecumenical cooperation to replace the infighting that is draining our field of the energy needed to re-build the reputation of psychoanalysis as a valid form of treatment and study. (more…)

Click Here to Read: Sverre Varvin’s Contribution to the Panel on “ Resilience and Depletion” from the Berlin Congress, July 25, 2007.

Click Here to Read: Luis Kancyper’s Contribution from the Panel on “Hope in a Time of Cholera: Psychoanalytic Reflections” at the Berlin Congress, July 27th, 2007.     

Click Here to Read: Isidoro Berenstein’s Contribution from the panel on “Psychoanalytic reflections on the body in Racism, Homophobia and Misogyny” from the Berlin Congress, July 25, 2007.  This contribution is in Spanish.