International Psychoanalysis

As we prepare to ring in the New Year, I offer some toasts:

* To Arnie Richards: Here’s to the Internationalpsychoanalysis.net blog — may it flourish and continue to feed our world with interesting articles and information on psychoanalysis.

* To all readers of the blog with hopes that more of you participate!

* To Elise Snyder: Congratulations on your inroads to China –may psychoanalytic thinking bridge our cultures.

* To Jurgen Reeder: Kudos for alerting us to the Hate and Love in Psychoanalytic Institutes: The Dilemma of the Profession in a scholarly manner, one from which we all can learn.

* To the IPA Planning Committee: congratulations on the Berlin conference.

* To Barbara Stimmel: Thank you for the fine work you and your committee did on representing North America in Berlin.

* To Claudio Laks Eizirik: Cheers for the leadership you have provided at the IPA.

* To Paul Mosher: Thank you for providing us all with a sense of history.

* To Glen Gabbard: Gratitude for making the APsaA meetings so rich.

* To the organizing committee of The Future of Psychoanalytic Education (Sam Herschkowitz, Kenneth Eisold, Lewis Aron, Jennifer Harper, Joann Turo, James Fosshage, Doonam Kim, Arlene Kramer Richards, and my co-chair Arnie Richards) thank you for producing the first and most successful ecumenical conference on this topic.

* To Charles Brenner, Martin Bergmann, and Peter Neubauer for their continued vitality and for being wonderful role models.

* To Elizabeth Gero-Heymann for celebrating her 104^th birthday.

* To Doris Silverman: kudos for the IPA newsletter.

* To all the presidents and board members of our many societies and institutes: thank you for your commitment and energy and time. Your leadership will take us into a successful future.

* To Dick Fox of APsaA for giving psychotherapy its rightful place in the sun.

* To the psychoanalytic journal editors: appreciation for keeping us informed and intellectually stimulated.

* To Norman Doidge: Thanks for telling us that the brain is indeed plastic and that we can add years to its functioning.

* To all the writers of psychoanalytic books and articles that teach us valuable lessons.

* To all the spouses: appreciation for your collective patience, tolerance, and support for your analytically involved mates.

* And most important: Deep gratitude to all the clinicians who do not necessarily make the news but who do the most important work.

Apologies to everyone I have not mentioned but who deserve cheers and best wishes for a successful and healthy New Year.

Peace!

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Symposium 2008: Responding to the Erotic Transference

March 8th and 9th, 2008

Mount Sinai Medical Center

100th Street and Madison Avenue

Click Here to Read: The Complete Symposium 2008 Brochure.

Click Here to Read:  Personal Reflections on Object Loss by Marion M. Oliner 

This article has been previously published: Oliner, Marion M. (2007, Fall). Personal Reflections on Object Loss. The Round Robin (Newsletter of Psychoanalytic Practitioners, Section 1, APA Division 39) 22 (3) and appears here with the requisite rights and permissions.

Click Here to Read: “On Civilization and Its Discontents, Philosophy and Psychoanalysis”: An Interview with Martin Bergmann. 

This article has been previously published: Kupersmidt, Jane (Fall 2007). “On Civilization and Its Discontents, Philosophy and Psychoanalysis”: An interview with Martin Bergmann. The Round Robin (Newsletter of Psychoanalytic Practitioners, Section 1, APA Division 39) 22 (3) and appears here with the requisite rights and permissions.

A Tale of Two States

By Stephen L. Richards and Jennifer Bishop Jenkins
 This is a tale of two states. Let’s call them State A and State B.

 Both State A and State B have the death penalty.

 In State A, the anti-death penalty movement is strong, well-financed, and well-publicized.

 In State B, the anti-death penalty movement is initially weaker, poorer, and not so well-publicized.

In State A, an innocent man, fitted for his burial shroud, comes within hours of execution.

In State B, no innocent man ever comes close to execution.

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The Panel “Constructing Our Psychoanalytic Ethos: How & What We Teach” was held at the Future of Psychoanalytic Education Conference at the Lycee Francais in New York City on December 1st, 2007.

Click Here to Read: Sandra Buechler’s Contribution

Click Here to Read: Heather Pyle’s Contribution 

Click Here to Read: Vicky Semel’s Contribution

Panel on “What Do We Educate For? The Role of Psychoanalysis in the Age of Psychotherapy” from the Future of Psychoanalytic Education Conference at the Lycee Francais in New York City on December 1st, 2007. 

Click Here to Read: James Fosshage’s Contribution

Click Here to Read: Joann Turo’s Contribution

Click Here to Read: Joseph Schachter’s Contribution

Pre-registration is encouraged for our ongoing discussion group on the
Psychodynamics of Spirituality, Discussion Group # 2 on Wednesday
January 16, 2008 at 9 a.m.* This year, Donald Marcus, MD will co-chair
with me in welcoming and discussing with our gifted presenter and member
of The American Psychoanalytic Association, Dr. Gerald J. Gargiulo.

Gerald J. Gargiulo, Ph.D. is a much sought after, delightful and engaging
speaker who has lectured throughout Canada, England, and the US. Dr.
Gargiulo has published over ninety articles in his thirty-six years of
practice, His creative thinking and deeply-rooted understanding of
spirituality, philosophy and psychoanalysis promises to bring forth a
new level of understanding, relating spirituality to psychoanalytic
practice.

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Lynn Moritz said in her address at the Future of Psychoanalytic Education Conference the following:

“I would even go so far as to muse that this conference was born partly from a covert agenda to punish the American–not to bring us together really, but rather to stabilize and strengthen the fact of our separateness. Some may even hope to do harm to the American, to weaken its influence.”

This ecumenical conference was my idea, and I would like to assure all of you that punishment and exclusion were not part of my agenda. Quite the opposite. So I would like to set the record straight with a brief history.

Our field has been fractious from the beginning. Those in Freud’s inner circle who dared to disagree were cast out; they formed their own factions and the battles began. While some feel energized by adversity and debate, I prefer to seek the security of unity. My wish is for all of the groups to join together, to derive strength in their combined numbers. We need not agree on everything, but we must respect one another’s positions.

For years I have experienced the competition of institutes and umbrella groups, oft times ignoring each other’s existence. For instance, there has been little, if any, cooperation between the 5 IPA institutes in New York (3 primarily medical and 2 primarily non medical). Each hold their own meetings and when there have been attempts to do something together (like the Freud 150th anniversary celebration at the Neue Galerie), we had difficulty acting in concert. Lynne is correct that the APsaA is a group that can and often does unite the IPA societies, but the burden should not rest on APsaA alone. (more…)

Click Here To Read: Proposals, Bios, and Abstracts of the Participants

Click Here to Read: Judith Logue’s Introduction

Click Here to Read: Lynne Moritz’s Contribution

Click Here to Read: David Ramirez’s Contribution

Click Here to Read:  Carola Mann’s Contribution

Click Here to Read: David Downing’s Contribution

 Click Here to Read: Sherry Katz-Bearnot’s Contribution

Click Here to Read: Drew Clemen’s Contribution

Click Here to Read: Judy Ann Kaplan’s Contribution

Rick Perlman:  Please note.  NO PERMISSION for posting of this talk on this website has been allowed by the author.  Go to CIPUSA to read it there.

Click Here to Read: Estelle Shane’s Contribution

Click Here to Read: Douglas Maxwell’s Contribution

Click Here to Read: Nancy McWilliams’s Contribution  

Click Here to Read: Roberta Smith’s New York Times Article from December 14th on Lucian Freud.

Click Here to Read: Jerome Winer’s article on “Frank Lloyd Wright: Power, Powerlessness, and Charisma” reprinted from the Annual of Psychoanalysis, 33:179-190 with the author’s permission.

I had never heard of It’s a Wonderful Life until one winter night in the early eighties. I was feeling out of sorts. I don’t remember the particular details but I know that I was feeling down, unfulfilled, frustrated, disappointed, perhaps lonely, unconfident, worried and otherwise unhappy. Those who have never felt that way need not read on.

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Click Here to Read: Part V of Arnold Richards’s interview with Charles Fisher: “The Middle Decades–1940 to 1969: Practice, Teaching, and Research.”

DISCUSSION GROUP 71 will meet at our usual time slot 4:45-7:15 PM on Thursday,
January 18, at the APsaA Meetings at the Waldorf Astori in New York City.  All attendees at the Winter Meeting are cordially invited to attend up to the space limits of our assigned room.

As momentum continues to build for the wide-spread conversion of medical records to electronic form, increasingly complicated and confusing issues arise as to if and how we can translate our traditional methods of maintaining the privacy of patient information into what may well become mandatory arrangements in the coming new world of health care.  If we hope to maintain the status of psychoanalysis as part of the health care system, we must face these challenges head on.

Continuing with our overall theme of exploring and discussing broad issues of psychoanalytic confidentiality in an interdisciplinary context, the Jaffee-Redmond The Discussion Group’s January meeting will again focus on the transition to the new world of electronic record-keeping and the challenges to privacy that we will be facing as a result.

We are most fortunate in having as our Guest Discussant for this meeting ROBERT PLOVNICK, M.S., M.D., Director, Dept. of Quality Improvement and Psychiatric Services, American Psychiatric Association.  Rob is both a psychiatrist and an “informatics” expert and is especially sensitive to the special privacy needs of psychiatric patients.  He has represented the APA in a wide variety of national forums where the actual structures of the electronic medical records systems of the future are NOW being negotiated. 

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DG #11. Conversations with Doctors:  From Balint Groups to Narrative Medicine
Wednesday, January 16 at the APsaA Meetings at the Waldorf Astoria in New York City at 2:00-4:30 PM

Co-chair and Facilitator:  Fred L. Griffin, M.D.  (Birmingham)
Co-chair and Presenter:  Randall H. Paulsen, M.D. (Boston)
Presenter:  Nina Calabresi, M.D. (Boston)

     Narrative medicine is an emergent field in which clinicians creatively write about their subjective experiences with patients and reflect upon what they learn about themselves and about clinical process.  The act of writing generates a reflective space, and seeing oneself with a patient on the written page may create a very powerful self-analytic process that increases the capacities for self-awareness and self-reflection.  Time-honored Balint Group work results in similar achievements by way of case presentations that are discussed by groups of physicians. 

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Click Here to Read: Gertraud Schlesinger-Kipps’ Welcome and Introduction to the IPA Berlin Conference in July 2007.

Evelyne Albrecht Schwaber and Grandson

Click here to read “Heeding the Vocabulary of Another Culture: Psychoanalysis in Japan” by Evelyne Albrecht Schwaber.

Discussion Group #86:  Jane Hall and Liz Fritsch announce the discussion group: Deepening the Treatment (#86)  at the APsaA meetings at the Waldorf Astoria in New York City on January 18 at 7:30PM. This year we feature presentations by Debra Gill and Ellen Sinkman on how their patients shifted from psychotherapy to psychoanalysis. This is the fourth year the group has been offered and we have been sold out in New York each  time. We also discuss how to deepen psychothereutic work in general.
Please join us.