Click Here to Read: Interpreting Joseph, the Dreamer, the Dream Interpreter, the Story by Nathan Szajnberg. This article has not been published previously.
Image to the Left: Joseph Interprets Dreams in Prison (painting by Friedrich Wilhelm Schadow).
The following is an abstract of a paper which will appear shortly in the New
England Journal of Medicine on the efficacy of anti-depressants.
Click Here to Read: Abstract and Full Article: Selective Publication of Antidepressant Trials and Its Influence on Apparent Efficacy By Erick H. Turner, M.D., Annette M. Matthews, M.D., Eftihia Linardatos, B.S., Robert A. Tell, L.C.S.W., and Robert Rosenthal, Ph.D.
This morning (Thursday) at the Oral History Workshop of the American Psychoanalytic Association Meeting, Nellie Thompson, in discussing the life and contributions of Bertram Lewin mentioned his 1935 paper on “Claustrophobia”, reminding me that I had come across it years ago while preparing a discussion of the film, How to Make an American Quilt.
In his paper, Lewin tells of a young woman who had “ordered her life in general so as to escape marriage and the male sex.” From her arrangement of her room, her dreams, and her associations, Lewin convincingly concluded that “the patient was imagining herself a foetus in the maternal body—but this idea did not cause anxiety. Indeed, on the contrary, this was an idea of safety or defense. The anxiety arose when the defensive wall was threatened, that is to say, when the penis entered or threatened to touch her . . . The intrauterine fantasy is one of defense (flight) and relief from anxiety; the anxiety arises with the idea of being disturbed or dislodged by the father or father’s penis.” The other fear that disturbed the patient’s fantasy of being in the womb was of being born. Finn, the young woman who is the center of How to Make an American Quilt, has a similar problem. (more…)
9:45 a.m.-11:15 a.m.
Plenary Address: The Fate of the Modern
Chair: K. Lynne Moritz, M.D., President, (St. Louis, MO) Introducer: Rosemary Balsam, M.D. (New Haven, CT) Speaker: Robert Pinsky (Boston, MA)
Former United States Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky will explore the following questions: How is the work of psychotherapy like and unlike the work of art? How is the history of psychoanalysis like and unlike the history of modern poetry? Also a translator and
an essayist, Pinsky teaches in the graduate writing program at Boston University. His seventh volume of poetry, Gulf Music,is being published October 2007, by Farrar,Straus and Giroux.
Click Here to Read: Howard Shevrin’s Introduction to Robert Pinksy’s Essay on Psychiatrists.
Click Here to Read: Robert Pinsky’s Poem: Essay on Psychiatrists.
Click Here to Read: Review of Robert Pinsky’s The Figured Wheel: New and Collected Poems 1966-1996 by Katha Pollitt in the New York Times.
Click Here to Listen to: Favorite Poems Project. A partnership among Boston University, the Library of Congress and other organizations with major funding from the National Endowment from the Arts and the Carnegie Corporation of New York.
See particularly: “Nick and The Candlestick” by Sylvia Plath, read by Seth Rodney, Photographer, Long Beach, CA.
“Untitled Tanka (The Lower Leaves of Trees)” by Sone No Yoshitada translated by Ken Rexroth read by Kiyoshi Houston, Student, Santa Monica, CA.
“Sonnett 29″ by William Shakespeare read by Daniel McCall, Retired Anthopologist, Boston, MA
I am posting this announcement on behalf of Dr. Horst Kaechele who has come to New York City this week to teach at the William Alanson White Institute and attend the APsaA meetings. If you are at the meetings you can seek him out for a discussion of his research work in Ulm, Germany.
To make an appointment, please email me or call: 212-787-1068
Dr Kaechele offers the entire text (in English,German, Italian and Russian) of the two volume work “Psychoanalytic Practice” by Thomae and Kaechele to students in all disciplines and at all levels of experience, including our members interested in this significant work now published in over a dozen languages.
Judith S. Schachter
Click here to Read and Download this work.
Alexander Grinstein died on Tuesday, December 11, 2007. Dr. Alexander Grinstein was a central figure in the establishment of the Michigan Psychoanalytic Institute and a world-renowned psychoanalytic scholar. The Michigan Psychoanalytic Foundation has established a Memorial Fund to honor the contributions of Dr. Grinstein.
Click Here to Read: Deanna Holzman, Ph.D.’s Obituary of Alexander Grinstein, M.D.
Public release date: 9-Jan-2008
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Contact: Dottie Jeffries
djeffries@apsa.org
212-752-0450 x29
American Psychoanalytic Association
Uses of medications in psychoanalysis Potential benefits and drawbacks
As Americans increasingly seek a “quick fix” to physical and mental ailments, psychoanalysts can be caught in the crossfire of a debate about the potential benefits and drawbacks of including medication in their treatment plans. A panel discussion entitled, “The Uses of Medications in Psychoanalysis: What We Know; What is Uncertain,” will be led by internationally renowned psychoanalyst Glen O. Gabbard, M.D., at the American Psychoanalytic Association’s 2008 Winter Meeting. The panel discussion will be held on Friday, January 18, 2008, from 2-5 p.m. at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York. Media are invited to attend.
Discussion Group #80 Analytic neutrality in couple and family therapy
Thursday 4:45-7:15 pm Devember 17th at the APsaA Meetings at the Waldorf-Astoria
For anyone wanting to attend this DG on the use of neutrality in couple and family therapy contact me and I will send out an invitation with our agenda and an attachment that will serve as background for exploring clinical data.
Fred Sander (for John Pareja, and Marv Nierenberg)
The New York Study Group on Analytic Couple and Family Therapy
Click Here to Read: Perversion, Fetish, and Creativity: The Fate of Desire in “Utz” by Anita Weinreb Katz.
An earlier version of this paper was presented on November 8th, 2002, at the colloquium “Looking Out, Looking In: Cinema and Psychoanalysis” sponsored by the New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis.
Click Here to Read: God in Mind: The Psychodynamics of an Unsual Relationship by Ana-Maria Rizzuto.
This article has been previously published–Rizzuto, Ana-Maria. (2006-2007). God in Mind: The Psychodynamics of an Unsual Relationship. The Annual of Psychoanalysis 34-33: Sprituality and Religion: Psychoanalytic Perspectives, pp. 25-46 and appears here with the requisite rights and permissions.
Proclamation on Psychologists’ and Other Professionals’ Participation in Coercive Interrogation
Description/History:
Psychologists have participated and continue to participate in illegal and unethical coercive interrogations and related activities in detention centers at Guantanamo Bay and elsewhere.
The American Psychological Association has thus far declined to condemn such participation in absolute terms.
This is in contrast to most other professional organizations including the American Psychiatric Association. (more…)
Click Here to Read: Responsibilities, Risks, and Ramifications by Judy Leopold Kantrowitz reviewed by Tony O’Brien on the Metapsychology Online Reviews Website.
Click here to Read: “Practical Psychoanalysis for Therapists and Patients” by Owen Renik, reviewed by Andrew Pollock.
Click Here to Read: Dreaming by the Book: Freud’s Interpretation of Dreams and the Psychoanalytic Movement by Lydia Marinelli and Andreas Mayer reviewed by Arnold D. Richards.
This article has been previously published
Richards, Arnold (2007, Summer). Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association 55(3), 1085-1090 and appears here with the requisite rights and permissions.
Click Here to Read: David Sach’s Contribution on “Placing Symptoms in a Cultural Context” given at the Panama Conference on October 6, 2007. This aticle has not been published.
From Oct.24 to Oct.28 , here in Panama, the First School of Psychoanalysis sponsored by ILAP (LatinAmerican Psychoanalytic Institute), an IPA affiliated organization, took place. Invited and Present were Dr. Claudio Laks Eizirik ,IPA Presiden-Brazil, Dr. Juan Carlos Jimenez, FEPAL President-Chile, Dr. Paolo Fonda-Director for the Institute for Eastern Europe- Italy Dr. David Sachs-Director for Allied Centers-IPA- USA, Dr. Javier Garcia-Director of ILAP-Uruguay. (more…)
Discussion Group #59: Educators and Analysts Working Together:
A Collaborative Approach to Optimize School Climate and Learning in an Independent School
Date: Thursday January 17, 2008
Time: 2:00 – 4:30 P.M.
Chair & Presenter: Stephen Kerzner, M.D.
Co-Chair & Discussant: Dan Frank, Ph.D., Principal, Francis W. Parker School, Chicago, IL and Publisher of the journal, Schools
Discussant: Christine Kieffer, Ph.D.
Presenter: William C. Bussey, Educator, Counsellor and Provost, Noble & Greenough School, Dedham, MA
This group is geared to psychoanalysts and other mental health professionals with an interest in education, as well as APsaA Educator Associates and other K-12 educators.
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An Invitation from Alice Maher:
Please come to our symposium on Saturday, January 19th, at 12:00 PM at the American Winter Meetings at the Waldorf Astoria to hear Prudy Gorguechon, Mark Smaller and Jeff Taxman discuss the topic, “Is Community Psychoanalysis ‘Real’ Enough to Be Made Part of the Core Curriculum?” I’m excited to catalyze a discussion that will address the vitally important intersection of the theoretical and applied aspects of our work.
Until recently, when APsaA members referred to analytic work in the community, most of you would think of the word “analytic” with quotation marks around it. It was the copper, not the “pure gold” of classical analysis. Those who worked outside the consulting room were considered to be the ones who couldn’t tolerate the intensity of individual work and needed to dilute it. (more…)
As you may recall there was a very active discussion of Yale Kramers article ”Special Report: 33 Dead” about the Virginia Tech murders.
Click Here for: The Virginia Tech Review Panel Final Report
Click Here for: Yale Kramer’s Article and Others’ Comments
