International Psychoanalysis

Click Here to Read:  Arnold Cooper’s Introduction to Anna Ornstein’s Plenary given at the American Psychoanlytic Association’s Winter Meetings at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City on January 26th, 2008.  

Click Here to Read: Abraham Sutzkever’s Poem “To My Child” quoted in Anna Ornstein’s Plenary.  

Anna Ornstein 

The  Poem “To My Child” by Abraham Sutzkever was used in Anna Ornstein’s Plenary at the American Psychoanalytic Association’s Meetings at the Waldorf Astoria on January 19th, 2008.

Click Here to Read the Poem in English.

Clicnk Here to Read the Poem in Yiddish. 

Click Here for: A Review Abraham Suztkever’s  Poetry by Ruth Wisse on The National Yiddish Book Center Website. 

Those of you in analytic training have a lot to think about in today’s world. The market place continues to change due to both the insurance industry (particularly managed care) and due to society’s wish for fast cures. But the wish on your part to understand people and what makes them tick is really a calling. A calling, in my mind, is a pull that tugs strongly at your heartstrings – that keeps you going – no matter what. So, I salute all of you for your dedication. And I applaud all of you for following your hearts.

Psychoanalytic education is more exciting than ever; the study of human development is richer and the knowledge already available from the study of genetics is mind boggling. Neuroscientists are proving that our work does affect the brain, but psychoanalysts know that nature is only part of the situation….

This presentation was given at the APsaA meetings to the Affiliate Council. Many requested a copy so here it is.

Click Here to Read: Rosemary Balsam’s introduction for Robert Pinsky’s Plenary Speech   The Fate of The Modern” APsaA Meeting,  Jan 18th, 2008, at the Waldorf Astoria, NYC.

 Click Here for: A Review of Robert Pinsky’s Work by Neil Scheurich

Click Here for: Dying, 10 Poems by Robert Pinsky and an Interview, posted on Life, Dreams, and Reality, Sohel’s Blog. 

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  

Public release date: 9-Jan-2008
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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.

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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 

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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. Read the rest of this entry »

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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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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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.

We invite you to our discussion group #90 on Loneliness and Aloneness on Thursday January 17 from 7:30 to 10 pm at the Waldorf Astoria in New York City at the ApsaA meetings.

We will have a presentation of a four times per week analytic treatment of a young woman with a schizo-affective disorder who is using anti-psychotic medication. The problem most prominent in her life is fear of loneliness combined with fear of intimacy. Careening between these dangers, she had become unable to function. Understanding her feelings, wishes, moral scruples, and defenses is demonstrated to have an effect on her life choices and the satisfaction she can derive from them.

Those interested in a review of the literature please see our paper “On being lonely, socially isolated and single” on www.internationalpsychoanalysis.net.
Lucille Spira and Arlene Kramer Richards

212-371-1550 212-369-1379

Wednesday, January 16 7:30-10:00 PM at the APsaA meetings at the Waldorf Astoria

Co-chairs: Fred L. Griffin, MD (Birmingham, AL)
Jane S. Hall, LCSW, FIPA (New York, NY)
Presenter: Iris Sugarman, LCSW, FIPA, BCD (New York, NY)

Please join us on Wednesday night 7:30 PM for our discussion group. We are pleased that Iris Sugarman, LCSW, FIPA, BCD will be making a presentation entitled, “Supervision Revisited—Contributions and Challenges.” After discussing writers whose work has deepened her understanding of the supervisory process, she will make comments about
the liabilities inherent in being a supervisee, followed by a case presentation. Read the rest of this entry »

Please note: The correct time is Thursday January 17 7:30 -10:00 PM. Learn about what is happening in China with regard to psychoanalysis. There are now about 15 analyses being conducted there via SKYPE, a free audio-visual Internet protocal. Find out how you can participate. Hear about cultural differences (or the lack thereof) in doing analysis in China. All are welcome

Leo Rangell             Guarneri String Quartet 

Discussion Group # 88: PSYCHOANALYTIC PERSPECTIVES ON MUSIC. Thursday,
January 17 at 7:30 p.m. At the Waldorf   during the ApsaA Winter Meetings

Our distinguished presenter will be Leo Rangell, M.D., sharing excerpts from
his soon-to-be-published book “Music in the Head: Living at the Brain-Mind
Border”.  The discussant will be Arnold Steinhardt, first violinist of the
world  reknowned  Guarneri String Quartet and the author of two highly
regarded books on music, “Indivisible by Four” A String Quartet in Pursuit
of Harmony” (1998) and “Violin Dreams” (2006).  We hope to see you at what
promises to be an exciting an unique evening.

Julie Jaffee Nagel, Ph.D. and Alexander Stein, Ph.D., Co-Chairs