International Psychoanalysis

Click here To Read: “Plea for a Measure of Privacy in Psychoanalytic Education” by Isaac Tylim from the Future of Psychoanalytic Education Conference, held on December 1st and 2nd 2007 at the Lycee Francais in New York City.

The International Psychoanalytic website is pleased to present an important op ed piece by Marian Tolpin. This eminent analyst from Chicago explains clearly, articulately, and persuasively why the training analyst title should be retired. The Executive Board of the International Psychoanalytic Association would not permit its publication. The International Psychoanalytic Blog stands for freedom of expression and welcomes comments on this important and timely article.

Jane S. Hall
Op Ed Editor

Thoughts on the Group Self of psychoanalysis,
in light of the controversy over Training Analysis status

Marian Tolpin, M.D.

There is currently a great deal of debate taking place in psychoanalytic training centers, around the world and here in the United States, concerning whether there should be a separate category of graduate psychoanalysts designated as specially qualified to analyze future psychoanalysts. Among those who do believe that there needs to be such a category, further debate has raged on what that special qualification might entail and on the particulars of how (when, by whom) it should be established and evaluated.

In what follows below I reflect on my own experiences in regard to this category and on the lengthy history of the Training Analysis question as a disruptive force in institutional psychoanalysis. As I consider why this fractious issue, which has caused so much dissension in our profession, remains perpetually unresolved, I conclude that the Training Analysis serves a Group Self cohesive function. As such, it joins a list of other myths that have served that function in the past; myths that were clung to but ultimately had to be relinquished in the face of contradictory evidence. Read the rest of this entry »

The following articles on The Future of Psychoanalytic Education Conference appeared in the NAAP News, Volume 31 Issue 1 (Winter 2008).

Click Here to Read: The Imposible Profession by Rob Marchesani.

Click Here to Read: The Future of Psychoanalytic Education: Psychoanalysis, Universities, and the New Cultural World by Frederick Feirstein.

Click Here to Read: Contemporary Psychoanalytic Education: Analyzing the Challenges and Proposing Some Changes—a Roundtable and “Umbrella Panel” by Norman A. (“Drew”) Clemens, Judith Logue, and Estelle Shane.

Click Here to Read: Constructing Our Psychoanalytic Ethos:  How and What We Teach–impressions by Robert  Quackenbush.

Click Here to Read: Educating Psychoanalysts in Today’s Regulated World:  Licensing and Other Matters by Paul W. Mosher, Mary Beth Cresci, Cj Churchill, Phee Rosnick, Sy Coopersmith, and Arlene Kramer Richards.

Click Here to Read: Power and Authority in Institute Life by Joseph Scalia III,

Click Here to Read: What Do We Educate For? The Role of Psychoanalysis in The Age of Psychotherapy by William Hurst. 

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

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. Read the rest of this entry »

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  

Educating Psychoanalysts in Today’s Regulated World: Licensing and Other Matters Panel at the Future of Psychoanalytic Education Conference at Lycee Francias in New York City on December 2nd, 2008.

Click Here to Read: Paul Mosher’s Introduction

Click Here to Read: Mary Beth Cresci’s Contribution

Click Here to Read: CJ Churchill and Phee Rosnick’s Contribution

Click Here To Read: Sy Coopersmith’s Contribution 

Click Here to Read: Arlene Kramer Richards’s Contribution 

Click Here to Read:  Future of Psychoanalytic Education Conference Round Table chair Judith Logue’s Presentation at the Lycee Francias on December 2nd, 2007.

Click Here to Read: Panel on Power and Authority in Institute Life Chaired by Thomas Bartlett and including Chap Attwell, Carol B. Levin, Sandra G. Hershberg, Mitchell Wilson, and Warren Procci from the Future of Psychoanalytic Education Conference at The Future of Psychoanalytic Education Conference at Lycee Francais in New York City on December 1st and 2nd, 2007. 

What lingers most in my mind about the Future of Psychoanalytic Education conference on Dec. 1 & 2 is the vibe, the feeling that was palpable – in the cafeteria, the ladies room, the book selling space, and during the coffee breaks. I kept hearing people say “thank you” to me – and I was tremendously moved. It seemed to me that the very opportunity to meet together as a group of dedicated analysts, no matter what our affiliation, made everyone a bit high. Overcoming our differences enough to speak with civility, respect, and even warmth gave me real hope for our future. Listening to each other speak from the heart is our calling and we did ourselves proud, in my opinion. Yes, there are hurdles to jump, but the very fact that so many people from so many states found a way to participate in the meeting must be emblematic of our energy and dedication – our love for our work. It is just that energy, dedication, and love that will not only keep us afloat, it will allow us to soar.

The seeds of ecumenicalism have been planted – and if we tend to them, they will blossom. I thank all of you who participated and look forward to seeing you next year.

Click Here to Read: Arnold Richards’s Closing Remark’s from the Future of Psychoanalytic Education Conference held on December 1st and 2nd at the Lycee Francais in New York City.  

Click Here to View: Powerpoint that accompanied Arnold Richards’s remarks.  

Click Here to Read:  Jurgen Reeder’s Keynote Address on “Ethos and care: Themes for Reflection upon the Future of Psychoanalytic Education”  from the Future of Psychoanalytic Education Conference held on December 1st and December 2nd at the Lycee Francais in New York City.

Click Here to Read: Jennifer Harper’s Discussion of Jurgen Reeder’s Keynote Address at the same conference.

Click Here: for the Book Mart to Buy Jurgen Reeder’s Book. 

Clich Here to Read: Jane Hall’s Introduction to the Future of Psychoanalytic Education Conference which took place on Saturday December 1st and Sunday December 2nd at the Lycee Francais in New York City.