IPA News 

Teleconference Committee Chair Phyllis Sloate reports that five CIPS study groups are underway. For additional details click here > 

Bion Study Groups have room for additional participants. Interested individuals should contact the facilitators directly. James Gooch may be reached by email at drsgooch@aol.com. Maxine Anderson may be reached by email at maxinekander@gmail.com.

Here is a complete listing of current study groups and facilitator(s):

A Fruitful Harvest: Essays After Bion - Jeffrey Eaton, LMHC, FIPA (NPS)

Bion 1 - Maxine Anderson, MD, FIPA (NPS) and Marianne Robinson, PhD, FIPA (NPS)

Bion 2 - James Gooch, MD, FIPA (PCC)

Creating A Psychoanalytic Mind - Fred Busch, PhD, FIPA (IPTAR & PINE)

Enactment - Nancy Goodman, PhD, FIPA (DMS & CFS)

Institute for Psychoanalytic Training & Research (IPTAR)

• On October 13-14, 2012 IPTAR sponsored a conference to honor the psychoanalytic contributions of Norbert Freedman and Irving Steingart on the analyst's receptivity. The presenter panel moderated by Sheldon Bach included psychoanalysts Giuseppe Civitarese, Larry Brown, Lissa Weinstein, and Steven Ellman. Each panelist shared his or her conceptual overview of clinical process with special attention to the theme of analytic receptivity. Theoretical perspectives included Bionian, Kleinian, Field Theory, and Contemporary Freudian concepts. Recently graduated analysts presented case material for commentary by the panel of presenters. 

• On Saturday, November 3, 2012, Fred Busch, PhD, FIPA will give a presentation on "Ego Psychology in the Analytic Encounter: Where We have Been, Where We are Now, Where We are Going" and respond to a clinical case presentation by Marilyn Rifkin, LCSW, FIPA.
  
  Fred Busch, PhD, FIPA is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the PINE Psychoanalytic Center, a member of IPTAR, the Boston Psychoanalytic Institute, and the Massachusetts Institute of Psychoanalysis. He has published over 60 articles in the psychoanalytic literature, and two books, primarily on the method and theory of treatment. His third book, Creating a Psychoanalytic Mind: A Method and Theory of Psychoanalysis, will be published by Routledge in 2013. 
  
  Marilyn Rifkin, LCSW, FIPA is a psychoanalyst in private practice in New York and Westchester, working with children, adolescents and adults. She is a member and on the Board of Directors at IPTAR and serves on the faculty of IPTAR's Child and Adolescent training program, where she teaches a course on Early Transference and Countertransference.  She is also the current Recording Secretary for the CIPS Board.   

Los Angeles Institute & Society for Psychoanalytic Study (LAISPS) 

• On Saturday, December 8, 2012, LAISPS will host Giuseppe Civitarese for a daylong workshop. The author of "The Intimate Room: Theory and Technique of the Analytic Field," and the forthcoming "The Violence of Emotions: Bionian and Post-Bionian Psychoanalysis," Civitarese has created his own lively theory of psychoanalytic work by synthesizing the work of Bion, Intersubjective Field Theory, and the work of Thomas Ogden.     

• During the 2012-2013 academic year, LAISPS will launch an ongoing series of lectures and seminars on psychoanalysis and its relation to culture entitled: "Cross-Currents in Psychoanalysis."   

• "Psychoanalysis and Society in Times of Global Crisis," with Jungian analyst Andrew Samuels, respected author and internationally renowned Professor of Analytical Psychology at Essex, London, was held on October 6, 2012, and was co-sponsored by the LAISPS Ernest S Lawrence Trauma Center. One of the many topics covered was the role of psychoanalysis and psychotherapy in relation to political problems and processes.   

• The Ernest S Lawrence Trauma Center and LAISPS have formed a Psychoanalytic Film Club. Members view and discuss feature length narrative films that explore aspects of psychosocial trauma, including migration, war, poverty, and interpersonal violence. Films to be included are "El Norte," "Pray the Devil Back to Hell," and "Winter's Bone."   

Northwestern Psychoanalytic Society (NPS)   

• In July 2012, David Jachim, PhD, FIPA became President of NPS.  

• This year's EBOR Conference, sponsored by NPS, brought together participants from the United Kingdom, Germany, South America, Canada, and throughout the United States to discuss and elaborate upon the role of emotion and meaning in contemporary British Object Relations as applied to clinical and theoretical understandings of Oedipal constellations. Featured plenary presenters included Richard Rusbridger, FIPA (London), Gisela Klinckwort, FIPA (Munich), and Michael Ian Paul, MD, FIPA (Beverly Hills) along with moderator Robert Oelsner, FIPA (Seattle).
  
  In addition to plenary presentations, participants had the opportunity to attend individual paper sessions related to the theme of the conference. These small group sessions allowed for intimate in-depth discussion of Oedipal dynamics facilitated by NPS candidate and analyst members.
  
  Save-the-Date information for the Tenth International Evolving British Object Relations Conference, scheduled for October 2014, will be available in the next issue of CIPS News Brief. We hope that many of our CIPS colleagues will join us for this special year celebrating ten years of ongoing study in Seattle of psychoanalytic theory from a British Object Relations perspective.  

• NPS is, for the first time, offering a course on infant observation tailored to the needs of psychotherapists in the Seattle mental health community. This course, which has long been a central part of psychoanalytic training, is now available to licensed mental health professionals interested in enhancing their professional development in British Object Relations theory and practice. Three sections of the course, which extends to the observed infant's first birthday, will be taught by psychoanalysts Judy K Eekhoff, PhD, FIPA and Rikki Ricard, LMHC, FIPA; Dana Blue, LICSW, FIPA and Caron Harrang, LICSW, FIPA; and Marianne Robinson LICSW, FIPA.  

Psychoanalytic Center of California (PCC)