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Caron Harrang, LICSW, FIPA
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Dear Members, Here it is fall again with the accompanying flurry of activity as institute classes begin after a very full summer. The fullness of summer owing to the IPA/IPSO Congress in Prague attended by over 2000 analysts and candidates from around the world. We pay tribute to the richness of this important international gathering by sharing some reviews of conference presentations written by CIPS members in International News (below).  | |
Lisa Halotek, PsyD, FIPA
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Also featured in this issue is President Randi Wirth's inaugural letter to members introducing her vision for the organization. We also have a memorial tribute to beloved CIPS member, Hedda Bolgar (LAISPS) who died on May 13, 2013. And, as in every issue, we share news from each of the CIPS Societies. Of special note is the name change of one of our CIPS Societies. Northwestern Psychoanalytic Society (NPS) has been renamed Northwestern Psychoanalytic Society and Institute (NPSI). We have one correction from the last issue: In Jon Tabakin's special report, On John Steiner's "Seeing and Being Seen", John Lundgren's comments were described as being part of the audience discussion. The author wishes to correct that impression by noting that Lundgren was an invited discussant to Steiner's presentation. Finally, Lisa and I want to thank everyone who contributed news for this issue and encourage, particularly, our Direct Society members to send announcements, conference reviews and the like to our reporter Jared Russell, who covers news from IPTAR and the Direct Member Society, at jaredkrussell@hotmail.com. If you are a Direct Member, please feel free to contact Jared to introduce yourself or with questions about what news is appropriate for inclusion in the News Brief. Other details about contacting the editors can be found at the bottom of this and every News Brief. Caron Harrang, LICSW, FIPA Managing Editor enewseditor@cipsusa.org Lisa Halotek, PsyD, FIPA Assistant Managing Editor |
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CIPS Board of Directors
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* President: Randi Wirth (IPTAR)
* Past-President: Leigh Tobias (PCC)
* Vice President: Terrence McBride (PCC)
* Treasurer: Sandra Borden (IPTAR)
* Recording Secretary: Marilyn Rifkin (IPTAR)
Directors:
Directors represent the interests of their local society and institute on the CIPS Board of Directors and attend monthly teleconference meetings chaired by the President. Any candidate or member may attend a CIPS Board meeting (except when the board is in executive session) to learn more about the organization and how to become more involved. Contact your local society director(s) if you are interested.
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Letter from the President
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It is with both great excitement and a deep sense of commitment that I write this letter for the CIPS News Brief, my first as President of this organization, which plays an integral role within the larger psychoanalytic arena. For over a decade, CIPS has been an active part of my professional and personal life. My first position when I joined the board was as Editor of the CIPS News Brief. I marvel at how this "newsletter" has grown under the editorship of Caron Harrang, LICSW, FIPA and Lisa Halotek, PsyD, FIPA into the dynamic web-integrated publication you read today, rich in content, news and resources, and dedicated to connecting our membership both with each other and with the larger psychoanalytic community.
There is much to look forward to in the coming year within the CIPS community, but first a look back. The CIPS Breakfast at the IPA 48th Congress in Prague was a great success, well attended and lively, allowing members from our constituent societies to reconnect or perhaps put a name to a face for the first time. One of the greatest benefits CIPS provides is the chance to share perspectives and experiences with colleagues from around the country. This culminates in the CIPS Biennial Clinical Conference that is slated for May 2014.
The next few months are rich with events and opportunities that I urge you to take advantage of. The CIPS Board is very excited about the release of the sixth book in the CIPS Book Series on Psychoanalytic Boundaries entitled Battling the Life and Death Forces of Sadomasochism: Clinical Perspectives. This brilliant book is edited by Harriet I Basseches, PhD, FIPA, Paula L Ellman, PhD, FIPA, and Nancy R Goodman, PhD, FIPA. There will be events connected to the book's publication in New York, Washington, DC and Los Angeles.
CIPS sponsors a variety of ongoing study opportunities and teleconferences. We are pleased that Joseph Aguayo, PhD, FIPA (PCC), Maxine Anderson, MD, FIPA (NPSI), Marianne Robinson, PhD, FIPA (NPSI), and Nancy Goodman, PhD, FIPA (DMS & CFS) are leading a teleconference for CIPS candidates and members who are interested in exploring topics ranging from Bion's clinical ideas (Aguayo by way of his new book, Wilfred Bion's Los Angeles Seminars and Supervision) to enactments. We are happy to announce that Fred Bush, PhD, FIPA (IPTAR) will return this winter to host his seminar, Creating a Psychoanalytic Mind. Details will be forthcoming and available on our website.
As mentioned earlier, the next CIPS Clinical Conference will be held this coming May in New York City. If you have never attended a Clinical Conference, we encourage both new and returning members and candidates to join us. The conference follows a small group format allowing participants to present casework and share clinical experience with colleagues from around the country. Those who have previously attended know well how the intimate setting fosters a unique framework for learning. Details are being finalized, and I can assure you that Manhattan's singular "personality" will be integrated into the clinical and social framework of the weekend.
I wish you all the best in the coming months and encourage you to contact me if you would like to become more involved in CIPS.
Warmest Regards,
Randi Wirth, PhD, FIPA
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IPA Congress Reviews
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"Facing The Pain: Clinical Experience and the Development of Psychoanalytic Knowledge"
The IPA held its 48th Congress from July 31 to August 3, 2013 at the Prague Hilton, Czech Republic. This Congress focused on how the psychoanalytic process is transformed from the analyst's initial and inchoate conceptualizations to more coherent theories that can be communicated and investigated by empirical methods. Congress activities included work groups, small discussion groups, individual papers, panels, poster sessions, meet the analyst/author sessions, and films.
We invited those who attended to share their impressions of a particular panel or paper with us. What follows are three essays by Judy K Eekhoff (NPSI), Lisa Halotek (LAISPS), and Leigh Tobias (PCC).
Beyond Plurality - The IPA Committee on Conceptual Integration: Werner Bohleber, Peter Fonagy, Juan Pablo Jimenez, Dominique Scarfone, Sverre Varvin, and Samuel Zysman
By Judy K Eekhoff, PhD, FIPA
For me, attending an international congress where presenters approach differing versions of concepts that are seemingly familiar is a continual stretch. First I must listen, then I must attempt to understand, and then compare what I think I understand with what I think myself. Needless to say, doing this with many presentations over the four days of the congress was an intellectual and emotional feast. I am therefore grateful to have discovered a model for approaching my listening and comparing. Creating such a model and using a concept to demonstrate was the focus of this committee. The work they presented was a summary of four years of research and collaboration.
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Inside Out - An Observation Of Psychotic States Of Mind In Both Analyst And Patient: Louise Hird
By Lisa Halotek, PsyD, FIPA
The IPSO Congress in Prague was an enriching and thought provoking experience as I witnessed firsthand what candidate colleagues around the world are thinking and writing about. I was deeply touched by one paper in particular by a colleague from Sydney, Australia who wanted to go deeper into psychotic processes by doing a different kind of "observation."
It has become a common experience for candidates in psychoanalytic training to partake of an infant observation. A rich part of psychoanalytic training, Infant Observation allows the developing psychoanalyst an opportunity to observe and experience the impact of emotional events on a developing mind. The challenge for the observer is to develop an analytic attitude while experiencing the organic unfolding mother/infant dyad. It is a lived experience that the candidate can draw on to fund clinical observation in psychoanalytic work with patients of all ages.
Louise Hird, a clinical psychologist from the Sydney Institute for Psychoanalysis, has expanded on this experience through her weekly observations on an inpatient psychiatric ward, and described it in her award winning paper, "Inside Out - An Observation of Psychotic States of Mind In Both Analyst And Patient." Hird's paper won an IPSO Writing Award for the 22nd Congress.
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Happy Prague: Reflections on the 48th IPA Congress
By Leigh Tobias, PhD, FIPA
The 48th IPA Congress, held in Prague July 31 to August 3, this past summer was for me a warm and lively experience. The Congress theme of "Facing the Pain" brought many valuable presenters and participants together. Not all of the experience of Prague is indeed happy, and yet the setting of this old, experienced city did facilitate serious and playful reflection alike.
Both CIPS members and candidates contributed papers, chaired panels, released books, and participated in sessions. There are several reports in this News Brief reflecting the variety of those contributions. I would still like to mention those CIPS members who presented: Joseph Aguayo (PCC), Maxine Anderson (NPSI), Harriet Basseches (DM), Raquel Berman (DM), Fred Busch (DM), Paula Ellman (DM), James Gooch (PCC), Nancy Goodman (DM), Lisa Halotek (LAISPS), Barnet Malin (PCC), Robert Oelsner (NPSI), Marianne Robinson (NPSI, PCC), and Joanne Turo (DM).
CIPS successfully hosted the announced breakfast on Friday morning, August 2, and even at 7am we had over 40 attendees, a good number for the Congress. It was a lively group, with ample fare, and the discussions were collegial and generative. Several members of the IPA Board attended, and several other members joined us and learned more about CIPS.
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By Maureen Murphy, PhD, FIPA
NAPsaC Officers: Maureen Murphy (Chair); Beth Kalish (Co-Chair); Leigh Tobias (Secretary); David Falk (Treasurer) Board of Directors: Andrew Brook (CPS), Caron Harrang (NPSI), Peggy Porter (LAISPS), Phyllis Sloate (IPTAR), Mark Smaller (APsaA), Leigh Tobias (PCC), Joann Turo (CFS) Alternate Directors: Dana Blue (NPSI), Margaret Ann Hanly (CPS), Beth Kalish (LAISPS), Robert Pyles (APsaA), Charles Spezzano (PINC), Joann Turo (CFS) Randi Wirth (IPTAR) Andrea Kahn (PCC) All International Psychoanalytical Association members in North America are automatically members of the North American Psychoanalytic Confederation. NAPsaC is a confederation of IPA component groups, formed in 2003, to enable the North American societies of the IPA to communicate with each other, to collaborate with each other on projects of mutual interest, and to facilitate decision-making by the component groups of North America in response to the administrative and governance requirements of the IPA. At our annual face-to-face Board meeting in January, three directions were identified to operationalize NAPsaC's mission: 1) infrastructure consolidation; 2) outreach activities; and 3) visibility within the IPA. First, within the last six months, Leigh Tobias submitted our 501c3 application with the expectation of a favorable response thanks to the pro bono legal support from Dan Smith of Sherman Sterling. Our website is being updated to re-activate the Find an Analyst function that benefits all NAPsaC members. Secondly, with our legal infrastructure in place, NAPsaC voted to undertake outreach projects that address threats to confidentiality, privacy, and the right to private practice. NAPsaC will join APsaA to support public policy and legislation development in these areas. Members will soon be able to view these projects on the NAPsaC website ( http://www.napsac.info). Finally, the new IPA administration is keen to enhance collaboration among the three international regions. This comes at a good time for NAPsaC as we now have the organizational tools in place to interact with the other two regional organizations: the European Psychoanalytic Federation and the Federación de América de Latina. One exciting possibility is the establishment of an e-journal that would be a joint venture among the IPA, EPF, FEPAL and NAPsaC. Two representatives from each region, including Michael Diamond and Adrienne Harris from NAPsaC, are developing a plan that will be presented to the IPA Board in January 2014. Stay tuned for news about these developments in the next issue of the New Brief.
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In Memorium
Hedda Bolgar, PhD, FIPA
By Alan P Spivak, PhD, FIPA
Hedda Bolgar, an enormously gifted psychoanalyst and a remarkable woman, died peacefully in her home on May 13, 2013 at the age of 103. Hedda was a founder of The Los Angeles Institute and Society for Psychoanalytic Studies (LAISPS) where she served as a Training and Supervising Analyst for over 50 years. An institution builder, she also founded the Wright Institute of Los Angeles and she co-founded The California School of Professional Psychology, two highly respected institutions involved in the training of psychotherapists.
Hedda was born on August 19, 1909 in Zurich Switzerland. Her elementary school years were spent in Budapest. World War I ended when she was nine years old. Her family was forced to escape to war torn Vienna. In 1934 she was graduated from the University of Vienna with a PhD in Psychology. Because of her political past and recent anti-Nazi activism, she knew she had to leave Vienna when Hitler annexed Austria in March of 1938.
Hedda and her husband Herbert moved to Chicago where she was accepted in a postdoctoral internship program in July of 1938. She trained at the Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute and taught at the University of Chicago. From 1956 through 1974 she was the Chief Psychologist and Director of the renowned post-doctoral training program for clinical psychologists at Cedars Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.
As a psychoanalyst, Hedda was a beloved teacher, supervisor, and consultant who worked tirelessly and joyfully throughout her 80-year career. She continued to see patients until three weeks before she died. Indicative of her boundless energy, at the age of 102, Hedda stood and spoke for two hours to a large gathering of analysts, without using notes, about what she believed accounted for change in psychoanalysis.
Hedda was a model of grace, graciousness, optimism, and receptivity. She represented the best of old world civility and decency, while embracing an ongoing openness to the new. She supported and encouraged the young, the fresh, the needy, the present and the future. She claimed to love everything that was alive: people, animals and gardens.
Her home was a gathering place for camaraderie, parties, social and political discussions. She held a monthly meeting that she called "Hedda's Salon." It was open to analysts and therapists for discussing psychoanalytically relevant topics in an informal convivial atmosphere.
During my tenure as Program Chair of LAISPS, over much of the last 20 years, Hedda held numerous dinner parties to celebrate visits of distinguished psychoanalysts who, earlier in the day, had presented their work at scientific meetings or conferences at LAISPS. Among the many honored were: Jacob Arlow, Leo Rangell, Roy Schafer, Marilia Aisenstein, Rita Frankiel, Ethel Spector Person, Harry Smith, Cordelia Schmidt-Hellerau, Christopher Bollas, Neville Symington, and Stefano Bolognini. Without exception each of our guests raved to me what an amazing person he or she found Hedda to be.
In a letter of condolence to LAISPS and to me, Stefano Bolognini wrote of his memory of Hedda:
I keep very lively in my mind Hedda's hospitality and friendship, her figure and grace as a person, when she so kindly invited me (together with you and Leo Rangell) at her home. She wanted personally to "serve" for us the dinner, and the conversation with her was not at all conventional: how many memories, and what a genuine interest in our European present culture and environment! I could also realize how much she loved psychoanalysis, how much she loved her psychoanalytic Society, what an adventurous and historically remarkable life she had had, and mostly I felt touched by her nice humanity. I can only express to the colleagues my sincere, shared sadness for this loss.
To a great many in the Los Angeles community, Hedda was a very special combination of stimulating colleague, warm, loving friend, wise mentor, and extraordinary analyst. I am particularly lucky in that over the last 47 years she was all of those things to me. She is greatly missed and will always be cherished and remembered.
A brief interview of Hedda speaking about her life and work can be found at:
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Conference Reviews
| In this section we feature reviews of two conferences submitted since the last issue of the News Brief. The first, reported by Marilyn Rifkin, LCSW, FIPA covers the spring conference in New York City on the topic of gender from a psychoanalytic perspective. The second, reported by Jon Tabakin, PhD, FIPA is on the Bion conference in Los Angeles this past May.
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IPTAR Conference: Gender 2013 - Is Anatomy Still Destiny?
By Marilyn Rifkin, LCSW, FIPA
On Saturday, April 13th, 2013, IPTAR presented an all-day conference entitled GENDER 2013: IS ANATOMY STILL DESTINY? In her opening remarks, Janice Lieberman, PhD, FIPA Program Chair of IPTAR, noted that the day represented an examination of gender, asking the questions "Is the concept of gender still relevant?" and "What does the study of gender look like today?" The conference facilitated an examination of contemporary conceptualizations of gender and the many rich possibilities which psychoanalysis brings to our understanding of how the body and culture affect our ideas about it.
The conference attendees were welcomed by IPTAR President Fredric Perlman, PhD, FIPA and Program Chair Janice Lieberman. Lieberman noted previous psychoanalytic authors whose papers served as background for the conference, including Doris Bernstein, Daisy Franco, Maria Bergmann, Arlene Kramer Richards, Donna Bassin, Doris Silverman and Helen Gediman. She also spoke of the 21st Century as a time "when society's attitudes toward non-traditional gender behavior as well as technological changes have impacted our lives." In her view, "gender is more and more viewed as on a continuum rather than as a dichotomy" and that that the body still has much importance in terms of our contemporary conceptualizations of gender.
The Morning Panel featured noteworthy papers by Bruce Reis, PhD, FIPA Richard Reichbart, PhD, FIPA and Isaac Tylim, PsyD, FIPA. Reis's paper entitled "The Vital Flow" discussed the psychological meaning of ejaculation. Reis examined the phenomenological experience of having a male body and the "biological facts" that accompany and link anatomical uniqueness to the progression of psychic change and development. Reis argued for not giving up on the conception of destiny as it relates to the unfolding of the individual in relation to others and the world.
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Facts and Experience of the 3rd Annual PCC
Bion Conference: A Memoir
By Jon Tabakin, PhD, FIPA
Wisdom of our elders and maintenance of our heritage
"But when from a long-distant past nothing subsists, after the people are dead, after the things are broken and scattered, taste and smell alone, more fragile but more enduring, more unsubstantial, more persistent, more faithful, remain poised a long time, like souls, remembering, waiting, hoping, amid the ruins of all the rest; and bear unflinchingly, in the tiny and almost impalpable drop of their essence, the vast structure of recollection."
(Proust I, 50-51)
...our construction is only effective because
it recovers a fragment of lost experience...
Freud (1937)
At that hour when all things have repose,
O lonely watcher of the skies,
Do you hear the night wind and the sighs
Of harps playing unto Love to unclose
The pale gates of sunrise?
(Joyce Joyce, Chamber Music)
Thoughts meander like a
restless wind inside a letterbox
They tumble blindly as they make their way
across the universe.
(John Lennon)
On May 4, 2013, PCC presented its third Annual Conference on Wilfred Bion. Jennifer Kunst ably moderated.
The Conference re-created Bion in his complexity. It manifestly addressed three vertices of Bion: Pioneer, Analyst and Colleague. However, crucial, latent vertices obtruded. Significant among these was the theme of war and how it relates to internal experience. Bion's entire life seemed to be framed by the experiences of war as crucial manifestations of the unknown aspects of our minds: "O." One could start with what I would call the Boarding School Wars, where Bion was thrust into the hostile environment of English schoolboy sadism, and had to figure out how to navigate those hostile waters. Then there was the First World War, where it seems many of Bion's ideas had their inception, facing the most primitive elements of human experience, nakedly, without comforting mental saturations that obstruct experience: preconceptions. The Second World War proved significant because Bion was charged with creating therapy units for large numbers of soldiers, from which he derived his Experiences in Groups, which functions in Bion's oeuvre much like the early Project for a Scientific Psychology did for Freud, shadowing the later light of his manifest theories. In the 1950s he pioneered treating schizophrenics following unmodified psychoanalytic technique, using Klein's discoveries of primitive mental functioning. Here Bion experienced what we might call the Schizophrenic Wars, wars enacted for control of the mind.
Next, we come to the 60s and the Vietnam War. Here we find Bion evolving his ideas on groups to include the concepts of container-contained as they relate to the socio-political war between the counter-culture and the Establishment. We could link the counter-culture to the Mystic. This is not a valuation statement. Look at the counter-culture: positing a new Messiah, one energized by developing new cultural forms based on intuition, rightly or wrongly, drugly or smugly. Here, we can focus on one particular manifestation, the revolution in popular music. When one considers the enormous creativity and revolution, highlighted by the music of the Beatles, the lyrics of Bob Dylan, and the sonic experimentation of Jimi Hendrix, we have evidence of a mystic trend needing containment by the Establishment. "You say you want a revolution, well you know, we all want to change the world." (John Lennon, 1969).
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EBOR 2014 - Call for Papers
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Tenth International Evolving British Object Relations Conference
Seattle, Washington (USA) October 17-19 2014 Northwestern Psychoanalytic Society and Institute is hosting its tenth international conference on:
From Reverie to Interpretation: Transforming thought into the action of psychoanalysis
We are pleased to announce plenary presenters David Bell, MD from London, England and Giuseppe Civitarese, MD from Pavia, Italy.
The conference will also feature concurrent individual sessions of peer-reviewed full-length (10-12 page) papers reporting on original work related to the conference theme with ample time for discussion.
The conference invites the submission of papers of original and unpublished research relating to the theme of reverie in clinical practice. Submissions should be prepared according to the format outlined below, and submitted no later than May 1, 2014.
Instructions for submissions:
Each paper must be accompanied by a cover letter. The cover letter should be the first page of your paper submission. The cover letter must state the following:
- The name and email address of the corresponding author
- The title of the paper
- The submitted paper contains original, unpublished work, and is not currently under consideration for presentation elsewhere
- All co-authors concur with the contents of the paper
To guarantee a blind review of each submission, please avoid including the author's name in the body of the paper.
Submitted papers are limited to a maximum of twelve (12) 1.5 line spacing pages (not including the cover letter) in Word document format. Submissions will be judged on relevance to the conference theme, clarity, originality/innovativeness, significance, and contributions to theory and practice. Multiple reviewers will evaluate each submission.
Questions about the submission process should be directed to Dana Blue, LICSW, FIPA (dana@dana-blue.com).
Completed submissions (cover letter and full paper) should be emailed to NPSI Administrator, Naoko Oguchi, at admin@npsi.us.com.
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| CIPS Seminars | Teleconference Committee Chair, Phyllis Sloate, has organized three CIPS study groups for fall 2013. Here is a complete listing of current study groups and facilitator(s):
- Bion 1 - Maxine Anderson, MD, FIPA (NPSI) and Marianne Robinson, PhD, FIPA (NPSI). The Bion 1 Study Group has room for additional participants. Interested individuals should contact Marianne Robinson directly at mrobins@nwlink.com.
- Enactment - Nancy Goodman, PhD, FIPA (DMS & CFS).
- Wilfred Bion's Los Angeles Seminars and Supervision - Joseph Aguayo, PhD, FIPA (PCC).
Coming in 2014: We are delighted that Fred Busch, PhD, FIPA (IPTAR & PINE) will again lead: Creating A Psychoanalytic Mind. Information on how to register will be forthcoming.
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| CIPS Societies News |
Direct Members Society (DMS)- Battling the Life and Death Forces of Sadomasochism: Clinical Perspectives. Edited by Harriet I Basseches, Paula L Ellman, and Nancy R Goodman. CIPS Book Series published by Karnac, 2013. Contributors-all CIPS members-include: Sheldon Bach, Alan Bass, Harriet Basseches, Paula Ellman, Steven Ellman, Nancy Goodman, Andrea Greenman, James Grotstein, Margaret Ann Fitzpatrick Hanly, Terrence McBride, Jack Novick, Kerry Kelly Novick, Leo Rangell, Richard Reichbart, Shelley Rockwell, Marianne Robinson, and Leon Wurmser. Preface by Fredric Perlman.
Institute for Psychoanalytic Training & Research (IPTAR) - On Saturday, April 13th IPTAR hosted Gender 2013: Is Anatomy Still Destiny? at Barnard College. See Marilyn Rifkin's essay in Conference Reviews (above).
- Fred Busch has published:
Busch, F (2013). Creating a Psychoanalytic Mind: A Psychoanalytic Method and Theory. Routledge: London.
Busch, F (2013). Changing views of what is curative in 3 psychoanalytic methods and the emerging, surprising common ground. The Scandinavian Psychoanalytic Review 31: 27-34.
Busch, F and J-L. Baldacci (2013). Debat on L'analyse des resistances. Revue Francais de Psychoanalyse. LXXXVII: 781-810.
Busch, F. Transforming the Formless Countertransference Into Representable Form. Paper presentation and clinical workshop. Presented to the combined Psychoanalytic Societies in Heidelberg, Germany. April 2013.
Busch, F. Discussion of Sartre's No Exit by the Psych Theater Company and Algonquin Productions. Boston, MA, April 2013.
- Monica Carsky has recently published two articles:
Carsky, M. Supportive psychoanalytic therapy for personality disorders. Psychotherapy, 50 (3): 443-448, 2013.
Carsky, M and Yeomans, F. Overwhelming Patients and Overwhelmed Therapists. Psychodynamic Psychiatry, 40 (1): 75-90, 2012.
- Anna Fishzon's book, Fandom, Authenticity, and Opera: Mad Acts and Letter Scenes in Fin-de-Siecle Russia, was released in September 2013.
- William Fried, PhD has published:
Fried, KW (2013). The unfriendly skies. The Round Robin Newsletter, XXVII, 2, 3-14.
Fried, KW (2013). Initiating psychoanalysis: perspectives-a review. Division/Review, 8, Summer, 17-20.
- Gil Katz's new book, "The Play within the Play: The Enacted Dimension of Psychoanalytic Process" has been published by Routledge Press.
- Deborah Moses's article, "King Lear: Self-Knowledge, Love, and "Monsters of the Deep"" was published in the most recent Round Robin Newsletter for fall, 2013 Volume XXVIII, No 2.
- Orna Ophir's The widen envelope - expanding the hospitable scope of psychoanalysis in theory and institutional practice was presented at the IPA congress in Prague this past August, twice: once at the plenary of IPSO, as it won the best rated paper from North America, and again during the IPA congress as it was a runner up for the Tyson award.
- Karen Proner, has a paper in the International Journal of Infant Observations and its Applications, Volume 16, Number 2, August 2013. The paper is entitled, To Look into the eyes of an infant: Bion's baby's fear of dying. It was a plenary paper given at an International Infant Observation Conference in Dakar Senegal in November 2012.
She will also participate in the Annette Overby Conference on Sunday, November 17, 2013 on The Relevance of Early Childhood Development for Adult Analysis: The Differing Perspectives of Attachment Theory and Object Relations Theory.
- Jared Russell, PhD presented the clinical case of "A Feminine Academic" at the 2013 Miami Symposium, What Lacan Knew About Women, on June 1, 2013.
- Ellen Sinkman's new book, The Psychology of Beauty: Creation of a Beautiful Self, has been published by Jason Aronson.
- Phyllis Sloate, PhD, FIPA presented "Transforming the Sadistic Superego in Psychosomatic Illness" at The Westchester Center for the Study of Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy on October 18-19, 2013.
Los Angeles Institute & Society for Psychoanalytic Study (LAISPS) - Lori O'Brien, PhD, FIPA has won the nomination of President-Elect at LAISPS.
- Kenneth Scott, PsyD, has won the nomination of Treasurer-Elect at LAISPS.
- Pamela Dirham, PhD, FIPA was promoted from Associate Member to Full Member at LAISPS upon the acceptance of her paper: Surviving Deadness, Madness, and Sadomasochistic Destructiveness: The Struggle for the Birth of the Self.
- Karen Beard, PhD was promoted to Associate Member from Senior Candidate upon completion of her analytic case and supervisory requirements.
- Kerry English, MFT, Robert Hey, MFT, and Shireen Oberman, LCSW have been accepted as candidates and have begun their psychoanalytic training at LAISPS.
- PhD Program: LAISPS is now accepting applications for enrollment in our PhD Progam. Candidates in the Psychoanalytic Training Program at LAISPS, as well as candidates and graduates of other psychoanalytic institutes accredited by the International Psychoanalytical Association, may earn a PhD in Psychoanalysis by completing additional coursework and a dissertation. Both the PhD in Psychoanalysis and the Certificate in Psychoanalysis are approved by the State of California Council for Private Post-secondary and Vocational Education. For more information, contact Pamela Dirham, PhD at pdirham@ca.rr.com.
- Fourth year candidate, Preston Lear, PsyD, received The Michael Diamond Writing Award for his paper entitled, The Icarus Complex and the Addiction to Near Death.
- Saturday, November 9th LAISPS will host Transforming the Formless Countertransference: An Alternative to Bion and Klein with Fred Busch, PhD, FIPA (PINE & IPTAR). Discussant will be Alan Spivak, PhD, FIPA with case presentation by Preston Lear, PsyD. For more information: laisps.org.
Upcoming Extension Courses: - The Process of Interpretation: Art and Science - taught by training analyst Alan Spivak, PhD, FIPA
Psychic integration through interpretively being understood and recognized by the therapist is a unique contribution of psychoanalysis and psychotherapy. This course focuses on the power of interpretation to foster psychic growth and development as well as to resolve symptoms of psychopathology. Guidelines will be offered for constructing and offering interpretations to patients. Guidelines for deciding what, or whether, to interpret will be addressed. Five Friday classes: November 8, 15, 22 and December 6 and 13 from 9:30 am to 12:30 pm at LAISPS.
- Psychoanalysis and Literature - taught by associate member Valerie von Rafay, PhD
This course will provide an experience of how literature can contribute to psychoanalysis given that literature describes fascinating case studies that uniquely bring to life the complexity of human beings and interpersonal relations. The literary works of Franz Kafka will be utilized to illustrate an internal world of terror and the powerful paternal introject that reduces him to "no thing." Concepts of the refusal of desire and human needs and Lacan's idea of "desire for nothing" will be emphasized, including how this psychological dynamic relates to anorexia.
For more information on the cost and location of these and other classes visit www.LAISPS.org
Northwestern Psychoanalytic Society and Institute (NPSI) - At the Annual Meeting on Saturday, September 28, 2013 the membership voted to approve the name change from Northwestern Psychoanalytic Society to Northwestern Psychoanalytic Society and Institute. This change is intended to clarify the bi-dimensional aspect of our make-up and especially to highlight the training component of our organization.
- Elections were held at the NPSI Annual Meeting and we are pleased to announce that Caron Harrang, LICSW, FIPA was elected President-Elect. Additionally, Community Member Adriana Prengler, LMHC, FIPA was elected to the position of director on the NPSI Board of Directors.
- The NPSI Outstanding Community Member Service Award for 2012-13 was given to attorney David Schoolcraft (Ogden Murphy Wallace) for his skillful pro bono legal consultation to NPSI over the past year. The organization is appreciative of David's help, particularly, in the laborious job of revising and updating our bylaws.
- The NPSI Institute is delighted to announce the beginning of a new highly qualified candidate class that began their training on September 6, 2013. The candidate cohort includes Margaret Bergmann-Ness, Becky Jackson Macguire, Kerry Ragain, and Carolyn Steinberg.
- Barbara Sewell, LMHC presented her graduation paper entitled, Gathering Resolve: Preparing for the Journey as a Psychoanalyst by Understanding the Development of Countertransference as Theory and Technique, to institute colleagues and invited guests on Wednesday, September 3, 2013. Robert Oelsner, MD, FIPA served as moderator for the event. Barbara was presented with her graduation certificate by Director of Training Maxine Anderson, MD, FIPA. Congratulations Barbara!
- NPSI is sponsoring the Tenth International Evolving British Object Relations (EBOR) Conference on October 17-19, 2014 at the Pan Pacific Hotel in Seattle. The theme this year is on the analyst's experience of reverie and how it contributes to the formation of interpretations and interventions in psychoanalytic work with children and adults. We hope that many CIPS members will want to attend this unique conference and take advantage of a beautiful time of year in the Pacific Northwest. Contact Conference Organizing Committee Co-Chairs Dana Blue, LICSW, FIPA or Caron Harrang, LICSW, FIPA for additional information.
For more information on NPSI events visit www.npsi.us.com.
Psychoanalytic Center of California (PCC) - PCC presented the 3rd Annual Wilfred Bion Conference, Saturday May 4, 2013. Attendees were able to gather a sense of living history and more deeply understand the impact Bion made on early leaders in the Los Angeles psychoanalytic community. The conference was followed by a luncheon to honor all early leaders in the psychoanalytic community who were instrumental in the development of the PCC as a psychoanalytic society and institute. See Jon Tabakin's memoir in Conference Reviews (above).
- PCC has promoted three candidates to member status. They are: Kerry O'Reilly, PsyD, FIPA, Judith Goodman, PhD, FIPA and Ellyn Singer, PsyD, FIPA. Congratulations, to all!
- PCC has accepted 10 students into the Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Program. This course (PPP) provides the opportunity to develop and deepen psychoanalytic knowledge and clinical skills for intensive psychotherapy, with a special emphasis on the contributions of British Object Relations Theory. PCC awards a Certificate of Completion upon finishing this course. The Program is divided into two classes, meeting weekly per 10-week trimester. Each student also participates in a small case based seminar, facilitated by a PCC Analyst.
- PCC also launched an alumnae group for graduates of the Psychotherapy Program who wish to continue studying and learning along with their PCC instructors and colleagues. Dr Chris Minnick will kick off this year's program with an introductory lecture, "Embarrassment, Shame and Humiliation and their Clinical Applications." This presentation will be followed by a closed small case based seminar with Dr Avedis Panajian designed especially for the PPP Graduate Group. The courses and small case based seminars continue throughout the year.
- PCC Conferences - The 18th Annual Tustin Memorial Conference will be held on Saturday, November 16th and will feature Dr. Ofra Eshel of the Israeli Psychoanalytic Society.
- Saturday, February 22nd, PCC will host INFANT OBSERVATION: Impact on Clinical Work featuring Rebecca Hall of the Tavistock Clinic.
For more information on these events go to www.psycc.org.
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If you have news from your local Society to share with the larger CIPS community, please send your thoughts, event announcements, conference reviews, or related items to the News Brief Staff:
Lisa Halotek for news from LAISPS and PCC - llhalotek@verizon.net
Caron Harrang for general news and from NPS - enewseditor@cipsusa.org
Jared Russell for news from DMS and IPTAR - jaredkrussell@hotmail.com
The submission deadline for the next issue (winter 2014) is January 31, 2014.
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