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Dear (Contact First Name),
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In the first issue of the New Year we want to begin by thanking Peggy Porter who has completed her term on the CIPS Board of Directors representing LAISPS. Peggy is replaced by Lisa Halotek who will add the title of director to her already active role in the organization as News Brief Assistant Managing Editor.
In Randi Wirth's Letter from the President you'll find exciting news about our partnership with NAPsaC to co-sponsor this year's CIPS Clinical Conference in New York. Maureen Murphy, who is the current Chair of NAPsaC, also notes this inaugural collaboration in the section immediately following Randi's letter.
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CIPS Vice President Terrence McBride offers a memorial essay on a much beloved colleague, Jean Sanville (1918-2013). Although it is with sadness that we note her passing, it is through reflections like these that many of us learn for the first time about the dedication and notable contributions of our senior members. Publication News features Ellen Sinkman's book on the topic of beauty. There are conference updates for EBOR in Seattle and the aforementioned CIPS-NAPsaC Clinical Conference in New York. As usual we have brief announcements to give you a sense of what is happening in each of the CIPS Member Societies. And last but not least, if you scroll all the way to the end of the publication you'll find an interesting story of international exchange in Inter-Society Dialogue.
Lisa and I want to thank everyone who contributed news for this issue. We also want to introduce and welcome PCC candidate Susan Mitchell who joins the News Brief staff as a reporter for her institute and society. We continue to encourage our Direct Society members to send announcements, conference reviews and the like to reporter Jared Russell, who covers news from IPTAR and the Direct Member Society. Email addresses for contacting editors and reporters 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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Officers:
* 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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One of the challenges faced by any professional organization is to maintain standards of excellence in established programs while striving to find new and exciting opportunities for their membership. I am pleased to report that the CIPS Board has been working hard to meet that challenge in 2014. CIPS is very excited to announce that CIPS and NAPsaC are co-sponsoring our biennial clinical conference this spring. This marks a significant milestone for the North American region providing an opportunity for members from different IPA societies to learn and socialize together. We hope that this collaboration will be the start of many jointly sponsored programs to be developed in the future.
The CIPS-NAPsaC Clinical Conference will be held in the shadow of the World Trade Center Memorial in New York City and will address the subject of Trauma, Destruction and Transformation. The collaboration between CIPS and NAPsaC led to the addition of a featured panel discussion to open the conference on Friday that will be moderated by IPA Vice President Alexandra Billinghurst. Alexandra will be joined by panelists Maxine Anderson, Fred Busch, Michael Diamond, and Robert Pyles. We are fortunate to have brought together this group of distinguished scholars, authors, educators and clinicians to offer their perspective on the weekend's topical and relevant theme in today's world.
If you have never attended a CIPS Clinical Conference we invite both members and candidates to join us. The conference is based on a small group model that allows participants to share clinical material in a confidential and supportive environment. While I must note that the conference is not intended to provide supervision, it is unique in that participants benefit from a range of clinical perspectives offered by colleagues from around the country and beyond. Those who have attended over the years have agreed that they come away from the conference with a very unique experience of learning and collegial connection.
As you know, CIPS sponsors a variety of ongoing study opportunities and teleconferences and we are pleased by the positive responses we have received for the classes offered this semester. Joseph Aguayo, PhD, FIPA is leading a teleconference, "Wilfred Bion's Second Thoughts and Commentaries," exploring Bion's clinical ideas, a follow up of his new book, Wilfred Bion's Los Angeles Seminars and Supervision. Fred Bush, PhD, FIPA is also returning to host a seminar on the method and theory of psychoanalytic technique he calls, "Creating a Psychoanalytic Mind." Details can be found on the CIPS website.
I am personally very gratified to note that a CIPS initiative that began a decade ago is now a in its third year of enabling students to get their PhD degree from the Los Angeles Institute and Society for Psychoanalytic Studies (LAISPS). This program is open to candidates from all CIPS Institutes and is a wonderful opportunity that has been rewarding for students and faculty alike. Along with the CIPS Book Series and the CIPS Teleconference Study Groups and Seminars, these programs demonstrate how CIPS has expanded its ability to connect the resources and people of our constituent institutes for the benefit of all.
I wish you a happy and healthy beginning in the New Year and I hope to see many of you at the Clinical Conference here in New York City this spring.
Warmest Regards,
Randi Wirth, PhD, FIPA
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NAPsaC Officers: Maureen Murphy (Chair); Beth Kalish (Co-Chair); Leigh Tobias (Secretary); David Falk (Treasurer)
Board of Directors: Andrew Brook (CPS), Caron Harrang (NPSI), Maureen Murphy (PINC) Phyllis Sloate (IPTAR), Mark Smaller (APsaA), Leigh Tobias (PCC), Joann Turo (CFS)
Alternate Directors: Dana Blue (NPSI), Lois Brunet (CPS), Lisa Halotek (LAISPS), Robert Pyles (APsaA), Charles Spezzano (PINC), Paula Ellman (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.
NAPsaC held its annual face-to-face Board meeting on January 18 in New York at the elegant Waldorf Astoria Hotel. Highlights included:
1. CIPS-NAPsaC Co-Sponsored Clinical Conference (May 16 - 18, 2014 in New York City)
For the first time, our two organizations will co-sponsor what has historically been the biennial CIPS Clinical Conference. In addition to the small group format, the conference will open with a panel on the conference theme, Trauma, Destruction and Transformational Potential, composed of distinguished panelists Maxine Anderson, Fred Busch, Michael Diamond, and Robert Pyles. IPA Vice President, Alexandra Billinghurst, will serve as moderator.
2. Visit with IPA Officers
Stefano Bolognini, Alexandra Billinghurst, Juan Carlos Weissman, and Paul Crake met with the NAPsaC Board to share their vision, particularly emphasizing the importance of
inter-regional collaboration and communication. One example of this effort is the expanded IPA website including a new feature, Debates, in which members from each region can exchange ideas on topical issues. The first debate takes up the subject of New Families.
3. E-Journal
This initiative will establish an online, interactive journal owned jointly by the IPA and the three regional organizations and translated into five languages. Michael Diamond and Adrienne Harris will represent NAPsaC during this first planning stage.
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In Memorium
Jean Sanville, LCSW, PHD, FIPA
By Terrence McBride, LCSW, PsyD, FIPA
With the death of Jean Sanville on November 4, 2013, CIPS lost an important figure in the origin and structure of our organization. Jean was among the founders of the original Coalition of Independent Psychoanalytic Societies of the US (IPS), and the first Co-chair, with IPTAR's Norbert Freedman, for the first three years of its existence, and remained a member of the Board of Directors for nearly 10 years after that.
As a member of the Los Angeles Institute and Society of Psychoanalysis (LAISPS), Jean was a prominent figure in the anti-trust lawsuit in 1985 against the American Psychoanalytic Association and the International Psychoanalytical Association for restraint of trade in the exclusion of non-medical mental health professionals from psychoanalytic training in the US. The settlement, in 1987, represented a ground breaking shift in the culture of psychoanalysis in this country, and paved the way for the acceptance of our independent societies into membership in the IPA. Jean was a central moving force in that reality which we all continue to benefit from today.
Around the same time, Jean was one among several analysts from LAISPS, the Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research (IPTAR), the former New York Freudian Society (NYFS) and the Psychoanalytic Center for Psychoanalysis (PCC), who began to talk informally about creating a national organization, independent of the American Psychoanalytic Association, to represent them in relationship to the IPA, the APsaA and other psychoanalytic organizations throughout the world. Jean was intricately involved throughout the early years of the development of CIPS, along with Bert Freedman, Steve Ellman, Jim Gooch, Albert Mason and others, in the development of the structure of CIPS, its mission statement, and by-laws. One of the primary features in the philosophy of CIPS was its "bottom up" orientation, rather than the other way around, which required the approval of its member organizations for any substantive decisions affecting them. This was in marked contrast to the structure of the American. Jean was passionate about the recognition of diversity of cultures and the differences among people and groups, including psychoanalytic groups which she believed have much to contribute by peacefully negotiating those differences among others. She believed that psychoanalysis itself is a culture, and was an activist in promoting a meaningful dialogue about the similarities and alterities among autonomous individuals, as well as social, ethnic, racial and other groups, for the promotion of understanding, empathy and acceptance among us. She viewed CIPS as an instrument for the implementation of those views, not only for the culture of independent psychoanalytic groups, but also for the potential influence it could have for the communities beyond. She was an important influence on its emphasis on dialogue, independence and democratic processes in the development of CIPS' philosophy. In 2009, Jean was recognized at the CIPS Clinical Conference in New York for being one of the pioneers of CIPS and was appointed an Honorary Life Member.
Jean's involvement in the founding of CIPS was only one in a long and exceptionally distinguished career. She was on the faculty of the UCLA School of Social Welfare and Smith College for Social Work for many years. She was a co-founder and first dean of the California Institute for Clinical Social Work, now known as the Sanville Institute, a doctoral program in clinical social work. She was instrumental in the founding of the Los Angeles chapter of the Committee on Psychoanalysis in Clinical Social Work, later renamed the American Association of Psychoanalysis in Clinical Social Work (AAPCSW). She was also a founding member, the first, and for several years the only, social worker in the Los Angeles Institute and Society for Psychoanalytic Studies (LAISPS). At LAISPS she was a Training and Supervising Analyst and held the prestigious posts of President and Chair of the Committee of Training Analysts, and chaired or was a member of many other committees from its beginning in 1970. She was an active figure in all aspects of the operation of the Institute for many years. The Jean Sanville Award has been a signpost of writing scholarship for LAISPS members for a number of years.
Jean's professional contributions were endless. Her CV of published papers in the social work and psychoanalytic literature was several pages long. She was a sought after teacher and taught several generations of social workers and psychoanalysts, and her clinical work spanned over five decades with patients of all ages. She was the coauthor, with Joel Shor, of Illusion in Loving, A Psychoanalytic Approach to the Evolution of Intimacy and Autonomy (1978), and coeditor, with Joyce Edward, of Fostering Healing and Growth: A Psychoanalytic Social Work Approach (1996), and with Ellen Ruderman, of Therapies with Women in Transition: Toward Relational Perspectives with Today's Women (2003). In addition, she was honored in a tribute to her contributions to both social work and psychoanalysis in the book, The Social Work Psychoanalyst's Casebook, Clinical Choices in Honor of Jean Sanville, edited by Joyce Edward and Elaine Rose (1999). In a review of the book, Arlene Kramer Richards, a close friend and colleague of Jean's, wrote "It is a really perfect homage to Jean Sanville and her freshness of spirit as well as her humanistic concern for other people, their wishes, fears, and moral principles." Finally, Jean's own book, The Playground of Psychoanalytic Therapy (1991) was an original and creative synthesis of contemporary Object Relations theory and infant observation research, including the significance of play and playfulness in the clinical setting. It represented the culmination of decades of her intellectual and emotional devotion to equality, diversity, understanding and independent thinking.
Personally, Jean was steadfast in her relationship with others, a charming wit, and ever encouraging to those who aspired to more accomplishment in writing, teaching and leadership responsibilities. For many, she was an admired and beloved friend, colleague, mentor, teacher, analyst and collaborator.
Jean will be remembered for her keen intellect and her great professional achievements, as well as for her grace and generosity in welcoming numerous groups into her home for a variety of functions. Jean's home was a meeting place for intellectual dialogue, cultural and political meetings, random social gatherings, celebrations and more.
Jean will be greatly missed and deeply mourned.
Terrence McBride, LCSW, PsyD, FIPA is the current Vice-President of CIPS and a training and supervising analyst at LAISPS. He maintains a fulltime private practice in Los Angeles, California.
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LAISPS & PCC Host CIPS Book Series Reception
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CIPS Member Book Release  Beauty is often an invisible yet potent presence in clinical work. The Psychology of Beauty: Creation of a Beautiful Self, by Ellen Sinkman, LCSW, FIPA addresses the vital importance of beauty, its sources, and manifestations in everyone's lives-including psychotherapy patients. The ability to be mesmerizingly beautiful and beautifully creative, strivings toward mastering beauty, and wishes to be transformed are universal desires. During psychotherapy, patients manifest or defend against these forces. So it is striking that patients as well as therapists often overlook or dismiss issues about creating beauty in themselves. The book introduces this seeming contradiction with the ancient myth of Pygmalion and his sculpture of a beautiful woman. These enduring mythic figures represent the wish to emerge as a beautiful being and the wish for the power to create beauty in another. Patients in psychotherapy often pursue these elusive goals outside clinical work, rather than within treatment. Manifold venues enticingly promise re-invention. These activities may involve plastic surgery, beauty salon make-overs, diet gurus, elocution coaches, tattooing, and athletic training. Seekers of beauty engage with people whom they see as agents offering them ravishing physical or charismatic attractiveness. Psychotherapists may or may not be among agents seen as having the power to transform. The quest for beauty is widespread and in many instances non-pathological. Sinkman looks at multiple avenues of understanding and appreciation of efforts toward beauty, including artistic creativity and political activities. However there is a spectrum of investment in creating beauty. Pursuing beauty can become pathological. Therapists need to watch out for its appearance outside the psychoanalytic arena. Such material can be missed when the analyst falls into counter-transference difficulties such as feeling invested in transforming the patient, identifying with the patient's narcissistic injuries and/or needs to compete, or enacting battles with the patient. Such difficulties interfere with attunement to patients' experiences. The Psychology of Beauty considers definitions of beauty, gender identity themes, and origins of beauty in the mother-infant relationship. It investigates ugliness, sado-masochistic beauty pursuits, evolutionary factors, and aspects of aging. The book highlights emerging clinical material which has yet to gain notice and suggests what analysts may be missing, and why.
Editorial Reviews
Ellen Sinkman has definitely shown us that 'beauty is not skin deep;' in fact, in this book we are taken back 50,000 years to look at how Neanderthal man tried to beautify himself- as have all recorded cultures (even wanting their dead bodies to look beautiful for the gods). Using myths, fairytales, and her psychoanalytic work, Sinkman shows how profound the search for beauty is. Whether it relates to some early attachment to the idealized mother or some deep denial of death by striving for perfection, Sinkman shows us why the search for beauty triggers off such intense affects as shame, disgust, envy, and a pathological obsession with aging. When you finish this brilliant, scholarly work you will understand why the obsession with beauty (for men and women alike) has such deep biological and psychological roots. Congratulations to the author on this extraordinary 'eye-opening' work. (Carolyn Ellman, PhD, FIPA, New York University)
How useful and beautiful it is to have myths and fairy tales mingled with psychoanalytic case stories to examine the many ways the idea of beauty drives both thinking and behavior. This book mines a rich trove of Western archaeology, literature, and science to come up with a fascinating story of its own. Read it and weep, laugh, learn and enjoy. (Arlene Kramer Richards EdD, FIPA Contemporary Freudian Society; Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research)
In The Psychology of Beauty: Creation of a Beautiful Self, Ellen Sinkman has written a book that should be required reading for all students of mental health. Our patients have preoccupations, fantasies, and dreams about beauty that often go unaddressed in treatment. Sinkman takes us on a guided tour of this private land of beauty; the experience is unforgettable. (Elizabeth L Auchincloss, MD, FIPA Weill Medical College of Cornell University)
Ellen Sinkman, LCSW, FIPA is a training and supervising psychoanalyst, and a member of the International Psychoanalytic Association, Contemporary Freudian Society, and Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research. She is in the fulltime private practice of psychoanalysis and psychotherapy in New York City and in Westchester.
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EBOR 2014 - Update
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Tenth International Evolving British Object Relations Conference
Seattle, Washington (USA) October 17-19 2014 From Reverie to Interpretation: Transforming thought into the action of psychoanalysis
Northwestern Psychoanalytic Society and Institute and the EBOR 2014 Committee continue preparations for its tenth international conference. We note with regret that plenary presenter David Bell, MD (London) will be unable to join us. However, we are pleased to announce that Clara Nemas, MD (Buenos Aires) has agreed to take his place as our second plenary presenter joining Giuseppe Civitarese, MD (Pavia).
Clara Nemas, MD is an experienced thinker, speaker, teacher, writer, and psychoanalytic practitioner. Her interests range through every age of human development, beginning with infant observation and the insights that help us become psychoanalysts. Over the years, Nemas has given much thought to the work of Donald Meltzer and gave a plenary presentation during EBOR 2009 on the Claustrum. Giuseppe Civitarese, MD brings to us his creative deliberations drawn from interdisciplinary studies in the relational sciences of philosophy, semiotics, as well as psychiatry. He invites us into the contemporary analyst's consulting room where he shows us how he uses reveries as "instruments for getting into tune with the patient." Delineating the psychoanalytic session as a dream, Civitarese views analysis as an exchange of reveries, adding yet another dimension to our thinking about the analytic field. The conference invites the submission of papers of original and unpublished research relating to the theme of reverie in clinical practice. Full papers should be submitted no later than May 1, 2014. For submission guidelines click here: Author Instructions.
Questions about the submission process should be directed to Dana Blue, LICSW, FIPA (dana@dana-blue.com).
For additional details about the conference including schedule, registration, and lodging see EBOR 2014 Online Brochure.
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CIPS-NAPsaC Clinical Conference
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Trauma, Destruction and Transformative Potential
May 16-18, 2014
New York City
Beginning with Freud's Preliminary Communication, the notion of trauma has played a central role in the discoveries of psychoanalysis. While the concept of trauma has been controversial over the history of psychoanalysis, the psychophysiological effects of traumatic stress are now well known. Trauma is a phenomenon that impacts both mind and body and may severely impair both psychological and physiological functioning. The post-traumatic breakdown in symbolic functioning is an important contribution of contemporary psychoanalysts. Instead of being processed in symbolic/linguistic forms as most memories are, a traumatic event tends to be organized on a sensorimotor level - as horrific images, visceral sensations, or fight/flight reactions. Many psychoanalysts now believe that storage on the sensorimotor level (not in words) explains why traumatic material does not undergo the usual psychic transformation into well-structured, stable representations, and thus constitutes a deficit in symbolization. In this respect, trauma leads to a psychic catastrophe.
Where conscious memories and words are not available to trauma victims, the analytic relationship may become the vehicle for the containment and transformation of dissociated fragments into meaningful representations. Such fragments may be understood as concrete elements in the psychic life of these patients. Through projective-introjective mechanisms, the analyst becomes the container of these fragments on multiple levels, and is often compelled to relive elements of the patient's history; transference- countertransference enactments may come to represent the unformulated experience that needs to be metabolized and understood. The emergence of affective states in this context becomes crucial toward creating a transformational, transitional space for understanding traumatic material on a symbolic level. Representation, reflection and working through, then becomes possible. For additional information click here: CIPS-NAPsaC Conference
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Conference Review
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The Anna Freud Lecture
By Judith Mitrani, PhD, FIPA
Last October, The Annual Anna Freud Lecture was held in Vienna, Austria. Theodore Mitrani, PhD, FIPA, Training and Supervising analyst at PCC, presented his paper, Identification with the Aggressor: Convergent and Divergent Perspectives. The paper was a close examination and reflection of an essential chapter from Anna Freud's classic, The Ego and the Mechanism of Defense, and evoked in him the realization that the quintessential core of her consideration of the defense of Identification with the Aggressor constitutes an integral part, in a variety of permutations, of the conceptualizations of defensive dynamics as articulated by Melanie Klein, Herbert Rosenfeld, Wilfred Bion, Esther Bick, and Frances Tustin. In his presentation, Mitrani teased out and cast a focal light on the topic, delineating analogies and differences between these Kleinian and Post-Kleinian versions and Anna Freud's original formulation as they refer to differing models of the mind. The event was held in a large lecture hall at the University; the discussion was energetic and the reception enthusiastic. Mitrani also conducted a clinical seminar for the Child and Adolescent Analysts and Candidates at the Viennese Psychoanalytic Society & Institute.
Judith Mitrani, PhD, FIPA presented her paper, Unraveling, Crumbling and Spilling Out, to a sell-out audience and also conducted a clinical workshop at the Viennese Psychoanalytic Society & Institute. The Mitrani's felt that the honor of being invited to speak, teach and supervise in the city where psychoanalysis was born was surely a dream come true. Following their stay in Vienna, the Mitrani's went on to speak at the Frances Tustin Centenary in Paris to an audience of over 400 attendees. The two-day conference was sponsored by GERPEN, an organization founded with the help of Donald Meltzer, Martha Harris, Genevieve Haag, Didier Houzel and James Gammill (responsible for bringing Klein's work to France after WWII).
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Teleconference Committee Chair, Phyllis Sloate, has organized four CIPS Study Groups for Winter 2013-14. Study Groups are thriving and members are enjoying this collegial learning opportunity. CIPS is very grateful for the contributions of our facilitators. Here is a complete listing of current study groups and facilitator(s):
Reading Bion - Maxine Anderson, MD, FIPA (NPSI) and Marianne Robinson, PhD, FIPA (NPSI). Full.
Enactment - Nancy Goodman, PhD, FIPA (DMS & CFS). Full.
Clinical Bion: The Psychosis Papers - Joseph Aguayo, PhD, FIPA (PCC). Full.
Creating A Psychoanalytic Mind - Fred Busch, PhD, FIPA (IPTAR & PINE) One opening.
Please contact Phyllis Sloate if you have an idea for a study group you would like to facilitate. (plsloate@aol.com or 914-636-2833)
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| Inter-Society Dialogue |
The purpose of this section of the News Brief is to report on instances of collegial contact and sharing of ideas amongst the Societies that make up the Confederation (IPTAR, LAISPS, NPSI, PCC, and the Direct Member Society) and between our members and psychoanalytic societies or organizations outside of CIPS.
Managing Editor's Note: The following evocative report was sent to us by German speaking psychoanalyst colleagues Heidi Spanl and Marco Conci and describes an unusual psychoanalytic workshop featuring a German speaking Seattle training analyst and some Bavarian colleagues. Perhaps it stands not only for the possibilities that exist in conversation between members of our own CIPS Societies but for the enriching possibilities that exist between cultures linguistically, theoretically, and with respect to many sorts of differences if we are open to them.
Robert Oelsner, MD, FIPA (NPSI) in Bavaria
By Heidi Spanl, Dipl. Psych. and Marco Conci, MD  Members of the Munich Working Party Group on a hike with Robert Oelsner (third from right)
Robert Oelsner, MD, FIPA (NPSI) was the guest speaker of the annual fall meeting of the Munich Working Party held on Friday and Saturday, October 19 and 20, 2013. The meeting took place in Bernried, south of Munich on Lake Starnberg. The 60 member Munich Working Party has existed since the 1960s and meets once a month for regular scientific meetings. It is part of the Deutsche Psychoanalytische Gesellschaft (German Psychoanalytical Society), a component society since 2009 of the International Psychoanalytical Association.
The Fall Meeting Wissenschaftlicher Wandertag (Scientific Hiking Day) was created to allow members of the Munich Working Party to work together psychoanalytically and share time together in a Bavarian lifestyle. This year's participants came together starting on a Friday for a hike around Lake Starnberg, where the famous "Sisi" grew up before becoming Empress of Austria by marrying Kaiser Franz Joseph in Vienna.
On the first evening, the group gathered together at Hotel Seeblick to meet with guest faculty Robert Oelsner, who was introduced by Working Party Coordinator Heidi Spanl. Oelsner presented a paper in German entitled On the Interpretation of Reality: The Reciprocity between Psychic Reality and External Reality. The group wondered how Robert, an Argentinian who grew up in Buenos Aires and now lives in Seattle, was able to speak fluent German? By responding to our questions, we learned that he grew up in a German speaking family. By understanding the cultural context of his German language fluency, the group dynamic became more personal and a lively discussion of his paper ensued.
Later that evening we all went to the Seeblick Hotel and dined together. There was, of course, wine and Bavarian beer and we had the chance for more leisurely conversation, or what we in Munich call Bavarian Gemütlichkeit (a friendly and comfortable atmosphere).
On Saturday we resumed our meeting and worked on a clinical case presented by Bettina Hahm. Then at midday, the entire group went hiking in the surrounding countryside and had lunch in a Bavarian restaurant with a lovely garden. The weather was warm and sunny and everyone had a chance for a personal exchange with guest faculty Robert Oelsner. For example, Marco talked with Robert about some of the scientific aspects of our work and how to further implement the international exchange in our field. Robert also told us a story from his youth. He had learned the word "Wald" (forest) from his grandfather in Buenos Aires, but had never seen one since there are no forests there. He only later came to understand what a forest is when he came to Germany later in life. This may be a good metaphor for the advantages of international exchange in our field, in which, for example, the words phantasy and fantasy means different things depending on the country and language and theoretical orientation in which we work.
Heidi Spanl, Dipl. Psych and Marco Conci, MD are psychoanalysts and members of the Munich Working Party of the German Psychoanalytical Society.
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Direct Members Society (DMS)
Institute for Psychoanalytic Training & Research (IPTAR)
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Fred Busch, PhD, FIPA delivered four presentations at the meetings of the American Psychoanalytic Association in New York, January 2014: On Countertransference at the Modern Ego Discussion Group; On Supervision at the COPE Study Group; Creating a Psychoanalytic Mind and The Common Ground.
He has also published:
Busch, F (2013). O aqui-e agora trabalhavel e o porque do la eentao. Livro Annual de Psicanalise. XXVII (1): 119-139.
Busch, F (2013). Podermos diferenciar el Psicoanalisis de la Psicoterapia? Revista de Psicoanalitica de Madrid. 68:109-124.
- Danielle Knafo, PhD, FIPA presented:
October 1, 2013. Guys and Dolls: A post human tale of men who love dolls and women who want to be dolls. William Alanson White Institute.
October 18, 2013. Transsexual dreams: The dance and art of psychoanalysis in three voices. Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis.
November 8, 2013. In her own image: Women's self-representation in 20th century art. The Canadian Psychoanalytic-English Branch, Montreal.
January 16, 2014. Mirror, Mask and Masquerade in the art and life of Frida Kahlo. American Psychoanalytic Association, Winter Meetings. Waldorf, NYC. - Orna Ophir, PhD, FIPA presented, Was Lacan Nauseated with Klein or What do we Do When We Analyze Psychosis, a discussion of Dana Amir's paper: Nausea as a Refusal of Mother Tongue, at the Second International Conference on Psychoanalysis and Psychosis, in Israel during December 2013. Her book, On the Borderland of Madness - Psychoanalysis, Psychiatry and Psychosis in Postwar USA was published by Resling Press: Israel, 2013.
- Jared Russell, PhD, FIPA published, L'effet c'est toi: Projective Identification from Nietzsche to Klein in American Imago 70: 4, 563-683.
- Madhu Sarin, PhD, FIPA presented, Indian culture and the culture of psychoanalysis: an appraisal from a clinical perspective on December 20, 2013 at a conference in Gurgaon, India on Psychoanalysis, Culture and Religion organized by the Psychoanalytical Unit, Fortis Healthcare and the School of Human Studies, Ambedkar University, Delhi, India.
- Doris Silverman, PhD, FIPA presented a paper on Thinking about Relational Perspectives at the Association for the Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society in New York City on November 1, 2013.
- Phyllis Sloate, PhD, FIPA published, Superego and sexuality: An analysis of a psychosomatic solution in Psychoanalytic Inquiry 30: 5, 457-473
- IPTAR's Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy Program is accepting applications for 2014-15. In addition to the Visiting Faculty Series on January 27, 2014 with Eugene Mahon, MD, there will be a CAP Open House on March 2, 2014 where faculty members, candidates, and graduates will offer information and answer questions about training at CAP. On March 20, 2014 CAP will host this year's Child Therapist at Work case presentation with invited discussant Anne Alvarez. More information can be obtained at the IPTAR website about the CAP program and each of these events: www.iptar.org.
Los Angeles Institute & Society for Psychoanalytic Study (LAISPS)
- Pamela Dirham, PhD, FIPA presented her membership paper: Surviving Deadness, Madness, and Sadomasochistic Destructiveness: The Struggle for the Birth of the Self on January 22, 2014. The Chair of the Membership Committee Michael Diamond welcomed invited guests and members and moderated the conversation that followed after Lisa Halotek, PsyD, FIPA discussed Pam's paper.
- Alan Spivak, PhD, FIPA was a member of the panel "How Does Talking Cure?" at the January American Psychoanalytic Association Meeting where he presented his paper The Interpretive Process: The Power of 'Mere' Words.
- LAISPS will host Arnold Richards, MD, FIPA and Gabriele Schwab, PhD, FIPA in a presentation entitled, The Replacement Child on Saturday, March 1, 2014 at the New Center for Psychoanalysis. Following the workshop, please join us for a book signing party with Arnold Richards for The Rangell Reader.
- The LAISPS Open House will be held at a private residence in Santa Monica on Sunday, March 2, 2014. The event begins at 11:30 am with a panel discussion promptly at noon. Lunch will be served following the panel presentation with plenty of time for informal discussion. Please RSVP to LAISPS (310.440.0333) for the event address.
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On Sunday, April 27, LAISPS will host a workshop at The New Center for Psychoanalysis on The Work of Marion Milner, featuring Emma Letley, author of a recent Milner biography. The workshop features Letley's biography and various analysts' reflections from their training with Milner and will be followed by small group discussions on the creative process and the analytic setting. Two study groups will be forming in preparation for the conference. Joy Schary, Phd, FIPA (818.995.8444) will host one in Sherman Oaks and Lisa Halotek, PsyD, FIPA (310.979.9289) will host one in West Los Angeles. Please call either facilitator for more information.
- 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.
Upcoming Extension Courses:
- Adult Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse and Incest, taught by Roberta Mirisch, LCSW.
- The Role of Psychotropic Drugs in Psychoanalytic Treatment, taught by Jacqueline Lichtenstein, MD.
- Victory in Defeat, taught by Alan Spivak, PhD.
- Voices of Silence, taught by Corrine Hatton, PhD.
- Fresh Perspectives on Substance Use Disorders and Habituated Self Medication, taught by Visiting Faculty Margaret Ann Fetting, PhD.
- Object Relations in Dreams, taught by Sandra Garfield, PhD.
For more information on the cost and location of these and other classes visit www.LAISPS.org
Northwestern Psychoanalytic Society and Institute (NPSI)
- Dana Blue, LICSW, FIPA, Caron Harrang, LICSW, FIPA, and Maxine Nelson, LICSW, FIPA will present, On Reverie: A Panel Presentation, at the Northwest Alliance for Psychoanalytic Study Annual Forum Conference in Seattle on Saturday, April 12, 2014 at Shoreline Community College in Seattle. The panel, moderated by David Jachim, PhD, FIPA, will define reverie and how it is cultivated in clinical practice; discuss phenomena that threaten reverie and show how, once lost, it is restored; and foster an experience of reverie, drawing on work of visual artist and psychotherapist Kamila Zenata.
- NPSI is pleased to announce that Adriana Prengler, LMHC, FIPA has been accepted as a full member of NPSI and joins our faculty as a training and supervising analyst. NPSI is pleased to have her vitality and wealth of experience at the IPA level having served as a regional representative from Latin America (2005-2007), as Chair of the IPA Candidate Loan Panel (2005-2009), and as a member of the Budget and Finance Committee (2005-2012) and on the Administrative Affairs Committee (since January 2014).
- Maxine Nelson, LICSW, FIPA presented her graduation paper entitled, Blade Runner as Metaphor: Encapsulation in Virtual Reality as a Defense Against Psychic Annihilation, to institute colleagues and invited guests on Wednesday evening, February 12, 2014. President Elect Caron Harrang opened the evening and Mirta Berman Oelsner, LMHC, FIPA served as discussion facilitator. After her presentation Director of Training Maxine Anderson, MD, FIPA presented Maxine with a graduation certificate and welcomed her to the community of psychoanalysts at NPSI. Congratulations Maxine!
- Julie Hendrickson, LMHC will join the NPSI Board of Directors in March 2014 as candidate representative (non-voting) replacing Maxine Nelson, LICSW, FIPA who served in this position for the past year until graduation.
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Judy K Eekhoff, PhD, FIPA published, Infantile Trauma, Therapeutic Impasses, and Recovery, in the January 2014 issue of the American Journal of Psychoanalysis (353-369).
- Jeff Eaton, MA, FIPA served as discussant for Arnaldo Chuster's (Brazil) paper, The Psychoanalyst's Imagination at the Newport Psychoanalytic Institute on November 2, 2013. He also served as discussant for Ofra Eshel's (Tel Aviv) paper entitled, Tustin's Diabolon and Metabolon Revisited: Further Clinical Explorations, which was awarded the Frances Tustin Memorial Lecture Prize in Los Angeles on November 16, 2013.
- The EBOR 2014 Pre-Conference Reveries-a series of six seminars examining papers related to the conference theme by various psychoanalytic authors-continues at NPSI on the 4th Wednesdays of the month. Upcoming discussion facilitators Mirta Berman-Oelsner, LMHC, FIPA (March 26), Judy K Eekhoff, PhD, FIPA (April 23), and Oscar Romero, MD, FIPA (May 28). The series is intended to stimulate thinking and discussion around the theme of reverie in preparation for the fall conference.
For additional information about the conference and registration click here http://npsi.us.com/society/evolving-british-object-relations-international-conference/.
For more information on NPSI events visit www.npsi.us.com.
Psychoanalytic Center of California (PCC)
- Second-year candidate Susan Mitchell, PhD has been appointed as the CIPS New Brief Reporter for PCC.
- The PCC Infant Observation Conference which was to be held on February 22, 2014, featuring Rebecca Hall of the Tavistock Clinic, London, has been cancelled.
- PCC Open House will be held from 11 am to 2 pm on March 30, 2014.
- The 4th Annual Bion Conference will be held on May 3, 2014. Rudi Vermoté,
President of the Belgium Psychoanalytic Society is the featured speaker. This annual conference will be held at The New Center, Los Angeles. - PCC Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Program hosted a Scientific Meeting on January 16, 2014 featuring a presentation by training analyst Joseph Aguayo, PhD, FIPA entitled, An overview of the Psychoanalytic Contributions of D W Winnicott: A Case Illustration based on Allison Bechdel's 'Are you My Mother?'
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 - llhalotek@verizon.net
Caron Harrang for general news and from NPS - enewseditor@cipsusa.org
Susan Mitchell, PhD for news from PCC - susam1027@hotmail.com
Jared Russell for news from DMS and IPTAR - jaredkrussell@hotmail.com
The submission deadline for the next issue (spring 2014) is April 30, 2014.
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