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WINTER 2016
 

This past year has proven to be a busy and fruitful time for CIPS! In this first News Brief of 2016 we are pleased to warmly welcome the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California to our growing organization and we are delighted to feature an interview with PINC's President, Drew Tillotson.


Lisa Halotk, PsyD
Phyllis Sloate's Letter from the President among other points of interest, highlights the ongoing efforts of the CIPS Board and its Directors to implement a certification process for psychoanalysis.   

We will also be hosting IPA President Stephano Bolognini and Vice President, Alexandra Billinghusrst during the upcoming CIPS Clinical Conference in Los Angeles, May 13-15, 2016 and details about this much anticipated conference are here!

We want to thank everyone who contributed news to this issue. We are
Claudia Eskenazi

Claudia Eskenazi, PhD
grateful to our wonderful news staff: Susan Mitchell (PCC), Jared Russell (IPTAR & DMS), Joseph Davis (LAISPS), Teresa Canal Meyer (VPS), Drew Tillotson (PINC) and Caron Harrang (NPSI).

Sincerely,

Lisa Halotek, PsyD, FIPA
Managing Editor
 
Claudia Eskenazi, PhD
Assistant Managing Editor
CIPS Board of Directors

 Officers:

*    President: Phyllis Sloate PhD (IPTAR)   
*    Past-President: Randi Wirth PhD (IPTAR)        
*    Vice President: Terrence McBride PsyD (LAISPS)
*    Treasurer: Susan Light LCSW (IPTAR)
*    Recording Secretary: Marilyn Rifkin LICSW (IPTAR)
*    Special Assistant to the President: Beth Kalish, PhD (LAISPS)


Directors:
 
*    Janine Arbelaez, PhD, PCC         janinearbelaez@gmail.com
*    Douglas Dennett, MD, VPSG       drdennett@msn.com
*    Steven Ellman, PhD, IPTAR         sellman174@aol.com    
*    Claudia Eskenazi, PhD, LAISPS  claudia.e@sbcglobal.net
*    Lisa Halotek, PsyD, LAISPS        llhalotk@verizon.net
*    Caron Harrang, MSW, NPSI         caron@caronharrang.com
*    Andrea Kahn, PhD, PCC             drkahn@sbcglobal.net
*    Maxine Nelson, MSW, NPSI        maxinenelson1@gmail.com
*    Maureen Murphy, PhD, PINC        pinc93@earthlink.net                
*    Doris K. Silverman, PhD, IPTAR    dksilverman1@gmail.com
*    Susan H. Stones, MSW, DMS      shstones413@gmail.com
*    Drew Tillotson, PsyD, PINC          cogster@earthlink.net
*    Mary C. Wall, MSW, BCD, DMS   mcwofnyc@gmail.com
 
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 or how to become more involved. Contact your local society director(s) if you are interested.
Letter from the President
Phyllis Sloate, CIPS President
Dear CIPS Community,

My column begins with a heartfelt welcome to our two new Directors from the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California (PINC) - Drew Tillotson and Maureen Murphy. Drew Tillotson is currently President of PINC and a member of their faculty, participates on the IPA Committee on Psychoanalysis and Culture as well as on the IPA Image Task Force. Maureen Murphy, Chair of NAPsaC, is a former North American IPA Board Representative, the Founding President of PINC, and current chair of Admissions. She is the Program Chair for the 2017 IPA Congress in Buenos Aires. Welcome to the CIPS community!

And CIPS continues to grow! On Saturday, January 16th, the board of The Contemporary Freudian Society (CFS) voted unanimously to join CIPS. Paula Ellman, CFS Vice President, called in this happy news during our concurrent CIPS face-to-face board meeting. The CIPS board raised a glass and toasted PINC and CFS amidst applause and general rejoicing. The President of CFS, Judith Felton, has submitted a formal letter requesting membership in CIPS. This request will be voted on at the February 21st CIPS board meeting, then ratified by each of our societies.   

Progress towards establishing a Board Certification for all of our members is well under way. This initiative will enhance our individual professional standing, the status of CIPS component societies, and the profession as a whole. At this time, the motions necessary to establish board certification have been ratified by all of our member societies, and we are in the midst of constituting the Board of Examiners that will review applications. Each member society has been asked to nominate one representative to the Board of Examiners. We are delighted and grateful that Michael Diamond (LAISPS), Jeanette Gadt (PCC) and Robert Oelsner (NPSI) have graciously agreed to serve in this capacity, and expect our other member boards to complete their nomination process shortly. The Certification Committee, chaired by Leigh Tobias (PCC), will continue to present recommendations to the CIPS Board, as we work towards an up and running board certification process for our membership.

CIPS, again in partnership with NAPsaC, hosts our 2016 Biennial Clinical Conference the weekend of May 13-15, at the beautiful Ritz-Carlton Hotel Marina del Rey in Los Angeles.  Randi Wirth (IPTAR) is our Chair, with Andrea Kahn (PCC) and Maureen Murphy (PINC) as Co-Chairs. IPA President Stefano Bolognini and Vice President Alexandra Billinghurst, are our honored guests for the conference. The Friday afternoon program will again consist of a panel presenting brief papers; the conference theme is Empathy, Creativity and The Shared Transitional Space. Panel participants currently include Stefano Bolognini, Albert Mason, and Kerry Kelly Novick; Arlene Richards will moderate the panel. An honors ceremony and reception follows. We celebrate the creative bridge building efforts by President Bolognini and Vice-President Billinghurst that are transforming how IPA societies perceive and relate to IPA. The entire Friday conference program is open to all in the mental health community; please spread the word and encourage your friends and colleagues to attend this very special event! The small clinical groups that are the unique creation of the CIPS clinical conference are open to members of CIPS component societies, CIPS Direct Members, Candidates, and to all members of an IPA component society. Stefano Bolognini will participate in a small clinical group.  Alexandra Billinghurst has graciously agreed to facilitate a small group, and to moderate our Plenary. An all-out celebratory party welcoming PINC and CFS into the CIPS community is planned for Saturday evening at the home of Andrea Kahn.

Our teleconference series continues to flourish under the leadership of Chair, Maxine Nelson (NPSI), and our Writing Program led by Eve Golden is again oversubscribed. Some openings are still available in the two new teleconferences led by James Krantz (IPTAR) and Batya Monder (IPTAR). James Krantz, an internationally well-known and well regarded organizational consultant, presents our members with an Introduction to Socio-analytic Thinking. The population of older Americans continues to grow, making Batya Monder's offering, Aging and Treating the Older Adult, a very timely clinical addition. Both of these teleconferences are an opportunity to study with CIPS colleagues who offer extensive expertise in their subject area, while getting to know other members of CIPS.

Welcoming new component societies into the CIPS community is both enormously rewarding and exciting. It speaks to the positive directions pursued by our leadership over recent years - broadening our scope while retaining our core ethos - and reflects much dedicated, very hard work by successive boards. This synergy of vision and focused effort has enhanced the value of CIPS to respected colleagues sufficiently that they are moved to become part of our warm and vibrant community. As the New Year begins, we look to welcome and to integrate new colleagues into CIPS, and to continue our growth together.

I wish you all a healthy, happy New Year that is productive and fulfilling - and look forward to seeing you in LA!

With warm regards to all,

Phyllis
NAPsaC News 

Maureen Murphy, NAPsaC Chair, reports on the following activities reflecting NAPsaC's growing involvement as the North American regional IPA association.

I'm pleased to have the opportunity to inform you of a new collaboration between NAPsaC and APsaA as well as to alert you to the exciting meetings planned by the European and Latin American regional organizations.

NAPsaC and  APsaA
Rather than mount another major conference, NAPsaC decided to work to establish co-sponsorships with our member groups. Our initial collaboration was with CIPS in May 2014 and continues with the upcoming CIPS Clinical conference in May.

For the first time, NAPsaC will offer a panel or discussion group at each APsaA meeting beginning with the APsaA meeting in Chicago this coming June. The panel, developed by NAPsaC board member Paula Ellman, is entitled: "How Psychoanalysis Informs the Creation of the Courage to Know Violence Against Women." This panel, chaired by Nancy Goodman includes Vivian Pender, Arlene Kramer Richards and Margarita Cereijido and explores psychoanalytic concepts that help open space for the courage to represent and symbolize  the existence of rape, trafficking, femicide and all heinous hate crimes against women. The panel grows out of the  March 2016 COWAP conference: The Courage to Fight Violence Against Women to be held in Washington D.C.

Other Regional Conferences
Under the leadership of Stefano Bolognini, the three IPA regional organizations are working together in new and interactive ways by participating in each other's major conferences.

There are two conferences coming up that may be of interest to our members--NapsaC will be represented at each of them. The European Psychoanalytic Federation (EPF) will hold their congress entitled "Authority" in Berlin, March 18-20.

FEPAL 's congress, "The Body", will take place this September 13-17,  in Cartagena, Columbia. The call for submissions is open until February 22     

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 Officers: Maureen Murphy (Chair); Beth Kalish (Co-Chair); Leigh Tobias (Secretary); Sandra Borden (Treasurer)

Board of Directors: Mark Smaller, Harriet Wolfe (APsaA): Louis Brunet (CPS); Judith Felton, Paula Ellman (CFS); Steven Ellman, Randi Wirth (IPTAR);Beth Kalish, Lisa Halotek (LAISPS);Caron Harrang, Maxine Nelson (NPSI); Leigh Tobias, Andrea Kahn (PCC);    Maureen Murphy, Charles Spezzano (PINC).
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 and Study Groups that make up the Confederation (IPTAR, LAISPS, NPSI, PCC, VPSG and the Direct Member Society) and between our members and psychoanalytic societies or organizations outside of CIPS. In this issue we feature collaboration between an IPTAR analyst and a colleague from the British Psychoanalytical Society. The News Brief invites submissions from any CIPS member with similar planned activities or a review after attending an event illustrative of inter-society dialogue and learning.
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SAVE THE DATE


Call for Papers 
Sabah Al-Dhaher  


Eleventh International Evolving British Object Relations Conference
Seattle, Washington (USA)
October 28-30, 2016  
The Feeling Mind and Lived Experience: Clinical Transformations in Psychoanalysis
- Interdisciplinary Perspectives -
We are pleased to announce our plenary presenters:
 
Mark Solms, PhD, FIPA from Cape Town, South Africa
and
Maxine Anderson, MD, FIPA from Seattle, Washington, USA.  
 
Mark Solms is the Chair of Neuropsychology at the University of Cape Town and Groote Schuur Hospital in South Africa, President of the South African Psychoanalytical Association, founder of the International Neuropsychoanalysis Society, and will be named Honorary Fellow of the American College of Psychiatrists in 2016. His books include
The Neuropsychology of Dreams,
Clinical Studies in Neuro-psychoanalysis (co-authored),
The Brain and the Inner World (co-authored),
The Feeling Brain, and is the authorized editor and translator of the forthcoming
Revised Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud (24 vols) and the
Complete Scientific Works of Sigmund Freud (4 vols) .
 
Maxine Anderson is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst and a Clinical Professor at the University of Washington. She is a Supervising Analyst in the US and Canada and has published articles on theoretical and clinical issues in psychoanalysis from an Object Relations and Bionian perspective. Her new book, The Wisdom of Lived Experience, is forthcoming.
 
From Mark Solms, October 2015:
If the id is conscious and the ego is intrinsically unconscious, [as current neuroscience suggests] and as I believe they are, then how does this affect our clinical work? For one thing, we need to reconceptualise the very basis of the talking cure, which Freud conceptualised as attaching ego consciousness (via words) to the inchoate things in the unconscious id. Actually it is the ego that borrows its consciousness from the id, not the other way round. Accordingly I don't believe our patients are troubled primarily by missing (unconscious) cognitions; they suffer mainly from all-too-present (conscious) feelings. Feelings are also the basis of the countertransference intuitions that so typically form the starting point of our interpretative work. The task of analysis, in a sense, is the endeavour to find the unconscious thoughts that explain the conscious feelings. But there are also more ill patients who do not feel their feelings ... who confuse them with their objects (who mis-locate the feelings). These are just some starting points for a reconsideration of our clinical work in light of the discovery of the conscious id.
 
From Maxine Anderson, October 2015:
Lived experience and its wisdom realize the primacy of affect, which precedes and fuels all cognition but needs the complex functions of the cerebral cortex, including perception, memory and symbolization for the recognition and mediation of those affects. While we generally favor the detailed, language-based thought offered by the left hemisphere for making our way in the world as well as in formulating our interpretative efforts in psychoanalysis, it may actually be the more unconscious, intuitive, wide-ranging capacities of the right hemisphere that ground our healing efforts and foster the wealth and wisdom of intuitive and implicit experience.  Indeed, coordination between these two modes (the intellect and intuition) is essential, but true wisdom relies on the surrender of the products of the intellect back to the intuitive root.
 
 
The EBOR 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 EBOR 2016 Conference Organizing Committee invites paper submissions of original and unpublished material relating to the dialogue between neuroscience and psychoanalysis. We welcome an exploration into how neuroscience and psychoanalysis can inform, enrich or inhibit the other's respective work. There are many perspectives of interdisciplinary interest - theoretical, philosophical, historical, clinical, etc. Some questions related to the conference theme are provided below to stimulate thinking with the hope that a wide variety of creative contributions will emerge but papers need not be limited to these.
 
Inspirational Questions:
  • What is a mind?
  • How do your conceptions about mind and brain influence your clinical work?
  • If our views of mind and brain move closer together through a dialogue between neuroscience and psychoanalytic theory, how does that impact evolving British Object Relations theory and psychoanalytic theory and practice in general?
  • What could neuroscience learn from psychoanalysis?
  • What could psychoanalysis learn from neuroscience?
  • How does the wisdom gained from lived clinical experience inform our thinking about two minds working together?
  • Clinical examples are encouraged.
 
Instructions for submissions:
 
An initial abstract submission followed by a paper submission are both required and should follow the format outlined below. Abstracts must be submitted no later than March 1, 2016 and paper submissions must be submitted no later than May 1, 2016.    
  • Each abstract and each paper must be written in English and accompanied by a cover letter.
  • The cover letter should be the first page of the submission.
  • The cover letter must state the following: 
-       the name(s) and email address(es) of the corresponding author(s), and 
-       the title of the paper
  • The submitted paper must contain original, unpublished work and not be currently under consideration for presentation elsewhere.
  • All co-authors concur with the contents of the paper.
 
To guarantee a blind review of each submission using multiple reviewers, please avoid including the author's name in the body of the abstract and the paper.

Submitted abstracts are limited to a maximum of 150-200 words (not including the cover letter) with 1.5 line spacing in Word document format. These should state the paper's key arguments or ideas, its significance as a theoretical contribution and/or its clinical application, and identification of key influences such as major thinkers or previous writers on similar themes.  
 
Submitted papers are limited to a maximum of twelve (12) pages (not including the cover letter and references) with 1.5 line spacing in Word document format. Paper submissions will be judged on relevance to the conference theme, clarity, originality/innovativeness, significance, and contributions to theory and practice. Each submission will receive a written response.
 
In order for an accepted paper to be included in the conference, the author must agree to register, pay for and attend the conference, as well as personally present the paper.

Questions about the submission process should be directed to:
 
Submissions of abstracts, cover letters and papers should be emailed to:
Hollee Sweet, NPSI Administrator, at admin@npsi.us.com.
Special Report   
INSTITUTE SPOTLIGHT:
Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California
 
In this feature we interview one of the presidents of our component societies. This News Brief we feature the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California (PINC) with an interview by Managing Editor, Lisa Halotek and their President, Drew Tillotson, PsyD, FIPA.



 PINC President, Drew Tillotson, PsyD, FIPA
 
 
Lisa Halotek: Drew, first off, a very warm welcome to CIPS! Maybe we can start by learning about how PINC came to the decision to join CIPS.
 
Drew Tillotson: Thanks Lisa for asking me to participate in this interview, and for your warm welcome to PINC. The way PINC came to joining CIPS is that it was past time to join. It had been in Maureen Murphy's mind for a long time. I had learned about CIPS actually from my time as North American VP for IPSO from 2007-2011. So I was eager to see PINC join also, and over time, especially when I took office as President, I had it on my agenda. The briefest way to describe how we came to join is that I brought it to the Board first to consider in the summer of 2015. There are/were many PINC members who had never heard of CIPS, so it took some education about CIPS, and how it would benefit PINC to join. Both Maureen and I felt that this was a perfect time to try, given all that is happening in North American psychoanalytic politics and the differences for Independents versus APsaA societies. I then brought it to our Fall Board meeting for a vote, and it was unanimous. The main reason it took PINC some time to join was PINC was preoccupied for several years in becoming a Component Society of the IPA. Also, in recent years, adapting to having an Executive Director. And we have had our own developmental trajectory. Meaning, I see now that PINC had to have some space to develop its international identity, as well a major structural change (having an ED) before joining other organizations. Also, I truly think that many folks focus primarily on the "local," versus the regional or international simply because they are trying to run busy family lives, busy practices and keeping the larger psychoanalytic world in mind isn't always top of the list for some, but certainly not all.
 
LH: Joining CIPS sounds like it was a very organic process. Can you tell us more about the history of PINC and its culture. You mentioned that PINC has an Executive Director and I'm curious about that.
 
Drew: Sure. Below is the text from our website about our history, because its not a short story to tell! Regarding our culture, PINC is foremost a comparative institute in its ethos and it facilitates training and programs that further discourse from a variety of psychoanalytic perspectives. We differ from many societies in that we involve candidates in all our committees: there is an opening for a candidate as a committee member in virtually all our Committees and task forces.   There are also two candidate Directors on our Board. We did hire an Executive Director for the first time back in 2010. sThis was a developmental step for PINC: before that the PINC President supervised everything regarding operations as well as being the President of the Board. We now have our 2nd Executive Director, hired in 2012. This allows the operations to be managed by a salaried position, while the President oversees the Board and provides vision and leadership.
 
History: In the 1980's, opportunities for psychoanalytic training were far more limited than they are now. From the 1930's to the late 1980's, only medically trained psychiatrists could become candidates or members of the American Psychoanalytic Association (APsaA). Some exceptions were made for non-medical analysts who had emigrated to the U.S. from Europe, where "lay analysts" were accepted, and some exceptions were made for researchers in psychoanalysis. In addition, (APsaA) had an agreement with the International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA), dating from 1939, that denied membership in IPA to any U.S. analyst or institute that was not a member of APsaA. Although psychologists and other non-physicians in many areas of the world could practice psychoanalysis and participate in IPA, here in the U.S. psychologists, social workers, and related mental health professionals could not join the national or global community of psychoanalysts.
Many Bay Area psychologists and social workers who were educated in analytic theory and were doing psychoanalytically-oriented psychotherapy wanted to be trained as analysts, believing that a medical education was not necessary to practice psychoanalysis. A group called "The Committee for Lay Analysis" prepared a lawsuit based on a California law that prohibited "arbitrary and capricious" admissions standards for professional training. The action was settled by agreement in 1987, and APsaA agreed to admit psychologists and social workers for analytic training under a "waiver review," that required they met "high levels of competence" and were approved by both an individual institute and then by the APsaA. Jill Horowitz, LCSW, later one of the founding members of PINC, was Co-Chair of the committee.
In 1985, four psychologists filed a broader class action lawsuit in New York against APsaA on the economic grounds of "restraint of trade." Four years later, the suit was settled in favor of the psychologists, opening APsaA institutes to non-medical applicants. The settlement also stipulated that APsaA member institutes could not bar their members and faculty from teaching at non-APsaA institutes and that independent institutes could apply directly to join IPA.
While the lawsuits were in process, practitioners in the Bay Area were active. In 1986, Maureen Murphy, Ph.D., who later became a founding member of PINC, spearheaded the establishment of a local chapter of Division 39, the Division of Psychoanalysis, of the American Psychological Association. This local chapter, named The Northern California Society for Psychoanalytic Psychology (NCSPP), was created as an interdisciplinary organization that would serve as an educational and membership group for psychotherapists, psychoanalysts, and anyone interested in analytic theory and practice.
In 1988, NCSPP authorized the organization of a new analytic institute under the by-laws of the American Psychological Association. Maureen Murphy chaired the organizing committee. The new institute was designed to provide psychoanalytic training for licensed mental health professions of all disciplines and was also inclusive theoretically. Its educational model was comparative psychoanalysis in which the major theories in the field would be taught, studied, and evaluated critically. The rules and standards for admission, progressions, and graduation were explicit and transparent. The institute's administrative structures were designed to support an atmosphere of openness and free debate. The Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California held its initial Board meeting in 1989, and the first class of 12 candidates began training in the fall of 1990.
 
LH: Could you tell our readers how many members and candidates you have?
 
DT: We have 114 members and 46 candidates.
 
LH: Thank you Drew for acquainting our readership with the background and culture at PINC. We look forward to collaborating with our northern California membership!
CIPS Study Groups and Seminars
The following is a list of current or planned study groups or seminars. All groups meet via teleconference and are led by CIPS members or honorary members. Please contact Maxine Nelson if you have questions or an idea for a study group you would like to facilitate (maxinenelson1@gmail.com - 425-637-8844).

Currently we have three teleconferences running:

Bion 1, co-led by Marianne Robinson and Maxine Anderson, now in its sixth year, with members from Seattle, NY, DC and Canada.

Enactment, led by Nancy Goodman, with members from NY, DC and Mexico City.

Psychoanalytic Writing Group, led by Eve Golden, MD.

Aging led by Batya Monder with members from DC, NY and Los Angeles.

Socio-analytic Thinking led by Jim Krantz with members from NY, Vermont, Los Angeles and Seattle.
 CIPS Societies News
Direct Members Society (DMS)
  • Maurice Apprey, PhD, DM, FIPA, published, "Urgent Voluntary Errands" in the new IPA e-journal, Issue 0, of My Psychoanalysis.
     
     
  • Fred Busch, MD, was CAPSA invitee to the Italian Psychoanalytic Society. "Countertransference: An Alternate Perspective." Presented in Milan, Bologna, Turin, Rome and Palermo, with a Clinical Workshop in Bologna. November, 2015.  
Since DMS is comprised of individuals from IPA Societies other than one of the CIPS Societies, there is not a website for this group. To join CIPS as an individual member please fill out an application on our website by clicking here:  DMS Membership Application Form.

Institute for Psychoanalytic Training & Research (IPTAR)   
  • Christopher Christian, PhD, FIPA has published: Christian, C. (2015). "Conflict Theory and Intersubjectivity." Psychoanalytic Psychology, 32, 608-625.
     
  • Christian, C. (2015). "Punti di Convergenza tra Teoria del Conflitto e Intersoggettivita Nella Psicoanalisi Contemporanea ("Points of Convergence Between Conflict Theory and Intersubjectivity in Contemporary Psychoanalysis"). Psicoterapia e Scienze Umane, XLIX, (2), 201-220.
     
  • Harris, A, Lichtenstein, D., and Christian, C. (2015). "To Whom Does the Subject Speak? Between the Relational and Lacanian Schools of Psychoanalysis: A Conversation with Adrienne Harris and David Lichtenstein," Moderated by Chris Christian.  Studies in Gender and Sexuality, 16, 229-246.
     
  • Christian, C. (2015). Grant from Psychoanalytic Electronic Publishing for the documentary Psychoanalysis in El Barrio.  
     
     
  • Christian, C. (2015).  "Conflict Theory and Intersubjectivity: Points of Convergence and Divergence." Paper presented at Psicoterapia e Scienze Umane - Incontri. February, 2015. Convento di San Domenico, Bologna, Italy.
     
  • Christopher was also recently elected to the Editorial Board of the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, and he was appointed as faculty at the Institute for Psychoanalytic Education at NYU Medical.
     
  • Christine Fewell, PhD, LCSW, FIPA received the Dr. James R. Dumpson Chapter Service Award at the 2015 Annual Meeting of the New York City Chapter National Association of Social Workers on October 15th. The award is given for leadership contributions to the chapter.
     
  • Anna Fishzon, PhD, published, "The Fog of Stagnation. Explorations of Time and Affect in Late Soviet Animation," in Cahiers du monde russe, 2015/2 (Vol. 56), p. 571-598.
     
  • Geoff Goodman, PhD, FIPA recently published: Dent, V. F, & Goodman, G.  (2015). "The Rural Library's Role in Ugandan Secondary Students' Reading Habits."  The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions Journal, 41, 53-62.
     
  • Gastaud, MB, Carvalho, C., Goodman, G., & Ramires, VRR.  (2015).  "Assessing Levels of Similarity to a 'Psychodynamic Prototype' in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy with Children: A Case Study Approach (preliminary findings)." Trends in Psychiatry and Psychotherapy.
     
  • Goodman, G. (2015). "Interaction Structures Between a Child and Two Therapists in the Psychodynamic Treatment of a Child with Borderline Personality Disorder."  Journal of Child Psychotherapy, 41, 141-161.
     
  • Goodman, G., Edwards, K., & Chung, H. (2015). "The Relation Between Prototypical Processes and Psychological Distress in Psychodynamic Therapy of Five Inpatients with Borderline Personality Disorder. Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, 22, 83-95.
     
  • Goodman, G., Reed, P., & Athey-Lloyd, L. (2015). "Mentalization and Play Therapy Processes Between Two Therapists and a Child with Asperger's Disorder." International Journal of Play Therapy, 24, 13-29.
     
  • Ramires, V. R. R., Carvalho, C., Schmidt, F., MD, Fiorini, G, P,, & Goodman, G.  (2015).  "Interaction Structures in the Psychodynamic Therapy of a Boy Diagnosed with Asperger's Disorder: A Single - Case Study." Research in Psychotherapy: Psychopathology, Process and Outcome, 18, 129-140.
     
  • In January at the ApsaA Meetings, Janice Lieberman, PhD, FIPA chaired a Discussion Group on "Masculinity: The Vicissitudes of the Male Body." She chaired two paper sessions, one given by Lawrence Brown, the other by Britt-Marie Schiller. In March at the COWAP Conference in Washington, D.C. she will give a paper titled, "Violence Against Women as Depicted by Women Artists."
     
    For more information on all IPTAR events visit www.iptar.org.
     
Los Angeles Institute & Society for Psychoanalytic Study (LAISPS)
  • LAISPS is pleased to announce that Salmon Akhtar, M.D., Professor of Psychiatry at Jefferson Medical College and a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia, will be presenting a full-day workshop on Saturday, February 20, 2016. The title of the workshop is "Goodness, Playfulness and Happiness: A Clinical Approach." The event will be held at UCLA, Carnesale Commons.
     
  • The LAISPS Affiliate Society continues into its 2nd year with engaging clinical presentations by LAISPS members: Karen Beard, PhD, Steve Isaacman, PhD, FIPA, Pete Wolson, PhD, FIPA, Valerie Von Raffay PhD, and Christal Daehnart, PhD, FIPA.
     
  • On going courses for the mental health community this year include, the Trauma Studies Program under the direction of Mariann Hybels Miller, PhD the Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Program under the direction of Steve Isaacman, PsyD, FIPA and Roberta Mirisch, LCSW, the Eating Disorders Program under the direction of Susan Krevoy, PhD, FIPA and Victoria Curea, MFT, and the Infant, Early Childhood, and Parent Psychotherapy Program under the direction of Beth Kalish, PhD, FIPA, Jessica A. Lehman, PsyD, FIPA, and Kathleen Campbell, PsyD.
     
  • In the spring and summer of 2016 Peter Wolson, PhD, FIPA and Joe Davis, PhD will be leading training sessions for MFT and PhD interns at The Maple Counseling Center, the community mental health clinic for the city of Beverly Hills. Davis, will present a talk on "Assaults on the Frame," and Wolson will lecture on "How Psychoanalytic Therapy Cures."
     
  • Michael J. Diamond, PhD, FIPA has written a Book Review for the International Journal of Psychoanalysis entitled "Growth and Turbulence in the Container/Contained: Bion's Continuing Legacy" edited by Howard B. Levine and Lawrence J. Brown. International Journal of Psychoanalysis, December 2015, Volume 96. 
     
  • A tribute to deceased LAISPS founding member Jean Sanville, PhD, authored by LAISPS member Karen Redding, PhD, has been selected for February publication in the Smith College Studies in Social Work. The article is entitled, "A Personal Tribute to Dr. Jean Sanville: December 6, 1918-November 6, 2013." A more personal paper by Karen about Jean Sanville's passing, titled "The Ultimate Empathic Moment: Listening as Death Draws Near," has been selected for inclusion in the 2016 AAPCSW inaugural Online Monograph based on the 2015 conference, "The Art of Listening: Psycholanalytic Transformations." LAISPS members are appreciative of these tributes to Jean Sanville who made significant contributions in both the fields of psychoanalysis and social work. 
     
  • Michael J. Diamond has accepted the invitation to represent LAISPS on CIPS newly formed Board of Examiners. Each CIPS member society will have a representative from their respective society to process applications for board certification in psychoanalysis. 

    For more information on all LAISPS events visitwww.LAISPS.org 
     
Northwestern Psychoanalytic Society and Institute (NPSI)    
  • Call for Papers for EBOR 2016 scheduled for October 28-30. (See additional details in this issue of the News Brief shown above.)
     
  • NPSI and the Northwest Alliance for Psychoanalytic Study are co-sponsoring a two-day workshop titled, "Reconsidering the Contributions of Donald Winnicott and Wilfred Bion: Then and Now" featuring Joseph Aguayo, PhD, FIPA (PCC) on February 5-6, 2015.
     
  • The Friday evening program features a public lecture by Joseph Aguayo titled, "Winnicott and Bion: Irreconcilable Differences?" This presentation will be videotaped and made available on the NPSI website following the conference.  
     
  • Saturday morning includes a panel discussion on "Bion's Italian Seminars: Facilitating and Learning from the Group Experience." The idea for this panel originated in a teleconference study group held in 2015, in which panel members Caron Harrang, LICSW, FIPA and Maxine Nelson, LICSW, FIPA were participants, and which was facilitated by featured presenter Joseph Aguayo. The group read and discussed the nine seminars included in Wilfred R. Bion: The Italian Seminars (Karnac: 2005).
     
  • Bion conducted a series of clinical seminars between 1967 and 1979 (Los Angeles, 1967; Brasilia, 1975; Tavistock, 1976-79; Rome, 1977 and Sao Paolo, 1978) in which he transmitted ideas developed in his epistemological writings of the 1960's vis-à-vis his exemplification of "being in the moment" with a live audience. Additionally, the organizers are hoping to evoke Bion's way of working with groups. Thus, like a Matryoshka doll, this panel presentation will be a group experience intended to evoke not only a sense of what it was like to participate in the 2015 Italian Seminars study group, but also the experience of the Italian clinicians who participated in the 1977 seminars in Rome facilitated by Bion.
     
  • Saturday afternoon Joseph Aguayo will facilitate a Clinical Seminar exploring clinical material presented by an invited clinician. Discussion will include attention to how the case might be viewed from a Winnicottian or a Bionian perspective.
     
  • Community Member Sigrid Asmus, MLS was presented with the fourth annual Outstanding Community Member Service Award for her editorial assistance to book editors Dana Blue and Caron Harrang whose forthcoming book, From Reverie to Interpretation: Transforming thought into the action of psychoanalysis (Karnac, 2016) represents the collected papers from the 2014 International Evolving British Object Relations Conference.
     
  • Robert Oelsner, MD, FIPA has accepted the invitation from the Liaison Committee (Caron Harrang, LICSW, FIPA and Maxine Nelson, LICSW, FIPA) to represent NPSI and serve on the newly formed CIPS Board of Examiners. This Board consisting of a representative from each CIPS Member Society will oversee the processing of applications for board certification in psychoanalysis from qualifying members.
     
  • Community Member Eric Huffman, LICSW joined the staff of Selected Facts: Newsletter of the Northwestern Psychoanalytic Society and Institute as a reporter covering professional events of the Society's growing Community Members. To see the NPSI Member Roster click on this link: http://npsi.us.com/society/member-roster.

    For additional information or to register contact NPSI Administrator Hollee Sweet admin@npsi.us.com

    For more information on all NPSI events visit     www.npsi.us.com.
 
Psychoanalytic Center of California (PCC)   
  • A warm and informal memorial service honored PCC member, Bonnie Engdahl, PhD, FIPA on October 10, 2015.  
     
  • On November 7, 2015, the 20th Annual Tustin Lecture featuring Alina Schellekes, PhD, FIPA of Israel took place. A daylong conference was held at the NCP Auditorium.      
     
  • On November 8, 2015 a heartfelt and moving memorial service was held for James Grotstein, MD, FIPA at the University Synagogue in Brentwood. 
     
  • On December 5, 2015 the 6th Annual Wilford Bion Conference featuring Didler Houzel, MD, FIPA of France, took place at the NCP Auditorium. A faculty dinner to honor Didler Houzel, MD, FIPA, was held in the evening following the conference.
     
  • On Sunday, December 6, 2015 Dr. Houzel supervised Naomi Lieberman, PsyD, FIPA in a Master Class for PCC members. He also held a Candidate Master Class and Susan Mitchell, PhD, presented.
     
  • On January 16, 2016 New Voices at PCC will welcome recent graduates, David Brooks, PhD, FIPA and Meme Rhee, PsyD, FIPA as they read their graduation papers from 8:30 am to 12:30 pm at the PCC office classroom.
     
  • On January 30, 2016, Albert Mason, MB, BS, PsyD, FIPA presented at the first Clinical Café of the year. It took place from 11:00 am to 1:00 pm at the PCC office classroom.

     
  • On February 21, 2016, PCC will host its annual chamber music concert. The concert will take place from 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm at the University Synagogue in Brentwood.
     
  • On March 13, 2016, The PCC open house will take place from 11:00 am to 2:00 pm at the PCC Conference Center.
     
  • On April 27, 2016 the 27th Annual Melanie Klein Lectureship will feature Catalina Bronstein, MD, FIPA of London. The daylong conference will take place at the New Center for Psychoanalysis from 8:30 am to 4:00 pm.
     
  • On May 21, 2016, Albert Mason, MB, BS, PsyD, FIPA will present "Anatomy of an Interpretation." The conference will take place at the New Center for Psychoanalysis from 8:30 am to 12:00 pm.

    For more information on all PCC events visit     www.psycc.org.

Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California (PINC)   
  •  Through the Lens of Neuroscience: Ongoing Seminar in Neuropsychoanalysis with Maggie Zellner, PhD - Fridays Jan. 8-June 3. This seminar focuses on clinical applications of neuroscience, studying the emotional, memory, and cognitive systems of the brain in order to more deeply understand psychoanalytic concepts and intervene more effectively with our patients. This year's seminar will read classic papers on psychoanalytic theory and examine what neuroscientists might be writing about these same topics. We will read seminal papers by Freud, Fairbairn, Bollas, Fonagy, and others, along with recent neuroscience papers that will serve to enrich, expand, or revise their ideas. Although the seminar is designed for students at an intermediate level of experience with neuroscience, all levels from beginner to advanced are
    welcome. We will meet with Maggie Zellner in New York by video conference. On January 22 she will teach in person.
     
  •  South Bay Monthly Reading Group - 3rd Friday of the month: First meeting January 15, 2016
        SBCPS is introducing a monthly reading group for clinicians at all levels facilitated by J. Gerhardt. Meetings will be held in a private home in Palo Alto. Our intent is to gather for a close reading of, and response to, key papers in the contemporary psychoanalytic literature.
     
  • When words fail: The role of the body in managing primitive anxieties in patients with eating disorders with Tom Wooldridge, Psy.D., Discussant Peter Goldberg, Ph.D. - Wednesday Jan. 20
        With the rise of symptom-focused modalities, psychoanalysis has been marginalized in eating disorders treatment and research. Yet psychoanalysis has invaluable insights to offer. What are the psychic vulnerabilities, rooted in early life, that lead to the disorder's manifestation, most often in early adolescence? How do patients make use of their bodies to contain these vulnerabilities, which have not yet found their way into language and relationship? Discussion will be grounded in a complex clinical case.
     
  • A Call to Reflect: An RSMP Community Discussion about Living and Working in a Time of Increasing Violence - Jan. 9 held at Instituto Familiar de la Raza, a community mental health clinic.
        Community mental health practitioners are under enormous pressure to deliver more services with fewer resources, while the problems that we are challenged to resolve are increasingly complex. As we strive to provide meaningful interventions that address the social, psychic and justice demands of those who struggle the most, we have an even greater need to carve out spaces, both within our minds as clinicians and within our places of practice, to reflect on our work and connect with one another. In this session we have an open community discussion with Prof. Elliot Currie and Estela Garcia.
     
  • Open to Interpretation Series:
    Secrets and Lies
    Jane Burka, Ph.D., Co-presenter Julie Leavitt, MD
    4 Wednesdays, Feb. 3 , 10, 17 and 24 , 7:30 PM - 9:00 PM
    When secrets and lies invade the therapeutic field consciously or unconsciously, both patient and therapist are permeated by concealed emotions, distortions of truth, unspeakable subjects. Secrets and lies blur awareness with ignorance, entangle us in sticky emotional and psychological webs, and challenge our sense of reality.

    This class will consider the character, meaning, and effects of secrets and lies in our clinical work. Our readings will explore the psychodynamic functions of lying; secret unbearable identifications that shape the psyche; the therapist's refusal to acknowledge truths about themselves or their patients; and a taboo topic-the impact of social class on the therapeutic couple.
     
  • PINC Visiting Scholar - Dodi Goldman
    Mar 19 - 20, 2016
     
  • PINC International Visiting Scholar - Alessandra Lemma
    May 2 - 7, 2016


    For more information on all PINC events visit www.pincsf.org
 
Vermont Psychoanalytic Study Group (VPSG) News   
  • At the recent IPA Boston Congress, Mina Levinsky-Wohl, MD, LCMHC, President of VPSG, presented the paper "Assisted Reproductive Technologies: Shifting from the Physical to the Analytic Space." There were two other presentations in the same session: Gabriela Legorreta, PhD, training and supervising analyst of the Montreal Psychoanalytic Institute presented "Reproductive Technologies: When Fiction Becomes Reality: A Dream Comes True? Or a Nightmare? The need to Adjust Our Analytic Disposition" and Carole Levaque BScN, MAPsy, Psychoanalyst, presented "Yesterday, Tomorrow and Today: Reproductive Technologies and the Analyst."
     
  • the clinical and theoretical considerations of assisted reproductive technologies. Conceiving through egg or sperm donation may destabilize individual's identity and as a consequence the internal references necessary to sustain parental identity. This may require a complex process involving "psychic adoption." The papers also explored the complexity of the analyst's countertransference when treating patients who resort to reproductive technologies and the psychic pain of infertility. The three papers explored the impact of reproductive technology in psychoanalytic thinking and clinical work.  Clinical vignettes where presented in each of the papers.
     
  • Vermont Psychoanalytic Study Group is proud to announce that two of its candidates, C. Emma Burrous, PhD and Teresa Canal Meyer, PhD have been unanimously elected by the Board of the IPA to Direct Membership in the IPA. They are the first graduates of the Vermont training program. Congratulations!
     
    For more information on all VPSG events visit http://www.vermontpsychoanalytic.org
      

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 general news or questions - enewseditor@cipsusa.org
 
Caron Harrang for news from NPSI - mail@caronharrang.com
 
Susan Mitchell, PhD for news from PCC -  susam1027@hotmail.com  
 
Jared Russell for news from DMS and IPTAR - jaredkrussell@hotmail.com

Drew Tillotson for news from PINC - cogster@earthlink.net

Teresa Canal Meyer for news from VPS - canaldoc@gmail.com
 

 
The submission deadline for the next issue (Spring 2016) is April 30, 2016