The Chicago Congress July 29th –August 1st will soon be with us. This is your meeting. Glen Gabbard, North American Chair, invites you to participate with your APsaA colleagues who are presenting in many aspects of the congress, in discussing clinical matters with distinguished colleagues from around the psychoanalytic world.
Meet the Author
Anna Ornstein (USA) interviewed by Yecheskiel Cohen (Israel)
Course
Jonathan Lear (USA) Technique and Freedom in Psychoanalysis
Dana Birksted-Breen (UK), Robert Michels (USA), Rachel Blass (UK) The International Journal’s Workshop on writing a psychoanalytic paper
Please register in advance for this workshop by sending an email to jill.sellner@iopa.org.uk so that you can be sent the material for it. If you are interested in submitting a paper or simply ideas for a paper for this workshop, please get in touch with Dana Birksted-Breen dana.birksted-breen@dib.me.uk
Further details on www.psychoanalysis.org.uk/ijpa
Research Presentations
Psychic impact and outcome of the Chinese Cultural Revolution (1966-1976)
Chair: Peter Loewenberg (USA). Panellists: Tomas Plaenkers (Germany), Friedrich Markert (Germany).
Convergences and Divergences in treatments of so-called ADHD children
Chair: Marianne Leuzinger-Bohleber (Germany). Panellists: Birgit Gaertner (Germany), Katrin Luise Läzer (Germany), Björn Salomonsson (Sweden), Dieter Bürgin (Switzerland), Alan Sugarman (USA).
Film Presentations
The Many Faces of Violence: The Films of David Cronenberg
Chair: Isaac Tylim (USA). Panellists: Adrienne Harris (USA), Andrea Sabbadini (UK)
Representations of masculinity and femininity in Almodovar’s films
Chair: Janice Lieberman (USA). Panellists: Paola Golinelli (Italy), Liliana Pedron de Martin (Argentina), Isaac Tylim (USA)
Casa de Los Babys (in Spanish with English subtitles, Discussion in English)
Chair: Rosemary Balsam (USA). Panellists: Gabriela Legoretta (Canada), Jennifer Stuart (USA)
When the Glass is Full Chairs: Hedda Bolgar (USA), Maureen Murphy (USA); Panellists: Linda Tucker (USA); Robert Wallerstein (USA):
Individual Papers
Ethical challenges in supervision
Richard Waugaman USA
The danger in deception: Oedipal betrayal and the assault on truth
Dianne Elise USA
The Oedipal Drama and its Impact on the Lives of Gay Men
Gary Grossman USA
The Second Skin, Repetition and Trans-generational Trauma: A Clinical Case
Judith Mitrani USA
All along the watchtower: Creativity and emergence in Bob Dylan’s poetry
Alice Jones USA
“Gold and its Alloys” Where is Psychoanalysis on the Continuum of Therapeutic Process? Psychoanalysis as Different from Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy.
Joann K. Turo USA
The Place Across the Street Some reflections on Language Separateness and Difference
Irene Cairo USA
“I want to be all-gone”: Psychoanalysis Of A Three Year Old Failure To Thrive Child
Adele Kaufman USA
Stoller, Erotics, Sexual Excitement
David James Fisher USA
The synergizing potential of individual and couple treatments: A clinical illustration from a collaborative study
Graciela Abelin-Sas USA and Peter Mezan USA
On Keeping Thought Erotic: Some Problems in Contemporary Theory/Practice
Donald Moss USA
The development and organizing function of perversion: the example of transvestism
John Meyer USA
Small Discussion Groups
Envy. Yesterday, today, tomorrow
Chair: Clara Nemas de Urman (Argentina). Presenters/Discussants: Simonetta Nissim (Italy), Robert Oelsner (USA), Renato Trachtenberg (Brazil), Elie Debbané (Canada), Priscilla Roth (UK)
Developing the inner space – psychoanalytic work with an anorectic young woman
Chair: Irene Roski (Germany). Presenters/Discussants: Alice Bernstein (USA), Piotr Krzakowski (France), Alfred Bringmann (Germany), Bettina Jesberg (Germany), Jorg-Thomas Erdmann (Germany), Rubén Zukerfeld (Argentina).
Confusional Thinking/Confusion of Tongues
Chair: Julia Braun (Argentina). Presenters/Discussants: Marvin Hurvich (USA), Susan Finkelstein (USA), Christine Anzieu-Premmereur (USA), Judith Mitrani (Argentina).
Being a man. Yesterday and today. Lifespan perspectives on the changing face of masculinity
Chair: Calvin Anthony Colarusso (USA). Presenters/Discussants: Michael Diamond (USA), Steve Axelrod (USA), Eike Hinze (Germany), Martin Teising (Germany)
Psychoanalysis and Spirituality. Integrating concepts of Psyche and soul.
Chair: Juan Pablo Jiménez de la Jara (Chile). Presenters/Discussants: Paula Hamm (USA), Susan Lazar (USA), Robert Waldinger (USA), Eduardo Gastelumendi (Peru)
Between repetition and construction: transference
Chair: Lewis Kirshner (USA) Presenters/Discussants: Martin Gauthier (Canada), Christian Seulin (France), Nora Barugel (Argentina)
Eating disorders in adolescence. Integration with infant observation
Chairs: Claudia Lucia Borensztejn (Argentina) and Mary Brady (USA). Presenters/Discussants: Gianna Williams (UK), Hsueh-Mei Fan (UK), Mirta Berman de Oelsner (USA)
Perspectives on dealing with object loss in clinical work
Chair: Ellen Sinkman (USA). Presenters/Discussants: Sérgio Lewkowicz (Brazil), Rona Silverton (USA), Miriam Pierce (USA).
Inhibitions, symptoms and performance anxiety in the musician
Chair: Julie Jaffee Nagel (USA). Presenters/Discussants: Roberto Doria Medina Ponce (Argentina), Katarzyna Walewska (Poland)
Clinical psychoanalysis in the university: controversial issues
Chair: Ricardo Bernardi (Uruguay). Presenters/Discussants: Dominique Cupa (France), Adela Leibovich de Duarte (Argentina), Franco Borgogno (Italy), Robert Michels (USA), Patrizia Giampieri-Deutsch (Austria).
Cultural aspects of listening with the psychoanalyst’s “Third Ear
Chair: Lee Jaffe (USA). Presenters/Discussants: Gabriela Goldstein (Argentina) Bernd Keuerleber (Germany) Claudia Spadazzi (Italy).
Analytic listening. Reflections on Hypothesis and evidence
Chair: Evelyne Albrecht Schwaber (USA). Presenters/Discussants: Anna Christopoulos (Greece).
The Concept of the Link in Couple and Family Psychoanalysis
Chairs: David E. Scharff (USA) and Anna Maria Nicolo (Italy). Presenters/Discussants: Richard Zeitner (USA), Timothy Keogh (Australia), Hugo Bleichmar (Spain), Isidoro Berenstein (Argentina).
Growing old during midlife. Clinical case and metapsychology
Chair: Guillermo Julio Montero (Argentina) Presenters/Discussants: Rubén Basili (Argentina), Calvin Anthony Colarusso (USA)
How can we understand the depth of investment in being a training analyst?
Chairs: Mira Erlich-Ginor (Israel) and Leena Klockars (Finland). Presenters/Discussants: Anna Danielson Berglund (Denmark), Majlis Salomonsson (Sweden), Mary Target (UK), Estela Bichi (Argentina), Arnold Richards (USA).
Aspects of same-sex parenting: a psychoanalytical exploration
Chairs: Beatriz Agrest Wainer (Argentina), Ethan Grumbach (USA). Presenters/Discussants: Eva Rotenberg (Argentina), Susan Vaughan (USA).
Panel: Desiring and Fearing Enlivenment: Two Approaches to Unconscious Fantasy, Transference, and Analytic Intervention.
Chair: Jorge Canestri (Italy); Presenters: Sam Gerson (USA); Ricardo
Spector (Argentina); Discussant: Mitchell Wilson (USA).
To register for the Congress please go to http://www.ipa.org.uk/default.aspx?page=539
For a comprehensive list of all Congress sessions go to http://www.ipa.org.uk/default.aspx?page=753
The Early Bird (discounted fees) deadline has now been extended to 30 June.
There’s yet a further discount when you book online.
As you know, there will be no summer meeting of APsaA this year, and the IPA congress – from July 29 – August 1, is always a great opportunity to meet analysts from all over the world.
I very much look forward to seeing you in Chicago.
Best wishes,
Prudence Gourguechon, M.D.
President