The American Academy of Psychoanalysis & Dynamic Psychiatry
Academy Update
Save the Date: May 3-5, 2012
AAPDP’s 56th Annual Meeting
Psychodynamics in Contemporary Psychiatry: Mutual Influences
Philadelphia, PA
The American Academy of Psychoanalysis and Dynamic Psychiatry will be hosting its 56th Annual Meeting in Philadelphia, PA. As an affiliate organization of the American Psychiatric Association, the AAPDP will receive its hotel space from the APA on November 15. On this date, we will open our room block and announce the location to the membership. We hope that you all plan to attend.
The Program Chairs Drs. Eugene Della Badia and Kimberly Best as well as the Chair of Scientific Programs, Dr. Eugenio Rothe, have put together a fantastic program that will feature various topics on psychodynamic understanding, through clinical material and research. Speakers include Dr. John Oldham, President of the APA, who will open the meeting with his talk on “Personality Disorders and DSM-5.” Dr. Henri Parens, Professor of Psychiatry at Jefferson Medical College and training and supervising analyst at the Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia, will be our Plenary Speaker. His presentation entitled “A Self-Study of Resilience: Healing from the Holocaust” will challenge the audience to consider the author’s self study of resilience and whether resilience can be optimized in our patients and even applied to the prevention of mental ill-health. Participants will also learn about the processes and factors known to make for resilience and that are the product of resilience. Dr. Salman Akhtar, who is also a Professor of Psychiatry at Jefferson Medical College and training and supervising analyst at the Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia, will be the Keynote Speaker. His presentation “Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Human Goodness: Theory and Technique” will offer evidence for the fact that psychoanalysis does have a perspective on human ‘goodness.’ Dr. Debra Katz, Psychiatric Fellow of the AAPDP and Vice Chair for Education at the University of Kentucky, Department of Psychiatry, will be giving the Presidential Lecture. Her presentation entitled “Inspiring Interest in Psychodynamic Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis: National Survey Data and Implications for the Future” will give participants the opportunity to improve competence or performance in understanding the results from national survey data regarding psychiatric residents and their attitudes and interest in Psychodynamic psychiatry, current psychoanalytic candidates and their motivations and obstacles in pursuing analytic training, and participants in the Teichner scholars program and the impact on resident and faculty interest in psychodynamic psychiatry.
Following the Meeting, members will be invited to a Social Event that will honor the Life Fellows of the Academy, the first annual Scott Schwartz AAPDP Awardee, and Dr. Douglas H. Ingram, outgoing Journal Editor of the Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis and Dynamic Psychiatry. The AAPDP Annual Meeting Program Committee is planning an elegant evening including a 3-course dinner and awards ceremony for this event. Please show your support by making a donation to the AAPDP’s Annual Meeting Fund. Your contribution will go toward expenses for the Social Event. All excess funds will be used toward expenses of the Annual Meeting.
Additional details of the Social Event and Annual Meeting will be sent to the membership on November 15. Please be sure to Save the Date for the Annual Meeting May 3-5, 2012 and the Social Event on the evening of May 5, 2012. We hope to see you in Philadelphia.