President’s Message
I write this message from Lisbon, Portugal, where I had an exceptionally moving experience at a conference organized by the Portuguese arm of IARPP. Led by Frederico Periera, the group consists mostly of psychologists, and they are a very motivated warm and open group. I feel like I have not just a group of new colleagues, but new friends. The training program in psychoanalytic therapy is thriving and there is a great deal of excitement about it. I made a pitch for all of the attendees at the conference to join Division 39, and I am certain at least some will, including Frederico.
I mention this because one of my presidential priorities has been to make the Division more international. My experience in Lisbon tells me there is great opportunity for the Division to gain member and support from Europe and yet of all my presidential priorities, my effort to increase our international presence and membership has had the least success. One wonders why when there is enthusiasm for psychoanalysis that attitude is not reflected in our international membership, which remains low. Our resourceful committee on International Relations sent out a well articulated appeal to potential international members enumerating the many benefits of joining the Division to no avail. MORE>
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The Early Career Committee of Division 39
The author of the November blog is Early Career Committee member Randi Hirschberg, Psy.D, who is a staff clinician at the Boston Institute of Psychotherapy and has a private practice in Boston. Randi is a first year candidate at the Massachusetts Institute of Psychoanalysis.
This fall the changing color of the leaves is only one change in my environment. Due to a professional opportunity offered my spouse, I’ve recently moved from New York City to the Boston area. The move has presented resounding challenges in terms of my career. I left a newly launched practice and my professional contacts behind, and am now working in a fee-for-service position at a community mental health center while attempting, once again, to build a private practice. My emotions about the change have shifted in different directions at different moments. At times, I wish to be in a more established time in my life where both my career and life are stable. At other times, I find myself welcoming the changes and inviting the excitement that comes with starting anew.
Getting acquainted with a new psychoanalytic/mental health community in a new city has required me to hold different tensions. Although each city has its own characteristic split related to its unique history and institutes one tension that stands out for me now is in relation to the many different schools of thought which exist in the mental health world, and particularly in the psychoanalytic community. We are improving as a community at sustaining these tensions, but there is still work to be done. I’m not only referring to theoretical differences in the psychoanalytic community, such as an ego psychology model versus an object relations model, I’m also looking at the less subtle tensions between, for example, CBT and DBT therapists and psychodynamic-oriented therapists. More>
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Call for Insight Article Submissions from Graduate Students
The Graduate Student Committee (GSC) invites all graduate students to submit articles for the monthly eNews publication, InSight. To promote, connect, and support graduate students, the GSC wants to use this space for your interests in psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychology. What experiences have helped shape you as a psychoanalytic graduate student? What issues in psychoanalytic psychology are most pressing for you? What do you believe that our field will need to address in the future? We want to hear what is important to you! Experiences from the Spring Meeting are welcome. Please submit articles no longer than 1000 words by email to Greg Stevens (gregoryjstevens@gmail.com) by the 20th of the month. For those helping train graduate students, please forward this information to them. For more information on the GSC, please view our website and Facebook page. We look forward to hearing from you! – Greg Stevens, GSC Member and Media Subcommittee Chair
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Don’t You Wish You Were at the Spring Meeting?
This new column shares news and views from the most recent Spring Meeting and makes you want to attend the next one. Really: look deep into the eyes of this column, reconnect with your breath, think fleeting mean thoughts about your mother, repress those thoughts, and then ask yourself, “How could I possibly have missed the previous Spring Meeting?” if your next thought is, “Gosh, I won’t make that mistake again!” consider booking your ticket for San Francisco, April 23-26, 2015.
At our last spring meeting Laura Athey-Lloyd, Psy.D. presented:
“Kids! What the devil’s wrong with these kids today?!”
Emerging adults, millennial narcissists, the me generation, failures to launch, and what young, psychoanalytically-oriented clinicians have to say about them. Emerging adulthood has been proposed as a distinct developmental stage, defined as the period beginning in the late teens and lasting through the 20s, characterized by increased exploration in the areas of love, work, and worldviews. Cultural changes such as the acceptance of premarital sex, availability of fertility treatments, lack of sufficient employment opportunities, and extended life expectancy have created a “new norm” in the Western world of postponing the achievement of certain “markers” of adulthood—such as career, marriage, and children—into the 30s. This leaves emerging adults with less of a timetable, and while some are thrilled by the freedom this affords, others may feel frustrated and hopeless that the comforting love and work “maps” that guided their parents and grandparents are no longer applicable. What accounts for the difference between “exploration” and “procrastination” in this defining decade? In this symposium of papers, five early-career psychoanalytic clinicians will present diverse yet complementary points of view, exploring the idea that similar to other critical points in human development, flexible negotiation of the conflicts and challenges of this stage may lead to favorable psychological outcomes later in life, whereas what has been termed a “failure to launch” may put a young adult in a diverging and maladaptive path, fraught with shame and immobility.
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Mentors Needed for the Scholars Program
We are in the midst of another Division 39 Scholars Program year. As I am sure most of you know, becoming a Division 39 Scholar is a competitive process for graduate students and Early Career Professionals who may apply to receive a $500 travel award for the spring conference, access to our publications, and a mentor with whom they meet at least once per month.
The success of the program depends on our members who have at least 10 years of experience volunteering to be mentors to our Scholars. Whather you volunteered last year or not, please volunteer to be a mentor for one of this years’ scholars.
Please send all inquiries to division39scholarsprogram@gmail.com
Frank Summers and Kris Yi, Co-Chairs, Division 39 Scholars Program
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Scholars Program
It is with great pleasure that we announce that applications are now being accepted for the Division of Psychoanalysis (Division 39) Scholars Program for the 2015-16 year. There are a total of 66 openings for the program which runs from the Division 39 Spring Meeting in San Francisco April 22-26, 2015 until the Atlanta Spring Meeting April, 2016.
All Division 39 Scholars will receive the following benefits:
• A travel award of $500 for expenses to the San Francisco conference
• A mentor with whom the Scholar will meet at least once per month
• Subscriptions to all Division 39 publications, including the journal Psychoanalytic Psychology, the Division/Review which comes out three times per year, and the monthly online newsletter, Insight
• Free access to Psychoanalytic Electronic Publishing (Pep-web) if such access is not otherwise available. MORE>
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Division 39 Discount Subscription Program
As you know, for a number of years, we have been able to offer our members discounts for subscribing to psychoanalytic journals. It is the time of year when many of us are renewing our subscriptions and this note is a reminder to consider renewing or beginning a subscription by taking advantage of these savings. For now, as you will see, you may need to contact customer services to request the discount, although several journals offer direct links to the discount. Please follow the directions that are different for each journal. MORE>
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2015 Johanna K. Tabin/APA Books/Division 39 Book Proposal Prize
This prize aims to encourage Division 39 members who have not published a psychoanalytic book to submit a book proposal
Division 39 and APA Press are delighted to announce the sixth annual prize the Johanna K. Tabin/APA Press Book Proposal Prize for a first book by a psychoanalytic author. The winner receives a $1,000 cash prize, certificate of recognition, and guarantee of publication by the APA Press.
The aim of this prize is to encourage psychoanalytic writing by Division 39 members who have yet to publish a psychoanalytic book. We look for good writing, originality, as well as clinical and scholarly relevance. While some previously published material may be included, the proposed book should consist primarily of new work and promise to be an original and coherent monograph. Edited collections of previously published papers are not acceptable, nor are edited volumes of contributions by more than one author. Simultaneous submissions to other publishers will disqualify the entry.
The proposal should consist of:
a cover letter to include the author’s identifying and contact information
a full CV
a statement of sufficient length to describe the mission, scope, and potential contribution of the project to psychoanalysis
a table of contents; and
one, and only one, sample chapter.
With the exception of the cover letter and CV, there should be NO identifying information in the other materials that would identify the author of the proposal
Submissions are accepted in hard copy only and must be in quintuplicate. Blind review evaluations are conducted by the Book Proposal Committee, the editor of APA Books, and an Honorary Judge.
All submissions for the 2014 award must be submitted by January 9 2015, to:
Book Prize
Division of Psychoanalysis
2615 Amesbury Road
Winston Salem NC 27103
Questions should be addressed to: Frank Summers, PhD, ABPP, Chair of the Book Prize Committee at Franksumphd@gmail.com
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Archives
We are pleased to announce the creation of The Task Force on the Archives of Division 39. As the division has become important in the evolution of psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychology, it follows that the time had come to a) collect materials which reflect its history, b) encourage scholarship among the membership when the collection is assembled, and c) establish a means to promote awareness in future generations of the important contributions to psychoanalytic thought by the Division. More>
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From the Awards Committee
Submit your nominations for division award nominees
The Awards Committee of Division 39 is soliciting recommendations from our membership for award nominees for 2015. This 2014 awardees are Elliott Jurist for Scholarship; Marsha McCary for Leadership, and Dolores Morris, for Diversity. The list of prior awards is on the Division 39 website. MORE>
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Division Members
Congratulations! to recent NYU Postdoc graduate and psychoanalyst, Dr. Avgi Saketopoulou, winner of the 2014 Ralph Roughton Paper Award — given to an author who makes an original and outstanding contribution to the psychoanalytic understanding and/or treatment of lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgendered individuals.
Avgi’s paper is entitled, “Mourning the Body as Bedrock: Developmental Considerations in Treating Transsexual Patients Analytically” and has been published by JAPA — get your free copy by visiting: http://apa.sagepub.com/content/62/5/773
Author Connection
Recent Publications by Division 39 Members
Arlene (Lu). Steinberg, Psy.D., Reclaiming Holocaust History: The Past Lives Within Us, Clio’s Psyche, (Special Issue on Psychology and the Holocaust), June, 2014
Arlene (Lu) Steinberg (Psy.D.), Facing Limitations in Psychoanalysis, Neuroscience and in Ouselves, Book Review of On Psychoanalysis, Disillusion and death:Dead Certainties by Antonie Ladan, PsycCritiques, Sept. 2014
What are you writing? Future issues will highlight the varieties of publishing activities our members are engaged in. All links to books and articles will be considered. To be included, please e-mail the editor by the 21st of the month. All publications submitted for Author Connection need to comply with the InSight submission guidel
George Washington University post-doctoral fellowship
The Professional Psychology (Psy.D.) Program at The
George Washington University invites applications for
our post-doctoral fellowship program for the 2015-16
academic year. Preferred starting date is in August,
2015, and can be flexible depending on selected fellows’
needs.
The Psy.D. program has a psychodynamic and
community-service orientation, and the post-doctoral
fellowship seeks to attract emerging professionals
aspiring to careers in academic, clinical, or research
leadership in psychodynamic or psychoanalytic clinical
psychology. MORE>
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