DISCUSSION GROUP 71 will meet at our usual time slot 4:45-7:15 PM on Thursday,
January 18, at the APsaA Meetings at the Waldorf Astori in New York City.  All attendees at the Winter Meeting are cordially invited to attend up to the space limits of our assigned room.

As momentum continues to build for the wide-spread conversion of medical records to electronic form, increasingly complicated and confusing issues arise as to if and how we can translate our traditional methods of maintaining the privacy of patient information into what may well become mandatory arrangements in the coming new world of health care.  If we hope to maintain the status of psychoanalysis as part of the health care system, we must face these challenges head on.

Continuing with our overall theme of exploring and discussing broad issues of psychoanalytic confidentiality in an interdisciplinary context, the Jaffee-Redmond The Discussion Group’s January meeting will again focus on the transition to the new world of electronic record-keeping and the challenges to privacy that we will be facing as a result.

We are most fortunate in having as our Guest Discussant for this meeting ROBERT PLOVNICK, M.S., M.D., Director, Dept. of Quality Improvement and Psychiatric Services, American Psychiatric Association.  Rob is both a psychiatrist and an “informatics” expert and is especially sensitive to the special privacy needs of psychiatric patients.  He has represented the APA in a wide variety of national forums where the actual structures of the electronic medical records systems of the future are NOW being negotiated. 

Discussion Group #86:  Jane Hall and Liz Fritsch announce the discussion group: Deepening the Treatment (#86)  at the APsaA meetings at the Waldorf Astoria in New York City on January 18 at 7:30PM. This year we feature presentations by Debra Gill and Ellen Sinkman on how their patients shifted from psychotherapy to psychoanalysis. This is the fourth year the group has been offered and we have been sold out in New York each  time. We also discuss how to deepen psychothereutic work in general.
Please join us.

We invite you to our discussion group #90 on Loneliness and Aloneness on Thursday January 17 from 7:30 to 10 pm at the Waldorf Astoria in New York City at the ApsaA meetings.

We will have a presentation of a four times per week analytic treatment of a young woman with a schizo-affective disorder who is using anti-psychotic medication. The problem most prominent in her life is fear of loneliness combined with fear of intimacy. Careening between these dangers, she had become unable to function. Understanding her feelings, wishes, moral scruples, and defenses is demonstrated to have an effect on her life choices and the satisfaction she can derive from them.

Some are More Equal than Others: Oedipus, Dominance, and the Family

Speaker:  Caroline Garland
Caroline Garland is a Psychoanalyst in private practice and a Consultant Clinical psychologist at the Tavistock Clinic in London. She has had a long-term interest in group dynamics and in psychoanalytic group therapy, which she has practiced and taught for many years. She is the author of the book “Understanding Trauma,” and has written more than 20 articles on the understanding and treatment of post-traumatic conditions.