Discussion Group #59: Educators and Analysts Working Together:
A Collaborative Approach to Optimize School Climate and Learning in an Independent School

Date: Thursday January 17, 2008
Time: 2:00 – 4:30 P.M.

An Invitation from Alice Maher:   

Please come to our symposium on Saturday, January 19th, at 12:00 PM at the American Winter Meetings at the Waldorf Astoria to hear Prudy Gorguechon, Mark Smaller and Jeff Taxman discuss the topic, “Is Community Psychoanalysis ‘Real’ Enough to Be Made Part of the Core Curriculum?” I’m excited to catalyze a discussion that will address the vitally important intersection of the theoretical and applied aspects of our work.

As we prepare to ring in the New Year, I offer some toasts:

* To Arnie Richards: Here’s to the Internationalpsychoanalysis.net blog — may it flourish and continue to feed our world with interesting articles and information on psychoanalysis.

* To all readers of the blog with hopes that more of you participate!

* To Elise Snyder: Congratulations on your inroads to China –may psychoanalytic thinking bridge our cultures.

* To Jurgen Reeder: Kudos for alerting us to the Hate and Love in Psychoanalytic Institutes: The Dilemma of the Profession in a scholarly manner, one from which we all can learn.

* To the IPA Planning Committee: congratulations on the Berlin conference.

* To Barbara Stimmel: Thank you for the fine work you and your committee did on representing North America in Berlin.

* To Claudio Laks Eizirik: Cheers for the leadership you have provided at the IPA.

* To Paul Mosher: Thank you for providing us all with a sense of history.

* To Glen Gabbard: Gratitude for making the APsaA meetings so rich.

* To the organizing committee of The Future of Psychoanalytic Education (Sam Herschkowitz, Kenneth Eisold, Lewis Aron, Jennifer Harper, Joann Turo, James Fosshage, Doonam Kim, Arlene Kramer Richards, and my co-chair Arnie Richards) thank you for producing the first and most successful ecumenical conference on this topic.

* To Charles Brenner, Martin Bergmann, and Peter Neubauer for their continued vitality and for being wonderful role models.

* To Elizabeth Gero-Heymann for celebrating her 104^th birthday.

* To Doris Silverman: kudos for the IPA newsletter.

* To all the presidents and board members of our many societies and institutes: thank you for your commitment and energy and time. Your leadership will take us into a successful future.

* To Dick Fox of APsaA for giving psychotherapy its rightful place in the sun.

* To the psychoanalytic journal editors: appreciation for keeping us informed and intellectually stimulated.

* To Norman Doidge: Thanks for telling us that the brain is indeed plastic and that we can add years to its functioning.

* To all the writers of psychoanalytic books and articles that teach us valuable lessons.

* To all the spouses: appreciation for your collective patience, tolerance, and support for your analytically involved mates.

* And most important: Deep gratitude to all the clinicians who do not necessarily make the news but who do the most important work.

Apologies to everyone I have not mentioned but who deserve cheers and best wishes for a successful and healthy New Year.

Peace!

Symposium 2008: Responding to the Erotic Transference

March 8th and 9th, 2008

Mount Sinai Medical Center

100th Street and Madison Avenue

Registration is now open for Symposium 2016:  Sexuality and Discontents
March 26th, 2016
Goldwurm Auditorium, Mount Sinai Medical School, 98th Street and Madison Avenue

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.