Click Here To Read: A comment by Art Lynch and Arnold Richards on: Psychoanalysis In Search For Its Identity, And The Role Of The Real by Herbert Peyser, a presentation given at Mt. Sinai Medical Center, N.Y.C on January 6, 2009.
Click to Read: Psychoanalysis In Search For Its Identity, And The Role Of The Real by Herbert Peyser.
The Future of Psychoanalytic Education: Preservation and Innovation: Together Everyone Achieves More
Cochairs: Jane S. Hall and Arnold D. Richards
Farkas Auditorium,
NYU School of Medicine NYU School of Medicine
New York, New York,
November 16, 2008
Click Here to Read: Jane S. Hall’s Opening remarks
Click Here to Read: Henry J. Friedman’s Keynote Address
Click Here to Read: Theodore Jacobs’s Keynote Address
Click Here to Read: Paula Mieli’s Keynote Address
Click Here to Read: Ernest Kafka’s Introduction of Ernest Hartmann who delivered the 16th Annual Charles Fisher Memorial Lecture on Tuesday, November 11, 2008 at the New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute.
Click Here to Read: Ernest Hartmann’s paper: On The Nature and Function of Dreaming in the International Psychoanalysis Website.
THE NEW YORK PSYCHOANALYTIC SOCIETY & INSTITUTE
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Tuesday, November 11, 2008, 8:15 p.m.
16th Annual Charles Fisher Memorial Lecture:
Ernest Hartmann, M.D. will speak about the Contemporary Theory of Dreaming.
Introduced by Ernest Kafka, M.D.
Click Here To Read: A post on this website of a series of indepth interviews with Charles Fisher.
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Click here to Read: Psychoanalysis after Freud: A Response to Frederick Crews and Other Critics by Glen O. Gabbard, Sheldon M. Goodman, and Arnold D. Richards, which was previously published as Glen O. Gabbard, Sheldon M. Goodman, and Arnold D. Richards (Summer 1995). Psychoanalysis after Freud: A Response to Frederick Crews and Other Critics. Psychoanalytic Books, 6(2), 155-173, and appears with the authors’ permission.
Click Here To Read: The Certification Debate as a Manifestation of Our Unacknowledged Ambivalences by Leon Hoffman.
Click here to Read: For the historical background of this debate, Paul Mosher and Arnold Richards’s paper “The History of Membership/Certification in the APsaA: Old Demons, New Debates.”
APsaA members are discussing the subject of certification. This editorial by Arlene Kramer Richards gives us one person’s personal experience of the process, along with suggestions for the future. The piece was originally published in États Generaux de la Psychanalyse (2000) and appears here with the requisite permissions. The IP Blog looks forward to many comments so that people can reflect, with open minds, on their positions – whatever they may be.
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DISCUSSION OF THE CERTIFICATION PROCESS AT THE AMERICAN PSYCHOANALYTIC ASSOCIATION
By Arlene Kramer Richards
I became a certified member of the American Psychoanalytic Association in 1998. My experience in becoming certified has caused me to think long and searchingly about the purposes and the consequences of this process. The personal pain induced by the process is the spur for my thinking, but the thinking has gone on long after the pain was assuaged by the concern and sympathetic listening of a few close friends and many colleagues. The process began when I decided to attend a meeting at which prospective candidates for certification were invited to discuss the process. The members of the committee who were present at the meeting assured the prospective candidates that the process would be collegial and that they wanted to use it to get to know the candidates and their way of working as analysts. This sounded good to me. They also gave details of how to write up cases for certification and, most importantly for me as someone who had trained long ago and outside the institutes of the American, said that they were willing to accept a selection of cases from senior people rather than demand that we write up all the cases we had ever had. That was reasonable. I wrote the cases as I would for scientific papers. I tried to spotlight the difficulties that arose in the analyses themselves and the thoughts that had occurred to me as I wrote them up now, many years later. Informed that they had been insufficient, I was encouraged to go to Toronto in May 1998 to present my work in person. This time, I was to bring process on current hours. I was shocked to find that the small subcommittee that interviewed me at that time did not believe that I had presented to them well enough to show that I understood the analytic process. After another write up and another interview, I was told that I had now shown that I did understand the analytic process. For a senior analyst who had done many analyses and supervisions and had been the co-chair of an IPA pre-congress on analytic supervision as well as having been a training analyst so long that some of my analysands were now training analysts, this did not feel good. Was the problem me or was it the process? Or was it both? Much of my thinking about this has been in the service of figuring this out. To begin at the beginning, there was the case write ups. Continue reading Discussion of the Certification Process at APsaA
