International Volume 14, Issue 1, June 2005 PSYCHOANALYSIS News Magazine of the International Psychoanalytical Association

‘Terminable and interminable’ – the education debate Don Campbell reflects on recent dialogues

Daniel Widlöcher bids farewell and looks forward

Cláudio Eizirik is optimistic about the future

IPA and IPSO – closer together

International PSYCHOANALYSIS International Association Internationale Asociación International Psychoanalytical Association Psychoanalytical Psychanalytique Psychoanalytische Psicoanalítica Broomhills, Woodside Lane, London N12 8UD, UK Tel: +44 20 8446 8324 Fax: +44 20 8445 4729 Email: [email protected] www.ipa.org.uk Association Internationale Vereinigung Internacional 2 CONTENTS

INTERNATIONAL PSYCHOANALYSIS THE NEWS MAGAZINE OF THE IPA. ISSN 1564-0361 Editor Alex Holder Contents Past Editors Ethel Person, Leopold Nosek Regional Editors Europe: Michel Vincent, Henrik Enckell, News Giuseppina Antinucci. Latin America: Renato Canovi, Juan Pablo Jiménez de la Jara. North America: Abby Adams-Silvan, Irene Cairo, 3 Editorial Sharon Zalusky. Language Editors 3 People German News Magazine: Alex Holder English News Magazine: Robert Stein Awards; Cornerstone Fellowship; Obituary French News Magazine: Colette Scherer Contents Spanish News Magazine: Cecilio Paniagua 4 Members Corresponding Editor Australia: Deborah McIntyre IPA Activities Production Manager Robert Stein Sub-Editor Sophie Richmond 5 The Han Groen-Prakken Psychoanalytic Institute for Translation Team Eastern Europe German: Elisabeth Vorspohl, Joachim Roether, Katrin Grünepütt, Michael Mertl PIEE Director Paolo Fonda outlines the Institute’s achievements English Andrew Weller, Philip Slotkin French: Anne-Lise Hacker, Catherine Roux, as it enters its fourth year Danielle Goldstein, Marianne Robert, Yves Le Juen Spanish: Dana Caceres-Pawlikowski, The President’s column Magdalena Padrón Araújo, María Julia Sainz Bello, 7 Pilar Rodas Riley Daniel Widlöcher’s final column as President looks at recent Layout and Production Bobbett Creative Communications developments and future challenges Print NewNorth Print 9 The Secretary’s letter The International Psychoanalytical Association Don Campbell updates members on DPPT grants

Board of Representatives (prior to June election result) President Daniel Widlöcher 11 The Treasurer’s report Secretary-General Donald Campbell Nadine Levinson reports on her activities as Treasurer of the IPA Treasurer Nadine Levinson Representatives 12 The IPA website: new developments Sander Abend, Marilia Aisenstein, Werner Bohleber, Stefano Bolognini, Aloysio D’Abreu, Henk Jan Dalewijk, Eric Karas and Robert Stein introduce a range of new features Norman Doidge, Shmuel Erlich, Richard Fox, James Gooch, Charles Hanly, Celia Katz de Eskenazi, 14 The new Board of Representatives Leopold Nosek, Carmen Médici de Steiner, Robert Pyles, Agneta Sandell, Robert Tyson, Sverre Varvin, Marcelo Viñar, Fernando Weissmann, 16 President-elect Cláudio Laks Eizirik Raquel Zak de Goldstein is optimistic about the future of psychoanalysis President-Elect Cláudio Laks Eizirik Secretary-Designate Mónica Siedmann de Armesto 18 IPSO President Bernard Keuerleber Honorary President Leo Rangell writes about increasing cooperation between IPSO and the IPA Honorary Vice-President Robert S. Wallerstein Corporate Officer Insight Piers Pendred (Director General) 19 The education debate NOTES FOR CONTRIBUTORS TO INTERNATIONAL PSYCHOANALYSIS Don Campbell reflects on recent dialogue on this key issue 1. Languages Contributions can be submitted in any of the four World Activities working languages of the IPA, i.e. English, French, German or Spanish. 2. Deadlines 21 Europe: Czech Republic; Finland, Germany; Italy; Spain; Sweden The two annual issues of International Psychoanalysis have deadlines for the submission of contributions Latin America: Argentina; COWAP Dialogue on sexual violence; which must be strictly adhered to. Failure to do so may mean that the contribution will have to be Brazil; Peru; Uruguay; held over until the following issue or have to be scrapped altogether. North America: Canada; USA The deadlines for submission of contributions are as follows: Featured on front cover: First row, left to right: Franz Boas, E.B. Titchener, William James, William Stern, 31 January for the first issue Leo Burgerstein, G. Stanley Hall, Sigmund Freud, Carl G. Jung, Adolf Meyer, H.S. Jennings. 31 August for the second issue Second Row: C.E. Seashore, Joseph Jastrow, J. McK. Cattell, E.F. Buchner, E. Katzenellenbogen, Ernest Jones, 3. Methods of submission A.A. Brill, Wm. H. Burnham, A.F. Chamberlain. Contributions must be submitted to the address listed Third Row: Albert Schinz, J.A. Magni, B.T. Baldwin, F. Lyman Wells, G.M. Forbes,E.A. Kirkpatrick, Sandor Ferenczi, under 4 below, either (a) as an e-mail attachment, E.C. Sanford, J.P. Porter, Sakyo Kanda, Hikoso Kakise. or (b) on a diskette in RTF format (Rich Text format). Fourth row: G.E. Dawson, S.P. Hayes, E.B. Holt, C.S. Berry, G.M. Whipple, Frank Drew, J.W.A. Young, 4. Address for contributions L.N. Wilson, K.J. Karlson, H.H. Goddard, H.I. Klopp, S.C. Fuller All contributions must be sent to The Editor, Dr Alex Holder Körnerstr. 17, 22301 Hamburg, Germany email: [email protected] International PSYCHOANALYSIS 5. Exceptions International Psychoanalytical Association Contributions from Component Societies which are Broomhills, Woodside Lane, London N12 8UD, UK part of the news and calendar of events section should, in the first place, be sent to one of the Tel: +44 20 8446 8324 Fax: +44 20 8445 4729 Email: [email protected] www.ipa.org.uk three Regional Editors. EDITORIAL 3

Due to the IPA’s current financial the achievements of his administration administration’s commitment to carry situation and the continued need over the last four years, and those out research into our educational to cut expenses wherever possible, projects where he feels he has not methods and scientific models. this will be the only issue of achieved as much success as he hoped. International Psychoanalysis that He reviews the changes that have Since this will be the only issue of you will receive this year. A Board occurred with the replacement of the International Psychoanalysis in 2005, Working Group on the future of the Executive Council by the Board of I have also asked Cláudio Laks Eizirik, News Magazine and the Roster has Representatives, bringing about closer our new President, to contribute an Editorial been established; its brief includes ties between the central administration article to give us some idea of his exploring electronic options to and the regions and component thinking about the future of and the replace the present hard-copy societies; the DPPT project (Developing IPA, which, with cautious optimism, version of the magazine. Psychoanalytic Practice and Training) he sees as a reality rather than as which has been successfully launched an illusion. If there is a crisis in If you read Nadine Levinson’s ‘Treasurer’s over the last two years; the continued psychoanalysis, it does not emanate report’ in this issue, you will realize that financial support of conceptual and from its theory nor from its practice, the marked decline in the value of the clinical research; the beginnings of but rather from social and economic dollar will necessitate further financial the establishment of IPA Allied Centres constraints and competing therapies. cuts rather than increases in budgets. throughout the world. What has It is therefore all the more important So it may well be that the present issue not been achieved successfully as yet to establish and maintain our is – pending the decision of President- is the establishment of structures psychoanalytic identity in an active elect Cláudio Eizirik and the new Board for engaging in dialogue with way through scientific and educational – the last hard-copy News Magazine neighbouring professions; the programmes. Regarding the current that you will hold in your hands! dissemination of the publications debate on training, our new President resulting from research; a closer look at feels confident that we will be able The Congress in Rio will mark the the psychotherapies and at the status to preserve the most essential values transition from Daniel Widlöcher’s four- of psychoanalysts with governments. of our training. Where he hopes year administration to the beginning to bring about improvements is in of Cláudio Laks Eizirik’s presidency. Don Campbell, who remains as the communication between the Mónica Siedmann de Armesto will take Secretary-General until the Rio administration and the membership, over as Secretary-General from Don Congress, is taking his leave with in an increased number of IPA Campbell, while Nadine Levinson will something of a flourish, not only publications, in the dialogue continue as Treasurer for another term. presenting us with his last Secretary’s with other disciplines and in our The new Board of Representatives, Letter but also with a substantial article outreach activities. which you have recently elected, will on the recent debate on psychoanalytic also take up its duties at the end of education. His letter is entirely devoted I very much regret the resignation of the Rio Congress. We have delayed to a report on the DPPT project, which Eduardo Laverde Rubio as Regional the dispatch of this issue so that you has been at the centre of his work Editor for Latin America. He has been can see on pages 14–15 who has been during his two years as Secretary- one of my most active Editors for the elected and who will represent you General. His extensive article on the last eight years and deserves my on the new Board. educational debate, which reached its deepest gratitude. climax during the last quarter of 2004, Daniel Widlöcher’s last Presidential gives a very clear and historically based column is devoted to an assessment of account of this complex issue and the Alex Holder, Editor

PEOPLE

Awards Sigourney Awards for 2004: IPA Cornerstone Fellowship People Jorge Canestri, Terttu Eskelinen de Folch, in Argentina Awards for Extraordinarily Horst Kächele, Alain de Mijolla, South American colleagues are invited Meritorious Service to the IPA Helmut Thomä, Sverre Varvin. to visit a project created by the IPA At its meetings in Paris in November 2004, Cornerstone Fellowship. The Cornerstone Those winners congratulated in the last the Board of Representatives unanimously Argentina project in Buenos Aires is a issue (p. 3) received their awards in 2004, approved the Executive Committee’s model application of psychoanalysis but the Awards were announced proposal that the following members responding to a community need: during 2003. should receive the Award for Extraordinarily the treatment of severely disturbed Meritorious Service to the IPA at the Gradiva Award preschoolers by an analytically orchestrated Rio Congress in July 2005: network. The treatment includes a Patrick Casement (British Society) was Paolo Fonda (Italy), Jerry Winer (USA) synergistic combination of in-classroom given a Gradiva Award in 2004 for his and Sara Zac de Filc (Argentina). analytic psychotherapy, classroom latest book, Learning from Our Mistakes, education and analytically informed by the American National Association for Mary S. Sigourney Awards parent guidance. Highly disturbed or the Advancement of Psychoanalysis. We extend our congratulations to developmentally delayed preschoolers the following colleagues who received are generally not adequately treated by 4 PEOPLE

education or therapy alone, especially the project, which has also received are being planned to the International in public educational settings. television attention. Psychoanalytic Association congresses among others. There is now a two-way secure video- A child from another South American conference link between the Children’s nation has come with his family to To arrange a visit, email: Psychological Health Center, Inc. (CPHC) Cornerstone Argentina for treatment [email protected]; for information, and the IPA Cornerstone Fellow who is and is making visible and audible gains publications and a forthcoming book about conducting her work at Cornerstone in emerging from his severe autism. this project covering thirty-nine years’ Argentina. This makes for lively, easy Two previously untestable and severely experience with the method, email: communication and supervision. Child disturbed children have already become IQ [email protected] or write to Gilbert analyst Gilbert Kliman, MD, an IPA member testable. We should have follow-up testing Kliman, MD, The Children’s Psychological and Medical Director of CPHC, is in close within less than a year on those two and Health Center, Inc., 2105 Divisadero St,

People touch with the project, together with several other children. A report is being San Francisco CA 94115. CPHC’s Spanish-speaking psychoanalyst, written about Cornerstone Argentina for Linda Hirshfeld. Dr Hirshfeld trained publication as a chapter in an English- analytically in Mexico, worked at the language book. About 450 pages of English Corrigendum Cornerstone in San Francisco, and knows publications on the Cornerstone Method In the last issue (vol.13, issue 2, 2004), the the Cornerstone Method well. Five very are also being translated into Spanish. report by Aira Laine (p. 7) on the 5th PIEE disturbed preschoolers are in treatment Clinical progress is being documented by Candidates’ Seminar in St Petersburg was at Cornerstone Argentina, daily, in a CGAS scores and digital videotape erroneously placed under Finland, because therapeutic classroom. Video documentation recording. Clips of children before and Aira Laine is a Member of the Finnish is occurring regularly. Another Argentinian after periods of treatment are becoming Society. However, she wrote this report therapist is being trained in the method available. Reports have already been made, in her capacity as Associate Director for by Dr Mallo. Argentinian newspapers using such videos, to the Buenos Aires Training at the Psychoanalytic Institute and magazines such as Elle are following Psychiatric Society, and other reports for Eastern Europe.

OBITUARY: psychoanalytical knowledge of adolescent After his severe illness, Tor-Björn continued therapies. to teach but also dedicated time to observing wolves, accompanied by his Tor Björn-Hägglund, 1928–2004 Rarely does one find a person endowed dog, which was itself half-wolf. He was Tor-Björn Hägglund was a training analyst with such strength and sensitivity, as a sensitive observer of nature in all its in the Finnish Society of Psychoanalysis. well as wide interests and the capacity multiform appearances. He listened to When he became professor of to observe minute details. He was a people in the same way, cherishing psychotherapy and medical psychology at regular newspaper columnist and he also their originality even though it could Oulu University he dedicated himself to published many books on psychoanalytical be uncomfortable. spreading knowledge of psychoanalysis knowledge aimed at psychotherapy and its applications in northern Finland. professionals. His book, Dying, has Many of us will remember Tor-Björn In Oulu, he and his wife Vilja – together been translated into English. With Vilja, he as a builder, in both the physical and with the Finnish Society – founded the published a psychoanalytical investigation metaphorical senses. He built by hand Psychotherapy Center Monasteri. Several of Finnish folk tales and myths. He also half a dozen traditional Finnish beam generations of therapists have since been wrote several novels and volumes of cottages, and created a solid school of trained there and are now are able to poetry, using his close observation of psychoanalytical psychotherapy, which offer psychoanalysis and to teach at the nature to express the pain of both spread out from its base in Oulu to other Center. He was especially concerned with growing and ageing with moving cities in the north of Finland. adolescent treatments and founded an simplicity. Tor-Björn and Vilja brought association with the aim of furthering up eight children together. Terttu Eskelinen de Folch

MEMBERS

Members who have died, Members who have left, ITALIAN PSYCHOANALYTICAL SOCIETY 1 January 2005–31 March 2005 1 January 2005–31 March 2005 Maria Batini Grimaldi Anna De Martis Bogani Andrea Dotti Franco Giberti AMERICAN PSYCHOANALYTIC ASSOCIATION AMERICAN PSYCHOANALYTIC ASSOCIATION Anna Paganoni Teresa Ranieri Herbert H. Cibul Richard K. Cole Concetta Alfano Michele Berlinerblau Gabriella Rusconi Ettore Zerbino Rudolf Ekstein Betsy Comstock Howard Corwin Nancy Dessert Henry Eisner PARIS PSYCHOANALYTICAL SOCIETY BELGIAN PSYCHOANALYTIC SOCIETY Calvin Harrah Jean Helz Françoise Boucard Albert Husquinet Mario Martinez-Lanza Leslie Nagy RIO DE JANEIRO PSYCHOANALYTIC SOCIETY BRITISH PSYCHO-ANALYTICAL SOCIETY Howard Sokolov Roberta Williamson Regina Gomes Pereira Elma Izaí P.M. Ployé Marion Wilson-Long Michael Windholz COLOMBIAN PSYCHOANALYTIC SOCIETY BRASÍLIA PSYCHOANALYTIC SOCIETY Simón Brainsky Paulo Monteiro JAPAN PSYCHOANALYTIC SOCIETY BRAZILIAN PSYCHOANALYTIC SOCIETY OF Noriko Satoh RIO DE JANEIRO In accordance with the IPA's Procedural Maria Almeida Walderedo Oliveira NEW YORK FREUDIAN SOCIETY Code, the Brazilian Psychoanalytic Society Maria Quental Vera Xavier Louis Wekstein of Sao Paulo has informed the IPA that it PARIS PSYCHOANALYTICAL SOCIETY BRAZILIAN PSYCHOANALYTIC SOCIETY OF has revoked the membership of Dr David Pierre Bogoratz Bela Grunberger SÃO PAULO Azoubel Neto on the grounds of a serious David Azoubel Neto breach of its ethical code. IPA ACTIVITIES 5

The Han Groen-Prakken

Psychoanalytic Institute IPA Activities

Paolo Fonda for Eastern Europe

PIEE Director Paolo Fonda outlines the Institute’s achievements as it enters its fourth year

When I attend the annual meeting But there may still be seven Component and Provisional Societies of the Institute’s candidates or the or eight years’ more work for Presence of PIEE Members or Trainees summer schools for those thinking the Institute until this stage In relationships with PIEE Study Groups of undertaking psychoanalytic is reached. training, I am constantly amazed Expansion and reassured by the enthusiasm of our East European colleagues for It isn’t long – a short fifteen St. Petersburg our profession. Somehow, the fact years – since the only country that they were denied access to this in Eastern Europe with an IPA Moscow tradition for so long makes it the psychoanalytic group was more enticing for them now. Hungary. How things have changed! There are now two Rostov on Don Component Societies – in the Equally, this is a region in which many Czech Republic and Hungary – Stavropol of those attending these gatherings are and two Provisional Societies – young, as compared with colleagues in the in Poland and Serbia, both rest of Europe. This contrasts quite sharply approved in 2004. Additionally, with those of us on the faculty who tend there are two Study Groups – to be somewhat older! But it greatly in Croatia and Romania. So there reassures us that they are the future of are now six groups where, in 1990, The total IPA membership in the region psychoanalysis in this part of the world, there was only one. These six groups could then rise to over 400. The great and have many years left to contribute currently contain about 150 IPA members. their learning to those who follow them. majority of that development will then But there are more groups, and quite a have been achieved in not much over I am sometimes asked, how long will this number more, in the early stages of being 20 years. However, it is worth noting Institute last? The reply is simple: until created. I hope that there will soon be that Eastern and Western Europe contain there are new IPA groups in the countries Study Groups in Moscow, and within roughly similar populations, but, in of Eastern Europe developed to the stage seven years I expect there to be IPA groups comparison, Western Europe currently where they can take on the training of in at least ten more countries in addition has well over 4,000 IPA members. This new candidates. When that is achieved, to the six mentioned above, bringing emphasizes the gap in psychoanalytic my colleagues and I can gracefully retire. the total to sixteen countries or more. provision between the two areas.

NEW MEMBERS

New Members from Martha E. Peck Daniel Prezant ITALIAN PSYCHOANALYTICAL SOCIETY 1 January 2005–31 March 2005 Francesca Profiri Maria Ritter Alfredo Lombardozzi Lisa Rosof Matthew Silvan The IPA is delighted to welcome the following NORWEGIAN PSYCHOANALYTIC SOCIETY Harold J. Steiger Ruth H. Steinman new members. Bjoern Lande Christine Sterkel Augusta M. Tilney AMERICAN PSYCHOANALYTIC J. Todd Dean James Youakim PARIS PSYCHOANALYTIC SOCIETY ASSOCIATION Albert Louppe Barbro Sylwan Anne J. Adelman Jeanne Bailey Clarke BRAZILIAN PSYCHOANALYTIC SOCIETY OF PERU PSYCHOANALYTIC SOCIETY Anne P. Bartek Suzane K.C. Benser SÃO PAULO Marcos Herrera Burstein Daniel Blake Lisa C. Bode Rachel Barbosa Lomônaco Beltrame Rosa María Normand Carol Bussey Levy Gordon Caras Paulo De Moraes Mendonça Ribeiro Shannon Croft Charles M. Cutler Fernando Góes Rua Sergipe Torrecillas PORTO ALEGRE PSYCHOANALYTICAL SOCIETY Angela Dykstra Paula F. Eagle Eva Maria Migliavacca Inúbia Duarte Elizabeth Feldman Gabriela Fridman COLOMBIAN PSYCHOANALYTIC SOCIETY RIO DE JANEIRO PSYCHOANALYTIC SOCIETY Linda Geurkink Rao Gogineni Ismail Yildish Mirian Baron Jason Gold William Scott Griffies INDIAN PSYCHOANALYTIC SOCIETY Rosa Maria Carvalho Reis Thomas Hoffman Cynthia Lee Suvra Chunder Rosália Lage Martins Bicalho Marvin L. Logel Barbara F. Marcus Nisala Lovanda Pinheiro Barbara L. Mason Laurie S. Orgel Roberto Santoro Pires De C. Almeida 6 IPA ACTIVITIES

In less than three years, the Institute has These arrangements are not ideal, but for New ways of working so far graduated 18 candidates who have many they provide the only opportunity The model around which the Institute has been subsequently approved as IPA Direct for analysis and supervision. The Institute developed has been unique. We have had Members. We have 90 people in training, is carrying out detailed research into to learn and develop new sets of skills, and either as registered candidates or those the efficacy of such methods. With the new ways of working. It is gratifying to undergoing their personal analyses. Over 20 creation of training analysts and the know that the skills developed within the more are about to embark on their analyses. willingness of IPA members to work in Institute may have applications elsewhere. The numbers are growing each year. When capitals in the region or close to them, I know that the IPA Supervisory Committee there are sufficient IPA members in any standard training analyses are now to Turkey, which has the same brief as the particular location, so they can apply for available in Bulgaria, Lithuania, Moscow, Institute to train candidates for eventual Study Group status. This is currently and in Helsinki for Estonia and northern entry into the IPA as Direct Members, happening in Moscow. When such groups Italy for Slovenia. This will develop further, has been able to employ some ideas become Study Groups, a transition of thus lessening the need for some to travel and practices developed from our work. IPA Activities IPA responsibility occurs. The Institute’s great distances for shuttle analysis. It is possible that the Latin American responsibility for these Direct Members, Institute, which is in the early stages just as for the candidates, ceases, and Funding of development, may benefit from our they, as a Study Group, then become Thanks to the generosity of many IPA experience as well, and also avoid the responsibility of an IPA Sponsoring members, the Institute has been able to our mistakes! Committee within its new group’s provide interest-free loans to a number of procedures. We always knew that this the Institute’s candidates to assist them in The future transition would be delicate. We are their training. Recipients agree to pay back Within a decade, psychoanalysis in all the working hard to ensure that, in the the loans over quite a long period after East European countries will be developing process of this transition, the professional they graduate. In quite a few cases, these along more conventional IPA lines. By that understandings built up between candidates loans make all the difference and allow time, there will be an increased number of and Institute staff are not lost but carried candidates to pursue this professional IPA Component and Provisional Societies over into the relationships with the course, something that otherwise would with active and well-established Institutes Sponsoring Committees. not be economically possible for them. of their own. There will be a number of Currently our work is concentrated on Fortunately, in recent years the economic Study Groups – possibly quite a few – well on Russia outside Moscow, and Armenia, situation in many East European countries the way to developing into mature groups. Belarus, Bulgaria, Estonia, Georgia, has rapidly improved. This will only help in The East European Institute’s work will have Khazakstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, the further development of psychoanalysis. been completed. Those wishing to become candidates in this region will then have Slovenia and Ukraine. The main activities The Institute is funded from a number of considerable choice as to which groups to consist of organizing seminars for sources – the IPA, the EPF, from Societies or join and where to train. But for those of us, candidates and a summer school each year. groups of Members in Finland, Germany, at least 50 in total, who have had the In addition, we have established a school Italy, Switzerland, from a Sigourney Award, privilege of being involved with the Institute, specifically for child and adolescent training from various other sources and, of course, working at the beginnings of psychoanalysis in cooperation with the IPA’s Committee on from the candidates, analysands and in so many of these countries, it will be an this topic. About 180 people a year attend participants themselves, who sacrifice experience we shall never forget. We are these events, many travelling enormous much to save the money to enable them not creating a new profession in this region – distances often by train and bus. attend our events. One of the great it is the candidates, analysands and event strengths of the Institute lies in its diverse Shuttle analysis participants who are doing that. Our role funding as this enhances the commitment has been to help create the opportunities to A limited number of the Institute’s of all our funders to this work. Beyond allow these mostly young people to realize analysands (the minimum necessary to financial support, the Institute’s candidates their ambitions and attain their personal form a Study Group) attain their personal have benefited from teaching programmes goals. The greatest credit for all this work analyses through shuttle analysis – that is, in English, organized specially for them goes to them and to what they are achieving. concentrated analysis over a number of in Helsinki and in Amsterdam, where they days or weeks, periodically throughout are also hosted by local colleagues. Many Further information about the Han the year, provided in locations often far candidates are also accepted as guests in Groen-Prakken Psychoanalytic Institute from their homes. Supervision is also regular training seminars in French, for Eastern Europe may be found on the provided to some on a similar basis. German and Italian Institutes. PIEE website: www.hgp-piee.org Participants and teachers at the PIEE Summer School in Kiev (June 2004 ) IPA ACTIVITIES 7 The President’s Column

Daniel Widlöcher The President’s column

In his final column as President, Daniel Widlöcher looks at developments during his term and future challenges

In the four years during which I have been President of the IPA, there have been various important developments in the organization’s life, which are still ongoing. First, of course, these years have been characterized by world events that have had a considerable impact and may well continue to reverberate for some time to come, with inevitable profound repercussions for all of us. It is surely no coincidence that the subject of the next IPA Congress is trauma. The best service we can render to the community at large is to define the specificity of the psychoanalytic viewpoint in this field. involvement of the Board in decisions initial inventory of the work already The new Constitution necessitated by basic issues, such as the funded by the Association. As you know, Let me now say a few words about our resolution of day-to-day problems. this funding takes the form not of a administration. The new Constitution, subsidy but of the guaranteed reimbursement Crisis in recruitment and demand adopted in 2001 in accordance with the of expenditure. This first stock-taking will SAM Project and established by the The overall quantitative increase in the enable us to compare the information previous administration, Association’s membership collected association by association and has fundamentally altered (up from 10,000 in 1999 region by region, and to arrive at an our rules of procedure. The overall to 11,000 in 2004) should overall view of the present situation. The current Board of not blind us to the quantitative increase Representatives assumes discrepancy between the Geographical expansion much more responsibility in the Association’s expansion particularly Let us now consider the responses we have than its predecessors. membership … should evident in the eastern been able to make to the demand for This has the great not blind us to the European region and the geographical expansion. To allow better advantage of binding the discrepancy between crisis in both candidate for the interest in psychoanalysis evident in central administration recruitment and the regions where the IPA was not previously more closely to the the expansion demand for treatment represented, a new form of association component societies, particularly evident in experienced by the older- has been established, comprising centres through their regional the eastern European established societies. for clinicians interested in psychoanalysis representatives, thereby region and the crisis To address this twofold and wishing at a future date to form enabling them to play decline, we have study groups fully integrated into the IPA. in both candidate an active part in the established a project for Centres based on this structure are to management of the recruitment and the the development be established shortly in Latin America Association. Because this demand for treatment of research directed and Asia. Another factor, too, has arrangement tends to experienced by the towards gaining a better encouraged the geographical growth of slow down the process understanding of the older-established the Association and the setting up of a of reaching a consensus causes of this crisis and number of study groups and provisional in some cases, more societies. devising means of societies in Europe. With the formation flexibility and regularity overcoming it. A positive of the Han Groen-Prakken Psychoanalytic should, in addition, feature of this project, on Institute for Eastern Europe in association preferably be injected into the links which the Secretary-General, Donald with the European Psychoanalytical between the regional representatives and Campbell, will be presenting a more Federation, it has become possible to the component societies. Committees detailed report, is that it entrusts the combine under a single umbrella both appointed by the President are gradually management of this research to the training activities for which the IPA is being replaced by working groups of component societies and to the regions. responsible and activities in the field of representatives, thus making for greater The Rio Congress will provide us with an scientific communication and research. 8 IPA ACTIVITIES

As an example of cooperation between Perhaps we should try to give more or the study of child development) and to the IPA and a regional organization, the publicity to the scope and quality of these new patterns of health care organization. development of this institute foreshadows projects. For this purpose we have However, we should also consider our the possible establishment of a number of published a document; but we should own practices and underlying theoretical study groups in the near future. Moreover, do more to make the publications models. Short-term preoccupations often generous donations by members of resulting from this research better known. blind us to the transformations demanded the Association have provided financial Once again, this will involve overcoming by the extension of our practices as we assistance for candidates. certain resistances. adapt to novel social conditions. Symptoms change and pathologies take on a variety Training Psychotherapy of forms. Anyone who doubts this need Another fundamental issue is training. In Let me end with some comments on only compare the clinical papers published this connection, I should like to repeat the two issues that remain unresolved and in our journals from decade to decade.

Column proposals I made in my introduction to will surely assume growing importance Our very theoretical concepts call for an the Training Meeting at the Nice Congress among the problems to be faced by in-depth critical and historical review. The President’s in 2001: our psychoanalytic The pluralism of schools and the issue of • The IPA does not Our international community in the clinical common ground are surely in the have a monopoly next few years: namely, process of giving way, presumably owing in the transmission psychoanalytic the extension of to the reflections and debates of the last of psychoanalysis. community is evolving psychoanalytically inspired twenty years, to a common espousal of psychotherapeutic practices • We must specifically … because the world the plurality of models and their use – on the one hand, and our define the points of culture and science a kind of ‘polyglottism’, as if each clinician professional status on the of agreement and ought to be able to apply different models is evolving around us. other. It is unfortunate that disagreement between according to the clinical situation with We must adapt to other we have not done more to our own and other which he or she is confronted. Have we encourage our community forms of training. forms of therapy, to prepared the ground sufficiently for such to take a closer look at the In particular, Lacan- new fields of research a work programme? As a debating question of psychotherapies inspired groups chamber, our international community (for instance, the (not only relations with have widely differing should facilitate this plurality of tongues neurosciences or psychotherapy societies conceptions of training just as, in the past, it succeeded in and the training of and we must engage the study of child acknowledging the plurality of schools. psychotherapists, but also in a dialogue with development) and to theoretical and clinical This is my last column for International those who wish to new patterns of health considerations, having Psychoanlysis as President of the IPA as talk to us. care organization. regard to the development my term ends in July this year. I would • The evaluation of of care and increasing very much like to take this opportunity methods is based on state control in this field). to express my sincere gratitude to the objective techniques and on clinical Although the diversity of local situations is Board, Officers and staff of the IPA observations involving third parties in a one reason for our difficulty, it would be for their invaluable help during my context of what amounts to institutional useful for the measures taken by individual administration, also to all those who have self-evaluation. societies to be made known to the wider served so willingly and conscientiously on • The IPA’s role must be confined to the psychoanalytic community. A similar the IPA’s many committees and working provision of help with the drawing up difficulty arises in connection with the status groups. The IPA’s goals could not be of objectives and methods. of psychoanalysts in the eyes of the state. achieved without their extraordinary efforts. I would also like to send my I am pleased to say that these proposals Evolving into the future very best wishes to Dr Claudio Eizirik, have ultimately met with a wide measure Our international psychoanalytic as the incoming President, and to of acceptance and that, by the time you community is evolving. It is evolving Dr Monica Siedmann de Armesto, read these words, they will have been because the world of culture and science as the incoming Secretary. I trust you will incorporated into our procedures. The is evolving around us. We must adapt to grant them the support and understanding work on such a delicate issue took time, other forms of therapy, to new fields of which you have so kindly given me. as our Secretary-General will explain in research (for instance, the neurosciences his column (see p. 18). Research Our policy in the scientific field has been one of openness: our congresses have been opened up to external personalities and clinicians; a series of publications has been launched; the website has been developed; and, of course, International Psychoanalysis continues to be published and has a new format. Can we rest content with these advances? I think not. We have not achieved as much success as I had hoped in developing structures for engaging in a dialogue with neighbouring professions or with the world of science in general.

Notwithstanding financial difficulties, we have been able to support research programmes and to give conceptual and clinical research the place they deserve. Daniel Widlöcher photographed with 4 former Presidents and the President-elect at the New Orleans Congress, March 2004. L to R: Robert S Wallerstein, President-elect Cláudio Eizirik, Daniel Widlöcher, Leo Rangell, Otto F Kernberg, R Horacio Etchegoyen. IPA ACTIVITIES 9

DPPT: Funding a solution Secretary's Letter

Donald Campbell Letter from the Secretary

Dear Colleagues In my first letter to you as Secretary eighteen months ago I introduced a new IPA programme called Developing Psychoanalytic Practice and Training (DPPT). DPPT, which has been at the centre of my work for the IPA since I became Secretary in July 2003, was designed to encourage and financially support local and regional projects which aimed to address the crises facing psychoanalysis of a decline in the number of psychoanalytic patients and candidates. DPPT is based on the belief that colleagues at the local and regional levels are in the best position to assess the crisis in their area and design the most appropriate action programmes. The IPA’s intention is to encourage and support DPPT projects at the grassroots level. The Board gave this project priority and set aside $300,000 in 2004 to fund local and regional DPPT projects. The DPPT has proved to be an enormous success in its first year. In 2004 we received twenty-six project submissions and approved eleven for funding. The applications came from local Societies and regional groups, representing all three regions. Some of the projects focused on research to identify and explain the nature of the crisis, while other projects were designed as action programmes to address the crisis itself. Europe There were six Full Applications submitted by colleagues in Europe of which three were approved for funds of $100,000 in 2004. The following projects from Europe were approved and are given here in outline only. Full details are available on the IPA website under ‘Education & Training’. European Psychoanalytic Federation (EPF) Approved for $72,000. The EPF approached the crisis in psychoanalysis as an internal one. In their view, the decline in the number of psychoanalytic patients and candidates represented external manifestations of a crisis of confidence within analysts themselves and this would need to be addressed if there was going to be substantial change within the profession. The overall aim of five intra-regional working groups is ‘to shift the climate, to raise morale and to change psychoanalytic culture’ in education, comparative clinical methods, theoretical issues, initiating psychoanalysis and interface activities. German Consortium Approved for $20,000. This project is a joint venture between the Sigmund Freud Institute, the DPV and two German universities. Questionnaires and interviews will be used to address two questions: why do medical students and clinical psychologists decide for or against psychoanalytic training in Germany? And, what can be done to strengthen psychoanalysis? Israel Approved for $8,000. Through the use of a variety of research methods, this project aims to explain the diminished interest in psychoanalytic training and practice in Jerusalem in comparison with the increase in the number of patients and candidates in nearby Tel Aviv. Latin America Latin American Members submitted a total of fourteen Full Applications and six were approved for a total of $100,000 in funds for 2004. The following projects in Latin America were funded: Brazilian Psychoanalytical Society of Porto Alegre (SBPdePA) Approved for $15,000. This outreach project consists of a number of activities aiming to ‘motivate colleagues in and outside the Society to work with children and adolescents’ and later to create child and adolescent psychoanalytic training at the Society’s Institute. The activities include: seminars with invited foreign analysts, study groups, a child and adolescent week, joint activities with schools and open discussions with the community. Porto Alegre Psychoanalytical Society (SPPA) Approved for $19,000. This project aims to increase the understanding of psychoanalysis and the SPPA in the community and among university students by conducting a research project in the field of psychoanalysis of children and adolescents, expanding the work of the Referral Centre, developing the website and increasing the circulation of the newsletter. Recife Society Approved for $15,000. This project will take psychoanalysis into the community through events such as conferences, courses, debates and study groups involving the participation of other professionals, in order to foster an interest in psychoanalysis, particularly among those engaged in the caring professions. Uruguay Society Approved for $17,000. This project’s overall aim is to strengthen the Postgraduate University Institute of Psychoanalysis, part of the Society, which is accredited to offer a Masters Degree in Psychoanalysis, through improvement of the library, development of a continuous training programme including workshops, study groups, training courses on a number of topics, open events, research activities and community services. 10 IPA ACTIVITIES

Monterrey Society Approved for $9,000. This project aims to transform the Society’s Institute training into a masters and/or doctorate programme by meeting the requirements of the local state’s Education and Health Secretaries in order to reintroduce the Institute’s studies in universities and elsewhere and make the Institute eligible for scholarships for candidates. Argentine Psychoanalytic Association (APA) Approved for $25,000. This research project aims to investigate, with the help of a market research company, the main causes of the decreasing demand for psychoanalysis in Buenos Aires. An action plan, based on the results of this research, will be developed in order to increase the number of patients and candidates in Buenos Aires. North America North American Societies submitted a total of six Full Applications of which two were approved for funding of $80,000 in 2004. American Psychoanalytic Association (APsaA) Approved for $50,000. This project is mainly for website development. The funds support the development of the Psychoanalysis Online project, targeted at potential patients and candidates. Secretary’s Letter Columbia University Approved for $30,000. This five-year longitudinal project aims to: ‘illuminate issues in the analyst’s mind that impact on the development of a psychoanalytic practice and career decisions, issues that we believe are central to the current “crisis in psychoanalysis”’. DPPT questionnaire DPPT is based on the belief One of the aims of the DPPT programme is to collect information on the that colleagues at the local psychoanalytic practices of relatively new graduates and numbers of candidates within the IPA’s Constituent Organizations. A total of 750 questionnaires have and regional levels are in the now been received from Members in fifty-one of the IPA’s sixty-seven Component best position to assess the Societies. This data is being processed and the results will be made available in due crisis in their area and design course. The information will serve as a benchmark by which the IPA can measure the most appropriate action the effect the DPPT programme is having on the numbers of patients in full programmes. The IPA’s analysis, and on the number of candidates entering the profession. I would like intention is to encourage to thank Lee Brauer, Chair, and members of the DPPT Questionnaire Group, Peter Fonagy, Manfred Beutel and Alejandro Garbarino, for their hard work and support DPPT projects on this essential aspect of the DPPT programme. at the grassroots level. The IPA committed over $300,000 to these projects last year, and plans to commit about the same level of funding in 2005. Expressions of interest The process for approving applications is as follows. Those that meet the criteria for selection are asked to submit a more detailed Full Application. This is reviewed by the Consultation Group, which is appointed to make recommendations to the Executive Committee as to which projects deserve support under the terms of the DPPT. The Group sends its recommendations to the Executive Committee, which decides whether to accept the application, refer it back to the author for further development, or reject it. Details of the approved projects for 2005 will be made available on the IPA website. Updates on the current results and achievements for all the above projects will be available during the Rio Congress in the form of panel and poster presentations. Never before has the IPA invested so much toward the advancement of psychoanalytic practice and training at the grassroots level. In its first year the DPPT has established itself throughout every region, and I would expect new projects in new Societies and regional groups to be funded every year. If we are to reverse the decline of analytic patients and candidates, we will need to make a long-term commitment. It may take several years before we can see the increase in patients and candidates that we are looking for. We owe a debt of thanks to Anne-Marie Sandler, who has chaired the DPPT Consultation Group, and the members of this group (Silvia Zwettler-Otte, Jan Scheffer, Prudence Gourguechon, David Iseman, Ricardo Bernardi and Romulo Lander). I am grateful to the Board for their support of this project and for committing the funds to make it possible, and to the Executive Committee for their conscientious approach to every DPPT project decision. Good-bye I want to express my great appreciation to the Broomhills staff, who are the unsung heroes of the IPA. I have relied especially upon Jo Beavis and Robert Stein and they have never let me down. I want to thank Daniel Widlöcher for the statesmanship, fairness and even-handedness of his Presidency. His integrity, patience and sense of humour have provided the kind of leadership that was needed. I also feel very fortunate to have had an opportunity to work with our Treasurer Nadine Levinson, who has brought a creative spark, inexhaustible energy and commitment to fulfilling her vision of a financially responsible and secure IPA. Lastly, I want to express my gratitude to Piers Pendred for his tireless professionalism and support, and, most of all, for making it all happen. Over the past two years the four of us worked well as a team, and that made all the difference. Now it is time to say good-bye and welcome Mónica Siedmann de Armesto as the next Secretary of the IPA. I know you will find her to be a good listener, a hard worker and a creative thinker. She and Nadine Levinson, who is continuing as Treasurer, and our new President Cláudio Eizirik, whom I hold in high regard, will make a good team.

Kind regards, Donald Campbell IPA ACTIVITIES 11

Managing uncertainty: Treasurer’s Report

Nadine Levinson the Treasurer’s report Nadine Levinson discusses the budget, changes to dues policy and the streamlining of the IPA structure

This is my second report for budget was fixed means that I will almost International Psychoanalysis since certainly have to propose further financial I took up office in July 2003. These reductions to the Board when it meets in two years have been busy. Every July. This is not a good time for the IPA’s day several IPA financial issues finances to be so dependent on the dollar, come my way – I had no idea, when but whatever currency is selected, there I began this job, how complex will be good times and lean times. the IPA’s affairs are, or how IPA dues wide-ranging the issues I would encounter. Every day I am faced In March 2004 the Board approved a recommendation by the Budget and with managing an uncertain and Finance Committee to conduct a review ever-changing environment. of the IPA’s dues policy. I was fortunate to I have been privileged to visit colleagues have a superb working group to assist me, in Argentina to experience at first hand and we were able to report early to the the financial crisis that country has been Board last November. All the group’s through, and how our members there have recommendations were approved. with the legal structure of the IPA. After had to adapt. I have also visited Riga in detailed legal consultations, the current By the time you read this, we will know Latvia to attend the school organized by four-company structure was proposed and whether the main recommendation – the Han Groen-Prakken East European approved. It has reduced the risk, but to move authority to determine dues from Psychoanalytic Institute. I was deeply brought with it a substantial increase in the Business Meeting to the Board – has impressed by the commitment and administrative and financial been accepted in the professionalism of both faculty and work. I was charged by membership ballot. Dues the learners. the Board to investigate decisions had previously …the IPA was clear options to streamline been decided by the about its priorities: In my last article, I mentioned that the the structure. IPA was pursuing an insurance claim Business Meeting on the services to members; concerning the postponement of the basis of votes by psychoanalytic research; Following consultations, Toronto Congress. No early or easy a very small number of I was advised that the continuation of resolution was expected, and I am sad members. Given that the four companies could be to report that that remains the case. Board is responsible for the Developing reduced to two in the We believe our case is strong, and I will all aspects of the IPA’s Psychoanalytic Practice first instance, with the continue to pursue this while I believe finances, it is appropriate and Training possibility of reducing that it should also be them to one later on. the IPA stands to gain a fair and programme (DPPT); and reasonable outcome. responsible for the IPA’s One of the UK companies principal source of development of new has already been wound The budget for 2005 income, its dues. psychoanalytic groups. up. If the membership The Board approved the IPA budget for and the Board agrees, The working group also Each of these priorities 2005 at its meeting in Paris last November. one of the US companies made significant proposals was awarded sufficient We started work on it faced with a deficit can be dissolved at the on replacing the tiers of nearly $500,000. The process of funds to continue work end of 2005. I will then system with a universally reducing this deficit to a tolerable level important to us all. investigate the options as fair procedure to was not easy. But the IPA was clear to liquidating one of the determine which Societies about its priorities: services to members; remaining two. This has might be considered for psychoanalytic research; continuation been time-consuming, but very necessary, dues discounts. I hope these new of the Developing Psychoanalytic Practice to ensure the IPA can invest its funds in procedures can be introduced in and Training programme (DPPT); and matters which affect members and the January 2006. development of new psychoanalytic profession, rather than in the governance groups. Each of these priorities was Streamlining the IPA structure of the IPA. awarded sufficient funds to continue Some of you may know that the IPA is not I am indebted to the Budget and Finance work important to us all. one organization, legally, but four: two in Committee, the Dues Working Group and As is usually the case with financial issues, the United States and two in the United the finance staff in Broomhills in London. nothing stays still for long. The marked Kingdom. In the early 1990s it was Without their patience, help and support, decline in the value of the dollar since the discovered that there were serious risks I could achieve little. 12 IPA ACTIVITIES

How the IPA website

Eric Karas Robert Stein can work for you IPA Website IPA by Eric Karas, Chair of the Website Committee and Robert Stein, Head of Membership Services

The IPA website has developed Psychoanalysis for giving us this ‘My profile’ considerably over the past twelve space. Over three-quarters of IPA ‘My profile’ is the latest feature to be months and it now offers a range members who booked for the Rio introduced, which enables members to of facilities to the membership. Congress used the online booking update their own details held on the IPA The Website Committee is keen system, suggesting that the word ‘Online Roster’. To access this feature, to ensure that these facilities has already spread. This short go to the website (www.ipa.org.uk) and are widely known about and article will introduce some of the log on using your User ID and password. we are grateful to International further facilities currently available. (If you have forgotten these, send an email to [email protected] and we will send you a reminder.) This will automatically bring up the ‘My profile’ feature where you will see all the information that you or your Society have supplied to the IPA. This information is held confidentially on our database and can only be amended by yourself, your Society secretary and the IPA central office.

Once you have made any updates (there is a box to complete, stating which of these details you wish to make available to others who search the online database of IPA members), click on ‘Update details’. This informs the IPA office of your proposed changes, which are subsequently checked to ensure that, for example, phone numbers have been entered in the correct format. Following this check you will receive a confirmatory email.

‘Member search’ Having logged in, you are also able to use the new ‘Member search’ facility – at the foot of the menu on the left, where you can now search for an IPA member using the following criteria: • Country • City • IPA language • Surname • Child analyst and training analyst You can also combine these search criteria to find, for example, a child analyst living in Hamburg; although those members who have indicated that their details should not be displayed online will not appear in the search results.

Full instructions on how to use the ‘Member search’ facility can be found on the ‘Member search’ page. IPA ACTIVITIES 13

Buy books online Research resource there is already a wealth of material The IPA’s latest publication, Truth, Reality A major resource for the future will be the available. For example, clicking on ‘M’ and the Psychoanalyst: Latin American database of psychoanalytic research that in the ‘Conceptual index’ will bring up: Contributions to Psychoanalysis,1 together has been funded by the IPA. Described by Malpractice with all other currently available IPA titles its developer, Professor Peter Fonagy, as Maternal attachment can also be purchased online using a ‘a coherent and up-to-date view of the Maternal/fetal unit secure page to take your credit card current state of psychoanalytic work’, the details. Simply click on ‘Publications’ database is easy to use and fully searchable Measurement of structural change in the left-hand menu. The contents, by research type, author name and concept. Measures (see Instruments) IPA Website preface, introduction and brief summary Mental States Rating System (MSRS) of each book are available to read before Although this is a brand-new resource you buy. and only the first few studies have been Mentalization uploaded and indexed in the database, Mirroring Miscarriages Multicenter approach

This database, which has further funding to add to its stock of research reports, can be accessed by clicking on ‘Clinical and scientific’ in the left-hand menu and then on ‘IPA research database’.

More resources for committees Chairs of committees can now request their own virtual ‘committee room’ in which they can upload documents accessible only to other committee members. Committee rooms can also be set up either with access only for IPA members, or with open access to members of the public. If you visit one such open-access committee room (click on ‘Committees’ in the menu and then on ‘Committee on Women and Psychoanalysis’) you will see some examples of what can be done. In the future the website editorial team – which is seeking to increase its membership this year – plans to offer committees more facilities, including ‘noticeboards’ to facilitate exchanges of views.

Other plans for 2005 include a questionnaire facility, which can be adapted for specific use. This means that committees, including the Executive, can canvass the membership about matters of interest without the expense of written survey forms. Plans are also being developed to introduce more facilities for the media and to give the whole site a makeover to increase its appeal and ease of use.

Finally, as well as providing services to members, we intend to make the public sections of the website more informative and to help prospective patients find out enough to encourage them to make contact with a local psychoanalyst.

The Website Committee would welcome your feedback and ideas for further development of the site. Please email these to [email protected].

Note 1Launched at the IPA Rio Congress, July 2005. Also available in Spanish (Verdad, Realidad y el Analista: Contribuciones Latinoamericanas al Psicoanálisis). 14 IPA ACTIVITIES

The Second Board of Representatives 2005–07

Executive Committee The Executive Committee consists of the President, Secretary General and Treasurer alongside one Representative from each region – Representatives to be elected by the Board

President Cláudio L. Eizirik with (left) Treasurer Nadine Levinson and Secretary General Mónica Siedmann de Armesto

Representatives

European: Globally Elected Latin American:

Marilia Aisenstein Jorge Canestri Virginia R. Ungar

Regionally Elected

Stefano Bolognini Anna Potamianou Henk J. Dalewijk Leopold Nosek Aloysio A. D’Abreu

Werner Bohleber H. Shmuel Erlich Adriana Prengler de Benveniste IPA ACTIVITIES 15

Honorary Honorary Representatives President Vice-President

Leo Rangell Robert Wallerstein

Globally Elected North American: Globally Elected

Raquel Zak de Peter Blos Jr. Charles M. T. Hanly Goldstein

Regionally Elected Regionally Elected

Carmen Médici Sander M. Abend K. Lynne Moritz Sharon Zalusky de Steiner

Rolando de León Lee S. Jaffe James A. Gooch Luévano 16 IPA ACTIVITIES

Psychoanalysis and the IPA:

Cláudio Laks Eizirik the future is not an illusion Column

New President’s The new President’s column – from President-elect Cláudio Laks Eizirik

Descriptions of the prevailing trends we must be able to establish some form our core analytic values, and loosening ties of our culture repeatedly suggest of relationship. among ourselves and with our institutions. that we are witnessing a time This can contribute to the creation of an Following this fragmentary overview of characterized by globalization and internal crisis in the way we view and trends and challenges that psychoanalysis experience ourselves as analysts. by enormous social and economic and the IPA will have to deal with in the differences among regions and near future, I would like now to consider My basic assumption is that the central countries; by violence and poverty; some of them in more detail. locus of any progress or decline in by communications in real time; psychoanalysis as a science, a treatment by a critical position concerning A crisis in psychoanalysis? and a profession is related to the ability of certainties and institutions, on the What is the current status of the analyst and the analytic candidate to one hand, and simplistic versions of psychoanalytic theory? If we look at our establish and maintain a psychoanalytic reality and religious adherence to main journals and recent books, and at identity. This comes from the consistent naive and fundamentalist beliefs, presentations to our conferences in the improvement of analytic work, and the on the other. three IPA regions, we have clear evidence ability to communicate psychoanalytic that the main analytic schools of thought, thinking. Therefore our main task for the Apart from those blessed with a single- in Europe, North America and Latin immediate future should be to help our minded view of the world, however, America, are at an important juncture in members and candidates in the struggle what we mostly read and listen to portrays terms of developing ideas for better conditions for division, uncertainty, fragmentation and trying to deepen their analytic practice – and complexity as the trademarks of knowledge about the … there is a general something that is already our Zeitgeist. elements of analytic consensus on the need in part under way theory. A crisis does not successfully through In contrast with the situation in 1927, to maintain and protect seem to exist here. the ‘Developing when Freud wrote his elegant and the high level of our Psychoanalytic Practice partially prophetic essay on the future of Concerning the practice training, not for its own and Training’ (DPPT) an illusion, nowadays psychoanalysis is of psychoanalysis, the sake, but because we projects. We need to part of the culture in many cities of the same sources show that, stimulate analysts, Western world, in spite of all its internal providing that there are believe this is in the through a continuous difficulties and conflicts. At the same time, good conditions for its best interest of our scientific and educational in vast areas, both geographically and practice, contemporary patients, who directly programme, both within conceptually, it still does not exist or exists analysts are able to work benefit from the quality and across regions, only in poor or distorted versions. in even greater emotional of our professional in close collaboration contact with their with regional and local Among ourselves, psychoanalyst members patients than before. education and the organizations, to maintain of the IPA, we can also see divisions and Our ability to analyse intensity of the and develop their analytic contrasting views on our discipline in some even deeper layers of psychoanalytic identity and to share this vital areas: analytic training and practice; the unconscious mind experience it supports. unending source of new our relation to science and the humanities, also does not seem to meanings with colleagues, to psychotherapy and psychiatry, and to be in crisis. the university; the challenges we face as a both close and distant. profession; what kind of research (if any) Where is the crisis, then? In my view, I plan to establish a new committee to we need to do; the relation between the psychoanalysis itself – as a discipline and work in this area. IPA and its members and regional bodies; a clinical enterprise – is not in crisis. The Training and, perhaps more urgently, whether we factors that can be seen as critical for our do or do not face a crisis in psychoanalysis. discipline, and which may be regarded As for analytic training, there is currently in terms of a crisis, are: the lack of active debate concerning standards, Another important aspect of the current independent and creative thinking in the criteria and models, not only within the IPA situation is that psychoanalysis spread culture; social and economic constraints; Board, but also within the regional bodies, through different continents and countries competing therapies that apparently offer the Societies and among many colleagues. in several different versions. The IPA is quicker results. These are possibly the It seems to me there is a general consensus the main international psychoanalytic factors that have led to a decrease in on the need to maintain and protect the institution, with about 11,000 members, the number of patients seeking analysis high level of our training, not for its own but we should also acknowledge the and the number of candidates seeking sake, but because we believe this is in the presence of a great number of other training in some places. Under difficult best interest of our patients, who directly analysts and institutions, with whom circumstances, there is a danger of diluting benefit from the quality of our professional IPA ACTIVITIES 17 education and the intensity of the psychoanalytic research in its various I would like to stimulate and increase psychoanalytic experience it supports. The possible meanings, including clinical, this work. challenge we face is to produce evidence empirical and conceptual. We also strongly to demonstrate this. Thus I greatly need a metapsychological approach that The Rio Congress welcome the IPA’s initiative to invest in will allow us to continue to develop, extend The Rio Congress deserves some thought. research into the effectiveness of our and add to the depth of our therapeutic It was initially a difficult decision to choose various training models. I am confident method. As already mentioned, one area Rio, on the grounds of perceived security that we will be able to preserve the core that needs immediate research is analytic problems and thus the possible lack of New President’s values of our training and at the same education, and we will devote specific colleagues willing to participate. We time acknowledge that de facto we have attention to it. Some criticisms have been insisted on the importance of having a Column different training models. We are in a made about the way the IPA has been third congress in Latin America, to keep good position to study and compare conducting research, questioning its real up the rotation among regions. It will them in order to advance the field. usefulness to clinical practice. I think that be the first congress in Brazil, a country not enough information has been conveyed and a region where psychoanalysis is in Developments in the IPA to the membership about what is being continuous growth, both in numbers and As for the IPA as an institution, produced. But I also believe we must have in quality. By the beginning of February, important administrative and governance a more focused approach, investing our as I write, we already have almost 1,500 developments have taken place in recent resources in the most relevant areas, such registrations and about 700 proposals for years. The four-company structure, that as education and outcome studies. papers, panels, etc. We predict that the seemed to be the best option a few discussions on trauma – years ago, will now hopefully become a Outreach activities allow us a highly relevant theme two-company structure, which is more to interchange with and …we already have – will be a rewarding economical and appropriate to our current learn more about the experience, for both needs. Following the recent changes, surrounding culture; almost 1,500 mind and soul. we now have a more representative and to develop interventions registrations and As for the Berlin democratic governance, which can be derived from psychoanalysis; about 700 proposals Congress of 2007, improved and made even more efficient. to increase involvement with for papers, panels, etc. Our staff in Broomhills, a highly professional universities and mental whose theme will be and dedicated group of people, will health disciplines, social We predict that the announced in Rio, a be better able to monitor and improve sciences and humanities; discussions on trauma – group of colleagues our operations. to establish international a highly relevant theme is already working on its educational and networks of analysts – will be a rewarding Successive IPA administrations have working in these settings; organizational aspects. struggled with a chronic and puzzling and to respond to negative experience, for both Along with the scientific problem: how to improve communication views about psychoanalysis. mind and soul. programme, it will at all governance levels with the Several initiatives have been provide the opportunity membership, who often see the IPA as taken in this regard. An to put together reports a distant, irrelevant – and expensive – urgent challenge is to address the issue of the current activities of our several body. A working group is studying how of psychoanalytic psychotherapy, which committees and working groups. to improve all means of communication – is seen differently in different places. The Working groups such as International Psychoanalysis and IPA must take a clearer position concerning I will continue to encourage the the IPA website – so that members will psychotherapy and the training of development and work of the specific experience the IPA as relevant and sensitive psychotherapists. We also need a more working groups that are created, from to their needs. While the IPA membership active Public Relations Committee, working time to time, to address relevant themes, grows at a rate of 2 per cent a year, the jointly with Societies, and a new programme such as the existing ones on terrorism number of Internet users among members of graduate studies in order to help analysts (whose work led to one of the books is increasing at a far faster rate. This will qualify to occupy a specific place in published in 2003) and anti-Semitism. bring about a more efficient and timely universities. We must regain the position Other working groups will be established way of exchanging all kinds of information, we had in the past. whether it is to do with science, education, to explore problems such as the psychic governance, research studies or members’ The first IPA Allied Centre – whereby the effects of poverty and exclusion. services. We will take advantage of this IPA may establish formal relationships Looking forward exciting new reality to face the above- with groups not yet asking or not yet ready In recent years, I had the honour and mentioned problem. to become Study Groups – was recently the opportunity to take part in several recognized by the Board. It is in Paraguay, Like any scientific institution, the IPA needs committees and activities of the IPA, and it is the first objective step of the future to maintain and develop a publications including its House of Delegates, Executive Latin American Psychoanalytic Institute, policy. Two titles have been produced Council, Board and Executive Committee, which we will develop jointly with FEPAL. in each of the last two years. We must and to work in close contact with the The Han Groen-Prakken East European increase this number, and produce inspiring leadership of Otto Kernberg and Institute is now a successful reality, in a translations and cross-regional Daniel Widlöcher. At the same time, I had joint action with EPF. These two examples publications, to stimulate a real exchange the chance to share numerous experiences, show that we need closer and continuous among members and Societies in all both scientific and institutional, with collaboration with the regional bodies and regions. The work produced by our colleagues from our three regions. All Societies. APsaA, CIPS and the Canadian committees, our working groups and this has led me to a position of cautious Psychoanalytic Society constitute equally at our various thematic meetings must optimism, as prescribed by Freud, important and indispensable partners. continue to be an important source for concerning the immediate future of our our publications. An essential area of the IPA is the discipline and our Association. Thus I feel Research is necessary in all fields of development of new Study Groups and confident in affirming that, with hard knowledge and is essential for maintaining Societies, something that a skilled group work and good collaboration, the future dialogue with other disciplines, as well as of colleagues has been doing in the of psychoanalysis and the IPA is not an supplying evidence for the effectiveness of International New Groups Committee, illusion, but a clear reality. our method. It is important to consider whose work now stretches as far as Asia. 18 INSIGHT

In partnership with the

Bernard Keuerleber

IPSO candidates

IPSO President Bernard Keuerleber writes about continuing closer cooperation between IPSO and the IPA

I am writing to let you know about International encounters are one arena the latest developments regarding where the genuine spirit of psychoanalytic IPSO activities. One of the major work and thinking can be experienced. trends in IPSO–IPA relations during It is IPSO’s tradition to organize at its the past five years has involved congresses international, cross-regional moving toward a greater supervisions, allowing a glimpse into the integration of the two groups. details of psychoanalytic work in different cultural environments. These supervisions, Since the 2004 congress in New Orleans, which have been presented by training IPSO has continued on the track of analysts such as Betty Joseph and integrating IPSO and IPA. Our first IPSO Jacqueline Amati Mehler, have always Congress integrated with the IPA Congress attracted many candidates. In addition, took place in Nice, France in 2001. In New many members of the IPA have taken part Orleans we continued the tradition of in demonstrations of psychoanalytical having one integrated congress instead practice and theory. In New Orleans, with regional organizations including of two separate ones. IPSO had a track several experienced analysts, such as OCAL (Organization of Candidates of inside the IPA Congress, but continued Stefano Bolognini and Otto Kernberg, Latin America), the European group the tradition of the ‘IPSO gave presentations of candidates and candidates in North Pre-congress’, which which allowed us not America. We also have a steady includes the IPSO opening International only to follow their representation of Asian candidates in the ideas through their plenary. The IPSO track encounters are one IPSO-Excom. Until now, meetings have within the IPA Congress is comments on the work arena where the mainly been limited to the international related to candidate issues: of candidates, but also congress and a January business meeting. education and training. We genuine spirit of to see how well-known We hope to improve our communication have had many discussions psychoanalytic work and respected members with all IPSO members through, for dealing with the change and thinking can be carry out their own example, the IPSO website as a forum for of identity occurring in the work. These sessions international and inter-regional discussion. process of analytic training, experienced. It is IPSO’s have been very including the differences tradition to organize successful and will We are again preparing a congress in Rio between psychotherapeutic at its congresses be continued in in the new integrated form, as a part of work – which most international, cross- the future. the IPA Congress with an exclusive IPSO candidates have done opening day, starting on Wednesday before applying for regional supervisions, We are witnessing a morning, 27 July, the day before the IPA training – and real allowing a glimpse process of integration beginning of the IPA Congress. In addition psychoanalytic work. into the details of and cooperation to this pre-congress day, there will between IPA and IPSO psychoanalytic work be presentations by candidates and As the international that was unthinkable supervisions in the IPSO track within the organization in charge of in different cultural only ten years ago. frame of the IPA Congress. We hope that representing candidates environments. This is an on-going some of these presentations may interest who are training in an IPA process with an unclear members of the IPA as well, and we invite institute, the future of outcome. We are them to join us for discussion. psychoanalysis is a special concern of IPSO. discussing whether it would be helpful Concern about a crisis of the for the development and integration of A new prize has been created by the IPA, psychoanalytic culture is often raised. candidates if they had a certain status following a donation by Bob Tyson. The Indeed, we realize that in most institutes within the IPA organization from the Tyson Prize will be awarded to candidates there are fewer candidates applying for beginning of their training. For IPSO, it is for scientific and clinical work, and it will training, the average age of beginning clear that such a development could be be awarded for the first time in Rio de training tends to be higher than it used helpful in many ways, but we need to Janeiro during the congress in July 2005. to be and, consequently, the average age guarantee our level of participation and of graduation has also risen. For IPSO the establishment of forums for discussion The next IPSO journal will be printed for it seems important to think of ways to that candidates now have through IPSO. the Rio Congress and will contain major keep psychoanalytic treatment and works that have been presented in training attractive while preserving the Within IPSO itself, we are working on IPSO discussion forums. We hope it will key elements and structures of further integration among the regions. further demonstrate lively international psychoanalytic work. We have a steady cooperation of IPSO psychoanalytic development. INSIGHT 19

The psychoanalytic education

debate: terminable and The Education Debate Donald Campbell interminable

IPA Secretary Don Campbell reflects on recent dialogue in a key area for the organization

It is entirely appropriate that issues so-called Eitingon model practised by the 3. It is up to each IPA Constituent of training in our profession should majority of IPA Societies in a number of Organization to adopt these models incite great passions – the quality crucial respects in addition to frequency. within the training policy which it intends of our training has a direct bearing to practise in accordance with its own Daniel Widlöcher, who became President on the quality of our professional clinical requirements and the local social of the IPA in 2001, felt an obligation to capability. In a world in which and economic situation. explore the request received from a there are so many people offering number of Societies and to consider its 4. It is also up to each Constituent emotional and mental health ramifications within the IPA, particularly as Organization to utilize methods of assistance – counselling, some Societies already practise the French evaluation that will enable them to ensure psychotherapy, psychoanalytic model. What, then, was the case not to quality of both the criteria for the selection psychotherapy, psychoanalysis – allow this to other Societies and Institutes? of candidates and the methods employed we clearly need to work hard to for education and training. identify what it is we offer that A number of enquiries were conducted is different, or even unique, and within the IPA on this issue. At the same 5. If a new group requests recognition in to maintain our distinctive identity time, the President wrote a memorandum, a country, it must ensure that the training on the basis of well-founded sent to all Presidents of IPA Constituent regulations it intends to employ within its educational models. Organizations and Directors of Training principles and methods conform with the Institutes in March 2002, specifying the IPA’s Equivalency Criteria and those of In recent years the IPA has embarked on a need to start broad discussions on this existing Constituent Organizations within process of reconsidering our professional issue. A number of debates ensued within that country. identity, provoked by the need to review the Constituent Organizations and regional and reconsider the criteria and models bodies, and opinions were conveyed to the The Executive Council approved these we employ in training others to join our IPA reflecting the number of views and proposals in July 2002, ten in favour, with profession. In this article I outline the degrees of sensitivity between, and one abstention, and referred the three debate within the IPA regarding its probably within, IPA Societies. entries within the IPA’s Procedural Code educational standards. covering education for review in the light Let me start by giving a At a meeting in July 2002, of the Council’s approval of the five brief history of this issue In recent years the the IPA Executive proposals. The task was to redraft the within the IPA. IPA has embarked Committee made a Procedural Code entries to take account number of proposals to of the policy decisions of the Executive In 1999, the IPA President on a process of the IPA Executive Council. Council. There was also to be much received a request from reconsidering our I paraphrase them as they consultation with IPA Societies. the Latin American professional identity, help in understanding Nearly two years later, in March 2004, the Societies that the IPA provoked by the need the issues: should: ‘consider Procedural Code redrafts were brought seriously and without to review and 1. The Executive back to the Board. In the interim, the delay the need for the reconsider the criteria Committee considers Executive Council had been replaced by the Component Societies to and models we employ that the principles IPA Board, and only half the members of the Executive Council went on to become have the autonomy to in training others to adopted in the IPA’s introduce flexibility into current [educational] members of the much enlarged Board. their training standards join our profession. procedures constitute Thus the Board membership considering within the broad outlines recommendations which this issue was much changed from deemed valid by the IPA for other are still valid and are the the previous Executive Council, and Component Societies’. optimal basis for candidates to acquire approached the issue anew and from a comprehensive psychoanalytical different perspective. After lengthy debate, Some of you may know that since 1975 competency. and some confusion and unease, the Board the IPA has allowed exceptions to its narrowly approved the proposed changes minimum frequency standards. Certain 2. The IPA has several training models to the IPA Procedural Code but, crucially, Societies throughout the world operate on at its disposal. Their advantages and only subject to the documents being a frequency of three times per week. But it disadvantages need to be clearly submitted to a Board Working Group, is my experience that those operating the differentiated. The individual coherence consisting of two Representatives from French model do not regard frequency as of each depends not only on an overall each region, for various detailed matters to the key issue. It is the whole approach to theoretical point of view but also on the be resolved. While this review was taking and model of training which matters to fact that reform to one stage of training place the IPA’s education procedures would them. The ‘French model’ differs from the has consequences for the others. remain unchanged. 20 INSIGHT

The deliberations of this Board Working of thinking, rather than the practice of a later led to the creation of the French Group began with a deep division in the rigorous and unique clinical discipline. Society after the departure of Jacques Group as to the nature of its charge – Lacan and his group, who formed the reflecting almost exactly the division and and further: École Freudienne outside the IPA. To deal discussion within the Board. The Group was There is a way out of this dilemma. First, with this situation, and to allow the two unable to proceed because of profound the IPA currently offers exceptions to its French Societies to coexist within the IPA, disagreements related to its charge. usual training standards, and the IPA a ruling was introduced in 1974 which Consequently the nature of the charge was could develop criteria and processes exempted the French and Uruguayan presented to the IPA Executive Committee, for reviewing and granting additional Societies from the requirement of which stated that, in their view, the charge exceptions. Exceptions of this kind are frequency that is now the object of of the Group was to clarify the wording routinely granted within the BOPS heated debate. Thus I wish to stress that of the Procedural Code entries and return through what we call ‘waiver’ processes. the idea of a unique set of educational Debate them to the Board for further discussion. Second, there is an experiment ‘in nature’ criteria is not a venerable tradition.

The Education The Board noted with concern the that exists within the IPA. Different I would be interested to know if, prior polarization that was taking place within training models, with different training to the scissions of 1953 and 1963 in the Group, as well as among the Societies standards, already exist within the IPA. France, frequency was the object of of the IPA. Because some on the Group These models could be such heated debate. The current IPA disagreed with the clarified charge, studied in terms educational criteria are the Group was unable to carry out the of their educational the result of the relatively review and re-working of the Procedural outcomes … BOPS regards the recent 1975 decision Code entries. That way, if changes three times per week and its purpose was to in training standards standard as inadequate allow these exceptional However, the Group did successfully situations within the IPA carry out another portion of its charge are contemplated for the general in the future, the for a purely practical in gathering information and feedback training of competent reason. The reason was from the various IPA regions and Societies. recommended changes could be based on psychoanalysts … to avoid a split with Reports and letters poured into the Societies that did not IPA central office between March and sound scientific data The central issue is this: that support revisions. share the frequency November 2004. What became clear is what are the optimal required of the Eitingon that this issue has aroused intense and I believe future training experiences generations of model. This model, deep affect throughout the IPA, regardless for students within by the way, never of region, and regardless of which side psychoanalysts would thank you for training programs achieved its purpose of the issue one may be on. of homogenizing your foresight. affiliated with the IPA? I will quote from two of the many psychoanalytic education (Eric Nuetzel, documents received. They included a letter This letter was one so that studies would be from Eric Nuetzel writing as Chair of the of many reports, the chair of BOPS) identical in the different Board of Professional Standards of the majority, it must be said, Institutes of the world American Psychoanalytic Association. against the proposition to and thus one could change He wrote: change the IPA’s standards. These reports, from one Institute to another with thoughtful and passionate, range across immediate recognition. It is unclear to the Board of Professional the spectrum of opinion. However, one Standards (BOPS) what the educational thing that they all have in common is a Bob Pyles, chair of the IPA Board Working considerations are that support this deep sense of conviction about whatever Group, aimed to identify a common change in the training standards. position the group or individual is taking. denominator to bring some reason to In fact, the BOPS regards the three the discussion. A commonality among times per week standard as inadequate From a different standpoint, Alvaro Rey de the reports, regardless of position, and for the general training of competent Castro, President of FEPAL, the Federation commented upon by Eric Nuetzel, is the psychoanalysts. Undoubtedly, of Psychoanalytic Societies of Latin absence of actual data on the issue. psychoanalytic process is not defined America, wrote as follows: Bob felt that this may well be a major by extrinsic factors such as frequency factor in fuelling the heat of the debate: I purposely avoid debating issues of a of sessions or the use of the couch. the absence of data means the various theoretical and methodological nature. Many of us are familiar with successful parties try to establish their position This would involve us in an interminable psychoanalytic cases based on intrinsic by ever-increasing affect, volume debate, which has been going on for criteria for the psychoanalytic process and rhetoric. years, and, in my view, has been (such as the development and resolution sufficiently discussed. of a transference neurosis). The central It is striking to note that, almost a hundred years after the founding of the IPA, there is issue is this: what are the optimal training It is important to point out that the virtually no scientific data on which to base experiences for students within training Standards and Criteria for Qualification recommendations or conclusions on this programs affiliated with the IPA? and Admission to Membership of the IPA issue. There have been no systematic studies are of a relatively recent date, a fact that and: of our educational methods or the outcomes may surprise many not familiar with the of those differing methodologies. Without The BOPS considers the therapeutic background on this issue. They only apply data, we are reduced to conflicts which regression necessary for psychoanalytic to [IPA] admission from 23 July 1975. seem akin to fights over religious beliefs. process as more likely to occur with well This is, in reality, the year a model was As a student of history, Bob was reminded selected cases treated at a frequency of established and incorporated, not in the of the split that occurred in 1054 between five or minimally four times per week. [IPA] Constitution and Bylaws, as many the eastern and western Catholic Church The proposed revision in IPA standards would believe, but in its Procedural Code. over the proper date of Easter and the may result in generations of analysts Prior to that year members admitted shape of the monk’s tonsure. being trained without adequate exposure were automatically accepted according to uniquely psychoanalytic experiences, to criteria determined by Societies. The The crux of the problem that we are all either as analysts or as analysands … 1975 IPA criteria followed in the wake of struggling with has to do with the crisis Psychoanalysis could be reduced to a way successive splits in the Paris Society that in psychoanalysis and how that crisis INSIGHT 21 manifests itself in the different countries the agenda should be approached and broad, that its goals are unachievable or of the three IPA regions. We are trying to whether the issue would dominate the ill defined. I feel we are embarked on find a way to preserve high educational three-day agenda and lead to harmful a process that will continue for many standards and requirements in trainings splits within the Association. The Executive years because, as research findings are that qualify analysts who demonstrate Committee, mindful of this, proposed a delivered, the demand for further detailed competence in their practice of motion that the Working Group should: studies of certain aspects will grow. psychoanalysis. We also want to allow ‘identify, list and describe the major This exercise is not only relevant for for some flexibilities, so that appropriate training models currently being employed students, but for qualified analysts The Education and successful educational models can be within the IPA’ and ‘draw up a proposal as as well. We all have a stake in the adapted to somewhat differing needs. We to how research into the major training Debate development and implementation of are striving for an approach that transcends models should be conducted’. fair and effective methods of evaluating the rigidity of mere numbers, and is more After lengthy debate the Board unanimously knowledge and performance of our own rooted in coherent educational models. approved this motion. While this research is practice. In the near future the need for We aim to produce a set of standards and being conducted, the IPA’s current training continuing professional development, procedures that will continue to provide standards will remain in force. which is already being addressed in for a central cohesive core for what it many Societies, will require IPA guidelines means to be an IPA-trained psychoanalyst, I believe we should now view this situation for regularly assessing competence of yet also allow for some degree of regional as an historic opportunity. For the first time qualified analysts. and philosophical adaptation. in our professional history as analysts, we are in a position to conduct a systematic With this commitment comes the Bob argued that the most important assessment of our educational methods requirement to fund this research. The IPA contribution that his Working Group could and scientific models. Once we have Board has declared its intention to see this make was to produce a proposal that the findings of this research process, through, but has yet to identify the funds would move the debate away from one recommendations can then be made based to back up this determination. To do this, reminiscent of religion and politics, to on knowledge of successful educational some of the current activities of the IPA one more properly reflective of a scientific models that will be of benefit to all our will either have to be curtailed or stopped. and educational body. Hence the need regions and all our groups. I recognize that The IPA cannot carry out new commitments to highlight his Group’s most important it is much easier to make a commitment to without reducing others. But, given the finding: that there is very little data on embark on this process than to see that it importance of this new endeavour, I am which to base a decision, and that the is carried out. There will be considerable hopeful a way will be found to redeploy IPA should address this problem first. problems in determining the framework the required resources. I cannot think of As the date of the November 2004 IPA for such an ambitious and far-reaching a more important undertaking for the Board meeting approached, there was research programme. However it is framed, future of psychoanalysis. increasing anxiety as to how this item on some will argue that it is too tight or too

WORLD ACTIVITIES Europe CZECH REPUBLIC GERMANY Frankfurt Czech Psychoanalytical Society German Psychoanalytical Association >16 September 2005, 8.15 p.m. (DPV) Lecture by Lars-Göran Nygren, World Activities The Czech Psychoanalytic Society is psychoanalyst, Stockholm, Sweden organizing a conference on ‘Freud’s Berlin (title to be announced). “Screen memories” in the light of Venue: Frankfurt Psychoanalytic Institute. contemporary psychoanalysis and The psychoanalytic study of art works at Literaturhaus Berlin, Fasanenstrasse, neurosciences’, in Prague, 4–6 May 2006. Giessen On Sunday 7 May conference participants autumn 2005. Each lecture starts at are invited to visit Freud’s birthplace, 8.15 p.m. >9–11 September 2005 Freiberg (now Pribor) – there they will 17 October Ludwig Haesler ‘The significance of Fairbairn for modern have the opportunity to see the meadow 31 October Gertrud Hardtmann object-relations theory’ conference with yellow dandelions described in with papers by: Ellinor Fairbairn Birtles, 14 November Maria-Luise Freud’s 1899 paper. Jill S. and David E. Scharff, Torbjörn Stammerjohann Borgegård, Reinhold Bianchi, Bernd Those interested in presenting a paper, 28 November Konrad Hoessler Böttger, Peter Potthoff, Bettina Meissner, contact Dr Vaclav Mikota, President of Rainer Rehberger, Ute Rupprecht- the Czech Psychoanalytic Society, email: 12 December Benigna Gerisch Schampera, Sabine Wollnik, Burkhard [email protected] Bremen Brosig, Wilfried Bieniek, Bernhard Hensel, Ellen Kindschuh-van Roje, Wolfgang Milch and Sabine Trenk-Hinterberger. FINLAND >25 September 2005, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Bremen Psychoanalytical Association (BPV) Venue: Universitätshauptgebäude Finnish Psychoanalytical Society Child Analysis Group: Clinical case [main university building], Justus-Liebig- conference. Two case histories will be Universität, Ludwigstr. 23, 35390 On 24 November 2005 Mary Target will presented, followed by a discussion. Giessen. Organizer/contact: Institut für present a paper to the Finnish This is a joint event with analytical child Psychoanalyse und Psychotherapie Giessen Psychoanalytical Society. and adolescent therapists from the e.V., Ludwigstr. 73, 35392 Giessen. Email: Metzer Strasse Institute. [email protected] ‘Psychoanalysis and film’: film shows and discussions, July–September 2005. Venue: Heli Cinema, Frankfurter Strasse 34, Giessen. 22 WORLD ACTIVITIES Europe

>11 July, 8 p.m. A. Engellandt-Schnell (psychoanalyst from Ms Frank and Mr Erb. Subject: Schultze Gets the Blues, moderator: and child and adolescent psychiatrist), ‘High-frequency psychoanalytic treatment Elvira Selow Peter Werner (grammar school teacher, of obsessional patients’. in charge of the Theatre Society at >8 August, 8 p.m. St Raphael Gymnasium (Grammar School), >30 November 2005 Gegen die Wand, moderators: Marianne Heidelberg). Moderator: Dr med. Prof. Dr Phil. C. Ertle will speak on Schiller Jarka and Heinrich Schimpf E. Tilch-Bauschke. (title to be announced).

>12 September, 8 p.m. >15–16 July 2005 >18 January 2006

World Activities World American Beauty, moderators: B. Henze- 4th Heidelberg Symposium on Art and Dr rer. soc. Dipl. Psych. Peter Wegner: Wirtz and W. Enke (Subject to alteration.) Psychoanalysis, Prinzhorn Collection, ‘The acceleration of time: notes on the Heidelberg. Subject: ‘Internal spaces – function of psychoanalysis in the field >20 July 2005, 8.15 p.m. of cultural criticism’. Public lectures on this semester’s topic: external spaces’ (full programme available ‘Psychoanalysis and intercultural from the Institute). >14 October 2005, 6.15 p.m. encounters’. >8 October 2005 Lecture Theatre of the Tübingen Universitätsnervenklinik (University ‘Parallel societies’, speaker: Hans Christian Why war? A consideration of Psychiatric Hospital): award of the Ströbele. Venue: Justus-Liebig-Universität. psychoanalytic studies on the genesis of war since Freud’s letter to Einstein. Wolfgang Loch Prize with laudatory address by Peter Haas, followed by Hamburg Organized by the joint working group on this subject established by the two a paper by Prof. Rivka Eifermann on >23 September 2005 Heidelberg Psychoanalytic Institutes ‘Confession and concealment (in relation K. Loebell (Hamburg): ‘ “Thou shalt not (programme available from the Institute). to The Interpretation of Dreams and the make graven images” – some thoughts correspondence with Fliess)’. about the pychoanalytic setting’. Cologne and Düsseldorf General calendar of meetings and Heidelberg and Karlsruhe >2 September 2005, 8.30 p.m. conferences Thomas Auchter (Dipl. Psych.) will speak 4th Mannheim Film Seminar: on: ‘George W. Bush’s anxiety and the >31 August to 4 September 2005 Psychoanalysts introduce films, Sundays anxiety aroused by George W. Bush: Clinical Sándor Ferenczi Conference: at 7.30 p.m., September–December 2005, the psychoanalysis of power and violence’. ‘Ferenczi and Groddeck: mind, body and at the Quadrat Cinema, Collini Center. The lecture will be given either at the the links between them’ (Baden-Baden). Institute or, possibly, if open to the public, >25 September 2005 >16–18 September 2005 at a different venue. tba. Meeting of the German Society >2–3 December 2005 for Psychoanalysis, Psychotherapy, >16 October 2005 Our study days are scheduled for Friday Psychosomatic Medicine and Depth T. Tykwer, Der Krieger und die Kaiserin 8.30 to 10 p.m. and Saturday 10 a.m. to Psychology (DGPT), Lindau. (The Warrior and the Empress) (2000), 12 noon and will be devoted to a topic in introduced by G. Witt-Schneider and >23–24 September 2005 the field of child analysis. Ms Staehle has G. Schneider 13th East–West Conference. Provisional kindly agreed to be our main speaker. title: ‘Poisoned homelands: the difficulty of >13 November 2005 identifying with one’s nation as a German’. F. Lang, Das Testament des Dr. Mabuse Mainz (The Testament of Dr Mabuse) (1932), >16–19 November 2005 introduced by U. Gaitzsch Series of public lectures on ‘Psychoanalysis Autumn Meeting of the German and its applications’. This semester’s theme Psychoanalytical Association (DPV), Bad >4 December 2005 is ‘The psychoanalytic view of disease’. Homburg. Provisional title: ‘Cure and M. Carné, Les Visiteurs du soir (The Devil’s stagnation in psychoanalytic treatments’. Envoys) (1942), introduced by Hannsjörg >12 July 2005 von Freytag-Loringhoven. Christel Hack: ‘The role of psycho-oncology in the treatment of cancer patients – what In Heidelberg the films will be shown at contribution can psychoanalysis make?’ the Gloria Filmtheater during July 2005. ITALY Stuttgart and Tübingen Italian Psychoanalytical Association >25 September 2005, 11.00 a.m. (AIPsi) Sunday matinée, at the Kamera Cinema, Psychoanalysts join in the debate – the Heidelberg, Rhythm Is It? (2004), directed Wednesday Forum. Public lectures to be Our Association has continued its regular by Thomas Grube and Enrique Sanchez held on Wednesdays at 8 p.m. sharp, at scientific meetings with the presentation Lansch, introduced by Dr med. H. Heckh- the Institute of Psychoanalysis, Konrad- and discussion of psychoanalytic clinical McCarthy (psychoanalyst and child and Adenauer-Strasse 23, 72072 Tübingen. and theoretical papers by both members adolescent psychiatrist). Followed by a of the Association and invited guests. panel discussion on: ‘Dance as a way of >21 September 2005 We have had the pleasure of hosting combating the layabout culture, or how Prof. Dr med. H. Weiss: ‘Running amok Dr Francis Baudry (New York), who to motivate teenagers’ with Prof. Dr med. and the destructive recourse to violence: gave a paper on ‘Some applications M. Cierpka (Medical Director of the some psychoanalytic ideas’. and misapplications of the principle of Department of Psychosomatic Cooperation abstinence’, and Dr Larry Inderbitzin Research and Family Therapy, initiator of >24 September 2005 (USA) who gave a paper on ‘Regression the ‘Faustlos’ violence prevention project Stuttgart: meeting with a paper by and psychoanalytic technique: the for nursery and primary schools), Dr med. Cyril Couve, London. Other contributions concretization of a concept’. WORLD ACTIVITIES 23 Europe

ITALY contd Fernández Vilanova, and they were Christian Delourmel (Paris Psychoanalytical discussed by Juan Francisco Rodríguez Society). Course on ‘Severe pathologies Our Wednesday evening meetings and Ricardo Puchades respectively. Four seen from the viewpoint of psychoanalysis’, World Activities continue; this year the theme is issues discussion groups worked on the papers given by Margarita Amigo, Inmaculada related to the concept of regression. presented and on the symposium subject Amieba, Isabel Usobiaga, Mikel Zubiri, in general. José de Miguel, Gema Sancho, José A. The theoretical seminars of ongoing Santa Eufemia and José María Erroteta. training, open to Associate and Full Lectures by APM members: Rafael Cruz Members, continue. This year the Roche (‘Metapsychology and schemes of Publication of two issues of Revista de discussion centres on the concepts reference’); María Luisa Muñoz, Enriqueta la APM: ‘The 13th APM Symposium’ of ‘falseness and imposture’ and Moreno and Carlos Sopena (round table on and ‘Trauma’. ‘countertransference’. ‘Violence’); José Luis López-Peñalver (‘Pain, Books published in the Colección de Our Association has an out-patient service between soma and psyche’). Scientific Psicoanálisis de Biblioteca Nueva: with free consultations open to the public. consideration and commemoration of Spanish editions of About Children and the Madrid bombing of 11 March 2004. The Association’s journal, Psicoanalisi, Children-no-longer (Paula Heimann) Manuela Utrilla (‘The step: from the first and Dreams that Turn Over a Page will introduce a new section presenting to the second topography’). detailed theoretical and bibliographic (Jean-Michel Quinodoz); and Libro notes on major psychoanalytical concepts. Psychoanalysis popularization lectures Anual del Psicoanálisis (Revue Française at the APM’s Clinical Treatment Centre: de Psychanalyse). We are about to complete cataloguing ‘Patterns of violence in contemporary the books in our library. Thanks to several society: gender violence, harassment in the donations, it contains about 10,000 workplace and child abuse’. Also lectures entries. The library will then be open given under the auspices of the APM and SWEDEN to the public. delivered by its members at the Círculo The Swedish Psychoanalytical Society We plan to organize special days on de Bellas Artes in Madrid, Salamanca multidiscplinary subjects that will be and Málaga. The outreach activities of the Swedish Psychoanalytical Society continue. We open to the public. One-day symposium to celebrate the 10th are in our sixth year of open lectures in anniversary of the establishment of the A full-day conference on ‘Psychiatry and Stockholm: ‘What is psychoanalysis? With Child and Adolescent Psychoanalysis psychoanalysis’, in which a number of psychoanalysis from cradle to grave’, open Department, with an address by Manuela psychoanalysts, psychiatrists and students to everyone interested in psychoanalytical Utrilla. Other speakers: María Luisa Muñoz, in the field of mental health participated, views. In autumn 2005 four or five lectures Teresa Olmos and Patricia Grieve. Monthly recently took place. The programme was will take place, among them ‘What is meetings of the Child and Adolescent particularly significant at a time when psychoanalysis?’ A well-known member Psychoanalysis Department and the legislation regarding mental treatment of our Society, Clarence Crafoord, will give Psychosis, Groups, Candidates and Clinical is of interest to legislators and to all mental a lecture on his last book, concerning his Psychoanalysis groups. health professions. There has been a lively thoughts and feelings on falling ill with debate within our Association on the myocardial infarction. current controversies. The issues at stake Centro Psicoanalítico Valenciano are the participation of psychoanalysts (Valencia Psychoanalytic Centre) We continue with the initiative whereby as supervisors and/or therapists in public Child and adolescent workshop and members of the Society, in connection structures, and the contributions that lectures on various subjects given by APM with the lectures, answer questions from psychoanalytic theory can provide in terms members and candidates: Jaime Tabares, the audience concerning psychoanalysis, of mental health organization. Mercedes Valcarce Avello, Pedro Guillem treatment and training. These lectures and Pascual Palau, as well as François normally reach 150–300 persons. Ladame (Swiss Psychoanalytical Society). Parallel to the open lectures we also Lecture series on ‘Myth and psychoanalysis’, arrange one-day seminars reaching SPAIN with contributions by José A. Loren, Pedro out to professionals in psychotherapy Guillem, Ricardo Sanz and Milagros Cid. Madrid Psychoanalytical Association and psychiatry. We hope to present (APM) Series of lectures on ‘The cinema and psychoanalysis’, with contributions by our seminar ‘Narcissism’ in Umeå in northern Sweden in autumn 2005. Invitations were extended to the following José L. Gallego, Pepa Llinares and On 14 October 2005 we will present members of other societies to give lectures Mercedes Puchol. One-day symposium on a seminar ‘On sexualities’ in Stockholm. and to maintain a dialogue on clinical the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the material: Catherine Chabert (SPP) establishment of the Child and Adolescent Another outreach activity is the ‘Questions (‘Masochism and melancholia: two Psychoanalysis Department, with and answers’ programme. People contributions from Ángeles Albamonte, states of ego dependency’); Rodolfo interested in psychoanalysis can present Inmaculada Montés and Francisco Muñoz. Moguillansky (APdeBA) (‘Indicators of questions to our Outreach Committee. development in the psychoanalysis of Many of those who bring questions are perversion’); André Green (SPP) (‘Freud’s Centro Psicoanalítico del Norte students working on a paper in school epistemological cuts’); Marilia Aisenstein (Northern Psychoanalytic Centre) or at university. (SPP) (‘The body of the transference and Series of psychoanalysis popularization lectures in Bilbao, San Sebastián and More information on our website: the interpretive process’). Vitoria, given by APM members: José Luis www.spaf.a.se The APM held its 13th symposium, on López-Peñalver, Ángeles de Miguel, ‘Analytic listening: free association and Inmaculada Amieba, Ricardo Puchades, evenly suspended attention in present-day Mikel Zubiri, Juan Muro, Manuel de clinical work’. The main papers were Miguel, Patricia Grieve, Luis Martín and presented by Milagros Cid and Raúl José María López de Maturana, as well as 24 WORLD ACTIVITIES Latin America

Meetings between societies >May 2006 COWAP >November 2005 Continued preparations for the ‘Meeting with contemporary French thought’. Sexual violence: its effects on Argentine Psychoanalytic Association and subjectivity Uruguayan Psychoanalytic Association, 9th Clinical Psychoanalysis Meeting, Dissemination activities 5th Latin American Intergenerational Colonia del Sacramento, Uruguay University postgraduate courses held in Dialogue, COWAP (Committee of conjunction with the Faculty of Medicine of Women and Psychoanalysis), Buenos the City of Buenos Aires. Aires, Argentina, 21–23 October 2004 ARGENTINA

World Activities World The Psychoanalytic Studies Centre (CEPS) Many analysts from Latin American Argentine Psychoanalytic Association offers curricular and extracurricular modules and workshops. countries, and some from Europe and (APA) Australia gathered in Buenos Aires at the Argentine Psychoanalytic Association to Weekly meetings with the presentation of Prizes Entries for the following prizes are invited participate in the 5th Latin American papers, followed by discussion. There are by 30 September 2005: Intergenerational Dialogue held by COWAP. regular plenary events, scientific meetings The conference dealt with ‘Sexual violence and small-group discussions. Dr Elena Evelson: for the best paper on the psychoanalysis of children and adolescents. and its effects on subjectivity’. Estella Dissemination activities Welldon, a psychoanalyst and forensic Dr David Liberman: for the best clinical or The Psychoanalysis Teaching Centre (CDP) psychiatrist from London, was a special theoretical paper on the work of the continues to offer courses on basic guest at the meeting, which was Liberman Centre. psychoanalytic topics to students and coordinated by Mariam Alizade, COWAP’s young analysts. current president. Argentine Society of Psychoanalysis Specialized university courses on (SAP) The meeting was attended by professionals psychosomatic medicine and family Scientific meetings are held on the second from different fields: nurses, social workers, and couple therapy are held jointly with and fourth Thursday of each month. lawyers, judges in charge of juvenile CAECE University, Buenos Aires. The theme for 2005 will be: ‘Research in law courts, politicians, sociologists, A master’s course in psychoanalysis, held psychoanalysis: obstacles and alternatives’. philosophers, general practitioners from together with Salvador University, Buenos centres specializing in family violence. More Aires, will commence in the near future. >August 2005 than 270 people attended the workshops 7th symposium: ‘Psychoanalytic research’. and panels. Prizes In a masterly lecture, Estella Welldon Entries for the following prizes are invited Dissemination activities by 30 October 2005: depicted the problems posed in clinical A course on ‘Mind and brain: a work concerning transference and Dr José Bleger: for the best paper on the neuroscientific perspective’ will be held countertransference issues with victims and application of psychoanalysis to welfare, from April to November in conjunction offenders. Welldon referred to such clinical education or institutions. with the Faculty of Medicine of the work as ‘dancing with death’, as she University of Buenos Aires. It will be Dr A. Aberastury: for the best paper on the highlighted the destructive and deadly open to doctors and psychologists. psychoanalysis of children or adolescents. drive vicissitudes at stake. Dr Luis Storni: for the best paper on Rosario Psychoanalytic (Provisional) Around 30 individual papers were metapsychology. Association (AdePRO) presented and distributed in nine Dr Miguel A. Rubinstein: for the best paper >August 2005 simultaneous reading sessions. Some on the thought of Donald Winnicott. 3rd Psychoanalytic Meeting at Rosario, of the topics were: new clinical work For more information please visit with members of other Argentine societies. models in psychoanalysis; the analyst’s www.apa.org.ar countertransference in cases involving >September 2005 sexual violence; gender problems; rape; Buenos Aires Psychoanalytic 9th Annual Symposium the effects of sexual violence on psychic Association (APdeBA) structuring and identity; the role of law and its interaction with psychoanalysis; incest; >12–13 August 2005 psychic death; somatic illness and pain Two-day meeting on children and related to sexual abuse. There was also a adolescents. round table on prostitution and paedophilia. >30 September–1 October 2005 During the conference, the members International meeting on ‘Creative of the international committee held a developments of the thought of meeting to outline future goals and Donald Meltzer’. work programmes. They were Giovanna >October 2005 Ambrosio (European Co-chair), Matilde Internal congress and symposium. Caplansky (Latin American Co-chair), Frances Salo (Australasia Co-chair) and Scientific meetings are held every Tuesday Teresa Flores (Chair of the COWAP to discuss papers presented by members. European Conference on ‘Incest’, held Once a month an invitation is extended in Lisbon in March 2005). to an institution. One of these meetings is conducted on a small-group basis and A Latin American open meeting was also involves different fields and departments held, with delegates from several Societies: of the institution. Julia Lauzon (Chilean Psychoanalytic WORLD ACTIVITIES 25 Latin America

COWAP contd BRAZIL PERU Association), Jeannette Dryzun (Argentine Brasilia Psychoanalytic Society Celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Psychoanalytic Association), Olga Varela Peru Psychoanalytic Society, the 9th World Activities (Mexican Psychoanalytic Association), Doris The Brasilia Psychoanalytic Society will Peruvian Psychoanalytical Congress, with Berlin (Caracas Psychoanalytic Association) host the 20th Brazilian Psychoanalytical the theme ‘Psychoanalysis: process and Marlene Silveira Araujo (Porto Alegre Congress, ‘Power, psychic suffering transformation’, was held in Lima on Psychoanalytic Society), Luis Minuchin and and contemporaneity’, in Brasilia, 15–17 July 2005. Drs Alain de Mijolla Silvia Notrica (Buenos Aires Psychoanalytic the capital city. (Paris), Sophie de Mijolla-Mellor (Paris) Association), Teresa Haudenschild and Brazilian Psychoanalytical Society of and Juan Pablo Jiménez (Chile) were Renata Andreoli (San Pablo Brazilean Porto Alegre the international guests. The founders, Psychoanalytic Society, among others. Preparations are continuing for the 20th Drs Saúl Peña, Carlos Crisanto and Max The aim of this meeting was to assess Congress of the Brazilian Psychoanalytic Hernández were recognized. and exchange ideas on results, and to Association (ABP) to be held in Brasília in examine new projects. November 2005. URUGUAY IPA’s President Elect, Claudio Eizirik took Dissemination activities part in a panel on ‘Sexual trauma and There are monthly meetings open to Uruguayan Psychoanalytic Association psychic death’ and chaired the closing the public. The topic this year will be: (APU) session, highlighting the significance ‘Freud and the contemporary world’. of these meetings for the future A number of events to celebrate the of psychoanalysis. Thanks to the sponsoring of the DPPT 50th anniversary of the founding of the project, ‘Further extension of the insertion Association will be held this year. The transcripts of some of the recorded programme of the SPPA in the community’, sessions will allow us to continue working funded by the IPA, the Porto Alegre >July 2005 on the ideas presented at the event. The Psychoanalytical Society (SPPA) will Dr Stefano Bolognini (Italy) will visit the detailed 5th Dialogue schedule can be hold series of lectures and courses Association. viewed at the IPA’s web page devoted open to public on psychoanalytic issues to COWAP. of general interest. >September 2005 One-day meeting on psychoanalysis and Mariam Alizade Rio de Janeiro Psychoanalytic Society literature. Chair, COWAP A symposium on ‘Psychoanalysis and culture’ celebrating the 50th anniversary of >October 2005 the Rio de Janeiro Psychoanalytic Society The APU will be visited by Dr Fanny Blank- will be held in September 2005. Cerejido (Argentina and Mexico).

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CANADA USA and the Board of the American Psychiatric Association during APsaA’s winter meetings. Canadian Psychoanalytic Society North America Affiliate and Associate Members now CPS sadly announces the death of Alistair The ‘Fellow of the IPA’ designation has been attend meetings of the Steering MacLeod, a founding member and past approved by the IPA Board for use by any Committee of the APsaA. Currently there is president (1952–54). David Iseman is North American members of the IPA who a ‘Psychotherapist Associate’ category of the President of CPS. David Schaffelburg choose to use it. This designation has been affiliation in the Association, but there is President-Elect and Arthur Leonoff introduced in order to counter the ‘licensed is a goal to upgrade the status of these Past-President. Marcella Evan-Grenier is psychoanalyst’ designation and will be members within it. One possible approach Secretary and Louis Brunet is Treasurer. linked to a campaign to advertise the would be to establish a subsidiary difference in training standards between corporation of psychotherapists within Members of the executive of the new the IPA and other bodies. APsaA, with its own Board of Directors, Vancouver Institute of Psychoanalysis are: officers, bylaws, etc. Director, Elmor Smit; Secretary, Elie American Psychoanalytic Association Debbane; Treasurer, Sidney Perzow. (APsaA) The Committee on Racial and Ethnic Jon K. Meyer, President of APsaA, has The Task Force on Reorganization, chaired Diversity is interested in involving more been elected Honorary Member of CPS. by Robert Galatzer-Levy, is charged with student, psychotherapist, teacher and Martin Gauthier, Charles Levin, Rafael proposing a new governance structure for research associates. Lopez-Corvo and Gary Taerk have been the American Psychoanalytic Association. The Association is actively involved elected Training Analysts. At the same time there is a ‘strategic with other organizations in establishing planning’ process which will review the guidelines for Certification or Licensing programmes and current priorities of the of Psychoanalysis. Association. Two events in the USA are scheduled The Association has recommended the for the same weekend in 2005. This has re-establishment of regular executive led APsaA’s administration to suggest meetings between the leadership of APsaA 26 WORLD ACTIVITIES North America

establishing an IPA centralized calendar LAISPS maintains a Trauma Center where The 16th Annual Melanie Klein Memorial to avoid future date conflicts. (The events members do pro bono work with families Lecture, ‘Adolescence and the body ego’, involved are a regional pre-congress at risk. They have now expanded to a was given by Robin Anderson. conference at Emory, ‘Interdisciplinary second site at the Venice (California) Family Clinic. For further information Confederation of Independent responses to trauma’, and a NAPsaC- Psychoanalytic Societies (CIPS) sponsored conference on education, contact Sandra Garfield Email: [email protected] The CIPS Public Policy Committee (Chair: both on 30 April–1 May). Rick Perlman) has joined with APsaA to New York Freudian Society (NYFS) form the joint APsaA/CIPS Committee APsaA has recently begun a new and Training Institute on Licensing and Credentialling. It has

World Activities World relationship with Psychology Today A two-year programme in psychoanalytic co-authored position papers regarding magazine’s Online Therapy Directory. The psychotherapy has been implemented. the extremely low standards needed to magazine’s directory is linked to Yahoo (for For information, application and/or an be qualified as a ‘Licensed Psychoanalyst’ which Psychology Today provides all the invitation to an open house informational in New York and other states now information pertaining to mental health), evening, contact Loretta Hayes, tel.: (212) adopting licensure. These papers are WebMD, AOL Health, and Medicine.net, 463 8036 (USA). being studied by the state governance as well as the National Mental Health offices involved, but so far the lower The International Books Committee of the Association. The Directory provides another standards have been adopted. NYFS continues to send donated literature means by which practitioners can reach (books, journals, papers ) to the libraries of In order to distinguish between analysts potential patients and may prove to be a Kurdistan University and the University of who have met only these very minimal valuable tool especially for those building Social Welfare and Rehabilitation in Iran. standards and IPA analysts, an IPA working their practices. The NYFS recently received a request for group (Chair: Robert Pyles) has instituted books from the Marden Library in Pakistan a further credential for the latter. These In order to address the paucity of and will try to meet their needs. Donations North American analysts are now entitled systematic studies in child and adolescent of literature and/or funds are needed and to identify themselves as ‘Fellow of the psychoanalysis, APsaA is undertaking much appreciated. Contact Edwin Fancher, IPA’ (FIPA) and are considered ‘certified’ the development of a national research email: [email protected]. by the IPA. agenda in order to develop systematic empiricism in the field. The NYFS has instituted a new 30-week For more detailed information regarding programme, ‘Explorations: exploring this serious threat to psychoanalytic In its ongoing endeavours to improve principles of the psychodynamic therapies’. standards in the USA, see the article by member benefits, APsaA just announced This programme is designed to interest R. Perlman on www.ipa.org.uk, summer a new insurance programme that offers students who have graduated from supplement 2003, ‘On Line’ Focus section. disability insurance, life and accidental Masters and/or Doctoral (including MD) level programmes with minimal clinical North American Psychoanalytic death and dismemberment insurance, Confederation (NaPsaC) and long-term care insurance. Members experience but who are (or expect to be) employed in mental health settings. The NAPsaC continues its organization as a have a direct link to a website that details programme will offer useful information North American regional presence more these benefits. and discussion, at the same time inviting or less equivalent to the EPF and FEPAL. Arthur Leonoff (Canadian) is Chair. The JAPA Netcast has resumed. Dr Robert them to pursue further training and/or White has been appointed as the internet treatment for themselves. Corrigendum editor. Full-text articles are available. The course is open to all applicants, each On p. 9 of the December 2004 issue of of whom will have a mentor assigned. the IPA news magazine (vol. 13, no. 2) Institute for Psychoanalytic Training For further information, contact Tina Lupi, the Northwest Psychoanalytic Society was and Research email: [email protected], or Hadassah reported as having been approved as a Ramin, email: [email protected] Study Group of IPA. This should have >14–15 October 2005 read ‘approved as a Provisional Society’. Conference: ‘The developmental theories Psychoanalytic Center of California We apologize for this mistake. of Freud and Klein’. Speakers: Ronald (PCC) Britton, Judith Chused, Steven Ellman, The PCC invites the international Meira Likierman. For information contact psychoanalytic community to submit Carolyn Ellman or Anni Bergman c/o IPTAR, papers for consideration for the Frances Fax: (USA) 212-410-0821; or Carolyn Tustin Memorial Trust prize. The deadline Ellman Email: [email protected] is 1 April 2006. The Tustin Conference, ‘The legacy of Los Angeles Institute and Society for Frances Tustin’, at the Tavistock Centre in Psychoanalytic Studies (LAISPS) London was well attended and received. The Jean B. Sanville Writing Award was A conference in autumn 2006 will be given to Christal Daehnert for her paper held in Venice, Italy. For further ‘Crossing over: a story of surrender and information, contact Judith Mitrani, transformation’. email: [email protected] and/or http://www.frances-tustin-congres.com FORTHCOMING

INTERNATIONAL PSYCHOANALYSIS LIBRARY General Editor: Emma Piccioli Truth, Reality, and the Psychoanalyst: Latin American Contributions to Psychoanalysis Eds. S. Lewkowicz and S. Flechner ISBN: 0-9523905-6-6 $46.95 (Members’ price)

Contributors: Madeleine Baranger, Ricardo Bernardi, Cesar Botella, Jorge Canestri, Cláudio Laks Eizirik, H. Shmuel Erlich, R. Horacio Etchegoyen, Antonino Ferro, Silvia Flechner, Gloria Gitaroff, James S. Grotstein, Florence Guignard, Juan Francisco Jordán-Moore, Luis Kancyper, Otto F. Kernberg, Beatriz de León, Sergio Lewkowicz, Serapio Marcano, Norberto C Marucco, Antonio Muniz de Rezende, Neville Symington, Alejandro Tamez-Morales, Virginia Ungar, Susana Vinocur-Fischbein, Daniel H. Widlöcher, Samuel Zysman

Verdad, Realidad y el Psicoanalista: Contribuciones Latinoamericanas al Psicoanálisis Eds. S. Lewkowicz and S. Flechner ISBN: 0-9523905-7-4 $36.80 (Members’ price)

Psychoanalysis has long thrived in Latin America. Like the rest of the psychoanalytic world, our Latin American colleagues are diverse in their thinking, but there is nevertheless a distinct cultural voice with which they speak. Unfortunately, language barriers have interfered with the communication of this unique and highly sophisticated way of thinking to colleagues around the world. This stimulating new volume goes a long way to fill this void by presenting a collection of essays that present Latin American psychoanalysis at its best. An added treat is the cross-cultural dialogue provided by commentators for each chapter from other psychoanalytic cultures. I highly recommend this exciting new contribution to both candidates and experienced analysts. Glen O Gabbard

Is there a psychoanalysis that is specific to South America? This excellent book, I believe, will call the question and hopefully stimulate reflection beyond the arena of political or ideological debate. The introductory detailed history by H Etchegoyen and S Zysman of the development of psychoanalysis in the different Latin American countries once more confronts us with the fact that psychoanalysis, since its very birth, was embedded and nurtured within crosscultural dialogue and exchange. Emigration and immigration represent a destiny that has always marked the paths of psychoanalysts and of our discipline worldwide. Such, indeed, has been the fate of the many pioneers in Latin America who have contributed to the flourishing of psychoanalysis throughout the South American continent.

The rich content of this book includes papers by several South American authors. Some are already translated and well known abroad, others less so, and each is commented and discussed by distinguished psychoanalysts from Europe and North America.

When reading the different chapters, what emerges are not so much the geographic or cultural connotations, but, rather, a fascinating trans-national and trans-cultural mixture of languages and psychoanalytic models giving rise to a truly psychoanalytic dialogue, the only antidote to fragmentation of psychoanalysis within separate areas and the risk of confining it within self-referential retreats. Jacqueline Amati Mehler

For more information please visit the Publications page of the IPA website: www.ipa.org.uk where you will find extensive information on all IPA Publications and have the opportunity to order online or e-mail [email protected]

International Volume 14, Issue 1, June 2005 PSYCHOANALYSIS News Magazine of the International Psychoanalytical Association

‘Terminable and interminable’ – the education debate Don Campbell reflects on recent dialogues

Daniel Widlöcher bids farewell and looks forward

Cláudio Eizirik is optimistic about the future

IPA and IPSO – closer together

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