SPRING/SUMMER 2021 Volume 55, No. 2 Magazine of The American Psychoanalytic Association Margaret Morgan Lawrence: INSIDE THIS Honoring a Trailblazer ISSUE Susan C. Vaughan On December 7, 2020, the Columbia Gilead: Jour- Center for Psychoanalytic Training and ney of a Research took a step toward mitigating Healer (Addi- structural racism in psychoanalysis by son Wesley, Election Results announcing the establishment of the 1988),which endowed Margaret Morgan Lawrence, her daughter MD Psychoanalytic Training Scholar- the Harvard CrossCurrents ship at Columbia University with a sociologist founding gift of $75,000 over three Sara Lawrence- Margaret Morgan Lawrence Michael Slevin, Anne Adelman, years. Columbia’s society, the Associa- L i g h t f o o t Mary Landy, Mark Moore, tion for Psychoanalytic Medicine, also wrote after a series of many interviews Ellen Pinsky, Harry Polkinhorn announced the establishment of a tri- with her mother. Lawrence, who died in ennial lecture, the Margaret Morgan December 2019 at the age of 105, was Lawrence MD Lecture on Psychoanaly- born into a family then living in rural sis and Social Justice. At the announce- Kimberlyn Leary on Mississippi, with a father who was an ment event over Zoom, Dionne Powell Psychoanalysis and Episcopal priest. But in some ways her and Brenda Berger spoke, as well as Social Equity Margaret Morgan Lawrence’s three life story really started before she was Justin Shubert highly accomplished children, and our born with the death of her beloved institute and society were able to recog- older brother Sandy Alonzo Morgan, nize and acknowledge our important nicknamed Candy Man for his white but regrettable history in training the skin and golden ringlets. Though he Fertile Territory for first Black psychoanalyst in America. died at age 17 months, his portrait dom- Psychoanalytic Study: Late Life inated the living room of each home in Her Remarkable Life Audrey Kavka which the family lived. Lawrence later Margaret Cornelia Morgan Lawrence’s realized, “I want to be a doctor in order story is beautifully captured in Balm In to save a child like my brother from death.” Her mother was a passionate TA/SA Functions and Susan C. Vaughan, MD, is director of teacher but one who deeply missed her Surveying the Membership Columbia Center for Psychoanalytic family in Harlem when she followed her David Cooper Training and Research, associate professor husband to the deep South. She would of psychiatry at Columbia University Irving take to bed for months at a time as the Medical Center, Columbia University, family moved, following Reverend Mor- Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons. Continued on page 4 THE AMERICAN PSYCHOANALYST • Volume 55, No. 2 • Spring/Summer 2021 1 CONTENTS: Spring/Summer 2021 THE AMERICAN PSYCHOANALYTIC ASSOCIATION President: Bill Glover Margaret Morgan Lawrence: Honoring a Trailblazer Susan C. Vaughan President-Elect: Kerry Sulkowicz 1 Secretary: Bonnie Buchele Treasurer: Julio G. Calderon 3 From the Presidents: Looking Ahead — Loss and Renewal Executive Director: Thomas H. Newman Bill Glover and Kerry Sulkowicz THE AMERICAN PSYCHOANALYST 3 Election Results Magazine of the American Psychoanalytic Association The Doctor Debate: Still Talking About Titles Flora E. Lazar Editor 7 Lyn Yonack CrossCurrents: On Analytic Writing Book Review Editors 9 Arlene Kramer Richards and Michael Slevin, Special Section Editor Arnold Richards On Writing Ellen Pinsky Candidate Editor Not Business as Usual Anne Adelman Sheryl Silverstein Who Are You? Harry Polkinhorn Child and Adolescent Editor A Crucial Question at the Right Time Mary J. Landy Leon Hoffman Writing as Forgetting Mark Moore Diversity Editor Justin Shubert Book Review: In-Depth Description of Primary Approaches to Education Editor 15 Alan Sugarman Couple Therapy Nathan M. Szajnberg Psychotherapy Editor Ann H. Dart Kimberlyn Leary on Psychoanalysis and Social Equity: 16 Special Section Editor An Interview with Justin Shubert, Diversity Editor Michael Slevin Science Editor 19 Introducing the New Pyschotherapy Column Robert Galatzer-Levy Ann H. Dart, Psychotherapy Editor Editorial Board Phillip Freeman, Peter Loewenberg, Joining the Family Business Linda Michaels Judith Logue, Julie Jaffee Nagel, Thomas H. Newman, ex officio 21 To Save the World, Psychoanalysis Must First Save Itself Austin Ratner Manuscript and Production Editors Michael and Helene Wolff, Technology Management 23 Can Psychoanalysis Save Us? Kimberly Chu Communications The American Psychoanalyst is published three times a year. 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Lyn Yonack, at [email protected]. 2 THE AMERICAN PSYCHOANALYST • Volume 55, No. 2 • Spring/Summer 2 021 FROM THE PRESIDENTS come without risk-– even if we believe Looking Ahead – Loss and Renewal the greater risk is in trying to stay the Bill Glover and Kerry Sulkowicz same-–and perhaps even more, a sense of loss that is felt as we let go of certain established ways of being and doing. Holmes Commission on Racial Equality Psychoanalysis guides the work of has begun to examine systemic racism mourning, even as a world comes to an starting with APsaA itself. Our program end with each loss (Derrida) other worlds team converted our annual meetings in can come into being (Freud). June and February into remarkably suc- The times are challenging, including cessful virtual events that we will con- in our own field, but so are the opportu- tinue in some form even when we nities. APsaA is poised to seize the resume meeting in person. And we owe moment with renewed energy and social Bill Glover Kerry Sulkowicz special thanks to our staff who have engagement that bodes well for our adjusted to working virtually and kept future. We have the opportunity to reas- The year 2020 was truly an annus APsaA humming despite all the turmoil. sert APsaA’s leading role in American horribilis, but 2021 has brought hope as Looking ahead, APsaA will continue psychoanalysis while continuing our we work to surmount overlapping cri- these activities and adapt them as tradition of excellence in psychoanalytic ses. APsaA can be proud of doing its needed. These are transitional times education and practice. We ask you to part. We’ve held regular Town Halls and for APsaA itself, accelerated by the join us on this journey together. our Covid-19 Advisory Team has pro- pandemic, as we make important vided resources for psychoanalysts and decisions about our future: what kind of the broader therapy community during organization we want to be; reckoning the pandemic. The DPE has worked with racial inequality; the analysis of Contacting the closely with our institutes to help them candidates; the nature of psychoanalytic effectively adapt to distance training. practice and education in the post-Covid National Office Members who have pioneered distance world; and how APsaA relates to the The American treatment and education have shared mental health community and to society Psychoanalytic at large. their expertise generously. We’ve Association increased our social engagement by The response to our efforts has been 309 East 49th Street offering a psychoanalytic perspective on heartening, as many mental health pro- New York, NY 10017 racism and political extremism. The fessionals and others whose work is Phone: 212-752-0450 informed by psychoanalysis have Fax: 212-593-0571 attended our events and felt welcomed, Bill Glover, PhD, is president of APsaA. which in turn has changed their percep- [email protected] Kerry Sulkowicz, M.D., is president-elect. tions of us. An evolving APsaA does not http://apsa.org/ National Office Voice Mail Extensions APsaA Elections Taylor Beidler x12 FEBRUARY 2021 Chris