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Psychologist- Psychoanalyst Psychologist- ψ Official Publication of Division 39 Psychoanalyst of the American Psychological Association Volume XXIV, No. 3 Summer 2004 FROM THE PRESIDENT JAINE DARWIN, PSYD nward and outward are one set of dynamic tensions for We continue to demonstrate the validity of our Ime when I think about psychoanalytic psychotherapy work and to make known the large body of outcome and psychoanalysis as I practice it today. Looking inward, research on psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psycho- I want to understand for myself and for my patients how therapy as we assert our rightful spot as an evidenced based unconscious fantasy, conflicts, representations of self and practice. I wonder if a compilation of fMRI scans trumps a other contribute to who we are and how we think, feel and double blind study as evidence for efficacy. act. Looking outward I want to understand the sociocul- tural and sociopolitical elements that contribute to how we OUTREACH think feel and act. I would like to discuss two aspects in Ken Reich is a member of the Division 39 Outreach Com- this column, I plan to talk about the neuroscience research mittee and the President of the Psychoanalytic Couple and that is validating the psychoanalytic principles which guide Family Institute of New England and (PCFINE). He has my looking inward and about an exciting outreach program helped me become acquainted with this wonderful outreach where what we know about the intrapsychic aids a group project. PCFINE is affiliated with all three psychoana- dealing with the sociopolitical. lytic institutes in Boston (MIP, BPSI, PINE). PCFINE has launched an outreach program to offer pro bono services to NEUROSCIENCE members of National Guard and Reserve families many of Freud (1895), in his Project for a Scientific Psychology whom have family members serving in Iraq. Unlike fami- attempted to formulate a neurological basis for a psychol- lies of regular military, psychological services are not pro- ogy of mind. He ultimately gave up this effort to focus on vided by the military for these families. Ken and PCFINE psychic meaning and psychic mechanisms. Modern neu- launched this program in Massachusetts and the National roscience, with high tech imaging capacity, is now prov- Guard is interested in making it a nationwide program. ing Freud’s hypotheses correct. Mark Solms writing in We have all learned to separate our personal feel- the May 2004 issue of Scientific American documents the ings about the war in Iraq and about our government from mapping of brain systems responsible for inhibitory struc- our ardent support for those who serve in the war. This is an tures, which he likens to ego, and of implicit (unconscious) excellent opportunity to take our expertise about the impact and explicit (conscious) memory systems. He discusses of separation and trauma on individuals and families, and neural pathways that bypass the hippocampus allowing an offer our skills to a population that needs these services but event to trigger unconscious feelings without conscious might not know how to seek us out. Any local chapters, memory. In the January 2004 issue of Science, Anderson institutes, or individuals can contact Dr. Kenneth Reich et. al., delineate neural systems underlying the suppression at 617 492-0280 or by email at [email protected] with of unwanted memory. They propose and demonstrate via National Guard Outreach on the subject line. Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) how we utilize our lateral prefrontal cortex to disengage hippocam- REFERENCES pal processing. They conclude this work proves we can Anderson, M. et al (2004). Neural systems underlying the suppres- actively choose to forget. “The current findings provide the sion unwanted memories. Science, 303, 232-235 Freud S. (1895) Project for a scientific psychology, S.E. 1, 295-391 first neurobiological model of the voluntary form of repres- Solms, Mark (2004). Freud returns. Scientific American, 290, 82-88. sion proposed by Freud…(p. 235).” 2 Psychologist-Psychoanalyst Summer 2004 Division of Psychoanalsis 3 ��������������������������������������������������������������� ���������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� ��������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� ��������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� ���������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� ������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� ������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������ ��������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� ����������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� ������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� ������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������ ������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������ ��������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� ����������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� ������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� ���������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� ��������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� �������������������� � ������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� � ���������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� ���������������������������������������������������� � �������������������������������������������������������� ����������������������������������������������������������������������������� ����������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� ��������������������������������������������������� � ��������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� �������������� �������� ������ ������� �� ������������������������������������������������������������������������������ ������ ���������� ��������� ������������������������������������������������� ������ �������������� ����������������� ����������������� �� ��������������������������������������������������������������������������� ������������������ ���������� ��������� ������������������ ���������������� ������� ��������� �� ����������������������������������������������������������������������������������� �������������������������������������������������������������� ����������������������������������������������������������������� �� ������������������������������������������������������������������������������� ������������������������������������������������������������� ��������������������������������������������������������������� ��������� ������������������������������������������������������������������������ ������������������������������������������� ���������������������������������������������������������� ������������������������� �������������������������� ������������������������������� ���������������������������� �������������������� 2 Psychologist-Psychoanalyst Summer 2004 Division of Psychoanalsis 3 GUIDELINES FOR SUBMITTING MATERIAL LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: DAVID SCHARFF Submissions, including references, need to be in APA style. Email your submission in an attached n Dennis Debiak’s brief contribution to Psychologist/Psychoanalyst, “State Word or WordPerfect file to the Editor. If you do Iof the Art II: Introducing Students to LGB-Affirmative Psychoanalysis (24: not have attached file capabilities, mail the disc 2) he told of using my 1982 book, The Sexual Relationship, to teach about the to the Editor. Hard copies are not needed. Please dynamics of sexual development. The article cited the reprint date of 1998, with- write one or two sentences about yourself for out noting that the book was reprinted unmodified from the original of 16 years earlier. In teaching from the book, he had the upsetting experience that many placement at the end of the article and indicate students, including those especially who may have been gay, lesbian or bisexual, what address information you would like pub- took offence at my 1982 position concerning homosexuality as pathological, and lished. Submissions should be no longer than particularly, of classing it with perversions. His students correctly called him (and 2500 words. me) on these anachronisms in the book which no doubt wounded them person- All materials are subject to editing at the ally. He notes how encounters with such material discourage students from con- discretion of the Editor. Unless otherwise stated, sidering analysis as a relevant discipline, and contribute to their conviction that the views expressed by the authors are those of the analysis is stuck in an stubborn, outmoded and insulting
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