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VOLUME 10 ISSUE 2 2001 INTERNATIONAL PSYCHOANALYSIS LETTERS On Fenichel and Reich On non-discrimination On homosexuality HOME PAGES The IPA- and regional structures The Nice Congress Psychoanalysis and university The new Executive Council FOCUS Child analysis and analytical child psychotherapy DIALOGUE Roughton’s response on homosexuality OPINION An experiment in training Ethics once more WORLD WIDE PAGES The New York Trauma Obituary of William Gillespie New IPA Members Members who have left the IPA EPF Conference Broomhills exico DF © Manuel Isaías López Gómez, M International Psychoanalysis The International The Newsletter of the IPA. ISSN: 1564-0361 Psychoanalytical Association Editor Translation Team President Honorary Vice-President Alex Holder Daniel Widlöcher Robert S. Wallerstein German: Past Editors Astrid Fuhrmeister, Joachim Roether, Ethel Person, Leopold Nosek Elisabeth Vorspohl, Eva Ristl; Secretary Representatives of the House Alain Gibeault of Delegates to Council Regional Editors English: Ken Heyward, Newell Fischer, Europe: Michel Vincent, Henning Paikin, Edmund Jephcott, Philip Slotkin, Treasurer Carmen Médici de Steiner Guiseppina Antinucci; Susan Hale Rogers; Moisés Lemlij Latin America: Renato Canovi, Associate Secretaries Eduardo Laverde; French: Ronald Brown, Ekkehard Gattig, North America: Abby Adams-Silvan, Danielle Goldstein, Catherine Roux; Vice-Presidents Rómulo Lander Irene Cairo-Chiandarini, Sharon Zalusky Jacqueline Amati Mehler, Ronald Spanish: Britton, Sverre Varvin, Alvaro Rey de Ex Officio Dana Cáceres, Glenda Escajadillo, Castro, Cláudio Laks Eizirik, Mónica Alex Holder, Language Editors Martín Scheuch. Siedmann de Armesto, Helen Meyers, Editor of the Newsletter; German Newsletter: Alex Holder Robert Pyles, Robert Tyson David M. Sachs, English Newsletter: Janice Ahmed International New Groups; French Newsletter: Françoise Bokanowski Honorary President Piers Pendred, Director General; Spanish Newsletter: Isabel Bataller Leo Rangell Tom Asher, Legal Counsel; Bautista Layout & Production R.E. Regina Ehlers Grafik&Design Corresponding Editors Hamburg, Deutschland Australia: Deborah McIntyre International Psychoanalysis is published biannually Japan: Keigo Okonogi © Copyright 2001, with the exception of the photographs, Printer The International Psychoanalytical Association Executive Editor Eurodruck GmbH No part of this publication may be reproduced without the express consent of the International Janice Ahmed Hamburg, Deutschland Psychoanalytical Association, “Broomhills”, Woodside Lane, London N12 8UD, England. VOLUME 10 – ISSUE 2 – 2001 EDITORIAL Cover: Margaret Mahler (1897 - 1985) Back page: Ernest Jones (1879 - 1958) CONTENTS EDITORIAL p. 3 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Reich on Reich and Fenichel p. 4 Widlöcher on homosexuality p.4/5 Roughton on homosexuality p. 4 APsaA on homosexuality p. 4 I am writing this Editorial still under the impact of the atrocious and barbaric Furman on Freud on homosexuality p. 5 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon, and Albretsen on homosexuality p. 5 the almost unthinkable destructiveness of which human beings are capable. HOME PAGES What follows is the message which our President, Daniel Widlöcher, sent to the North American IPA The new Executive Council in pictures p. 6 Groups at the time: ‘At this time when America has been appallingly rocked by acts of insane violence, The President’s Column: I would personally, and on behalf of the Council, Piers Pendred and our staff, like you to know how much IPA- and Regional Structures p. 8 we share the feeling of sheer horror you must be experiencing. I am sure that I represent the unani- The Secretary’s Report p. 10 mous conviction of the whole of the psychoanalytical community in stating that this blow is a blow to Report on the Nice Congress p. 11 the entire community and to the values of peace and mutual respect which form the very basis of our Introduction to Conference of psychoanalytical ethics. Please transmit to all your members our warmest wishes and support.’ Training Analysts p. 14 A first reaction to these traumatic events on 11 September by a New York colleague can be found on Final Summary of Conference page 36. Others will appear in the next issue. of Training Analysts p. 16 The 42nd IPA Congress, with its main topic of ‘Psychoanalysis: Method and Applications’, lies behind us. FOCUS It was attended by nearly 2000 delegates. The moving Opening Address by Jorge Semprún will appear Child psychoanalysis and in the next issue. The report on the congress is this time by a German journalist, Caroline Neubaur, who analytical child psychotherapy has attended and reported on all major European psychoanalytic congresses and conferences for many Peter Blos p. 18 years. The present issue also contains two reports on the Conference of Training Analysts which pre- Karen Gilmore p. 20 ceded the Congress and which was devoted to a concerned critique of psychoanalytic education. Johan Norman p. 22 Terttu Eskelinen de Folch p. 24 The Congress also marked the changeover from Otto Kernberg’s administration to that of Daniel Virginia Ungar p. 25 Widlöcher, whose Column deals with the subject of ‘The IPA and regional structures’. The new Executive Carmen Médici de Steiner p. 27 Council - the last one before the new administrative structure comes into force in 2003 - is presented pictorially on pages 6 and 7. DIALOGUE During the Business Meeting at the Congress, the German Psychoanalytical Society (DPG) was accepted Response by Ralph Roughton as an ‘Executive Council Provisional Society’, and 27 of its members were elected as Direct Members of to his Discussants p. 29 the IPA. An article on the DPG, its history and the special solution adopted by the Executive Council in order to enable members of the DPG to be gradually integrated into the IPA, will appear in the next issue. OPINION The ‘Focus’ section is this time devoted to ‘Child analysis and analytical child psychotherapy’, com- An experiment in training p. 33 plementing the series of articles on psychoanalysis and psychoanalytical psychotherapy with adults Does the IPA need an ethical code? p. 34 which appeared in Volume 8, issue 1 (1999). Two child analysts from each of the three regions have contributed articles to this section, and they reflect something of the diversity of views. WORLD WIDE PAGES Ralph Roughton has written an extensive reply to his discussants on homosexuality, in which he has also September 11, New York City taken account of the Openline discussion within the American Psychoanalytic Association. This took (Irene Cairo-Chiandarini) p. 36 place after the Nice congress as a reaction to the Executive Council’s decision not to mention homo- Obituary of William Gillespie p. 38 sexual orientation specifically in its statement about non-discrimination, but to retain its previously In Memoriam p. 39 adopted general statement that the IPA opposes discrimination of any kind. The Letter to the Editor by Announcement COWAP p. 40 the Executive Committee of the American Psychoanalytic Association also addresses this issue. Psychoanalytic Study of the Child Award p. 40 Frances Tustin Memorial Trust p. 40 With the present issue, the reader will find, in the ‘World Wide Pages’, not only the names of those Bion Conference p. 41 colleagues who have died during the past half year, but now also the names and Societies of all new Report on EPF Conference p. 41 members and of those who have left the IPA. This will now become a regular feature of the Newsletter. News from Europe p. 42 New IPA Members and who have left p. 43 There have been two changes to the Editorial Board. Both Paul Williams and Gilbert Diatkine have had News from Latin America p. 44 to resign as Regional Editors for Europe, due to other commitments. I want to take this opportunity to New IPA Members and who have left p. 44 thank both of them for the tremendous support they have given me during the last three years, with their News from North America p. 45 suggestions, criticisms and very active work for the Newsletter. I am very happy to announce that New IPA Members and who have left p. 46 Guiseppina Antinucci from the British Society and Michel Vincent from the Paris Society have agreed to IPA Conference Psychoanalysis and University p. 46 succeed them and I welcome them as new Regional Editors for Europe. Couch photographs wanted p. 47 Notes for contributors p. 47 Alex Holder, Editor 3 Otto Fenichel colleagues who supported Reich. and Wilhelm Reich I hope this rather lengthy exposition will help to correct the record while at the same time showing Dear Editor, the complexity of the history. I would like to make a belated correction to an Lore Reich Rubin, article on Lilo Gero-Heymann, in Volume 9, Issue 2, Pittsburgh 2000. On page 34 Abby Adams writes that LETTERS “Fenichel came to Prague from Oslo, having quar- relled bitterly with Reich over his Orgon theory and Non-discrimination the use of the so-called Orgon boxes invented by includes homosexuals EDI him [Reich] in which a patient was to sit in order to be able to achieve optimal sexuality.” Daniel Widlöcher’s letter of 21 September 2001 anything. Again, thank you for responding as you did and in Because I believe that once something is in print to Ralph Roughton such a timely way. It was very heartening and felt it develops into a fact, I would like to set the Dear Ralph, quite sincere. This will surely not end the contro- record straight about the split-up between I have been carefully following the debate which versy, but I believe it is a necessary step. Once offi- Fenichel and Reich. The theory of Orgon Energy has recently been taking place on the American’s cial recognition is clear, it gives those individuals or was not developed by Reich till he was living in the Openline, on the subject of the relationship be- small groups, who were intimidated by a vocal United States in the 1940’s, and certainly there tween sexual orientation and the practice of majority - often from people in power - the back- was no Orgon box in 1934.