the FALL/WINTER 2003 AMERICAN Volume 37, No. 4 PSYCHOANALYST Quarterly Newsletter of The American Psychoanalytic Association Capturing Time and Space INSIDE TAP... in the Analyst’s Office Winter Meeting . 5–6 An Interview with Photographer Shellburne Thurber Organizational Michael Slevin Consulting . 12 In a program at the Boston meeting titled “In-Depth: Art, Culture and Politics: Memory and Material Space:Analytic and Other Interi- Special Section on ors in Photographs,” noted photographer Psychotherapy Shellburne Thurber presented work from two Training. 13–17 of her series.Thurber has exhibited widely in the United States and Europe, including three Practice one-person shows in New York City.The Fogg Museum, Harvard University, the Museum of Guidelines. 19–21 Fine Arts, Boston, and the Polaroid Corpora- tion are among the public collections holding APsaA Fellows . 27–29 her work. Her awards include the Maud Morgan Prize from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and a Bunting Fellowship from the Photo: Shellburne print ©2000 Thurber chromogenic Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Har- Newtonville, MA: vard University. She was artist-in-residence at Blue couch with multiple portrait of Freud. the Boston Athenaeum from 1999 to 2002. Morris L. Peltz, founder of the “In-Depth:Art, Michael Slevin conducted and Culture and Politics” presentations, introduced edited the following email inter- the program. Daniel H. Jacobs chaired the morn- view with Shellburne Thurber. ing panel. Discussants were Michael Belldoch, faculty member at the Payne Whitney Clinic in Q. When did you begin taking New York City, and Lia Gangitano, founder and photographs? director of Participant, Inc., an alternative, non- A. I started to photograph seri- profit art space in Manhattan.The two black- ously around the time that my and-white photographs on this page, originally mother died. I was 19 and had in color, were among those shown. dropped out of college. I was liv- ing in Saratoga Springs in a San- Michael Slevin, M.A., is a Ph.D. candidate ford White-designed Victorian in British literature at George Washington mansion that had been converted Photo: Shellburne print ©1998 Thurber chromogenic University and an academic associate into a boarding house. I was living Gholson Homeplace: at the Baltimore-Washington Institute with an eclectic mix of people. Upstairs hallway with window and torn curtain, view #2. for Psychoanalysis. Continued on page 4 THE AMERICAN PSYCHOANALYST • Volume 37, No. 4 • Fall/Winter 2003 1 CONTENTS: Fall/Winter 2003 THE AMERICAN PSYCHOANALYTIC ASSOCIATION President: Newell Fischer 3 The Crisis on Our Threshold Newell Fischer President-Elect: Jon Meyer Secretary: K. Lynne Moritz 5 A Three-Ring Circus of Exciting Choices at the January Meeting Treasurer: Warren Procci Sharon Zalusky Executive Director: Dean K. Stein Administrative Director: Ellen Fertig 9 Chair of Psychoanalysis, Uncommon or Not? Harriet Basseches 11 American Imago: Past and Present Vera J. Camden THE AMERICAN PSYCHOANALYST Newsletter of the 12 Opportunities and Obstacles in Organizational Consultation: American Psychoanalytic Association Joint APsaA and ISPSO Panel Mark F. Poster Editor Prudence Gourguechon Member, Council of Editors SPECIAL SECTION of Psychoanalytic Journals Spotlight on Psychotherapy Training Programs: National Editor 13 K. Lynne Moritz Dilemmas and Accomplishments Robert S. White and Caryle Perlman Editorial Board New Life for Cleveland’s Psychotherapy Program Richard Lightbody Harriet Basseches, Abbot Bronstein, 14 Randi Finger, Sheri Hunt, Lee Jaffe, The Role of Psychoanalytic Institutes in Training Psychotherapists Janice Lieberman, Jack Miller, 15 Caryle Perlman, Marie Rudden, José A. Saporta and Alan Pollack Hinda Simon, Michael Slevin, Gittelle Sones, Julie Tepper, Robert S. 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Laurie Wilson ISSN 1052-7958 An APsaA Fable for Our Times Ronald M. Benson The American Psychoanalytic Association does 34 not hold itself responsible for statements made in Dean Stein Arrives to Take Administrative Helm The American Psychoanalyst by contributors or 35 advertisers. Unless otherwise stated, material in as Executive Director The American Psychoanalyst does not reflect the endorsement, official attitude, or position of The American Psychoanalytic Association or The SPECIAL INSERT: Practice Guidelines 1, Revised—Committee on Peer Review American Psychoanalyst. 2 THE AMERICAN PSYCHOANALYST • Volume 37, No. 4 • Fall/Winter 2003 PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE that many of the issues on the table for The Crisis on Our Threshold discussion are invested with consider- Newell Fischer able passion. Old hurts, the sense of enti- tlement, the inequities of a hierarchical Efforts to more clearly define our organi- Association and system, the privileges/benefits of the zational priorities and a mandate to reduce the International abused are just a few of the hot spots the internal tensions in our governance are Psychoanalytical that can become the foci of personal action items on the Association’s agenda.The Association (IPA) agendas, which may obscure and derail need to address these all too familiar issues is over the issue of the larger organizational mission. It is made more pressing by the fact that APsaA, lay analysis. This imperative that we keep in focus that as a not-for-profit corporation, is not in com- debate began as this is a time-limited process to achieve pliance with New York statutes. Expert legal early as 1910 and certain objectives and that we not con- consultation has advised us and we have reached critical fuse an absorbing process with the mis- actively begun the process of studying our proportions prior sion itself. Newell Fischer current organizational structures and func- to World War II. As the challenges in our surround become tioning.We must come into compliance with In addition to the historical roots of these more complex and more intense, there may State laws. Even more important to our Asso- internal struggles, the nature of our clinical be a temptation and some transient comfort ciation’s well-being, we must reduce the orga- work might fuel these organizational conflicts. in turning further inward and becoming nizational tensions that drain our energies As psychoanalysts, we work with intense totally immersed in studying the internal and distract us from addressing the challenges intrapsychic and interpersonal affective pres- dynamics of the Association. Such a preoc- to our profession. sures in relative isolation. We might specu- cupation might well serve to protect and Reviewing the history of the psychoana- late: Do the conflicts and tensions experienced blind us to these daunting challenges. Intro- lytic movement and the establishment of the in the privacy of our consultation rooms find spection, so highly prized in our profession, American Psychoanalytic Association, it appears expression and an arena for enactment in the can also be mobilized in the service of that from the earliest years, ambiguities, con- more public domain of Association politics? defense and to avoid confronting threatening flicts, and debates about internal governance Though these speculations may be of impor- external realities. have been intrinsic to our Association. tance in our ongoing discussions, at the The IPA devoted several years, and a great deal of money, to reorganizing its complex international corporate configuration as well as its internal governance structure.This restruc- Introspection, so highly prized in our profession, turing process was certainly necessary and is can also be mobilized in the service of defense and