VOLUME 36 NUMBER 3 SUMMER 2013 - - - continued on page 6 by Robert Marchesani REPRODUCTION IN THE 21ST 21ST IN THE REPRODUCTION CENTURY REVIEWS OF "AUGUSTINE" EVIL & GOOD ON PERSPECTIVES BERGMANN 100 AT • • • • of Melanie Klein and other schools of rivaling thought aboutof Melanie Klein and other schools of the father, doesn’t “Freud, psychoanalysis and psychotherapy. escape this either among those who disdain him for his patriar the idealizedchal and scientistic inclinations, but also identifica tions that he inspired,” Lichtenstein continued. “Fixed, absolute identifications and their fiction of wholeness and certainty are ultimately anathema to the vital turn it play of desire. They instead into its death form, which is envy.” analyzed,“In theater and in literature,” Lichtenstein “envy and jealousy are as often the subject of comedy as of tragedy. is the hatred tragi-comic theme all our This For among rivals. wisdom regarding the sources of such hatred in our patients, we don’t often recognize those same sources in our group loyalties. It is our envy regarding the other group identification that generates this particular form of hatred. If I suggest that those who speak disdainfully of Lacan and the Lacanians do so out of a form of envy, I risk being seen as arrogant unless it is understood that I am saying this about all of us, and all our group allegiances.” In this issue Heinz Hartmann and the hapless ego psychologists is main tained level.” at an impressive sameThe was true between followers and those Freud’s Anna Uniting the Schools of Thought Uniting the - - - - - RIVALS IN ANDRIVALS OUT OFCIRCLES OUR ANALYTIC

David Lichtenstein’s keynote presentation I I Am Not What After waking from a night mare, 25-year-old Leonardo have a is told: “You Da Vinci gift, Leo, a kind of genius, the likes of which I’ve never seen; and because of that, people will always seek to destroy you. Please, don’t aid them in their Demons - Da Vinci’s endeavor.” began with Symposium 2013 World Organization and Public Education Corporation - National Association for the Advancement of Association for the Advancement - National Education Corporation and Public Psychoanalysis Organization World STANDING IN THE SAME STREAM: ENVY & JEALOUSY CHALLENGES Martin Bergman Edmund Leites and “Among a group of hardcore Lacanians the disdain for poor “Among contempt that often accompanies it. “We don’t just disagreecontempt that often accompanies it. “We with the formulations of another group, we hate those formula tions; sometimes quietly, sometimes less so,” Lichtenstein said. important to avoid over-identification with them.” Referring work on Group Psychology, Lichtenstein remindedto Freud’s analysis of this kind of identificationus of Freud’s and the figures of authority like Lacan, unless done with great care, “tends to close off discourse and block productive thought. So while it is important to acknowledge one’s teachers, it is equally who made clear that what is important is how these doubts can stimulate work and new developments in our thinking.” Lichtenstein pointed our identification out that with iconic tenstein said. are also doubts over what is a proper psy “There are fortunate today to have present choanalytic perspective. We Martin Bergmann, who wrote the book on that question and “As with all psychoanalytic schools, there are enough basic with all psychoanalytic schools, “As differences among so-called Lacanian perspectives to put that designation in doubt, which is where I think it belongs,” Lich stage for his inquiry into this common theme of envy and jeal ousy in the theater of psychoanalytic training. Am (a line by Iago from “Othello”) from a qualifying LacanianAm (a line by Iago from “Othello”) from perspective. Co-founder, faculty member, and supervisor at Lichtenstein set the Après Coup Psychoanalytic Association, he Advanc r t em fo e n PRESIDENT’S REPORT n o t ti o a f i P c

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ART Doran, Hailey. (2012). Seeing the Flow of People. 5 works published in Other/Wise, Vol. 9. Forney, Ellen. (2012). Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo & Me. New York, NY: Gotham Books. Perlman, Stuart D. (2012). “Faces of Homelessness: Painting the Unseen among Us”. 94 oil on canvas portraits. Quackenbush, Robert. (2012). Four portraits of psychoanalytic leaders. Sigmund Freud, Hyman Spotnitz, and Phyllis Meadow in oil; Sigmund Freud in stamps. ARTICLES Ferrell, Donald R. (2012). A Dangerous Method, a fi lm directed by David Cronenberg: An extended review. Journal of Religion & Health, 51(3), 682-700. Movahedi, Siamak and Homayounpour, Gohar. (2012). The couch and the chador. The International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 93(6), 1357-7 Schmidt, Martin. (2012). Psychic skin: Psychotic defences, borderline process and delusions. The Journal of Analytical Psychology, 57(1), 21-39. Shepherd, Mary. (2012). Speaking the never spoken: The challenge of id analysis. Modern Psychoanalysis, 37(1), 1-38. Stein, Mark and Petriglieri, Gianpiero. (2012). The unwanted self: Projective identifi cation in leaders’ identity work. Organization Studies, 33(9), 1217-123 BOOKS Brisch, Karl Heinz. (2012). Treating Attachment Disorders. New York, NY: Guilford Publications. Homayounpour, Gohar. (2012). Doing Psychoanalysis in Tehran. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press. Knafo, Danielle. (2012). Dancing with the Unconscious: The Art of Psychoanalysis and the Psychoanalysis of Art. New York, NY: Routledge. Rolnik, Eran J. (2012). Freud in Zion: Psychoanalysis and the Making of Modern Jewish Identity. London, UK: Karnac Books. Safran, Jeremy D. (2012). Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Psychotherapies. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association. CHILDREN’S BOOKS Allen, Kathryn Madeline. (2012). A Kiss Means I Love You. Chicago, IL: Albert Whitman & Company. Quackenbush, Robert. (2012). Henry’s Awful Mistake. Digital publication. Readingware, LLC. MOVIE Perlman, Stuart. (2012). Struggle in Paradise.

NEW MEDIA Bright, Vanessa Hannah. (2012). Loving Psychoanalysis. Blog. Llosa, Patricia. (2012). Duende. YouTube video. POETRY Bright, Vanessa Hannah. (2012). I Am. Other/Wise, Vol. 8. Bryant, Salita S. (2012). Anatomy Lesson: A Poem. International Body Psychotherapy Journal: The Art and Science of Somatic Praxis, 11(2). Gargiulo, Gerald J. (2012). The Found World. Between Hours: A Collection of Poems by Psychoanalysts, Akhtar, S., ed. London, UK: Karnac Books. Nusbaum, Gwenn A. (2012). What Do You Want? Psychoanalytic Perspectives, 9(2). STUDENT PAPERS Krieger, Alisa M. (2012). Harnessing the monster under the bed: Coming to terms with the fear of becoming an analyst. Center for Modern Psychoanalytic Studies, New York, NY. Lamborn, Amy Bentley. (2012). The fourth/reduction: Carl Jung, Richard Kearney, and the via tertia of otherness. Jungian Psychoanalytic Association, New York, NY. Maddux, Hilary C. (2012). Adrienne Rich’s ‘transcendental etude’: The poetics of self-transformation. Institute for the Psychoanalytic Study of Subjectivity, New York, NY. Robbins, Maggie M. (2012). Bewitched, buried and bewildered. National Institute for the Psychotherapies, New York, NY. Tompkins, Phyllis. (2012). Emerging intimacy: Tune in and resonate with a pre-verbal patient. The Center for Human Development, New York, NY. TV PROGRAM Mills, Jon. (2012). The Talking Cure. TV series. ABAP NEWS—SUCCESSFUL SEMI-ANNUAL MEETINGS IN NYC by David Dalrymple

The American Board for Accredita- of standard-setting for psychoanalytic education, resulting in a tion in Psychoanalysis, Inc. met for numerical (clinical and training hours) template that is substan- the spring semi-annual meetings tially comparable to those of other accreditors, as well as in on May 3-4, 2013, at the Alma keeping with state and other professional oversight recognition Matthews House in Greenwich Vil- bodies. The revised written standards also reflect state-of-the- lage, NYC. The Assembly of Psy- art accreditation practices in professional and higher educa- choanalytic Institutes (API), chaired tion. Special mention is given to Carol Panetta, PsyD, of BGSP, by Jennifer R. Harper, LP, MDiv, whose consult from expertise in higher education accreditation NCPsyA, was attended by over was invaluable to the working Committee. two dozen leaders from member programs and the accreditation Guilford Bartlett received a Distinguished Professional Service agency leadership. There was also Award for his many contributions as an On-Site Evaluator David Dalrymple close to 100 percent attendance by and Team Chair, and for serving two terms on the COA. The representatives of our accredited Committee on Accreditation, which had previously met and Psychoanalytic Institute Members, approved the Self Study from CGJ-NY, welcomed new ap- Affiliates, and Associates. On the agenda was discussion and pointments made by the Board’s Executive Committee: Nunzio voting for final adoption of the written standard revisions for Gubitosa (BPGI) and Nicole Grace (IPS). On-Site Evaluation institute governance and training practices. Teams visited two programs in May: the C.G. Jung Institute of New York on May 6 Following a lengthy and (Boris Matthews, CGJ- full discussion, with fur- Chicago, Chair; Gil ther consideration given Bartlett, AAI-NY); Jay Liv- to additional enhance- ernois, Public Member) ment of the amendments and the Boston Graduate presented to the API, the School of Psychoanalysis Assembly accepted for on May 17 (Jay Livernois, full adoption the anno- Chair; Gil Bartlett; Patricia tated List of Proposed Vesey-McGrew, CGJ- Changes to the Accredi- Boston; and Gene Mann, tation Standards. These recommendations had been circulated Mental Health Case Worker and State Fraud Investigator, CT, and discussed for over six months, as required by our By-Laws, Evaluator in Training.) by member institutes and programs and the Committee on Accreditation (COA), prior to the spring meetings. This repre- The ABAP Board met on May 4, and voted to implement the sents full adoption of both the numerical template for gradu- recommendations of the Assembly regarding new changes to ation requirements and, now, the written standards revisions, the Standards. The Board appointed two new members to the for institute and program governance–a full update of the new COA: Jim Holmes (NPAP) and Mark Winborn (CGJ-IRS) for ABAP accreditation standard for our member psychoanalytic three-year terms of office, and also elected Joseph Wagenseller training institutes. Thanks are due to the entire Assembly of to a second three-year term of office as Chair of the Board. The institute representatives, and particularly to members of the Board acknowledged with appreciation the ending of terms Standards Project Committee 2012-2013 for their tireless work of office for Claude Barbre (Chicago School of Professional on this project over the past 18 months. Psychology) from the Board, and for Gil Bartlett and Jan Mid- deldorf (CCMPS) from the COA. Financial and Treasurer’s Reports noted timely payments of annual dues, fees, and assessments. The Assembly addressed A highlight of these meetings was the Fundraising Dinner en- leadership succession by electing Art Pomponio (NPAP) and joyed by more than 40 colleagues and friends of psychoanaly- Gerry Gargulio (NPAP) to three-year terms on the Board and sis at Marchi’s Restaurant in the Murray Hill neighborhood. Jay Jennifer Harper to a second three-year term as API Chair. Sherry, PhD, author of the recent Gradiva® recognized book C.G. Jung: Avant-Garde Conservative, made a very informa- The Assembly celebrated two leadership honors. Jennifer R. tive after-dinner presentation. This was a satisfying event for Harper received an Outstanding Leadership Award for her our accreditation community and others. Allan Jay, Chair of achievements with the Standards Project 2012-13 and its the Finance Committee, and his committee members are to be outcome of updating ABAP’s Standards to reflect the actual congratulated on providing us with such a memorable occa- requirements that our institutes have in place for their own sion. training and graduation requirements. This project also syn- thesized the breadth and scope of NAAP and ABAP’s history

PAGE 4 SUMMER 2013 ABAP’s next semian- tive creep.” There is nual meetings will be much ambivalence hosted by Blanton- in our own accredita- Peale Graduate Insti- tion community about tute at the InterChurch federal recognition Center, in NYC, on even though every Friday, October 25, attempt has been 2013. This is the day made to meet federal before the NAAP recognition criteria. Do Annual Conference, we want the federal Violence and Its Denial. government influenc- The spring meetings ing the policies and will be hosted by the practices which affect CGJI-Chicago on May free-standing and 16-18, 2014. ABAP en- independent psycho- courages all institutes analytic institutes and to plan to financially their psychoanalytic support a representa- training programs? tive for these impor- Can our programs Clockwise from top left: Joseph Wagenseller and David Dalrymple, Jennifer Harper receives Out- tant meetings to help standing Leadership Award from Joseph Wagenseller, Jennifer Harper and Joseph Wagenseller at support the admin- defray transportation and ABAP dinner istrative burden of lodging costs. mediating student loans? Do the costs of National Recogni- national recognition tion as a Strategic ensure “cost effective Objective accreditation?"

ABAP has been ASPA Bylaws allow represented for almost for a national recogni- 15 years at the semi- tion process. Through annual meetings of the David Dalrymple’s Association of Special- advocacy, ABAP is no ized and Professional longer a “lone voice” Accreditors. ASPA at meetings arguing membership places for the implementa- our accreditation tion of such an option. agency in a national A number of ASPA dialogue with accredi- members do not meet tors from such fields as the criteria of CHEA allied health, counseling, health education, marriage and family or ED, yet would like an external, national, quality-assurance therapy, medical education, nursing, psychology, public health, recognition. An ASPA committee has researched the costs, ben- social work, teacher education, and more. ABAP is currently the efits, and limitations of such implementation. ASPA leadership, only member of ASPA from the field of psychoanalysis. Lead- its initiatives, and financial resources are committed, and ASPA ers of two national recognition bodies, the Council on Higher is considering three possible ways to address this member con- Education Accreditation (CHEA) and the U.S. Department of cern. An ASPA Standing Committee could oversee a national Education (ED), attend these meetings. quality recognition process but would need to have ample legal funds and peer acceptance as fellow members critically evalu- ABAP does not meet the recognition criteria of CHEA as over ate other members. Or, ASPA could initiate a new, autonomous 50% of our accredited programs do not award higher educa- recognition entity as an alternative to ED and CHEA through tion degrees. The ED is no longer a gate-keeper endorsing one Board appointments (perhaps two accreditors and two educa- accreditor for each particular field. Rather, it is the gate-keeper tors) with initial funding. Or, there could be an ASPA Quality regarding Title IV federal funds such as low-interest student Assurance Program that would be a service to member accredi- loans. tors to which evaluated agencies would pay fees for the service. With any of these options, our agency would incur a cost esti- Accreditor feedback at ASPA meetings suggests much frustra- mate of $8,500 to $10,000 for a national, quality recognition tion with both recognition bodies, who are subject to political for the duration of five to seven years. CHEA or ED recognition influences and use values contrary to ASPA practices. Their decisions are often inconsistent, with rules changing mid-game, continued on page 20 along with burdensome federal and non-federal “administra- Photos: Lynn Somerstein and Patricia Bratt SUMMER 2013 PAGE 5 IN THE SAME STREAM continued...

Lichtenstein continued to level the While envy is commonly understood as wanting what someone playing field of psychoanalysis out else has—a quality, an acquisition, or possession—and jealousy of the stronghold of its envious as wanting who someone else has, the two have also been con- corners. “Envy is an expression of sidered as rivals themselves, as Lichtenstein and others noted desire caught in the snares of a throughout the conference. certain mode of identification. One need not be a Lacanian to speak Wrapping up the conference, Jeffrey Golland summed up the about desire. Spinoza wrote in the importance of the day’s topic and the speakers. “This sympo- 17th century that desire is the es- sium is a testimony to the exquisite individuality of our work, sence of man.... This link between and of the serious and wide-ranging creativity of the psycho- envy and desire also indicates how analytic thinkers in today’s program. Freud’s [1922] paper on desire is rooted in an encounter jealousy set the tone; his propositions and clinical examples Robert Marchesani with the other and the role of the demonstrate variations on his theme... today’s topic is a “hot” rival.” one. Today’s papers avoid a major error of psychiatry’s DSM series: an exclusive and increasingly imperialistic focus on “The root of the word rival is the same root as that of river,” pathology, despite its new but hollow claim of a spectrum Lichtenstein explained. “A rival is thus one who stands in the orientation.” same stream. If envy is the hatred of a rival, it is the hatred of one who stands in the same stream.” Trying to sum up a conference in one short article is like trying to say everything in one short session. It simply isn’t possible And rivalry, like charity, begins at home. “We see this most to include the entire breadth and depth of the topic at hand, obviously with siblings as the stream they share is the family,” but the papers were rich, the discussions fruitful, and the day Lichtenstein said. As Martin Bergmann later clarified in his thought-provoking and peppered with jokes which helped presentation, On the Relationship Between Sibling Rivalry and keep the comic close to the tragic! the Vicissitudes of the Oedipus Complex, “Briefly stated, jealousy is ubiquitous because in Freud’s thinking the Oedipus complex Bergmann, who turned 100 this year, showed that jealousy “is was at the core of infantile sexuality, and jealousy is the central the strongest characteristic of the God of the Old Testament. emotion of the Oedipus complex.” This god is jealous of those who worship other gods and strik- ingly careless of evoking the jealousy of human beings (Cain According to Lichtenstein, “rival” originally meant “companion” and Abel, Jacob and Esau, and Joseph and his brothers easily in a usage that is now considered obsolete. come to mind). The Greek gods are intensely jealous of each other, too. One would naively imagine that being a god should “Iago’s motto in Shakespeare’s “Othello” is “I am not what I liberate one from this painful emotion but this is not the case.” am.” This statement means even more than he intended. When He then added, “When God becomes jealous he not only I envy, I am not what I am. I am ensnared by the image of my punishes you, but your children and their children’s children rival. My desire is highjacked by what I imagine to be my rival’s and five generations end up suffering,” at which the audience satisfaction.” laughed and Bergmann responded, “You think that’s funny?”

“In Othello,” Bergmann recapped, “Shakespeare created Iago, When we broke for lunch, Pearl Appel said, “It was such a great who is envious of Othello and who succeeds in evoking such conference, where was everyone?” jealousy in him that he kills Desdemona. Iago not only evokes Othello’s jealousy, he does so by warning him that jealousy Rob Marchesani, MSSc, LP, is a psychoanalyst in private is a green-eyed monster. It was one of the successes of psy- practice, a laughter yoga leader, and a therapist and supervisor choanalysis to translate Iago’s jealousy into Iago’s unconscious for teens, teachers, and counselors in New York City’s public homosexual attraction towards Othello.” schools.

Three panels followed the keynote presentation: Jealousy and The conference was sponsored by 40 analytic organizations and C3PO Envy from Different Perspectives, chaired by Joseph Reppen - Committee of Psychoanalytic and Psychotherapeutic Publications & with Kenneth Winarick, Steven Ellman, and Francis Baudry; Organizations. All proceeds after expenses go to the sponsoring journals. On the World Stage, chaired by Lois Oppenheim with Jeffrey Recordings of the Symposium’s first panel of the day are available at the Stern, Edmund Leites, and Martin Bergmann; and The Clinical following link, and further recordings will be made available online in Dimensions of Envy and Jealousy, chaired by Jennifer Harper forthcoming weeks: http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/2013/04/29/ with Carolyn Ellman, Anita Weinreb Katz, and Robert Shapiro. first-panel-from-symposium-2013/ This URL includes links to recordings of talks by Ken Winnarick, Steven Ellman, and Francis Baudry.

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PSYCHOANALYTIC AND PHILOSOPHICAL PERSPECTIVES ON GOOD AND EVIL by Marc Angers

On Sunday, May 19, Richard J. Bernstein, PhD, Anna Aragno, Germany were so beyond the pale that no punishment could PhD; and Henry (Zvi) Lothane, MD, presented papers at suffice. Bernstein explained how Jaspers, in reply to Arendt, Washington Square Institute’s 37th Annual Scientific Confer- distinguished the idea of this sense of hers as “Radical Evil” in ence, Psychoanalytic and Philosophical Perspectives on Good contrast to what he recommended as the idea of “the banality and Evil. Susan Klett and Dr. Gerd H. Fenchel, Co-Directors of of evil.” Jaspers had cautioned Arendt against the impulse to WSI, gave the introductory remarks, followed by Dr. Fenchel’s mythologize evil, to elevate the ‘evil’ actions of individuals by reading of a paper to open up the proceedings. Fenchel gave giving such individuals a mythologized status of demons or a general outline of how the notions of ‘Good vs. Evil’ have devils (‘Radical Evil’). Rather, he suggested, it was more likely developed over time in various religious, philosophical, and lit- that ordinary people get caught up in systems (especially politi- erary contexts, and how this important moral duality has been cal systems of a totalitarian nature) that allow the perpetration understood in psychoanalytic terms as discussed by Sigmund of bad acts in the way, for example, a perfectly unremarkable Freud in his reactions to, among other things, the horrors of Nazi bureaucrat might send dozens of people off to their death World War I. This lead to a discussion of the implications of the by giving the routine order to switch a train carrying innocent capacity for evil in both biological and psychological terms, and Jews onto the tracks to Auschwitz. Such actions, as Arendt later whether our tendencies for ‘Good’ and ‘Evil’ should be seen as asserted while applying the concept to Eichmann during his an aspect for the tendency of binary oppositions to be constitu- trial, represented “the banality of evil.” Dr. Bernstein stressed, tive of the very structure of the ‘order of things’ in general as however, that demythologizing evil in this way does not dilute a sort of organizing cosmic principle. These tendencies appear responsibility for one’s actions. Thus, Arendt had concluded, in humankind in terms of the form that moral and spiritual even in light of “the banality of evil,” that Eichmann nonetheless agency takes in relation to hu- deserved the death penalty. man free will and self-conscious The whole point of Bern- self-awareness. Fenchel stressed stein’s exposition was to how the need for transcen- caution against a simplistic, dence helps to mitigate the fear fixed notion of ‘evil’ or an of Death that he suggested is easy sense of there being a often at the root of the conflict black and white understand- between good and evil raging ing of what constitutes ‘evil.’ within each of us. He ended his talk by saying, with respect to Auschwitz, Following Dr. Fenchel, Dr. “we must never forget; but Richard Bernstein began by neither will we ever know reviewing some of the ways in (understand).” which evil has been understood throughout history in philosophi- Left to right: Henry (Zvi) Lothane, Dr. Gerd Fenchel, Dr. Anna Aragno, Dr. Richard The afternoon session be- Bernstein, and Susan Klett, LCSW-R, BCD, NCPsyA. cal, religious, and literary tradi- Photo: Amanda Spector gan with Dr. Anna Aragno tions. In his paper, “How Not to presenting a clinical look Think About Evil,” Bernstein stressed the need to do away with at the underlying psychic conditions associated with those a deeply entrenched, quasi-Manichean, simplistic, and binary involved in the perpetration of the sort of depraved acts we understanding of good and evil in black and white terms. He associate with the idea of ‘evil.’ Dr. Aragno began by pointing pointed out how Freud understood the tendency for such a out that the concept of ‘Good vs. Evil’ is primarily a theologi- simplistic reduction as a defense against anxiety associated with cal construct and not a psychological one. Yet she went on the psychic state of uncertainty when one is forced to allow for to say how the secularization of the concept of ‘evil,’ in the more complexity and ambiguity in one’s internalization of real- context of Freud and psychoanalysis (especially by Fromm), ity (i.e., the existence of gray areas). Against strict determinism, had transformed the idea of the darker aspects of evildoers Bernstein noted how William James pointed out that nobody into an understanding in terms of the positing of an underly- is, as it were, good or evil, but that their actions may be; and ing dynamic psychology for such ‘madness.’ By presenting a because we have free will, we are responsible for our actions. strictly psychoanalytic frame of reference for the concept of evil, Dr. Aragno, somewhat in the spirit of Dr. Bernstein’s remarks, Continuing in this vein, Bernstein mentioned Hannah Arendt’s sought to give a less mythologizing account for how it is that concept of “the banality of evil,” borrowed from Karl Jaspers, human beings are capable of doing inhuman things. which she later famously applied in the context of the Adolf Eichmann trial after the end of World War II. In a letter to Jas- In this regard, she spoke of the importance of seeing such pers, Arendt had expressed her feeling that the crimes of Nazi behaviors through the lens of the psychodynamics of character

PAGE 8 SUMMER 2013 structure and personality disorders that enable a displacement of the ‘other’ in the creation of an enemy and the breakdown of empathy. In such circumstances, as she pointed out with a clinical example, primitive emotions and defenses, super- ego pathology and latent schizoid, narcissistic, and projective mechanisms provide fuel and rationalization for malignant aggressive, duplicitous, and violent behaviors.

The last presenter was Henry (Zvi) Lothane, MD, whose paper was titled: “What Does Evil Do?” He began by com- menting how antithetical his views were to Arendt’s concept of “the banality of evil,” and suggested that she might have been partly motivated (in adopting the idea from Jaspers, and in reference to the Eichmann trial) to fend off in her own unconscious, guilty feelings of some complicity with National Socialism herself. Arendt had been a devoted pupil of Martin Heidegger, who had accepted for a short time the position of Rector at Freiburg University under the Nazis.

Dr. Lothane went on to say how philosophers have seen ‘good’ as ‘the absence of evil,’ implying somehow that evil was an easier concept to define. Yet, as Dr. Lothane pointed out, philosophy has yet to provide such a unified conception. He indicated that, for the layperson, evil, among other things, conveys the overwhelming meaning of pain and suffering as a result of illness of body and soul, deprivation, poverty, and violence. He pointed out how theologians are still unable to reconcile the existence of evil with the idea of a just God, a perfect being of goodness and universal love. He went on to mention how Freud in 1915 had faced the evils of the Great War by recommending the eradication of such evil human tendencies by education and the promotion of a more civi- lized environment. Then later, in Civilization and Its Discon- tents, Freud lamented (rather pessimistically) the chances of civilization being able to eradicate murderous tendencies by LEGISLATIVE CORNER the irony that civilization itself creates dynamics of repression by Jennifer R. Harper and regression that can result in the de-fusion of ego struc- Chair, Psychoanalytic Recognition ture with the concomitant unbinding (and release) of aggres- sion. Such unbound aggression, it is suggested, is at the heart Committee of psychopathologies associated with violent acts; the evils (as it were) of (among other things) killing, rape and sexual en- The following legislation was passed in both Houses, on June slavement, radical and religious persecution, and, last but not 21, 2013, providing for mandated continuing education for least, the massacres of innocents by armies and individuals. the professions of Social Work, Psychoanalysis, Mental Health Counselors, Marriage and Family Therapy, and Creative Arts The day ended with a lively panel discussion spurred by audi- Therapy: ence questions and comments. A6703A Pretlow – Marc Angers, LCSW, LP, NCPsyA, is a supervising and train- Relates to mandatory continuing education for social workers Same as S 4637-A LAVALLE ing analyst on the faculty at Washington Square Institute and Last Act: 06/21/13 Passed Both Houses editor of Issues in Psychoanalytic Psychology, the journal of record at WSI. He holds a Master’s in Philosophy and Politics A7225 DenDekker – from Oxford University where he was an American Keasbey Provides for mandatory continuing education for mental Fellow, and a Master’s in Social Work from Hunter College health counselors, marriage and family therapists, psychoana- School of Social Work. He is a member of NASW and NAAP, lysts and creative arts therapists and has a private practice in NYC. Same as S 5086 LAVALLE Last Act: 06/21/13 Passed Both Houses

SUMMER 2013 PAGE 9 MARTIN BERGMANN AT 100: STILL PRACTICING, PUBLISHING, AND PRESENTING THE GOOD HOUR by Robert Marchesani War II, Bergmann and his wife made it a habit to be present at the bimonthly meetings of the New York Psychoanalytic Society. “What a star-studded event was taking place in this hall. At the center was the creative triumvirate of Hartmann, Kris, and Lowenstein with their attempt to give psychoanalysis a new direction. I particularly appreciated Ernst Kris’ paper, “On Some Vicissitudes of Insight in the Course of Psychoanalysis,”* popularly known as “The Good Hour Paper,” and how impressed he was that it’s not within the power of the analyst to create the good hour.”

Bergmann elaborated: “But the analyst can do an awful lot to destroy the potential of a good hour. So I tried to come up with a technique in which the therapist interferes as little as possible in the formation of the good hour because in the good hour the unconscious comes out by itself. There is very little to do. It’s as if a dam has been broken and the patient speaks, and I began to think that it’s really very important to make sure Martin Bergmann and Robert Marchesani that we don’t ruin it. I collected a number of ways in which therapists ruin the possibility of a good hour and I directed On Wednesday, May 15, the New York Psychoanalytic Society my supervisory work [towards] preserving the potential of the and Institute (NYPSI) held a celebration for Martin Bergmann’s good hour.” Sounds like an articulation of “best practices” in 100th birthday. In light of this momentous occasion, and psychoanalysis! instead of presenting a topic, Bergmann was asked what he had learned in the last 80 years. Bergmann’s ability to speak concisely, creatively, and sometimes even comically was inspiring itself. Of his first book, “It’s really unbelievable to see a hall filled with people whom I The Evolution of Psychoanalytic Technique, Bergmann said, “It know,” Bergmann began. “It’s incredible; and I thank you very was the success of that book that encouraged me to keep on much for coming to celebrate my birthday.” writing.” Bergmann differentiated between constructions and interpretations. For example, “A loss of voice is a displacement Bergmann then related how one of his students had written of the castration anxiety but to say that to the patient is to to President Obama telling him of Bergmann’s achievements make a construction. Constructions are far less effective than and asking him to congratulate Bergmann on reaching the age interpretations. I have a young patient who, when I make of 100. On his birthday, Bergmann was so happy to receive a an interpretation, says, “That’s cool.” And when I make a letter from the White House signed not only by the President reconstruction he says, “That figures.” but also by the First Lady; only he also noticed that the letter was not addressed to him at all but to any American citizen “We always need to find an individual way to speak to our who reaches 100. “I must confess I had many thoughts about patient,” Bergmann said. “If we speak in the general way we my 100th birthday but pride in being an American was not learn at school it is bound to fall flat. I would like to convey high on the list,” Bergmann noted, thus setting the tone for to you that if you have a choice between reconstruction and what he felt about turning 100. interpretation, try to wait. The interpretation you will always recognize because when you make it something goes through “To celebrate a 100th birthday is not altogether a happy you, you go through an experience. When you make a occasion, I have to tell you, because what does it mean when construction it doesn’t cost you very much; you just tell them all of your contemporaries are gone.... Of course, I have friends, what you have learned in school.” So, minimize construction but there is something about contemporaries which is not and maximize interpretation, was his advice. easily replaceable. Also, I have to emphasize that when you get to be a hundred, you don’t have a bright future.” His sense of Bergmann asked, “What accounts for the fact that irony and humor were as fresh and inspiring as his thoughts psychoanalysis was a much more celebrated discipline about life and psychoanalysis. a decade ago than it is now? It’s a sad way to end but I would like at least to give you my opinion about it. First, in a Celebrating his 100th birthday at this NYPSI location had a superficial way, nothing lasts forever. On the other hand, we special meaning for Bergmann. “It was here that I first went into have the comfort of knowing that nothing is lost forever so the psychoanalytic kindergarten.” Shortly after the end of World something will remain even though what it was will undergo change.” PAG E 10 SUMMER 2013 Bergmann wondered if the change in status of psychoanalysis might be that in Freud’s time society was much more individualistic and psychoanalysis more welcome compared to today’s society that has many more social elements in it.

“Then there is the sad possibility that we did not succeed in creating enough good analysts. When one has been an analyst for a long time, as I have been, what strikes one is how many bad analyses take place. The fact that we have not yet succeeded in training good analysts with a reasonable certainty is something that we have to work on and improve upon,” he said.

When asked if his theoretical outlook on psychoanalysis had changed over such a long period time, Bergmann responded, “When I started out, I believed, like so many people, that Martin Bergmann celebrates 100 years psychoanalysis was a technique of therapy; but more than Photo: Jennifer Harper that, I was convinced that in some way it would change the presenting at conferences, and publishing books merits, at the world. That is no longer my belief. Psychoanalysis, for me, was very least, our admiration and attention. Bergmann’s name a combination of technique and a messianic movement. The means “mountain man” or “miner,” both of which are good messianic has disappeared and the other one remains.” metaphors for his dedication to psychoanalysis and to life. He has lived long, and prospered. When asked how he differs in his clinical work now compared to his work of several decades ago, Bergmann replied, “I hope Robert Marchesani, MSSc, LP, is a psychoanalyst in private I’m better.” practice, a laughter yoga leader, and a therapist and supervisor for teens, teachers, and counselors in New York City’s public Martin Bergmann’s latest publication, The Unconscious in schools. Shakespeare’s Plays, was recently listed on Amazon. To live to 100 is an accomplishment in itself. To still be practicing, *The Selected Papers of Ernst Kris. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1975, pp.252-271.

Go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/2011/03/08/february-17- 2011-happy-belated-birthday-to-martin-bergmann/ for a tribute to Martin Bergmann’s 100th birthday with a recording on The Aging Analyst, the Aging Analysand, and the Aging Profession, as well as interviews of and essays by Bergmann.

MEMBER NEWS On June 28, Susan Kavaler-Adler, PhD, founder and executive director of the Object Relations Institute, received an Author Recognition Award from the National Institute for the Psychotherapies and co-director Dr. James Fosshage. This is in recognition of Dr. Kavaler-Adler’s latest book, The Anatomy of Regret: From Death Instinct to Reparation and Symbolization in Vivid Case Studies, published in January 2013 by Karnac, London. Her fifth book,The Klein-Winicott Dialectic: A New Transformative Metapsychology and Interactive Clinical Theory, will also be published by Karnac in December 2013.

Ruth Lijtmaer, PhD, presented the following papers ear- lier this year: “Where is Home? Issues of immigration and identity” at the New Jersey Psychoanalytic Society, January 1, 2013, Hackensack, NJ; “Social Class, Social Reality and Power: Emphasis on the Latino poor” at the Winter Roundtable, Co- lumbia University, February 15-16, 2013; and “The Therapist’s Self-disclosure in Cross-cultural Treatment” at the International Conference on Psychology and Psychological Sciences, March 28-29, 2013, in Madrid, Spain.

SUMMER 2013 PAG E 11 “AUGUSTINE”: A REVIEW by Mark Stafford Alice Winocour’s new movie draws its subject from the life of The subject of hysteria is, unsurprisingly, going to provoke Augustine Gleizes, a young female servant born in 1861 whose some moments of Grand Guignol and melodrama but Ms. seizures and hysterical symptoms were probably set off by the Winocour’s movie is graced by three fine performances by the physical and sexual abuse that she had suffered in earlier years. French singer Soko, who plays Augustine; Vincent Lindon, who Confined in the Salpêtrière hospital in Paris, she was treated by plays Charcot; and the aforementioned Ms. Mastroianni, who the great French neurologist Jean-Martin Charcot, who be- all clearly share their director’s passion for the period and the comes in the movie a figure of both heroism and tragedy. story.

Both patient and doctor were remarkable individuals. Charcot With “Augustine,” Winocour, who has garnered praise for her had risen from a humble background to become world famous short films and script collaborations, has made a remarkable for his treatment of the mentally ill, and was particularly coura- debut on the international movie scene. She announced that geous in his fight against the Catholic Church’s stigmatizing of her guiding statement while making the movie was Jacques hysterics as women who had sinned sexually. Charcot mar- Lacan’s comment that “the hysteric is a slave who is seeking a ried the heiress of a great fortune–played superbly by Chiara master to overthrow.” Winocour provides a richly detailed, his- Mastroianni, daughter of Catherine Deneuve and Marcello torical context for the unfolding of a remarkable story of desire, Mastroianni–and she enabled him to entertain the literati of seduction, and recovery, and I sense that a wider audience will Paris in sumptuous fashion. They in their turn elevated him to find her depiction of hysteria far more interesting than the one the status of a great doctor and the representative of progres- provided by David Cronenberg in “A Dangerous Method.” sive reason. Unlike Freud and Jung, the figure, and certainly the signifi- Augustine eventually escaped the hospital in which she lived cance, of Dr. Charcot will be unknown to most American view- for ten years disguised as a man. She was never found and ers and I doubt they will have the expectations, suspicions, and no further trace of her remains. The movie beautifully evokes perhaps prejudices that a movie focusing on Freud and Jung the passionate dynamic between these three people and the inevitably arouses. Instead, viewers will be intrigued by the uncanny quality of Augustine’s disappearance. fundamental mystery of hysteria and its capacity to overthrow the contemporary medical and scientific accounts of the relation The idea of a movie about the relationship between Charcot between the body, memory, and psyche. and Augustine and the turbulence this created in his marriage is particularly apt because so much of what Charcot was doing What is extraordinary about Winocour’s movie is that she has with his hysterical patients was informed by theater and the been able to represent both the reality of the symptoms of nascent art of photography. A great deal of what we know hysteria–the seizures, the imitation of sexual acts, the erotic about Augustine comes from the case notebooks kept by one attraction to and conflict with doctors and medical staff–and the of her doctors, Désiré-Magloire Bourneville. Bourneville was degree to which the illness was also “performative.” the main photographer of the hospital’s patients, but while he assisted Charcot in creating a remarkable iconography of Most analysts know that Freud studied under and revered hysterical seizures he also paid attention to what Augustine said Charcot (his first son was named after him) but Freud’s reserva- during these attacks. Much of what he recorded indicates that tion about Charcot was that he was “un grand visuel” –a doctor Augustine had suffered considerable abuse at the hands of her whose diagnosis was based on what he saw rather than what brother and her brother’s friends during her adolescence and he heard. before her admission to the hospital. What Bourneville’s case notes also reveal is that at some time Augustine had fallen in Winocour does a splendid job of showing Charcot’s obsession love with a man in the hospital, probably a doctor, who had with identifying the sequence of symptoms and his passion for resisted her attraction to him. At one point, Augustine tried to organizing them in terms of a visual tableau or scene. He was, leave the hospital, possibly to begin a life with this unnamed in one sense, like a theater or film director, and no doubt his man. She was quickly apprehended and returned to the ward, “stars” knew that they would be loved by him if their illness in- although she soon became well enough to help look after creased his prestige. Charcot, at least subliminally, encouraged other patients, a practice that was quite common among those the women under his care to “perform” these crises in front of women whose hysterical attacks diminished over time. medical students and other doctors to support and confirm his own theory of the illness, but maybe the fame they accrued While the history of the Salpêtrière is unlikely to be familiar was an important part of their cure. to most viewers, Augustine is well known in the literature on hysteria as the “star” hysteric among the extraordinary group Later historians of psychiatry have, understandably, questioned of women whom Charcot treated in the hospital during the the ethics of these performances because they are undeniably 1880s. linked to the horrific history of the display and mockery of the

PAG E 12 SUMMER 2013 mentally ill. But despite the enigma of Augustine’s later life she a diagnostic category, Art has embraced it fully; and as this was never completely forgotten. In 1928 Louis Aragon and film reveals, sometimes the hysteric does manage to over- André Breton published six photographs of her in the journal throw the master. “La Revolution Surrealistic.” The feminist artist Mary Kelly also used photographs of Augustine in her work. Anna Furse’s play Mark Stafford is a practicing analyst and a member of “Augustine (Big Hysteria)” imagines an encounter between Après-Coup Psychoanalytic Association and the Westchester Freud and Augustine when he was studying under Charcot. Institute for Training in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy. And in 2003 the philosopher Jean-Claude Monod made a He teaches the history of media arts at the School of Visual short film called “Augustine” that attempted to re-construct in Arts and at Parsons The New School for Design in Manhat- careful detail this extraordinary woman’s life story. While psy- tan. Stafford recently contributed to the additional materials chiatry has largely dismissed or perhaps repressed hysteria as for the DVD release of “We Need to Talk About Kevin,” directed by Lynne Ramsay and starring Tilda Swinton.

AUGUSTINE, OR THE UNDOING OF DR. JEAN-MARTIN CHARCOT by Claire Beth Steinberger

“Augustine,” the French film to examine “the physiological,” searching for the source of the directed by Alice Winocour could florid symptomology. At one point, he aims to cure his patient’s possibly be subtitled, “The Undo- left-sided paralysis with an evocative tool that sadistically tight- ing of Dr. Jean-Martin Charcot.” ens around her waist. The observing physicians are perturbed. The film depicts the renowned In this sense, Augustine becomes a chicken about to have its French neurologist as he applies head chopped off, a reference to an early scene that shows hypnotism, aiming to cure Augus- Augustine’s own troubling household task—the trigger to her tine (the beautiful actress Soko), epileptic fit. his “splendid” adolescent patient, in Paris, 1895, at the Salpêtrière Charcot’s relationship to Augustine is scientific and sexual as Hospital. Augustine’s left-sided well as terrifying. One never knows what he will devise in an paralysis and sexual (nervous) fits attempt to cure his patient. Ultimately, Augustine frees herself. Claire Beth Steinberger follow an “epileptic” attack while Falling in love with Charcot, she recognizes her plight and runs she is employed as a kitchen maid away from the horrors of the Medical Academy. In the final in the Charcot household. The scene, she enters the Academy with an observing stance, and a story enfolds in the context of late nineteenth-century psychiat- kind of unbridled power. No longer wishing to be hypnotized ric science, particularly the study of hypnotism and the focus on by Charcot, she saves him from the humiliation of his peers by “hysterical” women manifesting uncontrollable nervous systems feigning a hysterical attack. Charcot recognizes her motives and (“grande hysterie”). The seriously engrossed Charcot (Vincent submits to his own erotic longings. When Augustine runs off Lindon) tells his colleagues that they are “no longer in the dark at the end of the film she has the upper hand. ages where women like Augustine were burnt at the stake.” In spite of Charcot’s failings, he can be appreciated as a man Ultimately, and ironically, “Augustine” depicts a psychiatric “sci- dedicated to the idea of a science of human functioning and ence” that although well-intentioned, finds itself at the cross- treatment. Early in the film, for example, we see him appalled roads of psychiatric circus and sado-erotic experimentation. by his household guests, the physicians speaking about Au- The unfortunate Augustine is the victim, and as the unwitting gustine in lewd and demeaning terms. He is quick to show his “scientific” object, she is trapped by Charcot’s intensity and her disgust: “This is not a circus.” He is, however, unaware of his own wish for mental relief. The film deals in graphic and literal own unconscious—the acting-out of “transference love” and the terms, teetering on the edge of sado-sexual exploitation. The Doctor’s own erotic (and lewd) proclivities. In this way, Augus- suspicious Madame Charcot serves as a witness to the enfold- tine depicts the rudimentary beginnings of psychoanalysis; be- ing drama. fore Freud’s genius takes hold, before he warns his colleagues of the erotic temptations that must be expected—and avoided This near-parody of pre-Freudian psychiatric history shows a (Freud, 1915, “On Transference Love”). phallic psychiatry at the cusp of the body-mind dilemma. Char- cot applies hypnosis to gain access into his patient’s “brain” and Claire Beth Steinberger, EdD, JD, is a licensed school psycholo- the source of her (hysterical) symptoms. He is not yet consider- gist, psychoanalyst, and marriage and family therapist who ing ideas concerning unconscious motivation or intraspsychic specializes in individual, couple, and family dynamics. She is conflict, a structural perspective found in a much advanced on the teaching and supervisory faculties of NPAP, ORI, Family twentieth-century classical (Freudian) model. Charcot continues Forensics Institute, and Training Institute for Mental Health.

SUMMER 2013 PAG E 13 NOT GUILTY BY REASON OF BRAIN DAMAGE? NEUROBIOLOGICAL UNDERPINNINGS OF VIOLENCE by Inna Rozentsvit The Roots of Violence: Wealth in comparison with the rest of the population. Penetrating (like without work, Pleasure without con- in the famous 1848 case of Phineas Gage) and non-penetrating science, Knowledge without char- traumatic brain injury (TBI) and dementia (especially fronto- acter, Commerce without morality, temporal dementia, FTD) are associated with an increased risk Science without humanity, Worship of violence. without sacrifice, Politics without principles. Mahatma Gandhi Another interesting finding is about the right brain pathology, which is associated with loss of moral behavior and affiliative Was Noam Chomsky correct when traits such as warmth and empathy, especially in FTD and he said, “See, people with power sociopathic behavior. understand exactly one thing: vio- Inna Rozentsvit lence.”? Is it about power? Actually, Today, we can distinguish two types of violence: a) affective, violence and aggression are two impulsive and purposeless, typical of acquired sociopathy (as phenomena that became a part of our daily social and pro- with Phineas Gage) and related to orbitofrontal injury seen on fessional life. That is why understanding the neurobiological structural imaging (Brower and Price, 2001); and b) predatory, origins and the mind-brain interactions related to them is so premeditated and instrumental--typical of antisocial personal- important. ity disorder and associated with orbitofrontal and amygdala dysfunction (Glenn and Raine, 2008). The consensus at one multi-disciplinary conference, which included experts in neurology, psychiatry, neuropsychology, Raine et al. (1998) studied 9 affective murderers, 15 preda- trauma surgery, and other fields (Aspen Neurobehavioral tory murderers, and 41 normal controls with PET scans. Both Conference, 2001), stated that: 1) Aggression can be adaptive, types of murderers had increased activity in the right amyg- but violence is an aggressive act characterized by the unwar- dala, hippocampus, thalamus, and midbrain, but only affective ranted infliction of physical injury; 2) Violence can result from murderers had decreased prefrontal cortical activity. The study brain dysfunction, although social and evolutionary factors can showed that right limbic activation produced negative affect: contribute; 3) Neurobiological findings in violent brains are: Affective murderers have little control and act impulsively; frontal lobe circuit dysfunction, altered serotonin metabolism, predatory murderers exert control and commit premeditated and heredity. murder. Later studies also supported dysfunction of the right hemisphere. Our brain, the material construct of our mind, works as a powerful, electro-chemical, network-based organ, amenable to Regarding the role of neurotransmitters--we know now that changes both positive and negative because of its main three serotonin inhibits violence, and catecholamines (like dopamine mechanisms--neuroplasticity (a life-long process triggered by and norepinephrine) may enhance it (New et al., 2004). Dopa- constant changes in our external and internal environment), mine and other dopamine-agonists (used to treat Parkinson’s biofeedback (which works on a 24/7 schedule), and neuroin- disease) can trigger pathological gambling, aggression, and tegration (heavily based on the “wire together, fire together” hyper-sexuality (Driver-Dunckley et al., 2003). Testosterone concept). may influence aggressiveness, but is rather associated with dominance (Glenn and Raine, 2008). The frontal lobes (especially the orbitofrontal cortices) nor- mally act to regulate our limbic impulses (mainly from the Some violent people have impaired impulse control because amygdalae, which are involved in processing memories and of altered brain functions (in frontal lobe-limbic system circuits), emotional reactions like fear and pain). Another brain structure, and they are unable to act by the rules they have learned. the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC), is important in recruiting Sapolsky (2004) even suggests that in cases of violent crime, other brain regions in response to conflict (Davidson, Larson, & the insanity defense should be expanded to consider the pos- Putnam, 2000). sibility of impaired volition (Filley et al., 2001).

Violence can occur as a result of a dysfunction of the fronto- Should we consider the defense “My amygdala did it”? This is ACC-limbic network related to aggression and its regulation— still open for discussion. when the “bottom-up” drives from the amygdalae cannot be tamed by the “top-down” processes from the frontal lobes and Inna Rozentsvit, PhD, MD, is a neurologist and neurorehabili- related structures. tation specialist trained in psychoanalysis and psychotherapy. She is a founder of Neurorecovery Solutions. Dr. Rozentsvit is Brower and Price (2001) found that frontal lobe lesions were a scientific faculty member and an administrator of the Object associated with a 10% increased risk for violence and criminality Relations Institute for Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis.

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REPRODUCTION IN THE NOTION OF THE THE 21ST CENTURY SUBLIME IN CREATIVITY AND by Rachel Sopher DESTRUCTION “Reproduction in the Twenty- by Ann Casement first Century: Psychoanalytic Perspectives,” this year’s annual On September 12-14, 2014, a joint conference from the National conference dedicated to the work Institute for the Psychotherapies of Jung and Lacan will be held at Training Institute (NIP), represented St John’s College, Cambridge, one the culmination of NIP’s yearlong of the oldest and most beautiful initiative dedicated to exploring colleges in England. psychoanalytic views on adoption, infertility, and contemporary family- The conference theme is The No- making. As conference co-directors tion of the Sublime in Creativity and Destruction, fitting for an event to Steven Kuchuck, LCSW, and Hillary be held at St John’s, which was at- Grill, LCSW, described in their Rachel Sopher tended by William Wordsworth in introductory remarks, NIP remains 1787. One hundred years after the committed to expanding our Ann Casement outbreak of the Great War, which understanding of how modern families are constructed, and to radically changed many of the exploring the psychological ramifications of infertility, adoption, Western world’s rational values and belief systems, four scholars and reproductive technologies. and psychoanalysts from the Jungian and Lacanian disciplines are coming together to explore, through a depth psychological Diane Ehrensaft, PhD, opened the conference by orienting lens, the forces of creativity and destruction enshrined in the the audience to the various and complicated ways in which notion of the sublime. These four are Lionel Bailly (Lacanian people are coming together to have children. In addition to psychoanalyst/Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist/Honorary Se- birth mothers and fathers, there can be a complex matrix nior Lecturer at University College London), Bernard Burgoyne of potential participants in the creation of a child, including (Lacanian psychoanalyst/Emeritus Professor of Psychoanalysis sperm and egg donors, and gestational carriers. Coining the at Middlesex University), Ann Casement (Jungian psychoana- term “birth other” to encompass all of the people involved lyst/New York State Licensed Psychoanalyst), and Phil Goss in the process other than the intended parents, Dr. Ehrensaft (Jungian psychoanalyst/Lecturer at the University of Central examined the interpersonal and intrapsychic impacts these Lancashire). contributors have in the minds of a family. She asserted that psychoanalysis as a whole has been slow to incorporate the The aim of this event is to open up a dialogue between theoretical implications of these phenomena due to its reliance practitioners from these two vital psychoanalytic disciplines in on the traditional oedipal triangle as the bedrock of child the scholarly and inspiring setting of St John’s. The conference development. Instead, Dr. Ehrensaft argued for the widening theme attracted much interest for its originality, and for its rele- of the triangle into an oedipal circle, in which all of the people vance to contemporary areas of academic and clinical research. The conference also aims to build on an initial exploration of who contribute to creating a child play some role in his or the notion of the sublime arising from a conference hosted by her fantasy life. The challenge for the parents of such a child the Wordsworth Trust in the English Lake District in 2011, which is to maintain this circle through crafting a developmentally was put together by Phil Goss. In addition, Ann Casement had appropriate narrative that acknowledges the unique discussions in 2012 with Nancy Cater, owner, publisher, and contributions of each participant. editor of the US journal Spring, about the possibility of putting together a joint Jung/Lacan publication on the notion of the Shifting gears to male perspectives on infertility, Philip sublime. Ringstrom, PhD, PsyD, spoke about the way men often feel left out of the process when a couple faces the prospect of The quincentenary of St John’s in 2011 was marked by a visit infertility. In a moving examination of his own experiences as from the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh. The impressive he and his wife struggled through repeated disappointments Dining Hall dates from 1528, and the Bridge of Sighs, con- in their attempts to have a child, he gave voice to feelings necting two Courts of the College, is one of the most photo- that, at the time, felt too difficult to acknowledge to himself graphed buildings in Cambridge. The organizers of the Jung/ and impossible to communicate to his wife. He described the Lacan Conference have taken the Divinity School attached to St experiences of humiliation, betrayal, envy, and rage which John’s for the plenaries, break-out sessions, bookstalls, and tea/ men often dissociate from due to the psychically overwhelming coffee breaks. The refurbishment of this ravishing old building nature of the fertility treatment process, and to the imperative was completed in 2012 to the highest standard. The conference they often feel to be a source of strength and support to their will enjoy the complete run of St John’s for accommodation for spouses. Dr. Ringstrom argued that many men need help the duration of the event. continued on page 21 continued on page 21

PAG E 16 SUMMER 2013 MAKING LEMONADE: RESILIENCE IN THE AFTERMATH OF TRAUMA by Patricia Harte Bratt, PhD

What a success! 2013 speaker at the conference opening night dinner. Mr. Donohue marks the second ACAP is the founder of the Sarah Jane Brain Foundation (SJBF). SJBF summer conference is an advocacy organization in the field of Pediatric Acquired sponsored by our Brain Injury. The foundation was founded in New York City in Trauma and Resilience 2007 by Mr. Donohue, whose daughter Sarah was violently Studies (TRS) program shaken by her baby nurse when she was just five days old, and hosted at Caldwell breaking four ribs and both collarbones and causing a severe College, New Jersey. brain injury. The Foundation’s mission is to advance knowledge After 16 summer of the brain and to change the world for Sarah Jane and the conferences at the millions worldwide who suffer from the number one leading Jersey Shore from cause of death and disability for youth--brain injury. One of 1992 to 2007, we had its primary goals is to fully fund and implement the National reservations about the Pediatric Acquired Brain Injury Plan (PABI) Plan which creates change in venue and a seamless, standardized, evidence-based system of care that style of the event. From is universally accessible for all children and young adults with a the laid-back beach pediatric-acquired brain injury, regardless of where they live in experience to a more the United States. Mr. Donohue held the audience spellbound super-charged main by recounting the trail he has blazed, the enormous struggles event, we wondered in coping with the effects of the trauma, and his journey Mary Massaro and Annette Vaccaro who would sign up for a with many other families, researchers, and mental health three-day conference in professionals. summer in the ‘burbs. The turnout was great, with at least one- third of the audience first-timers at an ACAP event. Tom Duggan of Gourmet What brought them? What held them? What’s next? Dining provided ACAP started developing its TRS program three years ago a wonderful in response to a growing awareness that our clinical work dinner and an and institute training has always had a focus on remediating opportunity for traumatic reactions; our goal is to help people become more people to relax resilient in getting along in life despite setbacks. The past after an intense decade, which seemed to throw one traumatic event after day. another at us all, reinforced a review of the impact of trauma, its meaning and its role in psychoanalytic thinking. We On Monday connected with other professional groups in the trauma studies morning the world and started to work, identifying the various types of Conference Freebies program trauma responses and current techniques for mitigating them, included keynote as well as our own. presentations on psychoanalytic topics related to our theme, and an open panel- discussion session with members of the As we built the TRS curriculum we recognized the need mental health or advocacy community who are spearheading to separate the idea of a traumatic event from a traumatic programs helping victims, and those who work with them, response, and the importance of addressing the concept of repair and develop new resilience skills. resilience rather than simply studying the negative effects of adverse, overwhelming experiences. Our TRS conference In this “Transformation Relationships” segment, Patricia Bratt, evolved from this and ACAP’s commitment to Applied PhD, discussed “Creating an Emotional Safety Zone: Nurturing Psychoanalysis: a wish to share what we were learning and Resilient Children Through Play, Fantasy, and Exploration,” developing within the institute. while Annette Vaccaro, LCSW, ATR-BC, talked about “Bridging Art and Psychoanalysis: Using Creativity to Pave the Road The three-day event was broken into blocks of multiple, for Talking.” The panel discussion, led by Bratt and Vaccaro, small-group workshops, keynote events, dinners, and social included Mary Robinson, MA, Founder and Executive Director networking. We started with a day of 15 workshop options, of Imagine: A Center for Grief Support; Michael Hessdorf, with topics such as: “Mindfulness-Awareness Practices to LCSW, analytically trained at the Group Center and ACAP, and Promote Resilience and Self-confidence”; “Working With Grief pioneering group therapy interventions with NYC’s inner-city and Loss: Countertransference Dilemmas”; “The Bully and the school youth; and Karen Rosen, MA, ATR, an educator and art Avenger: Assessment, Prevention, Resilience”, and “Driven to therapist who has worked in Israel with child victims of war and Repeat: The Body Remembers.” terrorism, and as a program development consultant in NJ for community-based organizations helping children bridge from After the workshops we were most fortunate to have Patrick trauma response to healthy coping. Donohue, JD, MBA, as our “Journeys to Resilience” keynote continued on page 23 SUMMER 2013 PA G E 17 DEFINING MOMENTS FOR THERAPISTS, Lynn Somerstein and Serge Prengel, eds. A Review by Margery Quackenbush In her introduction to Defining Mo- Robin Kappy started out small in a small office which got larger ments, Lynn Somerstein says that as she gained both patients and confidence in her work. She psychotherapy is about change, and took drawing lessons, which brought out the hidden artist in this book shows the many ways that her, and the book features ten of her drawings between each therapists help their patients get bet- chapter. ter. Marianne Gunther worked in hospice. She tells how she once The book consists of vignettes and worked with a Spanish patient. The patient did not speak drawings by 11 therapists, some of English and Gunther did not speak Spanish; the only word they them psychoanalysts and some who shared was “Si.” are not. Merle Molofsky begins the Margery Quackenbush book with the case of a supervisee In the afterword, Serge Prengel writes that what has changed who only understood her patient is that therapy is an intersubjective experience. As we inhabit when the therapist began to sing a song that came to mind as a space where it is possible for us to change, we contribute to she talked about the patient. making it a space where clients can change.

Mary Giuffra writes of her search for the right space for herself Margery C. Quackenbush, PhD, NCPsyA, [email protected], is after an unfortunate incident where her husband was mugged Executive Director of NAAP, and maintains a private practice in and hospitalized while they were traveling. She writes of the New York City. A graduate of the Center for Modern Psycho- new roles she has taken on as the wife of a compromised man. analytic Studies, she is the recipient of the Miriam Berkman Similarly, in another case of mugging, Linda Marks talks of how Spotnitz Award for Scholarly Excellence. In 2004 she received she decides to become a therapist after being mugged and the first Outstanding Professional Service Award from ABAP. almost raped in an alley. She went from being overpowered to She is the author of Recent Research on Memory by Dr. Eric finding power in helping others. Kandel, and Recent Brain Experiments on Memory. Dr. Quack- enbush teaches on Neuroscience and Psychoanalysis, and has Claire Steinberger is determined to get her patient out of the lectured on The Humor Cure in Reversing Depression, and the hospital and she does so. She even helps him to find a fiancée. Death of the Mother/Analyst. Claire shared the patient’s feeling of social isolation.

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Susan Rudnick uses focusing, a technique that was developed $20.00 per line – minimum of 3 lines. by Eugene Gendlin. Rudnick wanted to give her patient a Each line is 40-42 characters across, including spaces and punctua- farewell gift and focusing enabled her to study why she wanted tion. Bold heading counts as 2 lines. to give a gift. She decided to give her patient something of her Bulletin ads are $50 a month and $15 per week. This includes posting own which had come from the community where her sister on the NAAP website. lived. Publication of an advertisement does not constitute endorsement by Marjorie Rand is a somatic psychotherapist. She observes and NAAP. All advertising copy is subject to the publisher’s approval. works with infants and parents to resolve birth trauma. Send material to: [email protected] For further information call NAAP at 212-741-0515 PAG E 18 SUMMER 2013 IN MEMORIAM JANE WHITE LEWIS - APRIL 7, 2013 I came to know Jane White Lewis through Although most of Jane’s professional work was as a Jungian the International Association for the Study analyst in New York CIty and New Haven, after someone of Dreams where we both served as opined to her that Jungian therapy was an “elitist” pursuit Program Chair, President, and numerous benefiting a few wealthy individuals, she designed and taught other roles over the years. Jane was the a course for New Haven High School, teaching inner-city youth most consistent emissary from the Jungian about Freud, Jung, group dreamwork, and dream enactment. community to this eclectic assortment of Freudians, brain scientists, anthropologists, At the 1991 “Dreaming in Russia” conference, organized by New Agers, and so on. Jane’s early Jungian analyst Robbie Bosnak, a coup and the fall of the Jane White Lewis talks explained principals of Jungian Soviet empire upstaged the planned agenda. Jane proved as dreamwork, Illustrated with examples curious and knowledgeable about the larger social world as the from her clinical practice. She was especially interested in private inner one. Her undergrad major was economics and nightmares, arguing that Freud and even Jung had not she could fill in the psychological crowd on the political events sufficiently emphasized the potential power of interpreting in which we were unexpectedly immersed. terrifying imagery. Jane viewed with suspicion lucid dreaming, dream incubation, and nightmare re-scripting. I didn’t share Trained in modern dance, Jane was a dynamic presence her stance but enjoyed many lively, good-natured debates on at Dream Balls, whether elegant in Mardi Gras masks and these topics. I directed reporters to Jane when they inquired gowns or costumed as “the witch who eats babies” with who could best articulate the argument against encouraging her usually neatly coiffed long hair in wild disarray around the waking ego to intrude on the realm of the unconscious. a mangled, bloody doll. Jane and I often traveled together Altering nightmares might rob one of the chance to find out after conferences. She was an adventurous companion--lively, what they mean, she told them. curious, funny--whether exploring Amsterdam nightclubs or flying over erupting Hawaiian volcanoes. When dream researchers of a Jungian bent began to focus on “big,” “impactful,” or “numinous” dreams, Jane asked “What Jane endured the tragedy of losing 2 of her 3 sons--Rick and about their scrawny siblings--the little, trivial, boring, and Ian died as young adults. Jane is survived by her husband, forgettable dreams? Are they really so inconsequential?” and Jungian analyst Dick Lewis, MD, and their son Mark Lewis. gave a presentation titled “In defense of ‘little’ dreams,” which argued that there were no dreams which did not deal in some Deirdre Barrett, PhD, is an author and psychologist who way with deep, existential issues. teaches at Harvard Medical School. She is known for her research on dreams, hypnosis, and imagery, and has written on evolutionary psychology. WALTER ODAJNYK - MAY 23, 2013

Walking into Walter’s office, my assigned low-fee supervisor many years with the Roshi, Philip Kapleau. Walter’s clear and in my first year at the Jung Institute in New York, I found a apparent Buddhist realization of emptiness and non-dualism low-key, stolid-looking man who greeted me with a faint but pervaded our supervisory time, issuing out in that spacious distinct accent. He later told me he’d grown up in Europe in a openness in which there is no this or that; no one right way of family of German descent who had come from southern Rus- doing psychotherapy, or of living one life, or of individuation; sia, and at the invitation of Catherine the Great. He said he’d no “way it’s supposed to be.” studied in Zurich, following a career as a professor of political science at Columbia University. Although a year of supervision Walter later wrote a fairly important article and book on the followed, as well as two classes and a few meetings with him in relation of Jungian psychology and Zen, Gathering the Light. social settings, that was about all I knew of him in the world of In analytical psychology, his passion was alchemy, and he facts. brought that passion to his teaching of it, which often burst forth through his native restraint. He appeared to be a man of Of much more importance to me, and I believe to him, was powerful, contained energy, so appropriate to the Rinzai Zen one of his first questions to me in that first meeting: “So you’ve School in which he had studied. This coiled passion gave him a studied Zen Buddhism?” and he nodded toward my folder quiet air of great clarity and heart. on the arm of his chair. “A bit,” I replied. The minimalist and minimalizing answer in the manner of the Zen meditation I feel it an honor and a privilege to have known and studied school. “And you?” I asked. I’d begun to notice, via a sudden with Walter Odajnyk. felt-sense, the energy of his “sitting meditation,” as it’s called. “Some,” he said, in the same diffident manner in which I had Gary Brown, LCSW, LP, is a Jungian analyst in New York. For answered him. We laughed, and I told him I felt his practice, more information, go to healingpoweroftheimage.com. too, and later I found he’d had quite a course of Zen work for

SUMMER 2013 PAG E 19 ABAP NEWS continued could cost over $15,000. ASPA national recognition may be a options for library resources as this saves on both budget and financially realistic option that could address questions that arise physical stacks in the library. Some faculties are revisiting the via state licensing boards or state legislative leaders and com- question, “How long does it take to discern a candidate’s ana- mittees, as ASPA is greatly respected in national accreditation lytical potential and competence--three, four, six, ten years?” and recognition circles. Psychoanalysis and the training of psychoanalysts is not a ABAP’s Code of Good Practice, endorsed annually by ac- professional field that lends itself easily to digital and online credited Psychoanalytic Members, Affiliates, and Associates, learning with our bias towards the face-to-face, the interactive notes that a member “supports an accreditation process which and dialogical, the deep and complex, the bipersonal field of is as efficient and cost-effective as possible...” Our leadership transference and countertransference. We do not merely impart would like to think that such values are also incorporated at the psychoanalytic skills but engage students in deeper ques- institute/program level. Applicants for psychoanalytic training tions and concerns about what it means to be psychologically matriculate with large student debt from undergraduate and minded and experienced analytically. We prefer the consulting graduate degree programs. Due to professional and licensing room to the Cloud. realities, many candidates are in their midlife years. And yet, some programs have allowed a certain percentage of The costs and duration of psychoanalytic educational programs required hours of supervision, control, and personal analysis can be daunting, especially for modest- and low-income stu- to be done by telephone, Skype, and other alternative tech- dents who have already suffered from rising college fees and nologies, and at times even with qualified supervisors and stagnant wages in entry-level clinical positions. Institute leaders analysts from other schools of thought. All programs should have expressed their concerns to On-Site Evaluators about have document-retention policies which delineate what files, recruiting applicants for psychoanalytic training, especially in transcripts, records, dissertations, and case studies should be terms of race, gender, and economics. Digital and distance retained over various periods of time. Following events such as learning may create more opportunity for recruiting and retain- 9/11 and Hurricane Sandy, recognition bodies and accreditors ing students. now require that such documents be stored in digital options such as the Cloud. The ABAP, Inc. Code of Good Practice also ABAP leadership is also aware of maintaining substantially obligates this service agency to respect the institutional autono- equivalent standards to other accreditors in our field without my of programs as well as “to respect the rights, responsibilities, adding significant burdens to our candidates and graduates. respective missions, goals, and objectives” of such programs. A number of On-Site Evaluators have heard candidates allude to economic stressors in this latest Great Recession, when it For a decade and a half, ABAP has operated as a collegial com- is often difficult to build a practice in a field where managed munity composed of different schools of thought; large insti- care makes analytical practice challenging. What do we say tutes as well as small or younger programs; institutes with deep to potential applicants when they ask, “How long will training resources and those with limited resources. In this community take?” “How much will it ultimately cost?” and “Will I be able to of peers, we remain a mission-based accreditation agency that make a living as an analyst upon completion of training?” Any makes a clear distinction between what is required for accredi- accreditation agency would encourage efforts to reduce costs tation and what is recommended for the improvement of an of professional training without reducing the quality of such institute or program. This accreditation community is a place specialized training. for the leaders in psychoanalytic education and training to realistically assess and discuss today’s challenges and options in ABAP members are implementing changes to teaching our professional field. Encourage your training communities to methods for the public and training students. One accredited get involved in professional accreditation so they, too, can think program has gone from offering weekly courses to a monthly ahead of the curve in these challenging times as there is more training weekend, thus minimizing travel expenses while discussion of professional education in our digital age! broadening recruitment possibilities geographically. A number of institutes have used internet technology for public programs, For more information about the accreditation of psychoanalytic group supervision, distance courses taught by visiting faculty, training programs, contact: and case colloquia. Having access to our “star clinician educa- tors” can be a democratizing opportunity. The flexibility of David J. Dalrymple, PhD, NCPsyA online courses particularly benefits students who work full-time. Executive Director, Office of Accreditation Several institutes have “programs without walls,” operating American Board for Accreditation in Psychoanalysis, Inc. from analytical offices or rented or shared space for classes, email: [email protected] seminars, and conferences, thus reducing the cost of analyti- office: 304-529-7848, cell: 815-519-8818 cal training. A number of institutes invest in digital and online

PAGE 20 SUMMER 2013 REPRODUCTION continued identifying and verbalizing these feelings in order to avoid unconscious enactment of them with their partners.

Galit Atlas, PhD, also took up the topic of male infertility, hypothesizing that it has not been examined extensively within the psychoanalytic field due to a cultural dissociation, an enacted disavowal of the entire phenomenon. Similarly, she challenged the audience to think about why women have served as the designated patients, generally being the ones to risk their health, enduring fertility treatments even when the physical problem lies in the man’s infertility. Dr. Atlas spoke of the powerful social forces that deny any perceived threat to a man’s potency and the anxiety that erupts when his sexual adequacy is in question. These cultural dynamics maintain a split in the social roles of men and women, keeping men from experiencing their vulnerability and from owning their own infertility.

Susie Orbach, PhD, next spoke to women’s quest for motherhood and the many associated meanings it holds in identity formation, feelings of self-worth, and sexuality. She focused on the fetishization of agency in which pain and loss are excluded from the expectable experiences of women who have been brought up to believe that they can have it all. In particular, Dr. Orbach focused on the intersubjectively constructed bodies of women and the new pressures they feel to be successful in the domains of both men and women, leading to the outsourcing of women’s bodies to accommodate reproductive demands and to the commodification of sex.

The daylong conference ended with a discussion among the entire panel, which touched on global themes of expectations, mourning, and loss. The panel agreed that the conference AUTHORS IN OUR MIDST raised questions for further exploration and called on the In Wrestling with Destiny: The Promise of Psychoanalysis, Lucy psychoanalytic community to further investigate these Holmes uses empirical evidence from neuroscience to argue important issues. that psychoanalysis can help people control their destinies. The book considers how destiny is linked to the repetition Rachel Sopher is the assistant director of NIP’s annual confer- compulsion, and how free association in psychoanalysis ence and associate editor of Psychoanalytic Perspectives. She is can literally change the mind in ways that can help people a psychoanalyst in private practice in Manhattan. reshape and take control of the future. Freud’s psychoanalysis is revealed here to be startlingly modern in its consonance with the latest findings in the study of the brain.Wrestling THE NOTION continued with Destiny was published by Routledge in April and is available at Amazon. Proposals for papers are welcome and should be sent to the following: Barbara Ashworth, Jung/Lacan Secretariat, Cam- Lynn Somerstein’s book, Defining Moments for Therapists, bridge Conferences, 33 Church Street, Great Shelford Street, was published this April by LifeSherpa. Somerstein’s aim Cambridge CB22 5EL, England. Tel: +44 1223 847464. Email: was to capture the therapist’s evolving sense of self as it is [email protected] Abstracts should be limited to 300 shaped by our experience as active participants in a creative words. They should include the title of proposed paper; names interaction. The book consists of first-person accounts by of all authors; address, telephone number, and email of lead eleven therapists of some “Aha!” moments they had as they author; and author’s clinical and academic affiliations. The better understood themselves and why they do what they do. deadline for proposals is September 30, 2013. The conference registration fee is £200, and two nights’ accommodation and all meals throughout the conference are a further £355. The conference is kindly supported by the International Association for Analytical Psychology and Spring Journal Books.

SUMMER 2013 PAG E 21 INSTITUTE NEWS You can mail in the registration form on our website: TheCenterforHumanDevelopment.org. Our full slate of fall courses with their descriptions is posted there. Our current bulletin, which details the entire training program, can also be found on our ACADEMY OF CLINICAL AND CENTER FOR HUMAN website. APPLIED PSYCHOANALYSIS DEVELOPMENT CHD’s psychoanalytic program is Continuing Education Credit A New York State Licensure-Qualifying Opportunities licensure-qualifying. Once students Institute graduate and are certified by CHD, they One-Year Program in Modern can apply directly to New York State to sit Major International Initiative in for the licensing exam in psychoanalysis. Psychoanalysis South Korea Session I Maturational Process: Early CHD is excited to launch its Cross Developmental Failures For further information about our Cultural International Supervision (CCIS) Monday 7:00-8:40 PM, September 16, program, call CHD at 212-642-6303, 23, 30; October 7, 21, 28 program in South Korea in conjunction e-mail [email protected], or visit with the Post-Graduate Institute for our website. Session II Analytic Listening Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis (PIP). We Monday 7:00-8:40 PM, November 11, currently have eight supervisees working 18, 25; December 2, 9, 16 with two of our faculty members, Dr. Instructors: Demetria DeLia, PhD, Susan Blumenson and Dr. Michaela NCPsyA & Joan Hess, MA, NCPsyA Schaeffer, with Daniel Suh and Simon Shin as translators. CENTER FOR MODERN Each course carries 10 NASW-NJ PSYCHOANALYTIC STUDIES Approved CE Hours for social workers, CHD Proudly Graduated Five and Candidates in June CMPS congratulates Barbara D’Amato, 10 NBCC Approved CE Hours for On June 14, we graduated five students: faculty member at CMPS and NYGSP counselors, marriage and family Phyllis Tompkins Jacobs, Calla Cumi Jo, and Director of the Extension Division, therapists, and art therapists. Harlan J. Matusow, Simon Hyunkun Shin, who has been invited to speak at the and Daniel Sang-Bong Suh. We enjoyed Interdisciplinary Conference Dreams, Evolution of Basic Concepts: Psychoanalysis a wonderful celebration at the National Phantasms and Memories, at the Univer- and Trauma Arts Club after the graduation ceremony. sity of Gdañsk, Poland, on September 19. Instructor: Patricia Bratt, PhD We welcome them as full members of the She will join a host of international dream Thursday 9:30-11:50 AM, September 5 psychoanalytic community! They will also researchers, including Ernest Hartmann through December 25 be the first members of the CHD Alumni who will deliver the keynote address. Dr 20 NASW-NJ Approved CE Hours for Association, headed by faculty member D’Amato will present her paper, “Writer’s social workers, and 20 NBCC Approved John Augliera, LP. Dreams,” which examines the influence CE Hours for counselors, marriage and of dreaming on the creative process. In family therapists, and art therapists. Fall 2013 Classes particular, she examines the dreams of Our fall courses are listed on the web Sigmund Freud, Mary Shelley, and Robert ACAP Graduation Event – Sunday, site. Classes include: The Need to Have Louis Stevenson. November 17, 2013 Enemies: A Psychoanalytic Study of Aggression in Dyads and Groups, Susan The Extension Division of CMPS has Look for the new One-Year Program in Jakubowicz, PhD, CGP, LP, LCSW; The many exciting events this fall: Trauma & Resilience Studies – January Psychodynamics of Sexual Acting-Out 2014! Behavior, Susan Blumenson, PhD, LP; • 2013-2014 Spotnitz inter- Beyond the “Shadow of the Object”: view Series Begins Sunday, TRS – Trauma and Resilience Fairbairn, Klein, and Winnicott, John September 29, noon. A year-long Studies Diploma Program Augliera, LP; Theory of Psychodiagnosis, series of live interviews with early See www.trauma-studies.org for complete Richard Friedman, PhD; Treating colleagues of Hyman Spotnitz and program description. Couples, Ronnie Greenberg, LP, LCSW; Founders of Modern Psychoanaly- Reading Freud: Back to Basics, Benedict sis. With Dr Evelyn Liegner and Kim, PhD, LP; Introduction to Relational Sara Sheftel, PhD, LP. Psychoanalysis, Susan B. Parlow, PhD; Freud—Neuroscience—Brain/Mind, Natalie Riccio, PhD, LP, LCSW; and Adolescence, Michaela Kane Schaeffer, PhD, LP.

PAGE 22 SUMMER 2013 MAKING LEMONADE continued From breakfast through days of workshops, dotted with individual events, each providing CE credits, throughout the breaks for lunch, networking, and receptions, conference 2013-2014 academic year. Summer 2014 will see us back at participants got to know one another, started to look differently Caldwell in July, with new workshop topics as well as guest at issues they cope with in their everyday work, and learned speakers for the Journeys to Resilience and Transformational some innovative techniques for making like a bit easier for Relationships segments. Before then, spring 2014 will mark the themselves and their clients. beginning of the One-Year Program in Trauma & Resilience Studies. Look for dates and details for all ACAP events at What held them with ACAP for three days, dealing with one acapnj.org and trauma-studies.org. difficult topic after another? Participants were pleased to be able to acquire 21 CE hours while attending a lively event. Patricia Bratt, PhD, a member of the NAAP Board of Trustees, Perhaps the excitement of exploring new ideas that they could is a psychoanalyst practicing in NYC and Livingston, NJ. She is take back and start using immediately was compelling, too. It Director of Development and Director of Trauma and Resil- was the “Aha!” moment one experiences seeing an old and ience Studies at ACAP. She is a consultant for hostage negotia- daunting situation from a new perspective. And it was certainly tion and Critical Incident teams, and developed ACAP’s CISM the contagious enthusiasm of the entire ACAP community, and team serving 3,000+ victims of the 9/11 tragedy. Dr. Bratt has the welcoming, safe environment in which to talk freely about been a faculty member at several universities and psychoana- these challenging issues without feeling too vulnerable. lytic institutes, and is the author of articles on technique and therapeutic field; group dynamics; relationship stress; resilience What’s next for 2014? The Conference Committee is back building; and treating the memory-impaired and trauma vic- in gear, reviewing and planning. One part of the plan is our tims. follow-up process, and offering several of the workshops as

INSTITUTE NEWS • Friday, October 4 & 25 THE HARLEM FAMILY INSTITUTE parenthood, single parenthood by choice, Expanding the Specificity of Emo- adoption, and the choice to be child-free. tional Communication in Modern The Harlem Family Institute is about to Offerings in this second year provide a Psychoanalysis, Paul Geltner, PhD, submit its application to New York State more intensive look at the issues through LP to register its psychoanalytic-training multi-session seminars as well as supervi- program as licensure-qualifying. This will sion and study groups. A special issue of • Psychoanalysis and the Arts allow the Institute to accept unlicensed NIP’s journal Psychoanalytic Perspectives Friday, November 8 A Night applicants for psychoanalytic training. will also be devoted to contemporary Out, edited and directed by Sam HFI is also in the final weeks of preparing family making, as a companion piece to Schacht, MA its self-study to submit to the American last year’s adoption issue. Board for Accreditation in Psychoanalysis • Psychoanalysis and the Arts for national accreditation. The series is led by Hillary Grill, LCSW, Sunday, November 17, noon. An faculty member and supervisor at NIP Encore Presentation: From Vienna and the Institute for Expressive Analysis, to Hollywood, A Long Bumpy Ride and a senior editor for Psychoanalytic Per- (Part 2), Richard Sachs, MA, LP spectives. Ms. Grill is also the author of • Psychoanalysis and the Arts articles and the book Dreaming for Two: Friday, September 27 Opera the Hidden Emotional Life of Pregnant Lecture: Verdi’s “Macbeth,” Jasmin Women. Cowin, PhD NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR THE PSYCHOTHERAPIES To learn more about the series, visit NIP • CMPS/NYGSP Student Asso- ciation Presents Friday, Novem- NIP Series on Contemporary Family Mak- ber 22 Tracy Morgan, CMSW, LP: ing Begins Second Year Live Interview with author Lewis Aron and his co-author Jacqui The National Institute for the Psychothera- at nipinst.org. Aron on their new book, A Psy- pies has launched the second year of its WESTCHESTER INSTITUTE FOR chotherapy for the People: Toward educational series Psychoanalytic Perspec- TRAINING IN PSYCHOANALYSIS AND a Progressive Psychoanalysis tives on Adoption, Infertility & Contem- PSYCHOTHERAPY porary Family Making. This series uses a Go to cmps.edu for more details. psychoanalytic lens to explore a range of Recent Appointments at WITPP topics, including fertility challenges, the Mark Stafford, LP, has been appointed impact of new reproductive technolo- Director of Studies and Janet Capolino gies, use of gestational carriers, same-sex has been appointed Director of Opera- tions. SUMMER 2013 PAGE 23 PSYCHOANALYTIC COMMUNITY CALENDAR SEPTEMBER OCTOBER NOVEMBER 7: A Woman’s Belly: Pandora’s Box or 1: Gestalt Therapy: Basic Concepts & 1: Quantum Physics and Psychology Holy Grail? (workshop); CGJung-Chicago, Interventions (5-wk series); Gestalt Associ- (seminar); The Jung Club jungchicago.org ates 1: Educator’s Workshop (evening semi- 8: New Ideas in Psychodynamic Tech- 4: Resilience Skills in Adolescence: Ir- nar); CMPS nique (lecture); ACAP, acapnj.org resistible Urges, a Hyper-drive Brain, and 7-10: Expressive Therapies Summit (con- 8: Open House; NJI, njinstitute.com Vulnerability to Trauma (lecture); ACAP ference); expressivetherapiessummit.com 8: Psychotherapy in the Digital Age (Con- 4 & 25: The Meaning of Attunement 8: The Night Is Not So Black (presenta- versation & Open House); Institute for in Countertransference & Psychoanalytic tion); Apres-Coup, après-coup.org Psychoanalytic Studies, ipsnewjersey.org Technique (scientific paper); CMPS 8: A Night Out (play/Q&A); CMPS 8-10: Association of Specialized and 7-17: Pacifica at Eranos: The Legacy 9: The Frenzy of the Fathers (workshop); Professional Accreditors (semi-annual Tour (public program); Pacifica Graduate Apres-Coup meeting); ASPA, aspa-usa.org Institute, pacifica.edu/eranos 9: Saturday Dreamwork Seminar; Gestalt 17 : Saturday Dreamwork Seminar; Ge- 11: Decoding the Tablecloth (lecture); Associates stalt Associates CMPS 10: "Everything you always wanted to 17 : Open House; CMPS, cmps.edu. 15: Open House; CMPS know about Psychoanalysis" (panel dis- 18: Introductory Gestalt Experience 15: Alice in Cyberland (breakfast semi- cussion); ACAP (workshop); Gestalt Associates nar); CMPS 10: On the Effects of the Psychoanalytic 20: The Individuation Struggle as Reflect- 18: In So Many Words (film/discussion); Act (presentations); Apres-Coup ed in the I Ching and the Bible (seminar); CMPS 12: Open House; CMPS The Jung Club, thejungclub.com 19: Adapting to the Changing Scene in 15: Working with Grief & Loss: Counter- 20-21: Portmanteau Words (workshop); the Practice of Psychoanalysis and Psycho- transference Dilemmas (lecture); ACAP Apres-Coup, apres-coup.org therapy (scientific meeting); NJI 17 : From Vienna to Hollywood (docu- 21: Pathways to Analytic Change (scien- 20-24: Psyche and the Sacred (public mentary/discussion); CMPS tific meeting); NJI program); Pacifica Graduate Institute 22: An Evening with New Books in Psy- 25: Gestalt Group Therapy Workshop; 22: Open House; CGJung Institute-NY; choanalysis (interview); CMPS & NYGSP Gestalt Associates junginstitute.org Student Associations, CMPS 27: Macbeth: Shakespeare, Verdi, and 25: Assembly of Psychoanalytic Institutes 24-25: The Wanderings of Transmission Freud: A Multi-Media Opera Lecture; Meeting; ABAP, abapinc.org (conference); Apres-Coup CMPS 25-26: The Subject's "Being in Three" and Its Errancies (workshop); Apres-Coup DECEMBER 26: Violence and Its Denial (annual con- 7: Annual Conference; CMPS ference); NAAP 8: Holiday Jazz Celebration; ACAP, 31-11/2: Transience and Permanence acapnj.org (conference); IFPE, ifpe.org 10: Open House; CMPS