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Psychologist Psychoanalytic Practitioners National Coalition of Mental Health Professionals and William Fried VOLUME XXVIII, NO. 2 SPRING 2008 TABLE OF CONTENTs FROM THE PRESIDENT JUSTIN CLEMONS AND RUSSELL GRIGG’S JACQUES LACAN PSYCHOANALYTIC SELF-INTEREST AND PSYCHOANALYTIC VISION AND THE OTHER SIDE OF PSYCHOANALYSIS: NANCY MCWILLIAMS ................................................. 1 REFLECTIONS ON SEMINAR XVII PSYCHOANALYTIC ABSTRACTS NOW AN ONLINE PUBLICATION GREG NOVIE............................................................43 ALVIN WALKER………..…......................................5 COMMENT ON DREW WESTEN’S THE POLITICAL BRAIN PSYCHOANALYTIC RESEARCH HAROLD DAVIS.........................................................45 BRIDGING THE GAP BETWEEN PSYCHOANALYTIC RESEARCH AND COMMITTEE REPORTS PRACTICE APA SUMMIT ON VIOLENCE AND ABUSE IN RELATIONSHIPS PATRICK LUYTENS, SIDNEY BLATT, AND JOZEF MARILYN JACOBS........................................................49 CORVELEYN..............................................................6 NEW DIVISION MEMBERS: ARTICLES JANUARY 2007 TO MARCH 2008..................................53 PSYCHOANALYTIC ETHNOGRAPHY AND FILMMAKING SEXUALITIES AND GENDER IDENTITY RICARDO AINSLIE.......................................................12 SCOTT PYTLUK AND KENNETH MAGUIRE.............................57 POST MODERN METAPHOR:S CONTINUING EDUCATION HENRY SEIDEN..................................................................14 LAURA PORTER..........................................................58 LOVE ME; LOVE MY GECKO FROM THE EDITOR KAREN ZELAN............................................................16 WILLIAM MACGILLIVRAY...............................................58 THE CHALLENGE OF TEACHING IN A UNIVERSITY SETTING SECTION REPORTS LAWRENCE JOSEPHS.................................................... 17 PSYCHOLOGIST PSYCHOANALYTIC PRACTITIONERS NATIONAL COALITION OF MENTAL HEALTH PROFESSIONALS AND WILLIAM FRIED.........................................................60 CONSUMERS PSYCHOLOGIST PSYCHOANALYTIC CLINICIANS WILLIAM MACGILLIVRAY..............................................20 JOHANNA TABIN ........................................................61 CONTROVERSIAL DISCUSSIONS COUPLE AND FAMILY PSYCHOANALYSIS WHATEVER HAPPENED TO THE UNCONSCIOUS? TONI HALTON .......................................................... 61 A CRITIQUE OF DISSOCIATION, MULTIPLICITY AND LOCAL CHAPTER REPORTS THE ECLIPSE OF THE UNITARY SELF CHICAGO ASSOCIATION FOR PSYCHOANALYTIC PSYCHOLOGY JON MILLS.............................................................. 25 PATRICIA MCMAHON..................................................62 FURTHER THOUGHTS ON DISSOCIATION RHODE ISLAND ASSOCIATION FOR PSYCHOANALYTIC PSYCHOLOGIES RONALD NASO..........................................................29 SALLY MAYO............................................................62 PSYCHOANALYTIC BOOKS SOUTHEAST FLORIDA FOR PSYCHOANALYTIC PSYCHOLOGY BOOKS WRITTEN BY DIVISION MEMBERS, 2007-2008.......34 MAX HARRIS...........................................................63 DAVID WALLIN’S ATTACHMENT IN PSYCHOTHERAPY VERMONT ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF PSYCHOANALYSIS LINDA GUERRA..........................................................35 SUSAN LILLICH......................................................... 63 RÓMULO LANDER’S SUBJECTIVE EXPERIENCE DIVISION BOARD MEETINGS AND THE LOGIC OF THE OTHER AUGUST 2007.........................................................64 LINA SCHLACTER....................................................... 37 JANUARY 2008........................................................67 ERIN LABBIE’S LACAN’S MEDEIVALISM ANNOUNCEMENTS .............................................70 MARCELLA GOLDSMITH................................................40 DIRECTORY.........................................................71 Psychologist– ψ Official Publication of DivisionPsychoanalyst 39 of the American Psychological Association Volume XXVIII, No. 2 Spring 2008 FROM THE PRESIDENT: PSYCHOANALYTIC SELF-INTEREST AND PSYCHOANALYTIC VISION Nancy McWilliams PhD olitical economists talk HOW ARE WE DOING? Pabout issues of “guns I have been conferring for some time with Steve Axelrod, and butter,” the choices our Liaison to the APA Business of Practice Network, about that societies make about how we can address the practice concerns of our members. how much of their finite In these conversations it has become clear to both him and resources to spend on me how little we all know about one another’s practices: defending their community how many clinical hours we work, how much we charge, from threats to its values whether we vary our fees, how many times a week we versus how much to spend see our patients, how long we see them, what problems on making sure their they most commonly seek help with, how individual members have enough to practitioners have adapted to current health care realities, eat. In this column, I begin and so on. I find myself making many assumptions about with the butter issues and practice issues (for example, I am pretty sure that early- later reflect on the guns. career psychoanalytic professionals are finding it much Division 39 is a motley collection of scholars, harder to get a practice going than beginning therapists did researchers, practitioners, and intellectuals interested in before the managed care era), but it is not easy to find hard psychoanalysis. What we seek from the Division varies data on such topics. from person to person, but one thing most of us have in In our field it seems to be a matter of pride to common is a private practice, whether large or small, or an have a full analytic practice, and so it may be equally a interest in building one. In our publications, conferences, matter of shame when the practice ideal and the practice and section and committee activities we have tended reality are discrepant. A few years ago, I gave a seminar to emphasize continuing education, broadly conceived, for a small group of elderly medical psychoanalysts in over the practical matter of earning a living. But as a a small American city. It slowly became apparent that predominantly practitioner organization, especially at although they were representing themselves to me and a time when we face creeping devaluation and loss of to each other as having robust analytic practices, most autonomy (Eisold, 2007), we must also pay some attention of them were surviving on medication consults and the to our livelihood and its current condition and prospects. occasional psychotherapy patient seen once a week or Like many therapists, I tend to be uncomfortable less. The subtle posturing—not to mention the underlying with frank discussions of our financial interests; I feel more dysphoric affect—among these psychiatrists was palpable. at home talking about the more (consciously) altruistic I began wondering how many of the rest of us are putting concerns that attracted me to this field. But I think we have on a brave face in the context of doing less and less of the to get over inhibitions like these if our profession is to work we love and value—the training that we pursued survive and thrive. Mary Beth Cresci, who will take over at considerable sacrifice—while our real income goes the leadership of the Division in January, has let me know inexorably south. that the future of psychoanalytic practice will be one of her On the other hand, despite my occasional hand- central presidential concerns, and I would like to lay some wringing about what is happening to practice, many of my groundwork for her efforts in this area. colleagues seem to be full every time I try to refer someone PSYCHOLOGIST-PSYCHOANALYST, SPRING 2008 to them. No competent analytic therapist I know has closed a practice for lack of GUIDELINES FOR SUBMITTING MATERIAL customers (though again, would anyone admit that?). Analysts in the currently Submissions, including references, need to hot institutes are reputedly doing fine, and some of the psychoanalytically be in APA style. E-mail your submission influenced movements in contemporary psychotherapy (e.g., Diana Fosha’s in an attached Word or WordPerfect file Accelerated Experiential-Dynamic Psychotherapy) seem to be flourishing. to the Editor. If you do not have attached APA’s messages to practitioners are relentlessly cheerful, full of descriptions of file capabilities, mail the disc to the Editor. the exciting new roles that twenty-first century psychologists are assumed to be Hard copies are not needed. Submissions eager to fill. should be no longer than 2500 words. All materials are subject to editing at the discre- HOW WOULD WE KNOW HOW WE ARE DOING? tion of the Editor. Unless otherwise stated, Before the Division can figure out how to help our members with the business of the views expressed by the authors are those practice, we have to find out what their actual circumstances are and what they of the authors and do not reflect official need. Accordingly, Dr. Axelrod has assembled an advisory group (Mary Beth policy of the Division of Psychoanalysis. Cresci, Kenneth Eisold, William Gottdiener, Paul Hymowitz, and Phee Rosnick) Priority is given to articles that are original to pursue the answers to some basic questions. For example, how many of and have not been submitted for publica- us have patients in treatment more than twice a week who are not institute tion elsewhere. candidates? Intensive treatment for any but those in training would seem a rarity these days, but we do not know that for sure, and there may be some ADVERTISING collective resistance to even asking this question.
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