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Volume 15, December 2006 IPA Publications International Recently published: Identity, Gender and Sexuality: 150 Years after Freud Edited by Peter Fonagy, Rainer Krause, PSYCHOANALYSIS and Marianne Leuzinger-Bohleber News Magazine of the International Psychoanalytical Association Contributors: Susan Coates, Cláudio Laks Eizirik, Peter Fonagy, Erlich’s “Issues of ‘Grey’ Psychoanalytic Training” Richard C Friedman, André E Haynal, Rainer Krause, Marianne Leuzinger-Bohleber, Linda C Mayes, Friedemann Pfäfflin, The debate continues — and Erlich responds Anne-Marie Sandler, Sheila Spensley, Sverre Varvin, and Rudi Vermote Cláudio Laks Eizirik on While Freud opened the door on the formative and motivating power of sexuality, “Strengthening our psychoanalytic community“ contemporary psychoanalysts, with some notable exceptions, have consigned sexuality to the psychoanalytic closet. This book not only re-opens the door on the broad subject Tributes to Janine Chasseguet-Smirgel, David Iseman, Paulina Kernberg and Moses Laufer of psychosexuality, but also provides fresh insights into heterosexuality, bisexuality, homosexuality, Gender Identity Disorder, transvestism and transsexualism. This publication brings together some of the leading psychoanalytic authorities from around the globe to consider in depth the complex interweaving of identity, gender and sexuality from theoretical, clinical, historical and research perspectives. I strongly recommend Identity, Gender and Sexuality to those looking for a book that does not pull punches. The reader will find a debate about the relative merits of clinical, empirical, and conceptual research, critical assessments of interdisciplinary findings from infant and child development research, Embodied Cognitive Science, academic psychology, Members'price: neurobiology, genetics, ethology, and other fields of inquiry, and honest and illuminating £16.50/$29.50 psychoanalytic case studies. The IPA Congress comes (ISBN: 978-09523905-9-6) Donald Campbell to Berlin in July 2007 Coming soon for 2007... From Impression to Inquiry: The Integration On Freud’s ‘Mourning and Melancholia’ of Clinical and Research Perspectives in the Edited by Leticia Glocer-Fiorini, Thierry work of Robert Wallerstein Bokanowski, & Sérgio Lewkowicz Edited by Norbert Freedman, Wilma Bucci, (ISBN: 978-1-905888-06-1) & Ethan Graham (ISBN: 978-1-905888-00-9) The Geography of Meanings: Realities, Metaphors and Psychoanalytic Perspectives Resonance of Suffering: Edited by Maria Teresa Hooke & Salman Akhtar Countertransference in Non-Neurotic Structures (ISBN: 978-1-905888-03-0) Edited by André Green (ISBN: 978-1-905888-01-6) The Unconscious Edited by José Carlos Calich & Helmut Hinz Links, Alliances, and Shared Space: The Psychoanalytic Approach to Groups (ISBN: 978-1-905888-02-3) and the Psychoanalyst By René Kaës (ISBN: 978-1-905888-04-7) Plus more titles¼ International Association Internationale Asociación Psychoanalytical Psychanalytique Psychoanalytische Psicoanalítica For more information on these titles or to order online please visit our website www.ipa.org.uk or email us at: [email protected] Association Internationale Vereinigung Internacional 2 CONTENTS INTERNATIONAL PSYCHOANALYSIS THE NEWS MAGAZINE OF THE IPA. ISSN 1564-0361 Editor Doris K. Silverman Previous Editors Ethel Person, Leopold Nosek, Alex Holder Contents Regional Editors Europe: Erika Hartmann ([email protected]), Gérard Lucas ([email protected]), Tamara Stajner-Popovi´c ([email protected]) Latin America: Alcira Mariam Alizade ([email protected]), Leila Tannous Guimarães ([email protected]), 3 Editorial Rómulo Lander ([email protected]) North America: Abbot Bronstein ([email protected]), Joining the education debate – Doris Silverman gives her Joseph L. Fernando, ([email protected]), Bonnie E. Litowitz ([email protected]) perspective on this issue’s main focus Contents Language Editors English News Magazine: Robert Stein French News Magazine: Colette Scherer German News Magazine: Ursula Engel 4–12 The Education Debate Spanish News Magazine: Patricia Alkolombre Replies to the debate begun in Electronic Newsletter Production Manager Robert Stein Sub-Editor Sophie Richmond No. 2 by Shmuel Erlich Translation Team English: Philip Slotkin, Andrew Weller • Ludwig Haesler French: Marie-Elizabeth Bell, Danielle Goldstein, Anne-Lise Hacker, Marianne Robert, Catherine Roux, • Helmut Thomä Claudine Tourniaire German: Katrin Grünepütt, Michael Mertl, Joachim Roether, • Joe Schachter Susanne Vogl, Elisabeth Vorspohl Spanish: Dana Caceres-Pawlikowski, Irene Cusien, • David Sachs Magdalena Padrón Araújo, Pilar Rodas Riley, María Julia Sainz Bello • Emanuel Berman Layout and Production Bobbett Creative Communications • Neville Symington – article on the IPA website Print NewNorth Print Click on `IPA News' ± `News Magazine' THE INTERNATIONAL PSYCHOANALYTICAL ASSOCIATION • Rómulo Lander article on the IPA website Board of Representatives President Cláudio Laks Eizirik Click on `IPA News' ± `News Magazine' Secretary General Mónica Siedmann de Armesto • Shmuel Erlich replies Treasurer Nadine A. Levinson Representatives Europe: Marilia Aisenstein, Werner Bohleber, Stefano Bolognini, Jorge Canestri, 13 The President’s Column Henk Jan Dalewijk, Shmuel Erlich, Anna Potamianou Latin America: Aloysio Augusto D’Abreu, Adriana Cláudio Laks Eizirik writes about what the IPA provides for Members Prengler de Benveniste, Raquel Zak de Goldstein, Rolando De León Luévano, Leopold Nosek, Carmen Médici de Steiner, Virginia R. Ungar North America: Sander M. Abend, Peter Blos Jr, 15 The Secretary General’s Report James A. Gooch, Charles M.T. Hanly, Lee S. Jaffe, K. Lynne Moritz, Sharon Zalusky. New groups, relations with IPSO, future Congresses and the Latin Honorary President Leo Rangell American Institute for Psychoanalysis are among topics considered Honorary Vice-President Robert S. Wallerstein Corporate Officer by Mónica Siedmann de Armesto Piers Pendred (Director General) NOTES FOR CONTRIBUTORS TO INTERNATIONAL PSYCHOANALYSIS 17 The Treasurer’s Report 1. Contribution Policy and Languages This News Magazine appears once a year – normally in Nadine Levinson writes about dues, investments, loans for December – and focuses largely on features concerning issues of interest to IPA Members. Members who wish candidates and simplifying the IPA’s structure to suggest an article for a future issue should in the first instance write to the Editor (contact details below) with a brief proposal. Letters and other comments on articles that have 19 Lives in Brief appeared are also welcomed by the Editor. The deadline for submissions (in electronic copy only) Obituaries: David Iseman, Moses Laufer, is the end of August each year. Please note that contributions may be edited for length or style. Janine Chasseguet-Smirgel and Paulina Kernberg Announcements about events, prizes and awards, publications, fellowships and other news items are normally considered for publication in the IPA's Electronic Newsletter rather than the News Magazine. Announcements should be sent to the relevant Regional Editor – e-mail addresses above. Contributions may be submitted in any of the four working languages of the IPA – English, French, German or Spanish. E-mail address for contributions to International Psychoanalysis and the Electronic Newsletter: The Editor: Dr Doris K. Silverman E-mail: [email protected] 2. Advertisements For rates and other details, please contact the Production Manager Robert Stein on: [email protected] International PSYCHOANALYSIS Front Cover: A cafe near the Gedaechtnis Church, Berlin. International Psychoanalytical Association The German capital will host the 45th IPA Congress 25–28 July 2007. Broomhills, Woodside Lane, London N12 8UD, UK Image © www.berlin-tourist-information.de Tel: +44 20 8446 8324 Fax: +44 20 8445 4729 E-mail: [email protected] www.ipa.org.uk EDITORIAL 3 Joining the Editorial Doris Silverman Education Debate Doris Silverman Our analytic community is a the question of `grey' psychoanalysis, and deep adherence and commitment to responsive one ± thoughts, opinions, which to many readers implied reduced psychoanalysis. It further recognizes that enthusiasms, controversies and or inferior standards for those trained in societies may have instituted changes divisions abound. The best way we institutes other than IPA training institutes within their model since the society joined analysts have learned to contend or trained in non-traditional ways. the IPA. In the light of the numerous analysts addressing the issue of frequency, with such issues is to bring them out Some voices raised the need for the recommendations maintain that in the open. We hope our Electronic investigative research, which might numerical frequency should not be Newsletters and News Magazine help determine the outcome of what mandated and instead frequency offer the opportunity to air and heretofore have been theoretical and should be recognized as relevant within discuss our agreements, nuanced historical-based training decisions without `an overall model of training that has positions and differences. Many supportive data. There is also a large internal coherence'. What follows from of the issues we entertain have divide between those analysts who this position is the further question ± maintain that empirical studies may a long and complicated history, does the individual society adhere to its provide, among other sorts of data, a way which demands our thoughtful own preferred