Psychologist– Psychoanalyst

PSYCHOLOGIST-PSYCHOANALYST, WINTER 2008 Psychologist– ψ Official Publication of Division 39 of the American Psychoanalyst Psychological Association VOLUME XXVIII, NO. 1 WINTER 2008 TABLE OF CONTENTs FROM THE PRESIDENT WILLIAM MEISSNER’S TIME, SELF AND PSYCHOANALYSIS 45 OUR ANNUAL HOMECOMING ANNIE LEE JONES ....................................................................................... NANCY MCWILLIAMS .................................................................................. 1 LENORE TERR’S MAGICAL MOMENTS OF CHANGE: HOW PSYCHOTHERAPY TURNS KIDS AROUND LETTER TO THE EDITOR SARALEA CHAZAN......................................................................................... 48 MADELYN MILCHMAN.................................................................................... 6 JAMES T. MCLAUGHLIN’S THE HEALER’S BENT: SOLITUDE AND DIALOGUE IN THE CLINICAL ENCOUNTER ARTICLES HARRIET BASSECHES..................................................................................... 50 APA COUNCIL REVISION OF TORTURE RESOLUTION.............................................. 7 PSYCHOANALYTIC PROFILES: ELLIOTT M. JURIST COMMITTEE REPORTS DANIEL LIVNEY.......................................................................................... 8 INTERDIVISIONAL TASK FORCE 53 EARLY REACTIONS TO THE PDM IVAN MILLER AND GORDON HERZ........................................................................ ROBERT M. GORDON.................................................................................13 SECTION ON PSYCHOANALYSIS OF THE CPA 54 EMBODIED EXPERIENCE: THE PSYCHOANALYST AND MEDICAL ILLNESS JON MILLS................................................................................................... MARY-JOAN GERSON................................................................................. 15 ETHICS: PURPOSE AND MEMBERSHIP 55 ON thE LOVE OF BEAUTY JANE TILLMAN............................................................................................... HENRY SEIDEN ........................................................................................22 SECTION REPORTS PSYCHOANALYTIC BOOKS SECTION I: PSYCHOLOGIST PSYCHOANALYST PRACTITIONERS 56 DREW WESTEN’S THE POLITICAL BRAIN: THE ROLE OF EMOTION IN DECIDING THE FatE OF ALBERT J. BROK........................................................................................... THE NatION SECTION IV: LOCAL CHAPTERS 57 RICHARD WAUGAMAN..................................................................................25 WILIIAM MACGILLIVRAY.................................................................................. LINDA HOPKIN’S FALSE SELF: THE LIFE OF MASUD KHAN SECTION VII: PSYCHOANALYSIS AND GROUPS 57 DOUG DAVIS............................................................................................ 29 ALBERT BROK.............................................................................................. JUDITH HUGHES’S GUILT AND ITS VICISSITUDES RONALD NASO.......................................................................................... 34 LOCAL CHAPTER REPORTS KATHLEEN HUSHION, SUSAN SHERMAN AND DIANA SISKIND’S UNDERStaNDING ADOPTION: AppaLACHIAN PSYCHOANALYTIC SOCIETY 58 CLINICAL WORK WITH ADULTS, CHILDREN AND PARENTS WILIIAM MACGILLIVRAY.................................................................................. RICHARD RUTH AND KATHERINE MARSH........................................................... 37 AUSTIN SOCIETY FOR PSYCHOANALYTIC PSYCHOLOGY 59 DANIELLE KNAFO’S LIVING WITH TERROR, WORKING WITH TRAUMA: A CLINICIAN’S NAOMI FRIERIECH ....................................................................................... HANDBOOK NEW MEXICO PSYCHOANALYTIC SOCIETY 59 ELIZABETH HOWELL’S THE DISSOCIatIVE MIND DAN DANIELS.............................................................................................. JON MILLS ..............................................................................................40 60 FARRELL SILVERBERG’S MAKE THE LEAP: A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO BREAKING PattERNS that ANNOUNCEMENTS ................................................................................. HOLD YOU BACK FRANCES COHEN PRAVER’S CROSSRAODS at MIDLIFE: YOUR AGING PARENTS, YOUR DIRECTORY 61 EMOTIONS AND YOUR SELF LOCAL CHAPTER OFFICERS.............................................................................. 63 ISABELLE REINIGER......................................................................................41 DIVISION BOARD AND COMMITTEE CHAIRS......................................................... WILFRIED VER EECKE’S DENIAL, NEGatION AND THE FORCES OF THE NEGatIVE MACARIO GIRALDO.....................................................................................44 Psychologist– ψ Official Publication of Division 39 of the American Psychoanalyst Psychological Association Volume XXVIII, No. 1 Winter 2008 FROM THE PRESIDENT: OUR ANNUAL HOMECOMING Nancy McWilliams PhD n anticipating the Program Committee, Natalie Shear, long-time Iour 2008 Spring conference coordinator, and Melinda Gellman and Meeting on “Knowing, Jean Petrucelli, chairs of the steering committee for Not Knowing, and our upcoming meeting. Sort of Knowing: Psychoanalysis and OVERVIEW the Experience of Spring meetings, scheduled years in advance, are Uncertainty,” it occurred usually held in April, from Thursday morning through to me to do a column Sunday afternoon. Because a high proportion of on spring meetings Division members live and work in the New York generally. For many metropolitan area, we meet every third year in members, perhaps Manhattan. The location of other meetings depends especially those without on the existence of a critical mass of members willing much local support for their analytic identities, to face the Herculean task of putting the conference these get-togethers provide an opportunity to “come together. home” once a year. As a therapist working in a rural Our budget depends heavily on proceeds county with only a couple of analysts, I remember my from the spring meetings. Usually the New York excitement when Division 39 was created: An official gatherings are our best attended and most profitable, body of psychoanalytic psychologists within APA, but the financial outcome of any given meeting with our own journal and annual conference, seemed defies prediction; unforeseeable events cause huge a minor miracle at the time, one that suggested I fluctuations in our bottom line. Our 2002 meeting in might not have to be a perpetual outsider in my New York, for example, was not as lucrative as usual, field. I’ve gone to every spring meeting since 1984 probably because the inaugural IARPP convention and have always found them both stimulating and had been held there two months earlier and perhaps comforting. also because people still had some reluctance to fly in They can also be overstimulating and tiring, the months after 9/11. Our 2005 New York meeting, and they inspire their share of grousing and second- in contrast, made much more money than we had guessing, often because members lack personal predicted. So did the 2006 Philadelphia conference, knowledge of the circumstances behind conference thanks to unusual diligence in the local organizers. policies. In this essay I will 1) review central features Despite the consensus of attendees that it was a superb of the spring meetings; 2) note some recurring program, our 2007 meeting in Toronto lost money, difficulties and possible ways of ameliorating them; contributing to a serious budget crunch this year. and 3) encourage you to attend. What follows has I assume this outcome reflects higher plane fares, benefited from the input of Jaine Darwin, Chair of decreased value of the American dollar, and new PSYCHOLOGIST-PSYCHOANALYST, WINTER 2008 passport requirements for cross-border travel, but I would be glad to hear GUIDELINES FOR SUBMITTING MATERIAL other speculations, as it is important to us to have profitable meetings in Submissions, including references, need to places other than the largest American cities. be in APA style. E-mail your submission in When the Division contracts with a convention facility, we an attached Word or WordPerfect file to the promise to fill a certain number of hotel rooms in return for ample Editor. If you do not have attached file capa- meeting space. If our members register for less than the number of bilities, mail the disc to the Editor. Hard room-nights to which we have committed, we are penalized in the copies are not needed. Please write one or two sentences about yourself for placement thousands of dollars. This is why we urge participants to stay at the at the end of the article and indicate what conference hotel. In recent years, the Graduate Student and Candidates address information you would like pub- Outreach committees have informed their listservs about inexpensive lished. Submissions should be no longer accommodations outside the convention hotel. This is a vital part of than 2500 words. All materials are subject making our conferences affordable to all, but I want also to encourage to editing at the discretion of the Editor. attendees with money concerns to consider sharing rooms at the Unless otherwise stated, the views expressed conference hotel and thereby contributing to our room-count. Given that by the authors are those of the authors and rates for rooms at mid-range New York hotels have soared past $500 a do not reflect official policy of the Division night this winter, the Waldorf price of $290 is a steal, especially if split of

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