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VOLUME XXVI, NO. 3 SUMMER 2006 TABLE OF CONTENTs FROM THE PRESIDENT PSYCHOANALYIC BOOKS A Dream Come True Ellen Toronto, et al.’s Psychoanalytic Reflections On A Gender-Free Case David Ramirez............................................................................1 Helen Gediman.......................58 LETTER TO THE EDITOR Stanley Greenspan and Serena Wieder’s Engaging Autism Polly Young-Eisendrath...............................................................4 Karen Zelan.............................................................................63 Honor Roll Robert Wallerstein’s Psychoanalysis: Education, Research, Science, and Laurel Bass Wagner.....................................................................4 Profession Psychologist Involvement At Military Interrogation Centers Martin Schulman.....................................................................66 Neil Altman, Nancy Hollander, and Lu Steinberg..........................5 Richard Boothby’s Sex On The Couch: What Freud Has To Teach Us About Sex And Gender In Memoriam—George Mahl Marcella Goldsmith.................................................................68 Norbert Freedman......................................................................6 Joan Copjec’s Imagine There’s No Woman: Ethics And Sublimation In Memoriam—Paul Lerner Geneva Reynaga-Abiko............................................................71 Howard Lerner............................................................................7 Jack And Kerry Kelly Novick’s Good Goodbyes Knowing How To End PSYCHOANALYTIC RESEARCH In Psychotherapy And Psychoanalysis Notes On Allan Schore’s Groups Fonya Lord Helm.....................................................................73 Allan Schore...............................................................................12 Elsa Blum, et al.’s Psychoanalysis and Art: The Artistic Representation of Coming Into Mind the Parent–Child Relationship Margaret Wilkinson....................................................................13 Harriet Basseches....................................................................76 CONTROVERSIAL DISCUSSIONS Stanley Teitelbaum’s Sports Heroes, Fallen Idols On Being Willing To Sell Your Grandmother Short Andrea Corn............................................................................78 Gary Walls..................................................................................20 COMMITTEE REPORTS The Return of Expertise in Evidence Based Practice Membership Roger Brooke.............................................................................23 Louis Rothschild......................................................................81 SPRING MEETING SUMMARIES Nominations and Elections Oedipal Revisited.......................................................................28 Jaine Darwin............................................................................81 Growing Up in a Divorced and Remarried Family.........................30 SECTION REPORTS The Four Waves Of Feminism..............................................................32 Section IV Section IV: EST, EBT, EBPP.............................................................35 William MacGillivray................................................................82 Hiddenness, Gender Protest & Passionate Affirmation....................37 Section V Holding on For Dear Life...........................................................38 Johanna Krout Tabin................................................................82 The Power and the Peril of Analytic Love.................................39 Section VII Will the Real Eminem Please Stand Up?....................................40 Albert J. Brok...........................................................................83 Winnicott and Lacan................................................................42 Section IX Psychoanalysis & Health Care.............................................................43 Arlene Lu Steinberg.................................................................83 The Shadow of the Sibling.........................................................44 LOCAL CHAPTER REPORTS Clinical Values...........................................................................45 Appalachian Authentic Gender.......................................................................46 William MacGillivray.................................................................84 The Myth of the Phallus.............................................................47 Austin Loving And Leaving...................................................................48 Joann Ponder...........................................................................85 ARTICLES Chicago Prejudice And Conflict—Revisited Jay Einhorn..............................................................................85 Steven Luz-Alterman...................................................................50 Narrative As Metaphor FROM THE EDITOR Henry Seiden..............................................................................51 William MacGillivray................................................................86 Trauma and the Superego BOARD MEETING MINUTES Greg Novie.................................................................................53 January 2006...........................................................................87 ANNOUNCEMENTS.....................................................................90 BOARD DIRECTORY..................................................................91 Psychologist– ψ Official Publication of Division 39 of the American Psychoanalyst Psychological Association Volume XXVI, No.3 Summer 2006 FROM THE PRESIDENT: A DREAM COME TRUE David Ramirez, PhD ivision 39 marked the beginning of its next quarter The dream-come-true at the meeting had two parts. Dcentury with the annual spring meeting held in In the first part, I arrive at the Presidents’ Reception, an Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Co-chaired by Noelle Burton annual feature of the meeting to which graduate students, and Dennis Debiak, the steering committee set its sights and this year the early career folks, are invited. What on planning a meeting that would be long remembered by begins as a slightly larger than usual crowd of 10 or 15 attendees and presenters. Happily, they succeeded. The people soon mushrooms into a kind of mosh pit crowd of meeting’s theme, Love, Desire & Passions: Variety, Enigma more than 100 animated friends and strangers. The meager and the Disruption of Psychoanalysis, offered an intellectual ration of wine is exhausted wherein executive privilege organizing point as well as a subtext for the meeting’s is invoked to keep the spirits flowing. My rounds through intentions. The theme’s visceral, quasi-rebellious language the crowd reveal some key information, including the fact suggested the possibility for the unexpected, the disrupting. that for many, this is the first Spring Meeting, and that Attendance figures for the meeting are tangible several people are attending because of the reduced fee for indicators of the steering committee’s success. The 625 ECP. In fact, two local psychologists who are not division attendees include a remarkable 111 graduate students. members nor analytically identified, but who liked the Twenty-nine percent of the attendees were making their look of the program and the generous ECP registration first visit to a Division 39 Spring Meeting. Fifty-five discount, decided to attend and are impressed by what they registrants were identified as ECP, taking advantage of experience. Several past presidents of the division are there the lowered registration fee. We listed 20 foreign affiliates and all share the same incredulous reaction: look at all the who trekked to Philadelphia for the meeting. These are younger people in this crowd. Never have any of us seen impressive numbers; we are unique among divisions within such a strong showing by the forty-and-under crowd. A APA in our ability to mount such a successful conference. wish, and a lot of hard work, have been gratified. Although the Spring Meeting is but one facet of Part two of the dream came immediately afterward. an increasing complex and far-reaching organization, it is One thing that many cultures share is the idea that a unique in the creation of an opportunity for members to meaningful ritual can be improved by dancing. Whether encounter one another socially as well as intellectually. it’s a wedding, bar or bat mitzvah, quinceañera, graduation The coincidence of the meeting’s venue in Philadelphia or barn raising—dancing, with its privilege of action over during my presidency stirred a deep desire to have the spoken word, allows people to cut loose. Relying on the meeting break new ground with two critical constituencies musical talent of a former supervisee whose band, The in our organization: graduate students and early career Boogie Knights, would provide the stimulus, I hoped professionals. As previously reported in this column, the for evidence that psychoanalysts would dance with one Division’s leadership has thought long and hard about another, given the opportunity. how best to address the needs and interests of the next Our meaningful ritual is the Annual Spring generation of psychoanalytic practitioners and scholars. Meeting; could it be improved by dancing? By all accounts, For this meeting, the Graduate Student Committee and the resounding result is that we like to dance and are happy the Task Force