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the FALL/WINTER 2005 AMERICAN Volume 39, No. 4 PSYCHOANALYST Quarterly Publication of The American Psychoanalytic Association New Orleans Center Carries On INSIDE TAP... After Katrina Special Section: Michael Slevin Psychodynamic Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans and the Many, New Orleans analyst Elsa Pool adds, Diagnostic Gulf Coast with a powerful force at the end of are in places where they cannot work at all. Manual . 12–16 August 2005. Levees were breached, flooding While Harper is back in New Orleans, in Octo- Consideration and large areas of New Orleans. Most residents ber Pool was seeing analytic patients four days Mortality . 18 able to evacuate the city did so. a week in Baton Rouge and three days a week Three months later (as TAP goes to press), in New Orleans. Her husband, Douglas Pool, The Bylaw Amendment the New Orleans Psychoanalytic Center is still works during the week in a hospital in Gulf- on Certification . 20 disrupted. The building sustained little damage port, Mississippi, and on weekends sees patients and its first floor library and administrative in New Orleans. College Mental Health . 24 office are intact. But its members have been The center has suffered a loss of its recent scattered. They took up temporary residence momentum. A “self-examination and change A Conversation with family and friends throughout the state of process” begun after the last site visit about about Candidate Louisiana and in locations as far apart as Maine four years ago, Harper reports, resulted in Recruitment. 28 and Oregon, Wisconsin, North Carolina, Ten- the dissolution of the separate institute and APsaA Fellows . 30–32 nessee and Florida. A number migrated first to society and creation of a psychoanalytic center Houston,Texas. Families have placed their chil- (TAP 38/4). The new center was established in dren in new schools and will not be returning to an attempt to create a community New Orleans until school breaks in January or of clinicians, scholars, and lay people May. Three displaced analysts have been hired by who share an interest in psycho- the psychiatry department of the University analysis. There was only one class of Alabama in Birmingham Medical School. of members, all of whom were Patients have also dispersed. The abrupt equally enfranchised. This, according cessation of contact has been very difficult, to Harper, expanded and revitalized Lee Ascherman, a Birmingham analyst affili- membership. ated with the New Orleans Institute, notes. In The first board, comprising ana- the initial weeks, cell phones and e-mail were lysts, psychotherapists and lay peo- down. Most analysts have been able to find ple, met through the summer, right most patients, he says, but it has been a long up to the week of Katrina, involving process. According to Randolph Harper, pres- most of the full membership in var- ident of the center, no analysts are working ious aspects of the work to come. full time. At best, analysts have resumed only With this “energy we didn’t have 40 to 60 percent of their previous caseloads. before,” Harper says, a rich and enticing schedule of training and outreach programs was planned. Schmaltz, MODIS Land Rapid Response Team Photo: NASA/Jeff Michael Slevin, M.A., is editor of TAP. Continued on page 6 THE AMERICAN PSYCHOANALYST • Volume 39, No. 4 • Fall/Winter 2005 1 CONTENTS: Fall/Winter 2005 THE AMERICAN PSYCHOANALYTIC ASSOCIATION President: Jon Meyer 3 Keeping Our Eye on the Ball Jon Meyer President-Elect: K. Lynne Moritz Psychoanalysis in the University Beth J. Seelig and Eric J. Nuetzel Secretary: Prudence Gourguechon 5 Treasurer: Warren Procci 8 January Program Features Damasio and Fonagy Plenaries Executive Director: Dean K. Stein Glen O. Gabbard 9 New York and All That Jazz Charles D. Levin Exploring New York through the World of Mark Rothko THE AMERICAN PSYCHOANALYST 10 Publication of the Chris Broughton American Psychoanalytic Association Editor SPECIAL SECTION Michael Slevin Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual Member, Council of Editors 12 Greenspan Spearheads Creation of Psychodynamic Diagnostic of Psychoanalytic Journals Manual Lynn Stormon Associate Editor and International Editor Christine Ury The Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual: An Overview 14 National Editor Nancy McWilliams, Robert S. Wallerstein, and Stanley I. Greenspan Prudence Gourguechon Contributions of Psychodynamic Concepts in Identifying 15 Editorial Board Mutative Factors in Intensive Treatment Sidney J. Blatt Thomas Bartlett, Brenda Bauer, International TAP Edited by Christine Ury Vera J. Camden, Maxine Fenton Gann, 17 Sheri Hunt, Laura Jensen, Consideration and Mortality Ellen Pinsky Jack Miller, A. Michele Morgan, 18 Caryle Perlman, Marie Rudden, 20 Supporting the Bylaw Amendment on Certification Jonathan House Hinda Simon, Gittelle Sones, Opposing the Bylaw Amendment on Certification Beth J. Seelig Lynn Stormon, Julie Tepper, 20 Jane Walvoord, Robert S. White, 22 The Task Force on Reorganization Makes a Proposal: Dean K. Stein, ex officio Now It’s Up to You Robert M. Galatzer-Levy William D. Jeffrey, Consultant Los Angeles and Southern California Societies and Institutes Merge Paul Mosher, Consultant 23 Michael and Helene Wolff, R. James Perkins Technology Management Communications, 24 Complex Mental Health Issues Lead More College Students Manuscript and Production Editors to Seek Counseling Lorraine D. Siggins The American Psychoanalyst is published quar- Bringing Basic Freud to the Whole Student Body Shela Fisk terly. 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Unless otherwise stated, material in The American Psychoanalyst does not reflect 42 One Hour a Month for Advocacy and Mental Health Dean K. Stein the endorsement, official attitude, or position of Membership: Tool of the Trade: The Analytic Couch—Discounted The American Psychoanalytic Association or The 43 American Psychoanalyst. Debra Steinke 2 THE AMERICAN PSYCHOANALYST • Volume 39, No. 4 • Fall/Winter 2005 FROM THE PRESIDENT changes we need have a lot more to do with Keeping Our Eye on the Ball organizational effectiveness than with not- Jon Meyer for-profit corporation law. At the heart of those facilitative changes are the board of We are almost through another political yet to mount a directors’ functions. In modern corporate season. Having been immersed in politics for national adver- structure, the board of directors gives you the the last decade, I know the processes inti- tising campaign needed financial, fundraising, public relations, mately and feel proud to be involved. However, that says other- lobbying, legal, and business skills. If we think if some feel turned off because politics is less wise. There is of our Association as a family, then it is time to their taste, I would just ask them not to drop consensus about to welcome new, experienced, and talented out. At the end of the season, we need to the importance members to the family. come together to deal with the psychoanalytic of using media environment’s unfavorable climate report. outlets to say we 21ST CENTURY BOARD OF DIRECTORS We take that climate report seriously and are alive and well, We can be proud that our current gover- Jon Meyer are doing a lot to move psychoanalysis forward. but we don’t have nance has gotten us to this critical juncture, In the advocacy priority, we have the Oxford the fundraising, public relations, and business but our present governance only made sense agreement putting ethics into business oper- resources to mount a successful campaign. when we were smaller and internally preoc- ations; the RICO settlements making man- cupied, with no competition or challenges— aged care answer for predatory practices; FACING FACTS scarcely the current circumstance. Now, our the proposed Ethics Based Medicine Act of Our situation can be summarized in three board of directors is the Executive Council 2005, defending privacy in the tradition of simple facts. with 58 councilors, largely chosen by and rep- Hippocrates and asking Congress to join with Fact 1: Our challenges expand like ripples resenting societies. I have been part of that us; and the HIPAA suit in the United States from the common belief that psychoanalysis body since 1993 and it has been my home Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit raising is dead.