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IACAPAP Bulletin Supplement Donald J IACAPAP Bulletin Supplement Donald J. Cohen Fellows’ Remarks on the 16th IACAPAP Congress Berlin, Germany – August 22–26, 2004 Section/Title Author(s) City, State, Country Page Editors’ Introduction Andrés Martin New Haven, CT, U.S.A. 2 Cynthia Pfeffer White Plains, NY, U.S.A. I. Reflections Dignified Returns: Berlin and Donald J. Cohen in 2004 Andrés Martin New Haven, CT, U.S.A. 2 Donald J. Cohen Fellowship for International Scholars in – – 4 Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Allied Professions My Long and Arduous Journey to Berlin Olayinka Omigbodun Ibadan, Nigeria 5 (and how it was really worth it) Fellow Journeys: From Camposampiero to Berlin Leonie Boeing Edinburgh, Scotland, U.K. 7 What T-Shirt Do I Wear? Mani N. Pavuluri Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A. 8 Scientific Thinking and Thoughtfulness in Science Maj-Britt Posserud Bergen, Norway 9 “Licking and Grooming” (Affectionate Belo Mussche Antwerp, Belgium 11 Touch and Contact) in Mentorship From Generation to Generation: A Sameer Malhotra New Delhi, India 11 Fellowship Tribute to Professor Donald J. Cohen Empowering a Culture of Mentorship Worldwide Robert Vermeiren Antwerp, Belgium 12 Should We All Go Into Politics? Ine Jespers Antwerp, Belgium 12 Ukraine is Eager to Join the International Liliya Butenko, Igor Kyiv, Ukraine 14 Child Psychiatric Community: The First Martisenkovsky and Step Can Be the Hardest (But Was Not) Yana Bikshaeva Posters: Not Rockets Osman Sabuncuoglu Istanbul, Turkey 16 Creating Connections: From Berlin to Melbourne Monique Nesa Perth, Australia 16 II. Reports The Biology of Childhood Experience: Sameer Malhotra and New Delhi, India and 17 Dedicated to the Memory of Professor Leonie Boeing Edinburgh, Scotland, U.K. Richard Harrington Nature-Nurture Paradigms: From Berlin Jana Marinka Kreppner London, England, U.K. 17 versus London to Berlin and London A Place and a Time for Thinking About the Role of Stephen Collishaw London, England, U.K. 18 Place and Time in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Primary Preoccupations for All James Swain New Haven, CT, U.S.A. 19 Listening to Sir Michael: Environmentally Zhu Yan Changsha, China 20 Mediated Risks for Psychopathology Another Look at Resilience Galit Ben-Amitay Tel Aviv, Israel 21 Quality Assurance in ADHD: The Doa Habib Alexandria, Egypt 22 European Interdisciplinary Network Brain Imaging in Psychiatry Caterina Gawrilow Konstanz, Germany 23 Gender Matters Susanne Walitza Wurzburg, Germany 23 III. Interviews Seeing the Individuality in Every Child Christoph Correll Glen Oaks, New York, U.S.A. 24 An Interview with Professor Helmut Remschmidt A Decade Editing the IACAPAP Bulletin Orlando Uccinelli and Rome, Italy and 27 Drs. Cynthia Pfeffer and Jocelyn Hattab Ramon Lindauer Amsterdam, The Netherlands IACAPAP Officers – – 28 Editors’ Introduction I. Reflections Much like kindergarten teachers, good tour guides can be enormously Recipients of the Donald J. Cohen influential on our views, yet we Fellowship for International Dignified Returns: would be hard pressed to remember a Scholars in Child Psychiatry and Berlin and Donald J. Cohen in 2004 single one by name. Thank you, Allied Professions were put to work Thomas, whatever your last name is. immediately, almost before they Andrés Martin, M.D., M.P.H. It wasn’t so much the mob of could open and enjoy their congrat- Yale Child Study Center tourists taking pictures of the ulatory letters. Specifically, they were New Haven, Connecticut, U.S.A. Quadriga on top of the Gate that let asked to contribute a piece to the next me know I had arrived to the hub of it issue of the IACAPAP Bulletin. Dig·ni·fy all. Not even recognizing in its Fellow pairings were suggested, and 1. To raise the status of (something silhouette a pictogram emblematic of assignments distributed well ahead of unworthy or lowly); to make the city. Rather, realizing that the time. One could argue that the honorable. Gate had been at the core of No exercise was a complete failure: very The American College Dictionary, Man’s Land: visible to East and few fellows turned in the ‘homework' Third Edition (Boston: Houghton West, yet out of reach for both. A they were officially assigned, and Miflin Company, 1993) colossal and painful tease, if ever even fewer of them did so working there was one. It gave me a tingling with their assigned colleagues. And Truth be told, I had some trepidation and satisfying sense of accomplish- yet, a great many of the program about going to Berlin. An unfair ment to walk under the Gate, from the participants took us up on another feeling perhaps, but one not appeased West to the East, but it was altogether offer: that to write more intimately, on finding out, through large posters chilling to walk over the bricks from their personal experiences, about pasted near its entrance, that my hotel, marking where the Wall once stood. any aspect of the Congress in all its the Sylter Hof, had a troubling history The understatement of the small magnitude and complexity. By this of its own. Early in the twentieth engraved bronze plaques strewn over second metric, the exercise turned out century, the same address, 114-116 the line every few blocks spoke to me to be, in our opinion, a singular Kurfürstenstraße, had lodged the volumes more than the dated quaint- success. The contributions that follow Jewish Brotherhood, a long-silenced ness of Checkpoint Charlie ever are divided into Reflections, Reports, institution that rings today of heated could: Berliner Mauer 1961–1989. and Interviews, but the reader will Yiddish arguments among its But not only on those plaques readily see that the distinction is members, idealistic socialists and has Berlin chosen its words thought- rather arbitrary, for it is in the inter- proto-Zionist followers of Theodor fully, proactively, tellingly: turning play between the realities of the Herzl whose dreams were not to last. left after crossing the Gate, and next Congress and the internal experience By the mid-1930’s, Adolf Eichman to the vacant lot that will soon house of its participants that the real action sullied them with the ignominy of the new American Embassy, I saw of these pieces takes place. We using the same building to house the the nearly completed Monument to appreciate the efforts of our contribu- Judenreferat IV B4 (an outpost of his the Murdered Jews of Europe. Not tors, encourage them (as every other Department of Jewish Affairs), from ‘lost’ nor ‘dead’; not even encapsu- reader) to continue engaged with where the better to tally his macabre lated under the technical jargon of IACAPAP and its Bulletin, and hope counts of racial impurity. ‘genocide’ or ‘Holocaust’: much to see all in Melbourne in 2006. Who I fully blamed jetlag for my first more plainly, much more truthfully can foresee where our field will be a night’s restless sleep. told: ‘murdered’. It struck me as short two years hence, and how that In the dreamy haze of the day brave and courageous to put it all out meeting and that place will resonate that followed, I took to the streets of there, a shingle in plain view for the with each one of us? We look the city. From an anticlimactic entire world to see. So much more forward to finding out, together. meeting point at the central Zoolo- after seeing the magnificent Jüdisches gischer Garten (in front of its Museum that Daniel Liebeskind Andrés Martin, M.D., M.P.H. Dunkin Donuts, no less) a vivacious designed years before winning the guide with a thick Irish accent led Cynthia Pfeffer, M.D. contract for New York’s Freedom me through the orderly U-Bahn grid Tower – arguably the world’s most to the Brandenburger Tor. coveted architectural trophy. At the Gate I met, and was To its critics and various quickly captivated, by Thomas, my naysayers, the Jewish Museum is too city guide for the next five hours, and refined and beautiful: more about a native Berliner through and through. (continued on page S3) S2 Dignified Returns: Three general principles helped end, many of the larger ones devoted (continued from page S2) me make sense of what surely is one to mental health have established of the richest and most fulfilling of fellowship programs specifically European cities. First, an impeccable targeted to their younger and potential architecture or itself than about memory that has refused to take the members. In the United States alone, history; its lack of graphic details a facile route of oblivion (a telling the American Psychiatric Association, sign of an elusive and slippery nature. exception to the rule being Hitler’s the American Academy of Child and As its newest admirer and champion, bunker, its exact location undisclosed, Adolescent Psychiatry, and the I celebrated its intellectual and uncelebrated, and known to but a few American College of Neuropsycho- ultimately claustrophobic appeal: I history buffs. Parenthetically —and pharmacology provide just three cannot think of a single building in all too satisfyingly— it sits today examples of institutions with thriving the world that so effectively com- under a drab parking lot and a gay fellowship programs. municates its message through the sauna club). Second, a rejection of Not surprisingly, the basic efficiency of brick and mortar alone. euphemisms in favor of short state- building block and rate-limiting step In it, the millenary history of German ments of fact: Murdered Jews, to viable fellowship programs is Jewry is reduced to three off-kilter Berliner Mauer. Third, and most money. Fellowships are costly affairs, axes of converging lines (Continuity, admirable, an embrace and incorpor- with resources rapidly spent on travel, slashed at abrupt angles by Exile and ation of the past —no matter how lodging, and registration fees.
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