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V o l u m e 3 2 N u m b e r 1 eUniting thwe Schools of Ths ought NWorld OrgaAnization and PubAlic Education CoP rporation - NatNional Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis CONFERENCE ISSUE SOPHIE FREUD 8 John Quackenbush, nephew of 0 E i Margery and Robert Quackenbush, g h took this photo of Sophie Freud at t h Brandeis University last fall. A v e n u Sophie Freud, granddaughter of e , Sigmund Freud, was born in Vienna, S u i Austria. She immigrated to the t e United States in l942 at age 18, and 1 5 went on to attend Radcliffe/Harvard 0 1 , and the Simmons College School of N e Social work. She practiced as a w social worker mostly in the fields of Y o r child welfare and child (parent) guid - k , ance while raising three children - N Y with the help of a husband. After 1 0 receiving a Ph.D. from Brandeis 0 1 University, she spent the next thirty 1 years as a social work professor, chairing the Human Behavior Sequence at the Simmons College School of Social Work. Freud has written many scholarly papers and more than 100 book reviews. Her first book, My Three Mothers and Other Passions , reflects on her three identities of mother, therapist, and educator. A second book, Living in the Shadow of the Freud Family , which won the 2008 Gradiva Award® for the best historical book, was written in her old age and deals with her mother’s life. It is a book of many voices. Sophie Freud has given talks and workshops W IN THIS ISSUE i all over the US, Canada, and Europe. n t e She currently gives and takes cours - r - The 2008 Conference Reports & Reflections Pages 3-11 2 es at the Brandeis Osher Lifelong 0 0 - Encounters and Escapes 17 Learning Institute and is still waiting 9 - Psychoanalysts and Torture 18 for a laidback old age. PRESIDENT’S REPORT Since our last time. We continued our work in issue we have Albany and achieved resolution to the witnessed issue of how candidates pay their train - The National Association for the Advancement another shifting of ing analyst. This aspect of our training of Psychoanalysis the center of the is now protected under our license President: Jennifer R. Harper world in which regulations after long and careful work President Elect: Pamela Armstrong-Manchester we live. Banks with the Department of Education. Secretary: Roberta Slavin folding, credit We contributed to the Alliance for Treasurer: Jack Wiener Jennifer Harper Executive Director: Margery Quackenbush markets suffocat - Psychotherapy Institutes in support of ing, jobs falling away like dry leaves, their advocacy for LMSW’s who seek NAAP News new outbreaks of old wars and ten - their LCSW hours through clinical © 2009 The National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis. sions in the Middle East and the steady, training in psychoanalytic and psy - Winter 2009. Volume 32, Number 1. growing anxiety that the next shoe will chotherapy institutes. We initiated a not be the last to drop. These are relationship with a federal lobbyist in Editor-in-Chief order to navigate the New York license Jennifer R. Harper times that history annals will not fully appreciate in our lifetime. But we are within various federal healthcare man - Executive Editor living this story now and how we are dates under current legislative consid - Kirsty Cardinale doing that will become part of that eration. Our license must be included Editorial Board future history. And psychoanalysis in these programs to remain viable. In Arthur Pomponio needs to be part of the future. So, in all, these are large projects for an Marge Blaine the midst of collective chaos and organization of our size. We need your Ginny Rachmani storms of massive change, how is psy - continued support to serve your pro - Contributors choanalysis significant? how does NAAP fessional interests. Pearl Appel respond? Gladys Foxe A colleague from our Western region Jodi Kosofsky Ruth Lijtmaer With an unknown future and a present recently inquired about the value of Merle Molofsky defined by our own history, profession - making contributions to our legislative Robert Quackenbush ally and as an organization that serves fund, writing ‘if I contribute to NAAP’s Farrell Silverberg Roberta Slavin our profession, the steady and sensible legislative fund, am I just contributing to Leah Slivko thing is to continue progress on our New York causes?’ The answer is sim - Jack Wiener initiatives with an ever-expanding sense ple: No. NAAP has had a legislative Robert Winer fund since the founding of NAAP. It Joseph Scalia III of awareness that our environment is changing, rapidly. Being able to respond lies at the heart of our mission. It International Correspondents to the speed of these changes is essen - allows us to advocate whenever the Ann Casement, England tial, while also holding steady in our independence of psychoanalysis is chal - Alberto Fergusson, South America John Gosling, South Africa vision. To that end, we continue to lenged. Without a healthy fund we can Roberto Pani, Italy serve you in NAAP’s mission to not maneuver to protect and advance advance initiatives to protect independ - independent psychoanalysis for you. In Art Director Elliott Hom ent psychoanalysis. turbulent times like ours, psychoanalysis is more relevant than ever. Ensuring its Art Consultant and Cartoonist In a brief overview of 2008 here are place in our cultural future and secur - Robert Quackenbush some of the things that were accom - ing our place in that future as inde - NAAP News , a quarterly publication of NAAP, plished in service to our profession. pendent psychoanalysts, is our mission. reserves the right to edit all copy. Subscriptions NAAP sponsored a stimulating confer - In these turbulent times, NAAP is are part of membership and can be extended ence, chaired by Natalie Riccio, on responding. to non-members for $24 per year. Single copies are available for $6. To subscribe, write to NAAP Listening in the Age of Google. We News, 80 Eighth Avenue, Suite 1501, New York, had the privilege of hearing from David NY 10011; call (212) 741-0515; or e-mail Andelman, Editor of World Policy [email protected] . Journal . Andelman spoke of the impor - Unless noted, no printed matter in NAAP News tance of listening skills and attunement reflects the endorsement or official position of the in foreign policy affairs – critical for our Jennifer Harper National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis or NAAP News . Page 2 Winter 2009 LISTENING IN THE AGE OF GOOGLE: NAAP’S 36TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE The ability to size someone up, says David Andelman, can - Freud called psychoanalysis the “talking cure.” Michael not be too highly prized. Those who possess the skill have a Vannoy Adams calls it the “listening cure.” Although psycho - great advantage over others. For example, it enabled mem - analysis involves talking and listening, Adams emphasizes that bers of the KGB to assess who were the “enemies of the the quality of listening is what matters, “a kind of listening state”, thereby ensuring the incarceration of thousands into radically different from ordinary social listening. “mental hospitals” on account of their “thinking and writing socially or politically unacceptable thoughts.” Conversely, the … Over a century ago, long before the Age of Google, psy - absence of the skill explains how Khrushchev “so underesti - choanalysts recognized that psychic reality is a virtual reality. mated a young John Kennedy in the Cuban Missile Crisis, As Theodor Reik famously says, psychoanalysts listen with [and] how Jimmy Carter totally underestimated an aging the “third ear.” Adams elaborates: “Psychoanalysts have two Leonid Brezhnev and shortly thereafter an elderly cleric in physical ears, but they also have a third, non-physical ear. Teheran, Ayatollah Khomeini.” The third ear is the “mind’s ear.” It is a psychic ear. It is a vir - tual ear. It is a metaphorical ear. Psychoanalysts do not just In his presentation at NAAP’s annual conference last fall, hear sounds. They do not just hear words. They hear what keynote speaker Andelman, who is editor of World Policy the sounds and words mean unconsciously. Listening with Journal and a veteran correspondent, highlighted several the third ear is what enables psychoanalysts to hear the instances in his own life when the skill has proved critical. unconscious–and what it means….” While researching his book A Shattered Peace: Versailles 1919 and the Price We Pay Today, [he] “came to know pret - The Listening Cure: Metaphorical Resonances and the Third ty well…the various world leaders who negotiated what Ear , by Michael Vannoy Adams, will be published later this year. was supposed to be the peace to end all wars. The great failure of this peace process, I have come to believe, was In his presentation, panelist Arnold Richards also spoke of not the greed, envy, and hubris of the great leaders ... but Versailles, specifically the negative effects in the decades fol - rather the colossal failure of Woodrow Wilson to size up lowing that resulted from the actions undertaken by the and understand his European counterparts, especially Great Powers. Britain’s Lloyd George and France’s Clemenceau. Then, dramatically, Richards invited the audience to “make a …Somehow [the] skills [of instantly sizing up and assessing grand leap” with him. He proposed that they “consider the someone] have been lost in recent years. My fear today is establishment of the Board of Professional Standards as the that the vital, critical skills of being able to assess our oppo - Versailles of APsaA and psychoanalysis in the United States. nents and embrace our friends–above all to evaluate and In 1946, the BOPS replaced the Committee on separate the one from the other–are being lost.