the SPRING/SUMMER 2007 AMERICAN Volume 41, No. 2 PSYCHOANALYST Quarterly Magazine of The American Psychoanalytic Association Pedagogical Possibilities INSIDE TAP... in Psychoanalytic Education: Three Models of Training ...... 11 An Educator’s Perspective Psychoanalytic Dawn Skorczewski Dinner for Eight . . . . . 12 When I was first asked to conduct teaching in the thousands of pages that the profession workshops at psychoanalytic institutes, I was has currently devoted to the subject. For Pathways to Teaching somewhat apprehensive, because I knew from example, two recent issues of the Journal of the Undergraduates . . . . 13 my time as an affiliate scholar at the Boston American Psychoanalytic Association (2004, 52.3, Psychoanalytic Society and Institute that psy- and 2006, 54.1) contained a section devoted Unique Partnership Helps choanalytic teaching is a complex and charged to psychoanalytic education, but neither con- Korean Analyst . . . . . 14 subject. But after many exhilarating work- tained more than a passing mention of what shops, I am convinced that there is a place for occurs in actual classrooms. This omission Child Analytic Therapy pedagogical theory in the repertoire of the presents a challenge to the field, a challenge in the South Bronx . . . 16 psychoanalytic educator. that many institutes have begun to meet. It is not surprising that institutes seek edu- When under stress, most of us revert to The Lacanian World . . . 17 cators to help them address pedagogical issues doing what we know best. In the anxiety-pro- with their faculty. After all, psychoanalytic edu- ducing atmosphere of a classroom, psychoana- Psychoanalytic Quarterly cators are a volunteer force, and they often lysts in the roles of teachers often draw upon have little institutional preparation before they their clinical expertise to cope with inevitable Celebrates 75th enter the classroom. How can instructors pedagogical problems. As if in an analytic ses- Anniversary ...... 28 who spend most of their time as analysts learn sion, instructors may remain silent when an to lead productive discussions? How can they important subject is raised. They might refrain enhance participation when discussion seems from directing the conversation, stalled? How do they ensure that candidates while waiting to see what will actually learn something in their classes? develop. They may even decline It is only slight exaggeration to say that the to answer explicit questions about answers to these questions cannot be found the material or fail to create the space in which such questions Dawn Skorczewski, Ph.D., is associate can be raised. And, perhaps most professor of English and American literature destructive to the learning process, and University writing director at Brandeis. they may blame themselves or Her publications include Teaching One their students when things go Moment at a Time: Disruption and wrong, rather than address the Repair in the Classroom and “Whose pedagogical issues that they face Neighborhood is This?: Negotiating within the specific contexts of Authority in the Psychoanalytic Classroom” their psychoanalytic institutes. (Psychoanalytic Quarterly 2004). Continued on page 4

THE AMERICAN PSYCHOANALYST • Volume 41, No. 2 • Spring/Summer 2007 1 CONTENTS: Spring/Summer 2007 THE AMERICAN PSYCHOANALYTIC ASSOCIATION President: K. Lynne Moritz Turning to Our Work Lynne Moritz President-Elect: Prudence Gourguechon 3 Secretary: Jonathan House Farewell Eric J. Nuetzel Treasurer: Warren Procci 5 Executive Director: Dean K. Stein 6 Highlights of the 96th Annual Meeting in Denver June 20–24 Gary Grossman THE AMERICAN PSYCHOANALYST What to Do in Denver While You’re Alive Magazine of the 7 American Psychoanalytic Association Plus Selected Adventures in Colorado Shoshana Shapiro Adler Editor Michael Slevin 9 Experience the New Denver Art Museum Chris Broughton Member, Council of Editors of Psychoanalytic Journals 10 Eating Well in Denver with a Variety of Choices David M. Hurst Associate Editor and International Editor Christine Ury Three Models of Training Daniel H. Jacobs 11 Advisor Jonathan House Psychoanalytic Dinner for Eight 12 Editorial Board New Venue for Diversity Issues Monisha C. Nayar Brenda Bauer, Vera J. Camden, Leslie Cummins, Phillip S. Freeman, Pathways to Teaching Undergraduates Shoshana Shapiro Adler Maxine Fenton Gann, Noreen Honeycutt, 13 Sheri Butler Hunt, Laura Jensen, Unique Partnership Helps Korean Analyst Achieve U.S. Graduation Nadine Levinson, A. Michele Morgan, 14 Julie Jaffee Nagel, Marie Rudden, Scott Dowling Hinda Simon, Lynn Stormon, Vaia Tsolas, Dean K. Stein, ex officio Flourishing Child Analytic Therapy in the South Bronx 16 Senior Correspondent Hilli Dagony-Clark Jane Walvoord Photographer 17 In the Name of the Father and of the Lacanian World Vaia Tsolas Mervin Stewart Consultant Poetry: From the Unconscious Sheri Butler Hunt 19 Prudence Gourguechon COPE: Complexities of Self Disclosure Gerald Melchiode Manuscript and Production Editors 20 Michael and Helene Wolff, Technology Management Communications 21 Councilors Emphasize Shared APsaA Goals Jane Currin Walvoord The American Psychoanalyst is published quar- The Future of BOPS Jane Currin Walvoord terly. Subscriptions are provided automatically 22 to members of The American Psychoanalytic Association. For non-members, domestic and Nadine Levinson 23 2006 Record Year for PEP Canadian subscription rates are $36 for individ- uals and $80 for institutions. Outside the U.S. Honorary Member Awards Go to Bose, McWilliams, and Strozier and Canada, rates are $56 for individuals and 24 $100 for institutions. To subscribe to The American Maxine Gann Psychoanalyst, visit http://store.yahoo.com/ americanpsych/subscriptions.html, or write TAP APsaA Award Winners A. Michele Morgan Subscriptions, The American Psychoanalytic 25 Association, 309 East 49th Street, New York, New Politics and Public Policy: Canadian Single-Payer System: York 10017; call 212-752-0450 x18 or e-mail 26 [email protected]. A Troubled Experiment Bob Pyles Copyright © 2007 The American Psychoanalytic Update Briefs on RICO Bob Pyles Association. All rights reserved. No part of this 27 publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by 28 Psychoanalytic Quarterly Celebrates 75th Anniversary any means without the written permission of The Henry F. Smith American Psychoanalytic Association, 309 East Began with Eminent Author: Sigmund Freud 49th Street, New York, New York 10017. Foundation Helps Bring Unique Psychoanalytic Services 30 ISSN 1052-7958 to Communities Selma Duckler The American Psychoanalytic Association does NAPsaC Launching North American Study Groups Abbot A. Bronstein not hold itself responsible for statements made in 31 The American Psychoanalyst by contributors or advertisers. Unless otherwise stated, material in The American Psychoanalyst does not reflect Correspondence and letters to the editor should be sent to TAP editor, the endorsement, official attitude, or position of The American Psychoanalytic Association or The Michael Slevin, at [email protected]. American Psychoanalyst.

2 THE AMERICAN PSYCHOANALYST • Volume 41, No. 2 • Spring/Summer 2007 FROM THE PRESIDENT

Our governance does not bring greatness. Turning to Our Work We must get our house in order, sweep up Lynne Moritz the detritus of neglect and take up external challenges that have gone inadequately What a pleasure to begin to turn the ener- We have enor- answered in this last decade of internecine gies of this vast APsaA ship toward the work mous potential wars. We must find ways to smooth the paths that psychoanalysis must do in our changing to do good. for members’ actions, and bring to bear our world! Our members clearly informed us in This is our resources to truly make a difference in the the bylaws election that reorganization is not to moment. Science world. This is the best service we can do. take place at this time. This and the moratorium and research are This is the path to greatness. on governance wars, negotiated at the January now validating The following are only selected highlights. meetings, give us all a sorely needed respite; and helping us we can turn now to the work that our Asso- sort through our CHALLENGE 1. INITIATIVE FOR ciation exists to perform—work that benefits guiding tenets SCIENCE AND RESEARCH Lynne Moritz our patients, our profession, and the world. and techniques. A task force of scientists and researchers will Our job, irrespective of our governance Outcome studies are under way. We need be appointed from both members and non- structure, is to promote, protect, and pre- these underpinnings, and we must do all we members to rethink science and research serve psychoanalysis, train psychoanalysts, can to promote and facilitate the science that within the Association, to re-address the efforts serve our members, and deliver up the best of will both improve our efforts and increase our of the Omnibus Science Initiative (the first our collective wisdom. For decades, we have integration into the scientific world. At the task force to take on this task a decade ago), felt helpless to affect massive economic and same time, we need ever greater evidence of and to recommend ways to improve the func- political forces mounted against our worldview the usefulness of our work in the world of ideas tioning of, and support for, science and research in the world beyond our halls. We must ac- and the world of action. We must be pro- throughout the organization. We want the cept a new imperative. Our voice must change moters of psychoanalytic understanding, con- meetings of the Association to be the must-not- the world. Impossible? Not at all. (More below.) tributing what we can contribute everywhere. miss meetings of the year for all who labor in our and related fields.

Our job, irrespective of our governance structure, is to promote, CHALLENGE 2. OUR INTERFACE protect, and preserve psychoanalysis, train psychoanalysts, WITH EDUCATION There is no more foundational issue than serve our members, and deliver up the best of our collective the access each new generation has to infor- wisdom. For decades, we have felt helpless to affect massive mation about psychoanalysis. Prudy Gour- economic and political forces mounted against our worldview guechon has spearheaded a task force to brainstorm issues concerning access to psy- in the world beyond our halls. We must accept a new choanalytic ideas in collegiate education. How- imperative. Our voice must change the world. ever, it is now time to coordinate these efforts with the other committees that deal with our border with education—kindergarten through This is a mission that matters. Even this mo- Our members, as always, are our greatest high school, college, medical, and graduate ment in history invites us: The excesses and asset. This Association must facilitate the education. We have overlapping committees limitations of technology are beginning to be thousand-thousand ways that our multitude and duplication of efforts. felt in neglect of the human spirit. Every- of members contribute to the world at large. where people struggle toward meaning in Every outreach, every creative lectureship, CHALLENGE 3. SOCIETAL ISSUES their lives. Shall we take advantage of these every participation in a public place, every The Division of Societal Issues has been deep currents? And can psychoanalysis once supervision, every group discussion, every like a stepchild to us, despite the fact that again reclaim its place? In my view, we have compassionate act—all the unique and idio- analysts throughout the country are involved much to say and much to offer. Psychoanaly- syncratic opportunities that present them- in an amazing array of real world activities. sis is a voice for humanity, a voice for ethi- selves add to our living presence and visibility Indeed, some bring their analytic skills to bear cal behavior, a meaning-making enterprise. in the world. We must live both in and on very disparate subjects—the homeless, beyond the consulting room. Only through torture victims, city planning, family businesses, Lynne Moritz, M.D., is president of the these multitudes can psychoanalysis achieve prison populations, and more. We need to American Psychoanalytic Association. what lies now as potential only. Continued on page 15

THE AMERICAN PSYCHOANALYST • Volume 41, No. 2 • Spring/Summer 2007 3 AN EDUCATOR’S PERSPECTIVE

Pedagogical Possibilities becoming solo performers. At such times, the table, let’s talk about how you think they Continued from page 1 they are tempted to elicit information from help us understand the case in the article we their students rather than posing genuinely read for this week.” Students and instructors construct shared open-ended questions. Alternatively, in trying And what about the traditional case semi- learning experiences together. As a co-con- to avoid dominating the classroom, they may nar? Very often, candidates report that they structed enterprise, a course succeeds or fails in become relativists, afraid of asserting their are uncertain about the goals of the semi- relation to the involvement of each of its mem- own points of view, and thus lose sight of the nar: What are they supposed to learn from bers in the knowledge-making process. From goals of the class. presentations of process material? Instructors a pedagogical perspective, the teacher’s explicit reveal similar doubts: What are the candi- role is to provide frames through which students TWO EFFECTIVE PRACTICES dates taking away from their discussions that identify, discuss, and debate important con- Are there pedagogical practices that take could be useful in their own practices? Fram- cepts. These might include a detailed syllabus, a into account that there are concepts whose ing the key questions and approaches that set of questions about the reading, and a pre- meaning can be taught without turning psy- will be taken up in the seminar can avert this liminary list of issues that the class will address. choanalytic educators into information-delivery problem. For example: “In this seminar we The teacher’s implicit and perhaps most chal- systems? In teaching workshops, we take up will pursue the question, how does psycho- lenging role is to provide a safe and well-defined this question in relation to the theory and analytic theory inform our practice?” Or: “Let’s space within which to do this work. the case seminars. In the theory course, for return to our focus on what is analytic about Educational theorist Abby J. Hansen sug- example, teachers of difficult texts can utilize the clinical work. Where in what you have gests that “rather than seeing themselves as a two-step process: First, turn the candidates’ heard does the analyst employ analytic terms solo performers, looking for an appreciative attention to the actual text, to what it says, or techniques?” Returning to such questions at audience,” instructors can learn from their where, and how; next, authorize the students each class meeting can focus the group on its students even as they teach. The psychoanalytic themselves as interpreters of the text, rather learning goals and make possible discussions of educators that I have worked with possess than stepping into the role of expert-inter- the learning process. genuine interest in what candidates can con- preter for them. Instructors might ask: “Where Having a focus, keeping it simple, and tribute on their own, but they also report in the text do you see something that relates encouraging debate: three sure ways to find a that in the pressured environment of the class- to a patient you saw this week?” Or “now balance in any classroom. To my mind, these room, they often have to work hard to resist that we have two theories of transference on strategies lead us in more productive direc- tions than comments about “resistant” or “badly analyzed candidates.” In my experi- PRIZE ANNOUNCEMENT ence, while candidates’ performances in class might indicate something about individual candidates, problems in psychoanalytic edu- the cation more commonly stem from the lack of attention to pedagogy as a primary function in the psychoanalytic classroom. Remember, teaching is not analysis, and classroom learn- AnnaFOUNDATION Freud ing is not therapy. Fascinating complicated group and indi- vidual dynamics certainly manifest themselves in all educational encounters. But just as we The Anna Freud Foundation will award a prize of $5,000.00 (five thousand attend to the “third” in the analytic situation, dollars) for the best paper demonstrating how Anna Freud’s theoretical there exists in the classroom a “pedagogical or clinical contributions can effectively address some of the contemporary third,” which involves neither the instruc- challenges in psychoanalysis. Papers, in English only, will be accepted tors alone nor the candidates alone but the until 30 November 2007. They can be sent as attachments via e-mail to knowledge that they construct together. In [email protected] or through ordinary mail channels to Samuel Abrams, our most challenging moments as educa- M.D., Chairman, Anna Freud Foundation, Apt 2D, 25 East 83rd Street, NY, tors, we can return to two simple and related NY,10028, USA. Each paper will be judged by the members of the Board questions: How is the knowledge that we of the Anna Freud Foundation or by experienced designated readers. construct in this course assisting the candi- dates’ development as psychoanalysts? How do my teaching techniques move us towards that goal?

4 THE AMERICAN PSYCHOANALYST • Volume 41, No. 2 • Spring/Summer 2007 FROM THE BOPS CHAIR

The Coordinating Committee consists of Farewell the chairs of all BOPS committees and task Eric J. Nuetzel forces, and functions as an executive com- mittee for the BOPS. I would be remiss if I This year marks my 10th year on the Board its responsibilities did not mention previously unmentioned on Professional Standards (BOPS). I began better than he, committee chairs whose service I have ben- my service as a fellow for the St. Louis Psy- except perhaps efited from and depended upon. They are choanalytic Institute in 1997, and soon found Donald Rosen- Ruth Karush, Kirsten Dahl, William Bernstein, myself appointed to the Committee on Pre- blitt. After I was Mary Scharold, Stephanie Smith, Robert paredness and Progress (COPAP), and on the elected secretary Michels, Melvin Lansky, Robert Emde, Stuart Sponsoring Team for a New Training Facility in May of 2001 Hauser, Gail Reed, and, last but not least, under the direct sponsorship of the Associa- in New Orleans, Mike Singer. Mike has been a real friend and tion, The Greater Kansas City Psychoanalytic I had to leave at an astute adviser. As a BOPS officer, I have

Institute. In 2001, Ronald Benson, a candidate the end of the Eric J. Nuetzel worked with four capable presidents: Dick for BOPS chair, surprised me by asking me to meeting to catch Fox, Newell Fisher, Jon Meyer, and Lynne serve as his secretary. We narrowly won the my flight home. I will never forget Don fol- Moritz. Others to whom I am grateful include election. I have him to thank (and sometimes lowing Ron Benson and me down Canal Robert Glick, Leon Hoffman, Marvin Mar- blame) for the six years I have spent as an offi- Street, so that he could gleefully and enthusi- golis, Alan Compton, Larry Inderbitzin, David cer of the BOPS. Ron has been a trusted astically congratulate us on our victory. He Carlson, Bob Cummings, J. David Miller, the mentor and friend ever since. gave us astute advice that helped us in our incomparable Prudence Gourguechon, all of While secretary, I served as chair of the election, and Don has given me sound advice the BOPS Fellows and all of those who have Committee on the Accreditation of Free- ever since. He embodies the heart and the served on BOPS committees during my terms standing Institutes (CAFI) and of the BOPS Ad soul of the BOPS. of office. Hoc Task Force on Reorganization. Beth Seelig deserves special mention for All of those who I have mentioned helped I became chair-elect in 2003 and started my having had the forbearance to serve as my sec- make difficult work less difficult and more term as chair of the BOPS in June of 2004. It retary during my term as chair. I have known pleasurable. Most serve or have served vol- has been a privilege to serve in these difficult Beth for 30 years; we first met when she had untarily. My greatest concern as I leave office times. The people with whom I have worked just graduated from her psychiatric residency is whether the Association will continue to are among the most dedicated, selfless, and and was serving as an attending psychiatrist attract such fine and dedicated people to capable people I have encountered in my pro- at the New York State Psychiatric Institute at serve in critical and important roles. Work on fessional life. In addition to my family, I want to the Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center, behalf of the Board on Professional Stan- thank a few individuals who have helped me where I was beginning my residency in psy- dards, and on behalf of the Association in immeasurably throughout my service. chiatry. Beth was my first clinical supervisor general, has become hazardous duty. We are When I served on the Sponsoring Team in my psychiatric training. Her help and guid- in danger of destroying ourselves from within. for the Greater Kansas City Institute, the other ance was as helpful to me then as it has been Our Internet listservs dominate the Associa- members of the team were Phyllis Tyson and to me for the last three years. No problem was tion’s discourse between our national meet- George (Mike) Allison. I felt privileged to be too big or too small to warrant her thought- ings. The listservs are wonderful forums for included in such distinguished company. The ful consideration. politics, agitation, and propaganda; they are two of them mentored me as I learned how to I am also grateful that I am leaving the BOPS terrible forums for thoughtful deliberation be helpful to a developing institute. Their ded- in the very capable hands of Cal Narcisi and and deep discourse. The postings too easily ication and commitment to psychoanalytic Myrna Weiss, who will be the next co-chair migrate to negative affect, ad hominem attack, education made an indelible impression. and co-secretary. Cal has served as chair of and destructive illusion. Thus, attempting to The late Larry Chalfin asked me to run for numerous committees and task forces of the conduct the Association’s business via the chair of the BOPS when Benson’s term was BOPS and briefly as its secretary and chair. Internet is unwise. We need to restore a coming to a close. Larry was generous in shar- Myrna has been an energetic fellow of the sense of order and decency in our discourse ing his wisdom with me, and I miss his steady BOPS, and chair of the Committee on Insti- if we expect good and dedicated people to presence. No one understood the BOPS and tutes (COI) for the past six years. The BOPS donate their time and energy to the Associa- could not have two more solid and reliable tion and its work. leaders at the helm. Working with them closely On balance, my time of service has been Eric J. Nuetzel, M.D., is chair of the Board throughout my tenure and during my final, gratifying. I hope those serving the Association on Professional Standards. transitional, year has been and is a privilege. in the future will feel the same way.

THE AMERICAN PSYCHOANALYST • Volume 41, No. 2 • Spring/Summer 2007 5 JUNE MEETING

Highlights of the 96th Annual Meeting in Denver June 20–24 Gary Grossman Photo: Ron Ruhoff for Denver Metro Convention & Visitors Bureau Convention & Visitors for Denver Metro Photo: Ron Ruhoff

The June meeting is rapidly approaching Identity: Perspectives on the Adolescent Affiliate members are also well represented and if the beauty of Denver and its surround- Experience.” Robert Galatzer-Levy will pre- at the June meeting. Beverly Betz will chair ing area isn’t enough to entice you to come to sent, with Peter Daniolos, H. Michael Meagher, the Affiliates’ Forum on Wednesday afternoon Colorado, then surely the exciting program for and Barbara Novak offering their perspectives. with presenters Jack Novick and Kerry Kelly the 96th Annual Meeting will do the trick. “Unattainable Goals in Analysis,” chaired by Novick. Lisa Anne Miller, the runner-up for the Attendees will have four two-day Clinical Owen Renik, is the Saturday afternoon panel 2006 Affiliate Council Scientific Paper Prize, will Workshops to choose from. Dominique Scar- and features Henry Friedman, Steven Cooper, present her paper, “The Importance of Lan- fone, from Montreal and an authority on the and Margaret-Ann Fitzpatrick Hanly from guage to Self Regulation,” on Friday morning. contributions of Laplanche, will be the fea- Toronto. The final panel, “What Do Second Meeting attendees interested in the inter- tured discussant for the Workshop in Analytic Analysts Learn about the First Analyses,” with section of psychoanalysis and the arts will not Technique and Process,chaired by Irene Cairo. Maxine Anderson, Ted Jacobs, Dominique leave Denver disappointed. The Psychoanaly- Alternatively, Nancy Chodorow chairs another Scarfone, and Gerald Fogel as chair will be on sis and Film Series, chaired by Bruce Sklarew, Analytic Technique and Process Workshop Sunday morning. presents “Traumatic Bereavement and Chil- featuring Herb Schlesinger. For those inter- The recent attention to the quality of med- dren” with a screening of the 1952 French film, ested in psychotherapy technique and process, ical treatment received by soldiers returning Forbidden Games, directed by René Clement. Alan Pollack will chair a workshop with Ted from Iraq and Afghanistan makes the Presi- Esther Rashkin, professor of language and Jacobs as discussant. The Child and Adolescent dential Symposium,“Combat Stress and Men- literature from the University of Utah, whose Workshop features Denver Psychoanalytic tal Health Response,” on Friday afternoon areas of interest include French and compar- Institute’s Rex McGehee, a training and super- especially relevant. Chaired by Lynne Moritz, ative literature, film from around the globe, vising analyst and director of the Child Psy- the presenters include Stuart Twemlow, cultural studies, and psychoanalysis, will be choanalytic Training Program. Stephen Sonnenberg, and Kenneth Reich. the discussant. Finally, the Friday afternoon The five panels offer a varied group of Twemlow will also be the presenter for University Forum,“Improvising in Words and speakers and topics. Friday afternoon’s panel, Saturday’s Symposium, “Mental Health and Music: Finding a Way in Jazz and Free Associ- “Current Perspectives on Psychoanalytic Managed Care: Where We’ve Been, Where ation,” is a unique event. Presenters include Termination,” chaired by Mary Margaret We’re Going, and Why It Matters,” chaired by innovative jazz trombonist and the Edwin H. McClure, features a presentation by Mayer Bruce Sutor. Case Professor of Music at Columbia Univer- Subrin followed by contributions from Glen Our plenary speaker will be Jay Greenberg. sity, George E. Lewis, and Krin Gabbard, pro- Gabbard, Alice Jones, and Jack Novick. Satur- Known for his contributions in relational psy- fessor of comparative literature and English, day morning’s,“Uncommon Misery: Modern choanalysis, Greenberg will present a paper State University of New York, Stony Brook, Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Infertility,” entitled “Choice” Friday morning following the author of Jammin’ at the Margins: Jazz and the chaired by Harriet Wolfe, will include pre- Meeting of Members. Established in 2006, the American Cinema, and editor of Jazz among sentations by Judy Chused, Jane Kite, and Gertrude and Ernst Ticho Memorial Lecture the Discourses and Representing Jazz. Our Judy Yanof. The Child and Adolescent Panel honors an early to mid-career analyst who is analyst moderators will be Henry Schwartz chaired by Judy Chertoff, also on Saturday currently making contributions to psycho- and Richard Karmel, from Montreal, who is morning, is entitled,“Development of Sexual analysis and shows promise of continued future also a jazz musician and co-editor of Psycho- contributions. The lecture is generously sup- analytic Explorations in Music. Gary Grossman, Ph.D., is a member and ported by a grant from the Ernst and Gertrude With a multifaceted scientific program such faculty of the San Francisco Psychoanalytic Ticho Charitable Trust. This year’s recipient is as this one and the blue sky and majestic Institute and Society and a member of Kim Leary, who will present her paper,“In the peaks of Colorado, this is a June meeting not APsaA’s Program Committee. Decisive Moment,” on Friday afternoon. to be missed!

6 THE AMERICAN PSYCHOANALYST • Volume 41, No. 2 • Spring/Summer 2007 DENVER SITES

What to Do in Denver While You’re Alive Plus Selected Adventures in Colorado

Shoshana Shapiro Adler

A gold strike sparked the founding of Den- ver almost 150 years ago. More than a cow town, even though the national stock show is held every January, the city boasts spectacular views of the Rocky Mountains to the west and has become a cultural and scientific cen- ter for the surrounding six-state area. The Denver metropolitan area has about 2.6 mil- lion residents; roughly 550,000 live within the Mile High City itself. No trip to Denver is complete without getting a taste of its modern culture, Old West frontier influences, and the surrounding Rocky Mountains.

MODERN CULTURE Make sure you return to the Denver Art Museum after the Tuesday evening gala to

explore the new titanium-clad building designed Bureau Convention & Visitors for Denver Metro Photo: Ron Ruhoff by Daniel Libeskind. During June, temporary Denver from City Park. exhibits include Japanese art, contemporary art from the collection of Vicki and Kent Logan, the Way to the Forum. Make reservations now The Roads Water-Smart Garden, Dryland and contemporary American Indian art because tickets go quickly. Mesa, and the Laura Smith Porter Plains Garden (www.denverartmuseum.org). [See “Experi- The Denver Museum of Nature and Science provide drought-tolerant gardening models. ence the New Denver Art Museum,” page 9.] (www.dmns.org) has the usual dinosaurs and The Tropical Conservatory and Japanese Gar- The Denver Center for the Performing Arts wildlife dioramas, but also features unique den showcase plants from around the world. (www.denvercenter.org), the second largest exhibits on gems and minerals (found both Spend time strolling through downtown performing arts center in the U.S., features locally and globally), North American Indian Denver, one of the nation’s most walkable two shows during the June APsaA meetings: cultures, and the Hall of Life (which includes cities, and stop in at the Tattered Cover Book The Taffetas: A Musical Journey through the interactive exhibits about physical health and Store (www.tatteredcover.com), Denver’s Fabulous Fifties and A Funny Thing Happened on performance). Moreover, it sports a planetar- favorite independently owned bookstore. Find ium and an Imax a book and a comfortable armchair and read. theater with ever- For family fun, visit the Denver Zoo (www. changing programs. denver.zoo.org), Water World (America’s Check out the largest family water park (www.waterworld Denver Botanic colorado.com), the Butterfly Pavilion and Gardens (www. Insect Center (www.butterflies.org), the Chil- botanicgardens. dren’s Museum (www.cmdenver.org), and org), one of the the U.S. Mint (www.usmint.gov for advance top-ranking botanic reservations). gardens in the Shopping: In downtown Denver visit the world. Western 16th Street Mall, especially the Denver Pavil- Panoramas, Sacred ions, and historic Larimer Square. Within a Earth, and the Heir- 15-minute cab drive from the Marriott City loom Garden focus Center is Cherry Creek Mall, which includes on characteristic Neiman Marcus, Saks Fifth Avenue, and Macy’s. Photo: Stan Obert for Denver Metro Convention & Visitors Bureau Photo: Stan Obert Convention & Visitors for Denver Metro Denver Performing Arts Complex. Western themes. Continued on page 8

THE AMERICAN PSYCHOANALYST • Volume 41, No. 2 • Spring/Summer 2007 7 DENVER SITES

What to Do in Denver Vapor Caves. Other highlights of Glenwood Continued from page 7 Springs include ghost tours at the Hotel Col- orado, biking, rafting on the Colorado River, Across the street from the mall is Cherry and spelunking in the Glenwood Caverns and Creek North, where you can walk through Fairy Cave. blocks of unique boutiques, artisan shops, side- Admire and even climb into the astonishing walk cafes, and art galleries. cliff buildings at Mesa Verde National Park, Stop in RockMount Ranch Wear and say which is an eight-hour drive from Denver. hello to “Papa Jack,” who at 106 is the oldest Hike in the Great Sand Dunes National working CEO in the world. He opened the Park, which is open 24 hours a day. Watch how company in 1946 and first sold and popular- the blue Medano Creek meets the tan, desert- ized the snap button Western shirts that have like landscape. Step into the refreshing water, been favorites with everyone from Clark Gable if it is flowing. and Elvis to Bob Dylan and Bruce Spring- For further information, go to www. steen. A free museum tells the RockMount colorado.com, www.denver.org, and www. story and the history of Western apparel in denver365.com. Read more about adven- America (www.rockmount.com). tures in Colorado in an article from the Jan. If you are from the Northeast or California, 21, 2007, issue of the Denver Post, “Top 10 take a tour of the houses in Hilltop,Washing- Things to Do [in Colorado] Before You Die,” ton Park, Cherry Creek, Denver Country Club, www.denverpost.com.

and Cherry Hills. For the price of a one-bed- Bureau Convention & Visitors Photo: Denver Metro Denver’s 16th Street Mall runs through room apartment in Manhattan, you can own a the heart of downtown Denver and offers mansion here. free shuttle service. Contacting the SAMPLING THE OLD WEST See a buffalo herd from I-70 exit 250, and National Office Do you want to experience a taste of the learn more about Buffalo Bill Cody (www. old frontier in Denver city itself? Go to Four buffalobill.org) at his namesake museum on The American Mile Historic Park (www.fourmilepark.org), nearby Lookout Mountain. Psychoanalytic Association just four miles from downtown Denver, which Finally, climb the steps almost to the top 309 East 49th Street was once an inn and stage stop. The park also of the recently renovated, gold-domed Col- New York, NY 10017 includes Denver’s oldest standing structure. orado State Capitol Building (303-866-3521; Phone: 212-752-0450 Remember the Titanic? Visit the Molly Brown e-mail: [email protected] for more information Fax: 212-593-0571 House Museum (www.mollybrown.org). The on tours). E-mail: [email protected] last tour of the day starts at 3:30 p.m. World Wide Web Site: EXPLORING COLORADO http://apsa.org/ Take extra time to visit the mountains. Pikes Peak with its cog National Office railway is an hour-and-a-half ride from Denver. Drive up the Mount Voice Mail Extensions Evans Scenic Byway, less than an Chris Broughton x19 hour from Denver. Then park and Brian Canty x17 hike one-quarter mile to the top Debra L. Eder x21 of Mount Evans at 14,264 feet. Sherkima Edwards x15 For an easy trip, take the train Tina Faison x23 157 miles west of Denver (www. Carolyn Gatto x20 amtrak.com) to Glenwood Springs Dottie Jeffries x29 and soak in “the world’s largest Lisa Jong x28 improved hot springs pool” Nerissa Steele x16 (www.hotspringspool.com) for Dean K. Stein x30 one or two nights. You can also Debbie Steinke Wardell x26 Photo: O’Hara Photography for the Denver Metro Convention & Visitors Bureau Convention & Visitors Photo: O’Hara Photography for the Denver Metro Lyvett Velazquez x12 Denver Museum of Nature & Science swim laps, ride the water slide, has an outstanding collection of exhibits. or steam in the nearby Yampah

8 THE AMERICAN PSYCHOANALYST • Volume 41, No. 2 • Spring/Summer 2007 DENVER ART MUSEUM

Experience the New Denver Art Museum Chris Broughton

This past October the Denver Art Museum (DAM) opened its dynamic Frederic C. Hamilton Building to much fanfare. Designed by acclaimed architect Daniel Libeskind—his first museum in the United States—the addition features sharp, dramatic angles inspired by the Rocky Mountains and the geometric rock crystals found in the foothills near Den- ver. The new titanium-clad addition has nearly doubled the museum’s size, cre- ating 40,000 square feet of new gallery space for the permanent collection and 20,000 square feet for special exhibi- tions, along with an auditorium and a museum shop. With its extreme angles, asymmetrical design and reflective sur- face, the building is a challenge to visitors Courtesy of the Denver Art Museum. Photo: Kevin Hester. and to the artwork it holds. • Radar: Selections from the Collec- metro area via RTD, the Regional Trans- The choice of Libeskind continues tion of Vicki and Kent Logan is an portation District. For bus and light rail DAM’s commitment to bold, experimental exciting exhibition of contemporary information, visit www.rtd-denver.com. architecture, inaugurated by its 1971 glass- art from the collection of these Col- The museum is open Tuesday through clad building, now called the North Build- orado residents. It will be on view Sunday; Tuesday and Thursday, 10 a.m.-5 ing, the only building in the United States through July 15. p.m.,Wednesday and Friday, 10 a.m.-10 p.m., designed by noted Milanese architect Gio • Breaking the Mold: The Virginia Vogel and Saturday and Sunday, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. The Ponti. The new Libeskind building makes Mattern Collection of Contempo- museum issues timed tickets to all visitors the Ponti seem a bit conservative, but with rary Native American Art is an eclec- to prevent overcrowding in the galleries and its 24-sided design, reflective and facetted tic collection of objects; pots, paintings, recommends ordering tickets in advance, glass tiles, the castlelike North Building and textiles by a diverse group of especially if you plan to visit on a weekend holds up its end of the architectural con- artists. It will be on view through or holiday. To learn more or order tickets, versation. The two buildings now create a August 19. be sure to visit the museum’s excellent dynamic pairing of architectural voices in • Japanese Art: From the Collection Web site at www.denverartmuseum.org the heart of downtown Denver. of Kimoko and John Powers features for a wealth of information about the In addition to the museum’s renowned about 120 pieces of art; scrolls, screens, museum and all it has to offer. permanent collections, including those of sculptures, and lacquerware American Indian art as well as Western spanning 12 centuries and will American art, three temporary exhibitions be on view through July 8. are currently on display. Located on 13th Avenue between Broadway and Bannock Chris Broughton is APsaA’s registration Streets in downtown Denver, the coordinator and a working artist. museum is part of the Civic Center He holds an M.F.A. from Yale and has Cultural Complex. The museum is received various awards, including the less than a mile from the Denver Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award. Marriott City Center, site of APsaA’s He is represented in New York by the June meeting. The museum can be

Senior & Shopmaker Gallery. reached from anywhere in the Courtesy Wells. of the Denver ArtPhoto: Jeff Museum.

THE AMERICAN PSYCHOANALYST • Volume 41, No. 2 • Spring/Summer 2007 9 DINING IN DENVER

Eating Well in Denver with a Variety of Choices David M. Hurst

Though we’re not New York, New Orleans, If you feel adventurous, Shorty Zietz’s Buck- or San Francisco—nobody comes here just horn Exchange, 1000 Osage Street (303-534- for the food—you can eat well here within 9505), is Denver’s oldest restaurant and has walking distance of the Marriott City Center, liquor license number one to prove it. The at 17th Street and California Street, where atmosphere is colorful and historic with shaggy you will be staying. animal heads and rifles hanging from the walls. On one block alone, Larimer between 14th Here you can try Rocky Mountain oysters and 15th, there are several restaurants you (don’t ask) or rattlesnake. It’s not too far but might try. Rioja, 1431 Larimer (303-820-2282), best to take a taxi. Photo: Robert Castillino for Denver Metro Convention & Visitors Bureau Photo: Robert Convention & Visitors Castillino for Denver Metro has wonderful “contemporary” food. Since it Further afield, requiring a knowledgeable Outdoor cafe in Larimer Square. is noisy, ask for a table in the back room and friend with a car, is the Fort, modeled after reserve two weeks in advance. At Bistro Bent’s Fort, an historic frontier trading post, Wynkoop (303-296-0800); Sullivan’s, 18th and Vendome (303-825-3232), just across the Morrison at the intersection of Highways 285 Wazee (303-295-2664); Capital Grille, 1450 street at 1424 Larimer, it is easier to get a and 8 (303-697-4771). Dinner only. From its Larimer (303-539-2500); The Palm, 17th and table on short notice. It is run by the same perch in the foothills, the Denver lights sparkle Lawrence (303-825-7256); and Ruth’s Chris, young chef, Jennifer Jasinski, only in a Parisian like jewels at night (beginning about nine in 15th and Market (303-446-2233). mode. Tamayo, 1400 Larimer (720-946-1433), late June). The Fort’s buffalo steaks, ordered Here in Denver, we have more Mexican offers dining on the roof al fresco, a good medium rare, may rival Morton’s New York food than you have at home, unless you’re choice in June, and serves beautifully prepared strip, but that’s like comparing apples and from San Diego or El Paso, but few such estab- and presented modern Mexican food. oranges. Morton’s New York strip has no peer, lishments are worth going out of your way for. Even closer to the hotel, outstanding 17th and Wynkoop (303-825-3353). My favorite, El Taco de Mexico, 7th and Santa Italian food served by knowledgeable wait- There are several other steak houses to Fe Drive (303-623-3926), happens to be not staff in most appealing surroundings may be choose from not far from the meetings, in- far from the meetings, but you’ll need a cab. found at Panzano, 17th and Champa Street cluding The Denver Chop House, 19th and I heard about it from house staff of a nearby (303-296-3525). hospital 25 years ago. This bright yellow corner Kevin Taylor Restaurant at 14th and Ara- diner where you eat at the counter or carry pahoe (303-820-2600) offers a three-course food to one of the few tables has been con- prix-fixe menu at $45. Some people feel this sistently excellent. Try the chili relleno burrito is Denver’s finest restaurant. I prefer Mizuna, smothered in green chili with extra cheese or at 7th and Grant Street (303-832-3532), a taco plate, three soft corn tacos filled with which requires a short cab ride. For either of marinated pork, tongue, or cheek meat, a little these, reserve well in advance and plan to lighter for a midday meal with no time for a spend some relaxed time. The servers are siesta. Very inexpensive, no reservations taken. knowledgeable about food and wine. Frank Watercourse Foods is an inexpensive veg- Bonanno owns Mizuna and also Luca d’Italia, etarian restaurant not far from the meetings. another good choice, around the corner The atmosphere is funky and the kids that (303-832-6600). cook, serve, and eat there are friendly although exotic, heavily pierced, and tattooed. Get direc- tions or a cab to 837 17th Avenue at Emerson David M. Hurst, M.D., is training and Street (303-832-7313). Breakfast, lunch, and supervising analyst at the Denver Institute dinner are served. for Psychoanalysis and clinical professor For a quick, inexpensive breakfast or lunch of psychiatry at the University of Colorado

Photo: Denver Metro Convention & Visitors Bureau Convention & Visitors Photo: Denver Metro without reservations and within walking dis- Health Sciences Center. He completed The Buckhorn Exchange, tance, I suggest Zaidy’s Deli at 15th and Law- Denver’s 113-year-old restaurant and saloon. two terms as secretary of the American Serving prime beef and buffalo steaks, ribs, rence, or The Delectable Egg at 1625 Court Psychoanalytic Association in 1997. and elk in a genuine Old West setting. Place or 1642 Market. Mangia bene.

10 THE AMERICAN PSYCHOANALYST • Volume 41, No. 2 • Spring/Summer 2007 IPA EDUCATION MODELS

THE FRENCH MODEL Three Models of Training The personal analysis of the candidate is Daniel H. Jacobs placed strictly outside the realm of training. The French model does not recognize a “training” In order to re-examine the standards for questions: 1) Could they describe the ration- analysis and has no position of training analyst. analytic training that the IPA has required of its ale and philosophy that underlie their model? Any analyst who is an IPA member can do the constituent organizations and their institutes, 2) Was there a greater emphasis on breadth candidate’s analysis. One of the major goals a new IPA Education Committee (EC) was of knowledge and experience versus depth of the personal analysis is to clarify and work formed in 2005. Its task was to study in greater (e.g., study of one theory or many, the fre- out the unconscious motivations behind one’s detail the three models of education recognized quency with which analysands were to be wish to become an analyst. This analytic work by the IPA (Eitingon, French, and Uruguayan) seen)? 3) What concept of the process and takes place, for the most part, prior to the can- that are, with some variations, currently in use. progression of psychoanalytic education was didate’s application for admission to training. Members of the committee are chair, Shmuel manifest in their model? 4) How were power There are no training requirements governing Erlich (Israel), Sander M. Abend (American and authority structured within their model? the frequency of personal analyses. Patient APsaA),Aloysio d’Abreu (Brazil), Marie France All three models employ, in some form, a tri- and analyst, based on clinical indications, decide Dispaux (Belgium), Fernando Weissmann partite model of education: didactics, personal upon the number of visits per week. (Argentina), and I. Otto Kernberg (American analysis, and supervision. The terms used to In the French model power and authority APsaA) serves as consultant. describe the different models are not meant to seem more diffuse. The Training Committee is In its first meeting in New York, December imply any geographical limitations as to where within the psychoanalytic society to which it is 17-18, 2005, the EC decided on the method models are employed. What follows will be democratically answerable. There is no inde- for better understanding the three models. only a brief description of the EC findings. pendent psychoanalytic institute that is estab- The committee members divided into three The full report may be obtained from the lished as a separate entity. Although there is teams, each team charged with studying one offices of the IPA. no position of training analyst, one needs to be of the models by interviewing leading edu- appointed as a supervising analyst, a position of cators associated with the particular model. THE EITINGON MODEL some prestige. Supervision is often conducted This stage of the work was completed in The education of an analyst requires three in groups with emphasis on understanding of April 2006. The IPA board accepted the equally important components: a training the countertransference. Much of the training final report of the EC, written by Erlich, in analysis, a determined didactic curriculum, focuses on Freud’s writings and current explo- July 2006. The three models of education it and supervised analytic experience. That rations of it. described were established as the minimum these three parts of the education should standards and criteria of qualification and take place simultaneously is thought desirable. THE URUGUAYAN MODEL admission to IPA membership. As the EC Although there are many attempts to further This model is, in part, a reaction to what was report was primarily descriptive, the same democratize education under this system, felt to be a previously existing excessive con- committee has now been asked by the the Eitingon model often places the invest- centration of power in a group of training board to codify their findings into “minimal ment of power in the person and role of analysts. It represents an attempt to ensure that standards or requirements” under each of the training analyst and in the Education or training becomes a more democratic, free, the models. Should the board approve these Training Committee made up primarily of and equitable endeavor. It attempts to do so by standards in July in Berlin, they will aid the TAs. A candidate must have an analysis with allocating training functions to four different IPA in carrying out its oversight and consul- a TA, who is non-reporting. It is expected, groups of analysts, each charged with organ- tative functions. however, that the training analysis will be izing and conducting one specific aspect of Educators selected from the three different conducted on a frequency of four to five training: admission, supervision, personal analy- models of training were asked a number of times a week. Candidates, too, are expected sis, and teaching. A graduate analyst can choose to see their three required analytic patients at to which group he or she wishes to belong. the same frequency. A considerable amount of personal analysis Daniel H. Jacobs, M.D., is a training In terms of breadth and depth, there is no is required (usually three years or more) before and supervising analyst at the Boston unanimity among the users of this model. In admission and is expected to continue during Psychoanalytic Institute, supervising analyst North America there is a tendency to favor training, usually another five years. Personal at the Florida and Cincinnati Psychoanalytic wider exposure to analytic theories, reflecting analysis is conducted at a minimum of three Institutes, and director of the Center for course offerings in a variety of approaches times a week with intensification of frequency Advanced Psychoanalytic Studies. In June, and theories. Nevertheless, there does seem during periods of significant regression. The he will become co-director of APsaA’s to be agreement about the desirability of analyst needs to be a member of the IPA. Committee on Institutes. teaching a core Freudian conflict theory. Continued on page 19

THE AMERICAN PSYCHOANALYST • Volume 41, No. 2 • Spring/Summer 2007 11 DINNER FOR EIGHT

The first Dinner for Eight meeting was held Psychoanalytic Dinner for Eight during the January 2007 meeting in New York. The group, comprised of analysts from New Venue for Diversity Issues around the country, met at a local restaurant Monisha C. Nayar for an informal dialogue. Free of bureaucratic pressures, the group could indulge in an hon- David Brandt has called the “pale-skinned northwest corner est exploration of personal feelings, moving had a vision. of the United States,” their minority population from surface issues to more personal accounts President of has doubled in the last decade! Inspired by of what it felt like to be with someone who George Fox their story and encouraged by the fruitful was different. The richly textured dialogue University, a replication of this program in other commu- yielded several salient points. small univer- nities with different venues, the Committee There was wide acknowledgment that the sity in Oregon, on Racial and Ethnic Diversity (CORED) psychoanalytic literature was sadly remiss in Brandt decided appointed two members from its group to the incorporation of cultural and racial issues to develop a develop and initiate a similar program for the in its case reports. As someone said, “We program to re- members of APsaA. This is one program in a notice when someone does not talk about his cruit and retain series of concerted efforts by CORED to mother; it is an omission that alerts us and we Monisha C. Nayar minorities in the increase understanding of racial and cultural ask at some point about this omission, but university. The program, titled “Blueprint for issues within the Association. Since its incep- when someone does not bring up his culture, Diversity,” developed a series of strategies to tion in 1996, CORED has offered a variety of why do we not regard that as an omission as examine racial, cultural, and gender diversity seminars, discussion groups, culturally sensitive well?” In response, someone added that per- with the promise of increased enrollment of movies, and workshops as part of outreach haps our analytical identities have evolved minority applicants. programs to inform members and introduce within the context of “cultural neutrality.” It is One of the strategies intended for alumni psychoanalytically informed understanding of as though writing about culture is “unanalytical.” was called “Dinner for Eight.” Sponsored by such issues. Continued on page 15 the alumni association of the university, the dinners provided an informal forum for uni- versity graduates to network, share ideas, and Other Diversity Efforts and Concerns develop collegial relationships with each other. The philosophy behind Dinner for Eight, Efforts in this area by others have included the January 2006 issue of the which was hosted by faculty members, was Psychoanalytic Quarterly, which was devoted entirely to such matters, and the panel simply this: When people can engage in a discussion on racial and cultural issues within the clinical setting held during the free-floating exchange of ideas, wonderful Winter 2006 Meeting. But there are certain organizational facts that still warrant things begin to happen. Free of rules and reg- further attention. These include the following: ulations imposed by bylaws, minute taking, and the implicit constraints of a larger organi- • The number of minority applicants applying for psychoanalytical training zational structure, people feel free to explore continues to decrease. feelings, attitudes, and beliefs. • Several institutes do not have any minority candidates or graduate analysts. The university’s program, of which Dinner for Eight was a part, proved to be a resound- • Although some institutes offer courses on cultural issues, many do not. The scant ing success. Although traditionally drawing academic attention paid to issues of diversity conveys several negative messages their students from what a university official for candidates, faculty, and mental health professionals who might seek training. • Few members attend the programs offered by CORED. When they do, the discussions rarely allow for in-depth sensitive exploration of personal feelings and attitudes. Typically, explication of countertransference reactions within the context Monisha C. Nayar, Ph.D., trained at of clinical situations and case presentations becomes the only forum for examining the Michigan Psychoanalytic Institute and cultural and racial issues. The analysts, it appears, remain otherwise blind to their now practices in suburban Philadelphia. own biases and beliefs. She is interested in issues of cultural diversity, psychic trauma, neuropsychoanalysis, and These critical personal and organizational issues need greater attention from transformations of play during child therapy psychoanalysis. and analysis.

12 THE AMERICAN PSYCHOANALYST • Volume 41, No. 2 • Spring/Summer 2007 TEACHING UNDERGRADUATES

LYNN FRIEDMAN, PH.D. Pathways to Teaching Undergraduates Lynn Friedman began teaching undergrad- Shoshana Shapiro Adler uates while a graduate student in clinical psy- chology at the University of Pittsburgh. She The 10,000 Minds Project of the American as an unpaid guest lecturer in abnormal psy- taught numerous courses at Carnegie Mel- Psychoanalytic Association, funded in part chology when a psychology professor who lon University, including abnormal psychology, through a generous grant from the Devel- knew of his teaching at the medical school a seminar in intervention, personality theory, oping Psychoanalytic Practice and Training called him to teach. About 10 years ago, he and a clinical research internship. Since 1999, Program (DPPT) of the International Psy- received an academic appointment in the she has given courses on organizational con- choanalytical Association, focuses on ways of psychology department at Virginia Wesleyan. sultation and program evaluation at the Johns reaching undergraduate college students and He then contacted one of the professors in Hopkins Business School as well as psycho- informing them about psychoanalytic ideas psychology at Old Dominion University, whom analysis in the Johns Hopkins clinical counseling (both theory and practice). [See Lisa Damour, he knew from community relationships, and program. (See her informative article, “How “APsaA’s Web Resource the Analyst Can Become for College Teachers,”TAP a University Lecturer” for 40/4.] suggestions at http:// For a number of years, www.drlynnfriedman.com/ APsaA has been aware psychoanalystadvocacy of a few analysts who teach.html. have found their way onto campuses to teach ROSEMARY COGAN, undergraduates. So we PH.D. set out on a quest to find Rosemary Cogan was out just how they got already teaching full-time there, in hopes of guiding in the psychology depart- other analysts with similar ment at Texas Tech Uni- interests. I interviewed versity, which has 27,000 five psychoanalysts on students, in West Texas, how they started teaching when she started com- undergraduates. muting to Dallas for train- My five interviewees ing in psychoanalysis. Her included three physicians and two psychologists asked if he might help her. The result? He teachings at Texas Tech include human sexual- who entered undergraduate teaching through has taught abnormal psychology and current ity, psychoanalytic theory and research, history various methods: Two returned to graduate psychoanalytic theories at Virginia Wesleyan of psychology (a graduate-level course), and school to pursue academic interests; one as well as psychodynamic psychology for first- psychology laboratory. Responding to the need taught as a graduate student; another worked year Psy.D. students in the Virginia Consortium for students to write intensively and the view as a professor before she became a psycho- Program run by Old Dominion University, that psychoanalysis lacked research, she devel- analyst; and a fifth started as a guest lecturer the College of William and Mary, Eastern oped a course on psychoanalytic theory and for a psychology professor. Virginia Medical School, and Norfolk State research, which filled up immediately—a sign University. Moreover, he has lectured to high that students were eager for such a learning JEROME BLACKMAN, M.D. school, medical, and graduate school students opportunity. Cogan has taught the course five Jerome Blackman began his career in under- on topics as varied as Freud and modern times, each time using one of Freud’s major graduate education at Virginia Wesleyan College European history, supportive therapies, nar- case studies about psychopathology (except cissism, and psychoanalytic underpinnings of for Schreber). Students underline and list psychopathology. Freud’s hypotheses, and find 90 to 100 testable Shoshana Shapiro Adler, Ph.D., a child In addition to his teaching, Blackman has hypotheses, one of which is chosen for a study and adult analyst and psychologist, is an written two excellent resources for under- with institutional review board approval. The assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at graduate educators: 101 Defenses: How the students then review the literature and either the University of Colorado Health Sciences Mind Shields Itself, New York, Routledge, 2003, collect or use existing data. Twice, the students’ Center and a faculty member of the Denver and DCM: Diagnostic and Clinical Manual of work has resulted in publishable positive find- Institute for Psychoanalysis. She practices Disturbances of Mental Functioning, 2001, which ings with the students listed as co-authors. in Southeast Denver. he distributes. Continued on page 18

THE AMERICAN PSYCHOANALYST • Volume 41, No. 2 • Spring/Summer 2007 13 UNIQUE PARTNERSHIP

Cleveland for further seminars, supervision, Unique Partnership Helps Korean and case presentations each year. He also continued training activities with the IPA group Analyst Achieve U.S. Graduation both in Korea and the United States. Scott Dowling His reputation and responsibilities in Korea rapidly increased. Today he is the director of the Jaehak Yu and the Cleveland Psychoanalytic Department of Psychiatry of Cleveland’s Uni- psychiatry department at Konkuk University Center recently celebrated Yu’s graduation versity Hospitals. Robert Ronis, then training Hospital and active in both psychiatric and psy- from the Psychoanalyst Training Program of the director, was creatively helpful. He arranged choanalytic development in Korea. There are few center. His odyssey is an unusual one, involving the residency and the funding that enabled Yu fully trained analysts in Korea; presently three extraordinary sacrifices by him and his family and his family to come to Cleveland. are recognized by the IPA, not yet enough to and an unusual partnership of the center with Yu arrived in July 1997, accompanied by his establish a training facility there. Yet the clamor University Hospitals Department of Psychiatry wife Eunmee and their two children, Jeeyoon, by young psychiatrists for personal analysis and (UH), the American Psychoanalytic Association, then 7 years old, and Jeeho, 4 years old. The for didactic training in analytic psychotherapy and the International Psychoanalytical Associ- family agrees that those early months of cultural is enormous; 15 are graduated each year from ation (IPA). and language adjustment were the most diffi- an introductory psychoanalytic psychotherapy Yu lives in Seoul, South Korea, where he cult part of the experience. Improving their lan- course, taught in part by the trained analysts and grew up and received medical and psychiatric guage skills (easier for the children than for the in part by others with partial training. training. Contacts with the Korean Study Group adults), starting his analysis, beginning a repeat In the summer of 2005, Yu’s skills as a clini- of the IPA, a group dedicated to developing psychiatric residency, and starting psychoanalytic cian were examined and recognized by the IPA, psychoanalytic training in South Korea, stimu- classes and seminars required a tremendous according him full status as an active member lated his interest in training. Robert Tyson of amount of work and emotional energy. But, of the IPA. Although accredited by the IPA, he San Diego, one of the IPA group, was especially as his American teachers have come to know chose to continue his work with the Cleveland encouraging and through him Yu inquired and respect, Yu not only shoulders burdens Psychoanalytic Center so that he would grad- about training in Cleveland as well as at other without complaint but, struggling against the uate from an APsaA training program. He centers. Complicating the proposed training odds, turns them into notable successes. fulfilled our requirements and achieved active membership in APsaA in January 2007. Today he is the director of the psychiatry department An additional benefit of the long and pro- ductive association between Yu and his analytic at Konkuk University Hospital and active in both supervisors at the Cleveland Psychoanalytic psychiatric and psychoanalytic development in Korea. Center is a profound awareness of the similar- ity of the human condition in American and Korean analysands, the universality of conflicts of was the requirement that he have simultane- Yu’s psychoanalytic training progressed well. sexuality and aggression, and the psychological ous additional training in psychiatry in the U.S. He completed his residency at UH and went toll of anxiety and depression in both cultures At that time. Yu was struggling with English and on to postdoctoral specialty training in child that surround experiences of abandonment, his familiarity with the U.S. and with psychiatric psychiatry and addiction psychiatry. His course loneliness, injury, shame, and guilt. Though the practice here was limited. work in psychoanalysis progressed and he took culture and language of the two countries are The Cleveland Psychoanalytic Center was his first training case. In June 2002, with com- different, the content of these analyses, the interested. We saw unusual abilities and pletion of his analytic didactic work and psychi- defensive operations, conflicts, and transference- strengths suggested by Yu’s previous psychiatric atric training, he and his family returned to Seoul. countertransference reactions are very similar, experience, the extent and dedication of the A new phase of his training began. He though often more immediately evident in Korea, work he had already done with the IPA, and worked in a large psychiatric hospital in Seoul reflecting a culture less steeped in psychoanalytic the determination we noted in our prelimi- where he was required to see his psychoana- clichés. Much of this wisdom has been shared nary interviews. But Yu also needed a strong lytic patients outside of regular work hours, during Yu’s once or twice a year visits to Cleve- U.S. program of psychiatric training and a early in the morning or in the evening. Begin- land when he presents his ongoing cases to the source of income. We sought the help of the ning at 6 a.m., he worked till 10 p.m. through faculty and candidates of the center. most of the next five years, keeping in touch This unusual relationship has benefited all Scott Dowling, M.D., is a training and with Cleveland through two to three times a involved: Yu, the Cleveland Center, the Korean supervising analyst in Cleveland and chair of week telephone supervision, attending con- Psychoanalytic Study Group, APsaA, and the Education Committee. He is also an editor ferences in Cleveland through a telephone IPA, and, not least, his patients and students of Psychoanalytic Study of the Child. hookup over the weekend, and coming to in Seoul.

14 THE AMERICAN PSYCHOANALYST • Volume 41, No. 2 • Spring/Summer 2007 Turning to Our Work Media stories this year have appeared in The four associations of the Psychoanalytic Con- Continued from page 3 New York Times, Newsweek, The New Yorker, sortium, we cooperated with the Austrian and the Chicago Sun-Times, to name a few. embassy in celebrating the 150th anniversary shift our energies. No organization currently This year we will fund a trial campaign of of Freud’s birth. embraces the role of understanding and inter- advertisements in The New Yorker. Every men- preting the extraordinary events transpiring in tion is good for our cause. CHALLENGE 7. FEDERAL AND our world. This should become a moral imper- STATE LEGISLATION ative for us. CHALLENGE 5. PSYCHOTHERAPY I have saved for last the efforts of this strong Recently, we have approved a position paper The most widely practiced derivative of psy- division. Eighteen months ago, our voice con- on torture; we regularly provide amicus assis- choanalysis is psychoanalytic psychotherapy, cerning the need for privacy in medical records tance on societal issues. Further, a Presidential and, thanks to the dogged efforts of Dick Fox was ignored in the nation’s capital. Despite Symposium on war and trauma is planned for and the Task Force on Psychotherapy, a new opposition from most within the legislature and the Denver meetings in June. Psychoanalysts Joint Committee on Psychotherapy was created the medical-industrial complex, we pressed know about traumatic devastation to both vic- at the January meetings. The Association is the the importance of privacy as essential to health tims and perpetrators, families, communities, and first real home for those who practice psy- care (especially psychoanalysis)—just as a ster- unborn generations. But our efforts to date are choanalytic psychotherapy. Our challenge is to ile field is essential to surgery. We are now reg- not enough. New awareness, new focus, and strengthen this part of ourselves, the bread ularly asked to participate and advise on issues new resources should be invested here. and butter of most practices. of privacy on Capitol Hill, and privacy has become an essential part of every EMR bill. CHALLENGE 4. PUBLIC INFORMATION CHALLENGE 6. OTHER Legislators and the general public are now Psychoanalysis is becoming a tentative PSYCHOANALYTIC ASSOCIATIONS clearly aware and clearly care. new darling in the media and press. Respect The time is ripe for closer alliances with all This initiative succeeded because it retained seems to be growing in the attitudes of groups that share our values and beliefs. At its focus—a harbinger, perhaps, of what might reporters, writers, and especially the man on this writing, the Association is exploring col- become for psychoanalysis if we can shift our the street. We are blessed with the talents of laboration with Division 39 on research meet- course. We must be guided by a fierce inten- Kerry Sulkowicz, Dottie Jeffries, and the en- ings, our alliance with the William Alanson tion. But a small, persistent voice can change tire Public Information Committee and others. White Institute is stronger, and, as one of the the world.

Psychoanalytic Dinner An exploration of why analysts feel most Continued from page 12 comfortable talking about cultural issues within the context of clinical material alone led to Participants readily acknowledged the de- the following comment: “Perhaps, we are not Dinner plorable decline in minority applicants as well ready to talk about ourselves because it forces for as the lack of programs centered on awareness us to face things about ourselves we may of cultural and racial issues. As many noted, in not like to know. I believe that the tripartite Eight the larger society the number of minority groups model of psychoanalytical training must and continues to increase. They are increasingly should address this as the formation of an ana- seeking mental health treatment. Will analysts be lytical identity depends on such explorations sufficiently trained to address their needs? and understandings.” Finally, while the first Dinner for Eight was heralded as a step in the right direction, there was an overwhelming feeling that local insti- When people can engage in a free-floating tutes must participate in the ongoing training exchange of ideas, wonderful things begin to happen. of their members through a series of process workshops, perhaps sponsored by and imple- Free of rules and regulations imposed by bylaws, mented by CORED members. minute taking, and the implicit constraints of a larger The afternoon offered a rich array of ideas, thoughts, and feelings, all of which left me feel- organizational structure, people feel free to explore ing hopeful and confident that the first seeds for change had been planted and would soon feelings, attitudes, and beliefs. bear fruit. From all the way in Oregon, I think David Brandt would be proud!

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years of treatment, several foster children with Flourishing Child Analytic Therapy whom I work have been able to express their difficult feelings through writing, playing sym- in the South Bronx bolically with dolls, or engaging in games of Hilli Dagony-Clark hide-and-go-seek that allow them to be found again and again. Regardless of the form in which Sitting on the floor surrounded by toys, my that constantly their affective expression occurs, my effort is young patient and I are both deeply engaged compete for aimed at allowing for the emergence of these in play therapy. Her intrapsychic life unfolds consideration. children’s adaptive compromise formations and takes shape through a family of several While all treat- within difficult and often tragic circumstances. small dolls, uniting us in the delicate and com- ments demand Despite my attempts at carefully constructed plicated task of working through and mastery. an awareness of statements intended to productively shift the She directs my play while I closely observe, both, the foster dynamic organization of my young patients’ attempting to judge the nature and timing of children with intrapsychic lives, perhaps my most useful inter- the most useful interventions. Although this whom I work vention has been my physical presence. My scenario seems no different from any other are constantly zest for the practical application of psychoana- Hilli Dagony-Clark psychotherapy of a young child, it is, in fact, imposed upon lytic principles does not overshadow my clinical quite unusual. This treatment, like many others, by dramatic life circumstances at a time when and emotional knowledge of these children’s takes place in a South Bronx housing project of their intrapsychic worlds are molded by exter- level of deprivation and subsequent need for New York. Heavy metal bars on the windows nal realities. Present day decisions over which stable adult involvement. Through consistent and blasting music from next door are constant they have little control, such as termination of home visitation, I have attempted to defy their reminders of the reality of my young foster parental rights, multiple placements in different beliefs about disappointing adults. It is my hope patients’ lives. foster homes, and separation from siblings, that these unruly toddlers, defiant school-aged Unlike most children who receive psycho- are given meaning in the context of previous children, and brooding adolescents know they analytically informed psychotherapy in the lux- traumas, such as sexual/physical/emotional are tolerable and able to be helped. ury of private offices to which they are brought abuse and/or neglect. Neonatal HIV or drug It is a rare opportunity to introduce mean- by biological parents, many children I have related conditions further predispose them ing to the lives of children where it has often treated receive clinical care in their foster res- to a life of unarticulated pain and anguish. not existed before. Moreover, it is enormously idences. The agency for which I work requires Essentially, these children’s histories influence gratifying to witness how children’s play and that most therapeutic visits occur in foster their lives in ways that allow tragedies to over- verbal and written expressions spring to life homes to increase patient treatment compli- lap and intertwine, creating the risk of mental in response to psychoanalytically based inter- ance. Amidst the chaos of family life, I have illness, drug abuse, and degeneracy. The calam- ventions. Working within the foster home engaged meaningfully with children who were, ities with which they struggle are not only setting has allowed me to witness, firsthand, in many cases, seriously traumatized prior to fueled by the interworkings of their minds but the potentially universal application of psy- their foster home placements. Reasons for also by the harsh realities that actualize them. choanalytic ideals. Thinking and working psy- their placements include parental substance My role at the intersection of these chil- chodynamically has allowed me to effectively abuse, psychiatric disorders and/or cognitive dren’s real and intrapsychic lives demands that treat these underprivileged children in a way limitations, which are often exacerbated by I juggle equally their ungratifying past, current that both considers their difficult pasts and economic constraints. The children, placed grief, and fantasies. This work has allowed me to allows for the unfolding of their potentials in from birth to age 21, have been selected to recognize the possibility of stretching analytic the future. receive psychotherapy to help them cope with bounds to fit the most unlikely their psychiatric and behavioral disturbances. recipients. These children often Providing these foster children with psy- lack a cohesive sense of self that chodynamically informed psychotherapy is a would normally cultivate an ability formidable task, as it involves the recognition to tolerate their affects and reflect of both reality-based and intrapsychic factors on their thoughts and feelings. Thus, I have worked to help them Hilli Dagony-Clark, Psy.D., is a candidate appropriately express and label at the New York Psychoanalytic Institute. their feelings, delay gratification, She is affiliated with several mental health and engage in acceptable conflict agencies and has recently begun private resolution before exploring their practice in New York City. thoughts and fantasies. After some

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to help the In the Name of the Father and of the reader to be- come cognizant Lacanian World of this impossi- Vaia Tsolas bility. Lacan aimed to find I am not quite sure what drew me initially to his recent book, Lacan Today. But, of course, active readers reading Lacan. It could be that my first analyst given that this obscurity is also “on purpose,” and warned his was Lacanian, or perhaps merely an instance Lacan is seen as a “bad” boy, perhaps sadistic, followers against of “why not?” The obscurity of the theory or at least arrogant, in the eyes of many read- becoming idol- Vaia Tsolas seduced me with its tantalizing effect of some- ers. It is difficult enough to try to separate the aters. However, thing that can never be mastered and owned. theory from the person creating this theory; he often achieved the opposite result, since Perhaps, because I was a foreigner here myself, and since Lacan was also anti-American and some obsessively tried to decipher his oral I may have been drawn to marginal places dismissively critical of ego psychology, the teachings and writings explicitly, to map out and Lacanian theory promises just such a voy- ego psychologically oriented American reader the true Lacanian doctrine. age into the marginal. Whatever the reason may be especially challenged to entertain his It is on this point that Lacanian institutes was, I became ambitious about becoming a ideas. For that matter, why should we entertain remain faithful to Lacan in their effort to Lacanian, at least until I realized the irony those ideas? If he did not like us, why should avoid idolatry in the group identifications by inherent in that ambition. Lacan in the “Semi- we even attempt to pretend that we might shaping accordingly their educational stan- naire de Caracas” clearly mocked the ones like him? But, in being blessed by the analytic dards and the selection of candidates. Selection who shared my ambition: “You can be Lacani- spirit, we might be better disposed to refrain of candidates follows a different logic than ans, if you want. As far as I am concerned, I am from talionic countertransferential enactments. the one with which we are generally familiar. Freudian.” And this is probably a good exam- Additionally, if Lacan remains obscure, he also Having the desire to become an analyst and ple of Lacan’s version of clarity and direction remains seductive, especially with his claim of fulfilling the requirements of suitability (in for his followers. a return to Freud and of a further articulation terms of credentials, clinical experience, and Well, this is as far as this ambition went and of the Freudian doctrine. personality characteristics) are not enough. this is as good as this Father was going to get; and still, it was precisely the “as good as The obscurity of the theory seduced me it gets” that demarcated a place for me to begin enjoying Lacan. My intention here is to with its tantalizing effect of something that can never comment (drawing from my own experi- be mastered and owned. ence in a Lacanian institute) on what it is about Lacanian theory that makes it simulta- neously desired and repudiated, some ways How is Lacanian theory a return to and a In fact, this particular desire is none other that it differs from the mainstream ego psy- further elaboration of Freud? Let’s take, for than a symptom that needs to be analyzed, not chology, and how this difference plays out in example, Freud’s attempt to define truth the basis for candidacy. Similarly, having stan- the Lacanian educational standards and selec- (what had really happened) as he first sought dards for selection of candidates being based tion of candidates. to locate the buried truth through the deci- on credentials, similar clinical background, and The Lacanian theory defies quick con- phering of symptoms, dreams, and other for- personal characteristics is viewed as another sumption and easy understanding: “…his mations of the unconscious, later realizing symptomatic way of seeking conformity and [Lacan’s] writing very often falls (on purpose) that this truth had less to do with actuality normativity, concepts antithetical to the Lacan- into a Mallarmean mannerism, the high and than fantasy, that it was, rather, a subjective ian version of the analytic tradition. obscure style practiced by French doctors truth. Lacan elaborated on that distinction Paola Mieli, a founder of Après Coup, a around the 1930s,” says Alexandre Leupin in by situating truth as a fiction—a fiction Lacanian psychoanalytic institute in New York invested with affect. He drew a clear distinc- City, says: Vaia Tsolas, Ph.D., a clinical psychologist tion between actuality and subjective truth, in private practice in New York City and and also between subjective truth and knowl- In opposition to any idea of con- supervising psychologist at Fordham edge. He thought that it was impossible to formity, psychoanalysis is fundamen- University Counseling Center, is a candidate think that every truth can be completely artic- tally an experience with and towards at the Columbia University Center for ulated and translated into knowledge. Dri- otherness, a practice of de-identifi- Psychoanalytic Training and Research. ven by this assumption, he used mathematics cation that enhances the relation to She is a past Fellow of APsaA. and the obscuring of language as an attempt Continued on page 18

THE AMERICAN PSYCHOANALYST • Volume 41, No. 2 • Spring/Summer 2007 17 The Lacanian World As such, the formation of an analyst goes in Now, thinking back, I realize that it bothered Continued from page 17 a manner that many Lacanians consider to be me as a child when I had the urge to read a a reversal of more traditional training; instead book from the back to the front and sacrifice difference. It is the subject’s practice of aiming towards identification with the the suspense of the travel. As the Greek poet of “exile,” a leaving behind of mys- group’s ideals and assimilation to the com- Constantine P. Cavafy wrote in his poem, tifying individual and group identi- munities, the aim is rather from identification Ithaka, “Keep Ithaka always in your mind./ fications and of the guarantees to dis-identification. Arriving there is what you destined for./ But provided by the already known. It is Hypothetically, we hope that regardless of do not hurry the journey at all./ Better if it a journey towards what is unknown our theoretical orientations, we can usually lasts for years,/ so you are old by the time you and foreign within the subject, as arrive at a relatively similar final destination if reach the island,/ wealthy with all you have manifested, for example, in the for- we were to analyze the same patient. Can we gained on the way,/ not expecting Ithaka to mations of the unconscious. This hope the same with our differences in stan- make you rich.” practice of exile leads towards the dards (whether implicit or explicit) to the I had a very brief experience in the Lacanian progressive “deconstruction of a end goal to form an analyst? Or put it differ- landscape, far too brief to know the answers to person’s idolatry (ego narcissism ently, does it make for the same trip if you the questions posed above. Lacanian analysts and super-egoic requirements),” travel in reverse? might not think the trip is the same, and per- towards the “encounter, in the rigour I left the Lacanian institute when I real- haps it is worthwhile listening to their experi- of one’s speech, with one’s singu- ized that I really needed to know Freud in ences and keeping an open mind about their larity, style, and difference.” order to be able to claim the return to him. ideals and idols.

Teaching Undergraduates level. To understand human motivation, he How to Get Started Continued from page 13 took psychology courses and then became a psychiatrist and a psychoanalyst. He found Teaching MARIAM COHEN, M.D., PSY.D. many parallels between the rehearsal process Seven to eight years ago, Mariam Cohen and the consulting room, especially in dealing Undergraduates attended an adult education course at a syn- with transference-countertransference reac- agogue given by the chairman of the Depart- tions between the actors and directors. Pursue an interest you love. ment of Religious Studies at Arizona State Years after becoming an analyst, he had University, who suggested to her that she occasion to lunch with a newly introduced take graduate courses in his department as friend, the chair of the Performing Arts Capitalize on previous experience and an M.A. candidate. She began her studies and Department at Washington University in St. old contacts from graduate school. eventually completed the degree require- Louis, who suggested that Nuetzel become a ments so she might teach in that department. graduate student in his department in order Brainstorm with contacts you have Cohen currently teaches a course on reli- to pursue his longstanding interests in the in academia and approach them gion and psychology, which the Department theater. After seeing the quality of Nuetzel’s with useful material and proposals. of Psychology cross-lists. Her course includes work, Washington University decided to waive discussions of Freudian, Jungian, and object his tuition. Nuetzel managed his graduate relations theories of religion. Cohen has pub- studies by pacing his productions—one pro- Offer to give a guest lecture. lished on her opposition to the term “spiritu- duction a year over the course of five years. ality,” conversion experiences, and the conflicts It was “good for my soul even though stress- Offer to co-teach. between Orthodox Judaism and psycho- ful for my family,” Nuetzel remarked. Upon analysis. She is currently completing course receiving his master’s degree in drama, Nuet- Invite an academic colleague to a requirements for a Ph.D. in religious studies and zel was invited to teach. His courses included society or institute program and/or plans to do her dissertation on psychological psychoanalysis and tragic drama as well as to lunch. changes that occur in the course of conversion film and psychoanalysis. to Judaism. For more details about teaching analytic concepts to undergraduates, please see the For suggestions and resources ERIC NUETZEL, M.D. 10,000 Minds Project Web site developed by on teaching undergraduates, see Before Eric Nuetzel became an analyst, he Lisa Damour and Heather Davidson, http://www. www.teachpsychoanalysis.com. was an actor, producer, and director at the teachpsychoanalysis.com and click on Career college, community, and professional theater Opportunities (on the left side).

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In the course work, there is emphasis placed Unconscious on a great deal of written work and numerous Sheri Butler Hunt poetry presentations. There are other differences in and among John Samuel Tieman is an educator associate in APsaA. He is also taking courses in these models. In the Eitingon model, for child development at the St. Louis Psychoanalytic Institute and teaches in the St. Louis instance, analysis of defenses is often promi- public schools. He has written poetry, editorials, scholarly essays, and an eyewitness nent, while such a focus seems within the account of the 1985 Mexico City earthquake. The Americas Review, The Caribbean French model to be a psychotherapeutic Quarterly, The Iowa Review, and the River Styx are just a few of the numerous places undertaking and outside the realm of psy- his work has been published. choanalysis. In the Uruguayan model of train- There is a sense of feeling at home in Tieman’s poetry. This is particularly true ing, there is a strong epistemological position of “prodigal.” The feeling is of inwardly, nostalgically looking home…yet not quite that psychoanalysis is a conjectural rather than arriving there. “In this dream,” a similar sense is captured, as if one is in familiar an exact science. The educational emphasis is and safe territory after a storm, yet there was a storm. less on the transmission of intellectual knowl- edge than on a growing capacity for listening prodigal and a developed conviction about the power of the unconscious. I used to imagine my father standing on the porch looking south and for It is interesting to note that two of the years I’d look back north hoping to see nothing but distance three models (Uruguayan and French) require analysis before application for can- now that my father is dead and the sun is low and autumn didacy. The emphasis on understanding the and sometimes when there’s neither light nor shadow and I’ve moved unconscious reasons for choosing to be an home and married and am happy and live analyst is given much more weight in the just a mile from the old place admissions process than it is in most North American institutes. Two of the three have just then there’s an old neighbor that stops by abolished the position of training analyst. his eyes closed recalling then forgetting then trying to recall One model (the French) has no require- ments in terms of frequency of analytic ses- sions. In the Uruguayan model teachers must In this dream make a choice of where they will focus their There is food and water efforts, thus diminishing the possibilities of and no barrier reef, only shore any clique developing. The report did not explore what the minimal educational require- this woman is my wife ments were for acceptance to training under the compass close enough each model. The EC and the IPA board recognize the the uncertain current I understand actual construction of training programs based and I feel strangely safe sailing long after dark on these basic models vary greatly through- out the world. How the workings of each of still alive days after the disaster these models as described in the EC report everything I need within reach can be codified into acceptable minimal stan- dards for analytic education remains to be —John Samuel Tieman seen. Determining the extent to which soci- eties will be asked to adhere to the model they profess will be the task of the IPA Board Sheri Butler Hunt, M.D., is a candidate at the Seattle Psychoanalytic Society and Institute Oversight Working Group. Certainly, compar- in the adult training program and a graduate analyst in the child division. A published poet ing and contrasting, discussing and debating and member of TAP’s editorial board, she welcomes reader’s comments and suggestions at these different models of analytic training can [email protected]. only enrich us all.

THE AMERICAN PSYCHOANALYST • Volume 41, No. 2 • Spring/Summer 2007 19 so even when it seems to cut off negative transference or bypass analytic exploration. COPE The distinction between intentional and unintentional self disclosure was explored in its relationship to countertransference issues. We Complexities of Self Disclosure gave examples of both with a variety of out- Gerald Melchiode comes within the treatment. While intentional self disclosures may be rationalized as being Self disclosure is a controversial topic The group began with the assumption that “good” for the patient and the process, both which may divide analysts along theoretical self disclosures are found in all analyses and intentional and unintentional self disclosures lines. The ”classical analyst” may regard self could be studied within their own treatments. clearly have unconscious determinants. disclosure as a manifestation of counter- As group members presented clinical vignettes The group examined the relationship transference to be avoided, while the “inter- in which they self disclosed, it became less between self disclosure and dreams in which subjective analyst” may regard it as a useful clear what constituted self disclosure because the analyst appears undisguised. Could these tool. In comprising the COPE Study Group on while some examples seemed obvious, others dreams be preceded by self disclosures in that Self Disclosure, the chairs’ first task was to were not. Self disclosure seemed to be overde- day’s session? We collected dreams and found invite members who had no published position termined, a resultant of forces going on in the some were related to self disclosure, others on the topic and were willing to consider all of mind of the analyst that might or might not be not; however, all seemed to be related to their assumptions. related to what is going on within the patient. some disruption in the process. The focus on self disclosure not only height- ened our sensitivity to this specific issue, but Self disclosure is a controversial topic which may divide analysts more generally to the nature of interventions along theoretical lines. The ”classical analyst” may regard self and their impact on patients. Any intervention disclosure as a manifestation of countertransference to be avoided, reveals the state of mind of the analyst and while the “intersubjective analyst” may regard it as a useful tool. how he conceptualizes the analytic space. One meaningful way of thinking about self disclosure is around issues of intimacy—how we com- The group posed a series of questions in Self disclosure at times seemed to grow out municate with patients so they can “hear” us. their effort to move beyond judgment of self of the analyst’s experience of vulnerability. For The impact of the study group has extended disclosure as either good or bad. Does the example, the analyst discloses to the patient beyond its members. One member is writing a patient feel better or worse after a self dis- that he is ill. This might represent a wish to be paper on how self disclosure is handled in super- closure and why? Does self disclosure lead to taken care of by the patient, a way of warding vision. Another member conducted a work- a more egalitarian experience for the patient? off the patient’s aggression, and/or necessary shop on self disclosure for faculty and candidates Does minimal self disclosure result in a more information that the patient needs in order at his institute. A third member has a paper in authoritarian experience for the patient? What to make other arrangements for treatment. press in which he advocates self disclosure at motivates the analyst to self disclose? What is We found that self disclosures were some- certain times. We have all incorporated the going on in the mind of the patient when we times determined by diagnostic considera- complexities of self disclosure in our teaching self disclose and what is going on in the mind tions. For example, patients with problems in and supervision. We have all been much more of the analyst? What is happening in the psy- object constancy might be told that the analyst open to discussing self disclosure with our choanalytic relationship when we self disclose? will be at a conference in New York City. This supervisees and, in turn, our supervisees are What is the effect of self disclosure on both might help the patient to preserve an image of much more comfortable in presenting exam- analyst and patient? the analyst in time and space, and thereby ples of self disclosure in their supervision. facilitate rather than impede treatment. In fact, The group has found that an open and many of our clinical examples involved patients questioning attitude towards self disclosure is Gerald Melchiode, M.D., is training with more primitive character formations, most beneficial. We urge all of you to partic- and supervising analyst at the Dallas prompting the observation that self disclo- ipate in discussions of this issue with your Psychoanalytic Center and clinical professor sure may occur more commonly in this group colleagues without prior judgment or closure of psychiatry at Southwestern Medical College, of patients especially at times of crisis. and to see where it takes you. Dallas. He co-chairs the COPE Study Group Regardless of diagnostic considerations, self Members of the American Psychoanalytic on Self Disclosure with Melvin Lansky. disclosure seems to occur at critical junctures Association interested in participating in COPE Eslee Samberg, M.D., is editor of the in a treatment and may serve to facilitate new activities should contact COPE chair, Robert COPE column. ways of seeing and understanding. This may be Michels.

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had to passively receive the BOPS report in Councilors Emphasize Shared the past. He emphasized that BOPS wel- comes a more vigorous discussion of the APsaA Goals issues that arise. Jane Currin Walvoord Moritz explained that the board of directors (BoD) has the authority, as a business decision, The atmosphere at the January meeting of spoke expressed appreciation and relief for this to delegate all standards setting, accrediting, the Executive Council was one of reconciliation. welcome change. and certifying functions to BOPS, as set out in Lynne Moritz, president, reported on a very our bylaws. These delegated duties and func- REPORT OF THE COMPLIANCE recent consultation she had undertaken, along tions must be carried out in a fair and consis- TASK FORCE with the BOPS chair, Eric Nuetzel, with attor- tent manner and must never discriminate on Paul Brinich began his report saying that ney Victoria Bjorklund. The motivation for the the basis of race, gender, national origin, creed, in our APsaA political scene of the past two consultation had come from a question that age, or sexual orientation. years, polarization had too often obscured had been stirred by the CTF report. Was the commonly held ideals and goals. Represent- organization in fact functioning legally in rela- METHOD OF ELECTION ing a wide range of opinion regarding gover- tion to BOPS? Our previous understanding OF COUNCILORS nance, the five members of the Compliance from consultations with Bjorklund had been Sandra Walker requested that the Council Task Force (CTF) had worked well together be- that our present structure might be illegal in address the method by which councilors are cause they saw value in what they were doing the sense that it might be out of compliance selected by their local societies. She said that, for the Association. In closing his introduction, with New York State not-for-profit law. while all APsaA members are direct mem- bers, most councilors are not directly elected by the membership. Each society has its own A common goal in the Council meeting seemed to method for selecting their councilor. Many of these methods disenfranchise some members. be a search for peace and patient collaboration. Almost every councilor who spoke expressed COMMITTEE ON COUNCIL Ralph Fishkin, chair of the Committee on appreciation and relief for this welcome change. Council, reported that the committee holds an orientation for new councilors the Wednesday evening prior to the meeting of the Executive Brinich said,“We hope that, if our work turns In fact, the Council has been appropriately Council. At this meeting there were six new out to have been meaningful, those who take discharging its oversight duties by receiving councilors and alternates present. He said if our work another step down the road will the BOPS report. When the Council receives there were other councilors or alternates keep our commonly held ideals and goals the BOPS report, it conveys its confidence in who were not informed about the meeting front and center.” Thus, he set the stage and BOPS to fulfill its duties. Nuetzel said, “We and would like to attend, to let him know and provided an example for the discussion that appreciate that confidence and we would like he would invite them to the next orientation followed, much of which was a continuation of it to continue.” meeting in Denver. the work of the CTF. Some councilors spoke about the need for that confidence to be extended to the Coun- AFFILIATE COUNCIL DISCUSSION OF CONSULTATION WITH cil. In the words of one councilor, Lila Kalinich, Julio Calderon, the outgoing president of BJORKLUND AND ITS IMPLICATIONS “It’s very easy to interpret a reception of an the Affiliate Council, said that candidates are A common goal in the Council meeting action by BOPS or any other committee as now participating at all levels of the Association seemed to be a search for peace and patient passivity. As you know the Council has been and their contributions are highly regarded. collaboration. Almost every councilor who criticized for its ‘passivity, its ‘inaction’…when He thanked the APsaA leadership, the Council, actually the [Council] has been in a position of and all members of the Association for the Jane Currin Walvoord, L.C.S.W., is a relative trust.” opportunity they had provided for candidates. graduate of the Dallas Psychoanalytic Nuetzel expressed agreement with Kalinich Calderon received a round of applause in Institute and TAP’s senior correspondent. and noted that the Council may have felt it appreciation for his service.

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Many fellows were concerned that the The Future of BOPS motion would be taken by Council as a vote of Jane Currin Walvoord no confidence. Moritz pointed out that Coun- cil had not yet been informed about the new The BOPS meeting in New York opened “substantive understanding of the legal status of BOPS. with a discussion of the future of the board. issues” such as She strongly encouraged the fellows to give Eric Nuetzel, BOPS chair, opened the discus- local option the councilors a chance to digest the news sion with what was then surprising news. In a would not be before being presented with a motion. consultation with Victoria Bjorklund, APsaA’s accomplished by A motion to postpone the motion until a expert attorney on New York not-for-profit good will and time certain at the June meeting was pro- corporate law, Nuetzel and Lynne Moritz, trust alone. He posed and after some debate was easily passed. president, had learned that, contrary to our said,“The source previous understanding of Bjorklund’s opinion, of the conflict COMMITTEE ON the Board on Professional Standards was not will not be, in Jane Currin Walvoord RESEARCH EDUCATION out of compliance with New York State law. the first instance, Stuart Hauser reported that in the Com- With the sanction of the Executive Council from Council,…members, the Wednesday mittee on Research Education’s project on (Council) as board of directors (BoD), the Group, or the Alliance. It will be in the institutes certification, they now have a high level of officers of BOPS could continue to do business where the conflict will arise directly.” He pre- inter-rater reliability (between .65 and .75) at the with the Council as they had for the past 61 dicted that one of the institutes would soon committee level around the hierarchy of com- years [see Council Report, page 21]. appoint an uncertified training analyst. petencies as well as the markers of that hier- Moritz said that if the Council agreed to Saying that House had told them “something archy. Agreement has been demonstrated on continue in their customary manner of acting, important,” some fellows spoke of a sense of the components of each of the competencies. there possibly could be a “period of peace.” assault in which they felt that “honest debate Since it could be argued that the Certification Initially relieved by the news and this state- over educational standards” had been increas- Examination Committee (CEC) is a hothouse ment of support, the fellows spoke of ways to ingly replaced by “well timed, frequent chal- culture, 12 analysts who had written, and were restore the collaborative spirit embodied in lenges to our existing bylaws.” They expressed senior, highly regarded clinicians were screened the proposal of the Task Force on Education concern that the discussion so far might have for being open-minded and non-dogmatic about and Membership. In this regard, they consid- been “based on a fantasy,” recognizing that, certification. They were recruited throughout ered a process of reconciliation of “appropri- while some members may hear the news as an the country. This group reached reliability almost ate conflicts” between the BoD (Council) and opportunity for peace and collegiality, others as high as the CEC itself. its BOPS committee. This process might take may not. Discussion turned to the possible In phase 3, this will move beyond the belief place within a standing committee composed need for two separate corporations, one a system level of what people believe are the of representatives of both Council and BOPS. membership organization, the other an ac- high competencies and how they are com- Some said that, because of the past prac- crediting and certifying body. Several fellows posed to be applied to a real stream of data, tice of bicameral governance, there has been pointed out that this was the dominant model namely the case report. The report was cho- a tendency to dichotomize, identifying with in professional organizations. sen because the interviews are largely con- either membership or educational issues. A motion was proposed with two parts. structed on the examiner’s reading of the case This has been the case in spite of the fact The first dealt with formalizing the relation- report. All members of the CEC will rate two that there have always been councilors and ship between BOPS and Council through the randomly selected case reports, a male and educators with a combined interest. Some creation of a charter for BOPS as a committee a female. fellows were hopeful that now, since the of the corporation. Council, as the BoD, would But the case report is only one stream of Council is recognized as the sovereign BoD, receive BOPS reports with feedback encour- data. Since the CEC makes major decisions more members with educational interests aged. Hopefully, this would allow BOPS to con- based on the interviews, the researchers know, would seek a seat on Council, more actively vey to Council the “substance and breadth” of in the interest of transparency and fairness, introducing educational concerns in their local the activities of BOPS, establishing a truly col- they have to find some way to rate the inter- society meetings. laborative structure. The second part provided views. This includes audio recording since in- There were also words of caution. Jonathan for a task force composed of representatives terviews cannot be rated on the basis of notes. House, the APsaA secretary, said that, while from both BOPS and Council to explore the This step is difficult because of the issue of he hated to “rain on the parade of good sun- possibility of two separate corporations going confidentiality. However, Hauser believes they shine,” he believed the task of dealing with forward in the future. will find a way.

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