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the WINTER/SPRING 2016 AMERICAN Volume 50, No. 1 PSYCHOANALYST Quarterly Magazine of The American Psychoanalytic Association Reflections on the Supreme Court INSIDE TAP… and Free Speech Election Results ....... 4 Robert D. Goldstein A “paradox is involved which needs to be peoples who bore them”; accordingly, National Meeting accepted, tolerated, and not resolved,” Win- Nebraska may “encourage its people to love in NYC ......... 6 –13 nicott explains of transitional objects in Play- the Union with which [it] is indissolubly con- ing and Reality. Mothers and fathers intuitively nected.” In 1940, the Court refused to Freud’s Art ......... 14 understand this, as they do not question the exempt Jehovah’s Witnesses from a public infant’s treating an external object as within school’s mandatory flag salute and pledge. Lunch ............. 18 his sphere of omnipotence. But it has bedev- “We live by symbols,” the Court taught, and iled the Supreme Court as it has tried to the “flag is the symbol of our national unity, Annual Meeting comprehend the symbolic nature of the transcending all internal differences.…” American flag in no fewer than eight First Because the “ultimate foundation of a free in Chicago ....... 20 Amendment cases involving honoring and society is the binding tie of cohesive senti- desecrating the flag. After reviewing these ment,” the state can foster what are “almost Special Section on cases and the Court’s theory of freedom of unconscious feelings:” … “all those agencies Psychoanalysis and speech, this article will consider whether the of the mind and spirit which may serve to Free Speech .... 25 –31 Court’s free speech doctrine, from the point gather up the traditions of a people, transmit of view of Winnicott and Bion, strains the them from generation to generation, and relationship among speakers that underlies thereby create that continuity of a treasured mature communication. common life.…” With- out adopting any one THE SUPREME COURT “psychological dogma,” AND THE AMERICAN FLAG the Court concluded, a In 1907, the Court upheld Nebraska’s ban legislature could reason- on using the flag for commercial advertising, ably believe that “the observing that throughout history “banners, minds” of school age standards, and ensigns have been adopted as children are at an espe- symbols of the power and history of the cially “receptive period of development” for “assimilation” of patri- Robert D. Goldstein, J.D., is a professor otic sentiments through of law at UCLA. His writing includes a “common experience” like the flag salute. Mother-Love and Abortion, Child Abuse Yet, in 1943, the Court reversed itself and and Neglect and articles on civil rights, exempted objecting children from the same reproductive rights and the first amendment. mandatory salute. This time it offered a deeper He is ABD Harvard’s Clinical Psychology view of this symbol: A “flag …is a shortcut and Public Practice Program. Continued on page 25 THE AMERICAN PSYCHOANALYST • Volume 50, No. 1 • Winter/Spring 2016 1 CONTENTS: Winter/Spring 2016 THE AMERICAN PSYCHOANALYTIC ASSOCIATION President: Mark Smaller Challenges of ONE APsaA Mark D. Smaller President-Elect: Harriet Wolfe 3 Secretary: Ralph E. Fishkin Treasurer: William A. Myerson 4 APsaA Elections Executive Director: Dean K. Stein 5 External Accreditation: THE AMERICAN PSYCHOANALYST The American Association for Psychoanalytic Education Magazine of the Lee I. Ascherman, Elizabeth Brett, Dwarakanath G. Rao and Dionne Powell American Psychoanalytic Association Editor Janis Chester 2016 National Meeting 6 Film Editor Bruce H. Sklarew 14 Origins of Psychoanalysis: Inexorably Entangled with Art Special Section Editor Leah Montalto and Howard M. Nowes Michael Slevin Editorial Board Vera J. Camden, Doug Chavis, COPE: Challenges in Training Phoebe A. Cirio 15 Phoebe Cirio, Leslie Cummins, Phillip S. Freeman, Maxine Fenton Gann, Sheri Butler Hunt, Laura Jensen, 16 How Small Institutes Can Survive and Grow Sam Robertson Nadine Levinson, A. Michele Morgan, Julie Jaffee Nagel, Marie Rudden, Hinda Simon, Vaia Tsolas, 18 Lunch Dean K. Stein, ex officio Or How to Develop an Undergraduate Minor in Psychoanalytic Senior Correspondent Studies Lawrence D. Blum, Richard F. Summers and Greg Urban Jane Walvoord Photographer 20 A Beautiful Time to Visit Mervin Stewart 105th Annual Meeting, June 17–19, 2016 Norman Kohn Manuscript and Production Editors Michael and Helene Wolff, Technology Management Communications APsaA in Austin: 2016 Modern Language Association 22 The American Psychoanalyst is published quar- Convention Elizabeth Danze and Peter L. Rudnytsky terly. Subscriptions are provided automatically to members of The American Psychoanalytic Asso- ciation. For non-members, domestic and Cana- Poetry: From the Unconscious Sheri A. Butler dian subscription rates are $36 for individuals and 24 $80 for institutions. Outside the U.S. and Canada, rates are $56 for individuals and $100 for institu- tions. 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Winslade not hold itself responsible for statements made in The American Psychoanalyst by contributors or advertisers. Unless otherwise stated, material in The American Psychoanalyst does not reflect the endorsement, official attitude, or position of The Correspondence and letters to the editor should be sent to TAP editor, American Psychoanalytic Association or The Janis Chester, at [email protected]. American Psychoanalyst. 2 THE AMERICAN PSYCHOANALYST • Volume 50, No. 1 • Winter/Spring 2016 FROM THE PRESIDENT The Joint Meetings of the Executive Council Challenges of ONE APsaA and the Board on Professional Standards Mark D. Smaller proved constructive. With support of the Executive Council and BOPS, the Executive While listening to the two plenaries in president, some- Committee will continue its efforts with the New York during our recent January meeting, times referred to Six Point Plan Work Groups, creating pro- or while chairing the Joint Meetings of our as “Mr. Psycho- posed bylaw amendments to implement the Executive Council and Board on Professional analysis,” offered Six Point Plan. Those proposals of appropriate Standards, I could not help but think that new ideas about bylaw changes will be discussed during our APsaA and psychoanalysis are moving into a narcissism, self June meeting in Chicago and presented to the new “golden” era of psychoanalysis. experience, and Mark D. Smaller membership for final approval and a vote. ultimately self The day after the successful Joint Meetings, SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS AND EDUCATION psychology. Sadly, he was confronted with we learned the proposed bylaw amendment Don Moss, willing to share some of the severe ridicule, dismissal and temporary but giving the Executive Council final authority most private details of his personal and clinical painful professional isolation. over all matters of the Association, including experiences in front of a ballroom of col- And what about the blatant and subtle education, passed by a 69 percent majority, leagues, received a standing ovation. My friend sexism and gender bias, racism, classism and beyond the two-thirds required for a bylaw and colleague Dorothy Holmes received an arrogance that is a part of our past? change. Clearly the membership voiced sup- equal ovation later the same day, eloquently ONE APsaA emerges as we now trans- port for ONE APsaA and a way to move for- speaking openly and decisively about race and form, continuing to address these past and ward, and provided an even stronger mandate the challenge to move APsaA and psycho- present issues. One APsaA is about welcom- toward implementing the Six Point Plan. The analysis toward genuine diversity. Her presen- ing innovation in clinical practice and theory, Executive Committee will continue meeting tation as a plenary was itself a huge step in education, standards, research and advocacy. weekly and in retreats when needed to ham- that direction, along with Dionne Powell’s Our scientific meetings and educational insti- mer out details for implementation of the Six powerful introduction of her mentor. Diver- tutions must continue creating an engaging Point Plan, as we have been encouraged to do sity is about inclusion of those individuals, and welcoming atmosphere for all psychoana- by the Executive Council and BOPS. cultures and ideas that have for too long been lytic clinicians, regardless of practice, theory, Is it possible we would no longer be the marginalized in our field. Diversity is about frequency of sessions, settings and culture. We Executive Council, BOPS, TA, non-TA, certified, enriching and enlivening psychoanalysis. must continue to attract