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International Volume 11, Issue 2, December 2002 PSYCHOANALYSIS News Magazine of the International Psychoanalytical Association Working at the frontiers – the 43rd IPA Congress in Toronto International PSYCHOANALYSIS International Introducing Insight Psychoanalytical Association our new feature pullout Association Toronto Congress 6 Psychanalytique Internationale New Education Award 40 Internationale The Last Word: Psychoanalytische The Nominating Committees 47 Vereinigung INSIGHT: Asociación Opinion on Violence and Terrorism International Psychoanalytical Association Psicoanalítica Broomhills, Woodside Lane, London N12 8UD, UK Internacional Tel: +44 20 8446 8324 Fax: +44 20 8445 4729 Email: [email protected] www.ipa.org.uk The Other Lives of Psychoanalysts 2 CONTENTS INTERNATIONAL PSYCHOANALYSIS THE NEWS MAGAZINE OF THE IPA. ISSN 1564-0361 Editor Alex Holder Past Editors Ethel Person Leopold Nosek Regional Editors Europe: Michel Vincent, Henning Paikin, Guiseppina Antinucci. Latin America: Renato Canovi, Eduardo Laverde, Germano Vollmer. North America: Abby Adams- Silvan, Irene Cairo, Sharon Zalusky Language Editors Contents: German Newsletter: Alex Holder. English Newsletter: Robert Stein. French Newsletter: Colette Scherer. Spanish Newsletter: Isabel Bataller Bautista Credits Corresponding Editors 3 Editorial Australia: Deborah McIntyre. Japan: Keigo Okonogi Production Manager Robert Stein Sub-Editor Ingrid Curl 3 Letters Translation Team German: Michael Mertl, Astrid Fuhrmeister. English: Rachel Holder, Philip Slotkin. French: Yves Le Juen, Michel Sánchez-Cardenas, Monique Gibeault, Marianne Robert. Spanish: Dana Cáceres, Pilar Rodas Riley. 4 People Layout and Production Bobbett Design Printer 6 Toronto Congress Blueprint Management The International Psychoanalytical Association 7 President’s Report Executive Council President Daniel Widlöcher Past President Otto Kernberg 8 Frances Tustin Memorial Prize Secretary Alain Gibeault Treasurer Moisés Lemlij Vice-Presidents Jacqueline Amati Mehler, Ronald Britton, Sverre Varvin, Alvaro Rey de Castro, Cláudio 9 Treasurer’s Report Laks Eizirik, Monica Siedmann de Armesto, Helen Meyers, Robert Pyles, Robert Tyson Moisés Lemlij reports on the IPA’s financial environment. Honorary President Leo Rangell Honorary Vice-President Robert S. Wallerstein Representatives of the House of Delegates 11 Prizes and Awards to Council Ken Heyward, Newell Fischer, Carmen Médici de Steiner Associate Secretaries 12 The Han Groen-Prakken Psychoanalytic Institute Ronald Brown, Ekkehard Gattig, Rómulo Lander, Michael Sebek for East Europe Corporate Officers Piers Pendred (Director General) Tom Asher (Legal Counsel) 38 IPA Elections 2003 NOTES FOR CONTRIBUTORS TO INTERNATIONAL PSYCHOANALYSIS 39 The IPA and Psychoanalytic Research 1. Languages Contributions can be submitted in any of the four Robert S. Wallerstein explains the IPA‘s rationale working languages of the IPA – that is, English, French, German or Spanish. behind the funding of research projects. 2. Deadlines Two annual issues of International Psychoanalysis have deadlines for the submission of contributions that must be strictly adhered to. Failure to do so may 40 ‘Psychoanalytic Training Today’ Award mean that the contribution will have to be held over until the following issue or be scrapped altogether. The deadlines for submission of contributions are as follows: 41 Membership Services 31 January for the first issue 31 August for the second issue 3. Methods of submission Contributions must be submitted to both addresses listed under point 4, either (a) as an e-mail attachment 42 Exploratory Committee to Korea or (b) on a diskette in RTF (rich text format). 4. Addresses for contributions All contributions must be sent to The Editor 42 IPSO Research Project Dr Alex Holder Körnerstr. 17, 22301 Hamburg, Germany email: [email protected] Robert Stein 43 News and Forthcoming Events email: [email protected] 5. Exceptions Contributions from Component Societies which are part of the news and calendar of events section 47 The Last Word should, in the first place, be sent to one of the three Regional Editors. EDITORIAL 3 You will no doubt have noticed connection you will also find an might like to share this with the that this issue of International article by Piers Pendred which you rest of the membership. I invite Psychoanalysis comes to you with a may find helpful in understanding them to submit articles on these new subtitle, News Magazine, with the rather complex way in which other activities so that they can be a new design of the front cover and the first members of the new Board published in issues of inside, and with a pull-out section of Representatives will be elected International Psychoanalysis. called ‘Insight’, which contains by you. all the articles that, in the past, Iamwriting this Editorial on the Editorial have been published in the In the section IPA Activities you will anniversary of those horrendous sections ‘Dialogue’, ‘Focus’ and also find the latest information on events that shook and changed ‘Opinion’. The remainder features next year’s IPA Congress in Toronto, our world a year ago. In the advertisements, which will become an account by Paolo Fonda on the ‘Opinion’ section you will find a regular feature from now on in new Han Groen-Prakken another article on the subject of order to raise money, the Letters to Psychoanalytic Institute for Eastern violence and terrorism by Simón the Editor, a section called ‘People’, Europe, and a new award Brainsky and a reaction by George and one dealing with IPA Activities introduced by the Education Awad to the articles on terrorism that and another with World Activities, Committee for essays on appeared in the last issue. where you will find the news from psychoanalytic training today. individual Societies, announcements We hope that our readers like the of conferences and so on. On the The main feature of the pull-out new look and design of last page of the text, you’ll find ‘The ‘Insight’ part is the ‘Focus’ section, International Psychoanalysis. Your Last Word’, which will always deal in which seven colleagues tell us comments are always welcome and with an issue that is topical. about other important activities appreciated, especially if they are they are, or have been, engaged in critical. They will help us to improve This time, it is a brief account by aside from their clinical work as International Psychoanalysis in the David Tuckett of the functioning of analysts. Two of these articles are in future and to bring it more in line the Nominating Committees which the form of interviews; the others with what the membership expects have prepared the slates of those were written by those concerned. from it. colleagues who are standing as I am sure there are many other Alex Holder, Editor candidates in the elections that are members who also wear a different due in a few months’ time. In this hat from time to time and who Letters Couch photos Couches in common humour’ and that I would not object to I do not usually respond to letters to the In a letter in Volume 11, Number 1 of an eventual return to pictorial jokes or a editor, but the last issue of the Newsletter International Psychoanalysis Raúl Zajdman combination of both possibilities. has prompted me to respond to ‘Couch expresses his disagreement with the Susana Epstein de Andersson humour’ by Raúl Zajdman. May I disagree publication of photographs of couches to with his point of view that replacing couch replace the former cartoons. cartoons with photos of couches is an error? Perhaps I may express a different opinion. Looking for last training cases For couch humour we have many From my point of view these photographs I would be interested to hear from analysts magazines, but for couch photos just one: constitute a powerful graphic witness to who were the last training cases taken on ours. Since I know only a handful of offices the presence and validity of by their training analyst. Over the years I besides mine and my analyst’s and psychoanalysis. It is worth remembering have met a number of analysts who, like supervisors’, I do appreciate knowing our that, in spite of the winds of crisis and myself, were in such a position and I have colleagues’ offices. disrepute (Zajdman speaks of our been struck by the fact that there seem to supposed ‘battered image’), there are still be aspects of transference and counter- Also, I disagree that only ‘good or bad couches in all parts which patients lie on transference dynamics in both analyst and taste’ can be seen in these photos. As an and contiguous chairs where psycho- candidate that may be specific to being the analyst we may see more: how far or how analysts sit involved in the heat and industry last candidate of one’s training analyst. close you are to your patient, what of clinical work. alternatives you give him of positioning If possible I would like to meet with himself, and more. Once a French As for the photographs only informing us any analysts who are willing to discuss, colleague exclaimed, ‘That’s not analysis!’ about the ‘good or bad taste of the in confidence, this issue with a view while listening to the account of a patient analyst’, I would like to add that they evoke to elucidating these phenomena. who was sitting in front of his analyst. for me the welcomes we give and I can be reached by e-mail at So, if you do have a chair beside the interesting cultural, geographical and [email protected] or by telephone couch, you may infer some theoretical stylistic differences. on +44 (0)20 8346 1989. position of the owner ... Paul Williams Please, keep doing it! Finally, I would like to make clear that I Luiz Pellanda also value ‘a space for criticism and Continued on p 4 4 LETTERS Continued from p 3 article ‘Fun with Freud’ in the New York able to transpose to the psychoanalytic Review of Books, which seeks to universe the atmosphere of syncretist Freud’s Goethe Prize transmute him into ‘a secular, literary Freud Peruvian culture with its profound Inca Jorge Semprun’s address to the Nice who is seen to be like any other writer: roots and integration into the Western Congress (A Witness to the 20th Century, endlessly re-describable and re-translatable’ world.