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the FALL/WINTER 2006 AMERICAN Volume 40, No. 4 PSYCHOANALYST Quarterly Publication of The American Psychoanalytic Association Cone of Uncertainty: INSIDE TAP... Post-Katrina Recovery of City Scientific Program and Psychoanalytic Center Update. 10 Dale Firestone Interview with For New Orleans the arrival of Katrina was The outcome remains uncertain, with what Kerry Sulkowicz . 22 The Day the Earth Stood Still. Returning to the locals refer to as the “new normal” not yet city one month after the hurricane, one was established. confronted with eerie stillness in the mostly In this context, reporting on the status of the The NewsHour unpopulated city—a virtual ghost town. Life as New Orleans-Birmingham Psychoanalytic Cen- on Site at the we had known it had stopped. ter requires discussion of both the psycholog- Annual Meeting . 24 Though not searching consciously for a ical situation as well as the practical aspects of metaphor for this vista, my thoughts turned our recovery; the two are inseparable. When Community Psychoanalysis repeatedly to the above-titled 1951 film, a describing the status of recovery here to those cautionary tale regarding aggression, in which outside the city, New Orleanians are careful to in the Psychoanalytic the temporary suspension of all activity had present a balanced and accurate picture that Curriculum . 28 an instructive purpose. Thoughts of the movie, includes both the significant progress that has for me a childhood memory of the threat of been made as well as the vast amount of work 10,000 Minds Project . 32 terrifying power, did seem an apt metaphor as that remains to be done. It is essential to its I tried to grasp the scope of interruption of life. eventual restoration that the city remains in the It was perhaps unprecedented for an entire consciousness of the nation, that awareness American city to simply stand still. of it does not fall away due either to unreal- What was unclear, though, was how, or if, life istic optimism would begin again. How might it be reordered? about the state What might we learn from this about our- of its recovery, selves, about the experience of trauma, and or because of about the process of recovery as we lived undue pes- within this situation and worked to reconstruct simism about our personal and professional lives? Unlike the the daunting film, in which the continuity of life resumes un- work ahead. damaged after an hour’s interruption, the effects Indeed, each of the storm and its aftermath are ongoing. of us here works to main- tain this bal- Dale Firestone, L.C.S.W., is an advanced ance in our candidate in adult analysis at the New own thoughts Orleans-Birmingham Psychoanalytic Center. and efforts. He is editor of the center newsletter. Continued on page 12 THE AMERICAN PSYCHOANALYST • Volume 40, No. 4 • Fall/Winter 2006 1 CONTENTS: Fall/Winter 2006 THE AMERICAN PSYCHOANALYTIC ASSOCIATION President: K. Lynne Moritz 3 The Question of Representation Lynne Moritz President-Elect: Prudence Gourguechon Secretary: Jonathan House 5 On Our Future Eric J. Nuetzel Treasurer: Warren Procci Executive Director: Dean K. Stein 7 Who Holds the Franchise for Psychoanalysis in America? Paul M. Brinich Off Broadway Greets APsaA’s Winter 2007 Meeting Dottie Jeffries THE AMERICAN PSYCHOANALYST 9 Publication of the 10 Scientific Program Update Glen O. Gabbard American Psychoanalytic Association Editor 11 Highlights of the Winter 2007 Meeting in New York: Michael Slevin January 17 to 21 Gary Grossman Member, Council of Editors of Psychoanalytic Journals SPECIAL SECTION Associate Editor and International Editor Christine Ury New Orleans National Editor Jonathan House Cone of Uncertainty: Post-Katrina Recovery of City 12 Editorial Board and Psychoanalytic Center Dale Firestone Brenda Bauer, Vera J. Camden, Leslie Cummins, Maxine Fenton Gann, 14 The Diaspora Sylvia J. Schneller Sheri Hunt, Laura Jensen, A. Michele Morgan, Julie Jaffee Nagel, 16 Psychoanalytically-Based Workbooks to Help Children Marie Rudden, Hinda Simon, Lynn Stormon, Cope with Disaster Gilbert Kliman Dean K. Stein, ex officio New Orleans One Year Later: What Constitutes Recovery? Senior Correspondent 17 Jane Walvoord Jacques Gourguechon Photographer 19 Help in the Aftermath of Katrina: Mervin Stewart The Psychoanalytic Assistance Fund Michael Slevin Consultant Prudence Gourguechon 21 Poetry: From the Unconscious Sheri Hunt Manuscript and Production Editors Michael and Helene Wolff, 22 Putting Business on the Couch: Technology Management Communications Michael Slevin An Interview with Kerry Sulkowicz The American Psychoanalyst is published quar- terly. Subscriptions are provided automatically SPECIAL SECTION to members of The American Psychoanalytic Association. For non-members, domestic and Layoffs Canadian subscription rates are $36 for individ- uals and $80 for institutions. Outside the U.S. The NewsHour on Site at the Annual Meeting Dottie Jeffries and Canada, rates are $56 for individuals and 24 $100 for institutions. 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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 40, No. 4 • Fall/Winter 2006 FROM THE PRESIDENT Why is it The Question of Representation unsuited? Here Lynne Moritz are a few of the answers: Put simply, the Renew Board of Directors is they may have when there is a • 58 mem- a great idea! smaller board or when they are on bers cannot As Victoria Bjorklund, our non-profit cor- a committee of the board where be a work poration attorney and expert, explained to the direct responsibility is assigned to group. No Executive Council: them. So, the newer models favor amount of smaller boards. Even for large pub- time will Lynne Moritz Clearly, the size of a board of lic charities, smaller boards are being allow this directors has tremendous impact on favored. In fact, the attorney gen- many persons to be known and heard an organization. [She described a eral in New York State has pro- out on every subject. huge board with affiliated organi- posed legislation that would limit • We have no term limits—thus, “lifers” zations (like our societies), so large it the size of the board at the out- (many have served as councilor for was dysfunctional.] Therefore, what side to 25 members. That legisla- decades) become attached to the power is happening is that actual function- tion has not gone forward because that accretes to them from sheer tenure ing of the organization is operating the public charities that have the and resist replacement by their societies largely through the executive com- fundraising boards have criticized (which often care little) or run multiple mittee of the organization. We do it.…But, clearly the former head of times for councilor-at-large. see some organizations, especially the Charities Bureau took the very • Large boards of this kind frequently fall large fundraising organizations— strong view that there is a break- under the sway of small highly organized [she named one]—where a large down of behavior of board mem- political parties—Webster calls them board is desired because it is a place- bers through this lack of ownership, “rump groups.” If such happened in our ment program for donors. Those lack of responsibility, if boards are Council, for instance, a small group with a boards are not meant to be real too large. In that case, boards get particular internal political agenda could governing boards; they are meant too passive or you get rump groups promote it at the expense of the interests to be fundraising boards…. that start taking over the boards, of the membership, the Association, and Another reason that you some- etc. So therefore, the view is that psychoanalysis in the world—even at the times see larger than typical boards the ideal sized board is somewhere risk of fragmenting the Association. The would be that you are trying to between 7 and 15 people. duty of care, of course, is owed to the amass a certain body of skill sets. corporation by