the FALL/WINTER 2015 AMERICAN Volume 49, No. 4 PSYCHOANALYST Quarterly Magazine of The American Psychoanalytic Association Psychoanalytic Video INSIDE TAP… Outreach Project The Bylaw Debate ... 4–5 Chris Heath Frustration is a great inspirational force. projects through the intersections of the two APsaA Research When I was chair of the Outreach Commit- fields. I had to take a refresher course in cal- Summit ........... 6 tee of my local psychoanalytic center, I found culus, and made a delightful discovery: Online it difficult to engage the non-psychoanalytic classes have evolved. I was surprised to actu- community. I’m sure I’m not alone in this. ally, for the first time, understand calculus National Meeting With disbelief, people would say, “Do people after I took an online MOOC class by Jim Highlights ......... 7 even still use the couch?” “Is that the same as Fowler at Ohio State University. I had taken cognitive behavioral therapy?” (and passed) calculus twice before, but this We as psychoanalysts need to evolve class presented it in a refreshingly personal Our Fabulous novel ways to develop our community pres- way, with examples acted out. If Fowler can Fellows ........ 21–23 ence. In particular, how do we present the help me understand calculus, maybe I can particular strengths of our training? Our per- present psychoanalysis in a similar way. Special Section: sonal analysis and the related use of the self Online video has become a popular as analyzing instrument sets us apart from medium, especially among youth. YouTube is War, Part II ..... 28 –31 other schools of therapy; both are very per- watched more than any cable network by sonal, intimate aspects of our work. The pub- 18-49 year-olds, according to Forbes, and lic does not seem informed about these the YouTube search engine is the second aspects of our expertise. Without this public most used Internet search engine. In partic- knowledge, I worry, we seem aloof, cold and ular, a new category of outdated. And the solution is not as simple celebrity, the YouTuber, as just telling them; we have to engage in has emerged. Many of the creative ways. videos these artists pro- duce are simply the artist LEARNING CAN BE FUN speaking directly to the The video idea came to me in a round- camera, as if the viewer about way. I was pursuing education in eco- is a friend. The manifest nomics in hopes of developing outreach content is often mundane; it may be a simple recipe or even a “haul” where Chris Heath, M.D., is a psychoanalyst the YouTuber shows us in Dallas. He is a past chair of the Outreach what they bought at the Chris Heath Committee of the Dallas Psychoanalytic Center store today. The popularity of these videos and has been an associate member of the appears to reflect a hunger, it seems to me, editorial board of the International Journal for personal connection. of Psychoanalysis. Continued on page 14 THE AMERICAN PSYCHOANALYST • Volume 49, No. 4 • Fall/Winter 2015 1 CONTENTS: Fall/Winter 2015 THE AMERICAN PSYCHOANALYTIC ASSOCIATION President: Mark Smaller Reflecting on the Past Year and Possibilities for Our Future President-Elect: Harriet Wolfe 3 Secretary: Ralph E. Fishkin Mark D. Smaller Treasurer: William A. Myerson Executive Director: Dean K. Stein 4 Bylaw Amendment: APsaA on the Move Luba Kessler 5 A Progressive Step Forward: Why the Executive THE AMERICAN PSYCHOANALYST Committee’s Governance Proposal is the Only Option Magazine of the Lee I. Ascherman, Elizabeth Brett, Dwarakanath Rao and Dionne Powell American Psychoanalytic Association Editor 6 APsaA Research Summit: A Call to Action Harriet Wolfe Janis Chester Film Editor 7 Welcome to the 2016 National Meeting in New York Bruce H. Sklarew January 12–17 Christine C. Kieffer Special Section Editor Michael Slevin Candidates’ Council: Our Ruined Choirs Phoebe A. Cirio Editorial Board 9 Vera J. Camden, Doug Chavis, Phoebe Cirio, Leslie Cummins, 10 Film: The Double Life of Veronique Phillip S. Freeman, Maxine Fenton Gann, Bonnie Kaufman; Bruce H. Sklarew, Column Editor Sheri Butler Hunt, Laura Jensen, Nadine Levinson, A. Michele Morgan, Julie Jaffee Nagel, Marie Rudden, 11 Poetry: From the Unconscious Sheri A. Butler Hinda Simon, Vaia Tsolas, Dean K. Stein, ex officio 13 Three Awards to Daniel S. 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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 49, No. 4 • Fall/Winter 2015 FROM THE PRESIDENT North American Psychoanalytic Confedera- Reflecting on the Past Year and tion (NAPsaC), the European Psychoanalytic Federation, and the Latin American Psycho- Possibilities for Our Future analytic Federation—and an important step Mark D. Smaller taken in connecting psychoanalysts around the world regarding contemporary perspec- With this issue of TAP, I begin my final six We then moved tives in our field. months as president. Much has happened on to creating During the closing ceremonies of the IPA within APsaA since my term as president Work Groups Congress in Boston last July, I spoke about began in Chicago, June 2014. Much remains to propose ways how essential the IPA and APsaA are to each to be accomplished between now and our of implementing other, and that together we would success- June 2016 meeting back in Chicago. the six recom- fully address the challenges to psychoanalysis mendations to outside and within. Many of our members SIX RECOMMENDATIONS be presented in contributed to the success of the IPA Con- FOR CHANGE January, now a gress both in attendance and scientific contri- During my first Executive Committee short time away. butions. The IPA meeting in North America Mark D. Smaller meeting as president in Chicago a year and a The effort has could not have come at a better time. half ago, we immediately put an end to an been enormous, but I believe it will result in The day after the IPA Congress, Harriet appeal process from the lawsuit. From that significant reform in governance, education, Wolfe chaired the inaugural APsaA Research morning on, through weekly meetings, two benefit to members, adding new affiliated Summit. Over the past year we had strug- retreats, and conference calls in between, the psychoanalytic groups and help APsaA con- gled to transform APsaA’s Science Depart- Executive Committee began a process of tinue to push psychoanalysis forward. ment and the Fund for Psychoanalytic talking, listening and healing, and finally, creat- Research into a better functioning and more ing a cohesive working group. In November THE STATE OF APsaA responsive research arm of APsaA. Through 2014, we locked ourselves in an isolated Although the Executive Committee was Harriet’s tireless efforts, the Summit proved hotel in Buffalo Grove, Illinois. No buffaloes, occupied with creating these recommenda- successful (see her report on page 6 in this no groves. Rather, two days of discussion with tions for change, APsaA has not been idle. issue). each other and our consultant, Jeffrey Kerr. We added 81 new members as a result of Our commitment to and success regard- We hashed out differences, injuries, hurts, the William Alanson White Institute and ing social issues were highlighted this past anger and various convictions about psycho- Society (WAW) affiliating with APsaA. For year in a number of ways. Position state- analysis and our Association. By the evening the first time in three years, our member- ments were formulated on human traffick- over dinner and wine, we spoke personally ship was growing again, rather than being ing, campus sexual violence, working with and began to better know and regain respect in decline. We continue to be enriched, not returning veterans, race-based violence and for each other. only by WAW new members, but the inno- racial profiling, and LGBT people in the By February, during our second retreat, vative perspectives they provide our field military. When the Supreme Court voted in we began to constructively formulate a list and organization.