the FALL 2007 AMERICAN Volume 41, No. 3 PSYCHOANALYST Quarterly Magazine of The American Psychoanalytic Association The Art [Product] of Psychoanalysis INSIDE TAP... Phillip S. Freeman APsaA Campaign I once spoke with an author who was Daniel Menaker, Statements . 7 attempting to write about a conflict with his a novelist and analyst over the question of termination at executive editor- APsaA Awards . 17 the same moment he struggled with the issue in-chief at Random in his treatment. As he creatively explored House, did not Psychoanalysis and researched the topic, and discussed it begin writing The in Japan . 18 with other analysts and friends, it became New Yorker stories apparent that his interests as an analysand about the brilliant Daniel Menaker New Child and Adolescent were not being served by his interests as a and outrageous writer. In this case, the writing survived but the psychoanalyst, Dr. Morales, which became the Psychoanalysis treatment did not. basis for his novel, The Treatment, until a few Training Program. 20 Last January, at the meetings of the Amer- years into his second analysis. Before that he ican Psychoanalytic Association, a novelist, a waited. “I was scrupulous about not writing. I The IPA Outreach filmmaker, and a playwright offered the oppor- did keep a journal. I have always stood outside to Asia. 22 tunity to consider the implications—for their my experience. I observe. I am a writer. I tried art, their treatment, and the public perception not to be too much the observer. But writers Rebuild It, and They of analysis—of their decisions to introduce store things up. They are always making men- Will Come . 26 their experiences in psychoanalysis into their tal notes. Like psychoanalysts. Like magpies.” creative work. Their comments on panels An intentional ambiguity and openness to Harry Potter’s and in subsequent interviews offered insights interpretation characterizes the novel. Menaker Popularity. 29 into the creative process and helped clarify designed Morales to be “admirable and awful.” questions about the accuracy of representa- An example of openness lies in his sophis- The Patient tions of analysis and analysts. They also man- ticated discussion of termination. or the Analyst aged to provide by example, in their work and The patient in the novel wants to their comments, evidence that aspirations to move on with his life. He has made Dies . 30 truthfulness, in what can be heard and what impressive gains and feels excited can be said, constitute the core of the psy- about his prospects. The analyst APsaA, choanalytic enterprise. resists and appears to be clinging Congress, to the treatment for selfish or and Health authoritarian reasons. And yet. The Information Phillip S. Freeman, M.D., is a psychiatrist analyst articulates a not unreason- Privacy . 32 and a training and supervising psychoanalyst able interpretation of flight: The patient is leaving prematurely—in at the Boston Psychoanalytic Institute. Retirement Adaptations, a collection of ten years of his this case to rescue a recently wid- satirical monologues regarding the fate of the owed mother and her child and to Can Wait . 36 psychoanalyst in the modern market place, defy a father/analyst. will be published in the fall. Continued on page 6 THE AMERICAN PSYCHOANALYST • Volume 41, No. 3 • Fall 2007 1 CONTENTS: Fall 2007 THE AMERICAN PSYCHOANALYTIC ASSOCIATION President: K. Lynne Moritz 3 Science in the Association—Part I Lynne Moritz President-Elect: Prudence Gourguechon Secretary: Robert M. Galatzer-Levy 4 Help Develop New 10,000 Minds Web Site Prudy Gourguechon Treasurer: Warren Procci Executive Director: Dean K. Stein 5 The Evolution of Our Profession Cal Narcisi and Myrna Weiss 7 APsaA Elections: Campaign Statements THE AMERICAN PSYCHOANALYST Magazine of the 15 American Psychoanalytic Foundation Committee: American Psychoanalytic Association Grants Awarded June 2006–July 2007 Dottie Jeffries Editor Michael Slevin Bringing Our Bylaws into Line with New York Law 16 Co-Editor Joint Committee on Bylaws Janis Chester Associate Editor APsaA Awards Michael Slevin 17 Christine Ury 18 Heeding the Vocabulary of Another Culture: Psychoanalysis National Editor in Japan Evelyne Albrecht Schwaber Robert M. Galatzer-Levy Editorial Board 20 New Child and Adolescent Psychoanalysis Training Program Brenda Bauer, Vera J. Camden, Wins Approval Jill M. Miller Leslie Cummins, Phillip S. Freeman, Maxine Fenton Gann, Noreen Honeycutt, COPE: Workshops Explore Challenges of Child/Adolescent Sheri Butler Hunt, Laura Jensen, 21 Nadine Levinson, A. Michele Morgan, Analysis Supervision Paula G. Atkeson and Anita G. Schmukler Julie Jaffee Nagel, Marie Rudden, Hinda Simon, Lynn Stormon, Vaia Tsolas, 22 The IPA Outreach to Asia David M. Sachs Dean K. Stein, ex officio Science and Psychoanalysis: Complexities of Choosing Senior Correspondent 23 Jane Walvoord Effective Treatment Andrew J. Gerber Photographer Joys of Medical Student Teaching Janis Cutler Mervin Stewart 24 Manuscript and Production Editors Rebuild It, and They Will Come Janis G. Chester Michael and Helene Wolff, 26 Technology Management Communications Mental Health Care for Returning Veterans Michael Slevin 27 The American Psychoanalyst is published quar- Sheri Butler Hunt terly. Subscriptions are provided automatically 28 Poetry: From the Unconscious to members of The American Psychoanalytic Association. For non-members, domestic and 29 Harry Potter’s Popularity Rooted in the Emotional Life Canadian subscription rates are $36 for individ- of Children Judith Chertoff uals and $80 for institutions. 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Hamm American Psychoanalytic Association, 309 East 35 49th Street, New York, New York 10017. 36 Retirement Can Wait: Finding a New Way to Contribute Arthur L. Rosenbaum ISSN 1052-7958 IPA Promotes Survey to Aid Psychoanalytic Practice The American Psychoanalytic Association does 39 not hold itself responsible for statements made in in the Three Regions Bob Pyles 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 Correspondence and letters to the editor should be sent to TAP editor, The American Psychoanalytic Association or The Michael Slevin, at [email protected]. American Psychoanalyst. 2 THE AMERICAN PSYCHOANALYST • Volume 41, No. 3 • Fall 2007 FROM THE PRESIDENT scientific meetings with a science focus. Part A Science in the Association—Part I will occur in April 2008 at Division 39’s annual Lynne Moritz meeting in New York; Part B will occur in January 2009 at APsaA’s winter meeting in Whatever one’s perspective, research and The task force New York. APsaA will co-sponsor and par- science deserve an increasingly important is charged to ticipate in Division 39’s science meeting, and place in the Association. More than a decade resurrect the they will co-sponsor and participate in ours. ago, the Association undertook a brave leap mandate of the We are hopeful that this experiment will lay forward to implement exactly this point of original Omni- the groundwork for other initiatives of mutual view—the Omnibus Science Initiative. That bus Science Ini- interest and benefit. task force, chaired by Allan Compton, devel- tiative, examine oped a series of integrated recommendations the current sta- THE RESEARCH PROJECT IN designed to give science a greater prominence tus of research CHILD-FOCUSED TRAINING and more active role in the Association. Many and science Lynne Moritz The results of the 5-year research con- innovations were implemented; some, though within the Asso- cerning the pilot project in “child-only training” important, were not. And it is clear, in evaluating ciation, and recommend optimal structures were presented at the Denver meetings. The the current functioning of research and science within APsaA to: research found that the child-only candidates within the Association, that we have not yet • Foster and coordinate research and sci- at the four institutes that participated in the found the optimum structures. Coordination, ence within the Association. project were judged by faculty and program prioritization, and communication to mem- • Promote research and science among our directors to perform at least at the level of bers remain as challenges to the science divi- members. the cohort of traditionally trained candidates sion. Furthermore, we need a consistent means • Make the Association and our meetings at those institutes. This formative research to inform entities with responsibility for initi- welcoming and user-friendly (even essen- allowed BOPS to approve