APSA_NY12-306

Psychoanalysis and Health Care Reform: Protecting Your Patients, Protecting Yourself in a Volatile Reform Environment

Speakers: James C. Pyles, Esq. (Washington, DC)

Essential benefits package, mental health parity, pre-existing condition insurance, minimum loss ratios, accountable care organizations, patient-centered medical homes, health insurance exchanges, individual mandates, Supreme Court review, opting out of Medicare — The health reform legislation enacted in March of 2010 is being implemented now and will be fully implemented by January 2014 — in the midst of unprecedented deficit reduction deliberations and presidential and pivotal congressional elections in 2012. Electronic health privacy breaches continue to escalate exponentially. Find out what all of this means for therapist and patients and how you can have an impact on developing law.

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APSA_NY12-202

The Committee on Research and Special Training (CORST)

Speakers: Robert A. Paul, PhD (Atlanta, GA)

This annual prize is awarded for essays on psychoanalytically informed research in the bio-behavioral sciences, social sciences, arts and humanities. Contemporary analysts who draw upon clinical material in their writings must follow ethical standards in their approach to issues of confidentiality, consent, disguise, and collaboration with their research subjects. The winning author presents his/her essay.

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APSA_NY12-402

Scientific Paper 5: : The Dignity of the Thing: Lacan’s Ethics of Sublimation

Speakers: Author: Mari Ruti, PhD (Toronto, Canada)

This paper illustrates why Lacan’s theory of sublimation — of raising an ordinary object into “the dignity of the Thing” — introduces a code of ethics that enables the individual to resist dominant social norms. This alternative ethical code is not a matter of deliberating on the rightness or wrongness of actions, but rather of following the thread of one’s desire even when doing so proves socially inconvenient. Because it allows the individual to create space for desires, values, and patterns of appreciation that reach beyond the “reality principle” of the collectivity, it functions as an effective antidote to contemporary nihilism.

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APSA_NY12-307

University Forum: The Theban Plays of Sophocles

Speakers: David Konstan, PhD, Professor, Department of Classics, New York University; Elizabeth Brobrick, PhD, Visiting Scholar, Wesleyan University; Chairs & Melvin R. Lansky, MD (Los Angeles, CA); Leon Wurmser, MD (Towson, MD)

The inquiries posed by the presenters in this forum pave the way for a psychoanalytic inquiry into the character’s identity of the hero and his relationship to the dramatic forces in these plays which set these tragedies in relentless motion toward their fateful outcomes. Two distinguished scholar-teachers, David Konstan, PhD, Professor in the Department of Classics at NYU, and Elizabeth Brobrick, PhD, a Visiting Scholar with Wesleyan University, provide interpretative comments for the audience, while Melvin Lansky and Leon Wurmser moderate the follow-up discussion with the audience.

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APSA_NY12-303

Community Symposium: Psychodynamic Explorations of Power, Gender, and Identity in Twenty First Century - Variants of the “Black Nanny — White Master” Syndrome

Speakers: Dorothy E. Holmes, PhD (Bluffton, SC); Carlotta G. Miles, MD (Washington, DC); Bruce Sklarew, MD (Chevy Chase, MD)

The black nanny caring for white babies in oppressive, racist contexts was a common occurrence in our culture up to the civil rights era. The psychodynamics of the black nanny’s impact on the identities of the whites reared in those circumstances are considered. The modern extensions of that history is manifest in nannies/au pairs of color from the Caribbean and Africa, and whites from Europe in their rearing of children in both Black and White families. Clinical data to illuminate psychodynamics of power, sexuality, defenses, and identity formation played out in these modern day expressions are presented. Implications for other relationships in our society with obvious power differentials that may or may not involve differences in color (e.g., the bank teller in relation to his/her employer and/or customer) are discussed.

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APSA_NY12-203

Candidates' Forum: Developing Psychoanalytic Cases and the Candidates Who Will Work with Them

Speakers: Elizabeth Brett, PhD (Woodbridge, CT); Allan Frosch, PhD (New York, NY); Alan Z. Skolnikoff, MD (San Francisco, CA); Moderator: Phoebe A. Cirio, MSW, LCSW (St. Louis, MO); Arden Rothstein, PhD (New York, NY)

This session discusses approaches to helping candidates develop psychoanalytic cases, while experiencing a sense of agency and preserving morale. Following Dr. Rothstein’s presentation of an individualized tutorial program that she initiated, and her study of its impact upon participants, panel members convey their institutes’ approaches to case and candidate development. Subjective factors in assessment of analyzability — e.g., the match of candidate and analysand, and differences in supervisory perspective — are considered.

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$115.00