APSA_NY13-202

CORST Essay Prize Winner in Psychoanalysis and Culture

Speakers: Robert Paul

This annual prize is awarded for essays on psychoanalytically informed research in the biobehavioral sciences, social sciences, arts or humanities. The Undergraduate Essay Prize and Courage to Dream Book Prize is also be awarded during this session.

Audio CDs: 2

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$30.00

$30.00

APSA_NY13-100

Professional Development Workshop 1 – Guidelines for Engaging with the Media

Speakers: William H. Braun, Geralyn Leaderman, Gail Saltz MD

Mental health professionals are sought after by members of the media seeking background information or quotes for their stories. Engaging with the media offers analysts the opportunity to lend a news story a psychoanalytic perspective, leading to a greater understanding of psychoanalysis among members of the public. This workshop addresses how to give an interview for print, television and radio, what to keep in mind when speaking to reporters and tips for staying on message. We also discuss writing successful opinion pieces and letters-to-the-editor.

Audio CDs: 2

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$30.00

$30.00

APSA_NY13-000

Full Set Audio Recordings

Each session on a separate CD (includes free binder); or all sessions in mp3 format on free USB (playable on any computer, tablet, or other electronic listening device. CDs and USBs delivered via Priority US Mail. 15% shipping and handling fees will be applied upon checkout.

Audio CDs: 40

Audio CD

$329.00

$329.00

APSA_NY13-408

Meet-the-Author: Dr. Phillip M. Bromberg

Speakers: Melinda Gellman, Philip M. Bromberg, Christine C. Kieffer

Deepening his inquiry into the nature of what is therapeutic about the psychoanalytic relationship Dr. Bromberg explores the two interlocking rewards of successful treatment — healing and growth. By being an affectively alive partner who is simultaneously attentive to the dissociated impact of his own enacted participation, the analyst helps decrease the patient’s mistrust of potentially traumatizing “otherness” and its dissociated dread of attachment rupture. This in turn leads to both greater confidence in relational affect regulation and a growing ability to safely contain the self-state negotiation of otherness inherent to the experience of internal conflict. In its essence, Bromberg’s portrayal of therapeutic action restores self-state fluidity, liberating the patient’s capacity for trust without vigilance and permitting life to be lived with greater creativity, love and spontaneity.

Audio CDs: 3

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$35.00

$35.00

APSA_NY13-204

Scientific Paper Prize for Psychoanalytic Research

Speakers: Barbara Milrod

The Scientific Paper Prize is awarded annually for the conceptual and empirical research paper representing the most outstanding contribution to psychoanalysis. Authors of the winning paper describe practical lessons of their research for the practice of psychoanalysis and implications for theory and technique.

Audio CDs: 2

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$30.00

$30.00

APSA_NY13-201

Oral History Workshop #75 American Psychoanalytic Journals: Origins & Evolution

Speakers: Erika Schmidt, NellieThompson, Stanford Gifford, Steve Levy, Jay Greenberg, Lou Rose, Alan Barnett, Gina Atkinson

This session reviews the historical development of several American psychoanalytic journals. The focus of the group considers how these journals and their editors influenced the development of psychoanalysis in the United States, and in turn how the journals have responded to the diverse strands of psychoanalytic thinking that characterize psychoanalysis today.

Audio CDs: 3

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$35.00

$35.00

APSA_NY13-409

Scientific Paper #7: Recovery from Childhood Psychiatric Treatment

Speakers: David Mintz, Adele Tutter

Increasingly, our patients have been medicated since childhood, with profound consequences for personal identity, becoming a source of deep-rooted feelings defect. Other problems arise when pills are used defensively to localize a family pathology in the child who receives the prescription. Furthermore, when medications are used to manage a child’s feelings, confusions may result about the signal function of emotions, truncating development. Cases of young adults, prescribed medications in childhood, are reviewed, with particular attention to developmental consequences. This session explores dynamic mechanisms of harm and examples of psychotherapeutic work that can help such patients seek healthier developmental paths.

Audio CDs: 1

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$15.00

$15.00

APSA_NY13-403

Psychoanalysis and Neuroscience Symposium

Speakers: Charles P. Fisher, Mark Solms

Dr. Solms presents a compelling thesis that “turns the talking cure on its head” while preserving Freud’s fundamental discoveries. Freud saw the ego as the seat of consciousness and the id as deeply unconscious. However modern neuroscience suggests that consciousness is generated in primitive brain structures that mediate instinctual drives, while the higher structures that represent the external world are unconscious in themselves. Is the id conscious and the ego unconscious? This revision would resolve certain difficulties with Freud’s original formulations, while reinforcing the clinical utility of his basic concepts. The group discusses how this revised model clarifies clinical work.

Audio CDs: 1

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$15.00

$15.00

APSA_NY13-500

Panel IV: Mourning, Identity, Creativity

Speakers: Adele Tutter, Otto F. Kernberg, Anna Ornstein, Leon Wurmser, Jeanine M. Vivona, Tehela Nimroody

Having come a long way from Freud’s circumscribed process of libidinal detachment, mourning is now considered a potentially life-long process that includes not only the grieving of loved ones, but also the grieving of developmental stages (e.g., childhood) and components of identity (e.g., ideals and illusions). At the same time, mourning is increasingly appreciated as a powerful inaugurator of personal growth and creative and vocational productivity. This panel brings together leading thinkers who have made important recent contributions to this topic. Through interactive dialogue with the discussant and the audience, they attempt a fresh synthesis of the complex, universal, and transformative processes of mourning. This panel was originally proposed by Adele Tutter, M.D., Ph.D.

Audio CDs: 3

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$35.00

$35.00

APSA_NY13-407

Innovations: Psychoanalysis by Surprise

Speakers: Kimberly Leary, Mark Solms

After the end of apartheid, an exiled analyst returned to his native South Africa with the intention to transform social conditions on his family’s farm. The level of mutual comprehension and trust between himself and the black farm-workers turned out to be far worse than he anticipated. In desperation, he fell back on basic psychoanalytic principles, such as his understanding of transference and countertransference. The result was an unplanned community psychoanalysis. This “analysis” was conducted largely by historians and archaeologists (not the analyst), with “surprising results.

Audio CDs: 2

Audio CD

$30.00

$30.00

APSA_NY13-304

Psychoanalysis & Health Care Reform: Impact of the Presidential & Congressional Elections on Psychiatry & Psychoanalysis

Speakers: James C. Pyles

This session is for all members of APsaA and outlines the effect the November 2012 elections will have on health reform and the practice of psychiatry and psychoanalysis. The Affordable Care Act was signed into law in March 2011 and was held constitutional by the Supreme Court on June 28, 2012. Republican members of the House and the Republican candidate for president have pledged to repeal it. APsaA counsel, Jim Pyles has been closely involved in the health reform debate and provides analysis and insight into what the elections mean for health reform.

Audio CDs: 1

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$15.00

$15.00

APSA_NY13-300

Plenary Address: Second Century for Psychoanalysis and for APsaA — Their Fates May Differ

Speakers: Warren Procci

Psychoanalysis has entered its second century. The current state of the field is mixed, and somewhat bifurcated. Psychoanalysis as a discipline, as a theoretical corpus, and as an area for academic inquiry is holding its own if not necessarily thriving. Contrarily, psychoanalysis as represented in its institutes, societies, centers, and especially within APsaA, our major professional organization, is in a serious decline. The complex reasons for these quite different situations are examined. An inability of the major competing components of our organization to work towards meaningful compromise is, in the speaker’s view, a major factor. Some thoughts concerning what must be done, and quickly, are offered.

Audio CDs: 1

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$15.00

$15.00

APSA_NY13-401

Helping Youth in Violent Communities to Help Themselves: Psychoanalysts at Work in Jamaica & Uganda

Speakers: Marie Rudden, Stuart Twemlow, Martha S. Bragin

The presenters will describe two different interventions, based on applied psychoanalytic principles that helped adolescents in violent communities. Stuart Twemlow describes a school project that radically changed a community and government, using low cost culturally attuned interventions. Martha Bragin discusses the Uganda Ministry of Education and Sports’ initiative to use traditional community strengths in supporting war-affected teachers and students.

Audio CDs: 1

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$15.00

$15.00

APSA_NY13-307

PPRS Research Forum: Treatment Notes: Objective Measures of Language Style Point to Clinical Insights

Speakers: Leon Hoffman, Jane Algus, William Braun, Wilma Bucci, Bernard Maskit, John Porcerelli

This session presents the systematic evaluation of the language of treatment notes written by psychoanalytic candidates for fourteen analyses carried out under supervision at the NY Psychoanalytic Institute. The notes were analyzed using computerized measures of the referential process developed by Bucci and Maskit. This session explores how linguistic measures mirror the clinical course, comparing one successful with one unsuccessful case. The measures point to nodal periods in the analytic work, which were clinically examined to ascertain why one case progressed, with a successful termination, while the other did not, ending with a forced interruption by the analyst.

Audio CDs: 1

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$15.00

$15.00

Subtotal

$644.00