| | | 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_NY13-310 | | Plenary Address: (Re)-Membering The Female Body in Psychoanalysis Speakers: Rosemary Balsam It would seem that psychoanalysts could never overlook patients’ bodies, given the major role that males, females and sexuality played in Freud’s theories. Yet the body has fallen from grace in our fi eld nowadays. To focus this topic, Dr. Rosemary Balsam will discuss the impact of procreativity and the major accomplishment of the female body, childbirth, as utterly common, but yet the least psychoanalytically attended source of both positive and negative experiences that can shift body image and even gender portraiture. Old theory mainly fl ed it. Newer theories, by focusing too exclusively on the mind while largely ignoring the body, risk a similar female erasure. | | MP3 | | $10.00 | | $10.00 | |