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

Audio CD

$30.00

$30.00

APSA_NY13-302

Symposium I: Embodiment & Subjectivity

Speakers: Andrea Celenza, John C. Foehl, Jessica Benjamin

This symposium addresses the role of the body through phenomenal experiencing, i.e., embodiment, as conceptualized by philosophical writers and contemporary relational theorists (especially from the perspective of intersubjectivity). Presymbolic, unmentalized bodily experience provides a ground of skin-contact and rhythmicity from which the capacities of differentiating and integrating experiences arise, especially as these are organized around a variety of binaries: inner/outer, self/other and female/male. Psychopathology is understood as a collapse of dialectical interplay, causing disruptions in early patterns of interpersonal recognition, flexibility and play. Presenters discuss how transcending binarial constraints can result in greater creativity and overall well-being.

MP3

$10.00

$10.00

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

Audio CD

$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.

MP3

$10.00

$10.00

APSA_NY13-402

Educator’s Symposium: Creating Possibility: The “Forward Edge” Approach in Schools & Consulting Room

Speakers: Tillie Garfinkel, Mark D. Smaller, Daniel B. Frank

The application of psychoanalytic concepts in school settings provides teachers, students, and parents an additional resource for educating our children. It also offers psychoanalysts an opportunity to expand psychoanalytic theory and clinical technique as they pertain to adolescent development and treatment. Mark Smaller, Ph.D., Founding Director of Project Realize (formerly the Analytic Service to Adolescents Program), describes the psychoanalytic concept of “the forward edge” approach to working with troubled adolescents in schools. He then outlines implications for advancing adolescent developmental theory and treatment in various settings. Preliminary findings of Project Realize show that regardless of wide variation in socio-economic factors in different schools, adolescent issues regarding learning, relationships, sexuality, aggression, and ambitions do not vary.

MP3

$10.00

$10.00

Subtotal

$95.00