APSA17-203

Professional Development Workshop 2: Promoting Psychoanalysis in 140 Characters or Less: Twitter

Speakers: Chair: Sue Kolod, Ph.D. (New York, NY) Presenters: Michael Donner, Ph.D. (San Francisco, CA) Wylie G. Tené, APsaA Director of Public Affairs (NY)

Twitter is a social media platform and phone app that launched in 2006. In the past decade it has grown to be the third largest social media site, following Facebook and YouTube. Twitter currently has more than 310 million active users per month. The site allows people to engage in conversations and interact with users through short, 140 characters or less posts called “tweets.” Twitter is a powerful tool for raising interest in and promoting psychoanalysis, but many psychoanalysts have yet to embrace its power. This workshop will serve as a hands-on introduction to Twitter, covering all the basics on how to use the platform, as well as discussing how to use it to elevate interest in psychoanalysis.

Audio CDs: 2

Audio CD

$30.00

$30.00

APSA17-304

Scientific Paper 4: Psychoanalytic Field Theory and the Clinical Relevance of the Mind/Body Problem

Speakers: Chair: Martin A. Silverman, M.D. (Maplewood, NJ) Author: Montana Katz, Ph.D., L.P. (New York, NY) Discussant: Joseph D. Lichtenberg, M.D. (Bethesda, MD)

This paper addresses how psychoanalytic field theory models approach mind/body concepts and how this impacts clinical technique. Questions about the relationship, integration or reduction of the body and mind are approached theoretically by philosophers. For psychoanalysts the issues are saliently clinical. Field theory as developed by Baranger and Baranger, Ferro, and Levenson portray an evolution of field theory models that began employing a mind/body distinction, to offering techniques to bridge the divide between mind and body, and finally to a holistic model and technique. Performance art, a clinical example, and focus on specific clinical techniques are offered to support the discussion.

MP3

$15.00

$15.00

APSA17-300

Plenary Address: “What About Curiosity?”

Speakers: Chair: Lee Jaffe, Ph.D., President-Elect (La Jolla, CA) Introducer: Ira Brenner, M.D. (Bala Cynwyd, PA) Speaker: Salman Akhtar, M.D. (Ardmore, PA)

This presentation will trace the origin of human curiosity to the interplay between hard-wired evolutionary imperatives and epigenetically unfolding psychosexual drives and relational scenarios of formative years. It will also address the forms and expressions of curiosity that are normative (e.g. developmental), and ubiquitous (e.g. existential), as well as those which are morbid in either quantitative (e.g. too much, too little), or qualitative (e.g. false, transgressive, prurient) sense. The intricate relationship between curiosity and creativity will also be discussed. Finally, the implications of such formations to the analytic situation (from both sides of the couch, and in between) shall be elucidated.

Audio CDs: 1

Audio CD

$18.00

$18.00

APSA17-403

Educator’s Symposium: Evolving Child Psychoanalytic Practice Within Local to Global Community Systems

Speakers: Chair: Ann Marie Sacramone, M.S.Ed., L.P. (NY, NY) Presenter: Edward Eismann, Ph.D. (Bronx, NY) Discussant: Neil Altman, Ph.D. (New York, NY)

This symposium, sponsored by the APsaA Schools Committee, co-chaired by John S. Tieman, Ph.D. and Tillie Garfinkel, M.Ed., will consider evolving ideas of social psychoanalytic practice with children in settings ranging from local (classroom, neighborhood, and village) to global community systems. Three analysts will describe child treatment models that depend on the analyst working in concert with the child’s social systems. Tracing change in the child, community and analyst, participants will ponder about a relational response to our current socio-cultural harms. Dr. Eismann will narrate and illustrate in video his 49 year community practice in the South Bronx stemming from Freudian, Adlerian, and social support theory perspectives. Ms. Sacramone will offer case material from a child-in-community practice grounded on infancy research, and self-psychology. Dr. Altman will discuss his observations of communities internationally that developed unique culturally based therapeutic approaches.

Audio CDs: 1

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$18.00

$18.00

APSA17-101

Service Members and Veterans Initiative

Speakers: Chair & Presenter: Harold Kudler, M.D. (Washington, DC) Discussant: Norman M. Camp, M.D. (Richmond, VA)

The Service Member and Veterans Initiative (SVI) seeks to guide the American Psychoanalytic Association’s efforts to elucidate and alleviate the psychological trauma of war. This requires articulation of the concept of traumatic stress in terms that can be shared and acted upon across a broad range of theoretical perspectives, mental health disciplines, and systems of care. This presentation by Harold Kudler, Chief Consultant for Mental Health for the Department of Veterans Affairs and SVI Chair, will offer a common language for understanding psychological trauma and propose a practical path for implementing this perspective in direct work with patients and their families, clinical supervision, teaching, research, and enhancement of systems of care.

Audio CDs: 1

Audio CD

$18.00

$18.00

APSA17-404

Psychoanalysis and Neuroscience Symposium: Trauma, Dream and Psychic Change in Psychoanalyses

Speakers: Co-chairs: Charles P. Fisher, M.D. (San Francisco) Richard J. Kessler, D.O. (Long Island City, NY) Presenters: Tamara Fischmann, Ph.D. (Frankfurt, Germany) Marianne Leuzinger-Bohleber, Ph.D. (Frankfurt, Germany)

To psychoanalysts as well as neuroscientists the neurological base of psychic functioning, particularly concerning the topic of trauma and dreaming is of special interest. In the first part of this paper neurobiological changes occurring in the course of two years of psychoanalytic psychotherapy of a severely traumatized, chronic depressed patient are traced by a recognition experiment of memories of dreams related to an underlying conflict and depicted in fMRI. In the second part a dream series of the same patient elicited partially in psychoanalytic treatment and partially in a sleep laboratory are traced for changes in a clinical and experimental psychoanalytic manner. The results of both fields of research are discussed.

Audio CDs: 1

Audio CD

$18.00

$18.00

APSA17-500

Panel IV: Teaching Freud Today

Speakers: Moderator: Jennifer Stuart, Ph.D. (New York, NY) Presenters: Sarah Ackerman, Ph.D. (Hanover, NH) Lawrence D. Blum, M.D. (Philadelphia, PA) Robert A. Paul, Ph.D. (Atlanta, GA) Jeffrey Prager, Ph.D. (Beverly Hills, CA) Michael E. Shulman, Ph.D. (Ann Arbor, MI)

This panel was proposed by Jennifer Stuart, Ph.D. Though psychoanalysis began as the creation of a single visionary, Freud’s place in education – both within our institutes and beyond – has been in dispute for years. Meanwhile, Freud’s ideas have become so deeply ingrained in our culture and practice that his influence can be overlooked. What elements of Freud’s thinking remain vital today? How might we help students of Freud to develop their own attitudes, both appreciative and critical, toward his work? Each member of this panel will teach, in real time, from an excerpt of Freud’s writing projected on screen for all to see. Panelists will demonstrate how contemporary perspectives – drawn from psychoanalysis itself, and from the humanities and social sciences – can engage both clinicians’ and non-clinicians’ interest in Freud.

Audio CDs: 3

Audio CD

$40.00

$40.00

APSA17-302

Scientific Paper 1: Searching for Reverie

Speakers: Chair: Melinda Gellman, Ph.D. (New York, NY) Author: Fred Busch, Ph.D. (Brookline, MA) Discussant: Steven Stern, Psy.D. (Portland, ME)

The analyst’s reveries have become a central component of analytic understanding in the last few decades. They have the potential for understanding thoughts, feelings, and unthought thoughts unavailable through other methods. However, it has not been so clear that there is a great deal of ambiguity as to what a reverie actually is, and how it might best be used in the clinical situation. In this paper the author outlines the clinical approaches of Ogden, Ferro and Rochas de Barros to see their similarities and differences. A clinical case will be presented to suggest a model for the analyst’s us of her reveries.

Audio CDs: 1

Audio CD

$18.00

$18.00

APSA17-200

Oral History Workshop #79: Anna Freud Revisited

Speakers: Chair & Presenter: Nellie L. Thompson, Ph.D. (New York, NY) Presenters: Elizabeth Danto, Ph.D. (Vienna, Austria) Helene Keable, M.D. (New York, NY) Ava Bry Penman, Ph.D. (Brookline, MA) Frances Thomson-Salo, M.D. (Windsor, Australia) Carol Seigel, Director of the Freud Museum (London, England)

The 79th Oral History Workshop, “Anna Freud Revisited,” will address four topics: 1) The postwar trajectory of Anna Freud’s theoretical and clinical thinking, as illustrated in the 16 papers she published in “The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child” between 1945 and 1965; 2) The evolution of Anna Freud’s child analysis clinical practice, and her growing recognition that some children require a developmental approach in the therapeutic situation; 3) The pedagogical and theoretical legacy of the Hietzing School, founded by Anna Freud and Dorothy Burlington, is explored through the writings of Erik Erikson, who taught at the school; 4) A retrospective account of the experience, and enduring influence, of undergoing the four-year child analysis training program at the Hampstead Clinic under the aegis of Anna Freud. In addition, the Director of the Freud Museum (London) will discuss the recently re-designed Anna Freud exhibit.

MP3

$25.00

$25.00

APSA17-204

Scientific Paper Prize for Psychoanalytic Research

Speakers: Chair: Barbara Milrod, M.D. (New York, NY) Presenters & Prize Winners: John Porcerelli, M.D., ABPP (Bloomfield Hills, MI) Alissa Huth-Bocks, Ph.D. (Ypsilanti, MI) Title: “Defense Mechanisms of Pregnant Mothers Predict Attachment Security, Social/Emotional Competence, and Behavior Problems in Their Toddlers” Discussant: Catherine Monk, Ph.D. (New York, NY)

This annual prize is awarded to the paper published in the previous year (2015) that is deemed by the Scientific Paper Prize Committee to have the greatest scientific value to the field of psychoanalysis. This presentation of a paper authored by John H. Porcerelli, Ph.D., ABPP, Alissa Huth-Bocks, Ph.D., Steven K. Huprich, Ph.D., and Laura Richardson, Ph.D., will describe a longitudinal study that examined the relationship between defenses in pregnant women and their toddlers’ attachment security, social-emotional, and behavioral adjustment. Eighty-four women were prospectively studied from pregnancy through two-years after birth. Statistical analyses revealed that mothers’ defenses were associated with toddler outcomes. Mature defenses were associated with greater toddler attachment security, social-emotional competence, and fewer behavior problems, and immature defenses were associated with lower levels of attachment security and social-emotional competence. Findings suggest that defenses in parents preparing for and parenting toddlers influences the parent-child attachment relationship and social-emotional adjustment. Possible mechanisms for these associations may include parental attunement and mentalization. Defensive functioning during times of increased stress (prenatal-to-postnatal period) may be important for understanding parental influences on the child.

MP3

$20.00

$20.00

Subtotal

$220.00