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.

MP3

$15.00

$15.00

APSA17-305

Plenary Address: Have We Changed? Psychoanalytic Education, Treatment, and Diversity in a Changing World

Speakers: Chair & Introducer: Harriet L. Wolfe, M.D., President (San Francisco, CA) Speaker: Mark Smaller, Ph.D. (Chicago, IL)

If psychoanalysis is to go forward, survive, and thrive for new generations, dramatic change in the field will be essential. Methods of educating students to practice in today’s changing world will demand innovation like never before. In an age where information, human connection and nonconnection travels in seconds, the impact on the field can no longer be denied. This presentation will review recent changes in our organization and profession, and highlight areas that demand new strategies for survival. If new and diverse students, patients, and research are to be attracted to the field, traditional perspectives must welcome innovation that will enrich psychoanalytic ideas and practice. Strategies to facilitate change will be described with direction toward implementing critical change.

MP3

$15.00

$15.00

APSA17-201

CORST Essay Prize Winner in Psychoanalysis and Culture

Speakers: Chair: Lewis A. Kirshner, M.D. (Cambridge, MA) Presenter & Prize Winner: Christine Maksimowicz, Ph.D. (Amherst MA) Title: “Poverty, Parenting, and the Foreclosure of Ordinary Devotion: Rethinking Winnicott Socioanalytically”

This annual prize is awarded for essays on psychoanalytically informed research in the biobehavioral sciences, social sciences, arts and humanities. The Undergraduate Essay Prize and Courage to Dream Book Prize will also be awarded during this session. In this paper, Dr. Maksimowicz applies the fiction of Toni Morrison and sociologic research into effects of social class and poverty on the developmental process of maternal recognition. She proposes a complex understanding of how economic necessity, pragmatic imperatives, and a desire for respectability shape a style of caregiving that prioritizes “doing” over “being” and can inhibit the development of a child’s unique subjectivity.

MP3

$20.00

$20.00

Subtotal

$50.00