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At its January 2003 meetings, the American Psychoanalytic Association held the first of what will be annual peer-reviewed poster sessions highlighting the many research studies being conducted by analytic investigators here and abroad. The twenty-one posters that were presented—eighteen of which are represented here by abstracts—reflect a new emphasis in our field on empirical validation and a rich diversity of research topics. As the poster sessions are designed to generate interest and discussion around these endeavors, readers are encouraged to e-mail or otherwise contact the posters' authors.
—Stuart T. Hauser
The 9/11/2001 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center profoundly affected the population of New York City, including analysts and analysands. The authors sought to investigate how this affected the psychoanalytic technique of a group of psychoanalysts practicing in the city in the weeks following 9/11.
A questionnaire was developed that asked analysts about their psychoanalytic technique with adult analysands in the days and weeks following 9/11. The questionnaire focused on five domains: technical issues, personal questions, the patient's symptoms and losses, the