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My works … let viewers in on the game of interaction … the game of dialogue. I ask viewers to play the participatory game of dreaming ourselves as each other.
Two impressions remain with me from the 2011 IPA Congress in Mexico City. One relates to the book given to each participant, 100 Years of the IPA. Even a quick scan reveals the importance of personal idiosyncrasies, blind spots, and biases in the otherwise brilliant and creative leaders in our first 100 years of global psychoanalysis. Despite personal analysis, ongoing self-analysis, and peer consultation, we often have difficulty with what one Congress panel member called “conceptual empathy” in our dialogue with colleagues. Can we completely leave this at the door when we work with our patients? Of course not.
The second impression relates to two Congress presentations I attended on separate topics where the senior analysts surprisingly gave clinical