Education Committee Report

The Education Committee's commitment to the highest quality of psychoanalytic education brought a plethora of interesting and well-attended courses to the community. The spring of this year included courses and workshops on psychoanalytic approaches to torture survivors, infant observation and its application to psychoanalytic technique, and a seminar on Bion's theory of thinking. For Fall 2000-Spring 2001, we are offering a greater number and variety of courses and workshops than ever before. This list includes the beginning of a series on “The Evolution of the Unconscious in Psychoanalysis,” focusing first on Freud and later on Klein and Bion, taught by J. Samuel Chase, M.D., and Enid Young, Ph.D., respectively. A series on Sexuality in Psychoanalysis will begin with a workshop, “The Meaning of Sexual Fantasy,” taught by Michael Bader, D.M.H., followed by a workshop taught by Drs. Dianne Elise, Mardy Ireland, and Annie Sweetnam on “How to Find the Sex in Psychosexuality.” Toni Heineman, D.M.H., will offer a workshop on working with children of gay and lesbian parents. Era Loewenstein, Ph.D., will teach a course examining the development of mental space and mentalization in disturbed patients; in the same vein, Sue von Baeyer, Ph.D., will offer a course on impasse and encapsulation. Rounding out the roster (at press time) are courses on Middle School perspectives on perversion, taught by Vivian Dent, Ph.D., and contemporary psychoanalytic perspectives on eating disorders, taught by Susan Sands, Ph.D.

All of these courses and workshops are planned, nurtured, and brought to term by a dedicated, extremely hardworking Education Committee comprised of returning members Lee Slome, Ph.D., and Wendy von Wiederhold, Ph.D., and new members Bob Bartner, Ph.D., and Tara Rech, Ph.D. Our well-loved, well-seasoned Past Chair, Laurette Schiff Gennis, Ph.D., provides us with regular guidance, wisdom, and consultation. Meanwhile, we have reluctantly said goodbye to the truly limitles