South Bay Education Committee Report

The South Bay Education Committee of 2004-2005 continued to offer programs designed to stimulate psychoanalytic thinking and bring people into our local analytic community.

The South Bay Intensive Study Group for this past year, Finding an Analytic Voice, was composed of four seminars led by four different presenters — Victor Bonfilio, Thomas Rosbrow, Robert Carrere, and Jeanne Wolff Bernstein. Each presenter provided a feel for how he/she worked and talked about what was important to him/her clinically. The first and last segments, taught by Barbara Blasdel, set the stage for the discussions and, then, at the end helped provide a summary and closure. Everyone gave the group something unique and useful, and we thank them for their contributions.

This past year, we also held our Tenth Annual South Bay Symposium, Fullness, Intensity, and Excess in the Psychoanalytic Encounter: The Concept of “Muchness.” Jed Sekoff and Ray Poggi presented thoughtful papers on the topic, and a discussion, moderated by Michael Loughran, engaged the audience. The symposium was well attended and we are grateful to Dr. Sekoff, Dr. Poggi, and Dr. Loughran for sharing the day with us.

In the spring we presented the first of our Scientific Meetings, a talk by Peter Carnochan on “A Meeting of Traditions: Bion, Ferro, and the American School of Relational Analysis.” Following the talk, Alison Cabel presented a case. The morning was well attended and interesting, and created excitement and a desire for our committee to continue presenting Scientific Meetings.

The South Bay ISG for 2005-2006 is underway — At Play with Winnicott: Dialogues in Transitional Space. Four class segments will look at how Winnicott has informed and influenced some of the major theorists of our time, which include Adam Phillips, Thomas Ogden, Andre Green, and Christopher Bollas. The faculty is comprised of Maureen Murphy, Annie Sweetnam, Angela Sowa, and Hugh Grubb, with a morning on Lacan taught by Martine Aniel. We again tha