Program Committee

As the new Chair of the Program Committee, I want to recognize outgoing Chair, Lisa Bialy-Winston, for her wisdom and hard work. Despite her many responsibilities since leaving the board, Lisa has been available to me at the drop of a hat. Her ongoing support of the Program Committee and of NCSPP is most appreciated.

It is an exciting time at NCSPP. Membership is flourishing, programming has been fresh, well attended, and well received, and outreach to membership and to the community at large has increased. The 2011 Annual Event and Lecture featured Muriel Dimen and Virginia Goldner, two highly esteemed theorists and clinicians, known for their pioneering efforts in both the feminist and Relational movements in psychoanalysis. They have been colleagues and friends since the beginning of their training, and we asked them to share their memories and stories. “From Dualism to Multiplicity: Gender and Sexuality — Now, and Then” walked the audience on a tour through the history of the feminist movement in psychoanalysis, and asserted that “multiplicity” in gender, sexuality, culture, and thus in psychoanalytic theorizing, is the way to go. Stephen Hartman acted as Interlocutor and emcee. A friend and colleague of the pair, Hartman shared memories and highlighted their work in a dynamic conversation. In the afternoon session, Doctors Dimen and Goldner discussed “then” with the audience using clips from TV's MadMen. This fast-paced, engaging event concluded with case vignettes by two Bay Area clinicians: Bart Magee and Chaya Rivka Mayerson.

Next was the Spring Scientific Meeting. Local analyst Michael Horne presented a complex, magnificent paper, “Frozen in Time: The Disavowal of Endings about Trauma and Temporality,” based in part on Freud's early concept of Nachträglich. Vivien Dent then presented case material that beautifully illustrated her work with a young woman struggling with the “emergence into consciousness” of past traumas and their sequelae. This program filled