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Chair: Justine Kalas Reeves (USA)
Panellists: Kerry Kelly Novick (USA) and Jack Novick (USA)
Discussant: Jani Santamaria Linares (Mexico)
Reporter: Anand Desai
This timely and stimulating panel introduced us to the Integrated Training Track (ITT), a didactic curriculum newly approved by the IPA and now available to all component societies and institutes, affording candidates a unified training in child, adolescent and adult psychoanalysis. An overview of an adult analysis was given and then discussed, grounding in clinical work the panelists' developmental, “life-cycle understanding of the psyche” perspective. Ample time was afforded for a lively and wide-ranging discussion, in the course of which the audience was further introduced to the clinical heuristics and terms which Jack and Kerry Kelly Novick have developed over decades, rooted in and building beyond the work of Anna Freud, with reference to recent and forthcoming work in which they present and discuss in greater depth their theoretical and clinical work along the lines sketched out in this panel.
In her opening comments, Justine Kalas Reeves set the tone and situated us within historical, contemporary and future contexts. She began by recalling Anna Freud's unsuccessful attempt, 46 years ago at the international congress in Vienna, to have child psychoanalysts gain membership to the IPA. From issues such as membership decline and training demands, to theoretical and technical cloistering of discourse, Dr. Reeves argued that the separation