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Chair: Talia Hatzor
Presenters: Shirley Hiscock, Carla Rentrop, Kathryn McCormick
Talia Hatzor introduced the panel members, each of whom, as members of the International Psychoanalytical Association Education Committee, has adapted contemporary psychoanalytic models, successfully creating programmes and educational opportunities in community settings. The work of each panelist demonstrates – to use Shirley Hiscock’s quote, from an interview with Betty Joseph in Encounters Through Generations (Joseph 2010) – “There is something right about psychoanalysis.” Hiscock, expanding on Joseph’s idea that psychoanalysis is attacked because its basic tenets garnish attention, states that regardless of powerful controversies, analytic concepts are recognizable and useful to many. Psychoanalysis stirs emotional experience that is paradoxically disquieting and familiar. Shirley Hiscock, Carla Rentrop and Kathryn McCormick each demonstrate the portability of the psychoanalytic setting (Hatzor 2020) and how analytic principles can be used to “hold” diverse populations in community settings, especially in schools.
The programmes discussed by the panelists are designated to expand the capacity of community settings to reach vulnerable, at-risk children. Hiscock describes international settings that offer psychoanalytic support as a public mission designed to educate parents, teachers and mental health professionals. Rentrop presents her clinical research findings from her work through the Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research (IPTAR) and Clinical Center in New York City. Rentrop has been a Director, for over 20 years, of the IPTAR school-based programme that has offered psychoanalytically based treatment to ethnically and culturally diverse inner-city children in grades K–12 whose school performance and personality development have been impacted by traumatic histories and the experience of loss. Individual and group therapy informed by psychoanalytic theories of attachment