The winter meeting of the American Psychoanalytic Association will take place from Wednesday, January 22, 2003, through Sunday, January 26, 2003. [Please note the change of date from previous years!] The location will remain the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City.
We will not be gathering during the bustling pre-holiday time, so perhaps we will all be able to relax a bit more. The attractions of New York remain. The crowds at museums, stores and plays will not be so large, leaving meeting attendees a greater opportunity to see the many cultural attractions that New York has to offer.
The program begins with a variety of discussion groups that cover the gamut of psychoanalytic issues, from its biological underpinnings to its psychological mechanisms, while delving into broader social and cultural applications and influences.
The Senior Analyst Presentation Program begins on Wednesday. It is an all-day presentation in two parts, chaired by David V. Orbison; the presenter is Carolyn Cates Kovel. Wednesday also begins the popular two-day clinical workshop. Workshop 1 will be chaired by David A. Tuckett and coordinated by Henry F. Smith.
Clinical Workshop 2 will be chaired by Paul Williams and coordinated by L. Eileen Keller.
Thursday's offerings begin with an Oral History Workshop on “Psychoanalysts and Creativity: The Contributions of Ernst Kris” which will be chaired by Nellie L. Thompson. Thursday's program also includes the presentation of the CORST 2002 essay prize winner in psychoanalysis and culture.
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In the afternoon, the Affiliate Council, Project 2000, COCAA, and COCAP are jointly sponsoring a special affiliates' forum: “In Vivo Pedagogy: A Demonstration of How to Teach and Learn Critical Thinking Using Papers by Daniel Stern, Andre Green, and Peter Wolff”. The forum's chairs are Lawrence S. Chalfin and Barbara Rosen. Presenters will be Susan Coates and Ellen Rees. Also on Thursday afternoon, Robert Stolorow will chair a psychoanalytic course, “Worlds of Experience: Interweaving Philosophical and Clinical Dimensions in Psychoanalysis.” At night, the two-session film workshop on the Holocaust will begin with part one, The Night Porter.
Friday's program begins at 7:45 a.m. with the organization's official Business Meeting of Members, followed by the plenary address “Thoughts on Authority and Leadership,” by Richard P. Fox, chaired by Newell Fisher with an introduction by Allan Compton. After the plenary address, Daniel H. Jacobs will chair a program in the popular series “In-Depth: Art, Culture, and Politics”: “Memory and Material Space: Analytic and Other Interiors in Photographs by Shellburne Thurber.” Thurber will be on hand to discuss her photographs. Also scheduled for Friday morning is an ethics course sponsored by Frenkel and Company, Inc., and the American Home Assurance Company.
Friday afternoon will be highlighted by the much-anticipated public forum on “Integrity and Self-Deception in Corporate America.” This program will be moderated by Kerry J. Sulkowicz, with presentations by Kenneth Eisold and Carol Hymowitz. There will be three symposia Friday afternoon. “Intimate Adult Relationships: Psychoanalytically Relevant Research on Emotion and Attachment in Couples” will be chaired by Stuart T. Hauser, with presentations by Judith A. Crowell and Robert J. Waldinger and a discussion by Judith S. Wallerstein. “Terrorism: New Psychoanalytic Views” will be chaired by Nadia Ramzy, with presentations by Martha S. Bragin, Dori Laub, Afaf Mahfouz, and Stuart W. Twemlow. An APsaA Presidential Symposium, “Psychoanalysis and Graduate Training in Psychiatry: Renewed Alliances and New Directions,” will be sponsored by the Committee on University and Medical Education and chaired by Eric R. Marcus.
Also on Friday afternoon, Ephi Betan will chair the presentation of the winner of the 2002 Affiliate Council Scientific Paper Prize. The Committee on Psychoanalysis, Community, and Society will present a workshop, “Measuring Object Relations and Psychological Change in a Population of Homeless Men with Chronic Mental Illness,” which will be chaired by Alan D. Felix.
Panel presentations begin on Friday with “Resistance: How Do We Think of it in the Twenty-First Century?” chaired by Arnold M. Cooper, with Robert Michels, Anna Ornstein, Daniel Stern, and David A. Tuckett. Eslee Samberg will serve as reporter. A seminar for psychoanalysts, “How Psychoanalysis Marginalizes Itself: Reading Culture as Nature,” will be chaired by Elizabeth Lloyd Mayer, with a presentation by Carol Gilligan.
Friday also will showcase the second annual poster session, “Research Relevant to Theory and Practice in Psychoanalysis,” which promises to repeat the excitement generated by APsaA's
first poster session in 2001. The day closes with the plenary address “Standards and Standardization,” by Owen Renik, chaired by Jon Meyer. Kimberlyn Leary will introduce Dr. Renik.
Saturday begins with the second panel, “How Could this Happen to Me? Sexual Misconduct and Us,” chaired by Joan Wheelis, with contributions by Andrea Celenza, Glen O. Gabbard, and Robert Michels. The reporter will be John C. Foehl. A morning symposium, “Challenges to Our Psychoanalytic Identity: 9/11 and the Marketing Report,” will be co-chaired by Richard P. Fox and Stuart W. Twemlow.
Three afternoon symposia are offered on Saturday. “Aggression: What is it? What Causes it? How to Deal with it Constructively: A Dialogue Between Educators and Analysts,” will be chaired by Phyllis J. Cath and Jonathan Cohen, with a presentation by Henri Parens and a discussion by Stuart W. Twemlow. “Affect, Representation, and Meaning in Music and Psychoanalysis: Songs without Words” will be co-chaired by Stuart Feder and Julie Jaffa: Nagel, and “Death Drive and AIDS” will be co-chaired by Teresa Lartigue and Juan Vives Rocabert.
The third panel of the meeting, “What Is the Role of the ‘There and Then’ in the Analysis of the ‘Here and Now?‘” will be chaired by Lucy LaFarge. Abbot A. Bronstein, Stanley J. Coen, and Jon Steiner will present, with David V. Orbison as reporter.
The latest in the “Meet the Author” series will feature Charles Strozier, author of Heinz Kohut: The Making of a Psychoanalyst. This event will be chaired by David Hoddeson; Paul H. Ornstein and Elisabeth Young-Bruehl will be the discussants.
Saturday closes with The Photographer, the second part of the film workshop on the Holocaust.
Sunday, January 26, begins with a fourth and final panel in the morning. “Shame and Intrapsychic Conflict” will be chaired by Sydney E. Pulver, with presentations by Peggy B. Hutson, Benjamin Kilborne, Melvin R. Lansky, and Andrew P. Morrison. Julie Weinshel Tepper will be the reporter. Sunday's program will also include some interdisciplinary sessions.
The meeting promises to be extraordinarily diverse. The opportunities for learning with and from other colleagues are great. Combine this with the cultural advantages of New York City — art museums, opera, symphony, plays, sporting events — and this will be a meeting with great rewards. Hope to see you there!