The program of the Winter 2006 Meeting, Wednesday, January 18-Sunday, January 22, in New York City, will feature two plenary addresses. The popular writer and eminent University of Iowa neurologist Antonio Damasio will receive a presidential award on Friday morning and deliver an award lecture entitled “The Neurobiology of Emotion: Taking Stock.” Later that same day, Peter Fonagy of The University College, London, will present the second plenary, entitled “A Genuinely Developmental Theory of Sexual Enjoyment and Its Implications for Psychoanalytic Technique.”
As usual, five panels will be featured at the meeting. In recognition of the fact that the meeting is taking place during the 150th anniversary of Freud's birth, our child panel will focus on the recent release of documents about Little Hans from the Library of Congress. Harold Blum will chair the panel, which will feature Judith Chused, John Kafka, and John Munder Ross as panelists, and Peter Neubauer as discussant. Jennifer Stuart will be the reporter.
The four panels focusing on adult psychoanalysis are highly diverse. The Friday afternoon panel is “What Use Is Consciousness? A Clinical Neuroscience Roundtable,” chaired by Edward Nersessian. Damasio will join that panel, along with several other leading thinkers from the neurosciences and psychoanalysis: Wilma Bucci, Bonnie Litowitz, Arnold Modell, and Bernard Baars. Daria Colombo will serve as reporter.
The Saturday morning panel will be entitled “Race, Culture, and Ethnicity in the Consulting Room.” Chaired by Kimberlyn Leary, it will feature Dorothy Holmes, Donald Moss, and Henry F. Smith as panelists. Because of the popularity of last January's format of a two-hour panel followed by one-hour breakout groups, this panel will once again follow that model so the audience members can be active in small group discussions after listening to the speakers for two hours.
Many analysts have been profoundly affected by the impact of Hurricane Katrina. Hence, we will also provide a special symposium in the Friday time slot where our members and colleagues can discuss their experiences in the aftermath of the tragedy.
The Saturday afternoon panel takes up a current controversy in psychoanalytic institutes throughout the country: “Multiple Models in Clinical Practice: A Bane or Blessing?” Sydney Pulver will chair the panel, and the three panelists will be Fred Pine, Ron Britton, and Sander Abend. Clinical material will be presented by Linda Spero. Dale Panzer will serve as reporter.
The final panel on Sunday morning, “Teaching Psychoanalysis in an Era of Epistemological Anguish: Where Do We Go From Here?” will be chaired by Elizabeth Auchincloss. Panelists will include Judith Yanof, Lawrence Inderbitzin, Donnel Stern, and Justin Richardson, who will also serve as reporter.
In recent meetings, the Program Committee has returned to the format of psychoanalytic dialogue with great success. Therefore, we will once again feature a debate between Jay Greenberg and Robert Michels on the subject of “Red, Blue, and You: The Analyst in a Social Context.”
We will have a special presidential symposium on Saturday at noon until 1:30 p.m. to provide an overview of the new Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual that has just been published [see page 12]. Jon Meyer will chair this symposium, which will feature comments by Stanley Greenspan, Robert Wallerstein, and Otto Kernberg.
In the noon slot on Friday, there will be three symposia. One is “Expressions of Feeling in Mark Rothko's Paintings” chaired by Janice Lieberman and featuring the artist's son, Christopher Rothko, as the presenter. The popular research symposium at this meeting will be “Biological Analyses of Mothering: Widening the Scope of Psychoanalytic Understanding,” chaired by Robert Waldinger, co-chaired by Stuart T. Hauser, and featuring Linda Mayes and David Reiss as presenters.
Many analysts have been profoundly affected by the impact of Hurricane Katrina. Hence, we will also provide a special symposium in the Friday time slot where our members and colleagues can discuss their experiences in the aftermath of the tragedy. More details will follow.
In addition to the Presidential Symposium, three other symposia are featured Saturday at noon. Harvey Rich will interview the respected French psychoanalyst, Marilia Aisenstein, in a symposium entitled “Lobbying Government—French Style: A Conversation with Marilia Aisenstein.” Stephen Kerzner will chair a symposium, “Working with the Grieving Child: A Critical Partnership,” with Bruce Sklarew as presenter. Finally, Nancy Chodorow will chair “The Woman Patient and the Woman Analyst,
Glen O. Gabbard, M.D., is chair of the Program Committee. He is also Brown Foundation Chair of Psychoanalysis and professor of psychiatry at the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, and joint editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis.
Then and Now: A Conversation with Malkah Notman and Carol Nadelson.”
A special symposium Saturday evening from 5:15-6:30 p.m. will showcase the celebrated Mexican tenor, Rolando Villazon, who will talk about his personal analysis and its effect on his performing. Julie Jaffee Nagel will chair. “Meet the Author” will focus on Stanley Coen's book, Affect Intolerance in Patient and Analyst, and will be chaired by Melvin Lansky. The two discussants are Salman Akhtar and Paul E. Roberts.
In addition to these events, we are very pleased that Robert Pinsky, the former U.S. poet laureate and Dante translator, will discuss his poetry in the in-depth format Friday afternoon from 2:00-4:00 p.m., with Stanley Coen chairing. There will also be the usual informative discussion groups and seminars for trainees, and we are certain that every member and attendee will find many stimulating events suited to his or her taste. We welcome suggestions for future meetings.