The June meeting is rapidly approaching and if the beauty of Denver and its surrounding area isn't enough to entice you to come to Colorado, then surely the exciting program for the 96th Annual Meeting will do the trick.
Attendees will have four two-day Clinical Workshops to choose from. Dominique Scarfone, from Montreal and an authority on the contributions of Laplanche, will be the featured discussant for the Workshop in Analytic Technique and Process, chaired by Irene Cairo. Alternatively, Nancy Chodorow chairs another Analytic Technique and Process Workshop featuring Herb Schlesinger. For those interested in psychotherapy technique and process, Alan Pollack will chair a workshop with Ted Jacobs as discussant. The Child and Adolescent Workshop features Denver Psychoanalytic Institute's Rex McGehee, a training and supervising analyst and director of the Child Psychoanalytic Training Program.
The five panels offer a varied group of speakers and topics. Friday afternoon's panel, “Current Perspectives on Psychoanalytic Termination,” chaired by Mary Margaret McClure, features a presentation by Mayer Subrin followed by contributions from Glen Gabbard, Alice Jones, and Jack Novick. Saturday morning's, “Uncommon Misery: Modern Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Infertility,” chaired by Harriet Wolfe, will include presentations by Judy Chused, Jane Kite, and Judy Yanof. The Child and Adolescent Panel chaired by Judy Chertoff, also on Saturday morning, is entitled, “Development of Sexual Identity: Perspectives on the Adolescent Experience.” Robert Galatzer-Levy will present, with Peter Daniolos, H. Michael Meagher, and Barbara Novak offering their perspectives. “Unattainable Goals in Analysis,” chaired by Owen Renik, is the Saturday afternoon panel and features Henry Friedman, Steven Cooper, and Margaret-Ann Fitzpatrick Hanly from Toronto. The final panel, “What Do Second Analysts Learn about the First Analyses,” with Maxine Anderson, Ted Jacobs, Dominique Scarfone, and Gerald Fogel as chair will be on Sunday morning.
The recent attention to the quality of medical treatment received by soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan makes the Presidential Symposium, “Combat Stress and Mental Health Response,” on Friday afternoon especially relevant. Chaired by Lynne Moritz, the presenters include Stuart Twemlow, Stephen Sonnenberg, and Kenneth Reich. Twemlow will also be the presenter for Saturday's Symposium, “Mental Health and Managed Care: Where We've Been, Where We're Going, and Why It Matters,” chaired by Bruce Sutor.
Our plenary speaker will be Jay Greenberg. Known for his contributions in relational psychoanalysis, Greenberg will present a paper entitled “Choice” Friday morning following the Meeting of Members. Established in 2006, the Gertrude and Ernst Ticho Memorial Lecture honors an early to mid-career analyst who is currently making contributions to psychoanalysis and shows promise of continued future contributions. The lecture is generously supported by a grant from the Ernst and Gertrude Ticho Charitable Trust. This year's recipient is Kim Leary, who will present her paper, “In the Decisive Moment,” on Friday afternoon.
Affiliate members are also well represented at the June meeting. Beverly Betz will chair the Affiliates' Forum on Wednesday afternoon with presenters Jack Novick and Kerry Kelly Novick. Lisa Anne Miller, the runner-up for the 2006 Affiliate Council Scientific Paper Prize, will present her paper, “The Importance of Language to Self Regulation,” on Friday morning.
Meeting attendees interested in the intersection of psychoanalysis and the arts will not leave Denver disappointed. The Psychoanalysis and Film Series, chaired by Bruce Sklarew, presents “Traumatic Bereavement and Children” with a screening of the 1952 French film, Forbidden Games, directed by René Clement. Esther Rashkin, professor of language and literature from the University of Utah, whose areas of interest include French and comparative literature, film from around the globe, cultural studies, and psychoanalysis, will be the discussant. Finally, the Friday afternoon University Forum, “Improvising in Words and Music: Finding a Way in Jazz and Free Association,” is a unique event. Presenters include innovative jazz trombonist and the Edwin H. Case Professor of Music at Columbia University, George E. Lewis, and Krin Gabbard, professor of comparative literature and English, State University of New York, Stony Brook, author of Jammin' at the Margins: Jazz and the American Cinema, and editor of Jazz among the Discourses and Representing Jazz. Our analyst moderators will be Henry Schwartz and Richard Karmel, from Montreal, who is also a jazz musician and co-editor of Psychoanalytic Explorations in Music.
With a multifaceted scientific program such as this one and the blue sky and majestic peaks of Colorado, this is a June meeting not to be missed!
Gary Grossman, Ph.D., is a member and faculty of the San Francisco Psychoanalytic Institute and Society and a member of APsaA's Program Committee.