Dear Colleague:
Come to Washington, D.C., in June for beautiful, early summer weather and an exciting Scientific Program.
We have events designed especially with the nation's capital in mind: a “Symposium on Psychoanalysis and Health Care Reform,” a visit to the Freud Archives at the Library of Congress, and an inside tour of the Washington Nationals Baseball Club.
Our ever popular two-day clinical workshops will feature John Steiner from London, Anna Ornstein and Anton Kris from Boston, Shelley Orgel from New York, and Robert Galatzer-Levy from Chicago.
John Steiner will also present on two of our panels, focusing on specific problems in clinical listening: “Can the Analyst Think While Enacting?” chaired by Jennifer Stuart with Donald Moss and me; and “Clinical Challenges: How the People in the Patient's Life Inhabit Our Minds,” which I will chair with Nancy Kulish and Shelley Orgel.
Our other clinical panels will focus on: “How Do Contemporary Analysts Treat the Past?” chaired by Joseph Lichtenberg with Darlene Ehrenberg, Glen Gabbard, and Alexandra Harrison; and “Psychoanalytically Informed Psychotherapy for Psychosis,” chaired by Eric Marcus with Michael Garrett, Marlene Kocan, and Andrew Lotterman.
Our child and adolescent panel will explore “Psychoanalysis with Children and Adolescents Who Have a Chronic Physical Illness,” chaired by Christine Kieffer. Helene Keable will present a clinical case, which will be discussed by Monisha Akhtar and Robert Galatzer-Levy.
Our Ticho Memorial Lecturer this June is Julie Jaffee Nagel, speaking on “Melodies in My Mind: The Polyphony of Mental Life.” She will be introduced by Glen Gabbard.
Vamik Volkan will give the plenary address, “Culture, International Relations, and Psychoanalysis.” He will be introduced by Theodore Shapiro.
Our featured author this June is Donnel Stern, discussing his new book, Partners in Thought: Working in Unformulated Experience, Dissociation and Enactment, with Bonnie Litowitz, Stanley Coen, and others.
With special programs for candidates, psychiatric residents, and psychology and social work students, not to mention a University Forum on Shakespeare's King Lear and 44 discussion groups, we hope you will challenge yourselves with new ideas, while you meet people, network, build your practice, and enjoy all that beautiful Washington, D.C., has to offer.
Please come and join us!
Cordially,
Henry F. Smith, M.D.
Chair, Program Committee