Scientific Meetings
2010
February 8 - Donald Moss, M.D.
"Immaculate Attachment vs. Passive Yearning: Thoughts on Being and Becoming a Man"
2009
December 14 - Phillip Freeman, M.D.
"The Resilience of Illusion in Theatre and an Analysis"
November 9 - David Tuckett
"How Do Psychoanalysts Work?"
October 12 - Ken Corbett, Ph.D.
"The Violent Constitution and Regulation of Masculinity"
September 14 - Kimberlyn Leary, Ph.D.
"Racing for the Top"
June 8 - Robert Oelsner, M.D.
"ON THE INTERPRETATION OF REALITY"
May 11 - Henry Smith, M.D.
"The Analyst's Experience of Thinking While Enacting"
April 13 - Era Loewenstein, Ph.D. and Stephen Purcell, M.D.
"Alienation, the Dread of Invasion and Sado-Masochism in Perversion"
March 9 - Maria Longuemare, M.D., Ph.D. and Stephen Seligman, D.M.H.
"Neuro-Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Unconscious Communication and Therapeutic Action"
February 16 - Adam Phillips
"On Losing and Being Lost Again"
2008
December 8 - Victor Bonfilio, Ph.D., John DiMartini, Ph.D., Katherine McVicar, M.D. and Mitchell Wilson, M.D.
"Town Hall Meeting on Certification, Training Analysis, the PIPE report of the American Psychoanalytic Association (and the Upcoming Vote on Local Option for Institutes)"
November 10 - Antonino Ferro, M.D.
“Forgetting Freud, Rediscovering Freud"
October 13 - Leo Rangell, M.D.
“Music in the Head: Living at the Brain-Mind Border"
September 22 - Glen Gabbard, M.D.
“When is a Termination Good Enough?"
June 9 - Francis Baudry, M.D.
“The Use of the Object” Revisited"
May 12 - Bruce Fink, Ph.D.
"Transference & Countertransference in Lacanian Psychoanalysis"
Click here for Dr. Fink's Paper
April 14 - Judith Butler, Ph.D.
"What does Gender Want of Me: Laplanche, Seduction, and the Drive"
March 10 - Eileen Keller, Ph.D.
"Repairing Links: Building Attachment in the Preschool"
February 11 - Robert Bartner, Ph.D., M.F.T.
"Repairing the Reparative Instinct: The Transformation of Omnipotent Reparation in the Work of Henri Rey"
January 14 - Charles Fisher, M.D.
"Reading Development Backwards: What the Second Half of Life Teaches Us"
2007
December 10 - Kenneth Gottlieb, M.D.
"How bad things happen to good analysts: A panel discussion including members of the Medical & Psychological Boards of California"
November 12 - Danielle Quinodoz and Jean-Michel Quinodoz
"The Sense of Solitude in the Dynamics of the Transference and Counter-Transference"
October 8 - Roberta J. Apfel and Bennett Simon
"Encounters at Checkpoints: On Talking About Politics with Patients in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy?"
September 10 - Jane Burka, Ph.D., Joan Sarnat, Ph.D., Cornelia St. John, M.F.T.
"Learning From Experience in Case Conference: A Bionian Approach to Teaching and Consulting"
May 14 - Lee Grossman, M.D.
"Psychoanalytic Technique: a Reconsideration of the Concept"
Apr. 9 - John Searle, Ph.D.
"Consciousness: The Current State of the Debate"
Mar. 12 - Stephen Sonnenberg, M.D.
"Shibboleths, Icons, Impulses and Inhibitions: Causes of Stagnation in Psychoanalytic Education"
Feb. 12 - Mardi J. Horowitz, M.D.
"Values and Clinical Psychoanalysis"
Jan. 8 - Gilbert Kliman, M.D.
"A Systematic In-classroom Combination of Early Childhood Education and Child Analysis: Effects on Cognitive Development and Clinical Outcome"
2006
Dec. 11 - Jane Kite, Ph.D.
"Ideas of Influence: The Impact of the Analyst's Character on the Analysis"
Nov. 13 - Elizabeth Tabak de Bianchedi, M.D.
"Bion's Technique: Transformation, Catastrophic Change and Mental Turbulence"
Oct. 9 - Haydee Faimberg, M.D.
"The Telescoping of Generations," interviewed by Lynn Ponton, M.D.
Sept. 11 - Marshall Bush, Ph.D.
"Curative Factors in the Analyses of Analysts: a Correlational Study"
May 8 - Mary Main, Ph.D. and Erik Hesse, Ph.D.
"The Adult Attachment Interview and Its Implications for Clinical Work: Looking AT Rather Than THROUGH Discourse Regarding Life Experiences"
Apr. 10 - Lewis A. Kirshner, M.D.
"Can Analysis Heal?"
Mar. 13 - Paul Williams, Ph.D.
"Incorporation of an Invasive Object"
Feb. 13 - Otto Kernberg, M.D.
"Coming Changes in Psychoanalytic Education"
Jan. 9 - Nathan Szajnberg, M.D.
"Maternal Attachment and Adult Psychopathology"
2005
Dec. 12 - Donald Moss, M.D.
"Mapping Racism"
Nov. 14 - Anne Alvarez, Ph.D.
"Types of Narcissism and Apparent Narcissism: Some Questions Concerning the Stupid Object"
Oct. 10 - Jonathan Dunn, Ph.D.
"Analytic Wisdom"
Sept. 12 - Peter Goldberg, Ph.D.
"The Psychology of Detachment: Alternations of Consciousness and Bodily States in the Analysis of Psychosomatic Dissociation"
May 9 - Peter Loewenberg, Ph.D., Saul Rosenberg, Ph.D., Mark Levy, M.D., Maureen Katz, M.D. and Robert Wallerstein, M.D.
"Psychoanalyst, U.S.A. 2005: the many faces of identity and career choices for the psychoanalyst in the 21st century"
Apr. 10 - Charles Spezzano, Ph.D.
"A Home for the Mind"
Mar. 14 - Jonathan Lear, Ph.D.
"Subjectivity, Authenticity and the Collapse of Meaning"
Feb. 15 - Steve Goldberg, M.D. and Zenobia Grusky, Ph.D.
"The Dark Side of Analytic Conviction: Impasses of Omniscience and Complacency"
Jan. 10 - James Grotstein, M.D.
"Projective Identification and Projective Trans-identification: A Reassessment and Extension of the Concept"
2004
Dec. 13 - Maureen Katz, M.D.
"The Beheading of America: Reclaiming Our Minds"
Nov. 1 - Michael Parsons, M.D.
"The Analyst's Counter-Transference to the Pychoanalytic Process"
Sept. 13 - Steve Purcell, M.D.
"The Analyst's Theory: A Third Source of Counter-Transference"
May 10 - Adam Phillips, Ph.D.
"First Impressions, Great Expectations"
Apr. 12 - Joe Caston, M.D.
"Poetic Closure, Psychoanalytic Termination and Death"
Mar. 8 - Mrs. Ruth Malcolm
"Significant Forgetting: A Clinical Study"
Feb. 9 - Leo Rangell, M.D.
"The Psychoanalysis of Public Opinion: Analytic Perspectives on Some Recent History"
Jan. 12 - Jules Weiss, M.D.
"Further Reflections Upon the Psychoanalytic Process"
2003
Dec. 8 - Lucy La Farge, M.D.
"The Imaginer and the Imagined"
Nov. 10 - Ronald Britton, M.D.
"Clinical Aspects of Narcissism"
Sept. 8 - Robert Wallerstein, M.D.
"Psychoanalytic Research: What's in it for Psychoanalysis and What's in it for Us?"
May 12 - A. Bronstein, Ph.D., F. Busch, M.D. and Maureen Katz, M.D.
Fred Busch, M.D. and Abbot Bronstein, Ph.D., Case Presentation Discussion
Apr. 14 - Calvin Settlage, M.D.
H.F. Norman Prize Award for 2002
Mar. 10 - Peter Newton, Ph.D. and Beate Louser, Ph.D.
Discussing their book, "Unorthodox Freud"
Feb. 10 - David Rosenfeld, Ph.D.
"A Clinical Vignette of a Survivor of the Holocuast"
Jan. 13 - Maurice Marcus, M.D.
"A Psychoanalytic Organizational Consultation"
2002
Dec. 9 - Elizabeth Lloyd Mayer, Ph.D.
"Where Mind Meets Matter: How the Unconscious Continues to Surprise Us"
Nov. 11 - Mrs. Edna O'Shaughnessy
"Withdrawal and Depression"
Sept. 9 - Richard Almond, M.D.
"The Holding Function of Theory for the Practicing Analyst: Conviction Derived from Unitary or Integrated Models"
Jun. 10 - Marcia Cavell, Ph.D. and Peter Goldberg, Ph.D.
"Some Psychoanalytic Perspectives on the Problem of Evil: A Dialogue"
Apr. 15 - Marian Tolpin, M.D.
"On the Forward Edge of the Transference"
Mar. 11 - Daniel Stern, M.D.
"The Change Process in Psychoanalysis"
Feb. 11 - Mitchell Wilson, M.D.
"The Analyst's Desire and the Problem of Narcissistic Resistances"
Jan. 14 - Adam Phillips, Ph.D.
"The Analyst and the Bribe"
2001
Nov. 12 - Michael Feldman, M.D.
"The Constructing and Reconstructing of the Destructive Internal Object"
Oct. 8 - Adrienne Harris, Ph.D.
"Women's Envy: Disowned Excitements"
Sept. 10 - Anne Alvarez, Ph.D.
"Levels of Analytic work and levels of Pathology"
Jun. 11 - Arnold D. Richards, M.D.
"How New is 'The New American Psychanalysis'?"
May 14 - Gail Reed, M.D.
"The Disregarded Analyst and the Transgressive Process: Discontinuity, Obliteration and the Framing of the Negative"
Apr. 9 - Mrs. Edna O'Shaugnessy
"Dreaming and Not Dreaming"
Mar. 8 - Doris Silverman, Ph.D.
"Sexuality and Attachment: A Passionate Relationship or a Marriage of Convenience?"
Feb. 12 - Marcianne Blevis, M.D. and Judith Fehrer Gurewich, Ph.D.
"A Lacanian Approach to the Question of Borderline and Narcissistic Disorders"
Jan. 8 - Glen Gabbard, M.D.
"Sexual and Nonsexual Boundary Violations in Psychoanalysis"
2000
Nov. 13 - Dale Boesky, M.D.
"Clinical Evidence: Resistance and Contextualizing Criteria"
Sept. 11 - Henry Smith, M.D.
"Countertransference, Conflictual Listening, and the Analytic Object Relationship"
May 8 - Ronald Britton, M.D.
"The Internal Triangle"
Apr. 8 - David Rosenfeld, M.D.
"Drug Abuse, Regression and Primitive Object Relations"
Mar. 13 - Irene Chiarandini, M.D.
"Listen To My Mother Tongue (The Place Across the Street) Some Thoughts on Language, Separation, and Difference"
Feb. 14 - Bernard Penot, M.D.
"The Drive Circuit as Generator of the Subject Function"
Jan. 10 - Charles Hanly, Ph.D. and Margaret Fitzpatrick Hanly, Ph.D.
"Truths difficult to Acknowledge: Clarifying the distinctions between Subjectivity and Subjectivism"
