Scientific Meetings
2008
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"
