Members' Updates

To help us all keep abreast of the doings of our IAPSP colleagues, please send us any newsworthy item you may care to share. We'll list them in the order that they come in.

Thanks, Doris Brothers, Chief Editor

 
 
 

ROBERT & BEN STOLOROW'S post, "Blues, Trauma, Finitude," on the Huffington Post Living Page can be found at the following link: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-d-stolorow/blues-trauma-finitude_b_553256.html

ROBERT D. STOLOROW: will present his paper, "Individuality in Context: The Relationality of Finitude," at the annual conference of the Comparative and Continental Philosophy Circle, to be held at Tokai University, Honolulu, April 8-10, and at the inaugural meeting of the Southwest Seminar in Continental Philosophy, to be held at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, May 28-29.

ROBERT D. STOLOROW: Robert Stolorow's post, 'Empathic Civilization' in an Age of Trauma, on the Huffington Post Books News Page can be found at the following link: www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-d-stolorow/empathic-civilization-in_b_470095.html

DORIS BROTHERS: will participate in a conference entitled, "Trauma: Intersections Among Narrative, Neuroscience, and Psychoanalysis" at The George Washington University in Washington, D. C. on March 4, 5, and 6. As part of the panel, "Psychoanalysis and Trauma: Listening to Trauma Survivors Speak," she'll present a paper, "Trauma as Exile." She'll also present a paper on forgiveness and a workshop on Intergenerational Trauma and the Therapist.

ROBERT D. STOLOROW: will give the 2010 Franz Alexander Lecture at the New Center for Psychoanalysis in LA on February 26th. His lecture is on "The Contextuality and Existentiality of Emotional Trauma."

DORIS BROTHERS: will be presenting a paper at the IARPP conference in San Francisco on February 25th, 2010 entitled, "Confronting the Unforgiveable: Using Hannah Arendt's Relational Politics to Ponder Evil and the Limits of Analytic Empathy." Her most recent publications include an article in IJPSP entitled "On the Love of Work, the Work of Love, and What Kohut Didn't Warn Us About Plying the Empathy Trade," and a chapter in Self and Systems: Explorations in Contemporary Self Psychology entitled "Transforming Experiences of Unbearable Uncertainty."

ROBERT D. STOLOROW: A review of his latest book, Trauma and Existence, by Helen Davey can be found on http://www.huffingtonpost.com/helen-davey/counting-my-people-an-aut_b_354491.html

MARK D. SMALLER: was recently nominated to run for President-elect of the American Psychoanalytic Association. He remains Director of the Neuropsychoanalysis Foundation in New York, and also Founding Director of the Analytic Service to Adolescents Program (ASAP) in Chicago. He presented findings from this treatment and research project on Panel 2, "Social Issues and Cultural Diversity: The Expanded Realm of Self Psychology," at the 32nd Annual Self Psychology Conference in Chicago.

ROBERT D. STOLOROW: presented papers at the Conferences of the Heidegger Circle (May 8-10) and the World Phenomenology Institute (May 12-13). He will also present papers at the Conference of the Society for Philosophy in the Contemporary World (July 18-23) and the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (October 29-31).

DONNA ORANGE: Beginning September 9, 2009 Donna will lead a new weekly reading group on Ferenczi and the British independents. It will run from September through June, Wednesday evenings 7:30-8:30, with breaks for holidays and for her occasional travels. It costs $50 per session, to be paid on a monthly basis, including for absences. It will begin with Ferenczi, and go on to Balint and Winnicott. After that the group's preferences will become influential. The pace will be slow enough to read in depth. Please call 917-478-9290 or email her at

CARLA LEONE: Carla Leone's paper "Couple Therapy from the Perspective of Self Psychology and Intersubjectivity Theory" was published in the winter issue of Psychoanalytic Psychology, Vol 25, No. 1, pgs 71-98. She also traveled to Orlando and Minneapolis this year to present workshops on couples therapy to psychoanalytic organizations there.

GEORGE NORTHRUP: George H Northrup, PhD, President of the New York State Psychological Association, delivered an address at the association's annual convention entitled, "The Importance of Being Nobody," a discussion of narcissism, Buddhism, and poetry. George has also been re-elected President of the Fresh Meadows Poets and serves on the committee that will select the 2009-10 Poet Laureate of Nassau County, NY.

WHITNEY VAN NOUHUYS: Whitney van Nouhuys has been appointed Academic Dean of The Sanville Institute (formerly California Institute for Clinical Social Work), beginning July 2009. The Sanville Institute in Berkeley offers a PhD in Clinical Social Work for students in Northern and Southern California: www.sanville.edu

HOWARD BAKER & SCOTT JONES: Baker and Scott presented a paper, "Adding a Spiritual Dimension to the Biopsychosocial Model: Psychoanalysis, Kohut, Schleiermacher, Buber and Marcel," at the Annual Meeting of the Metanexus Institute in Madrid in July, 2008. Available online http://www.metanexus.net/Magazine/tabid/68/id/10430/Default.aspx. The paper was chosen for publication in the international journal "Transdisciplinarity in Religion and Science" and will appear in 2009.

STUART PIZER: Pizer, S.A., (2009), Inside out: The state of the analyst and the state of the patient. Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 19: 49-62. Pizer, S.A. (2008), The shock of recognition: What my grandfather taught me about psychoanalytic process. International Journal of Psychoanalytic Self Psychology, 3: 287-303. Presentations by Stuart Pizer: "Trauma, Affect, Repetition, Negotiation: The Work of Paul Russell," intensive weekend course offered at the Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalysis, February 2009. "Relational Technique," intensive weekend course at PINC, San Francisco, February 2009 and in Oklahoma City, April 2009. "Paradox and Negotiation in Relational Technique," workshop at Tel Aviv University, June 2009. "From Paradox to Conflict: Living in the Shadow of Choice," invited paper presented at the Annual Conference, International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy, Tel Aviv, June 2009. "Working with Analytic Love and Hate," discussion of Stephen A. Mitchell Award paper by Deborah Pines at the Annual Conference, International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy, Tel Aviv, June 2009.

SIETZE VANDERHEIDE: Sietze VanDerHeide is pleased to announce that he is integrating his work as a clinical psychologist with his skills as a family law attorney by providing collaborative conflict resolution through divorce mediation. The divorce process is a painful self-disregulating event, complicated by the emotional issues that couples bring to their relationships. By working with couples as a mediator Sietze provides an environment that is safe and focused on conflict resolution. For more information, please visit divorcetherapy.org

LAURA CAGHAN: Laura Caghan, PsyD., Psy.D. will be presenting a paper entitled "Wet and Dry: Playing with a Psychoanalytic Metaphor," for Division 39 at APA's annual convention in August, 2009 in Toronto.

ALAN KINDLER: Alan wants to post the following announcement: The next "Two-year training program in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy" offered by the Institute for the Advancement of Self Psychology (IASP) will begin in September 2009. Inquiries regarding the program are currently being received. The two year seminar program and the clinical supervision emphasize contemporary models of psychoanalytic theory and practice. The program is designed for mental health professionals with experience in the practice of individual psychotherapy, and who are interested in developing their knowledge and skill in contemporary psychoanalytic psychotherapy and/or psychoanalysis. Candidates who complete the two year program may choose to continue on to more advanced training through the third and fourth year of seminars and further clinical supervision in psychoanalytic psychotherapy or psychoanalysis. For inquiries regarding the 2009 - 2011 training program contact: Deanna Walsh at or call at(416) 690-3722. Visit the IASP website at www.iasptoronto.com

ROBERT STOLOROW: Below is a Huffington Post link to a link to the podcast of my recent radio interview, "America in an Age of Trauma," along with a link to my author archive. (When you click on the link to the podcast, there is a couple of minutes of news before my interview Link to "America in an Age of Trauma": http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-d-stolorow/america-in-an-age-of-trauma Link to my author archive:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-d-stolorow/ http://robertdstolorow.googlepages.com