APSA_NY12-201

Oral History Workshop #73: Topeka Institute for Psychoanalysis, Part II

Speakers: Glen O. Gabbard, MD (Houston, TX); Kathryn J. Zerbe, MD (Portland, OR); Anthony D. Bram, PhD (Lexington, MA); Irwin C. Rosen, PhD (Topeka, KS); Michael Harty, PhD (Kansas City, KS); Alice Brand Bartlett, PhD (Topeka, KS)

This session continues the story of the unique relationship between the Topeka Institute for Psychoanalysis and the Menninger Clinic from 1981 through the closure of the Institute in 2001. Participants describe the growing influence of object relations theory, the ongoing development of clinical psychology and diagnostic testing, the eventual rise of women leaders and finally the dispersal of psychoanalysts and candidates to all parts of the country.

MP3

$30.00

$30.00

APSA_NY12-203

Candidates' Forum: Developing Psychoanalytic Cases and the Candidates Who Will Work with Them

Speakers: Elizabeth Brett, PhD (Woodbridge, CT); Allan Frosch, PhD (New York, NY); Alan Z. Skolnikoff, MD (San Francisco, CA); Moderator: Phoebe A. Cirio, MSW, LCSW (St. Louis, MO); Arden Rothstein, PhD (New York, NY)

This session discusses approaches to helping candidates develop psychoanalytic cases, while experiencing a sense of agency and preserving morale. Following Dr. Rothstein’s presentation of an individualized tutorial program that she initiated, and her study of its impact upon participants, panel members convey their institutes’ approaches to case and candidate development. Subjective factors in assessment of analyzability — e.g., the match of candidate and analysand, and differences in supervisory perspective — are considered.

Audio CDs: 2

Audio CD

$30.00

$30.00

APSA_NY12-300

Plenary Address: Core Issues in the Treatment of Personality Disordered Patients

Speakers: George G. Fishman, MD (Chestnut Hill, MA); Dan H. Buie, MD (Wellesley Hills, MA); Robert Lindsay Pyles, MD, President-Elect (Wellesley Hills, MA)

Neurotic patients possess the capacities required for maintaining their basic self-stability. Personality disordered patients do not. They continuously need to depend on others to provide them with the capacities they need in order to maintain basic self-stability. Clinical experience and relevant literature indicate that these capacities are five in number. They concern self-realness, self-holding so as not to experience aloneness, self-worth, self-love, and identity. This presentation focuses on understanding the consequences of deficits of these capacities along with treatments that can enable patients to develop these capacities for themselves.

MP3

$10.00

$10.00

APSA_NY12-305

Scientific Paper 1: : 9/11And the India/Pakistan Partition: Trauma and Dissociation

Speakers: Alan Roland, PhD (New York, NY), Author

This paper adds new dimensions to the understanding of trauma and dissociation by exploring personal and patients’ reactions to the experience of 9/11, and by in-depth interviews with a Jain Indian family caught in a train massacre in 1947 during the India/Pakistan Partition. For the former, the emotional resonance of 9/11 feelings of catastrophe with a traumatic visual/emotional dissociated memory from 18 months old enabled it to surface; while for the latter, the train massacre and disappearance of the two youngest siblings has had ripple effects not only inter-generationally but throughout the family.

MP3

$10.00

$10.00

APSA_NY12-307

University Forum: The Theban Plays of Sophocles

Speakers: David Konstan, PhD, Professor, Department of Classics, New York University; Elizabeth Brobrick, PhD, Visiting Scholar, Wesleyan University; Chairs & Melvin R. Lansky, MD (Los Angeles, CA); Leon Wurmser, MD (Towson, MD)

The inquiries posed by the presenters in this forum pave the way for a psychoanalytic inquiry into the character’s identity of the hero and his relationship to the dramatic forces in these plays which set these tragedies in relentless motion toward their fateful outcomes. Two distinguished scholar-teachers, David Konstan, PhD, Professor in the Department of Classics at NYU, and Elizabeth Brobrick, PhD, a Visiting Scholar with Wesleyan University, provide interpretative comments for the audience, while Melvin Lansky and Leon Wurmser moderate the follow-up discussion with the audience.

Audio CDs: 3

Audio CD

$45.00

$45.00

APSA_NY12-405

Special Symposium "Freud's Last Session" — The Creative Process of Playwright, Mark St. Germain

Speakers: Mark St. Germain, Playwright of Freud’s Last Session (New York, NY); Chair & Moderator: Julie Jaffee Nagel, PhD (Ann Arbor, Michigan)

In this session, playwright Mark St. Germain discusses the creation of his award-winning play that centers upon a lively, provocative, and moving imaginary dialogue between Sigmund Freud and writer, C.S. Lewis in Freud’s study in London. On the day England entered World War II and two weeks before Freud’s death, Freud and Lewis clash on the existence of God, love, sex, and the meaning of life. “FREUD’S LAST SESSION” is the winner of the 2011 Broadway Alliance Award for Best Play, and is the longest running play from last season on or Off-Broadway. It premiered to rave reviews and immediately became a sellout.

Audio CDs: 1

Audio CD

$15.00

$15.00

Subtotal

$140.00