APSA_NY12-306

Psychoanalysis and Health Care Reform: Protecting Your Patients, Protecting Yourself in a Volatile Reform Environment

Speakers: James C. Pyles, Esq. (Washington, DC)

Essential benefits package, mental health parity, pre-existing condition insurance, minimum loss ratios, accountable care organizations, patient-centered medical homes, health insurance exchanges, individual mandates, Supreme Court review, opting out of Medicare — The health reform legislation enacted in March of 2010 is being implemented now and will be fully implemented by January 2014 — in the midst of unprecedented deficit reduction deliberations and presidential and pivotal congressional elections in 2012. Electronic health privacy breaches continue to escalate exponentially. Find out what all of this means for therapist and patients and how you can have an impact on developing law.

Audio CDs: 1

Audio CD

$15.00

$15.00

APSA_NY12-301

Presidential Symposium: Minding the Markets: How Psychoanalysis Can Help to Build New Economics and Finance Thinking

Speakers: Robert A. Johnson, MA, PhD (Exec Director of the Institute of New Economic Thinking); Professor David Tuckett (London, England); Warren R. Procci, MD, President (Pasadena, CA)

APsaA’s international colleague, David Tuckett, has sought to contribute to the development of a new field of “emotional finance” with a specific interest in understanding the recent and continuing financial crisis. Human emotion has a critical impact on financial markets and, until very recently, economic theories have failed to take this into account. At the heart of the worst financial crisis in decades is a failure to organize markets in a way that puts controls on the very human emotion and behavior which trading unleashes. Robert Johnson and David Tuckett each speak on this subject and then lead a discussion concerning how psychological and psychoanalytic concepts can offer considerable assistance in understanding the sometimes irrational behavior of people and markets.

MP3

$10.00

$10.00

APSA_NY12-402

Scientific Paper 5: : The Dignity of the Thing: Lacan’s Ethics of Sublimation

Speakers: Author: Mari Ruti, PhD (Toronto, Canada)

This paper illustrates why Lacan’s theory of sublimation — of raising an ordinary object into “the dignity of the Thing” — introduces a code of ethics that enables the individual to resist dominant social norms. This alternative ethical code is not a matter of deliberating on the rightness or wrongness of actions, but rather of following the thread of one’s desire even when doing so proves socially inconvenient. Because it allows the individual to create space for desires, values, and patterns of appreciation that reach beyond the “reality principle” of the collectivity, it functions as an effective antidote to contemporary nihilism.

Audio CDs: 1

Audio CD

$15.00

$15.00

APSA_NY12-202

The Committee on Research and Special Training (CORST)

Speakers: Robert A. Paul, PhD (Atlanta, GA)

This annual prize is awarded for essays on psychoanalytically informed research in the bio-behavioral sciences, social sciences, arts and humanities. Contemporary analysts who draw upon clinical material in their writings must follow ethical standards in their approach to issues of confidentiality, consent, disguise, and collaboration with their research subjects. The winning author presents his/her essay.

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$20.00

$20.00

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.

MP3

$20.00

$20.00

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.

MP3

$30.00

$30.00

Subtotal

$110.00