APSA_NY13-406

Scientific Paper #6: Religious Imagery, Spiritual Practices & Personal Destiny in Psychoanalytic Therapy with Hindu Women

Speakers: Alan Roland, Salman Akhtar

While religious imagery entered into the Freudian opus over thirty years ago, the interface of spiritual practices and experiences with the psychoanalytic work on unconscious conflicts is a much more recent development. Personal destiny, however, with its accompaniments of reincarnation, planetary influences, astrology, and palmistry still remain an unwanted stepchild in psychoanalysis. Yet, they can be central to psychoanalytic therapy with highly educated, professional Hindu women. Two case studies are cited, one seen in three times a week, short-term psychoanalytic therapy in Bombay; the other in three times a week analysis in New York City over a few years.

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APSA_NY13-301

Presidential Symposium: The Twilight of the Training Analysis System

Speakers: Robert L. Pyles

This presentation will summarize the principal analyses of the training analysis system formulated over the past 30 years, pointing to this system’s relevance regarding authoritarianism, infantilization, intellectual stultification, and institutional corruption in psychoanalytic education. The question is raised, whether replacing the present structure of psychoanalytic institutes and governance of psychoanalytic education may have a renovating effect on psychoanalytic science and profession, and on the impact of psychoanalysis on the broader scientific, cultural, and mental health environment. One such possible model of modern transformation of psychoanalytic education is presented, its advantages and constraints discussed, and the inevitable resistances to change explored.

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APSA_NY13-308

Scientific Paper 3: Edith Wharton’s Two Worlds: Overcoming Phobia & Sexual Problems

Speakers: Deanna Holtzman, Nancy Kulish

Edith Wharton, the pre-eminent American writer, left a great deal of autobiographical material, letters, diaries, plus, of course, a vast collection of literary fiction and non-fiction. A fascinating theme runs through much of her work — that of living or being trapped between “two worlds.” This theme is critical to understanding Wharton’s psychology and the psychology of women in general. The authors will examine an unusual neurotic phobia suffered by Wharton as it is related to the theme of two worlds, and link these ideas more broadly to common sexual conflicts in women.

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ABA12-311

Will Concepcion and Stolt-Nielson End Class Litigation?

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