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2005 - 2008

Tuesday, October 28, 2008

The next meeting of the Chicago Psychoanalytic Society will be held on Tuesday, October 28, 2008 at 7:30 p.m. The meeting will take place at National Louis University, 122 S. Michigan Avenue, Room 5006.

The presentation will be entitled:
“An Analyst’s Dilemma: The Longing for Transcendent Authority”.

This presentation is about the way that analysts conceptualize the longing for transcendent authority, and how this impacts the way analysts think about transference.

Presenters:

Neal Spira, MD
Neal Spira, MD is a graduate of the University of Illinois College of Medicine, where he completed his residency in psychiatry and a fellowship in child and adolescent psychiatry. Neil is a graduate of the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis, where he is on faculty. He is also an instructor at Northwestern Medical School. In addition to his private practice, he serves as Medical Director of Beacon Therapeutic, a comprehen-sive mental health agency serving the needs of children and their families on Chicago's south side. Neil is the author of "Psychoanalysis and the Disavowed Religious Impulse," The Annual of Psychoanalysis, 2008.

Thetis Cromie, PhD
Thetis Cromie, PhD is a fourth year candidate at the Institute for Psychoanalysis. He has a Doctor of Ministry degree from the Divinity School of the University of Chicago, and a Ph.D. from the Institute for Clinical Social Work. In addition, Thetis is an adjunct faculty at the School of Social Work, Loyola University Chicago where he has taught courses in human behavior and social environment and theories of research for doctoral seminar.

Educational Objective: At the end of the presentation, participants will learn:

1) How psychoanalysis relies on an authority which it is constantly striving to deconstruct.
2) How clinical decisions about interpretation and provision relate to our views about the longing for transcendent authority;
3) How psychoanalysis and theology share a common and shifting boundary

Tuesday, September 23, 2008

The next meeting of the Chicago Psychoanalytic Society will be held on Tuesday, September 23, 2008 at 7:30 p.m.  The meeting will take place at National Louis University, 122 S. Michigan Avenue, Room 5006.

The presentation will be entitled:
“Marian Tolpin: Psychoanalyst, Teacher, Writer, and Colleague”.

Three presenters will talk about Marian Tolpin’s work as an inspiring, thoughtful, outspoken, and committed psychoanalyst.  There will also be time for others to comment on her contributions as a member of the Chicago psychoanalytic community.

Presenters: 

James William Anderson, PhD
James William Anderson, PhD., is a faculty member at the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis and Editor of the Annual of Psychoanalysis.  Clinical Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Northwestern University, he teaches courses such as theories of personality and the psychology of film.  In his research he is a specialist in the study of the individual life.  He has published psychobiographical papers on William and Henry James, Woodrow Wilson, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Edith Wharton.

Kate Schechter, LCSW
Kate Schechter is a clinical social worker, anthropologist, and advanced candidate at the Chicago Institute for Psycho-analysis.  She is on the faculty of the Institute for Clinical Social Work and is the founder of Soldiers Project/Chicago.

Ernest Wolf, M.D.
Ernest Wolf, M.D. is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis. He is the author of numerous papers and a book, Treating the Self.

Educational Objective: At the end of the presentation, participants will be able:

1.   To see the difference between regressive, pathological aspects of transference and aspects of transference that reflect tendrils of health, that show a reaching for development and growth
2.   To work more effectively with these two kinds of transference, while neglecting neither of them.

Target Audience:  Psychoanalysts and other interested mental health profess-sionals and members of the community.

Tuesday, May 27, 2008 at 7:30 p.m.
The meeting will take place at National Louis University, 122 S. Michigan Avenue, Room 5006.

The presentation will be entitled:
“Jim Dine: A Psychoanalytic Perspective On His Art”

This presentation will offer a psycho-analytic review of the art of Jim Dine, taking into account his responses to the illness and death of his mother when he was a boy. Drs. Weiss and Trosman will show a film from Dine's childhood and relate his subsequent work to research done at the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis on parent loss in childhood.

Presenters:

Samuel Weiss, M.D.
Samuel Weiss is a training and supervising analyst of adults and children at the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis. He has also written
a number of papers on technique of child analysis.

Harry Trosman, M.D.
Harry Trosman is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Chicago Institute of Psychoanalysis and Professor of Psychiatry at The University of Chicago. He is also the author of Freud and the Imaginative World and Contemporary Psychoanalysis and Masterworks of Art and Film.

Educational Objective:
At the end of the presentation, participants will:

1. Have an increased understanding of the effects of parent loss over a lifetime.

2. Have an increased understanding of how this artist struggled with parent loss and how he tried to resolve it through his art.

Target Audience:
Psychoanalysts and other interested mental health professionals and members of the community.

Thursday, March 6, 2008 at 7:30 p.m.
The meeting will take place at National Louis University, 122 S. Michigan Avenue, Room 5006.

The presentation will be entitled “Rethinking Psychotherapy vs. Psychoanalysis: What Does Feminism Have To Do With It?”

Presenter: Lewis Aron, Ph.D.
Lewis Aron, Ph.D. is the Director of the New York University, Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. He has served as President of the Division of Psychoanalysis (39) of the American Psychological Association; founding President of the International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy (IARPP); founding President of the Division of Psychologist-Psychoanalysts of the New York State Psychological Association (NYSPA). Dr. Aron has received the New York State Psychological Association (NYSPA) Distinguished Service Award and the Division of Psychoanalysis (39) Leadership Award. He holds a Diplomate in Psychoanalysis from the American Board of Professional Psychology and is a Fellow of both the American Psychological Association and of the Academy of Psychoanalysis.

Dr. Aron is the author of A Meeting of Minds: Mutuality in Psychoanalysis (The Analytic Press, 1996). He is the Editor (with Adrienne Harris) of The Legacy of Sandor Ferenczi, (TAP, 1993), the Editor (with Frances Sommer Anderson) of Relational Perspectives on the Body, (TAP, 1998), the Editor (with Stephen Mitchell) of Relational Psychoanalysis: The Emergence of a Tradition, (TAP, 1999), the Editor (with Adrienne Harris) of Relational Psychoanalysis II:

Innovation and Expansion (TAP, 2005), and the Editor (with Melanie Suchet and Adrienne Harris) of Relational Psychoanalysis III: New Voices (TAP, 2007). He was one of the founders, and is an Associate Editor of Psychoanalytic Dialogues and he is the series editor (with Adrienne Harris) of the Relational Perspectives Book Series, published by The Analytic Press. Dr. Aron is in private practice in New York City and in Port Washington, Long Island, N.Y.

Talk:
Dr. Aron will utilize feminist thinking to reexamine the ways in which psychotherapy and psychoanalysis have been defined and differentiated. Psycho-analysis has been traditionally defined as in opposition to and distinct from psycho-therapy. He will examine this differentiation historically focusing on the role of suggestion in Freud's ideology, and challenge this splitting and examine it in terms of gender and culture stereotyping. Dr. Aron will highlight the implications for the place of psychoanalysis in our culture, as well as for psychoanalytic education.

Educational Objective:
At the end of the presentation, participants will:

1. Understand the historical context that led to the differentiation between psychotherapy & psychoanalysis.

2. Understand the historical and biographical reasons that led Freud to be so keen to eliminate suggestion from psychoanalysis.

3. Understand how feminist theory helps us rethink the differentiation between psychotherapy and psychoanalysis and how this understanding has implications for psychoanalytic education and practice.

“The Complex Legacy of Franz Alexander”
Presenter: Erika Schmidt, MSW
Discussant: David Terman, M.D.

7:30 p.m.

National Louis University, Room 5006, 122 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Illinois

About the Presenter:  Erika Schmidt MSW
Erika Schmidt MSW is the Archivist of the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis and is an Advanced Candidate in Child and Adult Psychoanalysis there.  Interested in the history of psychoanalysis, she has researched and written about Franz Alexander, Therese Benedek, and the history of child analysis.  She is a faculty member of the Institute for Clinical Social Work and the Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy Training Program, a staff therapist at the Student Counseling and Resource Service at the University of Chicago, and has a private practice in Chicago.

About the Discussant:  David Terman, M.D.
David Terman is the Director of the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis where he has been a Training and Supervising analyst for the past 30 years. He is the author of several seminal articles in Self Psychology.

About the paper: Franz Alexander's most controversial ideas about psychotherapy and psychoanalysis--planned interruptions, brief therapy, and the corrective emotional experience--have their origins in his training and psychoanalytic experience in Berlin of the 1920s where Alexander was the first graduate of a formal psychoanalytic institute.  This paper puts Alexander's ideas in historical context and traces Alexander's impact on the evolution of the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis.

Educational Objective: 

At the end of the presentation, participants will have an understanding of:

1. Understand the controversies generated by Franz Alexander's ideas about psychotherapy, including the "corrective emotional experience," in historical context.

2. Appreciate the enduring influence of Franz Alexander on the practice of psychoanalysis in Chicago.

3. Understand the ways in which the Berlin Psychoanalytic Institute and Polyclinic provided a model for the establishment of the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis.

Tuesday, September 25, 2007

“Reluctant Warriors:  Israelis Suspended Between Rome and Jerusalem”

Presenter: Nathan Szajnberg, M.D.
Discussant: Jim Fisch, M.D.

National Louis University, Room 5006, 122 South Michigan Avenue
Chicago, Illinois at 7.30 pm

Dear Colleague,

The next meeting of the Chicago Psychoanalytic Society will be held on Tuesday, September 25, 2007 at 7:30 p.m.  The meeting will be held at National Louis University, 122 S. Michigan Ave, Room 5006.

The Scientific Presentation will consist of a paper entitled “Reluctant Warriors:  Israelis Suspended Between Rome and Jerusalem”.

Presenter:  Nathan Szajnberg, M.D.

Nathan Szajnberg, M.D. is a Visiting Scholar at the Freud Center, the Hebrew University, and Wallerstein Research Fellow in Psychoanalysis. He was born in a displaced persons' camp in Germany, raised in Rochester, New York and studied at the College and Medical School of the University of Chicago. His teachers at Chicago included Bruno Bettelheim, Saul Bellow and Henry Rago.  He completed analysis with Peter Giovachinni, then joined the faculty at Cornell University Medical School/New York Hospital. He has received NIMH awards in adolescence and infant psychiatry.  His empirical research is in attachment, development and psychoanalytic concepts.  He has written or edited three books: Educating the Emotions: Bruno Bettelheim and Psychoanalytic Development, Lives Across Time (with Henry Massie) and Reluctant Warriors: Israelis Suspended Between Rome and Jerusalem. 

He has two daughters and lives in Jerusalem.

Discussant:  James Fisch, M.D.

James Fisch, M.D. is a Faculty Member and Director of the Adult Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Program at the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis.   He is also an Assistant Professor of the Department of Psychiatry at Rush Medical College as well as a Member and the Training and Supervising Analyst at the Israel Psychoanalytic Institute.  In addition he has a private practice in psychoanalysis and psychiatry.

Talk:  Dr. Szajnberg will discuss a psycho-analytic exploration of courage among elite combat soldiers in the Israeli Army, a study he completed of transition to young adulthood among Israelis. Analysts have worked in military settings -- Grinker, Spiegel, Menninger, Karndiiner – contributing to our understanding of war trauma and mourning. This talk is the first known psychoanalytic study of courage.  We will also consider the nature of a conscript army in a democratic society and the impact on psychic transition to young adulthood.

Educational Objective: 

At the end of the presentation, participants will have an understanding of:
1. Cross-cultural transition from adolescence to young adulthood.

2. The nature of courage considered from the perspective of the soldier.

3. The position of courage in character structure and its development antecedents.

A copy of the paper will be available via email at a later date.

Target Audience:

Psychoanalysts and other interested mental health professionals and members of the community.

Tuesday, May 22, 2007

"President's Address: Continuity in Community"

Speaker: Robert Gordon, M.D.

Robert Gordon,M.D. is a Training Analyst and Associate Dean at the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis and Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Northwestern University Medical School. In addition to his clinical work, he has a strong interest in organizational issues. He is one of four analyst partners in Analytic Consultants, a business consulting of the U.S. Public Health Service, and was director of aftercare at Northwestern for five years.

The meeting will be held at 7.30pm at National Louis University, 122 S. Michigan Ave, 2^nd Floor Atrium. Room 5006.

Tuesday, May 1, 2007

“Gender As Soft Assembly:  Reflections on Postmodern Gender Theory”.

Presenter:  Adrienne Harris, Ph.D.

Adrienne Harris, Ph.D. is Faculty and Supervisor at the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy.  Dr. Harris also is training analyst on the faculty at the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California as well as an Associate Editor of Psychoanalytic Dialogues, and Studies in Gender and Sexuality.

Discussant:  Christine Kieffer, Ph.D.

Christine Kieffer, Ph.D. is a psychoanalyst on the faculty of the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis and a clinical psychologist on the faculty of Rush University Medical Center.  She is the author of numerous papers and three edited books on gender and sexuality, therapeutic action and child and adolescent psychoanalysis.

Educational Objective: 

At the end of the presentation, participants will be able:

1.Have an enhanced understanding of how gender is co-constructed in a variety of relational contexts.

2.Have an enhanced understanding of how chaos theory may be utilized to generate new perspectives for comprehending gender.

3.Have an enhanced understanding of how the perspective of gender as soft assembly may be utilized to work clinically.

 A copy of the paper will be available via email at a later date.

 Please note that this presentation will occur one week later than usual – that is on May 1 rather than April 24.

Tuesday, February 20, 2007            

“The Telescoping of Generations”

Presenter: Haydee Faimberg, M.D.
Haydee Faimberg, M.D. is a Training and Supervising Analyst of the Paris Psychoanalytical Society (IPA). She is in private practice in Paris.

Discussant: Harry Trossman.M.D.
Dr. Trossman is Training and Supervising Analyst of the Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute and Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Chicago. He is a former President of the CPS. 

The meeting will be held at 7.30pm at National Louis University, 122 S. Michigan Ave, 2^nd Floor Atrium. Room 5006.

Tuesday, January 23, 2007

The next meeting of the Chicago Psychoanalytic Society will be held on Tuesday, January 23, 2007 at 7:30 p.m.  The meeting will be held at National Louis University, 122 S. Michigan Ave, Room 5006.

The Scientific Presentation will consist of a paper entitled “Psychoanalysis, Terror and the Theatre of Cruelty”.

Presenter:  Jeffrey Stern, Ph.D.

Jeffrey Stern, Ph.D., is a research and clinical graduate of the Institute for Psychoanalysis, and a member of the faculty.  He received his Ph.D. at the University of Chicago in English Literature.  He is a lecturer in Psychiatry at the University of Chicago’s Pritzker School of Medicine.  Dr. Stern is also a member of the psychiatry faculty at Rush University, where he lectures on Shakespeare and film.  Dr. Stern has published articles in Shakespeare Quarterly, The Journal of American Psychoanalytic Association, Psychoanalytic Review, Psychoanalytic Psychology, The Annual of Psychoanalysis, and Progress in Self Psychology, among others.  His work is also represented in Errant Selves:  A Casebook of Misbehavior, edited by Arnold Goldberg, and in Transforming Lives:  Analysts and Patients View the Power of Psychoanalytic Treatment, edited by Joseph Schachter.

Discussant:  Jonathan Lear, Ph.D.

Jonathan Lear, Ph.D., is currently the John U. Nef Distinguished Service Professor at the Committee on Social Thought and the Department of Philosophy at the University

of Chicago.  He is a member of the faculty at the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis.  Before coming to Chicago he taught at Yale, where he served as Chair of the Philosophy Department, and at Cambridge where he was a Fellow of Clare College.  Dr. Lear has trained as a psychoanalyst at the Western New England Institute for Psychoanalysis.  His books include:  “Love and its Place in Nature:  A Philosophical Interpretation of Freudian Psychoanalysis”, “Therapeutic Action:  An Earnest Plea for Irony”, “Freud”, and just published, “Radical Hope:  Ethics in the Face of Cultural Devastation”.

Note:  A copy of the paper will be available in the library and by request via email. You may view or download the paper by clicking here

 Educational Objective: 

At the end of the presentation, participants will be able:

1.                  To consider whether it is reasonable to imagine that practicing psychoanalysis puts us in vivid touch with emotions that are shaping our current world.

2.                  To consider whether our clinical work with borderline patients sheds any light on our understanding of the rage and political strategies of the Al Qaeda terrorists.

3.                  To consider whether self Psychology provides us with ideas about how we might improve our relations with peoples around the world who mistrust or even hate us.

Tuesday, November 28, 2006               

The next meeting of the Chicago Psychoanalytic Society will be held on Tuesday, November 28, 2006 at 7:30 p.m.  The meeting will be held at National Louis University, 122 S. Michigan Ave, Room 506.

The Scientific Presentation will consist of a paper entitled “Therapeutic Action in Self Psychology:  with a special focus on two dimensions of selfobject failure.”

 Presenter:  Kenneth Newman, M.D.

Kenneth M. Newman, M.D. is a training and supervising analyst and former Dean of the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis.  In 1989 he co-authored (with Howard Bacal) “Theories of Object Relations:  Bridges to Self Psychology”, a pioneering effort to integrate post-Freudian theories of preoedipal development.  Dr. Newman’s subsequent teaching and scholarly contributions reflect his continued interest in synthesizing the contributions from different psychoanalysis schools of thought, especially with regard to their implications for clinical technique.

Discussant:  Robert J. Leider, M.D.

Robert J. Leider, M.D. is a training and supervising analyst at the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis, where he did his analytic training.  As a fourth year analytic candidate he participated in Kohut’s first course on Self Psychology.  Dr. Leider is a past president of the Chicago Psychoanalytic Society, and has served on the National and International Council for Psychoanalytic Self Psychology.  He has published papers on a wide variety of topics including aggression, analytic neutrality, and self psychology.

Note:  A copy of the paper will be available in the library and by request via email. You may view or dowload the paper by clicking here

Educational Objective: 

At the end of the presentation, participants will be able:

 1. To outline Kohut’s theoretical model and its implications for theoretical action.

 2. To consider criticisms of the model from more traditional perspectives and from the relational point-of-view.  To evaluate modifications and criticisms from within self psychology especially as they depart from “classical self psychology” and involve technical shifts.

 3. To consider certain aspects of the theory that I consider to have been underemphasized.  Specifically the role of affects and their ultimate effect on character development and/or pathological outcome.  From this to offer my own view that giving the role of affect management a greater significance leads to a greater emphasis on a 2^nd dimension of self-object need.  This then would become an essential transference expression.

Tuesday, October 24, 2006

The next meeting of the Chicago Psychoanalytic Society will be held on Tuesday, October 24, 2006 at 7:30 p.m.  The meeting will be held at *National Louis University, 122 S. Michigan Ave, 2^nd Floor Atrium.

The Scientific Presentation will consist of a debate entitled “A Debate on the Training Analyst System”.

Moderator:  Robert M. Galatzer-Levy, M.D.

Robert Galatzer-Levy, M.D. is training and supervising analyst of adults and children, who serves on the faculties of the Institute for Psychoanalysis and the University of Chicago.  He is President-Elect of the Chicago Psychoanalytic Society.

Panelist:  Jorge Schneider, M.D.

Jorge Schneider, M.D. is training and supervising analyst at the Institute for Psychoanalysis.  He is a former Dean of the Institute, and a past-president of the Chicago Psychoanalytic Society.

Panelist:  Arnold Tobin, M.D.

Arnold Tobin, M.D. is training and supervising analyst at the Institute for Psychoanalysis.  He has a longstanding research interest in psychoanalytic process.

Panelist:  Marian Tolpin, M.D.

Marian Tolpin, M.D. is training and supervising analyst at the Institute for Psychoanalysis, and Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Chicago Medical School.

Tuesday, September 26, 2006

The next meeting of the Chicago Psychoanalytic Society will be held on Tuesday, September 26, 2006 at 7:30 p.m.  The meeting will be held at *National Louis University, 122 S. Michigan Ave, 2^nd Floor Atrium.

 The Scientific Presentation will consist of a paper entitled “On The Nature of Thoughtlessness”.

 Presenter:  Arnold Goldberg, M.D.

Dr. Goldberg will present a chapter from his new book:  Moral Stealth: how correct behavior insinuates itself into the practice of psychoanalytic psychotherapy.  He is a training and supervising analyst at the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis and a professor at Rush University Medical School.

Discussant:  David Solomon, M.D.

David Solomon, M.D., is Faculty, Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis.

Note:  A copy of the paper will not be available.

*The meeting location has been changed for the month of September only.

Educational Objective: 

At the end of the presentation, participants will:

 1. Be better able to assess the signs of thoughtlessness as a sign of psychopathology.

 2. Be better able to assess when thoughtlessness manifests itself in an analysis.

3. Be able to identify common types of countertransference reactions in treating thoughtless patients.  

Tuesday May 23rd, 2006

The next meeting of the Chicago Psychoanalytic Society will be held on Tuesday, May 23, 2006 at 7:30 p.m.  The meeting will be held on the 5^th floor, the National Lewis University Auditorium, Room 5006, at 122 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago. 

The Scientific Presentation will consist of a paper entitled “Erik Erikson’s Challenge to Psychoanalysis”.

Presenter:  Lawrence J. Friedman, Ph.D.
Lawrence J. Friedman, Professor of History at Indiana University, specializes in the history of psychoanalysis and Psychiatry.  He has written five books:  Identity’s Architect:  A Biography of Erik Erikson; Menninger: The Family and the Clinic; Gregarious Saints:  Self and Community in American Abolitionism; Inventors of the Promised Land; and The White Savage:  Racial Fantasies in the Postbellum South.

Discussant:  Marian Tolpin, M.D.
Marian Tolpin, M.D., is a training and supervising analyst at the Institute for Psychoanalysis, and Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Chicago Medical School.  Her numerous theoretical and clinical publications reflect a long standing interest in psychoanalysis as a developmental process.

Note:  A copy of the paper will not be available.

Educational Objective: 

At the end of the presentation, participants will:
 

1. Learn about Erikson’s contributions to psychoanalysis as a treatment.

2. Bcome acquainted with the import and limits of Erikson’s concepts of identity and the life cycle.

3. Learn about Erikson’s contributions to the interpretation of dreams and his differences with Freud areas.

Target Audience:

Psychoanalysts and other interested mental health professionals and members of the community.

Tuesday, April 25, 2006

From Bi-Sexuality and Homosexuality to Intersexuality:  Rethinking Gender Categories”

Presenter:  Jack Drescher, M.D.                

Discussant:  Bertram J. Cohler, Ph.D.

5th Floor, National Lewis Auditorium, Room 5006,
122 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Illinois

Time: 7.30 p.m.

Presenter:  Jack Drescher, M.D.

Jack Drescher, M.D., is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the William Alanson White Institute and Adjunct Clinical Assistant Professor at New York University’s Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis.  He Chairs the Committee on GLB issues of the American Psychiatric Association and is Past President of the New York County District Branch of the APA.  He is the author of Psychoanalytic Therapy and the Gay Man (The Analytic Press) and has edited 19 books.