Member Activities & Accomplishments
» Micheline Charpie, one of our advanced students, gave a presentation at NPAP last November on Music Therapy in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.
» Paul Cooper has had an article published: "Two Wings Soaring: Buddhism and Psychoanalysis." It is in the Winter 2007 issue of Psychospiritual Dialogue. He also has two Book Reviews published in The American Journal of Psychoanalysis 66 (4) Dec. 2006.Working in the Countertransference: Necessary Entanglements, by Howard Wishnie (Rowman & Littlefield) and Play & Reflection in Donald Winnicott's Writings, by Andre Green (Karnac Books).
» Paul Cooper was invited to sit on a panel representing the Assoc. for Spirituality & Psychotherapy where he was recently offered and accepted a position on the Board of Directors. The panel is part of the Assoc of Transpersonal Psych sponsored World Congress on Psychology & Spirituality in New Delhi, India. [Jan. '08] He will present his 3rd installment of "Oscillations" [Oscillations: Triad].
He presented part 2: "Oscillations: Reload in Kyoto, Japan last May. The paper has been accepted for publication by Routeledge in an anthology "Self and No-Self in Buddhism & Psychotherapy" that is currently in press. Part 1: "Oscillations: Zen & Psychoanalytic Versions" was previously presented at an IEA Scientific meeting . An extended version of part 1 appears in his edited collection Into the Mountain Stream: Psychotherapy & Buddhist Experience [Aronson: 2007].
» Mike Eigen - former Director of Education and Training
On March 21, Labyrinth Books,a great independent book store, which rarely gives an event for a psychoanalytic/psychotherapy book gave a book party for Feeling Matters by Michael Eigen. You can find Mike Eigens' book, Age of Psychopathy, online at: http://www.psychoanalysis-and-therapy.com/articles/whatsnew.html
» Neil Friedman, an advanced candidate at IEA, presented at the NAAP 2006 Annual Conference as part of the NAAP Analyst in Training panel called "The Beast In The Jungle".
» Steven Kuchuck, IEA graduate and PR Director for IEA
Steven Kuchuck presented a paper, "In the Shadow of the Towers; The Role of Re-traumatization and Political Action in the Formation of a Psychoanalyst" at the International Federation for Psychoanalytic Education's 17th Annual Interdisciplinary Conference, November, 2006. A version of this paper was also presented at an IEA Scientific meeting on October 22, 2006.
Steve will give the Keynote Address, "Therapist Self Disclosure-Current Trends", at Hofstra University's School of Education and Allied Human Service's Annual Creative Arts Therapy Conference: "Therapists' Self Disclosure-Finding the Balance", March 20, 2007.
» Marvin Lifschitz has written a new comedy play called Freudian Slips.He has written a hilarious tribute to one of the greatest minds of the 20th century and to our enduring search for self knowledge.
» Merle Molofsky, former Director of Education for IEA:
Merle Molofsky gave a paper, "The Language of Yes in a World of No: A Gay Man Rediscovers His Silenced Self," at the International Federation for Psychoanalytic Education's Seventeenth Annual Interdisciplinary Conference, held November 2006.
Merle has three entries in the Edinburgh International Encyclopedia of Psychoanalysis, Edinburgh University Press: 2006, Ross M. Skelton, editor.
The encyclopedia is a 518 page, one volume work with the goal of demonstrating the essential unity of all schools of psychoanalytic thought.
Merle's poem, "Train," appears in the first issue of the literary journal, The Westchester Review, Volume 1, Winter 2007.
» Karen Morris, an an IEA graduate will be presenting her paper "The Poetics of 'O' In Transference Resistance Processing" at the 2007 International Society for Theoretical Psychology (ISTP) conference in Toronto, June 18-June 22nd. Click here for more info: http://www.yorku.ca/istp2007/ISTPAdDec06.pdf
» Lynn Somerstein, our treasurer, board member, training analyst, faculty and supervisor, had her written work about madness, called "My Father's Words," chosen as one of the four best pieces at the New Directions seminar this past weekend in DC, and she read it aloud publicly.
Lynn has also been appointed the book editor for "The Psychoanalytic Review."
» Alexander Stein, Member aDiscussant: Anna Burton, M.D.
THURSDAY, MARCH 22, 2007
“This presentation advances a novel interdisciplinary approach toward understanding the transmission, registration, and interpretation of meaning from sound in the psychoanalytic dialogue. Part one examines the profound formative influences on psychological development of the earliest sound environment. Next, I consider music to be derivative and evocatively expressive of that early sound world. Relatedly, utilizing clinical material, I propose that sonic nonverbal communications can be profitably distinguished from kinetic, visual, or abstractly symbolic ones, and heard as a form of music that patients verbalize in a language of sounds. By this, I do not mean words as music, nor the frequently invoked metaphors about musically analogous qualities of vocal patterning or the speech act, but, rather, music itself. Following from this, in a consilient view of music and mental life, I clarify certain mechanisms and processes analysts engage—comparable to listening and responding to music—in striving to hear emotional meaning with each patient.” Questions? E-mail Sylvia Flescher, M.D. at SylviaEF@aol.com
» Alexander Stein, The NY Times has published Alexander Stein's letter to the editor in the March 15 edition. This is in response to an article by Neela Banerjee that ran on the 13th - accessible at
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/13/health/13hospice.html
The New York Times
March 15, 2007
To the Editor:
“A Place to Turn When a Newborn Is Fated to Die” (front page, March 13) poignantly underscores the importance of acknowledging, voicing and integrating the utterly personal experience of loss in a self-directed way.
The news is overflowing with stories from near and far of unfathomable loss. Each is devastating, though differently, whether a child is two hours old or 22 years old, whether caused by genetic anomaly or anatomical defect.
To psychologically survive trauma involves more than merely physically living in the time afterward. It must also include establishing the faculties of expression and a connection to others, which are so essential to life.
Alexander Stein
New York, March 13, 2007
The writer is a psychoanalyst.
» Robert Wolf - Former Director of IEA:
As a practicing fine art photographer, he has been very interested in integrating digital technology and photographic media into his work as an art therapist/phototherapist and has been involved in disseminating this information in various ways.
An article, "Advances In Phototherapy Training," pending publication in the next issue of The International Journal on the ARTS IN PSYCHOTHERAPY journal. In January 2007, he presented this paper to the International Conference on Arts In the Humanities in Waikiki.
A review of a DVD on Phototherapy published in the AATA journal. ART THERAPY. Robert has currently three archival digital photographs printed in canvas in a group show at the Mooney Gallery of the College Of New Rochelle. He has been teaching private training seminars for practicing creative art therapists, in using digital media in Art Therapy/Phototherapy, and also offering graduate level training courses in PHOTOTHERAPY at both The College Of New Rochelle and Pratt Institute.
March 24: He will be offering an experiential presentation on 'ETHICS" in art Therapy for the New York Art Therapy Association, discussing and exploring the difference between 'ethical' and 'moral' action.
He also had a letter to the editors in the NY Times published last week in response to the ridiculous article that they published on Rev. Haggards 'Miracle Cure".
Robert will be presenting a scientific meeting for IEA in the near future, date to be arranged. Look for the announcement in your email and on our website.
Also... Robert Wolf's latest article, "Advances in Phototherapy Training" has just been published in the International Journal of Arts In Psychotherapy.
» Advanced candidate Melanie Zarabi:
Advanced candidate Melanie Zarabi and Columbia University Journalism School graduate Alexandra Poolos, whose work has appeared on NPR, CNN, The Wall Street Journal and Newsweek will be co-leading a monthly gathering dedicated to exploring healing and recovery through the craft of writing. Entitled WAR VET’S CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP:
A Process of Healing and Recovery, the workshop will be a constructive and supportive environment where participants can discuss their writing and showcase some of their work. The workshop will also be a safe place where members can work on any type of writing they'd like. In addition, professional writers of all stripes will make guest appearances to talk about their work and lead specific exercises.
Advanced candidate Maelanie Zarabi appears in this the feature article, "USING ART AS THERAPY" in VA VAnguard (VA’s national professional magazine publication), about art therapy at the VA. She is quoted in the piece and she and some of the veterans in her art therapy group appear in a photo processing artwork together.
Download the article here:feature/vanguard/07sept
» Many of our members were part of the following conference: 13TH ANNUAL ANNETTE OVERBY CONFERENCE
POLITICS AND PARANOIA:
THE POLITICAL EXPLOITATION OF PARANOID ANXIETY March 2007
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