•Class Highlights: Hunger, a Psychoanalytic Approach to Eating Disorders:Taught by Bonnie Hirschorn,LP,LCAT,LCSW, 'Hunger' was an experiential and didactic 12 hour weekend advanced level course on Eating Disorders offered at IEA in April.
This course focused on eating and body image as symbolic of emotional hunger, self object world & developmental issues.

• Galit Atlas-Koch, Ph.D., LDT, RDT
Expressive analysis is first and foremost a manner of thinking about the analytic process and what transpires in the room between therapist and patient. IEA graduate, Board member and Program Chair Galit Atlas Koch presents us with an excerpt from the first dissertation ever done on expressive analysis. EXPRESSIVE ANALYSIS: TWO PEOPLE PLAYING TOGETHER - Read on line or Download:Word Doc. or PDF.

• Dr. Joel Gold-former director of IEA-accompanied by his canine assistant, addressed IEA on the human-animal bond and how he makes use of this in his psychoanalytic practice

• After the tragic events of September 11 many analysts in New York City gave psychological first aid to the victims. Lynn Somerstein tells about her experience helping one person who worked near the World Trade Center.

• If we think of identification as a process that first starts in the context of the family system,then it makes sense that the surrogate family experience of group therapy can be an arena in which to understand, alter and modify identifications. In Who Am I? , Steven Kuchuck discusses the use of psychoanalytic group treatment to explore these dynamics.

• Susan Kavaler-Adler, in her book The Compulsion to Create, makes a significant contribution to the analytic experience in focusing on creative women writers and how they use and misuse creativity as an attempt to ward off emotional experiences that are too painful . Marvin Lifschitz further explores this theme in A Bionian Perspective on the Demon Lover Complex.

• Thanks to Wesleyan University Press and Michael Eigen, one of IEA's original members and Directors of Education and Training, for permission to post the following excerpt from chapter 6 of his book Emotional Storm, 2005.

Chapter 6: Dream Images
Dream: An oldish woman who, to my surprise, appeared to be pregnant. A pregnant old lady. She seemed lively, moved around with a lot of energy. Maybe something funny about her. She seemed nice enough. Sincere, a slightly humorous tinge. Active, on the go.

• One day a man of the people said to Zen Master Ikkyu: "Master, will you please write for me some maxims of the highest wisdom?" Ikkyu immediately took his brush and wrote the word "Attention." So starts Paul Cooper's Attention & Inattention in Zen and Psychoanalyis.

• The Mandala Form: The mandala is an ancient circular form that has been carved, etched, drawn and painted for thousands of years in many cultures. It is said to mean magic circle in Sanskrit. The Jungian usage of the mandala helps explore internal processes that reveal "the state of the self". Learn more.

• On Wings of Song: The Therapeutic Community Sing
by Janet Sullivan. The resonance of song melodies and lyrics provide a symbolic language to study group process in a psychiatric hospital. Music therapy provides transitional objects which often reach the most disturbed patients. Learn more.

• Report on IEA Scientific Meeting-Oscillations in the Psychoanalytic Process: A presentation by Paul Cooper with discussion by Merle Molofsky. Read NPAP member Thomas Wagner’s synopsis and interpretation of this important paper.