Dear Colleague,
For our second annual conference AAPI is continuing a
comparative format that proved highly successful in our previous
conference. We are again highlighting the interdisciplinary and
multitheoretical focus of the member institutes and individual members
of AAPI by providing a conference that explores detailed case material
from a variety of psychoanalytic perspectives. Our presenter, Joseph W.
Newirth, Ph.D., an innovator in combining neo-Kleinian and relational
perspectives, will provide case material emphasizing transference and
countertransference dimensions of the treatment. Five noted
psychoanalysts from different psychoanalytic perspectives will, in turn,
discuss Dr. Newirth's clinical material. With general designation of
their models, they are: Theodore J. Jacobs, M.D., a contemporary
Freudian perspective; Darlene Ehrenberg, Ph.D., an interpersonal
perspective; Irwin Z. Hoffman, Ph.D., a dialectical constructivist
perspective; James Gooch, M.D., a Kleinian/Bionian perspective; and
Estelle Shane, Ph.D., a self psychology perspective. The discussants
will focus in particular on transference/countertransference aspects of
the clinical material that resonate most fully with their own
theoretical orientation.
After Dr. Newirth responds to the discussants the
audience will have the opportunity to interact with the panel to further
clarify and highlight understandings of the clinical material. We expect
that this comparative psychoanalytic format will provide rich material
for furthering our understanding of the psychoanalytic process and its
theoretical underpinnings. We are also pleased to announce that the
proceedings will be published as an issue of Psychoanalytic Inquiry,
a journal that focuses on contrasting perspectives.
Immediately following the conference, we will have an
individual membership meeting. Members will be brought up to date on
AAPI's activities and our plans for the future. We invite you to
participate and share your ideas for the development of AAPI.
We look forward to seeing you in New York City on
Saturday, September 28, 2002.
AAPI's Conference Committee:
Mary Beth M. Cresci, Ph.D., ABPP, Chair
James L. Fosshage, Ph.D.
Kenneth A. Frank, Ph.D.
Sandra Kiersky, Ph.D.
