ASSOCIATION for AUTONOMOUS PSYCHOANALYTIC INSTITUTES

THE THIRD ANNUAL CONFERENCE
OF THE
ASSOCIATION FOR AUTONOMOUS PSYCHOANALYTIC INSTITUTES
(AAPI)

BODY LANGUAGE:
PSYCHE AND SOMA IN ANALYTIC SPACE

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 4, 2003

THE NEW YORK BLOOD CENTER AUDITORIUM
310 EAST 67TH STREET
(BETWEEN 1ST AND 2ND AVENUES)
NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK

CO-SPONSORED BY

Welcome

AAPI continues, in this third annual conference, a comparative format that highlights the interdisciplinary and multitheoretical nature of our member institutes and individual members. The conference brings a creative and diverse group of senior analysts into dialogue around a particular case and a significant psychoanalytic concept. The renowned English analyst, Anne Alvarez, an innovator in combining neo-Kleinian perspectives with a strong interest in developmental experience provides case material exploring aspects of psyche and soma in the analytic space. How the body communicates with the analyst and how the analyst in turn speaks to and influences the body remains a central and controversial aspect of all analytic theories. Five noted psychoanalysts with varied and original perspectives on this Cartesian Dilemma, will discuss Dr. Alvarez’s clinical material. Sandor Abend from a contemporary Freudian position, Virginia Demos emphasizing the centrality of affects, Stuart Pizer from a relational perspective, Adrienne Harris offering a gender-rich, post-modern relational point of view and Joe Lichtenberg with a self psychological and motivational systems view of the analytic process. There will be an opportunity for the audience to interact with the panel as well as time for Dr. Alvarez to resp9ond to and engage with her discussants.

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.

There will be a membership meeting on Friday, October 3rd, from 5:45 to 6:45 at the National Institute for the Psychotherapies, 330 West 58th St., 2nd floor conference room. Members will be brought up to date on AAPI’s activities and plans for the future. We invite your participation in the meeting and the cocktail party that follows. We look forward to seeing you in New York City for this lively and enriching conference.

AAPI’s Conference Committee:
Sandra M. Kiersky, Ph.D., President and Chair
Mary Beth M. Cresci, Ph.D., Immediate Past-President
James L. Fosshage, Ph.D., Past-President
Kenneth A. Frank, Ph.D.
Sandra Hershberg, M.D.
Judith Kaufman, M.S.W.
Steven Knoblauch, Ph.D.
 

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