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
Institute for the Psychoanalytic Study of Subjectivity
National Institute for the Psychotherapies
Postgraduate Center for Mental Health
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.
