TERRORS, TRAUMAS AND PSYCHOANALYSIS

Wednesday, September 11, 2002, 8:00 pm
Terrors, Traumas and the Tolerance of Uncertainty
Presidential Address: Rebecca Curtis, Ph.D.
Discussant: James F. Gilligan, M.D.

Wednesday, October 9, 2002, 8:00 pm
Terror and Trauma: An Attachment Theory Perspective
Speaker: Peter Fonagy, Ph.D.
Discussant: Sandra Buechler, Ph.D.

Wednesday, November 6, 2002, 8:00 pm
Large Group Regression and Terror
Speaker: Vamik D. Volkan, M.D.
Discussant: Amnon Issacharoff, M.D.

* Wednesday, December 4, 2002, 8:00 pm
Trauma, Creativity and Art
Speaker: Ildiko Mohacsy, M.D.
Discussant: Laurie Wilson, Ph.D.

**Friday, December 6, 2002, 8:00pm
Trauma as a Way of Not Being Able to Create Narratives
Speaker: Dori Laub, M.D.
Discussant: Gilead Nachmani, Ph.D.

Wednesday, January 29, 2003, 8:00 pm
Psychoanalysis During This Time of Terror: A Clinical Discussion
with Darlene B. Ehrenberg, Ph.D.,
Jay R. Greenberg, Ph.D. and Irwin Hirsch, Ph.D.

*** Wednesday, February 19, 2003, 8:00 pm
The Sociopathology of Powerlessness in an Age of Globalization
Speaker: Benjamin R. Barber, Ph.D.
Discussant: Kenneth Eisold, Ph.D.

Wednesday, March 5, 2003, 8:00pm
Terror and Creativity from the Bible to Modern Times
Speaker: David Aberbach, Ph.D.
Discussant: Joerg Bose, M.D.

Wednesday, April 9, 2003
Revisioning the Inner World
Speaker: Paul L. Wachtel, Ph.D.
Discussant: Elizabeth B. Hegeman, Ph.D.

* Jointly sponsored by the White Society and the William Alanson White Psychiatric Committee.
** Jointly sponsored by the White Society and the Trauma Response Service.
*** Jointly sponsored by the White Society and the Harry Stack Sullivan Society.

All meetings will be held at the William Alanson White Institute. Collation will follow.
RSVP: Judith Waldman 212-873-0725, ext. 16

ABOUT THE SPEAKERS AND DISCUSSANTS

David Aberbach, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Dept. of Jewish Studies, McGill University, Montreal; Visiting Professor, English Dept., University College; Sociology Dept., London School of Economics, University of London; author, Surviving Trauma: Loss, Literature, and Psychoanalysis.

Benjamin R. Barber, Ph.D. Kekst Professor of Civil Society, University of Maryland; Director, New York Office of the Democracy Collaborative; author, Jihad vs McWorld; A Passion for Democracy; Strong Democracy; The Truth of Power: Intellectual Affairs in the Clinton White House; opera librettist, Home and The River House; co-writer CBS/PBS television series The Struggle for Democracy; Guggenheim Fellow; winner, Berlin Prize, American Academy of Berlin.

Joerg Bose, M.D. Director, Faculty, Training and Supervising Analyst, WAWI; Clinical Assistant Attending Psychiatrist, Dept. of Psychiatry, New York Presbyterian Hospital-Payne Whitney Clinic; author, Trauma, Depression, and Mourning, Hating and Being Hated.

Sandra Buechler, Ph.D. Faculty, Training and Supervising Analyst, WAWI; Editorial Board, Contemporary Psychoanalysis; Clinical Supervisor, NY State Psychiatric Institute, Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center; Faculty and Supervisor, Institute of Contemporary Psychotherapy; Training Analyst, The Contemporary Center for Advanced Psychoanalytic Studies; author, The Emotional Basis of Attachment, Bridging Infancy Research and Interpersonal Psychoanalysis.

Rebecca Curtis, Ph.D. Faculty, Director of Research, WAWI; Supervisor of Psychotherapy, WAWI, NIP; Professor of Psychology, Adelphi University; editor, Self-Defeating Behaviors, The Relational Self; co-editor, How People Change; author of forthcoming, Sex, Power, & the Death of Freud: Some Integrative Essays on Psychology, Psychotherapy, and Psychoanalysis.

Darlene Bregman Ehrenberg, Ph.D. Training and Supervising Analyst, WAWI; Editorial Board, Contemporary Psychoanalysis; author, The Intimate Edge: Extending the Reach of Psychoanalytic Interaction; Faculty, Postdoctoral Program in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy, Adelphi University; Faculty, Northwest Psychoanalytic Center, Portland, Seattle; Supervisor, Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis.

Kenneth Eisold, Ph.D. Faculty, Fellow, former Director, The Organization Program, WAWI; Editorial Board, Contemporary Psychoanalysis; President-elect, the International Society for the Psychoanalytic Study of Organizations; author of articles on war, leadership, and conflicts and dilemmas of institutions.

Peter Fonagy, Ph.D. Freud Memorial Professor of Psychoanalysis, Director, Sub-Department of Clinical Health Psychology, University College, London; Director, Child and Family Centre, Menninger Foundation; Director of Research, Anna Freud Centre, London; Training and Supervising analyst, British Psycho-Analytical Society; author, Attachment Theory and Psychoanalysis, co-author (with E. Jurist and M. Target) Affect Regulation, Mentalization, Attachment and the Development of the Self.

James F. Gilligan, M.D. Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School; Adjunct Professor, NYU; author, Violence: Reflections on a National Epidemic, Preventing Violence; consultant on the prevention of violence to the U.S. Government, Tony Blair, International Criminal Tribunal, American Bar Assn.; former Director of Psychiatric Services for the Massachusetts Prison System.

Jay R. Greenberg, Ph.D. Faculty, Training and Supervising Analyst, WAWI; former Editor, Contemporary Psychoanalysis; Faculty and Supervising Analyst, Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, NYU; author, Oedipus and Beyond: A Clinical Theory; co- author (with Stephen Mitchell), Object Relations in Psychoanalytic Theory.

Elizabeth B. Hegeman, Ph.D. Faculty, Supervising Analyst, WAWI, Professor, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY; author, ÒResolution of Traumatic Transference: Two Cases.

Irwin Hirsch, Ph.D. Distinguished Visiting Faculty, WAWI; Editorial Board, Contemporary Psychoanalysis; Faculty and Supervisor, Manhattan Institute for Psychoanalysis; Clinical Professor of Psychology and Supervisor, Postdoctoral Program in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy, Adelphi University; Visiting Faculty, Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis; Adjunct Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Mt. Sinai School of Medicine; author, Dissociation and the Interpersonal Self.

Amnon Issacharoff, M.D. Chair of Council of Fellows, Faculty, Training and Supervising Analyst, WAWI.

Dori Laub, M.D. Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine; Deputy Director for Trauma Studies - The Genocide Study Program, Yale Center for International and Area Studies; Chairman, Fortunoff Video Archives, Yale University; author, Knowing and Not Knowing: Forms of Traumatic Memory.

Ildiko Mohacsy, M.D. Faculty, Supervising Analyst, Supervisor of Psychotherapy, WAWI; Asst. Professor Department of Psychiatry, Mt. Sinai School of Medicine; Adjunct Asst. Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, New York Hospital Cornell Medical Center; author, The Medieval Unicorn: Historical and Iconographic Applications of Psychoanalysis.

Gilead Nachmani, Ph.D. Faculty, Training and Supervising Analyst, WAWI; Adjunct Supervisor of Psychotherapy, Dept. of Clinical Psychology, CUNY; Clinical Professor and Supervising Analyst, Postdoctoral Program in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy, Adelphi University; Psychoanalytic Supervisor, NYU Postdoctoral Program; author, Trauma and Ignorance.

Vamik D. Volkan, M.D. Founder and Director, Center for the Study of Mind and Human Interaction, Professor of Psychiatry, University of Virginia School of Medicine; Training and Supervising Analyst, Washington Psychoanalytic Institute; author, Cyprus: War and Adaptation; The Need to Have Enemies and Allies; Bloodlines: From Ethnic Pride to Ethnic Terrorism.

Paul L. Wachtel, Ph.D. Distinguished Professor in Clinical Psychology and Social and Personality Psychology, City College and the Graduate Center, CUNY; faculty, NYU Postdoctoral Program; co-founder, Society for the Exploration of Psychotherapy Integration; author, Action and Insight; The Poverty of Affluence; Family Dynamics in Individual Psychotherapy; Therapeutic Communication, Psychoanalysis, Behavior Therapy and the Relational World; Race in the Mind of America: Breaking the Vicious Circles Between Blacks and Whites.

Laurie Wilson, Ph.D. Professor Emeritus of Art Therapy, former Director of Graduate Art Therapy Program, NYU; Clinical Associate Professor, NYU Psychoanalytic Institute; author, Alberto Giacometti: Myth, Magic and the Man; private practice, New York City.

THE COLLOQUIUM PLANNING COMMITTEE 2002-2003
Rebecca Curtis, Ph.D., President of the William Alanson White Society, (2002-2003); Evelyn Hartman, Ph.D., Chair; Ruth Imber, Ph.D.; Robert Langan, Ph.D., Jay Kwawer, Ph.D.