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

You are cordially invited
by
The William Alanson White Psychoanalytic Society

to a special presentation as part of its
2005 - 2006 Colloquium Series
on The Difficult Patient in Our Time: Psychoanalytic
Works in Progress

The presentation is:

"THE VOICE FROM THE CRYPT": THE NEGATIVE THERAPEUTIC
  REACTION AND THE LONGING FOR THE INFANCY THAT NEVER WAS

Speaker: James S. Grotstein, M.D.
Discussant: Carola Mann, Ph.D.

Friday, April 7, 2006
 8:00 P.M.

Dr. Grotstein's presentation focuses on the transference/ countertransference dynamics in the development of negative therapeutic reactions which may take the form of "psychic retreats" or
"pathological organizations" in work with the more difficult patient. This clinically focused presentation will integrate contemporary psychoanalytic work on trauma into a Kleinian/Bionian framework.

James S. Grotstein, M.D is a is a Training and Supervising Analyst, Los Angeles Psychoanalytic Institute and Psychoanalytic Center of California, L.A.; Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA; Past North American President, International Psychoanalytic Association; Editor, Do I Dare Disturb the Universe: A Memorial to Wilfred Bion, and  Fairbairn and the Origin of Object Relations; Author, Splitting and Projective Identification; Who is the Dreamer Who Dreams the Dream: A Study in Psychic Presences; But at the Same Time and On Another Level - Psychoanalytic Technique in the Kleinian/NeoKleinian/Bionian Mode:A Beginning.

Carola Mann, Ph.D. is a Fellow. Training, and Supervising Analyst, Director of International Outreach, WAWI; Deputy Secretary General, The International Federation of Psychoanalytic Societies; Co-editor, Handbook of Interpersonal Psychoanalysis; Co-editor, Pioneers of Interpersonal Psychoanalysis.

Meeting will be held on Friday, April 7, 2006 at 8:00 PM
at the William Alanson White Institute
20 West 74th Street, NYC

Collation will follow.

RSVP: 212- 873-0725, ext.16
or pcampbell@psychoanalysis.net

Wednesday, September 21, 2005, 8:00 pm
The Love of the Game Presidential Address: Gilead Nachmani, Ph.D.
Discussant: Amnon Issacharoff, M.D.

Friday, October 28, 2005, 8:00 pm
The Identities of Generation X: Difficult or Different Patients?*
Speaker: Carlo Strenger, Ph.D.
Discussant: Dodi Goldman, Ph.D.
* Jointly sponsored by the White Society & the Harry Stack Sullivan Society

Wednesday, January 25, 2006, 8:00 pm
Birth Mother, Adoptive Mother, Dying Mother, Dead Mother: Analysis of a Case of a 29 year old Adopted Man
Speaker: Karen Gilmore, M.D.
Discussant: Robert Shapiro, Ph.D.

Friday, February 10, 2006, 8:00 pm
The Vengeful Patient
Speaker: Lucy LaFarge, M.D.
Discussant: Jay Kwawer, Ph.D.

Friday, March 10, 2006, 8:00 pm
Madness on the Couch: Interpersonal Work with Severely Disturbed Patients, and the Shamanist Roots of Psychoanalysis.
Speaker: Paul Lippmann, Ph.D.
Discussant: Irwin Hirsch, Ph.D.

Friday, April 7, 2006, 8:00 pm
"Orphans of O": The Fate of Our Castaway Souls and the Anguish of Their Reclamation
Speaker: James S. Grotstein, M.D.
Discussant: Carola Mann, Ph.D.

Karen Gilmore, M.D. – Associate Director and Head of Child Division, Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research; Training and Supervising Analyst, Columbia University
Psychoanalytic Center and New York Psychoanalytic Institute; Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Columbia University.

Dodi Goldman, Ph.D. – Faculty, Supervising Analyst, WAWI; Book Review Editor, Contemporary Psychoanalysis; Faculty, Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy; Consultant, Adult Development Center of the Graduate Center of the City University of New York; author, In Search of the Real: the Origins and Originality of D.W.Winnicott and In One's Bones: the Clinical Genius of D.W.Winnicott.

James S. Grotstein M.D. – Training and Supervising Analyst, Los Angeles Psychoanalytic Institute and Psychoanalytic Center of California, L.A.; Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA; Past North American Vice President, International Psychoanalytical Association; editor, Do I Dare Disturb the Universe?: A Memorial to Wilfred R. Bion, Fairbairn and the Origin of Object Relations; author, Splitting and Projective Identification; Who is The Dreamer Who Dreams the Dream: A Study in Psychic Presences; But At The Same Time And On Another Level -- Psychoanalytic Technique in the Kleinian/Neo- Kleinian/Bionian Mode: A Beginning.

Geoffrey Hartman, Ph.D. – Sterling Professor of English and Comparative Literature (Emeritus) and Co-Founder, of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University; author, The Longest Shadow; On the Fateful Question of Culture; Scars of the Spirit: The Struggle Against Inauthenticity; The Geoffrey Hartman Reader.

Irwin Hirsch, Ph.D. -- Distinguished visiting faculty, WAWI; Editorial Boards, Contemporary Psychoanalysis , Psychoanalytic Dialogues ; Faculty, Supervisor, former Director, Manhattan Institute for Psychoanalysis; Adjunct Professor of Psychology, Supervisor, Adelphi University and New York University; advisory board, International Association of Relational Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis.

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

Jay S. Kwawer, Ph.D. – Fellow, Training & Supervising Analyst, Director of Clinical Education,WAWI; Clinical Professor of Psychology, NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis.

Lucy LaFarge, M.D. – Training and Supervising Analyst, Columbia University Psychoanalytic Center; Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry,Weill Medical College of Cornell University. Editorial Board,
Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association; Editorial Reader, The Psychoanalytic Quarterly.

Gilead Nachmani, Ph.D., ABPP – Fellow, Faculty, Training and Supervising Analyst, WAWI; President, the William Alanson White Psychoanalytic Society; Associate Editor, Contemporary Psychoanalysis. Faculty, Manhattan Institute of Psychoanalysis, NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy.

Paul Lippmann, Ph.D. – Fellow, Faculty, Training and Supervising Analyst,WAWI; Faculty, NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis; Director, Stockbridge Dream Society; author, Nocturnes: On Listening to Dreams.

Carola H. Mann, Ph.D. – Fellow, Training and Supervising Analyst, Director of International Outreach,WAWI; Deputy Secretary General, The International Federation of Psychoanalytic Societies; Co-Editor, Handbook of Interpersonal Psychoanalysis; Co-Editor, Pioneers of Interpersonal Psychoanalysis.

Carlo Strenger, Ph.D. – Senior Lecturer, Department of Psychology, Tel Aviv University; founding member, Tel Aviv Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis; author, Between Hermeneutics and Science; Individuality, the Impossible Project; The Quest for Voice in Contemporary Psychoanalysis; and The Designed Self.

Robert Shapiro, Ph.D. – Faculty, Training and Supervising Analyst,WAWI.

Sharon Kofman, Ph.D., Program Chair
Phillip Blumberg, Ph.D.
Evelyn Hartman, Ph.D.
Gilead Nachmani, Ph.D., President of the William Alanson White Society

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