by Annette Richard, M.Ps. In this column, I’m happy to present some of IAPSP’s youngest members who are or have been ECP scholarships recipients. The IAPSP Early Career Professional Scholarships program is held every year. It welcomes applications from individuals in psychoanalytic and psychotherapy training
by Meredith Nocek When I think of my experience as an ECP scholarship recipient, what immediately comes to mind is the warmth and generosity of the people I met through IAPSP. From Shake Topalian’s welcome email, ushering me in with helpful details and introducing me
by Karen Stewart The end of June saw the 5th and final workshop for a small group of clinicians interested in learning about Clinical Writing, facilitated by Suzi Naiburg. What a treat to be able to link up across the world and share our attempts
In this column I want to continue my search for poems that articulate and respond to human suffering, including the murder of innocent children in Texas and the persistence of a World-War-II-like conflict in Ukraine. As if by rote my hands find Denise Levertov’s
by Karen Stewart Canberra is the National Capital of Australia. The surrounding regional areas are expansive, and our group includes regional New South Wales (NSW) as well as the State of the Australian Capital Territory (ACT). 2022 has seen us continue our studies with Affect Theory
Leadership, Psychoanalysis and Society (2020) edited by Michael Maccoby and Mauricio Cortina, is soon to be released by Routledge as part of the Psychoanalytic Inquiry books series. The book is a collection of chapters written by a group of respected scholars in their field looking at
One thing after another for the past two years. Trump, Covid, climate catastrophes. And now the war in Ukraine. My mother was born in Poltova, south of Kiev. She escaped pogroms as a young child, fleeing in steerage to Canada.
As the Ukrainian refugee tells us, "Notice, don’t assume it will always be there…" And when a dove, as if from heaven, offers us a sign after a long time away; we count among our blessings, the friends who share the noticing.
I usually wait for a topic to come to me for these columns, but the death, on November 21st, 2021 of Robert Bly dictates a column. Perhaps more than any poet of our time, Bly insisted that poetry held the key to our healing,
On September 11, 2021, the Child & Adolescent Initiative hosted a Zoom panel, entitled A Complex Dance Between Parents and Adolescents: Facilitating Recognition and Self-Delineation. For this panel, Lauren Gumbiner, a new IAPSP member, presented the case of 16 year old Emma, a girl with