21st Annual Conference on the
Psychology of the Self

October 22-25, 1998
San Diego, California

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Friday Afternoon - October 23, 1998

1:00 - 1:15 pm WELCOME

Sanford Shapiro, MD
Co-Chair, 21st Annual International Conference
 
1:15 - 2:45 Panel I

Title: Self Psychology Integrating and Evolving:
Attachment Theory and Self Psychology
Chair: Sanford Shapiro, MD
Presenters: Bernard Brandchaft, MD
Estelle Shane, PhD
Mary E. Gales, MD
Morton Shane, MD
Discussant: Joseph D. Lichtenberg, MD
 
Presenters’ Response and Open Discussion
 
2:45 - 3:15 Coffee Break
 
3:15 - 4:45 Discussion Groups for Panel I

 

Saturday, October 24, 1998
[ Sunday ]

7:30 - 8:30 am Coffee and Breakfast Rolls
 
8:30 - 10:00 Panel II
 
Title: Self Psychology Integrating and Evolving: Trauma and Dissociation
Chair & Discussant:
Morton Shane, MD
Presenters: Amy H. Eldridge, MSW, PhD
Anne C. Groves, LCSW
Bessel A. van der Kolk, MD
 
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break
 
10:30 - 12:00 pm Discussion Groups for Panel II
 

12:15 - 1:00 pm Optional Luncheon

(An additional fee will be charged for the meal. Those who do not elect to eat but wish to attend the lecture after the meal may do so based on space availability.)

1:00 - 2:00 Kohut Memorial Lecture
Title: Kohut and Contextualization
Introduction: George E. Atwood, PhD
Presenter: Robert D. Stolorow, PhD

 

2:15 - 3:45 Original Papers/Workshops
 
Session A

1. Title: Self Psychology and Homosexuality: Potentials and Liabilities In the Psychoanalysis of Gay Men Utilizing Self Psychology
Presenter: Henry J. Friedman, MD
Chair: R. Dennis Shelby, PhD
 
2. Title: Activity and Empathy: Healing the Shattered Self
Presenter: Arnold W. Rachman, PhD
Chair: Judith E. Vida, MD
 
3. Title: The Organizing Forces of Contemporary Psychoanalysis: Reflections on Nonlinear Dynamic Systems Theory
Presenter: William J. Coburn, PhD
Chair: Dorienne Sorter, PhD
 
4. Title: The Development of the Dyad: A Bidirectional Revisioning of Some Self Psychological Concepts
Presenters: Lynn Preston, MA, MS
Ellen Shumsky, MSW
Chair: Kenneth L. Koenig, MD
 
5. Title: The Good Old Days: Nostalgia and Selfobject Transferences
Presenter: David W. Krueger, MD
Chair: Bernard Brickman, MD
 
6. Title: Emotional Participation in the "Real" Therapeutic Relationship: A Case Study of a Survivor of Childhood Trauma
Presenter: Maria L. Slowiaczek, PhD
Chair: Veronica D. Abney, LCSW, DCSW
 
7. Title: [Withdrawn: Love Unbound: A Developmental Systems Self Psychological Approach to the Erotized Transference]
Presenter: Scott M. Davis, MD
Chair: Sally Howard, PhD
 
8. Title: Organizing Principles, Templates and Defiance in an Adolescent Ballerina and Her Therapist
Presenter: Bruce D. Herzog, MD, FRCP(C)
Chair: Helen Ziskind, MSW, BCD
 
9. Title: The Idealized Relationship in the Therapeutic Process as a Curative Emotional Experience
Presenter: Yossi Tamir, MA
Chair: Jill R. Gardner, PhD
 
10. Title: The Development of a Self Psychologist Psychoanalytic Clinician
Presenter: Jerome S. Beigler, MD
Chair: Jane C. Jordan, LCSW
 
11. Title: I Want My Cake and Eat It Too: The Symbolic Encoding of Disavowed Pre-Symbolic Affective Longings. Can Talk Therapy Provide Enough of an In Vivo Experience?
Presenter: Barbara D. Laier, PhD
Chair: Michael D. Clifford, MDiv, CSW
 
12. Title: Changing Hands: One Patient, Two Therapists, Two Theories?
Presenters: Lucy D. Freund, PhD
Dale K. Singer, MSW
Chair: Patricia J. Rose, PhD
 
13. Title: The Kidnapping of The Self: A Self Psychological Approach to the Understanding and Treatment in High Conflict Divorce
Presenters: Shelley A. Rooney, PhD
Todd F. Walker, PsyD
Chair: Jule P. Miller, III, MD
 
14. Title: College Students and Self Psychology
Presenter: John H. Riker, PhD
Chair: Joanne S. Moran, PhD
 
15. Title: The Broken Mirror: A Self Psychological Perspective for Relationship Violence
Presenter: David B. Wexler, PhD
Chair: Rosemary A. Segalla, PhD
 
16. Title: Transitional Phases and "Now Moments:" Tracing Structural Changes in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy
Presenter: Anna Ornstein, MD
Chair: Barnet D. Malin, MD
 
17. Title: Mirror Neurons, Procedural Learning and Transference: A Developmental Systems Self Psychological Approach
Presenter: Nancy S. Wolf, MD
Chair: Estelle Shane, PhD
 
3:34 - 4:15 Coffee Break
 
4:15 - 5:45 Original Papers/Workshops
 
Session B
 
1. Title: The Importance of Being Open: Treatment of a Case of Shame, Obligation Guilt and Obsessional Doubt
Presenter: Thomas Rosbrow, PhD
Chair: Sanford Shapiro, MD
 
2. Title: Clinical Applications of Aspects of Daniel N. Stern’s Theory of Infant Development: Overview and Developmental Precursors to Subjective Experiencing
Presenter: Susan M. Berger, MA, MFCC
Chair: Robin S. Cohen, PhD
 
3. Title: Perilous Crossings: Tales of Gender, Identification, and Exiled Desires
Presenter: Sandra M. Kiersky, PhD
Chair: Joan A. Lang, MD
 
4. Title: Shame: A Hidden Dimension in Women’s Ambition
Presenter: Judith P. Kaufman, MSW
Chair: Andrew P. Morrison, MD
 
5. Title: Self, Race and the Search for Cultural Selfobject Mirroring
Presenter: Phillis I. Sheppard, PhD
Chair: Masayo Isono, MSW
 
6. Title: Substitute Selfobjects
Presenter: Barry M. Segal, MBBCh, FRCP(C)
Chair: Pamela E. Haglund, PsyD
 
7. Title: Addressing the Core Conflict: The Legacy of an Archaic Attachment
Presenter: Judy Supkoff-Stern, PhD
Chair: Amanda E. Kottler, MA, MS
 
8. Title: Kohut’s Bipolar Self Revisited
Presenter: Jeffrey B. Rubin, PhD
Chair: John A. Lindon, MD
 
9. Title: An Intersubjective Contribution to the Recovered vs. False Memory Debate
Presenter: Richard Tuch, MD
Chair: Stuart D. Perlman, PhD
 
10. Title: Surface, Depth and the Isolated Mind
Presenter: Barry M. Magid, MD
Chair: Susan Kushner-Scott, MSW
 
11. Title: "I Feel Therefore I Am:" Toward a Neurobiology of Emotional Processing
Presenter: Regina Pally, MD
Chair: Maxwell S. Sucharov, MD
 
12. Meet the Authors: Intimate Attachments: Towards a New Self Psychology
Mary E. Gales, MD
Estelle Shane, PhD
Morton Shane, MD
Chair: Donna M. Orange, PhD, PsyD
 
13. Title: General Principles of Self Psychology: A Position Statement by Joseph D. Lichtenberg, MD and Ernest S. Wolf, MD
Presenters: Wolfgang E. Milch, MD
Hans-Peter Hartmann, MD, MA
Iris Hilke, MA
Chair: Nancy L. Goldman, MA
 
14. Title: Shared Experience
Presenter: Timothy B. McCaffrey, MD
Chair: Floyd B. Galler, MD
 
15. Title: What Kohut Might Say Today: A Response to Discussions by Fosshage, Ornstein and Stolorow of a Case Presented by Kindler
Presenter: Steven H. Knoblauch, PhD
Chair: Sheldon J. Meyers, MD
 
16. Title: Experiences of Transformation: A Change in Context
Presenters: R. William Barron, MD
Penny Dublin, MSW
Chair: Ruth Gruenthal, MSS
 
17. Title: Dreams and Medication: A Self Psychological Approach
Presenter: Jeffrey Deitz, MD
Chair: Jaga Nath S. Glassman, MD
 

 

6:15 - 7:30 Conference Reception
(Light Buffet, No Host Bar)
 
7:30 - 10:00 Dancing and No Host Bar

 

Sunday, October 25, 1998
[ Friday | Saturday ]

7:30 - 8:30 am Coffee and Breakfast Rolls
 
8:30 - 10:00 Original Papers/Workshops
 
Session C
 
1. Title: The Undifferentiated Selfobject Transference and Its Contribution to Understanding Suicidal Pathology, Repetition Compulsion and Fixations
Presenter: Crayton E. Rowe, Jr., MSW
Chair: Philip A. Ringstrom, PhD, PsyD
 
2. Title: Bulimia as Metaphor: Restoration of the Dying Self
Presenter: James E. Gorney, PhD
Chair: Patricia Lafferty, PhD
 
3. Title: A Disorder of The Self in an Adult With a Nonverbal Learning Disability
Presenter: Joseph Palombo, MA
Chair: Jeffrey M. Weinberg, MD
 
4. Title: The Meaning of Touch in Psychoanalysis: A Time for Reassessment
Presenter: James L. Fosshage, PhD
Chair: Kati Breckenridge, PhD, PsyD
 
5. Title: Achieving Empathy with Early Developmental Trauma
Presenter: Lawrence E. Hedges, PhD, ABPP
Chair: James S. Grotstein, MD
 
6. Title: Original Intent: Countertransference Relational Theory And Self Psychological Treatment
Presenter: Lester Lenoff, MSW
Chair: William J. Coburn, PhD
 
7. Title: The Impact on Psychoanalysis of Concurrent "Other" Therapies: An Intersubjective Perspective
Presenter: Joan C. Dasteel, PhD, BCD, MSW
Chair: Martin S. Livingston, PhD
 
8. Kohut Memorial Prize Toni Morrison’s Beloved: The Emphatic Connection and the Restoration of The Self
Presenter: Elizabeth W. O’Brien, PhD
Chair: Marian D. Tolpin, MD
 
9. Title: Reaching the Unreachable Through Fantasy and Playing In Adult Psychotherapy
Presenter: Michelle Stern, MA
Chair: Patricia M. Schlesinger, MD, PsyD
 
10. Title: Extramarital Affairs in Midlife: The Splintered Mirror
Presenters: Valory J. Mitchell, PhD
Diane L. Wilson, PhD
Chair: Richard F. Avery, LCSW, BCD
 
11. Title: Restoration of the Past: A Guide to Therapy With Placed Children
Presenter: Marilyn W. Silin, MA
Chair: Renee Schwartz, PhD
 
12. Title: Contemplating the Death of Oedipus: Survival Tips for Self Psychologists
Presenters: Doris Brothers, PhD
Ellen J. Lewinberg, CSW
Chair: Henry J. Friedman, MD
 
13. Title: A Case Report of the Treatment of a Brutally Traumatized Man: A Psychoanalysis-By-Telephone
Presenter: John A. Lindon, MD
Chair: Ernest S. Wolf, MD
 
14. Title: Integrating Case Material to Illustrate the Use of Organizing Principles Within the Clinical Setting
Presenter: Linda Stell, MFCT
Chair: Dorthy M. Levinson, MSW
 
15. Title: In Search of the Oracle: The Fate of Social Attitudes in Psychoanalytic Theorizing
Presenter: Michael S. Keren, PsyD
Chair: Marilyn S. Jacobs, PhD, PsyD
 
16. Title: Therapist Rescue Fantasies: Pitfall or Opportunity?
Presenter: Stuart D. Perlman, PhD
Chair: Amy H. Eldridge, MSW, PhD
 
17. Title: Intersubjective Observations on Transference Love
Presenter: Peter Buirski, PhD
Michael J. Monroe, BA
Chair: Lili P. Hodis, PhD
 
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break
 
10:30 - 12:30 pm Panel III
 
Title: Self Psychology Integrating and Evolving: Reconceptualizing Therapeutic Action or, How Does Analysis Cure?
Chair & Discussant:
Arthur Mailin, MD
Presenter: Allen M. Siegel, MD
Discussants: Howard A. Bacal, MD, FRCP(C)
Frank M. Lachmann, PhD
Marian D. Tolpin, MD
 
12:30 FINAL ADJOURNMENT
 

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