Symonds Prize

Symonds Prize
Studies in Gender and Sexuality Extends Deadline for Submissions
Extended Deadline: September 1, 2008

The Editors of Studies in Gender and Sexuality, through the generosity of the Alexandra and Martin Symonds Foundation, announce the third annual competition for the best essay on a topic related to issues of gender, sexuality, or both.

The essay may engage clinical or theoretical questions. The writer may be new or seasoned. The topic may be cutting-edge or devoted to any of the time-honored problems in psychoanalysis, including:


Gender in the work place, everyday life, and politics
Sex, gender, and clinical considerations
Gender and sex in contemporary cinema or theater, literature or art
Sex and food
Gay marriage and civil union
Race, sex, gender in the clinical encounter and in cultural representation
The materiality of sex: from sex toys to who does what with whom
Seduction and consent
Gender and sexuality in disability or illness
Gender and prisons
A cultural studies approach to pornography
A cultural studies approach to recent television ("The Real World," "The L Word," "Deadwood," …)
Torture, war crimes, and gender (Abu Ghraib, Rwanda…)
Gender, sexuality and the history of psychoanalysis
Abortion politics and rights


In the spirit of the journal's mandate, we are interested in essays that vary in form and content. Submission could include papers that are multidisciplinary. We are open to orthodoxy and heterodoxy. Even to their combinations.

The contest will be judged by members of the journal's Editorial Board. The winner will receive $500, and the essay will be published in the journal.

Now in its eighth year of publication, SGS http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/1524-0657 is at the leading edge of contemporary theorizing on sex and gender. An interdisciplinary forum, it has explored a variety of clinical, developmental, and cultural topics – erotic transference and countertransference; boyhood homophobia; postmodern gender theory; femininity and the place of desire; bisexuality; infertility; gender jokes, transsexual and transgender categories of identity and experience. And it ranges as well into the visual arts, cinema, and popular culture.

Submissions should be sent to:
Martha Hadley, Ph.D.
Executive Editor
SGandS@earthlink.net
Deadline: September 1, 2008

The 2008 Ralph Roughton Paper Award

The Committee on Gay & Lesbian Issues

of the American Psychoanalytic Association
Announces



The 2008 Ralph Roughton Paper Award





In honor of the founding Chairperson of the Committee on Gay and Lesbian Issues, the Ralph Roughton Paper Award was established in 1998 to give formal recognition for outstanding contributions to the psychoanalytic understanding of gay men and lesbians, and was expanded in 2007 to include bisexual and transgender issues. The award is intended to encourage psychoanalytic writers to address gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender issues and to increase awareness and understanding within the psychoanalytic community. The award is presented annually, and carries with it a cash prize of $500.



The winning author will be invited to present his/her paper at the 2009 Winter Meeting of the American Psychoanalytic Association in January.

The winner may submit the paper for review by Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association and, if accepted, it will be published as the winner of the Ralph Roughton Award.



Submission Guidelines: Papers must be unpublished (but may have been presented at professional meetings) and must conform to the Preparation of Manuscript guidelines outlined by Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, with the exception that the length should not exceed 30 double-spaced typed pages. Paper submissions are welcome from anyone regardless of institutional affiliation.



Entries must be submitted electronically no later than August 1, 2008.
Email one Word document containing the manuscript with all references to the author deleted, and email another Word document containing the author's name, e-mail address, address, phone number, and any Institutional affiliation to:



Gary Grossman, Ph.D.

Chair, Ralph Roughton Paper Prize

415 928•4662

Petition for an APA referendum against unethical interrogations


Be it resolved that psychologists may not work in settings where persons are held outside of, or in violation of, either International Law (e.g., the UN Convention Against Torture and the Geneva Conventions) or the US Constitution (where appropriate), unless they are working directly for the persons being detained or for an independent third party working to protect human rights.

To sign the petition, please locate your APA membership number (it's on all journals from APA) and log onto:

http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/apademocracy/index.html

>
> EthicalAPA and WithholdAPAdues wants to bring the following Resolution to the APA:

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> Be it resolved that psychologists may not work in
> settings where persons are held outside of, or in
> violation of, either International Law (e.g., the UN
> Convention Against Torture and the Geneva
> Conventions) or the US Constitution (where
> appropriate), unless they are working directly for
> the persons being detained or for an independent
> third party working to protect human rights.
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> If we get signatures from 1% of all current APA members -- this includes those of you who are withholding your dues -- the APA has to bring this resolution before their entire membership for a vote. To read the whole resolution, footnotes, and frequently asked questions, with a link to the petition site, go to: ethicalapa.com
>
> Or to add your signature to the petition without all of the above, go to:
> http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/apademocracy/index.html
>
> You will need to know your APA membership number in order to sign. You can call the APA membership office at (800) 374-2721 (US & Canada Toll Free) or (202) 336-5580 (in DC).
>
> Please consider signing this. If you have read today's NYTimes in which the mental deterioration of the detainees in Guantanamo is described in painful detail on page 1, recalling that the APA is the only professional association continuing to support the US government's practices in these illegal sites, I think you will agree that psychologists should no longer allow themselves to be implicated by association with these practices.
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> Ghislaine Boulanger
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Michael Harvey leads CE course on Neuropsychoanalytically Informed Models of Treatment for Individuals With Brain Injury

#176: Neuropsychoanalytically Informed Models of Treatment for Individuals With Brain Injury
Course Level: Intermediate

Traumatic brain injury is a significant health problem. Psychiatric and emotional sequelae to TBI serve as the greatest obstacle to recovery. Nobel Prize winner Eric Kandel has called for the development of a comprehensive model of mind starting from the psychoanalytic theory to inform neuroscientific research. This INTERMEDIATE workshop will present scientific findings supporting an emerging neuropsychoanalytic model of mind. Application of neuropsychoanalytic theory for rehabilitation of brain injury will be discussed, including outcome data. Neuropsychoanalytically informed psychotherapy and supervision will be demonstrated via role-play.

This workshop is designed to help you: 1. Demonstrate knowledge of the theoretical and neuroscientific basis of Neuropsychoanalytically informed psychotherapy for individuals with brain injury, 2. Discuss the application of neuropsychoanalytically informed psychotherapy for persons with brain injury within the context of rehabilitation, 3. Discuss the application of theoretical and neuroscientific principles underlying neuropsychoanalytically informed psychotherapy with individuals who have suffered brain injury and identify three examples of this work from role play and discussion, and 4. Discuss the provision of neuropsychoanalytic supervision and identify at least three ways in which this would differ from other models of supervision from role-play and discussion.
Leader(s): Michael Harvey, PsyD, LifeQuest/RENEW, Sheridan, WY

Enrollment Limit: 40
CE Credits: 4
Time: 1p-4:50p
Member Non-Member
Advance $120.00 $140.00
Onsite $140.00 $180.00

All of the preconvention and convention workshops will be held at the Westin Boston Waterfront Hotel.
The 2008 Continuing Education Workshop Brochure in the May issue of the Monitor on Psychology will offer a complete in-depth listing (dates, times, fees, workshop descriptions) of all workshops. Contact the CEP Office at (800) 374-2721, ext. 5991, if you have any questions.

PRAGMATIC CASE STUDIES IN PSYCHOTHERAPY (PCSP)


PRAGMATIC CASE STUDIES IN PSYCHOTHERAPY (PCSP)
http://pcsp.libraries.rutgers.edu
*** a peer-reviewed, multi-theoretical, freely available e-journal of systematic case studies & case study method articles ***
FROM: Dan Fishman, Editor (dfish96198@aol.com) --


RE: Announcing the publication of our Winter, 2008 issue (Volume 4, Module 1),
involving a psychoanalytic case study:


An "Incurable" Schizophrenic: The Case of Mr. X
by Bertram Karon,
with Commentaries by
** Larry Davidson,
** Gary VandenBos, and
** Ann-Louise Silver


From an Introduction by the Action Editor, Ronald B. Miller:


"Dr. Karon's presentation in his case study is unconventional in two ways. First, Dr. Karon's approach to the case seems to violate a number of established assumptions about the psychological treatment of schizophrenics, e.g., (a) that detailed diagnosis is necessary, (b) that medication is a crucial tool in treatment, (c) that psychoanalytic therapy is of questionable value in treatment, (d) that psychiatrists should be viewed as close collaborators in any treatment, and (e) that the psychodynamic therapist should maintain technical neutrality, not being too directive in the patient's life. In his case study, Dr. Karon provides a rationale as to why he questions all these assumptions. Second, Dr. Karon does not hesitate to also address the social, professional, and moral consequences for the patient and therapist of both following, and departing from, these traditional assumptions. Dr. Karon's unconvention approach This places his work in the broad tradition of others like H. S. Sullivan, Frieda Fromm-Reichmann, Thomas Szasz, R.D. Laing, and Loren Mosher who have challenged the prevailing cultural and professional norms about the meaning of schizophrenic symptoms and our societal response to them. . . . Because of the unconventional aspects of Dr. Karon's case study, we have invited Commentators who both critique (Davidson) and support (Vandenbos and Silver) these components of Karon's innovative and challenging case study."