Student Essay Contest Winners

We've got winners in the 2006 Student Essay Contest--"On encountering the Unconscious: a personal essay"

The $500 prize goes to Dan Livney for his essay analysing a dream and a short story which came out of it.

Honorable Mention goes to Nina Katzander for "The Collected Unconscious: first year encounters of a graduate student"

See the Student Section

Student Outreach--psychodynamic training

As part of the student committee's outreach for new student members we are requesting that you send via email any psychodynamically-oriented Ph.D programs, analytic training institutes, or professors with a dynamic bent in otherwise generally non-dynamic programs of which you are aware.

Please forward your responses to Eric Peters

Post your writings


Members of Section V are invited to post short pieces--brief statements, observations and the like in Free Associations.

We have three writing categories: Free Associations (for short pieces), Essays (for longer work), Open Forum for featured, invited, discussion pieces.


Send all submissions to dlichtenstein@gmail.com

Student News

We've got a list of psychodynamically oriented internships in the Student section

Take a look!

Students

Student Essay contest

The 2006 Section V Student Essay Contest
$500 Prize for the Best Graduate Student Essay
Encountering the Unconscious: A Personal Essay Exploring the Concept & Experience of the Unconscious
Deadline: October 15, 2006

See the Student Page for details

Ethics Petition

Many of you may be aware of the grassroots protest among American Psychological Association members that began after the NY Times reported on June 7 that psychiatrists will no longer be used to help interrogate detainees. In a new policy, psychiatrists are explicitly discouraged from participating in such efforts. However, the American Psychological Association's spokesman and director of ethics, Dr. Stephen Behnke, is reported to have said that psychologists believe that helping military interrogators makes a valuable contribution because it is part of the effort to prevent terrorism.

A online petition for psychologists who unequivocally oppose this policy is now available for signatures at: http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/483607021

The Section V board hopes that all of you will add your names to this petition. We also hope that you will pass it on to colleagues who are members of the APA in clinics, hospitals, and universities, and wherever you work.