2009 ESSAY CONTEST

2009 Morton Schillinger Division-Wide Essay Contest

Section V announces the 2009 Morton Schillinger Division-wide Essay Contest.

All Division 39 members are eligible.

The topic is "What Is the Most Urgent Question for Psychoanalysis Now?'

Maximum length is 15 Pages (double spaced). The deadline is March 1, 2009


First Prize is $1000, Runner-up is $200.

After blind judging, winning essays will be posted on the Section Web site: The Sphinx.

The awards will be made at the Section V Reception in San Antonio.

Address for submissions:

Administrator for Section V
333 West 57th Street, Suite #103
New York, NY 10019-3115

Please send six printed copies with no author identification to the above address. Also include a separate cover sheet with author, title, and contact information.

Effectiveness of Long Term Psychotherapy Demonstrated

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REVIEW
Effectiveness of Long-term Psychodynamic
Psychotherapy
A Meta-analysis
Falk Leichsenring, DSc
Sven Rabung, PhD

JAMA. 2008;300(13):1551-1565
www.jama.com
©2008 American Medical Association. All rights reserved

Lacan and The Foundations of Psychoanalysis

There will be a series of monthly lectures on Lacan and the Foundations of Psychoanalysis open to all and starting on Friday Sept 26, 2008 at SVA in NY.
For further information log on to the website apres-coup.org/

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

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> 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
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> Or to add your signature to the petition without all of the above, go to:
> http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/apademocracy/index.html
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> 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).
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> 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.