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A Message to CCP from Carol and AlanDuring this extraordinary and painful time, we are reaching out to you to let you know that we are concerned about your wellbeing. Our country and the world at large has been hit with devastating events. As therapists, analysts, and academics, we work quietly but often on the front lines helping others with the fallout that derives from the horrors that we face. There is a lot said and needs to be said and done about the scourges of our time: racism and other forms of aggression by and toward our fellow human beings; the global pandemic and its roots: poverty, climate change, and how political, social and psychological organization spread it; the state of our economy, it’s unfairness, and how it benefits a small minority at the expense of the vast majority. These of course are all intertwined and form the miasma that seems to envelope us more each day. It is easy to feel helpless and to see our work as too microscopic in order to do much good. We feel isolated in our work, and are deeply moved by the suffering and outrage that it produces. Yet, now more than ever, we are needed—as clinicians and as thinking, feeling human beings to help our world become what it should be. Please know that we as a community stand with you and offer our support. If any of you would like to speak with a colleague(s) or need some other form of assistance, please let either of us know and we will do our utmost to help. Each one of us are following events and finding ways to do what we can. Please don’t give up, please don’t give out, and by all means please don’t give in. We hope that, whatever you do, you stay safe, live your values, and remain the thoughtful, caring individuals that you are. With All Warmth and Esteem, Carol Ganzer, PhD Alan Levy, PhD President President Elect Graduation Announcement, Peter Reiner, PhD, LMFTPresident Carol Ganzer is very pleased to announce the graduation from the Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis of Peter Reiner, PhD, LMFT. He has completed his coursework and has received the Certificate of Psychoanalysis. In addition to finishing the program’s intensive course and supervisory requirements, Peter devised a final project that integrated his years of study of psychoanalysis with his passion for teaching, much to the benefit of graduate and post-graduate students in China and to the international psychoanalytic community more generally. A formal graduation celebration for Peter, including presentation of his final project, will be scheduled when public health conditions permit. For his final project, Dr. Reiner taught a section of a course on Psychoanalytic Theory offered by the China American Psychoanalytic Alliance (CAPA) to select psychodynamic clinicians in various cities in China. His students learned the fundamentals of ego psychology, based on the writings of Anna Freud and Charles Brenner, and the foundations of object relations theory, based on papers by Melanie Klein. Dr. Reiner, already an award-winning teacher, chose to broaden his pedagogy by teaching online to members of different cultures who were actively applying the material to their clinical work. To enhance his own learning, Peter selected a final project committee of seasoned, experienced teachers—CCP Board members Drs. Ganzer, Shabad, and Scholom—to provide weekly feedback about his lectures and clinical examples. The responses of the participants in China were overwhelmingly positive: They urged senior administrators of CAPA to have him provide additional classes. CAPA immediately solicited Dr. Reiner to teach the following year; he has just finished doing so with a second cohort. Once again, Peter’s lectures were received enthusiastically; and CAPA has already strongly requested that he teach psychoanalytic theory in 2021 to yet a third cohort! Steve Harp, Associate Professor at the Department of Art, Media and Design at DePaul University was recently awarded a DePaul University Humanities Center Fellowship for 2020-2022 for his project "Negation/Against."The abstract follows: The commonly accepted perspective in Western culture is that photography manifests the external. The argument I seek to make against that – which I aim to explore in this fellowship – is that the photograph is rather a manifestation or projection of the internal. Through the lens of Freud’s essay “Negation,” I intend to investigate the ways photography is always already inherently subjective, an internal transformation of the external through the interplay of lost and found; that photography has something fundamentally irrational about it, something that revolves instead around projection, absence, loss and a visual correlate of the fact that existence is always against. The work I aim to create in this fellowship is an extended essay, in the spirit of Montaigne, investigating the ways in which Freud’s concept of negation is central to photography. Graduation AnnouncementPresident Carol Ganzer is very pleased to announce the graduations from the Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis of Jeremy Bloomfield, PsyD, and Scott Pytluk, PhD. They have completed their coursework and have received the Certificate of Psychoanalysis. Beyond completing the program’s intensive course and supervisory requirements, each candidate presented a final project that integrated their years of study of psychoanalytic thinking. Their personal expressions of their own analytic growth have enriched us all. For his project, Dr. Bloomfield interviewed and videotaped CCP faculty members over a period of several years, asking each about their own commitment to a lifetime of psychoanalytic exploration: training, teaching, working with patients, writing. For his presentation, Dr. Bloomfield selected ten of the interviews. Those who participated are Dr. Frank Summers, Dr. Marilyn Charles, Dr. Gerard Fromm, Dr. Malka Hirsch-Napchan, Dr. Avgi Saketopoulou, Dr. Sandra Buechler, Dr. Alan Bass, Dr. Françoise Davoine, Dr. Danielle Knafo, and Dr. Adrienne Harris. The effect of these cumulative voices is profound. Dr. Scott Pytluk, in fulfilling the program requirements, chose to integrate his lifetime of experience as a musician with his immersion in psychoanalysis. Scott introduced his elegant clarinet concert by reading a paper in which he traced the intersecting events that brought together his musical talents, his own development, and his personal history within the field of psychoanalysis. The evening was a celebration, not only of Scott’s personal achievement, but a reminder of the marvels of our humanness. Nominated for the 2019 Gradiva AwardArticles and JournalsClaude Barbre and Jill Barbre — Breaking into a Sacred, Bloodier Speech: The Healing Role of Monsters in Child Development, Trauma Play, and the Cultural Imagination . Violent States and Creative States: From the Global to the Individual, 2, 125 – 135Books PublicationRobert Grossmark —The Unobtrusive Relational Analyst: Explorations in Psychoanalytic CompanioningJamieson Webster — Conversion Disorder: Listening to the Body in PsychoanalysisEdited Books Marilyn Charles — Introduction to Contemporary Psychoanalysis: Defining Terms and Building Bridges Dr. Alan Levy to Speak at The Michigan Council on Psychoanalysis & Psychotherapy
Dr. Alan Levy will be speaking at the : Michigan Council on Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy, on February 16, 2020. Title: “Staying the Same While Living with Multitudes: A New Look at Object Constancy” New Book Chapter Forthcoming on Child Treatment
Jeremy Stern, LCSW Wins Jack D Frank, zt"l, Memorial Scholarship Award
Alan Levy, PhD | CCP Vice President, Appointed as Lecturer at University of Chicago
INDIVISIBLE Chicago Podcast with Allan Scholom, PhDMental Health in the Age of Trump
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