Rapaport-Klein Study Group

Annual Meeting Program - June 3-5, 2011 (see the Letter to Members)

FRIDAY, JUNE 3, 2011

8:00 p.m.: Keith Oatley, "Fiction as consciousness: Promptings towards changes of personality and the bypassing of defenses"

SATURDAY, JUNE 4, 2011

9:00 to 10:30 a.m.: Richard Chefetz, "Some clinical experience with dissociative disorders: Toward building a better metaphors for subjective experience influenced by dissociative processes" [The presentation on dissociative processes will be from PowerPoint and brief video vignette from a treatment. If you wish to receive the files that Rich Chefetz has prepared as background reading, please write to him at <r.a.chefetz@psychsense.net>]

10:45 a.m. to 12:15 p.m.: Horst Kächele, "Advances and limitations of single case research" [see full-text paper; the presentation however will be based on a PowerPoint presentation]

12:15 to 1:45 p.m.: Lunch

1:45 to 3:15 p.m.: Beatrice Beebe and Frank Lachmann, "The origins of disorganized attachment: A microanalysis of 4-month mother-infant interaction" [see full-text paper by Beebe et al. published in Attachment & Human Development, 2010, 12, 1/2: 3-141. A note by B. Beebe: anyone interested should start by comparing the secure frame drawings, p. 63, with the disorganized attachment frame drawings, p. 95. Then read the two discussions of disorganized attachment: Discussion I, p. 86, is a more straightforward discussion of the results; Discussion II, p. 92, is more interpretive]

3:15-5:00 p.m.: Open discussion

6:00 to 8:00 p.m.: Cocktails at the Lippmanns

SUNDAY, JUNE 5, 2011

9:00 to 10:00 a.m.: Members' Business Meeting

10:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.: Irwin Hoffman, Gary Walls and C. Seth Warren, "Response to commentaries by David Wolitzky, Morris Eagle and Jeremy Safran at the 2010 Rapaport-Klein Study Group Meeting" (the background for these commentaries was Irwin Hoffman's JAPA 2009 article)
[see four documents posted by Irwin Hoffman: (1) Introductory note; (2) Interpolated comments to paper by Eagle & Wolitzky, Part 1; (3) Interpolated comments to paper by Eagle & Wolitzky, Part 2; (4) Two excerpts from Hoffman's response to Safran]
[see three documents posted by Gary Walls: (1) On Being Willing to Sell Your Grandmother Short: A Reply to Wolitzky; (2) Meaning or Medicine: The Future of Psychoanalysis in the Professional Schools; (3) Diagnosis, Epistemology, and Politics: The PDM Paradigm]
[see a document posted by C. Seth Warren: Comment on David Wolitzky’s "Critique of Hoffman’s Paper"]

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