On behalf of the Chicago Psychoanalytic Society, we would like to welcome you to our website and our 2011-2012 Scientific Program. This year we are very proud to feature presentations by a diverse and stimulating group of psychoanalyst-scholars whose work illustrates the multitude of ways that psychoanalysis illuminates the world within us and around us. They will be taking us to some very interesting places.
We begin 2012 with an exploration of the border that psychoanalysis shares with psychiatry. In “The Concept of Psychopathology in Psychoanalysis,” Dr. Arnold Goldberg will talk about the implications of using the categories of psychiatry for our diagnostic criteria rather than devising psychoanalytic ones of our own. Dr. Goldberg, Professor of Psychiatry at Rush University and former Director of the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis, has been a prolific contributor to our field and a major figure in the development of Heinz Kohut’s self psychology. His latest book, “The Analysis of Failure: An Investigation of Failed Cases in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy,” was the subject of an in-depth Chicago Tribune feature earlier this year.
In February we will host Dr. Paul Brinich, adjunct clinical professor of psychology at UNC-Chapel Hill. Dr. Brinich will acquaint us with the many different “developmental strands” that have come together to form contemporary child psychoanalysis. Drawing on his own experience training as a Ph.D. graduate student at the University of Chicago and as a child analytic candidate at the Anna Freud Centre in London, he will emphasize the importance of multiple perspectives and interdisciplinary collaboration in our clinical work with children and their families. Dr. Brinich has worked extensively in both inpatient and outpatient child psychiatric facilities while teaching at the University of California at San Francisco, Case Western Reserve University, Duke University, and the University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill. He currently practices child and adult psychoanalysis and psychotherapy in Chapel Hill.
And in March, we will welcome Dr. Ricardo Ainslie, a writer, filmmaker, and psychoanalyst who will be presenting on his current work exploring the psychology of Mexico’s drug war. After spending three years traveling to Mexico and interviewing people whose lives are directly affected by what is taking place there, Dr. Ainslie has just completed The Savior of Juarez: Mexico at the Time of the Great Drug War (University of Texas Press, in press). He will use interview and photographic material from his work in Mexico to explore the relationship between individual and collective trauma. Between 1990 and 2011 Dr. Ainslie was an affiliate faculty member of the Houston-Galveston Psychoanalytic Institute, and is a founding member and past president of the Austin Society for Psychoanalytic Psychology. In 2011 he received a Guggenheim Fellowship to support the work which he will be discussing at the March meeting.
We’ll tell you about the rest of our program in a future installment, and hope you can join us.
Neal Spira, MD
President
Chicago Psychoanalytic Society
Bertram Cohler, Ph.D.
Program Chair
Upcoming Scientific Program:
January 24, 2012
The Concept of Psychopathology in Psychoanalysis
Presenter: Arnold Goldberg, M.D.
Discussant: David Terman, M.D.
More information on this presentation may be found under “Meetings and Events” at the top of the page.