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Posted June 26, 2006

The 2006 Psychology of the Self Newsletter is now available online, and I urge you to take a look at it. In addition to excellent synopses of the Keynote addresses, Workshops and the Kohut Memorial lecture provided by Frank Lachmann, John Riker and Shelley Doctors, Self Psychologists from across the U.S. have written reports on the conference's three panels. There are also intriguing new feature articles in the sections on Kidstuff (formerly known as the Children's Corner) - which focuses on Child and Adolescent treatment, Gay/Lesbian Issues and a regular column which provides an International perspective on Self Psychology.

The Members Forum will be made available at the same time as the Newsletter. It will provide an opportunity for members of IAPSP to have online open conversations with each other. Topics will be limited to issues of theoretical concern, issues of clinical concern, and opinions about organizational matters of IAPSP. It is our hope that the connections we revitalize with friends and colleagues at our Fall meeting will be maintained throughout the year via this instrument. The Members Forum will function as communicative glue, actively holding us together while we await our next annual meeting.

Jackie Gotthold, PsyD and Amy Joelson, LCSW have agreed to function as moderators. Since this is a new venture they will be feeling their way along in the beginning. Please cut them slack and help them with any comments or suggestions you might have as you visit and work with the Members Forum.

To join the online discussion, please read the user instructions to get started.

Posted November 22, 2005

The Self Psychology community has come to expect our annual conference to be an experience of education, controversy, and a rekindling of old friendships. The 28th annual meeting, entitled Developing Clinical Momentum, the first conference held under the auspices of the International Association for Psychoanalytic Self Psychology (IAPSP), was no exception.

In previous years the excitement of personal reconnections and the stimulation of the meetings' clinical and theoretical issues came to an end with the final summation of the weekend's activity. This year our website, Psychology of the Self Online, hopes to retain some of that intensity through the connections enabled by the communicative power of the Internet.

In the next few weeks we will post a slide show of attendees at the 28th annual conference thinking, speaking, arguing, eating, dancing, reading, posing, and just plain having fun. The Plenary Address and Presidential Update given by Jim Fosshage, president of the newly formed IAPSP, are available now. In addition, watch for a video recording of Joe Lichtenberg's sweeping overview of self psychology and his sharp focus on current issues within our field, presented in his Kohut Memorial Lecture.

The Roster of IAPSP Members is available to the public now and is powered by a search engine that will enable those seeking a therapist to locate: a) a self psychologist in or near their geographic area, b) a self psychologist who might speak their native tongue, c) a self psychologist with specific clinical interests such as psychoanalytic psychotherapy, supportive psychotherapy, psychoanalysis, dance therapy, couples therapy, child psychotherapy and analysis, etc.

In an interactive vein, a series of Writers' Workshops will soon be announced along with more Online Reading Groups that discuss a paper of current interest with its author. On the drawing board is a controlled access venue that will enable an interactive, non-directed general discussion within the self psychology community. We hope this venue will continue the connections re-established at our 28th conference. Also in the works is a series of tuitioned continuing education courses that will be offered to the general mental health community and to members of IAPSP at a significantly reduced fee.

Watch for notification of all these activities and please remember that Psychology of the Self Online belongs to the IAPSP community and is open to suggestions for new activities or improvements of what already exists.

Sincerely,
Allen Siegel, MD
Editor, Psychology of the Self Online
Email: allensiegel@psychologyoftheself.com

Posted September 15, 2005

We are pleased to announce the election of the following members for a three year term as member-at-large representatives to the International Council of IAPSP:

Midwestern Region

• Doris Brothers
• Susi Federici-Nebbiosi
• Steven Knoblauch
• Dorienne Sorter
• Judy Teicholz

Congratulations to our new Council members! The election committee would also like to thank all IAPSP members for their active participation in this first, organization-wide election of Council representatives.

Posted June 23, 2005

We are pleased to announce the election of the following members for a three-year term as regional representatives to the International Council of IAPSP. Congratulations to our new Council members:

Midwestern Region

• Peter Buirski
• Amy Eldridge
• Sandra Kiersky

Western Region

• Lucyann Carlton
• Judith Pickles
• Joye Weisel-Barth

There are now five, additional openings on the Council for members-at-large. Nominations for these positions will open today. You can access the nominations form here (IAPSP Member Login is required). Nominations will be accepted until Thursday, July 14.

Posted May 27, 2005

Polls are open starting today for the election to fill open regional positions for the IAPSP Council. All IAPSP members are eligible to vote in in this election which will elect three representatives from the Western Region and three representatives from the Midwestern Region to serve three-year terms on the IAPSP Council.

Click here for the ballot.

Posted April 11, 2005

Many exciting projects are underway at Psychology of the Self Online. Below you'll find a list of features that we plan to add shortly. To be notified when features are added, please join our Email list.

Upcoming features:

• An IAPSP members' roster, equipped with a search engine
• The 2005 annual newsletter, Self Psychology News
• Information about the 2005 Annual Conference
• New Online Reading Group discussion of the self psychological perspective on mourning proposed by George Hagman, CSW.

Watch for announcements on the homepage and please come back.

Posted April 8, 2005

A lot is new in Self Psychology's cyberspace. Without either Botox or Nip and Tuck, our site has a wonderful new look, thanks to our talented web designer Hope Dector. Check out our facelift and other new features such as the announcement of the recent formation of the International Association for Psychoanalytic Self Psychology (IAPSP), a description of what the organization is about, and an application for membership. A roster of member therapists, equipped with a search engine to help those seeking treatment find a therapist in their geographical area, will be added. You also will find a musically accompanied new slideshow of the most recent annual meeting. If you attended the meeting you might find yourself there.

In May, we will begin a new Online Discussion Group that will address the issue of mourning. Soon thereafter we will begin our Writers' Workshops. Watch future emails for details (to join our email list, click here.

Posted February 2, 2005.

2005 Goethe Award for Psychoanalytic Scholarship:

Charles B. Strozier was awarded The Goethe Award for Psychoanalytic Scholarship for his study, Heinz Kohut: The Making of a Psychoanalyst (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2001, and a revised paperback edition from Other Press, 2003). The Goethe Award is given by the Section on Psychoanalysis of the Canadian Psychological Association for the best book in any disciplinary or interdisciplinary subject matter in theoretical, clinical, or applied psychoanalysis and is judged on the basis of providing an outstanding contribution to the field. The competition for the Goethe Award was open to national and international candidates and selected by a refereed committee.

The award has a distinguished lineage. In 1930 Freud received the Goethe Prize for his literary and recognized scientific achievements from the city of Frankfurt. At the time he was given the award he was too ill to attend the ceremony, so Thomas Mann, Germany's greatest living writer, traveled to Vienna and personally presented it to him and read the laudation. It was a great moment in German culture.