Rapaport-Klein Study Group

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Annual meetings held at the Austen Riggs Center in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, since 1963

Co-Chairs: Craig Piers, Ph.D., 17 Housatonic Street, Lenox, MA 01240, Tel. 413-637-8077, E-Mail <Craig.Piers@williams.edu> Doris K. Silverman, Ph.D., 315 Central Park West, New York, NY 10025, Tel. 212-799-1577, Fax 212-799-6795, E-Mail <DKSilverman@aol.com>

Secretary: Rebecca Curtis, Ph.D., 411 West End Avenue, Apt. 11D, New York, NY 10024-5719, Tel. 212-496-4128, E-Mail <rcurtis.curtis@gmail.com>

Treasurer: Craig Piers, Ph.D., 17 Housatonic Street, Lenox, MA 01240, Tel. 413-637-8077, E-Mail <Craig.Piers@williams.edu> Conference Coordinator: Nadine Desautels, Austen Riggs Center, 25 Main Street, P.O. Box 962, Stockbridge, MA 01262, Tel. 413-931-5236, E-Mail <nadine.desautels@austenriggs.net>

History of the Group

Members' List

Past Members and Non-Member Presenters

Programs of Past Meetings (with papers to be downloaded): 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010

Go to the 2009 Bob Holt Appreciation: Transcript, Audio, and Photographs

Next Meeting: June 3-5, 2011

Paper presentations published on this web site:

1990: Sidney Blatt, "Representational Structures in Psychopathology"

1990: Pier Francesco Galli, "Psychoanalysis as the Story of a Crisis"

1991: Charles Hanly, "The Concept of Truth in Psychoanalysis"

1993: Richard Lasky, "Countertransference and the analytic instrument" (in PDF)

1993: Paolo Migone, "Expressed Emotion and Projective Identification: A Bridge Between Psychiatric and Psychoanalytic Concepts?"

1995: Peter Fonagy, "Attachment, the Development of the Self, and Its Pathology in Personality Disorders" (in Psychomedia)

1995: Robert Wallerstein, "Merton Gill, Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis: A Personal Dialogue"

1995: Irwin Hoffman, "Ritual and Spontaneity in the Psychoanalytic Process"

1995: Lawrence Friedman, "Merton Gill's Psychoanalytic Paradigm"

1995: Doris K. Silverman, "Arithmetic of a One- and Two-Person Psychology: Merton M. Gill, an Essay"

1995: Robert Holt, "Merton Gill: A Sketch of His Life and Some Reminiscences"

1999: Robert Wallerstein, "Generations of Psychotherapy Research: An Overview" (in Psychomedia)

1999: Joseph Masling, "An Evaluation of Empirical Research Linked to Psychoanalytic Theory"

1999: Drew Westen, "The Scientific Status of Unconscious Processes: Is Freud Really Dead?"

2000: Irwin Hoffman, "At Death's Door: Therapists and Patients as Agents"

2000: Morris Eagle, "A Critique of the Postmodern Turn in Psychoanalysis: Recent Work of Mitchell & Renik"

2001: Norbert Freedman, Richard Lasky, & Marvin Hurvich, "Transformation Cycles as Organizers of Psychoanalytic Process: The Method of Sequential Specification"

2001: Peter Wolff, "Why Psychoanalysis is Still Interesting?"

2002: Arnold Modell, "Cathexis Revisited: Psychoanalysis and a Biology of Meaning"

2002: James Fosshage, "The Organizing Functions of Dream Mentation"

2002: Mark Blechner, "Disjunctive Cognition and Interobjects: What Psychoanalytic Dream Study Can Tell us About the Brain"

2002: Paul Lippmann, "The Canary in the Mind: The Transformation of Dreams as an Endangered Species in the Post-Human Electronic Culture"

2002: Gerald Fromm, "Erikson on Dreams: Remarks on the Occasion of Eriksonâs 100th Birthday"

2003: Phillip Shaver, "Attachment-Related Psychodynamics", and "Dialogue on Adult Attachment: Diversity and Integration"

2003: Robert Holt, Philip Holzman, Roy Schafer, Herbert Schlesinger, Fred Schwartz, Peter Wolff et al., "40th Anniversary of the Rapaport-Klein Study Group: Reflections on David Rapaport" (videotape)

2003: Robert Holt, "Notes for Reminiscences of David Rapaport"

2003: Neil Altman & Jody Messler Davies, Editorial of no. 1/2000 of Psychoanalytic Dialogues

2003: Joseph Reppen, "On the Sixth Annual Meeting of the Council of Editors of Psychoanalytic Journals"

2003: Henry F. Smith, "Theory and Practice: An Intimate Partnership or a False Connection?"

2003: Donnel B. Stern, "A Statement of Mission" (Editorial of no. 1/2002 of Contemporary Psychoanalysis)

2004: Marcia Cavell, "Valuing Emotions"

2005: Jaak Panksepp, "At the Interface of the Affective, Behavioral, and Cognitive Neurosciences: Decoding the Emotional Feelings of the Brain (2003)" (in PDF), and "Beyond a Joke: From Animal Laughter to Human Joy? (2005)"

2005: Mauricio Cortina & Giovanni Liotti, "Building on Attachment Theory: Toward a Multimotivational and Intersubjective Model of Human Nature"

2006: Robert R. Holt, "A History of the Research Center for Mental Health, NYU" (see the DVD of this talk, and see also "A Note on Del Close")

2006: Miriam Steele, "Intergenerational Patterns of Attachment: The London-Parent Child Project from Pre-birth to Age 17 Years"

2006: David D. Olds, "Interdisciplinary Studies and our Practice"

2007: Joel Weinberger, "Rats, We Should Have Used Clinton: Subliminal Priming in Political Campaigns" (in PDF)

2008: Robert Bornstein, "Reconnecting Psychoanalysis to Mainstream Psychology (2005)" (in PDF), and "Nomothetic Psychoanalysis (2007)" (in PDF)

2008: John Auerbach, "Self-Reflexivity, Intersubjectivity, and Therapeutic Change (2001)" (in PDF), and "The Concept of Mind: A Developmental Analysis (2002)" (in PDF)

2009: Bob Holt Appreciation: Transcript, Audio, and Photographs

2009: Phebe Cramer, "Empirical Studies of Defense Mechanisms" (in PDF)

2010: Bradley Peterson, "Clinical Neuroscience and Imaging Studies of Core Psychoanalytic Constructs" (2005), and "The Circumplex Model of Affect: An Integrative Approach to Affective Neuroscience, Cognitive Development, and Psychopathology" (2005, with J. Posner & J.A. Russell) (in PDF)

2010: Jeanine M. Vivona, "Embodied Language in Neuroscience and Psychoanalysis" (2009) (in PDF)

2010: Doris K. Silverman, "Our Sexy Brain, Our Compelling Environment: Interactionism in Female Development" (in PDF)

2010: Panel discussions by Jeremy D. Safran, Morris N. Eagle, and David L. Wolitzky on "Clinical and Empirical Issues: Disagreements and Agreements" (The background for this panel is the controversy stirred by Irwin Hoffman's 2009 article "Doublethinking our Way to 'Scientific' Legitimacy: The Desiccation of Human Experience") (in PDF)

Rapaport-Klein Study Group Listserv:

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