Jun 17, 2006

Draft Minutes

NAPsaC
Board meeting
Saturday, June 17, 2006
Washington, DC
Hilton Hotel

Board members present
Harriet Basseches, Chair Victor Bonfilio, Sec/Treas. Prudence Gourguechon Jane Hall (for Nancy Wolf) Beth Kalish-Weiss Lynne Moritz Fredric Perlman David Schaffelburg	CIPS PINC APsaA NYFS CIPS APsaA CIPS CPS
Absent
Allannah Furlong Masahisa Nishizono	CPS JPS
Guests
Charles Hanly Eric Nuetzel Beth Seelig Robert Pyles	IPA Global Rep APsaA APsaA IPA Work Group on Practice Issues

1. Call to order: 9:30 AM

2. Introductions

3. Approval of January Minutes

4. Treasurer’s Report

   1. Funds Report

   2. Dues

      • The Board agreed on dues at the rate of $1.50 per IPA member (primary affiliation) for the year starting 2007.

      • The Board agreed on dues at the rate of $1.00 per IPA member (primary affiliation) for the year starting 2006.

      • The number of IPA members on which dues will be paid shall be calculated on July 31 of the year previous to when the dues are payable (e.g. for 2006 each organization will pay $1.00 per IPA member primarily affiliated with it on July 31, 2005.

      • If the Board needs more funds, the Board will ask the organizations for more money.

      • Harriet reported that we have not been able to collect any refund for the cancelled conference in Philadelphia. Prudy said that she would take a look at the contract to see if there is another way to proceed.

5. Constitution and By-Laws: Boards members will bring the Constitution and By-laws of NAPsaC to their organization’s Board for approval.

6. EPF-NAPsaC Conference (July 2006)

   • The enrollment is moderate so far.

   • Harriet will consult with Don Meyers and get back to the Board about whether there are criteria for enrollment.

   • There was a discussion about changing the date but there was a consensus that there is not a better date.

7. Review of Procedures for Representation of NAPsaC on the IPA Nominations Committee

   1. Harriet proposed a rotation (see attached) and the Board agreed with her proposal.

   2. There was a discussion about how regional nominations are made and the procedure for the elections.

8. Licensing Issues

   1. Charles Hanly described the current licensing issues in Canada. He consulted with the Board on possible responses. There was a far ranging discussion of all the issues. Some of the ideas presented follow.

      1. How do psychoanalysts want to identify themselves; as psychoanalysts first, or by their discipline (MD, PhD etc).

      2. How to have the task of regulation fall to the IPA.

      3. Opportunity to outreach to GP’s who practice psychotherapy.

      4. What are the threats to practice.

      5. What do we want?

      6. Training is the best way to protect the public.

      7. What are the training requirements for good practice?

      8. Practice review is automatically done at 65 in Canada.

      9. Beth reported on a survey on threats to psychoanalysts’ practice. In every case divergent groups are moving in to dilute psychoanalytic practice. CA is very well regulated but the government wants to move away from regulation.

      10. What is the best course? Do we wait and study the situation more or do we act? Which course will be most effective?

      11. Is a laissez faire attitude dangerous? Look what happened in NY and Canada.

      12. The other side of that argument is that once boards of regulation are set up, they will regulate, sometimes onerously.

      13. We must keep each other informed, including criticisms, so that we can develop our ideas and responses.

      14. Even in the US, we have to take things state by state; there is a sensitivity to “interference”.

      15. What is involved in trademarking? We should consult a lawyer on this. We must also check international law.

      16. There was an idea that someone presented at the end of last meeting about how to protect the name “psychoanalyst”.

      17. There is no ability to appeal to a national standard because there is no national standard.

      18. It is important to have political alliances in place; we cannot build them at the last minute.

      19. Lynne Moritz has had a couple of lunch meetings with the officers of NAAP. She emphasized that talking together is good. Then you have a sense of who and what you are dealing with. They have a theoretical position that less is better (Jung). They also represent a lot of money. They are interested in NY and are upset about how the law in NY has been implemented.

   2. Robert Pyles participated in discussion. Problem is of concern in all IPA regions.

9. Strategic Planning
   There was a far ranging discussion about NAPsaC’s visibility and usefulness including such issues as:

   1. How many members of APsaA know about NAPsaC?

   2. Discussion of the purpose, power and plans of NAPsaC.

   3. Individuals in APsaA don’t always want to pay IPA dues.

   4. Technology could be used to consult/teach.

   5. We could start a think tank.

   6. We should stay linked to other regions.

   7. We don’t want to duplicate what APsaA already does.

   8. Look at how different analysts actually work.

   9. Proposal to explore NAPsaC could put on small group meetings/continuous study groups.

      1. Look at David Tucket’s work.

      2. Possible venue: two days preceding APsaA meetings. Get at implicit assumptions guiding what the analyst thinks/does.

      3. 10-12 people could be in each working group. What if we had all the meetings at the same time…a common scientific meeting. That may be a wonderful long term plan.

      4. How do we start…how to organize. Harriet will begin exploration and report back.

      5. We will have a planning meeting at the Winter meeting in NY.

   10. We need to have a common text for PR purposes.

       1. Check the APsaA website. Since the website was partly IPA funded, it was to include a NAPsaC page. We will contact Dean Stein, Exec. Dir. of APsaA, to discuss. Use NAPsaC page on the APsaA website for dissemination of information and communication. Lynne will talk to Dean about this and relay the answer to Harriet.

       2. We should put American IPA (NAPsaC) as a tab on all of our websites.

   11. We should apply to DPPT for a grant to support the establishment of the working group.

10. Meeting Adjourned: 1:00 PM.

Respectfully submitted,

Victor P. Bonfilio, JD, PhD
Secretary/Treasurer

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