NAPsaC Minutes 6-27-08
NAPsaC Minutes 6-27-08
Present: Harriet Basseches (chair), Martin Gautier, Prudy Gourguechon, Warren Procci, Bob Pyles, Rick Perlman, Leigh Tobias, Beth Kalish-Weiss, Barbara Cohen
Absent: Nancy Wolf, Chuck Brandes
Welcome of new members
Minutes from January, 2008 reviewed and approved.
Financial report: Currently (as of June 2008) there is $7,527.47 in the NAPsaC account. Only Canada has paid 2008 dues. Other members will be billed.
Discussion on NAPsaC meeting arrangements for January 2009 meeting.
It has been difficult to focus on NAPsaC business so Harriet suggested we structure upcoming meetings to include a business section and sections for joint meeting with IPA and North American reps. The consensus was that this is an excellent way to proceed. Suggestion was made that the brunch be scheduled as part of the larger meeting (perhaps then making the NAPsaC business meeting the second part of the day).
There was further discussion on how NAPsacC can take advantage of greater linking with the North American reps. It was suggested that the newsletter report that Harriet writes also be included in the newsletters of the NAPsaC component organizations.
Report on the Working Party Group: Abbot Bronstein
- Abbot summarized his report (attached to minutes for meeting today).
The first pilot groups for the Working Party Group project met in Atlanta.
There is tremendous interest and excitement about this project. Over 30 people participated in the workshop where clinical material was presented by Maria Elena Rose (Mexico City) and Meurta Casada (Uruguay). John Schubert and Thomas Baume (both from Sweden) moderated the discussion.
The next step is the meeting, chaired by David Tuckett in New York to plan for the Working Party Groups for the January 2009 meeting.
Invitations for participation will be issued again soon. - The NAPsaC board had mandated that NAPsaC develop clinical case conferences. There has been virtually no interest in this project so Abbot requested that the Board rescind this mandates.
Concensus: to put aside the clinical case conference groups and continue to focus energy developing the Working Party Groups. - Budget and Funding Issues for the Working Party Groups:
IPA has committed $11,000 for 2008, $25,000 for 2009 and $40,000 for 2010 after which NAPsaC is expected to demonstrate that it is moving toward self-sufficiency as an organization and that the Working Party Groups program is generating funding. There are some recent complications in the funding process and Abbot has been advised to work through Robert Stein and CAPsa to sort out these procedures. The Board suggested that David Coe might also be helpful in working this through.
Abbott requested $500 from NAPsaC to cover expenses for his continued efforts in launching the Working Party Groups. This request was approved.
(to be billed through the NAPsaC account at PINC)
The NAPsaC/EPF meeting in Amsterdam has 21 registrants from North America and 35 from Europe. Bob will be attending and can represent NAPsaC.
Bob and Harriet will both be attending the FEPAL conference in the fall in South America.
Plans for a FEPAL/NAPsaC event in Mexico City have been reconsidered. We will not proceed with that meeting at this time. Energy will instead focus on the Working Party Groups.
7. Report on Website/ Data Base (Rick Perlman)
- The "find an analyst" website is up and running in its beta (development) format. (HREF="http://www.findananalyst.org" MACROBUTTON HtmlResAnchor www.findananalyst.org) Any analyst who wants to be included on the web-site needs to "opt in". So far only 4-500 of 4000 member has done so. It will be advertised again. Bob offered to write a paragraph describing the service and forward it to all NAPsaC board members so that it can be included in organizational newsletters or emails.
- Rick is working with David Coe on a DDPT grant. The preliminary proposal for $35,000 for publicizing the "find and analyst" site has been approved. Now Rick has to complete the final proposal. Prudy and Rick will talk to discuss approaches to this grant.
- Rick is also working on a project to develop the internal NAPsaC website to promote psychoanalytic events and update members on political issues and facilitate political action. Even a minimal investment will allow us to develop a sophisticated product. The Board was very supportive of this project. Rick will present further plans at the next meeting.
May thanks to Rick for his efforts on website development.
8. Budget and Structure for 2008-2009 Dues
- It is too late to increase dues for 2008. Member organizations will be charged $1.50 pp. (Canada has already paid)
- After some discussion the Board agreed to an increase of dues to $2.00 per person for 2009. This increase is based on the financial needs for NAPsaC expenses:
$3000 website development
360 website maintenance
2000 display for IPA Chicago
600 Brunch, January meeting
500 Working Party Group development
200 Conference calls
The discussion of NAPsaC financial support for the Working Party Groups was deferred.
Meeting adjourned.
Respectfully submitted,
Barbara Cohen
