CIPS NewsBriefs - Fall 2023

IPTAR: Publications, Awards, Important Speaking Engagements

Reporter: Anthony Graves

Allan Bass, PhD, FIPA

Alan Bass’ paper “Murderous Racism as Normal Psychosis: The Case of Dylann Roof” was one of the joint recipients of the JAPA 2021 Best Paper Award in the special issue on race and racism.  The paper was also published in the volume Hating, Abhorring, and Wishing to Destroy (Routledge, ’22), and translated into Spanish for the volume Psicoanalisis, Deconstruccion y Critico de la Psicopolitico (Akademia,’21).

Bass also published L’impossible au-dela du genocide, (The Impossible Beyond of Genocide) in the volume Rene Major: La psychanalyse a venir (Hermann ’22). Alan Bass, PhD, FIPA, is a Fellow at IPTAR.

Susan N Finkelstein

Susan N Finkelstein, a Fellow at IPTAR and Training and Supervising analyst at the Contemporary Freudian Society, is presenting at “Remembering Henri Rey: Michael Feldman and John Steiner in Dialogue,” Contemporary Freudian Society, Jan. 28, 2024, 10am–12pm EST.

Ben Parker

Ben Parker, a second-year candidate in respecialization at IPTAR, published On Adam Phillips: Is psychoanalysis a path to change, or a way of avoiding it? in N+1 online, August, 2023.

Tracey Simon, MFA, LCSW, FIPA

Tracey Simon, MFA, LCSW, FIPA, and member at IPTAR, presented “The Case of Sasha, Musical Communication: Reverberations, Play and Attunement in the Therapeutic Process,” on the panel “Considerations of a Developmentally Early Form of Play that Engages Preverbal, Affect-Based Work with Patients,” at the 22nd Annual Congress of the International Neuropsychoanalysis Society, Tel Aviv, July 2023.

Paige Sweet, PhD, LP  

Paige Sweet, PhD, LP, and candidate in the Child & Adolescent Program at IPTAR, is publishing “Mask Up: Identifying Anger in Gender and Racial Formations,” awarded the Studies in Gender and Sexuality Symonds Prize (2023), in the Studies in Gender and Sexuality journal, September 2023.

Tuba Tokgoz, Phd, LP, FIPA

Tuba Tokgoz, PhD, LP, FIPA, and IPTAR member, received the first annual Susan C. Warshaw Award that addressed the topic of the impact of cultural stress on child development and child/family psychotherapy for the paper “Treating vulnerable mothers, infants and young children living in poverty: Co-creating a psychoanalytic playground in various alternative settings.” This award has been established by the Board of Directors of the Child and Adolescent Section (Section II) of the Society for Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Psychology, Division of Psychoanalysis (39), of the American Psychological Association to honor Dr. Warshaw’s outstanding contribution to children’s mental health. The award ceremony took place at the SPPP 42nd Annual Meeting “Our Beautiful Struggle” in New York City in April 2023.

Publications

  • Tuba Tokgoz (2023) Treating Vulnerable Mothers, Infants and Young Children Living in Poverty: Co-Creating a Psychoanalytic Playground in Various Alternative Settings, Journal of Infant, Child, and Adolescent Psychotherapy, 22:3, 215-225.

  • Book review (2023): Hating, Abhorring and Wishing to Destroy: Psychoanalytic Essays on the Contemporary Moment. Editors: Donald Moss and Lynne Zeavin, The International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 104:3, 592-596.

  • The short story entitled “Analytic Couch” was chosen for publication in the book “Mind in the Line of Fire – Psychoanalytic Voices to the Challenges of our Times” as part of the IPA Short Essay Contest launched by the IPA in the Community and the World Committees. June 2023, International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA), Editors: Cordelia Schmidt-Hellerau and Mira Erlich-Ginor