Summer 2024
Dear CIPS Community,
This is my last issue as the NewsBriefs editor, having served in this role for two years now. So, I’d like to begin by thanking you all for the opportunity to serve. Psychoanalysis and psychotherapy—in my view—cannot happen without communities that nurture, support, and creatively challenge those within it. It’s been my hope that NewsBriefs has been one small way of deepening such links.
The theme for this issue is Dreaming and Action.
In addition to the updates from each represented society and institute, we are fortunate to have several creative submissions for this issue—these include poetry, photos, and paintings. I am delighted that they are so different from one another—and I invite you to experience each one. I’d like to thank each contributor: Meredith Redding, Chris Keats, Joseph Bobrow, Terrance McLarnan, and Rosalinda Taymor.
Winter was just beginning to let go its hold, when I began thinking about the theme of this issue of NewsBriefs, dreaming and action. The hellebores, an early harbinger of spring, had started to bloom, pink, yellow and wine-dark red.
Winter was just beginning to let go its hold, when I began thinking about the theme of this issue of NewsBriefs, dreaming and action. The hellebores, an early harbinger of spring, had started to bloom, pink, yellow and wine-dark red.
Reporter: Drew Tillotson, PsyD, FIPA
Reporter: Susan Mitchell, PhD, FIPA
Reporter: Dave Parnes, LICSW, FIPA
Reporter: Beth Siegel, PsyD, FIPA
Reporter: Anthony Graves
Reporter: Drew Tillotson, PsyD, FIPA
Reporter: Susan Mitchell, PhD, FIPA
Reporter: Dave Parnes, LICSW, FIPA
Reporter: Beth Siegel, PsyD, FIPA
Reporter: Anthony Graves
Christopher Keats, MD, Director of the Seattle Psychoanalytic Institute and Society, retired from clinical work with patients in March, 2023, and has turned to poetry. His collection of poems, Poems on Sabbatical…
Joseph Bobrow Ph.D. practices psychotherapy and psychoanalysis and is the author of three books. His approach is informed by years of practicing and teaching…
Rosalinda Taymor studied at Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico and relocated to California. She became a Psychiatrist at UCSF and a Psychoanalyst at the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California in San Francisco.
Meredith Redding, MA, LMFT, SEP, is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in private practice. In addition to clinical practice, Meredith is a writer, lecturer, and consultant to the Media on mental health.
Terrance McLarnan is an artist, poet, and psychoanalyst. His images are informed by the works of the medium’s earliest photographers and are influenced by the concept of waking dreams.
Christopher Keats, MD, Director of the Seattle Psychoanalytic Institute and Society, retired from clinical work with patients in March, 2023, and has turned to poetry. His collection of poems, Poems on Sabbatical…
Joseph Bobrow Ph.D. practices psychotherapy and psychoanalysis and is the author of three books. His approach is informed by years of practicing and teaching…
Rosalinda Taymor studied at Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico and relocated to California. She became a Psychiatrist at UCSF and a Psychoanalyst at the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California in San Francisco.
Meredith Redding, MA, LMFT, SEP, is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in private practice. In addition to clinical practice, Meredith is a writer, lecturer, and consultant to the Media on mental health.
Terrance McLarnan is an artist, poet, and psychoanalyst. His images are informed by the works of the medium’s earliest photographers and are influenced by the concept of waking dreams.