IPTAR Bulletin - Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research

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ART, PSYCHOANALYSIS, AND SOCIETY PROJECT
(Chair, Isaac Tylim, Psy.D.)
(Visual Arts Curator, Rob Fierstein, L.C.S.W.)
To make our discipline more relevant to a post-modern world that has become
increasingly antagonistic to psychoanalysis, the Project is designed to
“bring the couch into the streets” and place IPTAR at the vanguard of a current
trend within the IPA to highlight what psychoanalysis has to offer to
extra-transferential fields by engaging diverse disciplines in a meaningful dialogue.
In response to a pressing need to end our discipline’s isolation and
return the stepchild of applied psychoanalysis to the foreground of IPTAR’s
endeavors, the Project functions as an umbrella under which visual arts, films,
music, literature, and socio-political affairs may be explored and understood
through a psychoanalytically informed approach. Each year, committee members
review proposals and decide upon a program of events that integrate
the arts and psychoanalysis, which are open to people from a broad range of
disciplines. The Project also collaborates with other committees in co-sponsoring
events that, while fulfilling an educational or informational role, extend
IPTAR’s visibility in the community at large.
ETHICS COMMITTEE
(Chair,Arnold Wilson, Ph.D.)
The Ethics Committee is responsible for establishing the code of ethical and
professional conduct for members and candidates of IPTAR, as well as the
procedures for making, processing, and adjudicating complaints in regard to
charges of Code violations by members or candidates that are deemed by the
complainant to be detrimental, prejudicial, or injurious to the best interests
of the Society.The Committee has the responsibility for investigating such
complaints, holding any necessary hearings, and reporting its findings and recommendations
to the President of the Society, the complainant, and the
charged individual.
DIVERSITY COMMITTEE
(Chairs, Richard Reichbart, Ph.D and Tania Guimaraes, L.C.S.W.)
The primary task of the Diversity Committee is to encourage and facilitate
dialogue and discussion in the IPTAR community with reference to Otherness
and Difference. The Committee’s central approach consists of engaging
in such dialogue and discussion through developing working relationships with
the Admissions Committee, the Recruitment Committee, the Candidates
Committee, and the Curriculum Committee, as well as with other groups at
IPTAR. The members of the Diversity Committee share a commitment to
psychoanalysis continuing as a progressive and inclusive movement and discipline.
LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEE
(Chair, Fredric Perlman, Ph.D.)
The Legislative Committee was established in response to a series of public
policy and regulatory issues that have recently become very salient to IPTAR’s
mission and functions. Members of this committee collaborate with other
psychoanalytic societies and organizations, most importantly the Confederation
of Independent Psychoanalytic Societies, as well as the American Psychoanalytic
Association, the International Psychoanalytical Association, and
others. Recent activity has centered on licensing legislation and regulations for
psychoanalysts in NewYork State and the development of lobbying approaches
and model licensing laws to be applied in other states.
COMMUNICATIONS COMMITTEE
(Communications Chair, Judy Ann Kaplan, L.C.S.W. )
(Web Chair, Tessa Addison, L.C.S.W.)
(Publication Projects Subcommittee Chair, Joy Dryer, Ph.D.)
The Communication Committee’s (CC) mission is to create, in printed and
electronic forms, an archival record of IPTAR’s activities and to present
IPTAR’s contributions and accomplishments to both our internal community
and the psychoanalytic community at large.(See the complete collection of the
IPTAR Reports and Monographs on our website.) The CC has responsibility
for ongoing dialogue within the IPTAR community via The Manifest Content
and E-talk and for reaching out to the general analytic community and the
public via this Bulletin and the Website, www.iptar.org.
The Manifest Content is the in-house newsletter published six times yearly and
sent out electronically to the membership. Back issues of The Manifest Content
are available on the IPTAR website. It offers: the President’s and Dean’s
columns; reports on IPTAR events and members’ presentations; news from
CIPS (the Confederation of Independent Psychoanalytic Societies), which
IPTAR helped found;a calendar of upcoming events;and other news of interest
to the IPTAR community.
etalk@lists.iptar.org, the in-house list-serve, keeps members and candidates
informed about IPTAR’s programs and events. It also provides a means of
sharing professional concerns and referral requests. Only postings with a
clear psychoanalytic purpose are invited.
admin@iptar.org is another new list-serve. Internal communications that were
formerly received in a postal mailing will now be received through
admin@iptar.org. This service is now the sole path of communication from
the administration to the members. Only administrative members will be
able to send postings to the community through admin@iptar.org.
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