Psychoanalytic Center
for Training and Research
for Training and Research
Robert A. Glick, M.D., Director
Elizabeth Auchincloss, M.D., Associate
Director
Stanley Bone, M.D., Associate
Director
Susan Coates, Ph.D.,
Director, Parent-Infant Psychotherapy Division
Karen Gilmore, M.D.,
Associate Director, Child Division
This past year saw significant attention paid to specific aspects of the Analytic Center's educational, clinical, and research objectives.
The Executive Committee of the Center has been conducting an internal review of the Center's standards and criteria for candidate acceptance, candidate progression, graduation, faculty appointment, and training and supervising analyst appointment. Several subcommittee presentations have focused on the need to clarify and refine appropriate guidelines. This process is expected to continue for much of the next year.
The Center's didactic curriculum has been considered by the American Psychoanalytic Association as a "model curriculum", offering core analytic education and innovative approaches to teaching psychoanalytic process and technique. Dr. Ellen Rees, the chair of the Curriculum Committee, presented out curriculum at special subcommittee meetings on psychoanalytic education. The course on psychoanalysis and the neurosciences has received particular interest.
Dr. Glick recruited Dr. Joel Whitebook from the New School to work with him in the establishment of a Psychoanalytic Studies Program at the Morningside Campus of Columbia University. The goal of the program is to strengthen the teaching and discussion of psychoanalytic ideas where they intersect with the established disciplines of the humanities, social sciences, and the natural sciences. The Center was awarded a prestigious University Seminar for this coming year; this seminar will bring together scholars from the university and Center faculty to address psychoanalytic perspectives on other disciplines and to explore the process of integration of psychoanalysis at the university. A series of meetings with the Dean of Columbia College and with the Director of the Center for Comparative Literature and Society have explored the place of psychoanalysis and the Center faculty in the University.
Dr. Glick was appointed to the Advisory Board of the Center for the Study of Science and Religion at Columbia University.
The Center's Child Psychoanalytic Program, chaired by Dr. Karen Gilmore, has undergone rapid development. The Child Psychoanalytic Program has five candidates who are seeing children in intensive psychoanalytic treatment under supervision. These candidates, all of whom are child psychiatrists, participate in an academic program and also present case material to the candidates in the adult division. An Admission Service for Children, modeled on the adult service, is in development to screen children appropriate for psychoanalytic treatment.
The Parent-Infant Program, under the leadership of Susan Coates, Ph.D, Director, is designed to offer services to families of children under three. This program is composed of two components: the Parent-Infant Psychotherapy Training Program, and the Research Unit. The research unit, still in its early stages, is hoping to study the impact of our programs on the parent-infant relationship.
The Parent-Infant Psychotherapy Training Program trains professionals from the field of child mental health in the evaluation and treatment of parent-infant dyads who seek professional guidance for difficulties in parenting and/or significant concerns about the infant's development. The training is based on psychodynamic principles, a thorough knowledge of infant development, and an understanding of family systems. This is structured as a two- to three-year program with clinical placements in therapeutic nurseries and pediatric settings. This program currently has four trainees beginning the first year of classes.
The research efforts of the Psychoanalytic Center are expanding in terms of number of projects and people involved. Recently completed data analysis on the supervision study was presented at the American Psychoanalytic Association midwinter meetings and results of this study are currently in press in JAPA. A study of the criteria for progression and graduation in institutes in America has been completed. This data is now being analyzed and a manuscript prepared. Initial results are quite striking in terms of the focus on receiving credit for cases as the criteria for graduation and the absence of the focus on didactic study. The study of psychoanalytic training cases, specifically whether cases that are converted from psychotherapy to psychoanalysis are different in demographics, diagnosis, or treatment outcome from cases that come through the analytic center evaluation service is in the final stages of data analysis. One of the most important findings is in terms of medication use, which seems to be much more prevalent in cases converted from psychotherapy. This has both treatment and teaching implications. A study of post-termination contact is in the data collection phase. This study being undertaken by a PGY-III resident at Psychiatric Institute will be the first systematic study of the nature and frequency of contact after formal termination. The results of the study are likely to reshape current thinking and teaching about the termination phase.
Perhaps one of the projects with the most far reaching implications is the development of a test of psychodynamic competency to use in psychiatric residency training programs. This work is going to be extended to use in psychoanalytic candidates.
Finally, the number of post-graduate fellows, Glass Research Fellows, and residents doing electives at the Center is continuing to increase, and this is the most important asset for the future of research work at the Center.
Dr. Glick continues his development and outreach program for the Center to increase the Center's visibility in the community and to increase public awareness.
Our Admissions Service reports that during 1999/2000 academic year, 45 applications were received in the Clinic, of which 10 of these resulted in training cases and have begun analysis. Twelve private cases were evaluated and accepted for analysis through the Admissions Service.
In January and June 2000, the following candidates graduated from the Center: Brenda Berger, M.D., Laurie Fredrickson, M.D., Lisa Goldfarb, M.D., Ze'ev Levin, M.D., Ann Maloney, M.D. and William Solodow, Ph.D. All were asked to join our faculty.
During the year, numerous awards and honors were given by the Center to its faculty. In June 2000, Raymond Bernick, M.D. was presented with the George S. Goldman Award for Achievement in Clinical Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Education, and Ellen Rees, M.D. was the recipient of the Howard Klar Award for the Outstanding Teacher of the Columbia Psychoanalytic Center, chosen by the candidates. The John J. Weber Prize for an original paper on a psychoanalytic topic was given to Deborah Cabaniss, M.D.
In May 1999, Ray Raskin, M.D. received the George Daniels Award from the Association for Psychoanalytic Medicine, for distinguished service in the field.
At the New Candidates Dinner in September 28, 1999, this year's Lionel Ovesey Award, sponsored jointly by the Association for Psychoanalytic Medicine, was presented to Linda Mullen, M.D. This award is given to a current candidate who has been significantly involved in original research, has made an important contribution to the psychoanalytic literature, or has been the primary person responsible for developing an innovative teaching or treatment program with psychodynamic theory.
Candidates and faculty members of the Columbia Psychoanalytic Center continue to be very active in the American Psychoanalytic Association and the American Academy of Psychoanalysis, serving as committee chairs, and discussants and presenters at the annual meetings.
The Psychoanalytic Center is sad
to report the deaths of a number of our faculty members during 2000: Samuel
L. Feder, M.D., Lothar Gidro-Frank, M.D. and John Rainer, M.D.
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From left to right,
Dr. Roger MacKinnon,
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Dr. Stanley
Bone, left, conferring with
Dr. Joshua Berman and Dr. Susan Swick
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