American College of Psychoanalysts
Friday, May 13, 2016
Emory Conference Center
Nathan Szajnberg, M.D. – Program Chair/President-Elect and Moderator
8:45 a.m.
Welcome – Norman A. Clemens, President
9:00 a.m.
Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis and Academic Medicine
Robert Michels, M.D., Walsh McDermott University Professor of Medicine and Psychiatry
Weill Medical College of Cornell University, Supervising and Training Analyst
Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, Former Joint Editor-in-Chief, The
International Journal of Psychoanalysis
Robert Michels, M.D. is Walsh McDermott University Professor of Medicine, Cornell
University, and University Professor of Psychiatry, Weill Medical College of Cornell
University. He served as the Stephen and Suzanne Weiss Dean of Cornell University
Medical College and Provost for Medical Affairs of Cornell University from 1991 to
1996, and as the Barklie McKee Henry Professor and Chairman of the Department of
Psychiatry, Cornell University Medical College, and Psychiatrist-in-Chief of The New
York Hospital, Payne Whitney Clinic and Westchester Division from 1974 to 1991. He
is a past President of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, past President
of the American College of Psychiatrists, past President of the American Association of
Chairmen of Departments of Psychiatry, and a former member of the Board on Mental Health and
Behavioral Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, Institute of Medicine. Dr. Michels is a training
analyst at the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research. He served for many
years on the Board on Professional Standards of the American Psychoanalytic Association. He is the
author of more than 300 scientific articles. Dr. Michels is Deputy Editor of The American Journal of
Psychiatry, former Joint Editor-in-Chief of The International Journal of Psychoanalysis, and is or has been
a member of the editorial boards of The New England Journal of Medicine, Journal of the American
Psychoanalytic Association, Psychiatry, Psychoanalytic Quarterly, The American Journal of Drug and
Alcohol Abuse, and The Journal of Psychotherapy Practice and Research.
10:30 a.m.
Coffee Break
11:00 a.m.
How did Racism and Anti-Semitism become Psychopathologies?
Sander L. Gilman, M.D., is a distinguished professor of the Liberal Arts and Sciences
as well as Professor of Psychiatry at Emory University. A cultural and literary historian,
he is the author or editor of well over eighty books. His Illness and Image: Case
Studies in the Medical Humanities appeared with Transaction Publishers in 2015; his
most recent edited volume, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam: Collaboration and
Conflict in the Age of Diaspora was published with the Hong Kong University
Press in 2014. He is the author of the basic study of the visual stereotyping of the
mentally ill, Seeing the Insane, published by John Wiley and Sons in 1982 (reprinted:
1996 and 2014) as well as the standard study of Jewish Self-Hatred, the title of his Johns Hopkins
University Press monograph of 1986, which is still in print. For twenty-five years he was a member of the
humanities and medical faculties at Cornell University where he held the Goldwin Smith Professorship of
Humane Studies. For six years he held the Henry R. Luce Distinguished Service Professorship of the
Liberal Arts in Human Biology at the University of Chicago. For four years was a distinguished professor
of the Liberal Arts and Medicine at the University of Illinois at Chicago where he was the creator of the
Humanities Laboratory. During 1990-1991 he served as the Visiting Historical Scholar at the National
Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MD; 1996-1997 as a fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the
Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, CA; 2000-2001 as a Berlin prize fellow at the American Academy in
Berlin; 2004-5 as the Weidenfeld Visiting Professor of European Comparative Literature at Oxford
University; 2007 to 2012 as Professor at the Institute in the Humanities, Birkbeck College; 2010 to 2013 as
a Visiting Research Professor at The University of Hong Kong. He has been a visiting professor at
numerous universities in North America, South Africa, The United Kingdom, Germany, Israel, China, and
New Zealand. He was president of the Modern Language Association in 1995. He has been awarded a
Doctor of Laws (honoris causa) at the University of Toronto in 1997, elected an honorary professor of the
Free University in Berlin (2000), and an honorary member of the American Psychoanalytic Association
(2007).
12:30 p.m.
Lunch and Business Meeting
2:00 p.m.
What Scientists Who Study Emotion Agree About
Paul Ekman, M.D. via SKYPE
Paul Ekman, Ph.D., is the world’s foremost expert on facial expressions and a professor
emeritus of psychology at the University of California Medical School in San
Francisco. Ekman was named one of the 100 most influential people in the world by
TIME Magazine (2009). He is the author or editor of 15 books, including Emotions
Revealed and Telling Lies, and Emotional Awareness, a conversation between himself
and the Dalai Lama. His research and publications span decades, revealing key insights
about human emotion and communication. He has developed online training tools to
improve emotional skills (The Micro Expression Training Tool, METT and the Subtle
Emotions Training Tool, SETT).
Dr. Ekman says "I would first describe recent findings from a survey I did about What Scientists Who
Study Emotion Agree About. Then I would describe how we have built an online training tool, The Atlas of
Emotions,which is an interactive mapping of the different states within each of five emotions and the
actions associated with those states. For example, within the anger continent there are such different states
as for example indignation, exasperation, and rage. Associated with each state are different actions and
different triggers which bring about the state an important distinction among the actions is those that are
constructive (furthering future collaboration) and those that are destructive (interfering with future
collaboration). After I explain the Emotions Atlas I would like you to ask me questions appropriate to this
audience."
3:30 p.m.
Coffee Break
3:45 p.m.
Scratch and Sniff Proust
Virginia C. Barry, M.D.
Psychoanalyst, Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis and Author of her upcoming Scratch and Sniff
Proust.
With references to her recently published book, Dr. Virginia Barry will discuss the
properties of the olfactory sense that give fragrance and odors their unique ability to
evoke the past, often a past that has not been encoded in words. Marcel Proust called
this “involuntary memory” and eloquently explored how the experience of a sensation
can halt the experience of the passage of Time. Elements of implicit, iconic, and
emotional memory further our understanding of Proust’s insight. In our consulting
rooms we often witness the expression of involuntary memory, and, similar to what
Proust describes, time is also halted such that past and present collapse upon each other,
and insight can be facilitated.
5:00 p.m.
Adjourn
6:00 p.m.
Reception
6:45 p.m.
Banquet – Dr. Clemens and Officers Welcoming New Members