IPA Journal Club
Friday, April 10, (16:00 -17:15 London time) (11:00 AM – 12:15 PM Eastern US Time)
Guest: Austin Ratner, MD
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The IPA Journal Club (JC) is a project of the IPA Communications Committee. It meets 6 times per academic year (September-June) on Fridays at 4 PM (16:00-17:15) London time [11:00 AM – 12:15 PM US Eastern Time] for 75 minutes.
Each meeting, in webinar format, is in English and features a guest author who discusses with registrants an article or chapter they have published. The meetings are recorded and later posted online at the [link] and on the [link] for viewing by the general public.
The JC’s next meeting, featuring Austin Ratner, MD, will be on Friday, April 10th, 2026, at 4 p.m. London time, 11 a.m. US Eastern Time.
Registration, which is free of charge, is open to IPA members and candidates, other interested mental health professionals, scholars and academics. A downloadable copy of the paper is available to registrants.
Ideally, all registrants will have read the paper beforehand and have an opportunity to ask questions or make comments to the guest author. At the registration site, you can also submit questions to the moderators to share with the author.
Reading: Ratner, A. (2018). The psychoanalyst’ resistance to the task of proof. Psychoanalytic Review, 105(2):157-186.
The Journal Club would like to thank Psychoanalytic Review and their publisher, Guildford, for granting complimentary access to the paper to our registrants.
Access and read Dr. Ratner’s paper
here.
Bio
Austin Ratner is a writer and non-practicing M.D. He is author of the novels
The Jump Artist and
In the Land of the Living, the study of psychoanalytic history and epistemology
The Psychoanalyst's Aversion to Proof, and he recently led the reimagining of
The American Psychoanalyst, the magazine of the American Psychoanalytic Association. His nonfiction has appeared in
The Wall Street Journal and
The New York Times Magazine, which selected his essay “Sidewalk Phantom” as one of their all-time best Lives columns.
The moderators of the Journal Club are Jack Drescher, MD & Christopher G. Walling, PsyD
Jack Drescher, MD, a member of IPA’s Communications Committee, is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst in New York City. A recipient of the 2022 Mary S. Sigourney Award for his international work on gender and sexuality, Dr. Drescher is on the faculties of the William Alanson White Institute, the New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research and the Florida Psychoanalytic Center. He is a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Columbia and a member of the Board of Trustees of the WA White Institute. He is an elected Director-at-Large of the American Psychoanalytic Association. His publications have been translated into numerous languages. He is author of Psychoanalytic Therapy and the Gay Man (Routledge) and Emeritus Editor of the Journal of Gay and Lesbian Mental Health.
Christopher G. Walling, Psy.D., MBA, FIPA, is Associate Professor and Chair of Research Psychology at the California Institute of Integral Studies, Faculty Chair of Adult Psychoanalytic Training at the New Center for Psychoanalysis, and a licensed clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst. Dr. Walling is a Clinical Research Fellow and International Advisory Council member at Indiana University’s Kinsey Institute, serves on the American Psychoanalytic Association’s Committee on Gender & Sexuality, and is past president of the United States Association for Body Psychotherapy. His work appears in American Psychological Association’s Journal, Psychotherapy and the International Body Psychotherapy Journal. Recent honors include the 2026 Ernst & Gertrude Ticho Award and being named the 2024 Gina Ogden Scholarship prize in Integrative Sex Therapy Research. He maintains a private practice in Brentwood, California.
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