IPA Journal Club

The IPA Journal Club (JC), moderated by Jack Drescher, MD, is a project of the IPA Communications Committee. It will meet 5-6 times per academic year for 75 minutes. Each meeting, in a webinar format, will be in English, and will feature a guest author who will discuss with registrants an article they have published. The meetings will be recorded and posted online at the IPA YouTube channel for viewing by the general public.  

Anthony Bass, PhD:
“Unmasked: Personal Transformations, Frame Alterations, and Making the Conscious Unconscious During the
Traumatic Times of  COVID and Other Plagues”

 




The JC’s sixth meeting, featuring Anthony Bass, PhD, will be on Friday, April 12th, 2024, at 4PM London time.

Registration, which is free of charge, is open to IPA members and candidates, other interested mental health professionals, scholars and academics. A copy of the paper will be made available to registrants, also free of charge and with the copyright owner’s permission, in advance of the meeting. Ideally, all registrants will have read the paper beforehand and have an opportunity to ask questions or make comments to the guest author.

Abstract
Bass, A. (2021). Unmasked: Personal transformations, frame alterations, and making the conscious unconscious during the traumatic times of the COVID and other plagues. Psychoanalytic Perspectives, 18:3, 347-357
This paper considers some of the paradoxes, challenges and opportunities we face in the shadow of the COVID-19 pandemic. I consider the ways in which masks serve necessary protective functions, while at the same time serving defensive roles in a different register. The ways in which “remote” work can function as an obstacle to therapeutic intimacy at the same time that it can deepen it, are considered.

We would like to thank the journal Psychoanalytic Perspectives, the copyright owner, the National Institute for the Psychotherapies, and the publisher, Taylor & Francis, for giving permission to share this paper with Journal Club attendees. 

The Bass paper can be downloaded at no charge at this link:
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1551806X.2021.1941636

Bio
Anthony Bass, Ph.D. is an associate professor and a supervisor at the New York University Postdoctoral Program for Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy. He is on the teaching faculty and a training and supervising analyst at the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research. In addition, he is on the faculty at the Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy, and the National Institute for the Psychotherapies National Training Program. He was a founder and is president of the Stephen Mitchell Center for Relational Studies, and a founding director of the International Association of Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy. He was a founding editor and is an editor in chief emeritus of Psychoanalytic Dialogues: the International Journal of Relational Perspectives. He leads study groups and conducts clinical workshops around the US and Europe on the therapeutic relationship, and Ferenczi studies. He is on the board of the Ferenczi Center of New York.


The regular moderator of the Journal Club is Jack Drescher, MD

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 as well. 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. 
 

Archive 2024
January: Beverly Stoute, MD: “Black Rage: The Psychic Adaptation to the Trauma of Oppression”
March 8: Danielle Knafo, PhD: “Alone in a Crowded Mind: When Psychosis Masks Loneliness”

Archive 2023
June: Jonathan Shedler: That was Then, This is Now: Psychoanalytic Therapy for the Rest of Us
September: Psychoanalytic Training and the Analytic Attitude with Dr Jay Greenberg
December: Nancy Chodorow: Women mother daughters: The Reproduction of Mothering after forty years

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