Forum: the Annual Conference
Each year, the day-long Forum Conference is held on the first Saturday in May. Members submit papers to a committee that chooses those to be presented at the conference. This year saw an increase in number of submissions, indicating the active community the Alliance represents. The Forum program represented the inclusive nature of the organization, with papers from varied theoretical perspectives:
Robert Bergman: Enthusiasm and Meaning
Donovan Bigelow and Susan E. DeMattos:
Reading Freud Analyzing Dora: Discovering
Ourselves
Joseph Canarelli, Rachel Newcombe and Karen Weisbard:
Personal Omissions: The Private Is the Professional
Jeanne Castle and Kris Wheeler: Speaking Beyond Words
Margaret Crastnopol: Dispositions of the Self
Harland Curtis: Empathy as a Two-Way Street
Joanne della Penta: Art Therapy: The Royal Line to the Unconscious
Judy K. Eekhoff, Mirta Breman Oelsner and Robert Oelsner:
Misunderstanding in the Therapeutic Session
Judy Eekhoff: Surviving the Death of the Ideal
Caron Harrang: Changing the Frame: Flexibility or Folly?
Catherine Terri Lee:
Romantic Mirroring and Erotic Transference in the Female
Analytic Dyad
David Rasmussen: Much More Than Meets the Eye
