Keynote Panel

Henry J. Friedman, M.D. is a psychoanalyst in private practice in  Cambridge, Massachusetts.  He is on the Editorial Board of The  Psychoanalytic Quarterly and the International Journal of Self  Psychology and a member of the Program Committee of the APsaA.   He  has written in support of the need for change in the practice of  psychoanalysis with regard to both theory and technique recognizing  the negative legacy that our past and in particular our methods of  training have had on the freedom with which psychoanalysts work with  patients.  His latest paper is entited: When Interpretation Derails  the Patient: The negative impact of certain misuses of the concept of  the Unconscious.  He is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the  Harvard Medical School and on the staff of the Cambridge Hospital.

Theodore J. Jacobs, M.D. is a psychoanalyst in New York City. He is a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York University School of Medicine; Training and Supervising Analyst, New York and New York University Psychoanalytic Institutes; Supervising Child Analyst, New York University Psychoanalytic Institute, Columbia Psychoanalytic Center; and Geographic supervising analyst, Minnesota and Miami Psychoanalytic Institutes. He is the author of "The Use of the Self: Countertransference and Communication in the Psychoanalytic Situation" and co-author of "On Beginning an Analysis." Sitting on the Editorial Boards of Psychoanalytic Quarterly; Psychoanalytic Inquiry; International Journal of Infant, Child, and Adult Psychotherapy; Journal of Clinical Psychoanalysis; he cites acquainting the audience with the role of the analyst’s inner experiences in listening to patients, and demonstrating how the analyst’s inner experiences enhance his ability to understand and interpret unconscious mental processes, among his editorial objectives.

Paola Mieli is a psychoanalyst in New York City. She is the founder and president of Après-Coup Psychoanalytic Association. She is a member and supervisor at Le Cercle Freudien (Paris) and a member of The European Federation of Psychoanalysis (Strasbourg). A Correspondent Editor of the Psychoanalytic Journal Che Vuoi ? (Paris) and a Contributing Editor of the Journal Insistance: Art, psychanalyse et politique (Paris), she teaches in the Department of Photography and Related Media of The School of Visual Arts in New York City. The author of numerous articles on psychoanalysis and on culture published in Europe and America, her books include: Sobre as manipulacaoes irreversivels do corpo (Contra Capa Publisher, Rio de Janeiro 2002), and Being Human: The Technological Extensions of the Body (Co-Editor, Marsilio Publishers, New York,1999). She is the Publisher and Director of  Sea Horse Imprint (New York).