Weaving together dream, image and relationship: Moving from anger, to fear, to love.

Discussed a case study of play and dream work. After a very difficult couple session, a female client used image play and dream work during a follow-up individual session. There, she was able to take responsibility for the harshness of her verbal communication style with her husband and the destructive belief system that guided her marital interactions. By sharing the client's exploratory and self-reflective play process, the therapist demonstrated how the play stimulated the client's innate capacity to examine her destructive approach to marital relationship, allowed her to uncover her actual (new) needs in the relationship, facilitated her capacity to claim anger, judgment, and "monstrous cobra self', and supported her in finding more helpful interactive patterns. As she faced herself in the mirror of her play, she not only found her shadow (problem), but activated her own inner wisdom and knowing, which offered her viable solutions. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Patricia Shoer Goldman-Rakic (1937-2003).

Presents the obitiuary for Patricia Shoer Goldman-Rakic (1937-2003), recognized not only for her contributions to neuroscience but also for her humanity. The one scientific accomplishment for Dr. Goldman- Rakic is universally recognized is her contribution to the understanding of the role of the prefrontal cortex in working memory, and because of her numerous and outstanding accomplishments, she received many honors in her career. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Gold Medal Award for Life Achievement in Psychology in the Public Interest: Florence L. Denmark.

The 2004 Gold Medal Award for Life Achievement in Psychology in the Public Interest is awarded to Florence L. Denmark. She is recognized for her efforts to help legitimize the psychology of women by teaching the first doctoral psychology course in the field and through her scholarly texts and articles. She continues to have an impact on the psychology of women through her journal editorial memberships, her writing of articles for books and journals, her television and newspaper interviews, and through her mentoring activities. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Esther Halpern (1929–2008).

Presents an obituary for Esther Halpern who was best known for her innovative contributions to clinical training, her developmental and cross-cultural research, and her organizational leadership. Provided is a summary of her life history, educational background, and contributions to the research and teaching of child development. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Ann Magaret Garner (1916–2010).

Ann Magaret Garner, a former professor of medical psychology at Oregon Health Sciences University, died in Lake Oswego, Oregon, on August 30, 2010. Ann was a preeminent scholar, teacher, and clinician. Through her commanding knowledge of child psychopathology and insistence on rigorous scientific methods, she helped shape the specialties of clinical child psychology and developmental disabilities; through her warm compassion and respect for others, she helped shape the careers of many students and colleagues. Born Gretchen Ann Magaret on January 25, 1916, in Omaha, Nebraska, she received her bachelor’s degree from Carleton College, her master’s degree from Radcliffe College, and her doctorate from Stanford University (1941). A profound intellectual curiosity and passion for the science of psychology characterized her work. Her guidance, clear thinking, and precision of measurement pushed students and colleagues to refine and clarify their own thinking and practices. Colleagues recall how Ann maintained boundaries of professional and personal life for herself and expected the same from others, to their betterment. Her pleasure in her own family was evident in the ways she organized her work schedule and in her enjoyment of her husband Ross (professor of Renaissance English) and their children Margaret and David. Leisure was an important part of her life—playing music with her children when they were younger and tennis with her husband well into her senior years. Ann Magaret Garner will long be remembered for influencing the way in which psychologists think about variations in child development and the role of family in shaping the individual. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Jane Loevinger (1918-2008).

Jane Loevinger died unexpectedly on January 4, 2008. She was well-known for her work in psychometrics, her theory of ego development, and her widely used assessment instrument, the Washington University Sentence Completion Test. Among the first to focus on women as a demographic, Loevinger obtained funding from the National Institute of Mental Health. She developed measures of women's attitudes and formed a research group of her own that focused on the problems facing mothers and women in general. Loevinger was a perennial iconoclast and skeptic within her fields of interest. Despite her wry wit, or perhaps because of it, her opinions and contributions came to be greatly valued by her colleagues. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Love and sex in 45 minutes: Transference love as self- and mutual regulation.

Patients who express intense, erotic attraction to their analysts pose special treatment challenges that may not respond well to the analyst's interpretive efforts. A detailed case presentation is offered, describing one such patient, who demanded that her analyst convey his interest in her concretely, insisting that he offer her gifts, tell her he loved her, and even engage her sexually. It is argued that such concrete conveyances reflect, in part, the patient's attempt to self- and mutually regulate intense, affect-laden experience. The wish that the analyst demonstrate love for the patient expressed in modulated form her history of deeply painful and frustrated longings, as well as her hope for a different outcome within the treatment relationship. Finally, their spontaneous, shared playfulness evolved into a form of ongoing relatedness that provided the patient significant understanding and acceptance while providing the analyst an appropriate means of responding to the patient's erotic demands. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Gold Medal Award for Life Achievement in the Science of Psychology Award.

Presents Mary D. Salter Ainsworth with the American Psychological Foundation's (APF's) Gold Medal Award for Life Achievement in the Science of Psychology. Ainsworth is recognized for her study of the relations between young children and their caregivers, for her work on the nature and development of human love and security, and for her naturalistic observations of attachment—caregiving interactions. Her conceptual analyses of attachment, exploration, and self-reliance; and her contribution to the methodology of infant assessment are considered cornerstones of modern attachment theory and research. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

The use of nonspecific underlying motivational factors in the systematic desensitization of specific marital and interpersonal fears: A case study.

Documents the use of systematic desensitization for the treatment of a 43-yr-old whose initial anxieties centered around her husband. Intensive exploration of feelings surrounding this conflict led to the development of a more generalized hierarchy involving situations in which she had to be assertive, criticize others, or stand up for her own rights. The client showed apparent improvement not only in her relations with her husband, but also in her interaction with others, and she showed a notable decline in feelings of depression, self-doubt, and fatigue. The case suggests: (a) that exploration of dynamic factors surrounding specific anxieties may bring about more generalized symptom reduction, (b) the effectiveness of self-administered desensitization hierarchies, and (c) support of J. H. Geer and E. S. Katkin's (see 40:8) demonstration of the utility of the technique for training therapists. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Reuniting the psychic couple in analytic training and practice: A candidate's experience.

In the course of training at a comparative psychoanalytic institute, the author fixed upon a technical question: how to find optimal psychological distance from her patients. She struggled to integrate the diverse perspectives that the literature provided on this question. She also became aware of a conflictual phantasy of a polarizing internal mother and father that underlay her interest in the question. A dream about her work with a control patient eventually allowed her, with the aid of both supervisor and personal analyst, to work through the phantasy, and to bring her internal "psychic couple" into creative contact with one another. As a result, her capacity to analyze her patient increased. The author concludes that when supervisors and seminar leaders (in addition to the candidate's analyst) make themselves available to unconscious aspects of a candidate's learning process, institutes provide a more spacious container for psychoanalytic development. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

McGraw's Need for Denial.

Comments on the letter by M. McGraw ("Need for denial," American Psychologist, 1964, 19, 56), in which McGraw, best known for her developmental study of the twins Johnny and Jimmy, feels it necessary to disparage an early study (McGraw, 1931) of hers dealing with the comparative mental abilities of white and Negro infants. McGraw writes that Otto Klineberg told her recently that the present author had quoted her early and discredited (by her) study as evidence for innate racial differences. The present author states that this is only partly correct. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

From "Anna O." to Bertha Pappenheim: Transforming private pain into public action.

Bertha Pappenheim ("Anna O.") was treated for hysteria by J. Breuer when she was a young adult. As a mature adult she became a leading social worker, writer, and feminist activist in the German Jewish community. This article examines her therapy with Breuer, her own struggle for recovery, and some links between her earlier and later life, in particular the lack of intimate relationships in her life and her work against the victimization of women. Throughout the article psychoanalytic interpretations, social history, and feminist analyses are integrated to provide a contextualized examination of Pappenheim's life. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Rosemary E. Phelps: Award for distinguished contributions to education and training in psychology.

The American Psychological Association 2010 Award for Distinguished Contributions to Education and Training in Psychology was awarded to Rosemary E. Phelps, for her long-term commitment to the development of the Preparing Future Faculty program, her recruitment and retention of students of color, and her work in racial and ethnic identity development. Rosemary E. Phelps’s focus on the scholarship of teaching in higher education and her research on the academic experiences of students and faculty across multiple professional endeavors, including race-related stress, are singular in their impact and implication. Her incorporation of advocacy as a core professional skill and the application of her work to other professions have opened up new avenues for understanding multicultural training factors and graduate scholarship. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Sara S. Sparrow (1933–2010).

Sara S. Sparrow passed away in New Haven, Connecticut, on June 10, 2010. She spent her final days in characteristically good spirits with close friends and her husband, Dominic Cicchetti, by her side. Sara was born on May 9, 1933, in Minneapolis, Minnesota. After graduating summa cum laude from Montclair State College in New Jersey in 1958, she began her career as a speech therapist in Orlando, Florida. She continued her studies at the University of Florida, receiving a master’s degree in speech pathology in 1962 and a doctoral degree in clinical psychology and clinical neuropsychology in 1968. Following completion of her doctorate, Sara became a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Psychology at Yale University. Sara’s contributions to science were many, and she was directly responsible for substantially improving the quality of life of individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities and their families. Her major professional contribution was transforming the assessment of adaptive behavior with the development of the Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scales, the first life-span, norm-referenced measure of adaptive behavior. Sara’s contributions were recognized with numerous awards. Sara was a longstanding and active member of the American Psychological Association (APA) and was deeply invested in the mission and success of APA Division 33 (Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities). Sara was a leader not only in her formal roles and responsibilities but also as a formative social force; she and her husband Dom shared their gifts as connoisseurs of wine, food, and living well with their colleagues and trainees. Sara’s warmth and ability to create a festive environment ensured that her students had the opportunity to meet potential collaborators and to share life as well as work stories. She was a model for her students in her passion and careful investment in her work as well as in her zeal and enjoyment of life. Sara is deeply mourned by her husband, siblings, many friends, and the countless students and colleagues whom she has influenced. A memorial fund has been established at the Yale Child Study Center in her name. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Reflections on receiving an award.

Reflecting on the events that culminated in her receiving the Award for Distinguished Contributions to Applied Psychology as a Professional Practice, Canter, an independent practitioner, discusses the road she traveled to become a clinical psychologist and to become involved in professional organizational activities. She believes that this award was given to her because of her contributions to psychology over her lifetime as an effective and hardworking leader, mentor, and role model in her home state of Arizona and nationally. She addresses some of her ideas about effective leadership and mentoring in the American Psychological Association (APA), providing many examples from which she has learned. Canter also shares some thoughts about APA's position as a leader in the development and enforcement of professional ethics. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Naomi M. Meara (1937-2007): Obituary.

Presents an obituary of Naomi M. Meara (1937-2007). The death of Naomi Meara brought to a close a distinguished career in counseling psychology. Her career was marked by her outstanding scholarship in ethical decision making for psychologists, by her leadership in the American Psychological Association (APA), particularly in APA Division 17 (Counseling Psychology), and by her compassion and caring for family, friends, students, and colleagues. She is survived by her brother and sister-in-law Joseph and Johanna Meara and by her much loved nieces and nephews--Joseph P. Meara, Karen Meara, Matthew Meara, Kevin Meara, Ellen Meara--and their families. She will be dearly missed by them and by a host of friends and colleagues. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Suppression of continuity-benevolence assumptions (CBS) voices: A theoretical note on the psychology ad psychotherapy of depression: comment.

Interprets the previously reported case of a 27-yr old woman named Lisa by L. Honos-Webb et al (see record 1998-12176-003). Lisa received process-experiential therapy for depression and her case was interpreted in light of the voiced formulation of the assimilation model. Voices that represent continuity and benevolence assumptions (e.g., the world is good; life is worthwhile; I am a valuable person) are called continuity-benevolence assumptions (CBA) voices. When Lisa's CBA voices encountered experiences of mistreatment by her husband and parents, she became angry, but her anger was opposed by her rigid conviction that "we're all supposed to forgive." The current author proposes that Lisa's (CBA) were suppressed, which reduced the anger but left her depressed (feeling like the world is not good; life is not worthwhile; I am not valuable). In therapy, a new meaning bridge was built between Lisa's values and her CBA voices (forgiveness is important, but anger is sometimes appropriate), allowing her to experience the anger without becoming depressed. Similar patterns may occur in other cases of depression. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)