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THE
FRANCES TUSTIN
MEMORIAL TRUST
sponsored by
L’Université ParisDescartes(V)
La Société Psychanalytique de Paris
La Coordination Internationale entre Psychothérapeutes,
Psychanalystes et Membres Associés
Espace Analytique
Le Journal de la Psychanalyse de l’Enfant
16 rue Vignon, 2éme étage
75009 Paris, France
Telephone +33 (0) 7 68 96 33 58
email:
September 7, 2017
Dear Members and Friends,
I am pleased to announce that the rumors of the demise of The Frances Tustin Memorial Trust have been greatly exaggerated! We are most pleased to announce that our move to Paris, France is now complete.Since beginning our relocation here in 2016, The Trust has had the good fortune to be able to form alliances with several highly esteemed groups, each of which has agreed to act ‘ensemble’ as our new Co-Sponsors, taking up the responsibilities of and replacing the long association we have enjoyed in Los Angeles with The Psychoanalytic Center of California to whom we owe an enormous debt of gratitude. Our newco-sponsors are:
The Université Paris Descartes, which is officially called Université Paris-V. It was created in 1971 as a multi-disciplinary institution and is one of 13 universities, each of which are heirs to the University of Paris-Sorbonne and are a part of the University Sorbonne Paris Cité. It’s thirteen doctoral level schools include those ofMedicine and Psychology, associated with the Hôpital Necker Enfants Malade under the guidance of Prof. Bernard Golse.
Le Société Psychanalytique de Paris (SPP) was founded in 1926 and is a full component of The International Psycho-Analytical Association. It has approximately 800 members and roughly 300 analysts in training in its institutes. The SPP sponsors the annual “Congress of French Speaking Psychoanalysts” in which French speaking I.P.A. analysts from all over the world participate. Analysts trained at any of the Institutes of the SPP work throughout France and abroad. In several regions of France, SPP analysts have constituted groups for local members and students as well as proposing scientific activities open to the public. In Lyon, the local group counts more than 100 members and houses its own training facility, The Lyon Institute of Psychoanalysis as well as The Centre for Research and Psychoanalytic Information (CRIP). The other Regional associations of the SPP include the Toulouse Group of Psychoanalysis; The Mediterranean Group, The Aquitaine Group, The Brittany-Loire Country Group, The Burgundy-Franche-Comté Group, The Normandy Group and the Northern Group.
The International Coordination between Psychotherapists Psychoanalysts and Associated Members (CIPPA) is a multidisciplinary group whose members are involved in the treatment of individuals of all ages who suffer from autistic spectrum disorders. This Association, according to the law of 1901, was founded by Geneviève Haag and Dominique Amy. The current president is Professor Bernard Golse. Since 2010, CIPPA’s membership was opened to all professionals concerned with all aspects of the care and treatment of individuals with ASD: physicians, psychologists, other mental health clinicians, speech therapists, psychomotor therapists, nurses, educators, social workers, and educative workers are now welcomed as associate members of CIPPA.
Espace Analytic (EA) was formed in 1994 followingthe dissolution of the Ecole Freudienne de Paris in 1980 and the recurrent splits in the Lacanian movement. Maud Mannoni founded the society of Espace Analytique as a psychoanalytic training and Freudian research association, with openness towards a plurality of theoretical discourse and clinical exchanges. It sponsors a semi-annual peer reviewed publication, Figure de la Psychanalyse, which is edited by Alain Vanier.
Le Journal de la Psychanalyse de l’Enfant (JPE) was founded in 1986 by a group of psychoanalysts linked with the Association Psychanalytique de France. In 2011, the group launched its new bi-annual and thematically organized series of publications through Presses Universitaires de France (PUF). Editors Didier Houzel and Bernard Golse, among others, have made possible the publication of various psychoanalytic explorations into the psychic suffering of the baby, the child and the adolescent, and strive to present cutting edge research in this domain, promoting professional exchanges generated between disciplines.
For over twenty years, the Trust has awarded the FTM Prize to and has hosted the presentation of the award winning paper in Los Angeles. Among our previous prize-winning authors are Suzanne Maiello of Rome, Italy; Maria Rhode of London, England; Maria Pozzi of London, England; Paul Barrows of Bristol, England; Vincenzo Bonaminio of Rome, Italy; Didier Houzel of Caen, France; Bianca Lechevalier of Caen France; Jeffrey Eaton of Seattle Washington; Celia Fix Korbivcher of Sao Paulo, Brazil; Alina Schellekes of Tel-Aviv, Israel; Dana Amir, of Tel-Aviv, Israel; Dolan Powers, of Boston MA; Ofra Eshel of Tel-Aviv, Israel; and Dr. Mark Howard of Sydney, Australia.
Our most sincere thanks go to those American members who have served on The Board of Trustees and have graciously given their time and dedication throughout the first two decades of the existence of the FTM Trust: Among those we leave behind in the USA are Dr. Naomi Thorpe, JoAnn Culbert-Koehn, Dr. James Gooch, Jeff Eaton, Janis Goldman, and Drs Avedis Panajian and Leigh Tobias.
I would also like to introduce our new Board of Trustees consisting of some of the founding members from the USA, France and England as well as our new members from France. I will, for the time-being, remain on as Chair of The Board of Trustees and will be joined on the Board by Dominique Amy, Bernard Golse,Didier Houzel, Hélène Suarez-Labat, Bianca Lechevalier, Theodore Mitrani, Maria Rhode & Alain Vanier. The newly updated website is now ready to be accessed in Both English and French and within a few short weeks we will have moved to a new web host with our new webmaster and thus shall be uploading Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, Spanish and shortly after (hopefully) German languages. The papers can now be submitted either in English or French.
We are asking that all of those who have connections to all interested Institutions, Societies, Journals and Study Groups to ask that this letter and our call for papers, for which the deadline will be April 1, 2018, be re-circulated/forwarded to members, candidates and associated clinicians.
All relevant information concerning the Trust, The Frances Tustin Memorial Prize and The Lecture to be held in Paris Annually beginning in November of 2018 can be found on our website: <http/
With warm regards to all,
Judith L. Mitrani, PhD – Founding and Current Chair