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| -Officers- 2006-2008 Lycia Alexander-Guerra, M.D President Elizabeth Reese, MSW President-Elect Robert C. Fernandez, M.D. Treasurer Joseph Molea, M.D. Secretary Leslie Rainaldi, Ph.D. Member At Large Lauren Buckner, MSW Member At Large John Hartman, Ph.D.. Councilor Representative John Hartman, Ph.D. Immediate Past President Lynne Wadsworth Administrative Assistant Mary Jane Miller Financial Assistant |
| Copyright © 2004 Tampa Bay Psychoanalytic Society Website design and maintenance by Heather Pyle, Psy.D. Email Web Editor |
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| A Brief History of The Tampa Bay Psychoanalytic Society By Arnold Schneider, Ph.D, ABPP In 1980, Leo Ferber, a Training and Supervising Psychoanalyst from Washington, retired in Venice. About the same time, James Edgar, then a senior candidate from San Francisco, moved to Tampa. James sought out Leo to help him finish his analytic work. Thus began the history of what is now the Tampa Bay Pyschoanalytic Society. James gathered a group of mental health professionals, including Gill Webb, JohnParsons, Jack Mackelroy, Glen Galloway, Ada Summer, King Cole, and Bruce Draper to meet on a monthly basis with himself and Leo Ferber to talk about cases and theory. Several years later official Psychotherapy seminars were set up in affiliation with USF. Jack Frances, another retired Training and Supervising Analyst from Washington, movedto Venice and joined the group. Unfortunately, Bruce Draper died shortly after and thisgroup then established the Bruce Draper Memorial Conference, inviting esteemed analysts to present to the mental health community. The first Conference presenter was Humberto Nagera who was followed by other famous psychoanalysts such as Paul Dewald and Otto Kernberg. Humberto Nagera began coming to the Tampa area for month long consultations with USF until the mid ‘80s when he moved to this area permanently after USF built the Psychiatry Center where the Society had met for our presentations. Around this time the Psychoanalytic Study Group was formed with such analysts as Leo Ferber, Jack Frances, Humberto Nagera, Dr. Bouger, originally from Philadelphia, Ada Sommers, Frances Marton, King Cole, Julio Nunez, William Briscoe and Arnold Schneider. A few years after this group began, Gill Web and Bob Fernandez were invited to join. I remember the group as an exciting experience where discussion about a previously read paper was enlightening. While this was going on, the Psychotherapy Case Conference Group was continuing. Then the idea of merging the two groups arose and began meeting together with invited presenters. We even met with a group of psychoanalysts from Gainesville for a number of years. Throughout this time, James Edgar worked tirelessly to insure our presenters and the ongoing functioning of the group. Approximately 11 years ago, that is in 1993, under the guidance of Humberto Nagera, the merged group, then having enough analysts, affiliated with the American Psychoanalytic Association and the Tampa (SW Florida) Psychoanalytic Society was accepted as a Society of the American Psychoanalytic Association. The first President was Humberto Nagera followed by James Edgar, John Frances, Lycia Alexander Guerra, Frances Marton, Julio Nunez, Arnold Schneider, and , currently, Horacio Arias. The eleven years has been a period of excitement, growth, controversy, as in all group formations, and most importantly, education. From this group arose the Psychoanalytic Institute under the directorship of Humberto Nagera. At the same time, under Dr. Bob Fernandez’s leadership the Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Program was established with Bob Fernandez, Irv Weiner, Beth Reese, Gill Webb, James Edgar, Arnold Schneider, and several other local professionals providing the teaching, supervision and psychotherapy. Two years ago the name of our society was changed to the Tampa Bay Psychoanalytic Society. The society is a small group, but with potential to communicate with other mental health professionals and other parts of the community about psychoanalytic ideas. Lycia Alexander Guerra has been running a study group for the society for many years, studying homosexuality, narcissism, etc. The Film Program, initiated by Michael Poff and now directed by Karen Unger, brings psychodynamic ideas to the general community as well as to the professional community. Heather Pyle is creating the Society’s website and is editor of our Newsletter. Our monthly presentations run the gamut from practice to theory and from religion to feminism. There is so much more that we can offer to the community from a psychoanalytic viewpoint had we enough resources, time and spirit. |