Warren Procci - Candidate for President of APsaA

tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27598441099401943492011-04-21T13:28:07.203-07:00Warren Procci - Candidate for President of APsaAWarren Proccihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07029363730628584912noreply@blogger.comBlogger381100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2759844109940194349.post-49264473157556075892007-12-12T13:10:00.000-08:002008-02-08T13:11:40.987-08:00Yes, the Differences

Dear Colleagues, As it looks like this trading of posts may go on until all the ballots are in, let me say right away that I completely agree with Drew Clemens that this election is not about certification, or local option, or by-law amendments. It is about whether we want the more traditional forces who have run this organization for decades (whether in the executive committee or through

Warren Proccihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07029363730628584912noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2759844109940194349.post-15760149973309568102007-12-10T13:11:00.000-08:002008-02-08T13:12:24.044-08:00A Distinguishing Feature of My Candidacy

Dear Colleagues,The recent exchanges about removing certification from the bylaws help to highlight a distinguishing aspect of my candidacy. “Taking certification out of the bylaws” would not resolve our difficulties about certification. The leadership of BOPS has been and is likely to remain firm in their insistence that all institutes must follow “national standards”, which include

Warren Proccihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07029363730628584912noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2759844109940194349.post-81813849379030062242007-12-09T13:12:00.000-08:002008-02-08T13:13:07.680-08:00What Distinguishes My Candidacy for President-Elect

Dear Colleagues (especially the undecided, dispirited, or confused),My apologies for yet another post, but it seems that my letters and postings about inclusiveness, diversity, democracy, and reconciliation spurred first a flurry of negative responses and have now brought on postings that, in some ways, nearly copy my words and positions. But the differences among the candidates are great, and

Warren Proccihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07029363730628584912noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2759844109940194349.post-84927846699238298572007-12-04T13:13:00.000-08:002008-02-08T13:13:56.180-08:00My Presentation at the Future of Psychoanalytic Education Conference

Power and Authority in Institute LifeLet me begin by telling you about my background in dealing with authority in educational settings. I have been a Director of a psychiatric residency training program (6 years), a Dean and EC Chair of a psychoanalytic institute (5 years), and a Trustee of a college (9 years). I’d like to take a moment to describe my observations and my reaction to the

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It Is a Pleasure to Welcome You to My Website! It is a great honor and privilege to be a candidate for President-Elect of our Association, and I appreciate your taking the time to visit this site. Here you will find all of my campaign postings to the openlist and the electionlist as well as the regular mail letters I sent to each member of APsaA. I have highlighted here my positions on ten

Warren Proccihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07029363730628584912noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2759844109940194349.post-26600112773840595602007-11-25T13:10:00.000-08:002008-02-08T13:15:42.084-08:00Medicare Reimbursement Reductions

Dear Colleagues,I hope all of you had a very happy Thanksgiving holiday.Many thanks to Jon Rosenfeld for bringing the Medicare fee schedule cuts to our attention. I reviewed the reimbursement rates for the LA area and found decreases ranging from 6-13% for the services Jon referenced, similar to his findings for Manhattan. I echo Jon’s plea to all of us to immediately contact members of the

Warren Proccihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07029363730628584912noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2759844109940194349.post-48922503279676138742007-11-25T13:09:00.001-08:002008-02-08T13:10:07.374-08:00Our Diversity: Openness, Honesty and Reconciliation

Dear Colleagues,Our organization has moved well beyond the rancor that accompanied the lawsuit which permitted psychologists (and, ultimately, social workers) the freedom to train at APsaA institutes. I am proud of this fact, but disturbed by what I have heard from some of you during this campaign via phone calls and emails.It is perplexing to me that some members, perhaps many, do not feel fully

Warren Proccihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07029363730628584912noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2759844109940194349.post-40312121622075446302007-11-25T13:07:00.000-08:002008-02-08T13:08:42.044-08:00We Must Deal with the Real World

Dear Colleagues,Sunday’s very pertinent article about psychoanalysis in the New York Times Week in Review section has led to several notes on our member’s list. All of these postings strongly suggest the need for us to be far more actively involved in very real world issues such as: demonstrating the validity of our ideas, validating the utility of our treatment, and working together with other

Warren Proccihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07029363730628584912noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2759844109940194349.post-34638612441351548312007-11-20T13:06:00.000-08:002008-02-08T13:07:45.773-08:00Our New Ecumenism and the "Medical Model"

Dear Colleagues,A new ecumenism has swept into our field, not quite while we were sleeping, and in a way that presses inexorably for change. Yes, we are all psychoanalysts but our diversity is also our strength. The training of psychologists, social workers, and psychiatrists is each very different and distinguished, and these differences are contributing in bold and subtle ways to the energy of

Warren Proccihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07029363730628584912noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2759844109940194349.post-58759305402319372502007-11-19T20:32:00.000-08:002007-11-19T20:33:17.993-08:00Our Politics of Old Are Inadequate for the 21st Century

Why APsaA should be an incubator for psychoanalysis, not a museum.Dear Colleagues (known and not-known-yet): Even if by now many of you are sick and tired of lengthy campaign mailings and emails; and especially if you are tired of politics (as usual or otherwise), please do me two favors: 1) cast your vote in the current election, if only out of civic virtue, and 2) read the next few

Warren Proccihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07029363730628584912noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2759844109940194349.post-3747015643669607202007-11-19T20:31:00.001-08:002007-11-19T20:31:45.640-08:002nd Letter to Our Members

Dear Fellow APsaA Member, “We will transmit the City not only not less, but better and more beautiful than it was transmitted to us.” This is the oath that Athenian citizens took on behalf of their city-state. It is guiding me in my candidacy for President-Elect of APsaA. The preeminent issue in our upcoming election is the future of our Association. At the moment we are strong and stable, but

Warren Proccihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07029363730628584912noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2759844109940194349.post-30222068928162961032007-11-15T20:27:00.000-08:002007-11-19T20:28:13.676-08:00Two Modest Proposals for Our Future

Dear Colleagues,Well, the home stretch is beckoning so I’d like to return to focus on the crucial issues of this election. To me the future of our venerable organization is priority number one. Here in Pasadena the presence of prestigious Cal Tech has helped spawn an entire industry of biotechnology “incubators”, small companies/labs working on state of the art ideas and then contributing the

Warren Proccihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07029363730628584912noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2759844109940194349.post-77374019129307536872007-11-13T20:28:00.000-08:002007-11-19T20:29:49.333-08:00Yes, the Politics of Old Are Inadequate

Dear Colleagues,I am reluctant to respond directly to Drew’s recent posting to this list, but it astonished and puzzled me in ways that can’t simply be ignored. I think the last time someone referred to me as “the other” anything was when I was on the wrong side of a romantic triangle in college. Here’s the section of his post that I’d like to respond to:“The other candidate has staked his

Warren Proccihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07029363730628584912noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2759844109940194349.post-73437633450095651462007-11-13T13:00:00.001-08:002008-02-08T13:03:39.451-08:00The Journey to Our Future

Dear Colleagues: This is my final letter of the campaign (perhaps one or two too many for some of you, but please plow ahead at least a sentence or two). I recently had occasion to attend an event at Ellis Island. As I walked through the Great Hall there, I thought of my grandparents and the millions of other uneducated and unsophisticated immigrants who traveled here in steerage at the start of

Warren Proccihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07029363730628584912noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2759844109940194349.post-53607806300318737232007-11-02T20:25:00.000-07:002007-11-19T20:26:16.296-08:00Transparency, Openness and Trust

Dear Colleagues,In recent weeks I have discussed on this list some of my ideas about the values which need greater emphasis and which are essential to the future of our organization. These include an attention to and an embrace of all forms of diversity (cultural, theoretical, racial, political, etc.) and an attunement to the needs of the next generations of analysts. Let me add another important

Warren Proccihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07029363730628584912noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2759844109940194349.post-67519618912438702072007-11-02T14:37:00.000-07:002007-11-02T14:38:42.099-07:00Succession in APsaA- Do We Become an Incubator or a Museum?

We are in danger of becoming a museum rather than an incubator of creative ideas!Dear Colleagues,What does this current generation of analysts owe to our next generation? The Athenian oath was a promise by older leaders to hand over their great city in better condition than they received it. And I believe that those of us who have drawn so much value from our national organization have a similar

Warren Proccihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07029363730628584912noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2759844109940194349.post-6747623614709646122007-11-02T14:30:00.000-07:002007-11-02T14:37:29.813-07:00My First Campaign Letter to APsaA Members

The most valuable and important asset of any professional organization is its membership. That is why I am writing to you directly, to ask you to support my candidacy for President-Elect of APsaA. I know that a lot of you have been bored or put off by the postings on the listservs. But those members with little patience for politics "as usual" are often the ones who turn out to be most interested

Warren Proccihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07029363730628584912noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2759844109940194349.post-52808176227009946522007-10-10T23:15:00.000-07:002007-10-10T23:16:13.338-07:00Position Statement 1: Diversity

Dear Colleagues,Once upon a time we psychoanalysts were a pretty homogeneous lot. The hallways and conference rooms of our semiannual meetings were populated mostly by male physicians. That has changed -- changed remarkably. The number of women in our ranks has increased steadily, as has the number of gay colleagues, and we now include Ph.D. psychologists, MSWs, MFTs, and academics. This new

Warren Proccihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07029363730628584912noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2759844109940194349.post-24848225188736885552007-09-30T23:11:00.000-07:002007-10-09T23:15:15.204-07:00Moving Beyond Politics as Usual

Dear Colleagues, I know that the seemingly endless conflicts of the last several years have left many of our members convinced that APsaA has lost its way. Some of us may even have given up hope that things could ever be different. I am eager to reach these members with this post. It's true that the rifts in our association are troubling, and that they have bedeviled us for too long. But while

Warren Proccihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07029363730628584912noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2759844109940194349.post-32007388690514583712007-09-24T23:18:00.000-07:002007-10-09T23:30:28.524-07:00Research, Diversity, and Local Control

Dear Colleagues,There are many things on which all candidates for office and a substantial majority of our membership agree. Research, and in particular research on the efficacy of psychoanalytic treatment, is essential to our vitality as a field and even to our survival in the current healthcare climate.As your Treasurer for the past five years I’ve been a consistent and strong supporter of our

Warren Proccihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07029363730628584912noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2759844109940194349.post-64166552053218760882007-09-21T23:15:00.000-07:002007-10-09T23:18:28.545-07:00The Elephant in the Room-Certification

Dear Colleagues,A fellow candidate for office has noted the appearance of “the elephant in the room”, notably certification, on our election list. As a Candidate for President-Elect my ideas are undoubtedly of interest to some of you so let’s have a conversation on this subject.In truth I don’t believe that certification itself is the major issue. I believe there are two more fundamental matters

Warren Proccihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07029363730628584912noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2759844109940194349.post-82297398189389886802007-09-16T21:14:00.000-07:002008-02-08T13:23:31.354-08:00

Dear Fellow Members of APsaA, The American Psychoanalytic Association is a remarkable institution, with a rich, complex history and a powerful presence in contemporary psychoanalysis. It also has the potential for a very positive and creative future. Yet many of you are put-off or even fed-up with our organization's divisiveness, politics as usual, incessant navel-gazing, and at times its

Warren Proccihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07029363730628584912noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2759844109940194349.post-28812873677263406602007-09-14T23:20:00.000-07:002007-10-09T23:21:33.883-07:00ApsaA Press Coverage

Colleagues,Thanks to both Leon Hoffman and Kerry Sulkowicz for telling us about their experiences with journalists and with the press. As with so many of the tasks we face in dealing with the contemporary world we are in an unfamiliar environment which requires special skill, persistence, a long view, and a willingness, even an eagerness, to push beyond our usual roles.It is most likely

Warren Proccihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07029363730628584912noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2759844109940194349.post-21505633534509476032007-09-09T23:21:00.000-07:002007-10-09T23:23:30.152-07:00Openness in Campaigns

Dear Colleagues,Openness in campaigns is a sine qua non if we are to have effective leadership. Miriam Tasini has asked about the relevance of current experience as a participant in an Institute teaching program as a qualification for APsaA leadership. My response, similar to that of most others who have posted, is that any APsaA member possessing the necessary interest, drive, dedication, ideas,

Warren Proccihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07029363730628584912noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2759844109940194349.post-2897826200339384232007-08-23T23:25:00.000-07:002007-10-09T23:26:47.966-07:00My Candidacy for President-Elect of APsaA

I am very pleased that our new election List is up and running. The list will give more of our members the opportunity to hear from our candidates for office and to interact with them. As a candidate for President-Elect I plan to use this platform to introduce myself to many of you and to start an ongoing conversation about the issues which concern all of us. I hope that my participation in

Warren Proccihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07029363730628584912noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2759844109940194349.post-64257664554253601172007-08-21T19:27:00.000-07:002007-08-21T19:29:10.271-07:00My Track Record for Reform in APsaA

Dear Colleagues,In an earlier posting I made the point that our Association has finally begun to change as we recognize many of the internal and external realities which affect us. In particular, I emphasized that we need to find a way to end the certification/TA link which, in my view, is the biggest contributor to our current dissension.Since I am currently a candidate for APsaA President-Elect

Warren Proccihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07029363730628584912noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2759844109940194349.post-53003761234784869522007-08-17T21:08:00.000-07:002007-09-17T21:13:27.164-07:00Goals for the Presidency

For our Association to have the kind of impact we all desire, we need to take a very broad view of the role of psychoanalysis in the world. It is essential that we look outward towards the realms of academia, mental health, government, and public service. We simply cannot accomplish what we must in these areas if we continue to spend so much of our time, energy and resources on our

Warren Proccihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07029363730628584912noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2759844109940194349.post-57694688294042690692007-08-12T00:15:00.000-07:002007-08-12T00:16:08.837-07:00A Voice of Change

Dear Colleagues,Many of us are now back to our lives at home after a week or two in Europe both at the IPA Congress and, for a lucky few, having a chance to tour around Europe a bit more. Now that we’re home thoughts about our own Association return to mind.A voice of change has taken hold in our Association. These changes and the voices supporting them began softly, probably at least a decade

Warren Proccihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07029363730628584912noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2759844109940194349.post-58811621182400299042007-07-22T15:37:00.000-07:002007-07-28T18:20:22.232-07:00Thoughts on the Presidency and our future

Two years ago when I ran for the office of President-Elect, I started my statement with words from Abraham Lincoln. I do so again, but with different words this time. “A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free.” Lincoln, 1858. “With malice towards none and with charity for all …let us strive on to finish

Warren Proccihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07029363730628584912noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2759844109940194349.post-82573309291835491122007-07-22T15:36:00.000-07:002007-07-22T15:37:33.622-07:00My Goals for the Presidency of APsaA

If elected I will bring a "plan for the future" focus to the office. Future conditions for psychoanalysis will no doubt be drastically different from the present and very innovative new approaches are necessary for our survival and health. I will draw from the strategic plan we developed for the Association. The importance of this is that we would have a programmatic guideline for the next

Warren Proccihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07029363730628584912noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2759844109940194349.post-23618547645435274572007-07-22T15:35:00.000-07:002007-07-22T15:36:13.177-07:00Background and Qualifications

I am running for President-Elect of the American Psychoanalytic Association. I consider myself very well prepared for the position of President Elect since I have served our Association in all of our major leadership areas, both locally and nationally. At the local level, I have been President Elect and President of my local Institute (92-96) and then Dean and Chair of the Education Committee (

Warren Proccihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07029363730628584912noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2759844109940194349.post-54022513494275485052007-07-13T20:57:00.000-07:002007-09-13T21:07:53.474-07:00My Background

My background couldn’t be further away from the world of psychoanalysis. I grew up in the 1950’s and 1960’s on Staten Island, New York, a blue-collar working class environment that was largely second generation Italian-Americans. Although a mere half hour away from Manhattan, known to us as “The City,” Staten Island was worlds apart. I was educated in a Catholic grade school dominated by an

Warren Proccihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07029363730628584912noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2759844109940194349.post-65224294819224239082007-07-10T23:11:00.000-07:002007-07-28T18:19:27.531-07:00Continued Importance of Dreams

Science Times, The New York TimesJuly 10, 2007LettersOf Dreams and LiberationTo the Editor:Re "Winding Through 'Big Dreams' Are the Threads of Our Lives" (July 3):I am delighted to see Rebecca Cathcart's article on "Big Dreams" inScience Times. She gives voice to the point of view that dreams can besymbolic of the dreamer's emotional struggles and that dreams mayreflect a "poetic creativity"

Warren Proccihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07029363730628584912noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2759844109940194349.post-49118730633269219732007-07-01T23:18:00.000-07:002007-07-22T23:19:32.884-07:00"Our Iceberg is Melting"

Dear Colleagues,I’d like to share with all of you an interesting article I came across in Monday’s (July 16) Business Section of the New York Times. It’s about a new business book, “Our Iceberg is Melting: Changing and Succeeding Under Any Conditions”. The book, while cast as a fable ostensibly about a colony of penguins faced with the loss of their habitat, is in fact a serious exploration of

Warren Proccihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07029363730628584912noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2759844109940194349.post-41422762968260188532007-07-01T23:17:00.000-07:002007-07-22T23:19:57.868-07:00Relieving our Tensions

Dear Colleagues,I hope all of you have had a pleasant and restful holiday.I was reflecting a bit more on the outcome of the Denver meeting when Paul Mosher’s posting about the Barbershop Harmony Society caught my eye. I too saw it as a cautionary tale. I had just come across some words of Einstein’s that seemed relevant to our own organizational dilemmas.“The world we have made as a result of the

Warren Proccihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07029363730628584912noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2759844109940194349.post-80678212451950972302007-07-01T23:16:00.000-07:002007-07-22T23:20:18.177-07:00A Listserve for Certification?

Dear Colleagues,I am responding to Arnie Richard’s note on the members list here on the openline since it is the proper venue for candidates for office in APsaA.The matter of certification is probably the single most controversial issue within our organization. Resolution of this would afford us a giant step in the direction of focusing our energies much more effectively on our many other

Warren Proccihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07029363730628584912noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2759844109940194349.post-49406975620579904822007-07-01T23:15:00.000-07:002007-07-22T23:20:35.510-07:00The Joint Exploratory Committee

Dear Colleagues,I’ve just returned to L.A. from our Annual Meeting in Denver. I’m very pleased and privileged to have been given another opportunity to be the next President-Elect of APsaA. Over the next several months I hope to connect with all of you on our listserves and directly by phone. My aim is for us to share our ideas about how to best serve our profession and our organization.For now I

Warren Proccihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07029363730628584912noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2759844109940194349.post-15440348885887549382007-07-01T23:12:00.000-07:002007-07-22T23:21:26.477-07:00"There's Been A Change"

Dear Colleagues,There has been an interesting series of communications, stimulated by the most recent Soprano’s episode, concerning supervision and certification among other matters. I agree with Jonathan House and others who favor deemphasizing certification as a prerequisite for TA status. I think local option is an idea whose time may finally have come. However, I may well disagree with

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