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President’s Column

Vol. 60 No. 5

November 2015

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Our 2015 Institute and Conference in St. Louis was an extraordinary event. Conference co-chairsSharon Bernstein and Tandy Levine combined vision with years of experience to bring us a programthat was well integrated yet far reaching. Through outreach and marketing, we were able to welcomecolleagues from Washington University’s Brown School of Social Work and the American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors and Therapists, AASECT. Their participation, along with our own scholars and veteran members, created a rich and stimulating community during ourstay at the Westin. Participants were enthusiastic about the plenaries and workshops, as well as theurban loft setting used as the hospitality suite. Many thanks go out to Sharon and Tandy’s youngand enthusiastic committee: Puma Cornick, Mindy Mecham, Brian Cross, Sean LeSane, ElizabethGomart, Dean Chelpon, David Pellegrini, Brooke Bralove, Sharilyn Wiskup, Jennifer Pellegrini, Zoe Worrell, Marilyn Schwartz and Liz Marsh.

Newly awarded Life Member Marc Feldman shared his impressions of the event and itsmeaningfulness. “So this is the beginning of the new Academy. The night of our openingexperience, I looked around the room, filled with eager attendees, many valued AAP members,cherished senior members and lots of new, young, people who have never been to AAP before. I felt

for the first time we have crossed over into a new era of strength and vitality after many years ofconcern for our survival. I thought, ‘All of the efforts over the last ten years are paying off.’ Ratherthan being an organization on the wane, we are alive and strong. We are a rare and sought afterresource for young psychotherapists who are rejecting today’s predominant, industrialized treatmentmodalities for what we offer. In this broken world, there will always be a need for caring, wisehealers who understand that it is the “person of the therapist” and the corrective relationship thateach offers which are the instruments of the healing process.”

Apart from the public events, the Executive Council (EC) devoted significant time to discussing theroles of our president, our elections and a decision about a training certification program. After acareful evaluation of the President’s duties and term of office, EC voted to reconfigure several

aspects of the presidential track. In addition to the President, we will continue to have a PresidentElect and Immediate Past President (IPP); however, the role of the IPP will change significantly. ECmembers will handle some of the tasks formerly managed by the IPP so that his/her final two years will not be so work intensive. For example, the Secretary will now be in charge of maintaining thePolicy and Procedure manual, as well as changes to the Constitution. The sitting President can nowassign any EC member to chair the Nominations Committee (not necessarily the IPP) and CentralOffice will begin to help run our elections. In these ways, the IPP will no longer carry so much



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Our Mission:

The mission of The American Academy of Psychotherapists is to invigorate thepsychotherapist's quest for excellence and growth through authenticinterpersonal engagement.

Executive OfficersPresident: Gordon Cohen [email protected]

Secretary: Jonathan Farber 919-489-9108 [email protected]

Treasurer and Finance Chair:Karen Swander [email protected]

Immediate Past President: Lorrie Hallman404-873-5503 X 15 [email protected]

President Elect: Doug Cohen [email protected]

Executive Council

Term of Office 2012-2015Damon Blank 508-359-6631

[email protected]

David Donlon [email protected]

Ronnie Koenig [email protected]

Term of Office 2013-2016Neil Makstein [email protected]

Barbara Thomason 770-844-0662

[email protected]

Tamara Lubliner [email protected]

Term of Office 2014-2016Maureen Martin [email protected]

Don Murphy [email protected]

Lyn Sommer 203-227-8844 [email protected]

Committee Chairs and EditorsContinuing Education: Neil Makstein

703-560-0055 [email protected]

Salons and Chapters:Tamara Lubliner [email protected]

Ethics: Marilyn Schwartz [email protected]

Scholarship Co-Chairs:Lyn Sommer 203-227-8844 [email protected] Jackson 617-547-0457 [email protected]

Historian: Don Murphy 404-486-7450 [email protected]

Digital Media Chair: Loretta Sparks310-374-0440 [email protected]

Southern Region and Outreach:Maureen Martin [email protected]

National Meetings: Bob Rosenblatt [email protected]

Training: Stephanie Spalding [email protected]

Membership and Mentoring:Nelia Rivers [email protected]

Trust and Endowment: Bruce Ellman310-246-1589 [email protected]

Voices Editors: Penelope Norton386-676-5420 psy [email protected] Staroba [email protected]

Newsletter Editor: Linda [email protected]

Website: David Donlon [email protected]

Publications: David Loftis 404-873-5503 ext [email protected]

RAP: Lenny Schwartzburd [email protected]

Retention: Barbara Thomason [email protected]

Central Office: Alyssa Adams American Academy of Psychotherapists1450 Western Avenue, Suite 101

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responsibility for the last two years of the term and instead can serve as a sage consultant to EC,

sharing the wisdom of the office with incoming EC leadership. We hope this makes the role ofPresident a more attractive position. Future Presidents Elect can look forward to two years of

planning time to set up their national meetings and select their committee chairs, before proceedingto the role of President and assuming the responsibilities therein. Their final two years as IPP willlargely be in an advisory role.

We will also offer a constitutional change to the membership in a special winter election, which willallow only one candidate to run for any of the EC positions. We prefer to have at least two candidatesfor each position, but there have been occasions in which we’ve needed to proceed with only onecandidate for an office. I hope you’ll support the constitutional change, which will allow only onecandidate to run in an election, when the nominations committee is only able to offer a singlecandidate on its slate.

Two years ago the Research and Advancement of Psychotherapy committee, (RAP), suggested thecreation of a training certification program in depth psychotherapy. After discussing the idea duringthe summer workshop, EC decided to dedicate a two hour segment of our I & C strategic planningsession to assess the proposal thoroughly. Under Lenny Schwartzburd’s leadership, David Donlon,Jonathan Farber and Loretta Sparks gave a presentation of the proposed design for the certificationprogram. We considered their vision and the feasibility of the program and eventually decided toreject the proposal. We have neither the financial resources nor available volunteer man hours totake on a project of this magnitude.

The Academy is working to refine many of the new programs which we’ve started in the past several years: scholarship, outreach ambassadors, a retention initiative, dues reconfiguration, salons & new

chapter formation. These programs are a combined effort to bolster our membership. While ourmembership at last count is 307, we will not reach our goal of a 10% increase until we have 330members. EC felt that our energies are best placed in building these programs. At this time, I feelappreciative of the members from the RAP committee who offered the Academy an original proposal but I also know that it was a complicated and difficult decision for EC to defeat the measure.

Gordon Cohen AAP President

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Many of us got tomeet Gordon’s

family at the Saturday nightreception anddinner at the I&C




My First Experience on AAP's Executive Council

by Jacob Megdell

I was quite anxious as the I&C

approached, knowing I would have a

seat at the Executive Council table. I

worried that I would somehow screwup and make a fool of myself. From

my beginning years in AAP, EC seemed to be a very

scary place, the inner world of AAP politics and power

struggles. But AAP has been my professional and

spiritual home for the past 25 years, and, in spite of my

reluctance and fears, I have longed to contribute to its

growth and development. In the last few years I have

felt personally and professionally stable enough to throw

my hat in the ring and run for EC. And I was fortunate

to win the second time around.

What I discovered was a very different experience from

my fearful and hesitant expectations. The meeting

began, and ended, with a 75 minute process group where

I felt welcomed and encouraged to be aware of, and give

expression to, my immediate, here and now experience.

The process group created a foundation that I

experienced throughout the ensuing strategic planning

session and business meetings - a commitment to direct,

authentic communication and sharing of ideas, all

contained within the clear boundaries of Robert’s Rules

of Order.

The EC meeting was hard work. I felt as though I was

running a marathon without sufficient training.

Difficult issues were discussed, debated and contested.

But the overarching feeling in the room, the primary

concern of everyone at the table, was the care, love,

protection and advancement of the values and missionof AAP and its members. I felt honored to be entrusted

with this responsibility, and to be participating in the

care and development of this professional community

with which I have been deeply involved over the past 25

years.

In many ways my first experience on EC felt like being in

a new family group, one with very specific objectives,

direction and boundaries, a working group

willing to confront and love authentically.

From this point on I am looking forward

with excitement to learning and contributin

more to EC and AAP over the next three

years.

My First Executive Council Meetin by Ellen Carr

I arrived in St. Louis on Sunday, October 1

2015. I usually arrive early for the I&C to

scope out the city before the conference

begins. This year I came early because I wa

elected to the EC. The meetings started on

Monday at noon. We were told to eat lunchprior to the noon meeting, which started

promptly at noon. Not much time to see a

new city. My rhythm was changing; I was

gearing up for the meeting the next day

instead of exploring.

Although I’ve been a member since 1981, I

have kept a low profile. I was excited and a

little nervous about being part of the inner

workings of the Academy. The EC memberand the others who attended this first

meeting (Voices chair, Newsletter editor,

etc.) were warm and inviting, although the

room was chilly. I made a note to wear a

sweater during the rest of the meetings.

As I sat through the sessions, I found myse

appreciative and “wowed” by the

thoughtfulness and respectfulness of the

attendees. I never realized how much workand how many members it takes to run the

Academy. I also appreciated the work that

central office, Alyssa and her crew, provide

to help EC run smoothly. Truthfully, I was

happy and relieved I couldn’t vote in this

meeting because the issues were layered an

beyond my scope of knowledge.




Ambassador Program

Sixteen dedicated and hardworking AAP members provided another successful round of the

Ambassador Program at the St. Louis I&C. This was the fourth consecutive year of this initiative. The

Ambassador program was established as a component of the Outreach Committee of the Executive

Council with the vision of helping newcomers to navigate the meeting and to learn more about the

Academy. The Ambassadors provide guidance and mentoring on a one time basis for first time I&C

attendees, especially those who have arrived without knowing much about the Academy beforehand.

We have learned a lot since the inception of the program and rely on the feedback that we receive

from our Ambassadors and their assigned newcomers. Many months before our I&C meetings, we

recruit volunteers from our membership using newsletter articles announcing our need for

volunteers as well as the requirements to act as an Ambassador. We provide training and guidancefor these Ambassador volunteers and, as a committee, remain available to help them throughout the

process. On the I&C registration form, interested parties can request their very own AAP member

volunteer who will be available to them before, during and after the I&C. Our committee then

“matches” the two parties and contact is made before the conference begins. We also receive requests

onsite at the conference from those who missed the registration question and/or decided to ask for

an Ambassador after the Newcomer’s Reception and orientation meeting. We always have a few

volunteers who are available as needed.

We had a lovely group of volunteers, some returning people and some first timers, who offered their

flexibility, ingenuity and open heartedness to engage and care for their assigned newcomers. Thefeedback that we are receiving includes many echoes of gratitude and appreciation for AAP’s

attention to this special detail. We are and continue to be delighted to be a part of the Academy’s

outreach mission.

Maureen Martin, Chair

David Donlon, Curt Arey and Ellen Carr

Outreach Committee

On Tuesday night, the tradition is that the EC and the attendees go out for dinner. I had heard that

the EC dinner was “fun” and a way of further bonding. The dinner was terrific - at Herbie’s Village

- a place that was familiar to Gordon Cohen, AAP President, who grew up in St. Louis. We had time

for both toasts and delicious food. We were connecting with each other as well as celebrating the

hard work of the EC.

To get to dinner required a shuttle to accommodate the 20+ people who were

attending. Gordon hired one through Groupon (in solidarity with the financiallyconservative Board). We entered the shuttle to the dazzling array of strobe lights.

There was even a pole for “special dancing.” Only pictures would show the true

splendor of the bus had we not all agreed that “what happens on the bus stays on

the bus.”




Some Highlights of the Hospitality Suite at the I&C

AND, among other delicious items, Flossie Shelso’s Paul Bunyan Cookies

Flossie’s cookies were a hit at the Hospitality Suite and she agreed

to share the recipe:

Paul Bunyan Cookies

2 1/2 cups sugar

2 1/2 cups brown sugar

2 1/4 cups butter

5 eggs

2 tsp. vanilla

4 1/2 cups flour

2 1/4 tsp. baking soda

1 1/8 tsp. salt

If you want Paul Bunyan size,drop on cookie sheet with small

ice cream scoop. I made them

smaller, maybe tablespoon size.

Bake on greased cookie sheet at

359 degrees for 15 minutes

Thanks to the many people who shared photos: Carrie Phillips, Lori Oshrain, Brooke Bralove,Catherine Clemmer, Tandy Levine and others.



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Awe in PsychotherapyVoices, Spring 2016

Goosebumps! Only a very few experiences produce

piloerection: terror, sexual arousal, and awe. There are volumes of

literature in psychotherapy devoted

to terror and its after- effects, and astill greater number devoted to sex. What about awe?

“Awe is the emotion of self-transcendence,” writes Jonathan Haidt in his

(2006) book The Happiness Hypothesis. Awe may be evoked in response to

natural won- ders, art, beauty, talent, virtue, or the supernatural. Awe is

often associated with what are considered to be spiritual experiences, with or

without specific religious frame-work. Awe may evoke experiences of: loss of

a sense of self and gaining a sense of Self, altered time perception, opening

and warmth in the chest, goosebumps, gratitude, humility, tears or epiphany.

Haidt and his colleague Dacher Keltner further define awe by the experiential

features of vastness and accommodation (Keltner and Haidt, 2005):Vastness refers to being in the presence of that which is experienced as much

larger than the self, requiring accommodation, the creation of new mental

structures or frames of reference. These new frames of reference often

include increased humility, curiosity, generosity and feeling of connection to

others and to the world, according to Keltner (Abrahamson, 2014).

Psychotherapy is can be described as the craft of self-transcendence, for

both therapist and client, in the quest for development and healing. Do awe

and psychotherapy co-occur, do they dance together? If “awe inducing events

may be one of the fastest and most powerful methods of personal change and

growth” (Keltner and Haidt, 2003), how do we develop our own capacity to

experience awe to better midwife it in our clients? Are we as therapists, witnesses to, or participants in moments of awe? Can

we, in our work, evoke awe, or be closed to awe? Do we cause a client to be

closed to it as well? When have we known awe in our own work or lives? How

have we known the experience of self-transcendence as the fruit of awe?

The spring 2016 issue of Voices will address awe and psychotherapy.

References

Abrahamson, J. (2014). The science of awe: psychologists chart what happens

when nature blows your mind. Sierra Magazine, 99 (6) 36-39, 54.

Haidt, J. (2006) The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding modern truth in

ancient wisdom. New York: Basic Books.Keltner, D. and Haidt, J. (2003). Approaching awe: A moral, spiritual, and

aesthetic emotion. Cognition and emotion. 17, (2), 297-314.

Deadline for submission:

January 15, 2016 Submissions of articles, poems, photography, or art

should be directed to editors Kristin Staroba [email protected]

and Penelope Norton [email protected] Submission Guidelines on the AAP website: www.aapweb.com.

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Dear Academy Members & Friends,

We want to introduce you to an easy and financially efficient way to support the Academy’s Trust and

Endowment Funds.

Those of us “mature” individuals who are at least 70 1/2 years old are mandated to begin withdrawingmonies from our various retirement accounts (IRAs SEP-IRAs, etc…). You invested these funds on a

“pre-tax” basis”; your mandatory withdrawals (called Required Minimum Distributions or RMDs) are

subject to income tax.

Based on historical precedent, Congress is likely once again to approve egislation that allows you to

donate a portion of your Required Minimum Distribution (RMD) to AAP (or the charity of your

choice), thereby AVOIDING federal and state income tax.

Here’s a hypothetical example: Assume your income is subject to combined federal and state taxes of

40%. Upon taking your RMD of let’s say $1000, $400 goes to pay federal and state taxes, leaving$600 in your pocket. Feeling good, you donate this $600 to AAP. Better yet, you donate $1000

DIRECTLY to AAP from your retirement account and SAVE $400 in taxes. For the same cost to you,

AAP gets $1000 (not $600) and you feel even better.

As always, please consult your own financial advisor before adopting any tax-saving strategy.

On behalf of the entire Board for the AAP Trust & Endowment Funds, we wish you a joyous upcoming

holiday season and ask that each of you please consider this vision:

Do Something Wonderful in the Present…for the Future!

All best wishes,

Penelope Penland

P.S. Please contact any Trust and Endowment Board members to make a donation or receive more

information about giving to AAP.

Members of the AAP Trust & Endowment BoardBruce Ellman , ChairmanPenelope Penland, David Pellegrini, Lyn Sommer, Meredith Frankel, Lorrie Hallman, Karen Swander,

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FROM OUR PAST by Don Murphy

(Doug Cohen, AAP President-Elect, recently suggested

for this column that we ask members to write about their

pre-psychotherapist careers. Below is a first response to

this notion and I trust there will be many more along the way. This one is

my own.)

The morgue on the grounds of Central State Hospital inGeorgia is a dismal gray building, paint peeling, bare walls. In aspecific memory during my year long chaplaincy internshipthere in the early 1960s, I am standing in a doorway betweentwo rooms. In each room a simple closed casket rests on wooden saw horses. I am holding a Protestant prayer book andam reading aloud the order for the burial of the dead, namingthe two individuals in the caskets. Puttering around noisily inanother room is the mortician, the only other living person inthe building. Once this strange private service has ended the

two caskets will be taken for burial alongside hundreds of otherpatients in the desolate cemetery on the grounds. There they will rest among the many who were deposited at this hospital byfamily, never again to be claimed.

During my tenure in this foreboding place Central Statehad the largest patient population of any mental institution inthe world. I was there just after graduating from seminary.

While I had appreciated theological study, I was verymuch in doubt about myself in the role of clergy person. Myfinal quarter in seminary had been spent in a clinical pastoraleducation practicum at the city charity hospital where I was

forced to confront myself in unexpected ways. That experience both frightened and intrigued me, and it propelled me into theinternship where I could pursue further this self-and-careerdiscovery.

Choosing seminary after college graduation was thedecision of a somewhat shy, very naive young man making adecision informed by less than conscious motivation. Theexperiential clinical work eventually led me to see that I wastaking a path not chosen by myself, but rather one in which I was following the subtle, unspoken, also not very conscious but very powerful plan of others. Even so, after the internship I

decided I should give ministry a real try, leading me to two years as a parish minister and two years as a universitychaplain. While in the latter position I began taking graduatecourses in a marriage and family therapy Ph.D program and it was there I found my passion. I left the ministry, finished thedegree and have relished this career. However, I am alsoforever grateful for the earlier life-changing experiencesafforded that young man standing in the doorway of the morguetrying to offer some dignity in the passing of two lost souls.

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Ethics Column for AAP Newsletter In Search of Integrity and Responsibility in the Work Ethics Committee Members: Jane Baxter, TylerBeach, Vivian Guze, Carol Light, Jack Mulgrew,Pat Webster, Marilyn Schwartz, Chair.

To Ask Again or Not by Pat Webster

I work with a client who is in a top tier position ina venture capital company. When taking thehistory, I noted my client’s occupation and askedmore questions about what he did, extent to which work occupied him, how stressful it was (very!),and other questions which would allow me to helphim therapeutically. He may have even told me thename of the company. I didn’t write this down; I was more interested in understanding the natureof his work. This client is a heavy hitter; he has been successful in previous ventures and has a lotof money.

I saw him one Friday afternoon and he wasenergetic, both excited and anxious. I asked himabout this and he reported that his company wasgoing public that afternoon, and that he expectedthe stock to rise dramatically in the next fewmonths. “Shoot!” I thought. “Why didn’t I writedown the name of that company!? Maybe I did. Isit in my history notes? Could I ask him the name?Maybe I could invest just little bit.” I sure wantedto ask, “By the way, what is the name of yourcompany?”

While I settled myself down and focused on thetherapy for the next hour, these thoughts popped

up from time to time.

In the Ethical Principles of Psychologists andCode of Conduct, Standard 3:08, ExploitativeRelationships states: “Psychologists do notexploit persons over whom they have……….authority such as clients/patients……….” In the

beginning section on Principles, Principle B:Fidelity and Responsibility says: “Psychologistsestablish relationships of trust with those with whom they work.”

These principles reminded me that in thissituation, asking again for the name of hiscompany for my own benefit, during his time,on his dime would have, in my opinion, beenunethical. And what about the relationship oftrust? I believe that to have asked the name ofthe company during his session would have alsodiminished the trust that he deserves and needsto have in me to have his clinical issues as apriority during his session.

Furthermore, what if I had asked and theinvestment turned out to be a bad one, or a goodone? What are the implications for thetherapeutic relationship?

Then there are the legal aspects. It would beillegal to have obtained and used informationgained from him. I would have obtainedfinancial information about a company andtaken advantage of information that is notpublicly known. That is called “insider trading”.

I didn’t ask. And I won’t.

Southern Region News

Our Southern Region Committee is excited to present our next two programs. Our winter salon will

be held on February 19, 2015, at the Link Counseling Center in Sandy Springs, GA. We are delighted

have Beverly Matthews, M.S. and Pat Stogner, LPC, both former Southern Region Spring Conference

presenters, leading our evening program. Their title is in the works but their presentation promises

to be stellar. A pot luck dinner precedes the program and offers a wonderful opportunity to network

and mingle with new and returning therapists.

Our annual Spring Conference is scheduled for April 1-3, 2016 at the Sea Palms Resort in St. Simons

Island, GA, close to the Savannah or Brunswick (GA) airports. We are inland but very close to the

ocean and you can smell and feel the ocean breezes. We have a great presenters so far and are in the




process of finalizing our program.. We hope that you and your families will look at our conference

as an opportunity to have an AAP experience on a smaller scale and possibly to enjoy some R&R

before or after the conference at a reduced hotel rate.

Maureen Martin, Chair

Curt Arey, Nancy Moser, Lucie Lie-Neilsen, Mitch Foy, Dairlyn Chelette, Bob Coyle, Annie Prescott

and Meredith Albert

Let Me Introduce You to….

Ken NunnellyFinding our way to becoming therapists can take many twists and much time. Ken

Nunnelly, Ph.D. started college at Texas A&M as an engineering major. After flunking ou

of that program, he switched to a double major in geology and English literature. After

taking seven years to complete his BA in English literature and psychology at Texas Christian

University, he entered the seminary and earned a masters in pastoral counseling. He then moved on

to Michigan State University where he was supervised by Bill Kell in the doctoral psychology

program.

Dr. Kell, who had worked with AAPers Richard Miller and Jim Guinan, brought in John Warkentin

and Carl Whitaker to train the graduate students. Carl Whitaker became Ken’s mentor. Later Carl

and Jim Guinan sponsored Ken for membership in AAP.

A native Texan, Ken is the eldest of three brothers. He was a quiet and

studious kid and still considers himself quiet and studious as an adult. His

greatest joys are his relationships with family and friends. “I commit myself

in friendships. I have a few and they’re very good,” says Ken. He and his wifof 56 years, Nona, have one son. Two years ago they were joyfully reunited

with their granddaughter, Katie, now 20. Their son and his wife had placed

Katie for adoption at birth. This reunion has been such a delight, and Ken talked about it in

community meeting at the recent I&C.

Ken loves to travel. This year’s adventures included a trip to

the Amazon in February and a trip to the Arctic this summer.

He found the ice beautiful and the Inuit villages fascinating. He

was just 600 miles from the North Pole with twenty-four hour

daylight.

For years, Ken worked in the student counseling center at Ball State University in Muncie, IN. Hethen taught in the Department of Counseling Psychology and directed the Doctoral InternshipProgram at Ball State until 1989. Since then he has been in private practice. At 80, Ken continues to work one day a week in Indianapolis, IN approximately an hour’s drive from his home in Muncie. Hhas no plans to retire. “People tell us their stories, and only in this therapeutic context do you get thdepth of experience.”

by Jerri Bonner A longtime member of AAP, Jerri shares her interviews with other AAP member

she may have known of a long time, but not known well. It is her attempt to deepen the connection




Liar, Temptress, Soldier, SpyBook Review by Dairlyn Chelette

The title alone caught my attention, as I listened to the local NPR station.

Written by a lovely young author, Karen Abbott, the book is a meticulously researched accountof four very different women who served as undercover spies (some more “undercover” than others)

during the Civil War. I was hooked. I hightailed it to the Margaret Mitchell House in Atlanta to hearthis author whose riveting piece of nonfiction reads like a novel. These women were unsung heroes ofthat terrible war.

Belle Boyd is the precocious, defiant, charming teenage daughter of a wealthy shopkeeper. When Belle was eleven, her parents declared her “too young to attend their dinner party.” Instead ofpleading, she went to the stable, saddled up her horse, Fleeter, and rode him into the dining room,“Well, she said, “my horse is old enough, isn't he?” Belle was described as “the fastest girl in Virginia,or anywhere else, for that matter.”

Next we meet Elizabeth Van Lew, the abolitionist spinster daughter of a Richmond businessman. “Nervous and birdlike,” she was “never as pretty as her portrait shows.” Sent by herparents to a school in Philadelphia, when she returned home, she was irrevocably changed. “It was mysad privilege to differ in many things from the perceived opinions and principles in my locality,” she wrote in her diary.“This has made my life intensely sad and earnest.”

The beautiful seductress Rose O'Neal Greenhow had lost her husband and four of her childrenin three years. Her third daughter “Little Rose,” would become an important part of her espionageplans. Adept at beguiling abolitionists, secessionists, senators, representatives, diplomats, generals,and lowly aides alike, she served as a confidante to President James Buchanan. Rose ran a Confederatespy ring. One Naval Secretary marveled at the way she “hunted man with resistless zeal and unfailing

instinct...she had a shaft in her quiver for every defense which game might attempt.”

Most memorable and poignant to me is the cross-dressing Emma Edmondson, aka, PrivateFrank Thompson, one of 400 women both North and South who fought as men. (Those inductionphysicals must have been awfully cursory!) Posing as a man could get you arrested for prostitution.Escaping a brutal father, she thought of men as “the implacable enemy” of her sex, believing the only way to escape their treachery was to become one. “Sharing the same stale bread and bacteria-ridden water, smelling each other’s skin beneath uniforms that were never washed,” she came to respect hercomrades and ultimately allowed herself to be vulnerable enough to fall deeply in love.

The women in this story were not the victims of gender. Instead gender provided them with both

the physical and psychological disguise they needed. Women proved to be capable not only ofsignificant acts of espionage but of executing them more deftly than men.

The following vignette about Elizabeth Van Lew's educated, freed former slave and best friendcaptures the heart of the matter.

“Mary Jane signed on as a sleeper agent posing as a “not terribly bright, but hardworking” maid for Mrs. Jefferson

Davis, planted in the Confederate White House. She cleaned the President's library, lingering as she dusted the

desk, piled with maps of fortifications and statistics about his troops. No one would guess she could comprehend,

let alone memorize, entire discussions between Davis and his generals. SHE KNEW HOW TO BE INVISIBLE, TO




RENDER HERSELF MERELY THE SUM OF OTHER'S PROJECTIONS.”

We therapists know something about projections. For Belle, Rose, Elizabeth, and Emma,projections were highly effective weapons in perhaps the most intimate and brutal war our countryhas ever known. The author inscribed my copy of her book, “Never trust a woman in crinoline!”

Summer Workshop 2016

Paths and JourneysOmni Bedford Springs Resort, Bedford Springs, Pennsylvania

June 8-12, 2016

Co-chairs: Nancy Cahir and Barbara Thomason

Mark your calendars now for the upcoming 2016 Summer Workshop! Relaxation will begin as

soon as you enter Bedford, PA and watch the beautiful rolling hills pass by your car windows.

You’ll arrive at our magnificent retreat on 22,000 acres with eight mineral springs pumped into

the indoor pool and spa, an 18-hole golf course known as an “architectural museum,” guided

hikes, yoga classes and history tours.

The Omni Bedford Springs Resort would be an excellent place to plan on arriving early and/or

staying late, especially if you are a history buff or an outdoors type. Within an hour’s drive from

the resort, you can explore civil war, French and Indian war sites, the memorial to Flight 93,

historical homes by Frank Lloyd Wright, and many museums dedicated to coal mining,

railroads, Jimmy Stewart, coverlets, and the Johnstown flood, to name a few. You can bowl, play

tennis, roller skate, ride horses, bike, and paddle (not all onsite). You can spelunk in caves,

giggle at the amusement parks, pick fresh fruits, and sample delicious wines. Need I say more?

Looking forward to a great time!

Sharman Colosetti

SW2016 Acti vities

Chair

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Upcoming Training Institutes:

ECOTHERAPY , offered by Pat Webster

Requires commitment to attend four meetings over two years: SW and I&C 2016; also SW and

I&C 2017

Based on centuries of indigenous-based wisdom, Ecopsychology engages with nature to foster initiation

into life's next paths and encounter with soul. This two-year Training Institute will cover indigenous-

based maps of human psyche and developmental cycles; Council and Mirroring practice; and Vision

Fasting. Click on this link for more information: Feel free to contact Pat at [email protected]

with questions or to ask to be included.

PSYCHOTHERAPY AND THE BODY , offered by Natan Harpaz

Summer Workshops 2016 & 2017

Psychological and emotional problems are inseparable from physical symptoms. Our bodies hold onto

our unresolved emotional issues, conflicts, secrets and desires. They are buried deeply in our bodily

tissues, defending against infantile fears of abandonment and engulfment. This didactic and experientia

Training Institute will focus on the person of the therapist as the instrument of change. Participants wil

explore, through group process, movement and martial arts techniques, how the body resists change.Space is limited to 12 participants who are willing to commit to both segments of this Training InstitutePlease refrain from contacting Natan about your intentions to register when you read this notice. To beplaced on a list of potential participants, pleasecontact Stephanie Spalding, Training Chair.

INTRODUCING 8 NEW MEMBERS TO OUR COMMUNITY As a way of welcoming our most recently accepted new members for this year, the membershipcommittee would like to offer you the opportunity to read just a bit about each person whose applicatio was recently s were accepted at the I&C October, 2015. There are five full members and three studentmembers. You may have had the pleasure of meeting a few of these new members at our Institute andConference in St Louis but if you did not, read on! We urge you to welcome them in your own way asthey integrate into the larger community of AAP.

The membership committee: Nelia Rivers, Dairlyn Chelette, Sandy Ebrahimi, Susan Diamond, SusanJacobson, Denise Castro, Ronnie Koenig, Lisa Makstein, Jacob Megdell, Laura June and David Loven.

Full Members: Alison Howard, PsyD, M.Ed: Alison Howard, PsyD, M.Ed., is a Washington DC resident with 14 years of post-graduate experience. Alison received her PsyD from George Washington University in 200and her M.Ed in Counseling in 1995 from Suffolk University. She has been in private practice from 200to the present. In her own words…“I am glad to be joining your membership after years of hearing from friends and colleagues about the AAP experience. I have been in DC for 19 years, and have twowonderful children who inspire me daily. My psychotherapy practice reflects a diverse set of interestsincluding group work, which has been an enormous factor in changing my world view, and my viewof myself in the world. I look forward to meeting many of you over the coming years."

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CALL FOR PRESENTERS

2016 Institute and Conference Washington, DC,

October 19-23

What’s Love Got To Do With It?

The Relationship in Psychotherapy

What does love mean for the therapy relationship?Does love transform us and our patients, or

confound healing within the boundaries of therapy?

Arguably a universal ideal, love remains fraught with

shame and taboo including within the therapeutic

realm. As therapists we may feel embarrassed about

our passion or lack of compassion toward various

patients. While dealing with our own ever present

emotional needs, we see our patients struggle to

express their loving feelings toward us within thetangle of bonding, transference and

countertransference. There are questions about what

we disclose, which boundaries we secure, and which

edges we push. Responding responsibly to our own

as well as our patients’ intense emotions is core to

our effective and ethical work as therapists, and at

the cutting edge of the Academy’s mission.

Veteran AAP member Dr. Richard Felder stated that

patients enter therapy seeking to be more loved,

though they leave with an ability to love more fully.

Transforming loving from adjective to verb is crucial

to building self-esteem in every meaningful intimate

relationship we have over a lifetime.

In the course of this I&C we will delve into the

fundamental building blocks of love--nurturing,

vulnerability, and empathy. We will reflect upon

shadows of hate, loss, apathy, trauma, and abuse that

lead to life altering disruptions. Throughout, o

notions of creating therapeutic repair will be at

forefront. We’ll consider relationships with

persons of divergent orientations and cultures.

challenge is to help patients love fully, while

honoring their unique histories and identities.

Understanding how love in its myriad aspectsshapes therapeutic contact is the theme of this

I&C. If this theme resonates, we encourage you

consider presenting. And if you’ve never or ra

presented before, we especially hope you’ll help

build this innovative program.

Please note that AAP’s historical Institute and

Conference format is being reintroduced this y

This means that presenters have the option of

leading an Institute (two or three part intensive

experiential workshop on Wednesday afternoo

and all day Thursday); or 2) leading a one or tw

session Conference workshop on Friday and

Saturday afternoons. Conference plenaries wil

featured on Friday and Saturday mornings.

To submit a proposal. go to aapweb.com > 201

I&C > presenter proposal before December 1, 2

If you have any questions, please email ProgramCo-Chairs:

Lyn Sommer and Steve Shere

(continued from page 14)Ellen Talles, LCSW-C, BC-DMTEllen Talles, LCSW-C, BC-DMT is a Maryland resident with 37 years of post-graduate experience. Ellenreceived her M.S.W. from the University of Maryland at Baltimore and her M.A. in Dance/MovementTherapy from Goucher College. Ellen has been in private practice from 1984 to the present. In her ownwords… “I love being a therapist. I like to work with a broad range of age groups and issues, reallyanyone who likes to work with me. My background is in the performing arts, and creativity isimportant to me in all I do. So I think my work with individuals, couples, families, and groups have anoriginal flair that I struggle to describe. I have a particular passion for working with Creatives,

believing that it takes one to know one. “

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Tom Query, M.Div., LPC:Tom Query, M.Div., LPC is a Georgia resident, with 31 years of post-graduate experience. Tomreceived his M.Div. with a concentration in counseling from Southern Seminary. He has extensivetraining in Experiential Psychotherapy and has completed training to be a Certified Sex Therapist with AASECT. In his own words, “My social media intro says that I am a: “Father, Friend, Psychotherapist, Photographer, Reluctant Minister, Retired Magician”. I founded the WellspringCounseling Center. It is collaborative and a sex positive center specializing in sexuality, genderand alternative lifestyles. I am also a LPC supervisor in Georgia and love passing onto a newgeneration ideas and practices of psychotherapy that are no longer taught. I hope to be acceptedas a member of the Academy to grow both professionally and personally.

Melissa Dickinson, LPC:Melissa Dickinson, LPC, is a Georgia resident with nine years of post-graduate experience. Melisareceived her degree in Clinical Counseling Psychology in 2006 from Brenau University. She has been in private practice since 2009. In her own words,“I orient as an advocate and ally for thosewho need community. Among the communities I serve with honor are gender/sex/relationshipminorities and chronic illness. Last year I founded a statewide support network for a chronic

illness population in Georgia. We’ve grown into 215 members as we help ourselves and each othernavigate life challenges. I identify as psychodynamic and desire an ongoing professional “home”and mentorship through AAP. Thank-you for the opportunity to be in community with you.”

Wendy Kallman, LCSW: Wendy Kallman, a resident of Atlanta, Georgia, is a LCSW with over 22 years of post-graduateexperience. She received a BSW from Georgia State University and her MSW from New YorkUniversity. She has been in private practice since 1997 and has attended many of the springSouthern Region conferences. In her own words, “I am a passionate, inquisitive lover of life. I ammarried with 3 sons. I believe that a person's right to self determination is essential, todevelopment in childhood, and work in therapy. Problem solving, independence, passion,motivation and empathy are qualities which I see in myself and that I promote as a person,therapist, mother and wife. I have experienced much growth attending the southern regionspring conference. I would be proud to be a member of the Academy.”

Student Members:

Andréa Markum: Andréa is a resident of Atlanta, GA. She is completing her degree in Mental Health Counseling at Argosy University and beginning her 3 years of supervision for licensure as an LPC. In her own words, “ I am currently working with Anna Kaye Associates. One of my areas of interest is inmeeting the emotional needs of adult and late adolescent men. I would like to work with clients from a diverse cultural background with a variety of sexual relationship orientations. My goal isto help men rediscover and redefine what masculinity means to them, on their terms. This careergives me the opportunity to exercise compassion and “care-frontation”, in addition, develop moreas an individual.”

Michael Stahly:Michael Stahly is currently completing his MSW at the University of Maryland. He receivedundergraduate degrees in Mathematics and Spanish Literature from UMD as well, and completed aMasters in Liberal Arts at St. John’s College. In his own words,“I am thrilled to be beginning mycareer as a therapist, and hopeful that I will be doing so in the company of the skilled and passionate clinicians of the Academy. I am a lifelong student of the martial arts (my first




passion), and I teach classes to children and adults regularly. I am also a certified yoga teacher,having received training during an indulgent three-month honeymoon in India. I am drawn to theexistential approach in all things, and particularly enjoy working with kids.”

Brianne Verraneault:Brianne is currently enrolled in Argosy University in the Clinical Mental Health CounselingDepartment having completed her bachelor’s degree from Ga. State in business administration and

accounting in 2009. In her own words, “ My passion to help others drove me to pursue my Clinical Mental Health Counseling graduate degree. After graduation, I plan on pursuing my associatemembership, LAPC, and PhD. I currently work with at-risk youth as a volunteer with Crisis Text Lineand Athena’s Warehouse. Besides volunteering, I’m also working towards certifications in angermanagement, mindfulness, and yoga trauma training. I hope to become an AAP student member tosurround myself with a network that promotes professional and personal growth.”


Looking for a way to get more involved in AAP?Consider becoming Publications Chair. This chairperson oversees all publications leaving the Academy to the general public ensuring that they appear professional and of AAP quality. ThePublications Chair also interacts with the Voices team, the newsletter editor, the website chair,meeting brochure designers and our emerging social media advocates. Writing skills are not central but ability to critically edit and give constructive feedback are crucial. The publications chair is alsoa valuable presence at all EC meetings. If you think you might be interested, please contact GordonCohen for more information: [email protected] or 202.328.2035.

For photos from EC inSt. Louis, click here.

(Note: we all look

incredibly serious, but

hey, EC IS serious work).

For general photos fromthe I&C, click here.Thanks to the manypeople who sharedphotos including BrookeBralove, Carrie Phillips,Lori Oshrain, CatherineClemmer, and others.The blurry ones at theend were taken by me(Linda T) with a newcamera that I clearly didnot understand.

Treasurer’s Report As of November 4, 2015

As many at the I&C know, I have resigned my positionas Treasurer as of February 1st, 2016 for personalreasons. Phil Spiro has been appointed and graciouslyaccepted the position of Treasurer. I am delighted that AAP is in good hands with his skills. The approved 2016 budget is available for your perusal on the AAP website.

The following chart shows our financial resources as ofNovember 4, 2015. Note that this does not includeincome nor expenses from the I&C. In a winter

newsletter our financial overview for 2016 will beprovided.

Endowment: $189,219.66Meeting Reserves: $115,148.11Trust: $34,325.54Operating: $78,715.36Scholarship: $61,094.59 Voices: $20,199.04

Respectfully submitted,Karen Swander, Ph.D., ABPP AAP Treasurer

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Coming Events

2016 SW Paths and JourneysOmni BedfordSprings Resort, Bedford,PA Dates June 8 - 12

2016 I&C What’s LoveGot to Do with It? October 17-22, 2016 Washington, DCOmni Shoreham Hotel

Newsletter Notes

Many thanks to my great group of copy-editors and all of the understanding friends of mine in AAP. I have had ahard month personally and my copy-editors really stepped up to the plateand edited every single article. Usually Ido a quick edit of each article and thensend them on to the copy-editors andthis month, they did it all. And thanks toeveryone for your patience - thisnewsletter is LATE - which those of youwho know me well, know that being punctual is a thing with me, so you canimagine how red my face is!

We have some really good articles inthis edition. Hope you have enjoyed it.Your Editor,

Linda Tillman

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