Patrick B. Kavanaugh, Ph.D. was invited to present two papers at Division 39’s 25th annual Spring Meeting this past April (NYC). The first paper was: A Fly in the (An)-Ointment of Psychoanalytic Education: Genuflection or Reflection? and was presented as part of Section IV’s invited panel which was titled: "Psychoanalytical Management of the Industrialized Healthcare Matrix: Preserving a Space for Our Education, Practice, and Ethics".

A Fly in the (An)-Ointment... spoke to the unspoken faith-based religious dimension of psychoanalytic institutes and education, and to an alternative view of education that preserves a space for education for those who wish to practice outside of a healthcare matrix. His second paper was: Psychic Theatre and Psychoanalytic Supervision: Some Thoughts on the Process and Paradox of The Associative-Interpretive Process and was presented as part of the Committee on Education and Training’s invited panel which was titled: "Reflections on the Two Person Relationship of Those Who Study and Those Who Teach Psychoanalysis." Psychic Theatre and psychoanalytic Supervision... spoke to mutuality and intersubjectivity in the learning and teaching process of supervision and raised some questions surrounding the hyphenated space in-between the supervisor ‘-supervisee,” in which space there is a dissolution of the traditional subject-object division of western  metaphysics.

Dr. Kavanaugh’s  paper, “Wang Fo and an Ethic of Free Association: Poetic Imagination, Mythical Stories, and Moral Philosophy,” has been accepted by the Psychoanalytic Review for publication in the summer of 2005. Wang Fo and an Ethic of Free Association... turns to literature to articulate an ethic of care and theory of moral obligation for the analytic practitioner interested in practicing outside of a healthcare matrix. An ‘ethic of free association’ is consistent with the ethical principles and guidelines published by Division 32 (Humanistic Psychology) of the APA.