It is widely acknowledged that sexual boundary violations by a faculty member at an analytic institute damage the local analytic community in ways that can reverberate for years. Yet little has been written about the process of institutional recovery. With one exception, a paper published after the major protagonists had died, no actual case studies are to be found in the literature. In 2010 a senior training analyst at a psychoanalytic training program abruptly resigned under the cloud of a presumed sexual boundary violation. Seventeen months later, an APsaA Committee on Institutes site visit presented a unique opportunity to study the institutional trauma and recovery process as they unfolded. This report highlights the importance of recognizing and working through the expectable institutional resistance to processing the trauma. This enables a sensitive response to the various constituencies that have been affected and allows the integrity of the institute to be restored.

Mississippi. Almost every river feeding the Mississippi from the West was out of its banks for eight weeks or more. Many rivers were a mile or more out of their banks for several weeks. Many levees collapsed and many threatened to do so for several weeks. Homes along smaller rivers re-flooded as many as seven and eight times. People who never were flooded remained out of their homes for several weeks because of threatened levee breaches. Farm crop damage was estimated in the billions of dollars. For many, an entire season's crop was lost. Fortunately, 1994 produced almost ideal crop conditions.

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