International Psychoanalysis

Dear Colleagues,

In a slightly calmer climate the international psychoanalysis website still provides us with stimulating and exciting material ranging from more on the Dangerous Method to mental health in Africa. As always I list those that caught my interest first, followed by the entire list:

1) For those of us who are struggling with the fact that there are not enough psychiatrists and mental health professionals in the USA to take care of our mentally ill, there is a sobering post regarding the state of mental health in Africa, as described by a sole Kenyan psychiatrist, speaking about the stigma in a ***traumatized continent***.

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Click Here for: The Full Brochure for     
         Symposium 2o12 

Symposium 2012: On Loneliness
Guldwurm Auditorium Mount Sinai Medical Center
March 24th, 2012

Loneliness is perhaps one of the most painful affective states a person can experience. It is a subjective experience that most of us have, at some point in our lives, had. It may be experienced as an intense emptiness or solitude, an isolation from others both internal and/or external. Or, it can be experienced as grief; a loneliness in the presence of others. It can be also be understood by its duration (e.g., temporary or chronic) or, as Sartre noted, an essential feature of the human condition. Sartre believed this condition arose from conflict between the need to create meaning in life and the awareness of isolation or nothingness in the universe. For a psychoanalyst this idea might translate into an infantile experience of needing the mother and becoming aware that she is not always available. For a psychoanalyst this idea might translate into an infantile experience of needing the mother and becoming aware that she is not always available.

 Click Here to Register:  For Symposium 2012.

 
Chronic loneliness has been linked to physical (e.g., cancer, stroke, high blood pressure and cardiovascular disease) and psychological (e.g., depression and schizoid pathology, impaired cognition and personal determination, sleep disturbance, suicide, alcoholism and substance abuse) difficulties. As we can see from the variety of manifestations loneliness is often a complex phenomena in both its aetiology and presentation.
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Listen to the remarkable openness about dream life and to Chuck’s gentle manner of pursuing the Achuar’s view of dream predictability, inevitableness and the “oculto,” where dreams continue their dark work.

The pictures are stunning; the video of fishing by hand, unique. Read the rest of this post »

Click Here to Read:  Eraserhead, Film Screening  February 10, 2012.

Our guest writer is Dr. Charlie Gardner.  He co-authored the piece on gender and psychiatry posted recently  Click Here to Read this Article. But, there are several personal connections with this piece on practicing psychiatry and psychoanalysis in a small town: first a connection with his grandfather and father; second a connection we have from the 1980′s. Charlie Gardner’s grandfather was an old-time country doc who did home visits; drove a flivver. Charlie’s dad taught at the Yale Psychiatric Institute (and taught one of my dream courses). Charlie was a resident at Cornell Westchester when I was on faculty. Read the rest of this post »

Click Here to Read: Dream on: Philip Carey plumbs the depths of his subconscious for the grist of his art in the San Luis Obispo Tribune on February 6, 2012.

Click Here to Read: For mentally ill inmates, health care behind bars is often out of reach By Elizabeth Chuck on the msnbc.com website on February 3, 2012.

Click Here to Read and View: Empowering Consumers: A Fantastic Voyage To Unseen Information by Todd Essig on the Forbes Magazine website on February 4, 2012.

WESTCHESTER CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF PSYCHOANALYSIS & PSYCHOTHERAPY
Excellence in Training
OPEN HOUSE and CLINICAL PRESENTATION Saturday, March 10, 2012

Please call or email to let us know if you plan to attend and for complete directions: 914-967-1300 • wcspp_adm@earthlink.net

9:30 – 9:45 AM 9:45 – 10:15 AM
10:15 – 11:30 AM

Coffee, refreshments

Brief Description of Training Programs
Psychoanalytic Program Adult Psychotherapy Program Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy Program Couples Psychotherapy Program Supervisory Program

Beyond Diagnosis:As a Treatment Unfolds
Presenters: Chaim Bromberg, Ph.D. Kate Washton, L.C.S.W. Read the rest of this post »

PLEASE JOIN NYPSI AS IT CONTINUES ITS CENTENARY CELEBRATION
CELEBRATING A CENTURY OF ADVANCEMENT THROUGH SELF-KNOWLEDGE
THE NEW YORK PSYCHOANALYTIC SOCIETY & INSTITUTE:
Scientific Meeting
247 East 82nd St., between 2nd & 3rd, NY, NY 10028
212-879-6900
www.psychoanalysis.org

MINDING THE GAP III: DREAMING: PSYCHOANALYSIS OR NEUROBIOLOGY?
Saturday, May 5, 2012, 9:15 am to 4:45 pm, No Charge
No Registration Required
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Click Here to Read: A Postwar Picture of Resilience By Anthony D. Mancini in the New York Times on February 06, 2012.

Click Here to Read: Introducing Freud, Jung and the other woman by Katie Griffith on the News Record website on February 5, 2012.

Click Here to Read: David Cronenberg: Analyse this by Steve Rose  on the guardian.co.uk website on February 5, 2012 .

Click Here to Read:  Other Posts on A Dangerous Method on thie website.

Click Here to Read: Review of: An Anatomy of Addiction: Sigmund Freud, William Halsted, and the Miracle Drug Cocaine by Howard Markel, Reviewed by Elizabeth on the Elizabeth Books’s blog on January 30, 2012.

Click Here to Read: Off The Couch, Volume Vol II, Number 1.

Click Here to Read: Letters: It’s Asperger Syndrome … or Is It? Letters to the Editor of the New York Times on February 3, 2012.

Click Here to Read; WR: The Wanderings of a Lost Soul by David Rosen, review of  Christopher Turner”s Adventures in the Orgasmatron: How the Sexual Revolution Came to America on the The Brooklyn Rial website.

Click Here to Read:   Big Pharma on the Couch-Freud Gets the Last Laugh: Review of “Rx” by Kate Fodor, Reviewed by Fred Sander.

Kate Fodor

PLEASE JOIN NYPSI AS IT CONTINUES ITS CENTENARY CELEBRATION
CELEBRATING A CENTURY OF ADVANCEMENT THROUGH SELF-KNOWLEDGE
THE NEW YORK PSYCHOANALYTIC SOCIETY & INSTITUTE:

Scientific Meeting:
247 East 82nd St., between 2nd & 3rd, NY, NY, 10028
212-879-6900, www.psychoanalysis.org

Tuesday, February 14, 2012, 8:15 – 10:00 PM, Free

Please Note that this meeting will NOT take place at NYPSI. Our auditorium is being renovated.

Please join us at:
the Hungarian House Meeting Hall
at 213 East 82nd St., between 2nd & 3rd Ave.

This is on the same North side of the street as NYPSI and just up the block towards 3rd Avenue.

A Psychoanalytic Approach to a Neurobiological Disorder: The Dyadic Treatment of a Toddler with Autism Spectrum Disorder Susan P. Sherkow, M.D. Read the rest of this post »

PLEASE JOIN NYPSI AS IT CONTINUES ITS CENTENARY CELEBRATION
CELEBRATING A CENTURY OF ADVANCEMENT THROUGH SELF-KNOWLEDGE

THE NEW YORK PSYCHOANALYTIC SOCIETY & INSTITUTE:
Extension Committee
247 East 82^nd St., between 2^nd & 3^rd, NY, NY  10028
212-879-6900
www.psychoanalysis.org

 THE MIND IN CONFLICT :  Ian Buckingham, M.D. Thursdays
8:30 – 10 pm March 15 – May 3, 2012 (8 Sessions) Fee $80 Read the rest of this post »

PLEASE JOIN NYPSI AS IT CONTINUES ITS
CENTENARY CELEBRATION
 CELEBRATING A CENTURY OF ADVANCEMENT THROUGH SELF-KNOWLEDGE

THE NEW YORK PSYCHOANALYTIC SOCIETY & INSTITUTE:
Extension Committee
247 East 82^nd St., between 2^nd & 3^rd, NY, NY 10028
212-879-6900
www.psychoanalysis.org

A SHORT COURSE IN PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTING FOR MENTAL HEALTH PROFESSIONALS William H. Braun, Psy.D. Tuesdays
8:15 – 9:45 pm April 3 & 10, 2012 (2 sessions) Fee:  $30 Read the rest of this post »