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Click Here to Read: Henderson’s Equation by Jerome Lowenstein reviewed by Alma Bond.

Click Here to Read: Recollection of the Liberation of Buchenwald: 4/11/1945 by Howard Schlossman.  This article has been previously published: Schlossman, Howard (1997).  Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis 24(4) pp. 737-739 and appears here with the requisite rights and permissions.  

THE NEW YORK PSYCHOANALYTIC SOCIETY & INSTITUTE
247 East Eighty-Second Street, New York, NY 10028
 

Silvan Research/Clinical Fellowship Program
NYPSI Research Center
4 year SCHOLARSHIP for ANALYTIC TUITION & SUPERVISORY FEES
$10K Research STIPEND for 2 years
Affiliations with Mt. Sinai, Department of Psychiatry, City University, Department of Clinical Psychology, and Adelphi University, Department of Psychology

We seek applicants interested in pursuing psychoanalytic training in combination with full-time academic research careers.  If you see the value of full psychoanalytic training as a way of enhancing your research interests and career come to NYPSI.  Applicants already established in other academic centers are welcome.

Contact Dr. Wendy Olesker,  Wendy_Olesker@psychoanalysis.net or Dr. John Crow, jfcrow@med.cornell.edu.  

For information about our training programs please visit us at: www.psychoanalysis.org

  Click Here To Read: Introduction to Bettelheim: Living and Dying by David James Fisher

Click Here to Read:  The Suicide of a Survivor: Some Intimate Perceptions of Bettleheim’s Suicide” Chapter Eight of Bettelheim: Living and Dying by David James Fisher 

David James Fisher, Bettelheim: Living and Dying (Rodopi: Amsterdam and New York, 2008), 190 pages, Contemporary Psychoanalytic Studies.

 Bruno Bettelheim  

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THE NEW YORK PSYCHOANALYTIC SOCIETY & INSTITUTE
247 East Eighty-Second Street, between 2nd & 3rd
 

Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Program
Informational Session                                 
Thursday, May 29, 2008, 7-8 p.m.

Understand Theory to Improve Practice
Supervision with Experienced Analysts
Case Conferences
Optional Child/Adolescent Track

Evening Classes
2 Year Program

Please RSVP
admasst@nypsa.org or 212-879-6900

For information about our training programs please visit us at: www.psychoanalysis.org

Click Here to Read: International Margaret S. Mahler Symposium: New perspective in Mahler’s Separation-Individuation Theory: Neuropsychological views and Developmental Psychopathology  in  PADOVA, ITALY 20-21-22 Maggio / May 2008.

 Maxine Kumin
 
POETRY MONDAY: MAY 5, 2008
 
Long before there was a Poet Laureate of the United States, there was a Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress.  Maxine Kumin, one of our most beloved American poets, had that honor.  She has also been Poet Laureate of  New Hampshire,  a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, winner of a Pulitzer Prize as well as many other prestigious fellowships and awards.  One or more of her many books (sixteen poetry collections, a stirring memoir, four novels, a short-story collection, four books of essays and more than twenty children’s books) surely must be on some of your shelves already.
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Click Here to Read: Review of the Movie: “The Mask” by Leni Lourenço de Oliveira
 
 
 
 
 
 

Jane Austen 

THE NEW YORK PSYCHOANALYTIC SOCIETY & INSTITUTE: Extension Division
247 East Eighty-Second Street, between 2nd & 3rd

PSYCHOANALYTIC THEMES IN JANE AUSTEN’S WORK
Muriel Morris, M.D. & Adrienne Scott, LCSW

Thursdays, May 22 – June 19, 2008
7:30 – 9 pm (5 sessions)
Fee $100

Study Pride and Prejudice, Emma, Persuasion, and juvenilia to uncover the unconscious chords Austen struck to make her work irresistible and timeless.

 To register call 212-879-6900
 For information about our training programs please visit us at: www.psychoanalysis.org

Click Here for Flyer about: “Eavesdropping on Dreams,” a play by Rivka Greenberg which will take place at the JCC-Manhattan on Wednesday, May 28th, at 8:00 PM.

THE NEW YORK PSYCHOANALYTIC SOCIETY & INSTITUTE: WORKS IN PROGRESS
247 East Eighty-Second Street, between 2nd & 3rd                           

Wednesday, May 21, 2008, 8:30 p.m.

Psychological Aspects of Money

 Richard Trachtman, Ph.D. will discuss money and its complex psychological representations.  Money’s function in relationships and in happiness will be explored.

 For information about our training programs please visit us at: www.psychoanalysis.org

Click Here to Read: Psychoanalysis: Burgeoning and Bleleagured by Arnold Richards.  Originally appeared as: Arnold Richards (1992).  Psychoanalysis: Burgeoning and Bleleagured, in Medical and Health Annual, Chicago: Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc, 1992, pp. 400-405 and appears with all requisite rights and permissions.   

Many thanks to Jane Hall for bringing the recent Papal visit to the attention of the psychoanalytic community. (Click here to read Jane S. Hall’s editorial.) An international event of this importance has the potential to elicit deeply held emotions in individuals that rise to the surface and reverberate in our society at large. Having attended the Papal Mass at the Washington Nationals Stadium, I witnessed both the hushed attentiveness of over forty thousand faithful in the stands as well as several placard-carrying protestors shouting outside the front gates. Not unexpectedly, people expressed strong feelings around this event. As a psychoanalyst as well as a practicing Roman Catholic, the Papal visit and the reactions to it were of great interest to me.I would now like to share some psychoanalytic thoughts about a particular incident that occurred during this time. My intent is to show that the effects of clerical sexual abuse might be evident in one victim’s encounter with the Pope. Read the rest of this entry »

The Metropolitan Institute for Training in
Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy,
The Metropolitan Center for Mental Health and
The Metropolitan Society of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapists

    Invite you to a Scientific Meeting

            Friday, May 9, 2008 at 8:00 P.M.

Rage of the Oppressed: Countertransference Predicaments in the Treatment of Two Muslim Patients, Post 9/11    

Presenter: Debra Gill, L.C.S.W.
Discussant: Doris Silverman, Ph.D.     

Selected vignettes from the treatment of two very different patients, both practicing Muslims, will illustrate countertransference dilemmas for the therapist when she is confronted with unconscious fantasy material developed in the context of social and psychological oppression. While both patients endured various forms of cruelty and domination throughout their lives, each managed to live with the resulting internalized burdens until about one year after September 11th. Unconscious terrors resulting in rageful acting out led both of these patients to psychotherapy.  The analysis of unmanageable affects and impulses allowed unconscious experiences of oppressed rage to enter the transference leaving the therapist in paralyzing countertransference states that closely mirrored the patients’ oppression.

DEBRA GILL, L.C.S.W. is a graduate of MITPP’s Adult Program, and is a graduate and member of the New York Freudian Society.  She is on the Faculty and is a Supervisor at MITPP, and is a member of MSPP.  She is a member of the MSPP Program Committee. She is a Visiting Faculty member of The American Institute for Psychoanalysis, and a Supervisor in the Psychology Intern Program at the Karen Horney Clinic and in the New York Freudian Society Psychotherapy Program.

No registration or fee required.  Refreshments served following the presentation.

Meeting Will Be Held At:
The Karen Horney Psychoanalytic Institute and Center
329 East 62nd Street (1st & 2nd Avenues)
1st Floor Auditorium, New York, NY 10021

             For further information: (212) 496-2858, email mitppnyc@aol.com or visit www.MITPP.org

Program Committee: Thomas McCoy, M. Div., LCSW, Chair * Debra Gill, LCSW *
Joyce A. Lerner, LCSW * Patricia Saunders, Ph.D. * Ivy Vale, BFA

Click Here to Read: Maurice Preter and Donald Klein (April, 2008). Panic, Suffocation False Alarms, Separation Anxiety and Endogenous Opioids. This paper originally appeared in Prog Neuropsychopharmacol Biol Psychiatry 1:32 (3): 603-12 and appears here with all requisite rights and permissions.

Click Here to Read: WW II: Character Changes in Battle by Howard Schlossman.
 
 
 
 
 
 

Click Here to Read: My War with the Germans and the U.S. Army: From Civilian to Major to Civilian by Howard Schlossman

Click here for: The Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis and Dynamic Psychiatry

Click Here for: Guilford Press.

Herbert H. Stein, M.D.

Published in The Journal of The American Academy of Psychoanalysis and Dynamic Psychiatry (2007) vol. 35:4.

Abstract: The hallmark presentation of combat trauma – nightmares, waking hallucinations, intrusive traumatic memories and extreme affective reactions to environmental triggers – may best be conceptualized as part of an adaptive mechanism intended to protect the individual against a repetition of trauma.  Combat veterans continuously must cope with the extreme affects that combat induced.  Fear, rage, guilt and grief predominate.  Their mental and emotional life is complicated by a conscience split between war zone and civilian morality and by the special group dynamics of combat.  Optimal clinical understanding of combat-related trauma, whether in a psychoanalytic or general mental health setting, requires an awareness of the interaction of the personal dynamics of each individual with the specific characteristics of their combat situation.

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THE NEW YORK PSYCHOANALYTIC SOCIETY & INSTITUTE
247 East Eighty-Second Street, between 2nd & 3rd
                                      

Freud Anniversary Lecture
Tuesday, May 13, 2008, 8:15 p.m.

Sander Abend, M.D. will speak about Freud, Transference and Therapeutic Action.
A Reception follows the lecture.  Please RSVP by 4/30/08 for the reception:

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The International Psychoanalytic website is pleased to present an important op ed piece Marian Tolpin, the eminent analyst from Chicago, has asked us to publish her commentary on the training analyst and we have agreed.  She explains clearly, articulately, and persuasively why the training analyst title should be retired.  The International Psychoanalytic Blog is pleased to share her thoughts with  the world  because it stands for freedom of expression. The Executive Board of the International Psychoanalytic Association would not permit its publication. The blog  welcomes comments on this important and timely article.

Jane S. Hall
Op Ed Editor

Thoughts on the Group Self of psychoanalysis,
in light of the controversy over Training Analysis status

Marian Tolpin, M.D.

There is currently a great deal of debate taking place in psychoanalytic training centers, around the world and here in the United States, concerning whether there should be a separate category of graduate psychoanalysts designated as specially qualified to analyze future psychoanalysts. Among those who do believe that there needs to be such a category, further debate has raged on what that special qualification might entail and on the particulars of how (when, by whom) it should be established and evaluated.

In what follows below I reflect on my own experiences in regard to this category and on the lengthy history of the Training Analysis question as a disruptive force in institutional psychoanalysis. As I consider why this fractious issue, which has caused so much dissension in our profession, remains perpetually unresolved, I conclude that the Training Analysis serves a Group Self cohesive function. As such, it joins a list of other myths that have served that function in the past; myths that were clung to but ultimately had to be relinquished in the face of contradictory evidence. Read the rest of this entry »