International Psychoanalysis

Douglas Kirsner discusses his new research published in his recent article, ‘Do as I say, not as I do: Ralph Greenson, Anna Freud and Superrich Patients’ (Psychoanalytic Psychology, Vol. 24, 3, 2007, pp. 475-486).
Op ed by Douglas Kirsner
     Today it can be difficult to imagine a time when psychoanalysis ruled the roost in mental health. During the 1950s and into the 1960s the major psychiatry programs were psychoanalytically oriented and more than half the chairs of psychiatry were analysts. Psychoanalysis was the default option for understanding and for cure. Psychoanalysts effectively controlled psychiatry, where psychoanalysis commanded immense respect as they did in the culture at large where it was an important part the zeitgeist, not only in New York. Read the rest of this entry »

Click Here to Read: Roberto Doria-Medina and Cristina Melgar’s Contribution to the Panel,  ”Creativity, Psychoanalysis, and Art: Remembering, repeating and elaborating in the creative process” on July 26, 2007.