International Psychoanalysis

We invite you to our discussion group #90 on Loneliness and Aloneness on Thursday January 17 from 7:30 to 10 pm at the Waldorf Astoria in New York City at the ApsaA meetings.

We will have a presentation of a four times per week analytic treatment of a young woman with a schizo-affective disorder who is using anti-psychotic medication. The problem most prominent in her life is fear of loneliness combined with fear of intimacy. Careening between these dangers, she had become unable to function. Understanding her feelings, wishes, moral scruples, and defenses is demonstrated to have an effect on her life choices and the satisfaction she can derive from them.

Those interested in a review of the literature please see our paper “On being lonely, socially isolated and single” on www.internationalpsychoanalysis.net.
Lucille Spira and Arlene Kramer Richards

212-371-1550 212-369-1379

Some are More Equal than Others: Oedipus, Dominance, and the Family

Speaker:  Caroline Garland
Caroline Garland is a Psychoanalyst in private practice and a Consultant Clinical psychologist at the Tavistock Clinic in London. She has had a long-term interest in group dynamics and in psychoanalytic group therapy, which she has practiced and taught for many years. She is the author of the book “Understanding Trauma,” and has written more than 20 articles on the understanding and treatment of post-traumatic conditions.

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Click Here to Read: Gerald R. Gargiulo’s Article on “The Question of Lay Analysis Sixty-Six Years Later” 

Mike Jolkovski’s alert regarding a misguided article about dreams in the Washington Post resulted in my writing the following letter that was printed yesterday.

Much Ado About Dreams

The article’s discussion of the dream process was tilted toward sources representing only one side of an ongoing scientific controversy: reports mainly from non-clinicians who don’t deal with dreams on a daily basis.

While dream interpretation is no longer the centerpiece of psychoanalysis as it was during Freud’s time, it is still useful in understanding the human psyche. For example, revisiting the writer’s Ang Lee dream you might discover the hidden meaning by employing the procedure Freud used to decode his own dreams.
 
After writing down your dream, start at the beginning and, word by word, associate freely (without judging anything as silly or without potential meaning) and note whatever images and thoughts come to mind. Eventually,with practice and willingness to accept unpleasant and surprising thoughts about yourself, you can discover a dream’s meaning.

Myron S. Lazar, PhD
Clinical Professor
Departments of Psychiatry and Clinical Psychology
University of Texas Southwestern Medical
Center

Myron S. Lazar, Ph.D.
Training & Supervising Analyst
Dallas Psychoanalytic Center
8215 Westchester Dr.
Suite 316
Dallas, Texas 75225
214-691-1153