Click Here To Read: Sleeping and Dreaming edited by Helga Raulff, Michael Dorrmann, James Peto and Ken Arnold. Reviewed by A S Byatt in the Times Online, February 8th, 2008.
For a brief period of time this coming weekend, this site will be offline (inaccessible). The data center where our site is hosted will be doing a power upgrade necessitating that everything be turned off. They are doing this in the middle of the night on a weekend so as to have the least impact on their clients. They anticipate being down for a period of about 8 hours beginning on Friday, February 8th at 10 PM Pacific Time (1 AM Eastern). They hope to be back up and running smoothly by 6 AM Pacific Time (9 AM Eastern) on Saturday, February 9th.
Click Here to Read: Arnold Cooper’s Introduction to Anna Ornstein’s Plenary given at the American Psychoanlytic Association’s Winter Meetings at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City on January 26th, 2008.
Click Here to Read: Abraham Sutzkever’s Poem “To My Child” quoted in Anna Ornstein’s Plenary.
Anna Ornstein
Click Here To Read: Interview entitled: “Figuring Out Freud: George Makari” with George Makari, author of Revolution in Mind: The Creation of Psychoanalysis. The interviewer is Tim Follos.
George Makari is director of Cornell’s Institute for the History of Psychiatry, associate professor of psychiatry at Weill Medical College, adjunct associate professor at Rockefeller University, and a faculty member of Columbia University’s Psychoanalytic Center. His writings on the history of psychoanalysis have won numerous awards. He lives in New York City.
CHINA AND PSYCHOANALYSIS
American Psychoanalytic Association at
The Waldorf Astoria Hotel
January 17, 2008
The effects of cultural differences between Chinese and Americans on analyses and supervisions
Charles Fisher, M.D.
1. Carole Rosen, MA. MSW, LCSW
Overview of Some Cultural Differences and History with Some Comments on Clinical Implications
My comments reflect my experience with Chinese immigrants and my own life in China in the late 1970’s, and also being part of a Chinese family for 7 years.
The motivated patients who are in treatment or supervision with CAPA members are an unusual group in China. While the historical aversion to psychotherapy is changing, much psychotherapy in China is conducted in groups. For example, a group focused on road rage. To go outside the family with personal matters has been considered shameful. The Chinese “ego ideal” emphasizes interdependency and intergenerational bonding, in contrast to the Western ideal of separation/individuation. [Editorial note: The very term “ego ideal” contains the Western idea of ego.] Cultural change in China creates a problem for young people relating to traditional elders. Their internal conflicts between filial piety and desires for self-sufficiency and personal fulfillment, lead to guilt. Some individuals seek treatment with Western psychoanalysts in order to minimize their conflict about acting “more Western”. Cultural values de-emphasize open discussion and challenges to authority. Clearly this is relevant to clinical work. (more…)
Click Here for Reviews of The New Black: Mourning, Melancholia and Depression, by Darian Leader and Shoot the Damn Dog: A Memoir of Depression, by Sally Brampton. Reviewed by Hillary Mantel in The Guardian.
Comments on the Reviews by Paul Brinich:
Writing about mourning, melancholia, and depression, Darian Leader writes that
“quick-fix remedies work in the same way as a missile strike works on aterrorist base. In the short term it looks successful, but it does nothing to alter the terrorist mindset. When loss and misery enter our lives, we are impatient to condense a process that, by nature or through talking therapies, can only be worked out over years. We want a name for our condition, and we want a timetable. Even mourning has become target-driven; we are supposed to move through loss in key stages, like schoolchildren, and to lag behind is to demonstrate a pathology.”
The Guardian’s reviewer, Hilary Mantel, gives good marks to Leader’s “The new black: Mourning, melancholia, and depression” while panning Sally Brampton’s “Shoot the damn dog: A memoir of depression.”
Note from Arnold Richards:
Read this and weep. Supporting the war is not the same as supporting our troops
Click Here to Read: “Concern mounts over rising troop suicides, ” an Article on CNN.com.
Click Here to Read: Article on Denial in The Corps by Kathy Dobie in the Nation.
Open Houses for Training in Psychoanalysis at the NYU Psychoanalytic Institute
Adult Psychoanalytic Training
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Tuesday, February 26, 7:30 p.m.
Wednesday, April 16, 7:30 p.m.
(at NYU Medical Center)
Adult Psychotherapy Training
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Saturday, March 15, 11:15 a.m.
(Bellevue)
Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy Training
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Saturday, April 5, 11:15 a.m.
(Bellevue)
OUTREACH SEMINAR
Introduction to Theory and Technique in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy
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Six Saturdays, March 1 – April 12, 11:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
(Bellevue)