Click Here To Read: The Certification Debate as a Manifestation of Our Unacknowledged Ambivalences by Leon Hoffman.
Click here to Read: For the historical background of this debate, Paul Mosher and Arnold Richards’s paper “The History of Membership/Certification in the APsaA: Old Demons, New Debates.”
Click Here To Read: Freud at the Crossroads in Rome Monologue (with optional Epilogue) By Robert L. Lippman. Robert Lippman PhD is an all but retired clinical psychologist living in Elizebethtown, Kentucky. This play was given last September in Elizabethtown. Also staged this year by NYC’s Emerging Artists Theatre on May 23rd, 2008.
Click Here To Read: Making Emotional Sense of the Proposed Boycotts against Israeli Academics and Intellectuals by Catherine B. Silver. This article appeared on the website of the journal Engage issue 4: February 2007. This article was later published as “Traumatic Memories and the Need to Punish: The Israeli Boycott” in Psychoanalytic Review 95(3) June 2008. The article is used here (International Psychoanalysis/web) with the permission of the National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis (NPAP).
From May 28 to June 01, in Panama Rep. Panama, ILAP (Instituto Latinoamericano de Psicoanalisis,an integral training branch of IPA) held its 2nd Congress , this one was devoted primarily to children and adolescents: the importance of the body, the organizing aspect of the infantile neurosis in structuring the adult EGO, and the essential need to be flexible in creating the therapeutic environment as well as in making the diagnosis during this developmental phases.
There were more than 50 attendees from 5 different Latin American countries. Dr. Peter Blos Jr. was an invited presentor. Among other distinguish presentors there was Dr. Javier Garcia (Uruguay) President of ILAP .
Click Here To Read: Reflections on In Treatment by Glen Gabbard. This article appeared in The American Psychoanalyst, (42:2) newsletter of The American Psychoanalytic Association appears here with the requisite rights and permissions.
This article may not exactly replicate the final version published in the TAP. It is not the copy of record.
Click Here to Read: One Year Later: The Aftermath of TA Reform at the NYFS by Phyllis L. Sloate and Joann K. Turo
Click Here To Read: Corporations on the Couch: Analyze this: My Job, My Life and Why I’m Not Thrilled by Lynn Friedman in the Washington Business Journal, which appeared on Friday, June 1st, 2008.
Click Here To Read and Listen To: Argentina - Dancing To The Music Of The Mind, an article about a documentary about psychoanalysis and the tango in Argentina.
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THE NEW YORK PSYCHOANALYTIC SOCIETY & INSTITUTE
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Tuesday, June 10, 2008, 8:15 p.m.
Peter Fonagy, Ph.D. will discuss a paper by Susan Sherkow, M.D. and Lissa Weinstein, Ph.D. on Stock-Still Behavior: A Potential Developmental Marker for the Representation of Self and Other in Toddlers.
Join us for light refreshments from 7:30 to 8 p.m.
For information about our training programs please visit us at: http://www.psychoanalysis.org
Click Here To Read: “The Psychodynamics of Contemporary Rabbi and Congregation” by Alan Miller. Alan Miller is former Rabbi of the Society for the Advancement of Judaism and currently a psychoanalyst in private practice. He is a member of the New York Freudian Society and the International Psychoanalytic Association. He is the International Psychoanalysis Website editor for Religion and Mythology.
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Click Here to Read: “Freud, The Greatest Modern Writer” by Harold Bloom which appeared in the New York Times Health Section on Friday, June 6, 2008. First published March 23rd, 1986.
Click Here to Read: Reflections on a Profession: What’s in a Name? by Gerald J. Gargiulo. This article was previously published: Gargiulo, Gerald, (2007). Psychoanalytic Psychology vol.24, no.3 pp 503-506 and appears here with the requisite rights and permissions.
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“This article may not exactly replicate the final version published in the APA journal. It is not the copy of record.
Click Here to Read: “Freud`s Dream Comes True At Austrian University,” an article published on the Javno website, a Bosnian news site.
Click here to Read: Article by Anemona Hartocolis, daughter of analyst Peter Hartocolis, Entitled: “Clinic Treats Mental Illness by Enlisting the Family” which appeared in the New York Times on June 4, 2008.
You are cordially invited to attend Discussion Group # 37: Psychoanalysis and China. We will meet Thursday, June 19, 7:30-10:00 P.M.
CAPA’s President, Elise Snyder, will be flying back from Chengdu, China on Wednesday night and will give us an update on the situation in Sichuan and on CAPA’s mental health relief efforts there. We will also be discussing new CAPA initiatives in China.
Please join us.
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Click Here to Read: Batya Monder’s paper on Shame and the Internet. This article has been previously published: Monder, Batya (2008) the Round Robin, Newsletter of Division 39 of the American Psychological Association and appears here with the requisite rights and permissions.
Click here To Read: “Plea for a Measure of Privacy in Psychoanalytic Education” by Isaac Tylim from the Future of Psychoanalytic Education Conference, held on December 1st and 2nd 2007 at the Lycee Francais in New York City.
POETRY MONDAY: June 2, 2008
Michael Waters
It’s my pleasure this month to introduce the distinguished poet Michael Waters, whose publications include eight collections of poetry and numerous anthologies and critical works. Among his awards are fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Maryland Arts Council, three Pushcart Prizes, and residencies in Ireland, Switzerland and on Malta. His readings, workshops and visiting professorships have taken him throughout the U.S. and abroad, including Prague, Baghdad, Iasi (Romania) and Toulouse. A longtime professor of English at Salisbury University in Maryland, Michael Waters will be assuming a similar position at Monmouth University in New Jersey in September 2008.
Here, then, are three poems from Michael Waters’ book Parthenopi: New and Selected Poems (BOA Editions) that he is pleased to share with us.
Irene Willis
Poetry Editor
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The following is an unpublished letter to the editor of the New York Times by Leon Hoffman
To the Editor,
Thank you very much for the story on Charles Brenner.
I thought your felicitous phrasing of conflict and compromise formation theory has no peer.
“that the engine of human motivation was more like a psychological calculator, continuously computing ratios of pleasure versus pain: the gratification that would come from a love affair, for instance, versus the risk of discovery and abiding ache of guilt.
In analytic therapy, patients could reach a compromise between incompatible wishes that resolved some of the distress and was useful, Dr. Brenner argued.”
I will certainly quote you as I write about this further. In fact, in your phrasing you highlight the power of this theory and its consistency with our information age as we understand more and more about the power of computation. What is very interesting about the history of psychoanalysis is the tension between structural theories and functional theories. (more…)
The following is an unpublished letter to the editor of the New York Times by Stephen Rittenberg and Herbert Wyman
To The Editor:
As psychoanalytic colleagues of the late Charles Brenner, and as founding Editors of the Journal of Clinical Psychoanalysis, we applaud the accuracy with which the obituary described Dr. Brenner’s work and the impact it had on our field. At the same time we must observe that the obituary was grotesquely inaccurate in its descriptions of Charlie Brenner as a “ruthless” “relentless” “dismissive” “intransigent purist.” We speak both from personal experience of Charlie’s warmth and generosity, and from our professional experience of the way he welcomed reasoned criticism. The statement which we found especially wrongheaded was that there was “a limit to the extent to which his thinking evolved” and that this limitation contributed to the decline of psychoanalysis. The opposite is true. The only “limitation” to Charlie’s thinking was his unwillingness to abandon scientific thinking in favor of fashionable cant. Charlie’s thinking evolved continuously throughout his long life: Just one month before his death he presented a paper in which he further developed the new ideas which have in fact revivified psychoanalysis and will contribute to its evolution throughout the 21st century.
Sincerely,
Stephen M Rittenberg MD
Herbert M Wyman MD