International Psychoanalysis

Click Here To Read: Seven Questions for Glen O. Gabbard by Ryan Howes, Ph.D. on December 24, 2008 in In Therapy

Click Here to Read: Introduction – Psychoanalysis in/and/of the Horror Film by Steven Jay Schneider.

 This is an excerpt from the Introduction to Freud’s Worst Nightmares, expected to be published by Cambridge University Press as part of their “Studies in Film” Series. For more information, contact William Rothman or Steven Jay Schneider.

Click Here To Read: The Parted Eye: Spellbound and Psychoanalysis by David Boyd.  

This paper was presented at the Alfred Hitchcock conference For the Love of Fear convened by the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, held from 31 March to 2 April 2000.

Click Here To Read: The Vicissitudes of Personal Experience and the Consequences for Psychological Theory: A Study of Margaret Mahler, M.D., American Child Psychoanalyst, A Review of Margaret Mahler: A Biography of the Psychoanalyst by Alma Bond. 

This review was previously  published as:  Jacobs , Marilyn S. (December 3rd,  2008). The Vicissitudes of Personal Experience and the Consequences for Psychological Theory: A Study of Margaret Mahler, M.D., American Child Psychoanalyst, A Review of Margaret Mahler: A Biography of the Psychoanalyst by Alma Bond.  PsycCRITIQUES 53(49) and appears here with all requisites rights and conditions.

Click Here To Read: Shocking revelation: Santa Clara University professor mirrors famous torture study
By Lisa M. Krieger in the San Jose Mercury News on December 21, 2008.

Click Here To Read and View: Freud, Psychoanalysis, and the Philippson Bible Roundtable. Participants: Mary Bergstein, Abigail Gillman, Diane O’Donoghue (moderator), Bennett Simon, Andrew Stein Raftery, a  Philoctetes Event at the New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute on December 15th, 2008.

Click Here To Hear and View: The Freud’s Jewish World Conference, in which both Mary Bergstein and Abigail Gillman participated.

Click Here To Read: A Review by Joe Gartner of American Therapy by Jonathan Engel in the New York Post on December 22, 2008.

Upublished Letter to the Editor of the New York Times by Henry J. Friedman

To the Editor:

As a practicing psychiatrist who utilizes psychoanalysis, psychotherapy and psychopharmacology in an effort to relieve the emotional suffering of my patients I feel a distinct need to respond   to Scott Stossel’s review of Jonathan Engel’s book, “American Therapy: The Rise of Psychotherapy in the United States”.  Stossel   chooses to attack psychotherapy in general and psychoanalysis specifically despite the fact that Engel’s book, as described by the reviewer, is respectful of treatment and repeatedly cites psychotherapy research that supports the effectiveness of psychotherapy for a large percentage of patients.   I can only wonder   what motivates this reviewer to make unfounded statements, such as, ”If it were to be conclusively demonstrated that therapy doesn’t work, therapists would be put out of business; that’s effectively what’s already happened to Freudian psychoanalysts.”. While it may be common parlance in uneducated circles to announce the death of   Freudian psychoanalysis I would expect a more informed perspective in a review published in the Sunday Times Book Review.  Stossel’s claims are entirely unfounded and appear to emerge from some hostility he   feels about psychoanalysts and psychotherapists earning a living from the work that they perform with a wide variety of patients who are, indeed, helped to live with less anxiety and despair as a result of understanding the influence of their developmental and current life environments. (more…)

Letter to The Editor of the New York Times by Fred M. Sander, published on December 19, 2008. 

To the Editor:

David Brooks summarizes the thesis of Malcolm Gladwell’s new book, “Outliers”: “Exceptionally successful people are not pioneers who created their own success, he argues. They are the lucky beneficiaries of social arrangements.”

Mr. Brooks counters this view with the alternative hypothesis of the power of an individual’s will and capacity to focus imaginatively.

This merely restates an old question of whether leaders create their followers or the reverse. (more…)

 THE NEW YORK PSYCHOANALYTIC SOCIETY & INSTITUTE:
THEATER SERIES
247 East 82nd St., between 2nd & 3rd

Tuesday, January 13, 2009, 7 p.m.

Preview of David Grubin’s Documentary on The Trials of J. Robert Oppenheimer
His last documentary was on Freud.  While the treatment of Oppenheimer was tragic, believe it or not, the recent administration’s record on civil rights, makes 1954 look good.
DISCUSSION: DAVID GRUBIN, FRED SANDER, DAN PREZANT
PLACE: NYPSI
FEE: FREE

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Click Here to Read: Chaplin lifted weary world’s spirits a review by Martin Sieff of the book Chaplin: A Life  by Stephen Weissman in the Washington Times on December 21st, 2008.

Click Here To Read: “‘Chaplin: A Life’: A psychiatrist puts Charlie Chaplin on the couch” a review By Richard Schickel of the book Chaplin: A Life  by Stephn Weissman in the Los Angeles Times on December 19, 2008.

 Click Here to Read: Review of Chaplin: A Life by Stephen M. Weissman from the Beliefnet website November 9, 2008 on this website.

 Click Here To Read: For advance reviews and to learn more about this book from this website.

Click Here to Read: Still Crazy After All These Years By Scott Stossel, a review of American Therapy: The Rise of Psychotherapy in the United States by Jonathan Engel in the New York Times on December 19, 2008.

Click Here to Read: Medusa and The Cowboy: Images of Woman in “Basic Instinct” by Arlene Kramer Richards from the Round Robin Newsletter of Division 39 of the APA.

This article originally appeared as Richards, Arlene Kramer (1994). Medusa and The Cowboy: Images of Woman in “Basic Instinct.” Round Robin Newsletter  Vol 10(1):20-26 and appears here with all requisite rights and permissions.

Arlene Kramer Richards                          Basic Instinct Poster

Click Here To Read: Dali uses myths to explore personal themes by Walker Simon on the Reuters UK Website on Dec 17, 2008.

Click Here to Read: Treating War Trauma in Israel: Lessons for the United States by Ilene Serlin from the Newsletter of Division 56 of the American Psychological Association

Click Here To Read: Psychiatrists Revising the Book of Human Troubles By Benedict Carey in the New York Times on December 17, 2008.

Dr. Darrel A. Regier is co-chairman of a panel compiling the latest Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.

Click Here To Read: Four Modes of Listening in Psychotherapy By David B. Klein, a discussion paper from the Michigan Psychoanalytic Council Website.

The Consortium for Psychoanalytic Research: Sixteenth Annual Conference
February 1, 2009
The Consortium for Psychoanalytic Research, Inc.
www.CPRincdc.org

The Effect of Suicide on Clinicians: A Research Perspective

JANE G. TILLMAN, PH.D.
Sunday, February 1, 2009
8:30 A.M. – 4:30 P.M.

SIBLEY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL
Ernst Auditorium
5255 Loughboro Road, N.W.
Washington DC 20016

16th Annual Conference Jointly sponsored by:
Washington Professionals for the Study of Psychoanalysis
American Academy of Psychoanalysis and Dynamic Psychiatry
Click Here For: Further Details and the Schedule of the Conference

THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOANALYSIS
Of the Karen Horney Psychoanalytic Center
329 East 62nd Street, New York, NY 10065
212-838-8044  www.aipnyc.org

SCIENTIFIC MEETING
Thursday, January 15, 2009 at 8:00 PM

The Absence of the Third and Murderous Dyads
Andrea Celenza

This paper explores multiple factors in the development of male to female erotic transference over time.  Vignettes from an ongoing psychoanalysis with a patient, Michael, are presented to illustrate the various dimensions of a male to female erotic transference at different phases of the treatment.  Multiple levels of Michael’s erotic transference are examined in relation to power, the experience and expression of aggression, and how these may be organized by gender.  The pivotal phase of treatment, revolving around a fantasy of murdering the analyst, will be a special focus.  (more…)

MAX WEINREICH CENTER
ENGLISH-LANGUAGE LECTURES AT YIVO

MONDAY, DECEMBER 29, 2008, 7:00 P.M.
MAX KOHN
(psychoanalyst, Paris)

“What is Jewish Humor? Exploring Wit and Humor in Freud”
Tickets: $10 General / $7 YIVO Members / $5 Students and Seniors (more…)