International Psychoanalysis

Click Here to Read:  Freud 2 Lacan website.

Richard Klein

Click Here to Read: The Self-Contained Snowstorm By Hilary Greenbaum and Dana Rubenstein in thew New York Times on December 30, 2011.

Click Here to Read: The Candidate Connection Newsletter Special Issue “On Happiness.”

Click Here to Read: Insight: Division 39 Enews for January 2012.

Uncertainty and Countertransference
Robert L.  Tyson, M.D.  3/85

    There are, of course, many ways by which uncertainty may affect the psychoanalytic interaction between analyst and analysand.  The nature and quality of that interaction determines whether or not it is a psychoanalytic one, or some other variety, and it ultimately also determines whether it is a process which proceeds, or one which becomes arrested.  I will examine some clinical examples of how the analyst’s uncertainty can affect the analytic process through the countertransference, but first I will establish working definitions of countertransference and of uncertainty. (more…)

Click Here to Read: ‘A Dangerous Method’ plays mind games by Colin Covert in the Star Tribune on December 29, 2011

Click Here to Read: David Cronenberg’s “A Dangerous Method”: Proseminar as filmed entertainment bu Jay Gabler on the Daily Planet website on December 30, 20112.

Click Here to Read:  Other posts on A Dangerous Method on this website.

Click Here to Read: Janet Malcolm: Free Associations December 08, 2011 – January 14, 2012 Online Exhibition Press Release on the Lori Bookstein Fine Art Website.

Click Here to Read:  Old Anxieties Get a New Life: Artist Janet Malcolm Digs Up Ancient Case Files From a Mystery Psychiatrist by Casey Schwartz on the Daily Beast webstie on December 31, 2011.

Click Here to Read: The End of Free Will? by Megan Erickson on the Big Think website on December 29, 2011.

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Thursdays, 30 – 8:40 pm, January 19, January 26, & February 2, 2012 (3 Sessions), Fee $90 (more…)

Click Here to Read: How I Retired from my Psychoanalytic Practice by Alma Bond.

Alma Bond

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Symposium 2012: On Loneliness
Guldwurm Auditorium Mount Sinai Medical Center
March 24th, 2012

Loneliness is perhaps one of the most painful affective states a person can experience. It is a subjective experience that most of us have, at some point in our lives, had. It may be experienced as an intense emptiness or solitude, an isolation from others both internal and/or external. Or, it can be experienced as grief; a loneliness in the presence of others. It can be also be understood by its duration (e.g., temporary or chronic) or, as Sartre noted, an essential feature of the human condition. Sartre believed this condition arose from conflict between the need to create meaning in life and the awareness of isolation or nothingness in the universe. For a psychoanalyst this idea might translate into an infantile experience of needing the mother and becoming aware that she is not always available. For a psychoanalyst this idea might translate into an infantile experience of needing the mother and becoming aware that she is not always available.

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Chronic loneliness has been linked to physical (e.g., cancer, stroke, high blood pressure and cardiovascular disease) and psychological (e.g., depression and schizoid pathology, impaired cognition and personal determination, sleep disturbance, suicide, alcoholism and substance abuse) difficulties. As we can see from the variety of manifestations loneliness is often a complex phenomena in both its aetiology and presentation.
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Click Here to Read:  Should we erase painful memories? “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind” could soon become a reality — but the concept raises some thorny questions By Alison Winter on the Salon.com website on December 31, 2011.

Click Here to Read and View: Lady Gaga’s ‘Marry the Night’ Video and the Transformation of Shame By Joseph Burgo PhD on the Psych Central Website.

Click Here to Read: Midnight in Paris – Guestwords by Francis Levy in the East Hampton Star on December 28th, 2011. 

Owen Wilson, Marion Cotillard in Midnight in Paris

Click Here to Read:  PDF version on the Book The Mentally Ill in America by Albert Deutch.  New York: Columbia University Press, 1946 on the This Book is Drenched website.

Click Here to Read and Listen To:   Beloved Yiddish Singer Adrienne Cooper Mourned by Colleagues By Jon Kalish on the WNYC website on December 30, 2011. 
  

Adrienne Cooper

Click Here to Read: For Somali Women, Pain of Being a Spoil of War by Jeffrey Gettleman in the New York Times on December 27,2 011.

Click Here to Read: Mentally ill flood ERs as states cut services By Julie Steenhuysen and Jilian Mincer on the MSNBC.com website on December 26, 2011.

Click Here to Read: Sir Michael Dummett obituary: Philosopher who focused on falsehood and truth in language i8n the Guardian UK on December 28, 201.1

Click Here to Read: A Second Look At The Death Penalty by Susan Estrich on the National Memo website on December 28, 2011.