Archive for the 'General News' Category

Legal showdown over gay conversion therapy waged in 2 states.

Friday, January 25th, 2013

Click Here to Read:  Legal showdown over gay conversion therapy waged in 2 states. At issue is whether states can ban the therapy on minors and whether counselors who conduct the therapy can be held liable for consumer fraud bBy Alicia Gallegos on the amednews.com website on  January 21, 2013.

Grief Over New Depression Diagnosis

Friday, January 25th, 2013






Click Here to Read:  Grief Over New Depression Diagnosis By Paula Span in The New York Times on January 24, 2013,

HAITI PROJECT LOG PART II: January 13, 2013 Gilbert Kliman, M.D.

Thursday, January 24th, 2013

Click Here to Read: Haiti: Child Rape, an Analyst’s Interventions, Part 1, by Gil Kliman on this Website.

HAITI PROJECT LOG PART II:    January 13, 2013  Gilbert Kliman, M.D.

No, the Prime Minister didn’t meet with us.  Hugo Chavez or at least his sash was being inaugurated and Mr. Laurent Salvador Lamothe left us to the good offices of his very effective assistant, Allison Llera.  We took photographs and got lots of good advice.  Meanwhile, no more child-raping is occurring in the seven camps we serve and UNFPA still will not meet with me.

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Mamet: Hands Off My Gun

Wednesday, January 23rd, 2013

Click Here to Read:  Mamet: Hands Off My Gun. The individual is not only best qualified to provide his own personal defense, he is the only one qualified to do so. By David Mamet ion the Daily Beast on  January 29, 2013.

The Mystery Of Social Media

Wednesday, January 23rd, 2013




Click Here to Read: The Mystery Of Social Media: Talking With ISPSO About ‘Screen-Relations’ by Todd Essig on the Forbes Magazine website on January 22, 2013,

Members of Congress Push for More Mental Health Funding for Schools

Wednesday, January 23rd, 2013

Click Here to Read: Members of Congress Push for More Mental Health Funding for Schools on the Psychiatric News Alerts website on American Psychiatric Association on January 23, 2013.

U.S. Rep. Grace Napolitano

The Happiness Project website

Wednesday, January 23rd, 2013

Click Here to Read:  The Happiness Project website.

“Psychoanalysis by Surprise”: Apartheid, War, and the New York Subway

Wednesday, January 23rd, 2013






Click Here to Read:  “Psychoanalysis by Surprise”: Apartheid, War, and the New York Subway by Rod Deaton on his Paving the Way Back Blog website on January 21, 2013,

HBO drama Burning Bush delivers first film treatment of Palach story

Tuesday, January 22nd, 2013









Click Here to Read:  HBO drama Burning Bush delivers first film treatment of Palach story by Ian Willough on the Radio Praha website on January 22, 2013.

U.S. News & World Report Ranks the Austen Riggs Center #10 Best Hospital in Psychiatry Nationwide

Tuesday, January 22nd, 2013




Click Here to Read: U.S. News & World Report Ranks the Austen Riggs Center #10 Best Hospital in Psychiatry Nationwide on the Austen-Riggs Center website.

Museum of the History of Polish Jews

Tuesday, January 22nd, 2013




Click Here to View:  Museum of the History of Polish Jews on YouTube.

President Obama’s second inaugural address (Transcript)

Monday, January 21st, 2013




 

Click Here to Read: President Obama’s second inaugural address (Transcript) in the Washington Post on January 21, 2013.

Organization and Governance of Universities

Sunday, January 20th, 2013

Click Here to Read:   Organization and Governance of Universities by
Ivar Bleikliea and Maurice Koganb in Higher Education Policy (2007) 20, 477–493.

Should Therapists Play Cupid?

Sunday, January 20th, 2013






Click Here to Read: Should Therapists Play Cupid? by Richard A. Friedman in The New York Times on  January 19, 2013.

The Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis

Saturday, January 19th, 2013

Click Here to Read:   The Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis website.

Hypochondria: An Inside Look

Tuesday, January 15th, 2013






Click Here to Read: Hypochondria: An Inside Look by Woody Allen in The New York Times on January 12, 2013.

The Newtown Shootings: Guns, Not Games

Sunday, January 13th, 2013

Click Here To Read:   The Newtown Shootings: Guns, Not Games By Harvey Roy Greenberg.  Dr. Greenberg’s previous article about the  New Town Shootings originally appeared in CLINICAL PSYCHIATRY NEWS.”

 

The helplessness we feel as infants can become a great gift to us as adults

Saturday, January 12th, 2013

Click Here to Read:   The helplessness we feel as infants can become a great gift to us as adults. Finding strength in weakness is how St Paul understood the human condition. It’s a surprisingly Freudian agenda by Giles Fraser in the The Guardian, on  January 11, 2013.

Is Distance Treatment the Wave of the Future?

Thursday, January 10th, 2013




Click Here to Read:  Is Distance Treatment the Wave of the Future? By Christy Matta, MA on the World of Psychology website on

Generation LGBTQIA

Thursday, January 10th, 2013

Click Here to Read: Generation LGBTQIA By Michael Schulman in The New York Times on January 9, 2013.

The University of Pennsylvania freshmen, from left, Anastasiya Kudryashova, Roderick Cook, Britt Gilbert, Kate Campbell, Gabriel Ojeda-Sague and Santiago Cortes.