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Our guest writer is Dr. Charlie Gardner.  He co-authored the piece on gender and psychiatry posted recently  Click Here to Read this Article. But, there are several personal connections with this piece on practicing psychiatry and psychoanalysis in a small town: first a connection with his grandfather and father; second a connection we have from the 1980′s. Charlie Gardner’s grandfather was an old-time country doc who did home visits; drove a flivver. Charlie’s dad taught at the Yale Psychiatric Institute (and taught one of my dream courses). Charlie was a resident at Cornell Westchester when I was on faculty. (more…)

Listen to the remarkable openness about dream life and to Chuck’s gentle manner of pursuing the Achuar’s view of dream predictability, inevitableness and the “oculto,” where dreams continue their dark work.

The pictures are stunning; the video of fishing by hand, unique. (more…)

Click Here to Read: Siegfried Bernfeld: Psychoanalyse, Pädagogik und Zionismus [Druckerfreundliche Version] . Mai 16, 2010. This article is in German.

Siegfried Bernfeld

Click Here to Read: South Africa Letter from Chuck Fisher on this website.

Click Here to Read: The Peregrinating Psychoanalyst (Try Repeating): Chuck and Leah Fisher now in Argentina on this website.

Click Here to Read: Peripatetic Psychoanalyst III: Perchance to Dream on this website.

Click Here to Read: Peripatetic Continues: Rio Favelas: the Analyst, the Dance and the AK47′s by Chuck Fisher on this website.

Click Here to Read: Peripatetic Psychoanalyst (Almost) Dances in Ghana by Chuck Fisher on this website.

Click Here to Read:  The Rise and Fall of American Psychosomatic Medicine by Theodore M. Brown given at the New York Academy of Medicine on November 29, 2000,  posted on the Free Associations website..

Theodore M. Brown

 Teen Brain Development: Blos Revisited

  N. Szajnberg, MD, Managing Editor

 This recent, scholarly review of adolescent neurobiological  development, elaborates its complexity, both anatomically and  pharmacologically. In some sense, it re-presents eter Blos Sr.’s  books on adolescent development.   But,this review then continues with the implications  for trying to medicate the adolescent, including the controversies About the SSRI’s. 

 N. Szajnberg, MD

 By Karanges and McGregor: (more…)

Click Here to Read: Dramatology in life, disorder, and psychoanalytic therapy: A further contribution to interpersonal psychoanalysis by Zvi Lothane.

This article originally appeared as:  Lothane, Zvi. (2009). Dramatology in life, disorder, and psychoanalytic therapy: A further contribution to interpersonal psychoanalysis. International Forum of Psychoanalysis, 18:3, 135 - 148 and appears here with all requisite rights and permissions.  

 Click Here to Read: Dramatology vs. narratology: (more…)

Mark Solms visited by Chuck Fisher, shortly before Mark became Sigourney-ed. 
N. Szajnberg, MD Managing Editor

  This report concerns his visit in South Africa on Mark Solms’ estate.

Dear Friends and Colleagues,

              Leah and I had an exciting visit with Mark Solms, the well-known psychoanalyst and neuropsychologist who has done so much to shape contemporary views of the dreaming brain and the neuroscience of subjectivity. Mark was quite interested in Beth Kalish’s and my findings about dreams among the Achuar in the Amazon.  We talked about those at some length and considered the issue of worldwide similarities in dream contents in relation to the neuroscience of dreaming.  There may be further developments about this topic as we look to the future. He also had lots to say about his debates with Alan Hobson and the current state of scientific research on the (more…)

Peripatetic Continues: Rio Favelas: the Analyst, the Dance and the AK47′s. Chuck Fisher reports

Chuck and Leah hit tuff turf in a Rio favela. Chuck and Leah join an Afro-Brazilian Candomble ceremony.  During hours of religious, celebratory dance, including trances, the air is punctuated by both pounding rain and AK47 shooting.  Let’s watch and listen. Soon, the rain forest.

Nathan Szajnberg, MD, Managing Editor

Candomble Night in Rio: On Not Knowing What is Dangerous   Chuck Fisher from the Favelas of Rio

     While Chuck Fisher is in the wilds of the Amazon or thereabouts, he found a way to get this letter and video to us about their stay in Ghana. Dreaming and Dancing on the Shores of Lake Volta.

  N. Szajnberg, MD, Managing Editor
 
Dear Colleagues:        
    
         Leah and I have had some spectacular experiences in Ghana.

         It began on our first or second full day in Ghana.  I sent e-mail to Akosua Adomako, Director of the Institute of African Studies at the University of Ghana–Legon; Angela Ofori-Atta in Psychology; and Kodzo Gavua in (more…)

Click Here to Read: December All-Day Conference Report: Muriel Dimen Presents on Sex and the Psychoanalyst: Perversion and Desire By Ruth Lijtmaer, Ph.D. on the Center for Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis of New Jersey website.

Click Here to Read: Myth, Mind and Metaphor:On the Relation of Mythology and Psychoanalysis byNadia Sels on the website of S: The Journal of jan van eyck  circle for lacanian ideology critique.

Nadia Sels

Click Here To Read: Father’s Day 1994 by David James Fisher

Martin Milton Fisher, MD with his son David James Fisher 

“Last Father’s Day” Dr. David James Fisher, Ph.D.

Jimmy Fisher returns.  Dr. Fisher wrote the review of the Spielrein-Jung-Freud movie, which moved many readers. (more…)

Chuck Fisher and his wife Leah are taking a six month travel sabbatical. Prior to this break, Chuck has studied Dream Rituals of the Achuar of Ecuador: here are observations on African dream rituals. Next, week, dancing with the Ghanians.
Nathan Szajnberg, MD, Managing Editor

Dear Friends and Colleagues,

Leah and I are enjoying adventures in Cape Town, South Africa. It’s a comfortable place to stay, much more reminiscent of San (more…)

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: How I Retired from my Psychoanalytic Practice by Alma Bond.

Alma Bond

PSYCHOANALYSIS IN CONFLICT: ORTHODOXY AND HERESY: Part 2
By Elio Frattaroli, MD.

Introduction: Nathan Szajnberg, MD, Managing Editor
Frattaroli argues that conflict in our discipline was inevitable: in part I, he shows that Freud’s ambivalent heresy and orthodoxy became played out in his disciples, who, however became either heretics (Reich, Fromm, Adler) or orthodox (Strachey, Jones, Hartmann).  Frattaroli studies our discipline as an organism with its own psychic dynamics: understanding these more clearly may permit us to master the conflicts, rather than perpetuate them in a repetition compulsion. (more…)

The Peregrinating Psychoanalyst (Try Repeating): Chuck and Leah Fisher now in Argentina
N. Szajnberg, MD, Managing Editor

A treat. Chuck Fisher and his wife Leah are taking a six month travel sabbatical. Prior to this break, Chuck spent time with the Acuar of South America on their dream rituals.  He generously shares his experiences and photos with International Psychoanalysis readers.  Last report was his visit in South Africa on Mark Solms estate.  Today, we voyage through tangos, glaciers, water falls in Argentina, and a secret loma steak meal with David and Estella Rosenfeld. (Chuck will send (more…)

Click Here to Read: Toward a Definition of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy by Jacob Arlow.

Introduction to Jacob Arlow’s paper:”Toward A Definition of Psychoanaltytic Psychotherapy”.
I thought I would begin, what will be (more…)