Click Here to Read: College Students and Suicide Risk: Prevention and the Role of Academic Psychiatry Sidney Zisook, M.D.; Nancy Downs, M.D.; Christine Moutier, M.D.; Paula Clayton, M.D. in Academic Psychiatry 2012 ;36:1 on January 01, 2012.
Click Here to Read: A Seminal Leader in the Field of Psychoanalysis: Retrospective Sketches about the Life of Bertram David Lewin (1896-1971) by Lawrence M. Ginsburg.
Bertram David Lewin
Click Here to Read: An Ergodic Theory of Consciousness by Abraham Boyarsky and Pawel Gora.
This article originally appeared as: Boyarsky, Abraham and Gora, Pawel, (2009). An Ergodic Theory of Consciousness. International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos, Vol. 19 (4): 1397-1400 and appears here with requisite rights and permissionl.
Abraham Boyarsky
Rudi Ekstein, when he came to Chicago, called himself “Rudi Appleseed.” This captured his humor, his sense of wandering and his adopted America. He was a regular at the Orthogenic School, Dr. B. (Bettelheim) and he bantered warmly, even as Dr. B. insisted that the milieu was more useful for severely disturbed children than individual psychotherapy (at the early phases of residential care). Rudi, transplanted from Topeka to LA, now sporting Hollywoodish frilly tuxedo sleeves and collar, although tieless, leonine headed with full hair, was a physical counterpoint to bald Dr. B. Both were short, both were brilliant, dedicated pedagogues, clinicians. (more…)
Click Here to Read: Remarks on 50 Years of the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy And Psychoanalysis by Martin L. Nass, Ph.D., ABPP This talk was given at The NYU Postdoc 50th anniversary.
NYPSI Gets Gopnik-ed
N. Szajnberg, MD, Managing Editor
“Children reconnect us to romance…..The passions … rise for them everyday….They compel us to see the world as an unusual place again. Sharing a life with them is sharing a life with lovers, explorers, scientists, pirates, poets. It makes for interesting mornings.” from Through the Children’s Gate.
Adam Gopnik, interviewed by Lois Oppenheim, brought this warm sensibility to NYPSI’s centennial celebration last Friday night; it was a stellar hit for (more…)
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…)
Chuck Fisher returns to the Achuar of Ecuador, deep in the Amazon, where he has visited over the past seven years to join in their daily 4 a.m. dream reports and interpretations.
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.
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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…)