International Psychoanalysis

PLEASE JOIN NYPSI AS IT CONTINUES ITS
CENTENARY CELEBRATION
 CELEBRATING A CENTURY OF ADVANCEMENT THROUGH SELF-KNOWLEDGE

THE NEW YORK PSYCHOANALYTIC SOCIETY & INSTITUTE:
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A SHORT COURSE IN PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTING FOR MENTAL HEALTH PROFESSIONALS William H. Braun, Psy.D. Tuesdays
8:15 – 9:45 pm April 3 & 10, 2012 (2 sessions) Fee:  $30 (more…)

Now We Are Five: An Anniversary for IP.Net
Nathan Szajnberg, MD, Managing Editor

On January 23, 2006, Arnie Richards opened the first issue of International Psychoanalysis with spirited words about Freud: a scientist and humanist, winner of the Goethe prize in literature, a keen observer of human nature, Freud taught us, “words can change the way we think and feel and relate…” Click Here to Read:  Arnold Richards’s Inaugural Post on “Freud Envy.”  Arnie also noted that Freud compared the speculative metapsychology(ies) to scaffolding which can be dismantled without disturbing the house (more…)

Click Here to Read: Boosting Mental Fitness in Middle Age By Tara Parker-Pope in the New York Times on January 19, 2012.

Click Here to Read:  Dramatology: A New Paradigm for Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis and Interpersonal Drama Therapy (IDT) by Zvi Lothane.

This article originally appeared as:  Lothane, Zvi. (2011 Summer ).  Dramatology: A New Paradigm for Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis and Interpersonal Drama Therapy (IDT.  Academy Forum of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis and Dynamic Psychiatry,  Vol. 55, No. 2. , pp. 22-24 and appears here with all requisite rights and permissions.

Click Here to Read: The Partnership of Psychoanalysis  and Psychiatry in the Treatment of Psychosis and Borderline States:  Its Evolution in North America (more…)

Click Here to Read: Free Associations: Collages by Janet Malcolm, with Hilton Als on the New York Review of Books blog.

Click Here to Read:   Why Depression Could Be Good For You by Deborah Dunham on the Blisstree website;  July 19, 2011.

What can be the evolutionary advantage of depression? Richard Friedman puzzles over this in the New York Times today.

Click Here to Read: Depression Defies the Rush to Find an Evolutionary Upside By Richard A. Friedman M.D. on the New York Times on January 16, 2012.

PLEASE JOIN US: for an informal gathering to learn about training at our CHILD & ADOLESCENT PSYCHOTHERAPY PROGRAM
(the CAP program)

Sunday, January 22nd, 3:00-5:00 p.m. At the home of Rori Shaffer
Faculty, graduates, and candidates will be there to describe the program, talk about their experience, and answer any questions. (more…)

Jackson and Gardner’s recent clinical vignettes opened discussion about clinical observations in IP.net 

Click Here to Read:  Gender Matters by Wynn K. Jackson and Charles G. Gardner on this website. 

This piece intends to open thought and discussion on how the analyst’s movements in response to the child — “countermovement,” can be used in treatment. I suggest several types of analyst responsive movements: facilitating interaction, re-enactments, and elaborately child-directed (more…)

Click Here to Read: Project Puts Records in the Patients’ Hands By Roni Caryn Rabin in the New York Times on January 9, 2012.

Click Here To Read:  On Homeland’s Electrifying Conclusion by Harvey Roy Greenberg. Homeand Season is available either through Netflix, Ebay, or Amazon.com, as well as special internet sites. Dr. Harvey Roy Greenberg, Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Albert Einstein College of Medicine at Yeshiva University, publishes widely on cinema, media, and popular culture. Other reviews and essays can be found at his website, http://www.doctorgreenberg.net.  

Michael Goldfein is a doctor of Pediatric Medicine on Martha’s Vineyard.

If you would like to have your photography considered for internationalpsychoanalysis.net’s Photography Friday, please send your jpeg images to Joel Seligmann, the photography editor.

Click Here to Read: A Dangerous Method by Sam Adams on  the City Paper website.

Click Here to Read:  Keira Knightley Is Ferocious in the Erotic “Dangerous Method” By Sean Burns  on the Philadelhpia Weekly website on Janary 4, 2011.

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

Click Here  to Read: Psychoanalysis and the Mad Artist: Hölderlin’s Empty Center by Daniel Tutt on the The The website.

Friederich Hölderlin

Click Here for: The Full Brochure for     
         Symposium 2o12 

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.

 Click Here to Register:  For Symposium 2012.

 
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: ‘Kosher psychology’ gives hope to haredim  by Judy Siegel-Itzkovich on the The Jerusalem Post website  website on December 24, 2011.

Click Here to Read: I Speak My Mind, Patient Take that Very Well, Interview with Estela Welldon By Rita Cochrane in the Guardian UK in the  November 18, 2011 issue. 

Click Here to Read:  The same article in Italian.

Click Here to Read:  Freud and Meaning, Part 2: how does contemporary psychoanalysis conceptualize meaning? by Judith Levy on  Eric Maisel, Ph.D.’s Rethinking Psychology blog on the Psychology Today blogs on December 10, 2011

Click Here to Read:  Part 1 of Judith Levy’s article.

Judith Levy

Click Here to Read: Division 39 Enews for December 2011.

Click Here to Read:  Jacob Arlow’s circa 2002 paper on “Some Notes on Intersubjectivity.”