International Psychoanalysis

Click Here to Read:  By Jonathan Alpert in  The New York Times on April 21, 2012.

Click Here to Read: “We Have Nothing to Fear, But . . . “We have nothing to fear, but…”; Makari on the Anxieties in Today’s NYTimes on this website.

 Click Here to Read:  Jonathan Alpert’s Mis-Statements, And Possible  Misconduct by Todd Essig on the Forbes Magazine website on April 23 2012.

Click Here to Read: Is Quick Therapy the Best Therapy? Letters to the Editor in the New York Times on on April 23, 2012.

Response to “In Therapy Forever: Enough Already,” (NYT 4-22-12)

Nathan Szajnberg MD Managing Editor

Imagine retitling Alpert’s OP-Ed “In Therapy Forever? Enough Already”: into “In Medical Treatment Forever? Enough Already.”

This is not entirely wrong; it simply doesn’t make sense. If medical treatment is for a runny nose, of course medical treatment shouldn’t be forever; any Doc-in-the-box can handle this. If it is for a diplococcal pneumonia, of course  (more…)

Click Here to Read: Does psychoanalysis have a valuable place in modern mental health services? No by Alistair D. Sweet on the BMJ website on April 3, 2012.

Alistair D. Sweet

Click Here to Read: Does psychoanalysis have a valuable place in modern mental health services?  no letters by Adrian Salter, Ronald S Doctor, William J. Lang, Francis Dunne, Anuradha Menon, Andrew F Clark, Peter J. Gordon, T.David Simpson and Raymond F Travers on the  BMJ website on  March 2, 2012.

Adrian Salter

Click Here to Read: Letters: It’s Asperger Syndrome … or Is It? Letters to the Editor of the New York Times on February 3, 2012.

Click Here to Read: ‘Goldilocks’: Balancing learning and self-esteem, Letter to the Editor of the Washington Post by Herbert Gross on January 21, 2012.

Click Here to Read: The article Herbert Gross was respondidng to:  In schools, self-esteem boosting is losing favor to rigor, finer-tuned praise By Michael Alison Chandler in the Washington Post on  January 15, 2012.

Click Here to Read:  Treating People With Schizophrenia, Letters to the Editors of the New York Times on November 29, 2011.

Click Here to Read: Letter: ‘Mandated reporter’ applies at Penn  by Richard R. Hansen on the Newsday website on  November 17, 2011.

Click Here to Read:    Tomorrow’s Psychologists (3 Letters) in the New York Times on November 14, 2011.

Click Here to Read: Training Lawyers: Theory vs. Practice: Letters in the Editors in the New York Times November 21, 2011.

Click Here To Read: Intern Gap Frustrates Clinicians in Training By Joseph Berger in the New York Times on  November 8, 2011.

Click Here to Read: Tomorrow’s Psychologists (3 Letters) to the New York Times on November 14, 2011.

Click  Here to Read: Physician Heal Thyself   Part I by Frederick Crews in the New Review of  Books September 29. , 2011.

Click Here to Read:  Physician Heal Thyself   Part II by Frederick Crews in the New Review of  Books October 13, 2011.

Crews’ vs. Freud’s need for Certainty
By William J. Massicotte and Harold J. Bursztajn

 On Crews’ Physician, Heal Thyself: the scientific studies showing clinical effectiveness for the psychodynamic psychotherapies (more…)

Click Here to Read: Sunday Dialogue: Seeking a Path Through Depression’s Landscape in the New York Times on July 16, 2011.

 Click Here to Read:  Invitation to a Dialogue: Treating Depression by Warren Procci in the New York Times on July 12, 2011.

Warren Procci

To the Editor:

As a child analyst, I see the carnage of physical punishment every day in the office. Physical punishment is a major public health problem in this country.

Elizabeth Gershoff (Report on Physical Punishment in the United States) and Susan Bitensky (Corporal Punishment of Children) have recently summarized the data: physical punishment does not work; it makes things worse at every developmental level (it is associated with delinquency, antisocial behavior, abuse of one’ own children later on and so forth); and there are effective alternatives. (more…)

Click Here to Read:  Dream doctor: From a new memoir, a theory about what happens when we’re asleep by Lisa Berk in the Boston Globe on April 3, 2011. 

Click Here to Read: Rapping a bit too hard at the window into self, Letter to the Editor of the Boston Globe by Dr. Michael I. Good on April 10, 2011.

Click Here to Read: Parent Trapped, OpEd  Piece by Katherine Ellison in the New York Times on February 11, 2011.

Click Here to Read:  When Parents Are Pushed to the Limit, Letters to the Editor by Claudia Gold, Paul C. Holinger, Pamela Potischman, Regina Pally and Beth Rosen in the New York Times on February 18, 2011.

Click Here To Read: ’Tis No Pity She’s a C.E.O., review of Mrs. Warren’s Profession By Ben Brantley in The New York Times on October 3, 2010.

Click Here to Read:  Brantley vs. Shaw:  Ann Appelbaum’s letter to the New York Times about Ben Brantley’s review of Mrs. Warren’s Profession.   Also included are Ms. Appelbaum’s letters to Ms. Jones,  Mr. Hughes, and Ms. Hawkins.

Sally Hawkins, left, portrays Vivie, the daughter of Kitty Warren (Cherry Jones), in Doug Hughes’s revival of Shaw’s “Mrs. Warren’s Profession.”

Click Here to Read: Freud thrived in ‘red’ Vienna, letter to the editor by Judith Deutsch in the Sunday Star on October 14, 2010.

Click Here to Read: Correspondence: Pediatric Mental Health Care Dysfunction Disorder? Letters to the editor by Leon Hoffman, M.D. Roger Rahtz, M.D., Steven Wein, M.D.,  and Others in New England Journal of Medicine 363:1187-1189S, September 16, 2010.

Click Here to Read: Unpublished Letter to the Editor of the New York Times on Childhood Depression by Leon Hoffman, written on August 29, 2010.