International Psychoanalysis

Click Here to Read: The Psychiatrist’s Manual, Analyzed, Letters to the Editor in The New York Times on May 15, 2013.

Note: This article is in press on the ”Deliberately Considered”blog.

“PSYCHIATRY’S GUIDE IS OUT OF TOUCH WITH SCIENCE, EXPERTS SAY” : SO WHAT’S NEXT?

By Jeremy D. Safran, Ph.D.

Tuesday’s (May 7, 2013) New York Times published an article with the headline:
“PSYCHIATRY’S GUIDE IS OUT OF TOUCH WITH SCIENCE, EXPERTS SAY.”
Written by science reporters, Pam Belluck and Benedict Carey, the story
describes an important new initiative by the National Institute of
Mental Health (NIMH), the largest source of federal funding for
mental health research. (more…)

Click Here to Read: The Questions Raised by a Son’s Death:  Letters to the Editors in The New York Times on April 9, 2013,

Ted Gup and sons

Click Here to Read: Sunday Dialogue: Defining Mental Illness: Letters to the Editors in The New York Times on March 23, 2013.

To the Editor:

In NYTimes (2/3/13), you wrote of Richard Fee’s Adderall addiction, the improper prescription of stimulants, and inadequate psychiatric care leading to his substance abuse and death. This tragic story could have been about any psychoactive drug, psychiatric disorder, prescriber or patient. The delivery of psychiatric treatment today has become one of superficial and

Richard Gottlieb

Josephine Wright                   (more…)

Click Here to Read: Violence and Mental Illness, 2 Letters to the Editor of The New York Times on  December 24, 2012.

Sir, – Andrew Scull’s review of After Freud Left: A century of psychoanalysis in America, edited by John Burnham (November 23), begins with a reference to Freud’s “suicide” and ends with the statement that psychoanalysis has “essentially collapsed”. Most students of the history of psychoanalysis learn (more…)

Click Here to Read: Romantic and Parental Love, Letter to Editor of The New York Times by Alicia Guttman on November 11, 2012.

Alicia Guttman

Click Here to Read:   Cut-price therapy and the trauma underlying mental ill health  Letters to the Editor  in The Guardian on  November 7, 2012.

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…)