Click Here to Read: Lucian Freud’s Daughter: He Was Like Sigmund on the Sky News Hd website on February 8, 2012.

Click Here to Read:The Discussion Group on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity: What Happened to Psychoanalysis in the Wake of the Sexual Revolution? A Story About the Durability of Homophobia and
The Dream of Love, 1950s – 2010s with DagmarR Herzog, Ph.D. at the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute.

Click Here to Read: Really? The Claim: Long Work Hours Can Cause Depression
By Anahad O’Connor in the New York Times on February 6, 2012.

Click Here to Read: Cronenberg Goes Freudian by Gary Chew in the Sacremento News on February 6, 2012.

Click Here to Read:  Other Posts on a Dangerous Method on this Website.

Click Here to Read: ‘A Dangerous Method’: Does Art Imitate Life? by on Aaron Levin in the Psychiatric News, Volume 47 Number 3 page 1a-31 on   February 03, 2012.

Click Here to Read: A Dangerous Film Experiment: a review of “A Dangerous Method”  By Dolores  J. Nurss on the Media Boulevard website on  January 30, 2012.

Click Here to Read: Review: A Dangerous Method by Venessa Chan on   the Beaver website on February 8,  2012.

Click Here to Read: In Treatment: season three, DVD review By Terry Ramsey on the Telegraph website on February 6, 2012.

Wednesday, February 15, 2012, 8:30 p.m., Donations Accepted
Dreams in the Elderly, Herbert J. Cogan, MSW, Member, IPTAR
Chief Psychiatric Social Worker, Brooklyn Mental Health Services of HIP
Former Adjunct Professor in Interpersonal Communications,
The New School

In this seminar, Dr. Herbert Cogan will discuss his dreams at age 91. His account is of interest because of how his dreams differ markedly and regularly from his dreams of several years earlier and from those of his patients. Unlike the latter, they may or may not connect to day residues, but in any case do not lend themselves further to dynamic associations, latent dream thoughts or ultimately to possible wishes. They act as signs, rather than symbols, to a seemingly random variety or combination of early memories.

For more information: admdir@nypsi.org
Information Regarding CE Credit for Psychologists
Educational Objectives:
After attending this activity, participants will:

1. understand the factors that differentiate the dreams of a 91 year old man with those of his earlier years.

2. determine the ways in which those dreams function as different markers for his current life.

3. extrapolate the ways in which the dreams act as signs of brain activity rather than express the meaning reflective of the dreamer’s inner life.

4. identify the distinguishing factors between dreams presented by patients and the dreams discussed by the presenter.

Who Should Attend:

Mental health professionals (psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, and licensed psychotherapists).

APA-approved CE Credits:

Psychologists: The New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute, Inc. is approved by the American Psychological Association (APA) to sponsor continuing education programs for psychologists. NYPSI maintains responsibility for this program and its content. APA-approved CE credits are granted to participants with documented attendance and completed evaluation forms. Attendance is monitored. Credit will be granted to participants who submit a completed evaluation form and payment as described. It is the responsibility of participants seeking APA-approved CE credits to comply with these requirements.

If you would like CE credit, please notify the instructor and specify your email address. At the end of the program, you will receive an evaluation form. Upon receipt of the completed evaluation form and your payment, you will receive a PDF via email of your CE credits.

Persons with disabilities: The building is wheelchair accessible and has an elevator. Please notify the registrar in advance if you require accommodations.

DISCLOSURE: None of the planners or presenters of this CE program has any relevant financial relationships to disclose.

Information Regarding CME Credit for Physicians

This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the Essential Areas and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education through the joint sponsorship of the American Psychoanalytic Association and the New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute. The American Psychoanalytic Association is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

The American Psychoanalytic Association designates this Live Activity for a maximum of [2] AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

IMPORTANT DISCLOSURE INFORMATION FOR ALL LEARNERS: None of the planners and presenters of this CME program have any relevant financial relationships to disclose.

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Click Here to Read:  Eraserhead, Film Screening  February 10, 2012.

In a slightly calmer climate the international psychoanalysis website still provides us with stimulating and exciting material ranging from more on the Dangerous Method to mental health in Africa. As always I list those that caught my interest first, followed by the entire list:

1) For those of us who are struggling with the fact that there are not enough psychiatrists and mental health professionals in the USA to take care of our mentally ill, there is a sobering post regarding the state of mental health in Africa, as described by a sole Kenyan psychiatrist, speaking about the stigma in a ***traumatized continent***.

Click Here to Read This Article

2) Finances still dominate the world news. It seems that when all else fail to explain the situation, psychoanalysis comes to the rescue in a new book. *** It is the first study of its kind to use psychoanalysis to explain decisions that triggered the financial In the collapse.

Looking at the root causes of the economic crisis, Adjunct Professor Long said there was a culture of fear and anxiety among the highest levels of management.***

Click Here to Read This Article

3) In light of our ethical plights, the idea of a ***morality pill*** in the Editorials category is intriguing.

Click Here to Read This Article

4) Finally and not surprisingly, not the goals but the journey to understanding turns out to also be the cause of our happiness.

Click Here to Read This Article

Following is the list of contents:

A. In the DANGEROUS METHOD Category:

I. Let***s not beat ourselves up over masochism

If Englishmen enjoy being flogged, why not? Dominatrixes can add to the world***s pleasures. by By Theodore Dalrymple in the Telegraph on January 31, 2012.

To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/
II. Dangerous Method: on the set of David Cronenberg***s new film
By David Gritten on the on the Tlegraph.UK website on January 28, 2012. a) Jung Love: Sabina Spielrein, a forgotten pioneer of
psychoanalysis By Nisha Lilia Diu***On the Telegraph.uk website August 28, 2011.
b) Other Posts on A Dangerous Method on this website.

To read a) and b) please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/
B. In the ANNOUNCEMENTS Category:

III. The Mind in Conflict with Ian Buckingham at NYPSI

PLEASE JOIN NYPSI AS IT CONTINUES ITS CENTENARY CELEBRATION CELEBRATING A CENTURY OF ADVANCEMENT THROUGH SELF-KNOWLEDGE THE NEW YORK PSYCHOANALYTIC SOCIETY & INSTITUTE:
***Extension Committee
247 East 82nd St., between 2nd & 3rd, NY, NY 10028
212-879-6900***www.psychoanalysis.org
THE MIND IN CONFLICT : Ian Buckingham, M.D. Thursdays***8:30 *** 10 pm March 15 *** May 3, 2012 (8 Sessions) Fee $80
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ __________________________________________________

IV. Is War Inevitable? An Interdisciplinary Conference Taking Place at FIT
IS WAR INEVITABLE? AN INTERDISCIPLINARY CONFERENCE
Psychology Making a Difference in Society
.Saturday February 25, 2012
at the Katie Murphy Amphitheatre of the***Fashion Institute of Technology
To obtain a copy of the Brochure for this conference and to read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/
______________________________________________________

V. Executive Editor position available at the International Journal of Psychoanalysis

on the guardian jobs website.

To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _______________________________________________

C. In the AUDIO/VIDEO Category:

VI. Kenya doctor fights mental health stigma in ***traumatized continent***
by Leposo Lillian, David McKenzie and Jessica Ellis on the CNN website on January 31, 2012.

To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _______________________________________________

VII. Gold medal formula: Mind over matter

by Ben Wyatt, CNN on January 31, 2012.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _______________________________________________

D. In the BOOKS Category:

VIII. Psychologist explains financial market madness

Psychologist explains financial market madness on the Health Canal Website on February 1, 2012.

To read more, please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/
E. In the EDITORIALS Category:

IX. We Ready for a ***Morality Pill***?

By Peter Singer and Agaat Sagan on the New York Times website on January 28, 2012.

To read more, please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/

X. Hysteria and the Teenage Girl

By Caitlin Flanagan in the New York Times on January 28, 2012.
To read more, please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/
F. In the GENERAL NEWS Caategory:

XI. InSight: Division 39 E-News

for February 2012,
To read more please go to http://interantionalpsychoanalysis.net/ ______________________________________________________
Ritalin and the Hyperactive Child: Letters to the Editor
in the New York Times on January 3o, 2012.

To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ___________________________________________________

XII. On Love and Healing

by Claudia M Gold on the Boston.com website on January 31, 2012. To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ___________________________________________________

XIII. Why are the French Still Blaming Mothers for Autism?

by Michael Yudell on the Philly.com website on January 31, 2011.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ___________________________________________________

XIV. I Had Asperger Syndrome. Briefly.

By Benjamin Nugent in the New York Times on February 01, 2012. Asperger***s History of Over-Diagnosis By Paul Steinberg in the New York Times on February 01, 2012.

To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ___________________________________________________

G. In the OBITUARIES Category:

XV. Frank Cioffi, Philosopher and Critic of Freud, Dies at 83
By Paul Vitello in the New York Times on February 1, 2012. To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ___________________________________________________
H. In the PAPERS Category:
XVI. The Peripatetic Psychoanalyst Enters the Jungle, Fishing for Dreams Wednesday, February 1st, 2012
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. To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ___________________________________________________

XVII. Siegfried Bernfeld: Psychoanalyse, P**dagogik und Zionismus
Siegfried Bernfeld: Psychoanalyse, P**dagogik und Zionismus [Druckerfreundliche Version] . Mai 16, 2010. This article is in German.

To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ___________________________________________________

I. In the PHOTOGRAPHY Category:

XVIII. Photography Friday: Irv Steinfink

Hindu Shavite Pilgrim, Benares, India by Irv Steinfink. Irv, who lives in Boston, has been a photographer for over forty years. If you would like to have your photography considered for
internationalpsychoanalysis.net***s Photography Friday, please email your jpegs to Joel Seligmann, the photography editor.

To view this magnificent photo please go to

http://intertnationalpsychoanalysis.net/

J. In the SCIENCE NEWS Category:

XIX. The neuroscience of happiness

New discoveries are shedding light on the activities that make us happy. An expert explains By Lucy McKeon on the Salon website on January 28, 2012.

To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _______________________________________________

As the list was shorter this week, I hope that you had a chance to read the post more thoroughly this week and will be able to comment at your leisure.

Respectfully submitted by

Sasha Rolde

Charlie writes of the vicissitudes of small-town analytic practice. In a sense, he has been training for this for a couple generations. Let’s listen to what he has learned over the past few decades.  I hope that we will hear more from him … and from our readers.

Nathan M. Szajnberg, MD, Managing Editor

Analysts as “outsiders,” and outside the Big City by Charles Gardner, MD.  

Non-urban analytic work: since the waning of the Menninger Clinic and the Lodge is there such a practice?   I have several colleagues and friends who do analytic work outside cities, mainly in suburbs. (Access to analytically-oriented treatments outside of cities or major prosperous suburbs is scarce to non-existent, as everybody knows).

Here are just three of the interesting complications to doing classic analytic work outside urban settings: 1. physician anonymity; 2. patient privacy; 3. competition(s) in a small town.

1. The physician has little or no anonymity. Your patients see you at the diner with your family, at cocktail parties, benefits, at church, at clubs, at music performances, at medical staff meetings or fund-raising events, at weddings and funerals, Junior League and garden club events, and, for those of us with home offices (like Freud), patients know where and how we live and how well-weeded our front gardens are. They see our spouses and kids  coming and going. I have had many experiences of patients driving my own kids home after various school events, and even finding out that my kids had sleep-overs at patients’ houses. Their kids are sometimes pals with your kids.

Grist for the analytic mill? Somewhat similar – but not identical – experiences are also routine in academic analytic environments (such as at the Columbia Center, where I trained).

But, all grist is not necessarily worth the time and effort of the milling.

One of my city colleagues asked me why I do analytic work with patients who might be part of my world. I replied that, if I eliminated everybody who might have some contact with me, my busy wife, or my three active kids, I would have no patients at all. We are not hermits. I have found myself playing a tennis match opposite a patient from another team! There is a whole story in that, yet to be told.  

Even better, and also yet untold, was finding that my former analytic patient had been assigned as my anesthesiologist for my hernia repair!  He and I have had a few laughs about that, since then.

2. Your patient has less anonymity. Analysts focus on psychic reality, sometimes to a fault. However, with either prominent patients or with local patients (or both), you learn more about their external reality. I have seen supposedly abstinent patients pounding back Martinis at my favorite restaurant, and looking up at me sheepishly. When patients give me their address for billing, I usually know which house they live in. Often, their kids have been to my house and have seen me dirty and sweaty from the garden or from the tennis court, or their parents have driven up to pick up their kids to find me with a cigar and a beer and a shovel, working out front. I run into patients at Home Depot, at the supermarket, or at the wine shop. Occasionally, a patient will inform me at some point along the way “You do know that Janice (who is my first and only wife) and I are great pals at the Garden Club (or on the tennis team, or some committee, or whatever).”  They often assume that I discuss such things with my wife, which I absolutely do not.

Thus reality raises interesting boundary issues, along with all sorts of intrusions into the development of analyzable transferences.  I believe I have found graceful, effective, and gracious ways of dealing with it all, a topic I will address in later pieces.

I am known in my town as a participant in my large evangelical church, various charitable committees, and as a sportsman and sports competitor of all sorts, from shooting sports to tennis. My kids are very well-known, too. My spouse has been, perhaps, better known than all of us for her participation in Conservative politics and in Bible study groups. It is difficult to be anonymous in smaller towns if you lead an active, engaged life.

Psychoanalysis and other variants of Psychoanalytic work have been an urban phenomenon, with little patient contact outside the office (other than training analyses). Furthermore, Psychiatry and especially Psychoanalysis has been mainly (I do not know the stats) thought of as a practice of Jews – both traditionally urban but also cultural if not ethnic minorities who, in the past (but no longer today) were not fully integrated into the arena of WASPy society. It seems that this is less so today in Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis, but, again, I do not have any data –  nor should it matter.

I have discussed this issue many times with Christian analyst colleagues, both Catholic and Protestant. We wonder whether neurotic patients want a priestly figure of some sort, a wise wizard, somebody outside their world in whom to comfortably confide and yet idealize. Years ago, I was consulted by a devout reborn Christian patient who (rightly) wanted analysis; she was disappointed to discover that I was not Jewish. We explored that. It turned out that she was concerned that I was not an “outsider”; that she would be more comfortable confiding in somebody who might be outside her socio-cultural world, and that she might run into me at a golf outing and flirt with me. A successful 5-year analysis ensued from that awkward but very promisingly-open beginning.

3. In a discipline-crowded small town, new therapy types appear.

On the other hand, my town and my general area has seen the birth of a large number of “Christian counseling centers” in recent years, marketed heavily through the churches and parishes. These centers, with trained “Christian Counselors,” have absorbed large numbers of patients who would have consulted Psychiatrists in the past. In some cases, pastors who know me are now competing with me for patients.

Further, some of our local  Internists have variously-trained therapists on their office staff to whom to refer emotional problems while they supply the Lexapro or whatever. It is a profit center for them.

An issue raised by outcroppings of Christian counselors, or Internists’ hirees, is whether one can do the most effective analytic work without being an “other” in some way, an outsider of some sort. But this issue may be moot in these times when everybody is a “therapist.” Today, the Psychiatric monopoly on help for emotional distress is long gone: the market, as it were, is wide open, and analytically-oriented Psychiatrists and, for certain, Psychoanalysts, find less demand because of that.

Back to my small town.  A week ago, I met a patient at a neighboring club who presented me, on a hot evening after a grueling tennis match, with a chilled glass of Chardonnay. “Thanks so much, ” I said. “I needed that.”

That sort of thing is an unavoidable part of analytic work, in the ‘burbs.

Charles S. Gardner, MD, is a Psychiatrist and Psychoanalyst in Greenwich, CT,  faculty at the Columbia Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, past Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Cornell Medical College, and past Chairman  of the Department of Psychiatry at Greenwich Hospital-Yale New Haven Health.