Click Here to Read:  A Response to “My LIfe in Therapy”: Daphne Merkin’s Long and Difficult “Education in Disillusioned Realism” Did Daphne Merkin’s four decades of psychotherapy fail miserably?  by Dr. Stephen Diamond on his Evil Deeds blog on the Psychology Today blogs on September 2, 2010.

In addition to being a fine and dedicated photographer, Paul is a psychologist at the Metropolitan Center for Mental Health, and he was an intern at the New York Psychoanalytic Institute.

If you would like your photography to be considered for Photography Friday, please submit your images, in jpeg format, via email, to the Photography Editor, Joel Seligmann

Click Here to Read:  Child’s Ordeal Shows Risks of Psychosis Drugs for Young by Duff Wilson in the New York Times on September 1, 2010.

Click Here to Read: Charlie Rose: The Brain Series with videos of 10 tv shows where Charlie Rose discusses the brain with experts on the Charlie Rose website.

Note from Maggie Zellner:

Note that the episodes are posted in reverse chronological order on the website, with the first episode listed at the bottom of the page. Here’s a list of the topics and guests for episodes 2-9:

2: The Perceiving Brain with Charlie Rose, Eric Kandel (Columbia), Tony Movshon (NYU), Nancy Kanwisher (MIT), Ted Adelson (MIT), and Pawan Sinha (MIT).

3: The Acting Brain, with Charlie Rose, Eric Kandel (Columbia), Daniel Wolpert (University of Cambridge), John Krakauer (Columbia), Thomas Jessell (Columbia), and Robert Brown (Massachusetts General Hospital).

4: The Social Brain, with Charlie Rose, Eric Kandel (Columbia), Cori Bargmann (Rockefeller), Giacomo Rizzolatti (Parma, IT), Kevin Pelphrey (Yale), and Gerald Fischbach (Simons Foundation).

5: The Developing Brain, with Charlie Rose, Eric Kandel (Columbia), Elizabeth Spelke (Harvard), Patricia Kuhl (University of Washington), Huda Zoghbi (Baylor College of Medicine), and Stephen Warren (Emory University School of Medicine).

6: The Aging Brain, with Charlie Rose, Eric Kandel (Columbia), Brenda Milner (Montreal Neurological Institute), Larry Squire (UCSD), Scott Small (Columbia), and John Hardy (University College London).

7: The Emotional Brain, with Charlie Rose, Eric Kandel (Columbia), Nora Volkow (National Institute on Drug Abuse), Eric Nestler (Mt. Sinai), Wolfram Schultz (University of Cambridge), and Daniel Salzman (Columbia).

8: The Anxious Brain, with Charlie Rose, Eric Kandel (Columbia), Joseph LeDoux (NYU), David Anderson (California Institute of Technology), Kerry Ressler (Emory), and Antonio Damasio (University of Southern California).

9: The Mentally Ill Brain, with Charlie Rose, Eric Kandel (Columbia), Kay Redfield Jamison (Johns Hopkins University), Jeffrey Lieberman (Columbia), Elyn Saks (University of Southern California), Stephen Warren (Emory), and Helen Mayberg (Emory).

10: The Disordered Brain, with Charlie Rose, Eric Kandel (Columbia), John Krakauer (Columbia), Mahlon DeLong (Emory), John Donoghue (Brown), and Nancy Bonini (University of Pennsylvania).

Best regards,
Maggie

Margaret R. Zellner, Ph.D., L.P.
President and Chair
The Neuropsychoanalysis Foundation

THE NEW YORK PSYCHOANALYTIC SOCIETY & INSTITUTE:
SCIENTIFIC MEETING
247 East 82nd St., between 2nd & 3rd, NY, NY 10028
Tuesday, September 14, 2010
8:15 p.m.

The Fear of Death & the Treatment of Dying Patients:
A Psychoanalyst, Psychiatrist Updates our Concepts

Norman Straker, M.D.
Faculty, NYPSI
Clinical Professor of Psychiatry,
Weill Cornell College of Medicine
Adjunct Lecturer, Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Consultant, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Discussant: Jimmie Holland, M.D.
Wayne E. Chapman Chair in Psychiatric Oncology,
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Professor of Psychiatry, Weill Cornell College of Medicine

This presentation will demonstrate that the fear of dying is a far more common concern than is acknowledged in the psychoanalytic literature. Freud’s theories of anxiety have reinforced the denial of the fear of death. Several new concepts in the treatment of dying patients are recommended including: a more active approach by the analyst that 1) helps the patient “live with uncertainty,” 2) promotes optimal coping, by maintaining a common sense approach to defenses, 3) engages the patient in facing mortality and 4) accepts that the regressive transference occurs independent of the frequency of psychoanalytic visits.

Join us for light refreshments from 7:30 to 8 p.m.
For information about NYPSI training programs please visit us at www.psychoanalysis.org

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