Conference Day Rates: Reaching Across the Divide- Nov 10-12,2023

Dear Colleague,

We are pleased to announce that we have opened up day rates for the conference.

Below is the link to the Registration form for conference day rates:
https://aapcsw.org/events/conference/day_rates.html  

Join us for an exciting and invigorating conference.
The Conference Committee

Registration Contact information:
Larry Schwartz at: aapcsw@gmail.com  / 718-728-7416

Sponsored by National Institute for Psychoanalytic Education & Research in Clinical Social Work, Inc. (NIPER), 501(c)(3) educational arm of AAPCSW.

for AAPCSW membership Info, contact:
The American Association for Psychoanalysis in Clinical Social Work (AAPCSW)
P.O. Box 67, Boonsboro, MD 21713
(301) 799-5120
barbara.matos@aapcsw.org

A Response to Psychoanalysis and the Left: Comment by Bob Samuels

From a psychoanalytic perspective, here is what I think the article “Freud Save America” gets right and wrong. On a clinical level, there is a real threat to free association if political correctness blocks the ability of people to say what is on their mind without censoring. On the other hand, analysis can provide the space and time for people to reflect on their internal struggle between their own thoughts and what they think is now acceptable. However, analysis only works if people say everything without self-censoring.

As I have written in my book (Mis)Understanding Freud, there is a threat posed to analysis by a certain Left-wing idea that one can only be analyzed by someone who belongs to the same identity group. This misguided application of identity polit Continue reading A Response to Psychoanalysis and the Left: Comment by Bob Samuels

Review of the Way It Ends by Ted Jacobs in Scarsdale Inquirer

Click Here to Read:  Review of the Way it Ends in the Scarsdale Inquirer.  

Ted Jacobs’s new novel, The Way it Ends, grips the reader from its opening pages. Jacobs’s protagonist Dr. Strickman, a psychoanalyst turned amateur gumshoe, sets off to uncover how his brother died–murder or suicide? A subplot of Israeli Palestinian conflict masterfully adds depth and tension to this engaging, dark and, yet, humorous tale.
—KERRY MALAWISTA, PHD author of the novel, Meet the Moon.

“A great read that touches the heart. As moving as it is intriguing.”
—ANDREW POTOK, author of Ordinary Daylight

THEODORE J. JACOBS, MD is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Emeritus, at The Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Training and Supervising Analyst at The New York Psychoanalytic Institute and The Institute for Psychoanalytic Education where he is also a child supervising analyst.

Dr. Jacobs attended Yale University (BA) with a major in English, and The University of Chicago School of Medicine, MD, 1957. He took his training in psychoanalysis (adult and child) at the New York Psychoanalytic Institute and his psychiatric residency at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. He is the author of Communication in the Analytic Situation and The Possible Profession: The Analytic Process of Change, 70 papers, his first novel The Year of Durocher, and also republished The Use of the Self: Countertransference and Communication in the Analytic Situation with IPBooks. He is on the editorial board of several analytic journals.