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NYPSI Hosts Special Freud’s Last Session Event

Posted January 25th, 2012 by Tamar Schwartz
Categories: Announcements






Click Here to Read: NYPSI Hosts Special Freud’s Last Session Event on February 21, 2012 on the Broadway World.com website on January 24, 2012.

New York Freudian Society: The Forum

Posted January 24th, 2012 by Tamar Schwartz
Categories: Announcements

The Forum

February 7  Back to Bick: The Development of the Capacities for the  Analytic Attitude.  Karen Proner and Infant Observation  Group

March 6        The Work that can lead to Interpretation.  Rogelio Sosnick

April  3          Freud-Klein Conundrum. Irene Cairo and Ann Rudovsky Read the rest of this post »

American Psychoanalytic Association Members Select Mark Smaller as President-Elect

Posted January 24th, 2012 by Tamar Schwartz
Categories: Announcements
AMERICAN PSYCHOANALYTIC ASSOCIATION MEMBERS SELECT
MARK SMALLER AS PRESIDENT-ELECT
 
 New York, NY – Mark D. Smaller, Ph. D. was elected by the American Psychoanalytic Association membership to serve as president-elect from June 2012 until June 2014, at which time he will assume his role as the 66th president of APsaA; his presidency will last until June 2016.  Dr. Smaller received his bachelor’s degree from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and his master’s and doctorate degrees in social work from the Read the rest of this post »

Psychoanalytic treatment for autism: Interviews with French analysts

Posted January 24th, 2012 by Tamar Schwartz
Categories: General News, Movies

Click Here to Read: Psychoanalytic treatment for autism: Interviews with French analysts on the Bishop Blog January 23, 2012.

Click Here to Read:  Autism and French Psychoanalysis on this website. 

Click Here to Read: A French Film Takes Issue With the Psychoanalytic Approach to Autism on this website. 

Click Here to Read:  New Definition of Autism Will Exclude Many, Study Suggests  on this website. 

 

 

The price of your soul

Posted January 24th, 2012 by Tamar Schwartz
Categories: Science News




Click Here to Read: The price of your soul: How your brain decides whether to ‘sell out’ By Carol Clark by on the Jewish World Review Yiddishe Kups on Psychology website.

‘Mania’ Is A Great Friday Activity: The King’s Speech

Posted January 24th, 2012 by Tamar Schwartz
Categories: Movies








Click Here to Read: ‘Mania’ Is A Great Friday Activity By Justin Groot on the Emery Wheel website on  January 23, 2012.

The Societe Psychanalytique de Paris announcement of the death of Andre Green, Translated by Jonathan House

Posted January 24th, 2012 by Tamar Schwartz
Categories: Obituaries

*Doctor Andre Green*
**
12 March 1927 in Cairo – 22 January 2012 in Paris.

A major figure in psychoanalysis has left us. The psychoanalytic
community is in mourning.

A psychiatrist by training, Andre Green became one of the major thinkers in contemporary psychoanalysis. He was in direct dialogue with Lacan, Winnicott, Bion, and with all the influential psychoanalysts worldwide. He is Read the rest of this post »

First brain image of a dream created

Posted January 24th, 2012 by Tamar Schwartz
Categories: Science News




Click Here to Read: First brain image of a dream created Feat opens the door to probing the stuff of nocturnal dramas By Laura Sanders In Science News Vol.180 #13 (p. 10) on December 17th, 2011.

Searching the Brain for the Roots of Fear

Posted January 24th, 2012 by Tamar Schwartz
Categories: Editorials




Click Here to Read: Searching the Brain for the Roots of Fear By Joseph Ledoux in the New York Times on January 22, 2012.

Men Struggle for Rape Awareness

Posted January 24th, 2012 by Tamar Schwartz
Categories: General News

Click Here to Read: Men Struggle for Rape Awareness By Roni Caryb Rabin in the New York Times on January 23, 2012.

ASSAULTED Keith Smith of East Windsor, N.J., was raped when he was a 14-year-old hitchhiker.

Autism and French Psychoanalysis

Posted January 24th, 2012 by Tamar Schwartz
Categories: General News






Click Here to Read: Autism and French Psychoanalysis by Stuart  Schneiderman on the  Had Enough Therapy? blog  on January 21, 2012.

On Looking and Being Looked at with Janice Lieberman at MITPP to be held at Karen Horney Institute

Posted January 23rd, 2012 by Tamar Schwartz
Categories: Announcements

 The Metropolitan Institute for Training in
Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy,
The Metropolitan Center for Mental Health and
The Metropolitan Society of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapists

Invite you to a Scientific Meeting
 Friday, February 3, 2012 at 8:00 P.M.

ON LOOKING AND BEING LOOKED AT:  THE ANALYST AS RELUCTANT SPECTATOR
Presenter: Janice S. Lieberman, Ph.D. Read the rest of this post »

Now We Are Five: An Anniversary for IP.Net by Nathan Szajnberg, MD, Managing Editor

Posted January 23rd, 2012 by Tamar Schwartz
Categories: Announcements

Now We Are Five: An Anniversary for IP.Net
Nathan Szajnberg, MD, Managing Editor

On January 23, 2006, Arnie Richards opened the first issue of International Psychoanalysis with spirited words about Freud: a scientist and humanist, winner of the Goethe prize in literature, a keen observer of human nature, Freud taught us, “words can change the way we think and feel and relate…” Click Here to Read:  Arnold Richards’s Inaugural Post on “Freud Envy.”  Arnie also noted that Freud compared the speculative metapsychology(ies) to scaffolding which can be dismantled without disturbing the house Read the rest of this post »

Make mine a double! Keira Knightley admits to drinking vodka before filming scenes for her latest role in A Dangerous Method

Posted January 23rd, 2012 by Tamar Schwartz
Categories: A Dangerous Method, Movies






Click Here to Read: Make mine a double! Keira Knightley admits to drinking vodka before filming scenes for her latest role in A Dangerous Method By Kirsty Mccormack  on the on September 15, 2011.

Click Here to Read: Other Posts by A Dangerous Method on this website.

Adler on Paula Deen’s Diabetes: Food, Comfort, and Balance

Posted January 22nd, 2012 by Tamar Schwartz
Categories: Books, General News






Click Here to Read:  Todd Essig’s Article which reposts:  Tamar Adler on Paula Deen’s Diabetes: Food, Comfort, and Balance on Forbes Magazine website on  January 20,2012.

Letter to the Editors of the Washington Post by Herbert Gross

Posted January 22nd, 2012 by Tamar Schwartz
Categories: General News, Letters To Editors

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.

 

From the Age of Anxiety to Empathy and Dramatology on InternationalPsychoanalysis.net from Sasha Rolde

Posted January 22nd, 2012 by Tamar Schwartz
Categories: Announcements

Dear Colleagues,

Back after the APsaA meetings, while getting settled in our offices, it is comforting to see that our international psychoanalytic website continues to be a source of all that it current and relevant to us as psychoanalysts yet connects us to the world at large. My choices are again listed here, but the entire menu is rich and I urge you to scan all and pick out the posts of interest to you.

I am highlighting the following:

1) the Dangerous Method posts for those of you who have been following them. Read the rest of this post »

Slideshow of Pictures from the American Psychoanalytic Association’s Winter Meeting

Posted January 22nd, 2012 by Tamar Schwartz
Categories: Photography


Click Here to View:  Slideshow of Pictures from the American Psychoanalytic Association’s Winter Meeting at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York City.

Wait a couple of seconds for slide show to load.  Once it loads, you can select full-screen view by clicking the third icon from the lower  righthand corner.

The Rise and Fall of American Psychosomatic Medicine

Posted January 22nd, 2012 by Tamar Schwartz
Categories: Papers

Click Here to Read:  The Rise and Fall of American Psychosomatic Medicine by Theodore M. Brown given at the New York Academy of Medicine on November 29, 2000,  posted on the Free Associations website.

Theodore M. Brown

WCSPP Open House and Clinical Presentation

Posted January 22nd, 2012 by Tamar Schwartz
Categories: Announcements






Click here to Read:   Flyer for WCSPP Open House and Clinical Presentation on March 10, 2012 at the Wainwright House in Rye, New York.