Author: Tamar Schwartz

Psychotherapy with Neurodivergent Individuals: A Developmental and Relational Approach to Parent-Child Work at WCSPP
By Categories: EVENTS, Psychoanalysis

Presented by WCSPP’s Child, Adolescent, Parent (CAPP) Psychotherapy Training Program:  Parenting in Today’s World: Clinical Conversations: Psychotherapy with Neurodivergent Individuals: A Developmental and Relational Approach to Parent-Child Work 2 CE Hours available for NY Practitioners – LCSWs, LMSWs, LPs, LMFTs, LMHCs, LCATs, PHDs, PSYDs

Presenter: Lauren Tobing-Puente, PhD Live on Zoom! Thursday, May 7, 2026 7 – 9 pm

Admission including CE: $45 CE CREDITS AVAILABLE FOR NYS PRACTITIONERS

As diagnoses and awareness of neurodivergence (including ASD, ADHD, etc.) have rapidly grown over the years, many psychotherapists wonder how to address neurodivergent clients’ unique Continue reading Psychotherapy with Neurodivergent Individuals: A Developmental and Relational Approach to Parent-Child Work at WCSPP

The Ties that Bind at CFS
By Categories: EVENTS, Psychoanalysis

The Ties that Bind: The Necessity of Dependence for the Evolution of the Self Presenter:
Lesley Caldwell, MA, PhD, FIPA Sunday, April 12, 2026 10:00am-12:00pm EST Hybrid: In-person and Zoom 2 CEUs Available

This paper proposes that being the object of another’s concern in infancy, and later in analysis, is fundamental to the capacity for intimacy. If the initial encounter with the environment has been distorted in some way wishes for attachment and closeness may be subsumed into a fear o Continue reading The Ties that Bind at CFS

Elizabeth Barrett Browning (6 March 1806 – 29 June 1861).
By Categories: Books, Literature

Click Here to Read: Elizabeth Barrett Browning (6 March 1806 – 29 June 1861).  Victorian visionary of passionate love and public justice by Robert Goodman on his Spoken Word Substack on March 4, 2026. 

Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Based on image found at http://www.noelcollection.org/noel/Duykinck/browning.html archive copy at the Wayback Machine  Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

Poetry Monday: Irene Willis
By Categories: Poetry Monday

Note for Arnold Richards, new editor of Poetry Monday: I am very sad to report that the poetry editor of International psychoanalytic blog, Irene Willis, has died. Irene Willis was a world class poet and for one year the poet laureate of New Jersey. She made a major contribution to this effort and she will be missed very much. We have decided to continue Poetry Monday and I will replace Irene Willis as the editor. We welcome contributions from other poets.  Pease send any poems for consideration to Psypsa@aol.com

Below, in keeping with Irene’s Poetry Monday format, are three of Irene’s own poems:

Tornado Watch

I don’t mean to make light of this
but when the first warning came Continue reading Poetry Monday: Irene Willis