T. Berry Brazelton 1918-2018

By Tamar SchwartzMarch 14, 2018June 14, 2018 Psychoanalysis

Click Here to Read: Dr. T. Berry Brazelton, Who Explored Babies’ Mental Growth, Dies at 99 By Sandra Blakeslee n The New York Times on March 14, 2018.

Click Here to Read: Obituaries: T. Berry Brazelton, pediatrician who soothed generations of parents, dies at 99 By Emily Langer in the New York Times on March 13, 2018.

Click Here to Read: T. Berry Brazelton on Wikipedia.

Click Here to Read: At 95, Brazelton shares ‘A Life Caring for Children’ by Nanci Hellmich in USA TODAY on May 1, 201.3

Click Here to Read and Listen To: Brazelton: Listening to Children — and Their Parents on the NPR website on May 10, 2007. Continue reading T. Berry Brazelton 1918-2018

The Ways We Fail Those With Mental Illness

By Tamar SchwartzMarch 12, 2018June 14, 2018 Psychoanalysis

Click Here to Read: The Ways We Fail Those With Mental Illness Letters to the Editors of the New York Times on March 8, 2018.

Photo by Alex Proimos from Sydney, Australia. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons

The Elusive Good Object with Lynne Zeavin at NYPSI

By Tamar SchwartzMarch 11, 2018July 6, 2018 EVENTS, Psychoanalysis

NYPSI’s 1028th Scientific Program Meeting: The Elusive Good Object with presenter Lynne Zeavin, Psy.D. and discussant Richard Zimmer, M.D.

The Elusive Good Object Presenter: Lynne Zeavin, Psy.D. Discussant: Richard Zimmer, M.D.
Tuesday, April 10, 2018 at 8 pm New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute 247 East 82nd Street, NYC (btwn 2nd and 3rd Aves)

There are two distinct ways in which Melanie Klein writes about idealization. Insofar as she maintains that “The whole of [the infant’s] instinctual desires and his unconscious phantasies imbue the breast with qualities going far beyond the actual nourishment it affords,” and her increasingly stressed conviction that the libidinally invested breast, when introjected, forms ‘the core of the ego’, Klein is suggesting that the original good object must be experienced as ideal. Nothing less than this would adequately address ‘the whole of [the infant’s] instinctual desires.’ In this view, the infant projects his entire loving capacity, as well as his capacity for pleasure, onto the object and this is then introjected, together with the object’s actual goodness, to become his very core. Continue reading The Elusive Good Object with Lynne Zeavin at NYPSI

Psychology Sunday: Karen Horney

By Tamar SchwartzMarch 11, 2018June 14, 2018 Psychoanalysis

Click Here to Read: Karen Horney on Wikipedia.

Click Here to Read: A Description of Karen Horney’s Neo-Freudian Theory of Personality by Camille Harris on the Owlocation website on December 22, 2016.

Click Here to Read: Karen Horney on the Psychology’s Feminist Voices website.

Click Here to Read: Karen Horney’s Influence on Psychology by Makayla Heisler on her blog on June 8, 2014.

Click Here to Read: Chapter 5: Section 5: Karen Horney’s Feminine Psychology By Dr. Christopher L. Heffner on the All Psych website. Continue reading Psychology Sunday: Karen Horney

Twins make astonishing discovery that they were separated shortly after birth and then part of a secret study

By Tamar SchwartzMarch 11, 2018June 14, 2018 Psychoanalysis

Click Here to Read: Twins make astonishing discovery that they were separated shortly after birth and then part of a secret study by Andrew Paparella, Eric Strauss, Lauren Effron and Alexa Valiente on Good Morning America from ABC News on the Yahoo website on March 9, 2018.

The Ways We Fail Those With Mental Illness

By Tamar SchwartzMarch 9, 2018June 14, 2018 Psychoanalysis

Click Here to Read: The Ways We Fail Those With Mental Illness Letters to the Editor in The New York Times on March 8, 2018.

Chitrapa at English Wikipedia. Mural on the en: Berlin Wall at the East Side Gallery (Spring 2002). Photo by Peter Rimar.

Kevin Love Shares His Experience With Panic Attacks

By Tamar SchwartzMarch 7, 2018June 14, 2018 Psychoanalysis

Click Here to Read: Kevin Love Shares His Experience With Panic Attacks: “People Don’t Talk About Mental Health Enough” by Emma Baccellieri on the Deadspin website on March 6, 2018.

Click Here to Read: Everyone Is Going Through Something by Kevin Love in the Players Tribune on March 6, 2018.

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