Click Here to Read: Bar Freud Opens With Elaborate Cocktails From New York’s Most Theatrical Bartender By Chris Crowley on the Grub Street website on February 27, 2018.
Sazerac in a classical Old Fashioned glass. Made with Rye. Photo by Marler
Category: Psychoanalysis
Ferenczi’s Mutual Analysis: A Case Where the Messenger was Killed and his Treasure Buried
Are Humans ‘Smeller Underachievers?’ Not So Fast…
Emerging from the “House of Gaslight” in the Age of #METOO”
Click Here to Read: Monica Lewinsky: Emerging from the “House of Gaslight” in the Age of #METOO””: On the 20th anniversary of the Starr investigation, which introduced her to the world, the author rfeflects on the changing nature of trauma, the de-evolution of the media, and the extraordinary hope now provided by the #MeToo movement by Monica Lewinsky in Vanity Fair in the March 2018 Issue.
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She Can’t Say “No” Open House and Clinical Presentation at MITPP
THE METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE FOR TRAINING IN PSYCHOANALYTIC PSYCHOTHERAPY
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OPEN HOUSE LUNCHEON & CLINICAL PRESENTATION FOR THOSE CONSIDERING POSTGRADUATE TRAINING
Wednesday, March 14, 2018 1:00 PM –2:30 PM
SHE CAN’T SAY “NO”
The powerful challenges of treating a middle-aged, self-effacing, masochistic woman who tended to be a doormat in relationships will be described with a focus on the many trials such a treatment presented. The therapy lasted for two and a half years with a disappointing outcome and illustrates the dyad’s enactments and some of the difficulties of working with a highly defended, “neurotic” patient. Continue reading She Can’t Say “No” Open House and Clinical Presentation at MITPP
Psychoanalytic Reflections: Searching for a Passionate Neutrality with Sandra Buechler at AIP
AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOANALYSIS Continuing Education Program: 2 CONTACT HOURS for licensed social workers
329 East 62nd Street — New York, NY 10065 — (212) 838-8044 — aipnyc.org — info@aipnyc.org
Psychoanalytic Reflections: Searching for a Passionate Neutrality Sandra Buechler, PhD
Date: Thursday, March 22, 2018 Time: 8:00 pm – 10:00 pm
General Admission: $15 NO Charge for AIP Members, Candidates and Students & NO Charge KHC Staff & Students Contact Hours: 2
Overview:
Everything I have written can be understood as an effort to find a sufficiently passionate form of treatment. In one of the papers in my collection, Psychoanalytic Reflections: Training and Practice (2017, IP Books) I explore how profound feelings about life and health can be integrated into an analytic approach that also honors the concept of neutrality. In this talk I consider how the clinician can inspire active hope, engage in treatment emotionally, facilitate fighting depression, and other challenges.
Learning Objectives:
Participants will be able to describe ways the clinician can integrate neutrality with a sufficiently emotionally engaged treatment approach. Continue reading Psychoanalytic Reflections: Searching for a Passionate Neutrality with Sandra Buechler at AIP
Letter to the New York Times by Henry J. Friedman
To the Editor:
Re “I Can’t Stop Mass Shooters,” by Amy Barnhorst (Op-Ed, Feb. 21):
As a psychiatrist practicing for many decades, I have long understood the problems that stop mental health professionals from effectively preventing angry, hating young men from using automatic weapons to murder large numbers of young people whom they both envy and hate.
Dr. Barnhorst has described her experience as an emergency psychiatrist so clearly that anyone who reads her article should be able to comprehend why reliance upon psychiatrists and other mental health workers to prevent future occurrence of mass murders is unrealistic.
As she demonstrates, it may be easy as a psychiatrist to hospitalize and treat a delusional patient experiencing command hallucinations, but this isn’t the case with the kind of raging young man intent on revenge against those he blames for his outsider misery.
Dr. Barnhorst’s article is an example of a psychiatrist successfully educating the public and her colleagues in psychiatry about the limitations of concentrating on mental illness as the cause of mass murders.
HENRY J. FRIEDMAN
CAMBRIDGE, MASS.
The writer is an associate professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School.