Lewis Aron (1952-2019)

By Tamar SchwartzMarch 7, 2019March 8, 2019 Psychoanalysis

Click Here to View: The Evil Genius of Psychoanalysis Video including Lew Aron on YouTube.

Click Here to Read: A Tribute Letter to Dr. Lew Aron written by Ferenczi Center Co-Chair, Dr. Adrienne Harris.

Click Here to Read: Note about the Passing of Lew Aron from the Ferenczi Center.

Click Here to Read: Note from Tel-Aviv Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis (TAICP) re the video below with Lew Aron.

Click Here to View: An extraordinary video conversation with Lew Aron…Shared with permission of our Israeli colleagues Tel Aviv Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis.

Click Here to Read: Letter on the Passing of Lew Aron from Susan Vaugh of Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research.

Psychoanalysis: Between Improving and Changing

By Tamar SchwartzMarch 7, 2019March 7, 2019 Psychoanalysis

Click Here to Read: Psychoanalysis: Between Improving and Changing: The Failure of Improving Psychoanalysis by Ahmed Fayk on his Psychoanalytic Notes blog.

Austen Riggs Celebrates a Century of Pioneering Mental Health, Treatment, and Research

By Tamar SchwartzMarch 4, 2019March 4, 2019 Psychoanalysis

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: THE AUSTEN RIGGS CENTER CELEBRATES A CENTURY OF PIONEERING MENTAL HEALTH CARE, TREATMENT, AND RESEARCH

Leading Psychiatric Hospital Marks its Centennial Year with a Series of Events and Exhibitions, Culminating with Fall Conference and Gala Celebration

“I have nothing to offer except a way of looking at things,” psychoanalyst Erik Erikson wrote in Childhood and Society (1950), offering a critical organizing principle for work at the Austen Riggs Center Stockbridge, MA – March 4, 2019 – The Austen Riggs Center (Riggs) celebrates its one Continue reading Austen Riggs Celebrates a Century of Pioneering Mental Health, Treatment, and Research

IPA Blog

By Tamar SchwartzMarch 1, 2019March 1, 2019 Psychoanalysis

Click Here to Read: IPA Blog on the International Psychoanalytic Association website.

The Purpose of Dreams

By Tamar SchwartzMarch 1, 2019March 1, 2019 Psychoanalysis, Science

Click Here to Read: The Purpose of Dreams by Rose MacDowell on the Sleepolis website on February 28, 2019.

Graph showing the passage through the four principle phases of sleep over the course of a night. Portions marked in red indicate REM sleep. Image: Kernsters

Review of Psychoanalytic Reflections: Training and Practice by Sandra Buechler

By Tamar SchwartzFebruary 28, 2019February 28, 2019 Psychoanalysis

Click Here to Read: Review of Psychoanalytic Reflections: Training and Practice by Sandra Buechler, reviewed by Elizabeth Herman Mckamy. This article originally appeared as: Elizabeth Herman Mckamy (2018) Review of Psychoanalytic Reflections: Training and Practice, Contemporary Psychoanalysis, 54:3, 607-613.

Click here to Purchase: Psychoanalytic Reflections: Training and Practice by Sandra Buechler from IPBooks.

From Mind to World, From Drive to Affectivity

By Tamar SchwartzFebruary 28, 2019February 28, 2019 Psychoanalysis

Click Here to Read: From Mind to World, From Drive to Affectivity: A Phenomenological-Contextualist: Psychoanalytic Perspective by Robert D. Stolorow. Publshed in ATTACHMENT: New Directions in Psychotherapy and Relational Psychoanalysis, Vol. 5, March 2011: pp. 1–14.