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Austen Riggs Center Clinician and Researcher Dr. Jane Tillman Receives Significant Grant for Suicide Study
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Austen Riggs Center Clinician and Researcher Dr. Jane Tillman Receives Significant Grant for Suicide Study

Stockbridge, MA – May 18, 2018 – Jane G. Tillman, PhD, ABPP, Evelyn Stefansson Nef Director of the Erikson Institute for Education and Research, has received a significant grant from the Fund for Psychoanalytic Research through the American Psychoanalytic Association (APsaA) for her work, “Follow Up to States of Mind Preceding a Near Lethal Suicide Attempt Study.” In making this award, the review committee indicated that this was an important topic for study and may yield valuable information.

According to Dr. Tillman, “Suicide is a significant public health problem. Despite a burgeoning research literature that focuses primarily on biobehavioral and diagnostic risk factors, there has been little effective translation of these findings into improved clinical care of suicidal patients.” Continue reading Austen Riggs Center Clinician and Researcher Dr. Jane Tillman Receives Significant Grant for Suicide Study

Psychoanalysis Is Alive and Well
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Click Here to Read: Psychoanalysis Is Alive and Well: How Contemporary Psychoanalysts Help You Lessen Pain and Increase Satisfaction By Fred Pisoni, PsyD on the American Psychoanalytic Association’s Psychoanalysis Unplugged blog on the Psychology Today’s blog on May 17, 2018.

Freud and other psychoanalysts : (left to right seated) Freud, Sàndor Ferenczi, and Hanns Sachs (standing) Otto Rank, Karl Abraham, Max Eitingon, and Ernest Jones. [Sigmund Freud Collection , Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Call number PR 13 CN 1978:209.39 [item] [P&P]. Retrieved from LOC exhibits.  Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons

Max Weber, Sigmund Freud, Charismatic Power, and Political Leadership with Peter Loewenberg at the New Center for Psychoanalysis LA
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Max Weber, Sigmund Freud, Charismatic Power, and Political Leadership 2018 Franz Alexander Lecture
Presented by Peter Loewenberg, PhD Thursday, May 17, 2018 8 – 10 PM 2 CE Credits *pre-registration preferred*

Psychoanalysis is a social science as well as a humanistic, hermeneutic and a psychological science. Dr. Loewenberg compares the lives and thought of two great Central European shapers of modern culture, Sigmund Freud (1856- 1939), creator of psychoanalysis, and Max Weber (1864-1920), founder of modern interpretive comparative sociology. Weber was a contemporary of Freud who was the shaper of social science method. Dr. Loewenberg explores their lives and insights on leadership, political power and domination and applies their insights to empirical leadership functions in the current world.

Learning Objectives

As a result of attending this session, participants should be able to:
• Describe the theoretical contributions of Weber and Freud as they apply to leadership, political power, and domination Continue reading Max Weber, Sigmund Freud, Charismatic Power, and Political Leadership with Peter Loewenberg at the New Center for Psychoanalysis LA

The Death I Want with Roger Kliger, M.D. at NYPSI
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NYPSI WORKS IN PROGRESS SEMINAR: The Death I Want with Roger Kliger, M.D. Geriatric doctor geriatrician consulting and diagnostic examining elderly senior adult patient older perso on aging and mental health care in medical clinic office or hospital examination room

Wednesday, June 6, 2018 at 8 PM New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute 247 East 82nd Street, NYC (btw 2nd and 3rd Aves)
$15 – General Admission $10 – Student Admission No charge for NYPSI members/students Register HERE, visit nypsi.org or call 212.879.6900 Continue reading The Death I Want with Roger Kliger, M.D. at NYPSI