Category: Psychoanalysis

People Don’t Drown in Living Rooms by Orna Reuven and Yair Eldan
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Above are two clusters of chapters from a unique psychological novel, “people don’t drown in living rooms”. Written in two voices, in the form of epistolary exchanges between analyst and patient, this book is unique in its form as well as in its contextual content. Touching on the complexity of emotional and physical boundaries between therapist and client, through the tumultuous arena of erotic transference – as Danielle Knafo, professor, psychoanalyst and author, commented “This book teaches us more about the intensity of the love-hate dynamics that exist between patient and analyst than any journal article on the subject”.

This book was written by two authors; Dr. Orna Reuven, a psychoanalyst and lecturer from the Tel-Aviv Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis, and Dr. Yair Eldan, a lecturer of law from The Hebrew University, who together embarked on an adventure knowing how it would begin but with no view of where it would end. During the writing of this book, they took it upon themselves to restrict their Continue reading People Don’t Drown in Living Rooms by Orna Reuven and Yair Eldan

REMINISCENCES OF GERALD J. ARONSON, M.D. (1922-2022)  By David James Fisher, Ph.D.
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REMINISCENCES OF GERALD J. ARONSON, M.D. (1922-2022)   By David James Fisher, Ph.D.

I was neither an analysand nor supervisee of Gerry Aronson.  I was a student in his L.A.P.S.I.

Seminar on “Resistance” in the early 1980’s and a friend for the remainder of his life.  I found Gerry to be consistently brilliant, with an encyclopedic knowledge spanning Einsteinian theoretical physics, to mathematics, to philosophies of religion, to literature ancient and modern; he possessed an acute, insider view of the history of psychoanalysis.   Gerry was endowed with a unique sense of humor; It was a Jewish sense of humor, marked by improvisation, wise cracking and one-liners; he possessed tons of stories, ad-libbed rapidly, and hit hard with his jokes.  For my taste, his humor was intelligent and irreverent, puncturing pretense and debunking established pieties.    In speaking the unspeakable, there was some aggression and some malice in his jokiness. But mostly, he was hilarious.  Let me provide a few examples.

L.A.P.S.I. invited Adolf Grunbaum to conduct an all-day program on his book, The Foundations of Psychoanalysis: A Philosophical Critique (1984). Grunbaum was temporarily running out of steam by the late afternoon, catching his breathe, saying out loud “What am I thinking? what am I doing?”  Gerry bellowed from the auditorium, “A lot of damage.” The audience cracked up, including Grunbaum. Continue reading REMINISCENCES OF GERALD J. ARONSON, M.D. (1922-2022)  By David James Fisher, Ph.D.

Voices from ROOM
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Click Here to Listen to: Voices from ROOM: A Podcast for Analytic Action, Episode 1 and 2.
Dear ROOMmates,

Episode 2 of Voices from ROOM: a Podcast for Analytic Action is now available wherever you listen to podcasts. We’ve been thrilled with the enthusiasm of our early listeners and hope you will consider subscribing today!

This week, Isaac and Aneta interview psychoanalyst Karim Dajani about writing autobiographically and how those on the margins find a sense of belonging in psychoanalysis.

Karim G. Dajani, PsyD, is a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst in private practice with a specialization in treating bicultural individuals. His research and writing include publications on psychological resilience and culture. He focuses on the role culture plays in determining an individual’s role within a collective and on the experience of cultural dislocation.

Dr. Dajani deepens the discussion he began in his essays from ROOM, “The Culturing of Psychoanalysis” and “From Beirut to San Francisco” as he speaks about the societal and political implications he has experienced in the rapidly changing field of psychoanalysis.

New episodes will be released twice a month on Thursdays!

The Developmental Lens by Gwyneth Kerr Erwin, Ph.D., Psy.D. from IPBooks
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Advance Praise for The Developmental Lens: A New Paradigm for Psychodynamic Diagnosis and Treatment by Gwyneth Kerr Erwin, Ph.D., Psy.D.

In the nearly thirty years I’ve known her, Dr. Gwyn Erwin’s passion has been to formulate, teach, and integrate contemporary relational psychoanalytic thinking, infant (and adult) development, and caring and effective treatment of trauma. This beautifully articulated and case-illustrated book accomplishes that goal in spades! A must-read for every therapist, teacher, student, and patient who is working and/or living with the debilitating effects of trauma in search of revitalized development.
—Alitta Kullman, Ph.D., Author of Hunger for Connection: Finding Meaning in Eating Disorders

Finally, a book that brilliantly weaves together multiple theories of trauma to create an integrated and comprehensive, easy to understand, narrative of Continue reading The Developmental Lens by Gwyneth Kerr Erwin, Ph.D., Psy.D. from IPBooks