News from The Menninger Clinic

ebruary 2020 Celebrating Women Researchers at The Menninger Clinic Did you know only 30% of researchers are women? We’re proud to celebrate the growing number of women in research at The Clinic on International Women and Girls in Science Day.

For the first time in our history, the Research Department at Menninger is led by a woman. Michelle Patriquin, PhD, ABPP, assumed her leadership role in 2018. She has published more than 40 peer-reviewed papers and received numerous national awards, including the 2019 Rising Star Award from the Association for Psychological Science and the 2018 New Investigator Award from the American Society of Clinical Psychopharmacology.

Learn more about our women researchers and their contributions to psychiatric research.

Front row, left to right: Katrina Rufino, PhD, and Michelle Patriquin, PhD,ABPP. Center row, from left: Megan Rech, BA, and Anika Blanchard, MEd, LPC. Third row, from left: Tiffany Tran, BS, Jessica Rohr, PhD, Camille Soriano, BA, and Tina Holmes. Continue reading News from The Menninger Clinic

Review of Climate of Opinion edited by Irene Willis Reviewed by Dante Di Stefano in The Best American Poetry

Click Here to Purchase:  Climate of Opinion: Sigmund Freud in Poetry edited by  Irene Willis on IPBooks.net

Climate of Opinion: Sigmund Freud in Poetry
Ed. Irene Willis IP Books, 2017 Review by Dante Di Stefano in The Best American Poetry 2019.

Irene Willis has curated a lively and compelling anthology of poetic engagements with Freud and his complicated psychoanalytic and cultural legacies. The anthology begins with the elegy by W.H. Auden, “For Sigmund Freud,” which ends:

Our rational voice is dumb; over a grave
The household of impulse mourns one dearly loved:
Sad in Eros, builder of cities,
And weeping anarchic Aphrodite.

David Lehman’s “Freud Quiz” concludes the volume on a buoyant and anodyne note. Between Auden and Lehman, Willis anthologizes poems by H.D., Anna Freud, Anne Carson, Dorothy Parker, Alicia Ostriker, Toi Derricotte, Stephen Dobyns, Lynn Emanuel, Louise Glück, Anne Sexton, David Giannini, and many more. Some of the highlights of the anthology Continue reading Review of Climate of Opinion edited by Irene Willis Reviewed by Dante Di Stefano in The Best American Poetry