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.

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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.

Call out our political leaders, but refrain from the armchair psychoanalysis

By Tamar SchwartzFebruary 26, 2019February 26, 2019 Politics, Psychoanalysis

Click Here to Read: Call out our political leaders, but refrain from the armchair psychoanalysis: Letter from Richard Bedrosian to the Boston Globe on February 26, 2019.

Archives of Pearson Scott Foresman, donated to the Wikimedia Foundation. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

Ann and Aaron Pore Over Freud’s Fainting Spells in Jung’s Presence

By Tamar SchwartzFebruary 23, 2019February 23, 2019 Literature, Psychoanalysis

Click Here to Read: Ann and Aaron Pore Over Freud’s Fainting Spells in Jung’s Presence from the book The Unknown Freud: Five Plays and Five Essays by Robert Lippman.

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