Being a Psychanalytic Candidate in COVID-18 Times Online at MITPP

By Tamar SchwartzApril 27, 2020April 27, 2020 EVENTS

BEING A PSYCHOANALYTIC CANDIDATE IN COVID-19 TIMES AN ONLINE WORKSHOP PRESENTER: MARIA LAGUNA, LCSW
The journey of becoming a psychoanalytic psychotherapist presents candidates with rewarding moments as well as emotional and intellectual challenges. There are certain anxieties that seem to be inherent in the process of becoming an analyst: the great deal of exposure involved in presenting our clinical work, the mobilizing process of undergoing our own analysis/psychotherapy, the navigation of complex interpersonal dynamics with our patients, our supervisors, teachers and peers. As we all attempt to grapple with the unprecedented impact of the COVID- 19 pandemic, new challenges and anxieties emerge: We found ourselves overnight transitioning from the private office or clinic setting to our homes, charged Continue reading Being a Psychanalytic Candidate in COVID-18 Times Online at MITPP

Open House at NYPSI

By Tamar SchwartzApril 27, 2020April 27, 2020 EVENTS

The New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute Invites You to a Virtual Open House Tuesday, May 5th 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Join us for a discussion with Dr. Lynne Zeavin, NYPSI training analyst and supervisor, to discuss clinical questions and dilemmas of working in our new virtual environment. Meet candidates and faculty and learn about NYPSI’s
four-year psychoanalytic training program and one-year preparatory program.

A sample of what we will discuss includes: the challenges of balancing life and analytic training, the ins and outs of classes and supervision at NYPSI Continue reading Open House at NYPSI

Rethinking Freud: Spotlight on Jill Hannum and Ines Rieder

By Tamar SchwartzApril 27, 2020April 27, 2020 Books, Psychoanalysis

Click Here To Read: Rethinking Freud: Spotlight on Jill Hannum and Ines Rieder on the Publisher’s Weekly website.

How the Italians Lost Track of Machiavelli Just When They Needed Him

By Tamar SchwartzApril 24, 2020April 24, 2020 Literature, Science

Click Here to Read: How the Italians Lost Track of Machiavelli Just When They Needed Him Journal of a Plague: When it comes to disease, sometimes the enemy has to be at the gates, or even inside them, before the Behavioral Immune System will start to mount a defense by Norman Doidge on the Tablet website on April 24, 2020.
Map of the 2019-nCoV outbreak in Italy as of March 5, 2020. Image: Night Lantern. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

The Real Nazi Hunters

By Tamar SchwartzApril 22, 2020April 22, 2020 History, Politics

Click Here to Read: The Real Nazi Hunters: People like Congresswoman Elizabeth Holtzman and prosecutor John Loftus don’t get credit on TV, but it’s their work that exposed the U.S. government’s shielding of Nazi war criminals by Scott Lerner on the Tablet Website on April 22, 2020.
Former U.S. Representative from New York Elizabeth Holtzman. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

Cinematic Reflections on the Legacy of the Holocaust

By Tamar SchwartzApril 22, 2020April 22, 2020 Books, Film, History

Click Here to Read: Cinematic Reflections on the Legacy of the Holocaust:
Psychoanalytic Perspectives. Edited by Diana Diamond and Bruce Sklarew Reviewed by Nancy Goodman in The Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association.

Why Freud Survives: He’s been debunked again and again—and yet we still can’t give him up

By Tamar SchwartzApril 21, 2020April 21, 2020 Psychoanalysis

Click Here to Read: Why Freud Survives: He’s been debunked again and again—and yet we still can’t give him up By Louis Menand in The New Yorker on August 21, 2017.