A Collision of Crises Online with MITPP

By Tamar SchwartzJune 17, 2020June 17, 2020 EVENTS

In the atmosphere of Mars, a green glow offers scientists hints for future visits

By Tamar SchwartzJune 17, 2020June 17, 2020 Science

Click Here to Read: In the atmosphere of Mars, a green glow offers scientists hints for future visits: The lights are similar to auroras on Earth, but unlike auroras, Mars’ green glow appears as a thin band around the planet.
By Denise Chow on the NBC website on June 16, 2020.
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Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Clinical Practice During Pandemic Substance Abuse and Sex Addictions in the Time of COVID-19 Online with CFS

By Tamar SchwartzJune 17, 2020June 17, 2020 EVENTS

Series: Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Clinical Practice During Pandemic

Substance Abuse and Sex Addictions

in the Time of COVID-19

Friday June 19, 2020 2:30-4:30pm EST

via Zoom

Joseph Collins, DO

Psychoanalyst

Medical Director, Saint Luke Institute Residential Treatment Program

Clark Hudak, PhD

Psychoanalyst

Founder and CEO of Recovery Network

Webinar Overview

This webinar is designed to assist analysts, therapists, and other clinicians working with people suffering from addiction. An overview of relevant theoretical perspectives of addiction will be presented, followed by a discussion of the COVID crisis and its impact on addiction treatment. Elements of trauma theory will be considered as it relates to addiction, the COVID pandemic, and the impact on the analytic dyad. The presenters have extensive experience on these subject matters, and they will be able to draw parallels between various addictive states with in-depth clinical examples, including process material. Reference will be made to the works of Bass, Brenner, Khantzian, Krystal, Stoller, and Wurmser.

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Why Gravity Is Not Like the Other Forces

By Tamar SchwartzJune 16, 2020June 26, 2020 Science

Click Here to Read: Why Gravity Is Not Like the Other Forces: We asked four physicists why gravity stands out among the forces of nature. We got four different answers by Natalie Wolchover on the Quanta Magazine on June 15, 2020. Image: Zátonyi Sándor, (ifj.) Fizped. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

When Freud lost his daughter to the Spanish flu: a story that connects the past to coronavirus

By Tamar SchwartzJune 16, 2020June 16, 2020 History, Psychoanalysis, Science

Click Here to Read: When Freud lost his daughter to the Spanish flu: a story that connects the past to coronavirus by Jennifer Delgado on the Yahoo News UK website on June 16, 2020.
The Freud Family. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

The Unpresident and the Unredeemed Promise

By Tamar SchwartzJune 16, 2020June 26, 2020 Politics

Click Here to Read: The Unpresident and the Unredeemed Promise by Fintan O’Toole on the New York Review of Books Website in the July 23, 2020 Issue.
Image: Pax Ahimsa Gethen. Public Domain Via Wikimedia Commons

“See me, feel me, touch me, heal me” Listening in the Clinical Encounter with Naama Kushnir Barash Online Sunday Salon at IPTAR

By Tamar SchwartzJune 13, 2020June 13, 2020 EVENTS

Sunday Zoom Salon at IPTAR: Institute for Psychoanalytic Training & Research “See me, feel me, touch me, heal me” Listening in the Clinical Encounter Sunday June 14, 2020 Zoom Roundtable 2:00-4:00 Meet & Greet BYOB Reception 4:00-5:00

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