Two-Session Program on High Conflict Divorce with Steven Demby, PhD at CFS Brooklyn

Psychoanalytic Brooklyn Invites you to a Two-Session Program on HIGH CONFLICT DIVORCE with Steven Demby, PhD Wednesday, January 29, 2020 and Wednesday, February 12, 2020 7:00-8:30 pm
Session I:  The nuts and bolts of divorce: what therapists need to know1. Overview of the legal routes to divorce and custody arrangements for children in New York State
2. Explanation of roles:  Attorney for the Child, Guardian Ad Litem, forensic evaluator, parenting coordinator
3. Differences between therapeutic and forensic roles
4. Contested custody: when therapists are asked to give information or offer opinions to attorneys for the child, custody evaluators, or parenting coordinators
5.Clinical and ethical dilemmas encountered by clinicians working with this population
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The Phosphate Problem for the Origin of Life May be Solved

Click Here to Read: The Phosphate Problem for the Origin of Life May be Solved: And it may help us decide whether to search for life on ocean worlds or lake worlds By Dirk Schulze-Makuch on the AIRSPACEMAG.COM website on January 3, 2020.
Eutrophication at a waste water outlet in the Potomac River, Washington, D.C. mage: Alexandr Trubetskoy.  Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

POETRY MONDAY: January 6, 2020

Hilde Weisert

Good morning – and a Happy, Happy New Year 2020, everyone!  It is indeed, hard to believe, isn’t it?  Not only a new year but a new decade – one in which we hope to bury  or rid the world of the unpleasantness and even horror of 2019.  I say “the world,” because it isn’t only here in the U.S. that we have been experiencing so many negative things.  At any rate, poetry is something that helps us to live our lives and to stay resilient. Continue reading POETRY MONDAY: January 6, 2020

Boundary Violations: Traversing the Minefields of Sex and Love in the Consulting Room with Elizabeth R. Goren at CFS

Boundary Violations: Traversing the Minefields of Sex and Love in the Consulting Room Presenter: Elizabeth R. Goren, PhD Friday, January 31, 2020 12:00-2:00pm

How does that rare, but disturbing, case of psychoanalytic treatment fall down the slippery slope into a flagrant sexual boundary violation? How can an analyst therapeutically manage treatments highly charged with erotic transference?  While the powerful affects of love and hate are core to in-depth therapy, their potential for abusive enactments make this territory challenging and anxiety provoking for even the most skilled therapist. Continue reading Boundary Violations: Traversing the Minefields of Sex and Love in the Consulting Room with Elizabeth R. Goren at CFS