Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy of  Cancer Patients Norman Straker, M.D. at NYPSI
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NYPSI EXTENSION COURSE:    January 16 – 30, 2020 Thursdays, 7:15 – 8:45 pm 3 classes  /  $115 Location: NYPSI (247 East 82nd Street, NYC)
To register, click here, visit nypsi.org or call 212-879-6900

NYPSI Extension Course: Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy of Cancer Patients
This course will provide the therapist with an introduction to psychoanalytic psychotherapy for cancer patients and their families. The first session will address the unique challenges for the therapist  of helping the patient face cancer at various stages of the disease. Death anxiety in Continue reading Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy of  Cancer Patients Norman Straker, M.D. at NYPSI

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

The Phosphate Problem for the Origin of Life May be Solved
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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
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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