Psychoanalytic Fellowship Program at NYPSI

THE PSYCHOANALYTIC FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM /  Rebecca Twersky, M.D.
Director Navah C. Kaplan, Ph.D. Co-Director

The Psychoanalytic Fellowship is a free, one-year program at the New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute designed to introduce participants to modern psychoanalytic theory and practice. Fellows attend two monthly seminars.  In one seminar, invited analysts from our faculty present analytic case material and join the class discussion of the case. In the other seminar, discussion and readings are used to teach psychoanalytic principles that inform current expertise in psychoanalysis as a form of therapy, psychoanalysis as a model of how the mind works, and psychoanalysis as a method of investigating clinical data.   Continue reading Psychoanalytic Fellowship Program at NYPSI

Poetry Monday: Howard Faerstein

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

HOWARD FAERSTEIN

Good morning, everyone – and Happy Spring at last, wherever you are (not only you, but actual spring, which we are barely seeing, here in the Northeastern U.S.,where we’ve almost forgotten what the sun looks or feels like.  But the leaves are out, some of the flowers are, too, and the last scraps of snow are gone.

Soon it will be Mother’s Day, and I hope you’ll think of poetry then, in your wishes for whichever her or hers you’re honoring.

I didn’t know until recently that I did indeed know Howie Faerstein and his fine poetry and didn’t remember that we had met years ago.  But now I do know and am glad, not only to make his acquaintance once again but to share his poems with you.

Howie Faerstein’s first book of poetry, which I highly recommend, was Dreaming of the Rain in Brooklyn (Press 53, 2013).  This was followed a few Continue reading Poetry Monday: Howard Faerstein