A Pandemic of Fake Psychiatric Patients

Click Here to Read:  A Pandemic of Fake Psychiatric Patients By Jacob Appel on the Real Clear Science website on March 8, 2019.

A mentally ill patient in a strait-jacket attached to the wall and a strange barrel shaped contraption around his legs. Photograph after a wood engraving by E. Tritschler, 1908. Wellcome Collection gallery (2018-03-22).  Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons

Irene Willis to Read at Writers Read

Click Here to Purchase: Rehearsal by Irene Willis from IPBooks.net
Click Here to Purchase: Climate of Opinion: Sigmund Freud in Poetry edited and with an introduction by Irene Willis from IPBooks.net

Writers Read will start up again on March 26th, 5:30 as usual at the usual Lee Library.  Irene Willis will read from her new book then:

Irene Willis is the author of five collections of poetry:  They Tell Me You Danced (University Press of Florida, 1995); At the Fortune Café, winner of the Violet Reed Haas Prize and National Book Award nominee (Snake Nation Press, 2005 ; Those Flames (Bay Oak, 2009);  Reminder (Word Poetry, 2014), and Rehearsal (IPBooks, 2018).  She is also the editor of an anthology, Climate of Opinion: Sigmund  Freud in Poetry ( IPBooks, 2017). Three times nominated for Pushcart Prizes, her poems have appeared in many journals and anthologies. She has also co-authored several textbooks and children’s books. A longtime educator who has “retired” three times, she has taught at a number of secondary schools and colleges, most recently at Westfield State University and American International College in Massachusetts.  Awards for her poetry include a Distinguished Artist fellowship from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts; a residency fellowship from the Millay Colony for the Arts, and grants from the Massachusetts Cultural Council and the Berkshire/Taconic Foundation. She is Poetry Editor of the online publication, International Psychoanalysis, where she has a monthly column, “Poetry Monday.”

MITPP Summer Institute 2019 – Registration Now Open

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2019 SUMMER INSTITUTE  PSYCHOLOGICAL TRAUMA:  CLINICAL THEORY AND PRACTICE  Instructor:Linda Jaffe Caplan, Ph.D.

This 4-week case seminar will explore Psychological Trauma, clinical theory and practice from a psychodynamic perspective.  Special areas of exploration will focus on the effects of cumulative trauma, early onset Continue reading MITPP Summer Institute 2019 – Registration Now Open