lick Here to Read: How a teenage photographer captured a vanishing world before the Holocaust: Richard Scheuer’s images of ordinary life in 1934 are both unsettling and prescient By Simi Horwitz on the Forward website on October 12, 2022.
Jews working in one of the manufacturing plants (so called szops) in the Warsaw Ghetto/ Image: Stanisław Poznański (oprac./edit.), Walka. Śmierć. Pamięć 1939-1945. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
REMINISCENCES OF GERALD J. ARONSON, M.D. (1922-2022) By David James Fisher, Ph.D.
I was neither an analysand nor supervisee of Gerry Aronson. I was a student in his L.A.P.S.I.
Seminar on “Resistance” in the early 1980’s and a friend for the remainder of his life. I found Gerry to be consistently brilliant, with an encyclopedic knowledge spanning Einsteinian theoretical physics, to mathematics, to philosophies of religion, to literature ancient and modern; he possessed an acute, insider view of the history of psychoanalysis. Gerry was endowed with a unique sense of humor; It was a Jewish sense of humor, marked by improvisation, wise cracking and one-liners; he possessed tons of stories, ad-libbed rapidly, and hit hard with his jokes. For my taste, his humor was intelligent and irreverent, puncturing pretense and debunking established pieties. In speaking the unspeakable, there was some aggression and some malice in his jokiness. But mostly, he was hilarious. Let me provide a few examples.
L.A.P.S.I. invited Adolf Grunbaum to conduct an all-day program on his book, The Foundations of Psychoanalysis: A Philosophical Critique (1984). Grunbaum was temporarily running out of steam by the late afternoon, catching his breathe, saying out loud “What am I thinking? what am I doing?” Gerry bellowed from the auditorium, “A lot of damage.” The audience cracked up, including Grunbaum. Continue reading REMINISCENCES OF GERALD J. ARONSON, M.D. (1922-2022) By David James Fisher, Ph.D.
Click Here to Listen to: Voices from ROOM: A Podcast for Analytic Action, Episode 1 and 2.
Dear ROOMmates,
Episode 2 of Voices from ROOM: a Podcast for Analytic Action is now available wherever you listen to podcasts. We’ve been thrilled with the enthusiasm of our early listeners and hope you will consider subscribing today!
This week, Isaac and Aneta interview psychoanalyst Karim Dajani about writing autobiographically and how those on the margins find a sense of belonging in psychoanalysis.
Karim G. Dajani, PsyD, is a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst in private practice with a specialization in treating bicultural individuals. His research and writing include publications on psychological resilience and culture. He focuses on the role culture plays in determining an individual’s role within a collective and on the experience of cultural dislocation.
Dr. Dajani deepens the discussion he began in his essays from ROOM, “The Culturing of Psychoanalysis” and “From Beirut to San Francisco” as he speaks about the societal and political implications he has experienced in the rapidly changing field of psychoanalysis.
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Hilary Russell
Good morning, everyone. Fall is upon us, it seems. Apples are ripe and abundant, and so does nature nourish and sustain us.
Our poet today, Hilary Russell, has had an interesting life. Having grown up outside of New York City, he now lives in the Berkshires, in Western Massachusetts. He holds a bachelor’s degree from Villanova University and a master’s from Wesleyan University. But what is interesting is what he now does for a living. After teaching high school English for many years, he took up small boat building and, through his company, Berkshire Boat Building School, he teaches classes in boat-building. While many, if not most poets have college and graduate school degrees, few, if any, build boats.
His poems have appeared in Ploughshares, The Beloit Poetry Journal, Boulevard, The George Washington Review, and other well-known journals. He is the author of Giving up the House, a chapbook (Mad River Press); The Anthology of American Poetry (Wayside Press), and The Portable Writer (Wayside Continue reading POETRY MONDAY: October 3, 2022
Click Here to Purchase: The Developmental Lens by Gwyneth Kerr Erwin, Ph.D., Psy.D.
Advance Praise for The Developmental Lens: A New Paradigm for Psychodynamic Diagnosis and Treatment by Gwyneth Kerr Erwin, Ph.D., Psy.D.
In the nearly thirty years I’ve known her, Dr. Gwyn Erwin’s passion has been to formulate, teach, and integrate contemporary relational psychoanalytic thinking, infant (and adult) development, and caring and effective treatment of trauma. This beautifully articulated and case-illustrated book accomplishes that goal in spades! A must-read for every therapist, teacher, student, and patient who is working and/or living with the debilitating effects of trauma in search of revitalized development.
—Alitta Kullman, Ph.D., Author of Hunger for Connection: Finding Meaning in Eating Disorders
Finally, a book that brilliantly weaves together multiple theories of trauma to create an integrated and comprehensive, easy to understand, narrative of Continue reading The Developmental Lens by Gwyneth Kerr Erwin, Ph.D., Psy.D. from IPBooks
