Click Here to Read: What if the Placebo Effect Isn’t a Trick? New research is zeroing in on a biochemical basis for the placebo effect — possibly opening a Pandora’s box for Western medicine By Gary Greenberg in The New York Times Magazine on November 7, 2018.
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Click Here to Read: The Day of Fate: Kristallnacht, on its 80th anniversary, still offers a potent lesson: We all face the choice between right and wrong, responsibility and recklessness, conscience and complicity by David Frum
on the The Atlantic Monthly website on November 9, 2018.
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THE PROMISED LAND: FREUD’S DREAM OF ENGLAND
Lecture in German by Liliane Weissberg
Keynote at the symposium FREUD AND THE ÉMIGRÉ: Austrian Émigrés and Exiles and the Legacy of Psychoanalysis in Britain from the 1930s through the 1970s
Welcome by Monika Pessler, director of the Sigmund Freud Museum
Opening remarks by Daniela Finzi & Elana Shapira (in German)
Thursday, November 8, 2018, 6 p.m., Sigmund Freud Museum, Berggasse 19, 1090 Vienna
Admission free, please register below Continue reading The Promised Land: Freud’s Dream of England at Sigmund Freud Museum, Vienna
OPEN HOUSE LUNCHEON & CLINICAL PRESENTATION: FOR THOSE CONSIDERING POSTGRADUATE TRAINING: Wednesday, November 27, 2018 1:00 PM –2:30 PM WORKING WITH PROFOUND CHILDHOOD SEXUAL TRAUMA
The presentation will focus on psychotherapy with a young female suffering from post-traumatic stress subsequent to a rape by a priest when she was 7 years old. The details of the therapy will demonstrate the experiential difficulties encountered over a five-year treatment and what was required from the therapist to help this woman begin to come to terms with her trauma. The profound complications of how non- empathic caregivers influenced her character development will be examined as well.
Learning Objectives:
Participants will be able to recognize:
1. The enormous emotional toll on both patient and therapist in work with this level of trauma. Continue reading Working with Profound Childhood Sexual Trauma Open House at MITPP
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James Krantz, PhD, was one of the featured speakers at the day-long Leadership and Institutional Integrity conference this past July at Riggs in memory of Dr. Wesley Carr. The conference examined current leadership pressures in our major institutions; in this blog, Dr. Krantz summarizes themes and ideas from his presentation. >>Read more Continue reading Austen Riggs Center November 2018 News & Event
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