Open House: Working with Profound Childhood Sexual Trauma at MITPP

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.
2. How childhood trauma manifests in adulthood and the challenges for the traumatized victim.
3. The typical manifestations of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.
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From the Chair to the Couch 2018-2019 at NYPSI

The New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute invites you to a clinical series: FROM THE CHAIR TO THE COUCH 2018 – 2019

Interested in learning more about psychoanalysis and how to deepen your clinic practice? Please join us for this year’s three part clinical series.

In the first evening’s presentation on Tuesday, October 30th, an advanced candidate Dr. Nicole Regent will discuss her analysis of an adult patient, and Training Analyst Dr. Alan Zients will act as a discussant. This presentation will focus on defense and transference interpretations and will highlight the mutative agents active in many analyses. Continue reading From the Chair to the Couch 2018-2019 at NYPSI

The Cruelty Is the Point: President Trump and his supporters find community by rejoicing in the suffering of those they hate and fear

Click Here to Read: The Cruelty Is the Point: President Trump and his supporters find community by rejoicing in the suffering of those they hate and fear by Adam Serwer in The Atlantic on October 3, 2018.

New York, 3 September 2015 (CNN). Donald Trump has signed the pledge.N NPhoto: Michael Vadon Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

 

My Great-Grandfather the Bundist

Click Here to Read: My Great-Grandfather the Bundist by Molly Crabapple on the New York Review of Books Daily website on October 6, 2018.

An elections poster of the w:General Jewish Labour Bund hung in Kiev, 1918. Heading: “Where we live, there is our country!” Inside frame: “Vote List 9, Bund”. Bottom: “A democratic republic! Full national and political rights for Jews!” Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.