New from IPBooks: emma and her selves: a memoir of treatment and a therapist’s self discovery by May Benatar
By Categories: Literature

 

Click Here to Purchase:  emma and her selves by May Benatar

emma and her selves is the story of a long term psychotherapeutic relationship between a woman with multiple identities, someone diagnosed with Dissociative Identity Disorder. Dr. May Benatar shares some of her own process as a therapist discovering the ubiquity of trauma in both the general population and in clinical populations. As she begins to treat victims of childhood sexual abuse she comes to understand that dissociation and the creation of sequestered part selves are the common consequence of trauma.

Along the way she meets Emma and her many selves and is changed ocer the 20 years of their work together. She learns that “parts” exist in all of us, we all have many faces, many states of mind that are called forth in different circumstance. The difference between Emma and more ordinary folks is the degree of access we have to these states and our ability to integrate them within a whole personality.  Dr. Benatar becomes more familiar with her own parts in the process of treating Emma.

There are obstacles and triumphs, mystery and spiritual encounter threaded throughout the narrative.

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“Three Billboards Outside of Ebbing Missouri” and One Emotional Ride
By Categories: Film

by Herbert H. Stein

 

We see a man and woman driving along a quiet country road. She, the older of the two,
is driving and she starts the conversation.
“Hey, Dixon?”
“Yeah?”
“I need to tell you something.”
There is a pause, then she continues.
“It was me who burned down the police station.”
“Well, who the hell else would it have been?”
They drive some more and she speaks again.
“Dixon?”
“Yep?”
“You sure about this?”
“About killing this guy?”
He waits a few moments and continues,
“Not really. You?”
“Not really.”
They drive some more and she says, “I guess we can decide along the way.”
He nods, she smiles, they keep driving …

And then the screen goes black and we see the closing credits.

In that moment in which I realized I was no longer living vicariously in the world of the
film, as I came back to my own world, sitting in a now dark movie theater, I had the thought that I had seen a very unusual film, perhaps unique. Continue reading “Three Billboards Outside of Ebbing Missouri” and One Emotional Ride

Henry Lothane’s Letter to New York Times on Banality of Evil
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Click Here to Read:  Henry Lothane’s Letter to New York Times on Banality of Evil.  This letter was unpublished.

Click Here to Read:  Hannah Arendt on Loneliness as the Common Ground for Terror and How Tyrannical Regimes Use Isolation as a Weapon of Oppression by Maria Popova on the Brain Pickings website on December 20, 2016.

Click Here to Read: Reflections on Violence by Hannah Arendt in the New York Review of Books on July 11, 2013.

Click Here to Read: Hannah Arnedt on Philosophy Thursday on this website.

Click Here to Read: Lonely Thinking: Hannah Arendt on Film on this website Continue reading Henry Lothane’s Letter to New York Times on Banality of Evil

An Alternative History of Greek Pottery Makes Women the Equals of Men
By Categories: Arts

Click Here to Read: An Alternative History of Greek Pottery Makes Women the Equals of Men: Mary Frances Dondelinger creates bowls, vases, and statues that masquerade as the relics of a previously undiscovered civilization by Karen Chernick on the HyperAllergic website on April 17, 2018.

Women near an altar. Interior from an Attic red-figure kylix, ca. 450 BC. From Vulci. Guglielmi Collection Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons

Anni Bergman Parent-Infant Program Accepting Applications
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The Anni Bergman Parent-Infant Program will begin a new three-year training cycle in September 2018. Below is a description of the program. If you are interested in applying or would like more information, contact Sally Moskowitz at sallymoskowitz@gmail.com or Rita Reiswig at rreiswig@me.com. The deadline for applications is June 15, 2018.

THE ANNI BERGMAN PARENT-INFANT PROGRAM

The ANNI BERGMAN PARENT-INFANT PROGRAM began in 1997 and is affiliated with both The Contemporary Freudian Society and the Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research. The program is unique in offering intensive training in parent-infant treatment to psychoanalysts, advanced psychoanalytic candidates, and to professionals with expertise working with infants and toddlers.

The three-year training program includes one year of infant observation, one year of study of the psychoanalytic literature on infancy and relevant infant research, and one year of the application of this knowledge to supervised clinical work with infants and their parents.. The program is held weekly on Tuesdays from 12-2:30 at 30 West 86th Street and runs from mid-September through the end of May.

Year One: Infant Observation Continue reading Anni Bergman Parent-Infant Program Accepting Applications