Balance in a Dyad: Mother-Child Therapy with a Two-year-old Boy Presenting Behavioral Issues and Skin Disorder at NYPSI

NYPSI:WORKS IN PROGRESS SEMINAR: Suppression of Affects and Psychosomatic alance in a Dyad: Mother-Child Therapy with a Two-year-old Boy Presenting Behavioral Issues and Skin Disorder, M.D., Ph.D. Young mum and her angry son meeting psychologist Suppression of Affects and Psychosomatic
Christine Anzieu-Premmereur, M.D., Ph.D.

Wednesday, April 4, 2018 at 8:00 pm
New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute
247 East 82nd Street, NYC (btwn 2nd and 3rd Aves)
$15 – General Admission
$10 – Student Admission
No charge for NYPSI members/students
Register HERE, visit nypsi.org or call 212.879.6900
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Historian Tuesday: Herodotus

Click Here to Read:  Herodotus on Wikipedia.

Click Here to Read:  The History of Herodotus By Herodotus

Click Here to Read: Arms and the Man: What was Herodotus trying to tell us? By Daniel Mendelsohn in The New Yorker in April 28, 2008 Issue.

Click Here to Read: On the Road With History’s Father By Tom Bissell in The New York Times on June 10, 2007.

Click Here to Read:   The rest is history: With his reputation for romanticism and rambling and his love of gossip, Herodotus was dismissed by the serious thinkers of his day. Yet his work is both entertaining and deeply moral, argues Charlotte Higgins on the Guardian website on January 2, 2009. Continue reading Historian Tuesday: Herodotus

She Was the Only Woman in a Photo of 38 Scientists, and Now She’s Been Identified

Click Here to Read: She Was the Only Woman in a Photo of 38 Scientists, and Now She’s Been Identified By Jacey Fortin in The New York Times on March 19, 2018.

Sheila Minor Huff, center left and partly obscured, was just beginning her career when she was photographed at the International Conference on the Biology of Whales in Virginia in 1971. Public Domain via NOAA

Digging Deeper with an Anxious Adolescent at MITPP

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OPEN HOUSE LUNCHEON & CLINICAL PRESENTATION FOR THOSE CONSIDERING POSTGRADUATE TRAINING: DIGGING DEEPER WITH AN ANXIOUS ADOLESCENT
Wednesday, May 9, 2018 1:00 PM –2:30 PM

A 15 year-old girl sought treatment for severe anxiety believing her symptoms were related primarily to fears that she would not achieve academic success. Beneath her academic distress were issues independent of academic achievement including an insecure attachment to her parents, and an enmeshment communicated both emotionally and physically. At times the patient expressed her feelings about her parents through rage, and at other times guilt, pity, sadness and fear of loss. These shifting expressions were often dependent upon the interplay with her therapist. The therapist regularly experienced a sense of constriction in the room, and the feeling that she “couldn’t get it right” in responding to the patient. These interactions provided the therapist with clues about the patient’s need to remain connected and attached while simultaneously becoming an autonomous individual. Continue reading Digging Deeper with an Anxious Adolescent at MITPP