Room for thought: a developmental perspective” with Kate Oram at IPTAR
By Categories: EVENTS, Psychoanalysis

IPTAR Child & Adolescent Psychotherapy Program is pleased to invite you to attend a meeting of THE CHILD THERAPIST AT WORK SERIES
“Room for thought: a developmental perspective” Presenter: Kate Oram, PhD MONDAY, APRIL 9, 2018 Reception and Open House at 7:30 pm Program to follow at 8:00pm

IPTAR 1651 Third Avenue, #205 Conference Room (92nd and 3rd Ave.)

IPTAR Members/ Candidates: Free Non-IPTAR Members: $25 Candidates/ Students with Valid Id: $5 Registration is requested for all No Refunds
RSVP: https://iptar.org/event/room-for-thought-a-developmental-perspective/ SPACE IS LIMITED. ATTENDANCE IS CONFIRMED BY REGISTRATION

This paper discusses the different ways a developmental point of view enriches and informs our work. It focuses on that aspect of the developmental point of view that has to do with the development of reflective functioning; specifically, how we, as therapists, make room for thinking with both our child and our adult patients. The complex relationship between the development of self/object differentiation and the development of reflective functioning is discussed. The role of therapy in the facilitation of this relationship is illustrated from the therapist’s own experience. In addition, the importance in child Continue reading Room for thought: a developmental perspective” with Kate Oram at IPTAR

Did Hans Asperger save children from the Nazis — or sell them out?
By Categories: History

Click Here to Read: Did Hans Asperger save children from the Nazis — or sell them out? Reviewing Steve Silberman’s Neurotribes, Simon Baron-Cohen, our leading authority on autism, wonders what really went on in Asperger’s children’s clinic in ‘Aryanised’ 1940s Vienna by Simon Baron-Cohen on the Spectator website on on September 12, 2015.

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Photograph #13129

POETRY MONDAY: April 2, 2018
By Categories: Literature

Good morning, poetry lovers everywhere, on this early April day that actually, right after the dismal March that we in New England call “mud season,” feels like spring, with temperature in the near-balmy forties.  While April isn’t really laughing her “girlish laughter,” neither is she yet weeping “girlish tears.”

This is also National Poetry Month, which we have celebrated for so long and with such verve that it’s hard to believe it was first introduced as recently as 1966 and has since become the largest literary festival in the world.  Teachers in schools everywhere are introducing children to and helping them to experience poetry.

I had intended to make today’s column an exhortation – a call to you to be vigilant in service to poetry.  Go to senior centers, assisted-living facilities, “over-55” residences.  See that poetry isn’t relegated to a dim corner, and donate if you can.  Go to your few-and-far-between independent bookstores, as well as the chains, and check out their collections.  Look over the course catalogs that arrive in the mail.  As you buy a poet’s collected works, donate the individual volumes to places where the collections are thin.  Publicize what you’re doing and get people out to poetry events in your area –readings, book launches, and the like – and if there are none, organize some.  Arts funding is drying up; fight it.  Become a missionary on behalf of poetry.  Buy the theme-based anthologies that support your causes, e.g., Poets in the Age of Trump.  Did I imagine this title?  Perhaps.  And here’s an important question: How Continue reading POETRY MONDAY: April 2, 2018