She Can’t Say “No” Open House and Clinical Presentation at MITPP
By Categories: EVENTS, Psychoanalysis

THE METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE FOR TRAINING IN PSYCHOANALYTIC PSYCHOTHERAPY
160 West 86th Street, New York, NY 10024 · (212) 496-2858, mitppnyc@aol.com · www.MITPP.org · on Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn

OPEN HOUSE LUNCHEON & CLINICAL PRESENTATION FOR THOSE CONSIDERING POSTGRADUATE TRAINING
Wednesday, March 14, 2018 1:00 PM –2:30 PM
SHE CAN’T SAY “NO”

The powerful challenges of treating a middle-aged, self-effacing, masochistic woman who tended to be a doormat in relationships will be described with a focus on the many trials such a treatment presented. The therapy lasted for two and a half years with a disappointing outcome and illustrates the dyad’s enactments and some of the difficulties of working with a highly defended, “neurotic” patient. Continue reading She Can’t Say “No” Open House and Clinical Presentation at MITPP

Special! Hide and Seek/Hidden and Found: In Search of a Balanced Life: Memoirs, Stories, and Essays by Howard L. Schwartz
By Categories: Literature

Purchase Hide and Seek for $24.50, 30% off the regular price of $35.00, now on IPBooks.net

Click Here to Purchase:  Hide and Seek/Hidden and Found: In Search of a Balanced Life: Memoirs, Stories,and Essays by Howard L. Schwartz on IPBooks.net

Excerpt from Book Review:

Hide and Seek/Hidden and Found is above all an exercise in self-analysis. Schwartz favors honesty over accuracy, feelings over facts in the way he tells his stories. His memoirs are therefore based on “screen memories,” a term from psychoanalysis that speaks to memories that may or may not be based on actual events but on images of the past, remembered or perhaps formed in the present from past feelings, in which old desires and conflicts may be better understood and perhaps resolved. Continue reading Special! Hide and Seek/Hidden and Found: In Search of a Balanced Life: Memoirs, Stories, and Essays by Howard L. Schwartz

Psychoanalytic Reflections: Searching for a Passionate Neutrality with Sandra Buechler at AIP
By Categories: EVENTS, Psychoanalysis

AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOANALYSIS Continuing Education Program: 2 CONTACT HOURS for licensed social workers
329 East 62nd Street — New York, NY 10065 — (212) 838-8044 — aipnyc.org — info@aipnyc.org
Psychoanalytic Reflections: Searching for a Passionate Neutrality Sandra Buechler, PhD
Date: Thursday, March 22, 2018 Time: 8:00 pm – 10:00 pm

General Admission: $15 NO Charge for AIP Members, Candidates and Students & NO Charge KHC Staff & Students Contact Hours: 2

Overview:
Everything I have written can be understood as an effort to find a sufficiently passionate form of treatment. In one of the papers in my collection, Psychoanalytic Reflections: Training and Practice (2017, IP Books) I explore how profound feelings about life and health can be integrated into an analytic approach that also honors the concept of neutrality. In this talk I consider how the clinician can inspire active hope, engage in treatment emotionally, facilitate fighting depression, and other challenges.

Learning Objectives:
Participants will be able to describe ways the clinician can integrate neutrality with a sufficiently emotionally engaged treatment approach. Continue reading Psychoanalytic Reflections: Searching for a Passionate Neutrality with Sandra Buechler at AIP

Letter to the New York Times by Henry J. Friedman
By Categories: Psychoanalysis

To the Editor:

Re “I Can’t Stop Mass Shooters,” by Amy Barnhorst (Op-Ed, Feb. 21):

As a psychiatrist practicing for many decades, I have long understood the problems that stop mental health professionals from effectively preventing angry, hating young men from using automatic weapons to murder large numbers of young people whom they both envy and hate.

Dr. Barnhorst has described her experience as an emergency psychiatrist so clearly that anyone who reads her article should be able to comprehend why reliance upon psychiatrists and other mental health workers to prevent future occurrence of mass murders is unrealistic.

As she demonstrates, it may be easy as a psychiatrist to hospitalize and treat a delusional patient experiencing command hallucinations, but this isn’t the case with the kind of raging young man intent on revenge against those he blames for his outsider misery.

Dr. Barnhorst’s article is an example of a psychiatrist successfully educating the public and her colleagues in psychiatry about the limitations of concentrating on mental illness as the cause of mass murders.

HENRY J. FRIEDMAN
CAMBRIDGE, MASS.

The writer is an associate professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School.

The Hollywood Directors Who Filmed the Liberation of Nazi Concentration Camps
By Categories: Film

Click Here to Read:   The Hollywood Directors Who Filmed the Liberation of Nazi Concentration Camps: George Stevens, John Ford, and Samuel Fuller, best known for their work in Hollywood, all documented the Allied liberation at the end of the war by Dan Schindel1 on the HyperAllergic.com website on February 22, 2018.

Young and old survivors in Dachau cheer approaching U.S. troops. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Photograph #45075 Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons

Modern Conflict Theory in Practice with Ian D. Buckingham at NYPSI
By Categories: EVENTS, Psychoanalysis

NYPSI EXTENSION PROGRAM: Modern Conflict Theory in Practice with Ian D. Buckingham, M.D.

Modern Conflict Theory in Practice Ian D. Buckingham, M.D. March 15 – 29, 2018 Thursdays, 8:30 – 10:00 pm 3 classes / $90 Location: 247 East 82nd Street, NYC Register Today

NYPSI Extension Program: Modern Conflict Theory in Practice: A contemporary focus on the functioning of the mind from the perspective of Modern Conflict Theory, with emphasis on Brenner’s revisions of traditional structural theory and a new appreciation of the ideas of evolutionary biology for understanding the functioning of the mind.

Dr. Buckingham was formerly President of NYPSI and Director of its Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Program. He is on the faculty of both NYPSI and NYU Medical Center. 4.5 CME/CE credits offered

Course Objectives
Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:
1. Explain contemporary theory in the functioning of the mind, specifically from the perspective of Modern Conflict Theory.
2. Describe Charles Brenner’s revisions of traditional structural theory. Continue reading Modern Conflict Theory in Practice with Ian D. Buckingham at NYPSI