Dear Colleagues:
This week, just before the annual meetings in NYC, is generally a regrouping, quiet time after the holidays. Not this year though, as the world news literally exploded with the reports of violence in Paris and subsequent fear spreading over Europe and creeping to our shores.
The international psychoanalytic website has therefore also shown some evidence of this unrest as your will see. Once again, I have attempted not to repeat the announcements I listed previously.
My own choices will be followed by a list of all the postings as usual.
1) I want to bring your attention to the announcement to a) NYC psychoanalytic candidates and friends and b) Black Minds Matter: A program in the IPTAR series, Bringing Back the Revolution. Please try to attend and disseminate the information regarding these programs:
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2) The books of course have it again. Most describe the sense of peril and doom
a) As written in the Tablet review of THE AGE OF THE CRISIS OF MAN BY Mark Greif, “This sense that humanity is living close to the edge of extinction might, in fact, be a constant for our species***perhaps the Middle Ages felt about Judgment Day the way we feel about global warming***but to interpret this apocalypse as a ***crisis*** is distinctively modern, a creation of the 20th century. For a crisis is something urgent, about which steps must be taken, rather than a fate that simply looms over us.”
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b) I really would have to list them all starting with the imaginary conversation between Heidegger and Voegelin, proceeding to Freud’s Psychoanalysis and Death, Morris Eagle’s chapter on Inner Conflict in Freudian Theory in the coming book “Psychoanalysis and Conflict: a Critical Reassessment”, Carl Sagan’s “Demon-Haunted World” to the review of “The Lives of Erich Fromm” and Henry Miller on “Art,War and the Future of Humanity”.
Clearly all of above struggle with explaining the perennial human drive to destruction/crisis.
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3) Affluence can lead to depression, anxiety, .. & murder. Please read “Growing up on Easy Street Has Its Own Dangers” in the Business & Finance Category.
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4) The General News Category has a number of posts on the Charlie Hebdo attack in Paris –
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5) Listening to patients in the medical world is fast disappearing. I will refrain from writing down the countless examples I could give even from 40 years ago, but please read: “Doctor, Shut Up and Listen” also in the General news Category. Perhaps this is the universal remedy the world needs to hear about and it does not just apply to doctors and patients.
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6) The films this week seem to reflect current events this week by reviving the Holocaust years and WWI & WWII in one way or another, as well as the civil rights movement.
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7) Drugs or therapy – the beat of controversy seems to go on as if it has to be one or the other.- See the Science News.
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8) Those of us who were and who have treated teenage girls have known this all along – nice to have some proof?
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9) Finally, please review your knowledge of and revive your interest in Virginia Woolf – like all the writers, she too writes about the human condition and its pathos.
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Below is the Table of Contents for the week:
A. In the ANNOUNCEMENTS Category:
I. Black Minds Matter: A program in the IPTAR series, Bringing Back the Revolution
March 1st, 2015 *** 1:00 *** 4:00pm *** Wollman Hall at the New School, 65 West 11th Street.
To read more please go to:
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/announcements/ _________________________________________________
II. Foreign Minister congratulates Chair of Lithuanian Jewish Community on receiving YIVO Community Service Award
on the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania website on December 19, 2014.
To read more please go to:
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/announcements/ _________________________________________________
III. The Use of the Analyst***s Feelings in Psychoanalytic Technique with Paul Geltner at AIP
THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOANALYSIS
Established by Karen Horney in 1941
329 East 62nd Street ** New York, NY 10065
(212) 838-8044 ** aipkh@aol.com
************************************************************************************ Our Work Continues
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Thursday, February 26, 2015 at 8:00 PM
Paul Geltner
THE USE OF THE ANALYST***S FEELINGS IN PSYCHOANALYTIC TECHNIQUE
Although many contemporary analysts no longer view countertransference exclusively ***.
To read more please go to:
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/announcements/ _________________________________________________
IV. Gathering for NYC psychoanalytic candidates and friends
Dear Candidate,
We are psychoanalytic candidates in New York City organizing events to bring together candidates from the city***s many schools and institutes. Our purpose is light hearted, and not especially earnest. The Center for Modern Psychoanalytic Studies has kindly offered to host our first event, a wine and cheese party on the night of Friday, January 30th, 7:30-10:30 at 16 West 10th Street, New York, NY 10011. We hope to pry you from a night***s reading on the depressive position, the un-locatable phallus, or the good or bad breast, to join us to share your war stories ***.
To read more please go to:
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/announcements/ _________________________________________________
V. Rakhmiel Peltz Appointed YIVO***s Inaugural Atran Visiting Professor of Yiddish Language and Linguistics
The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Rakhmiel Peltz as the inaugural Atran Visiting Professor of Yiddish Language and Linguistics.
Dr. Peltz, a specialist in the social history of Yiddish language and culture, is the ******
To read more please go to:
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/announcements/ _________________________________________________
VI. North American Working Parties Mtg *** 3/7 Co-Sponsored by CFS
Steering Committee Working Parties of the North American WP Project Saturday, March 7 and Sunday, March 8, 2015
Sites: New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute and Private Psychoanalytic Offices in New York City
Co-Sponsored by the Contemporary Freudian Society
and the Canadian Psychoanalytic Society
Cost: $196 ******
To read more please go to:
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/announcements/ _________________________________________________
VII. Start 2015 Right: January at YIVO!
at the 4th Annual Winter Program Keynote!
Poets as Smugglers: Sutzkever, Kaczerginski, and How the Remnants of the YIVO Archive Reached New York
Monday, January 5 | 6:30pm | Location: YIVO Institute
YIVO-Bard Winter Program on Ashkenazi Civilization Keynote Address
YIVO***s Jacob Kronhill Visiting Scholar David Fishman tells the dramatic story of how poets Kaczerginski and Sutzkever rescued YIVO***s treasures from the Vilnius Jewish ***
To read more please go to:
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/announcements/ _________________________________________________
VIII. Introducing Lacan: On the Three Registers at Apr**s-Coup
2014-2015 SEMINAR SERIES
October 8 & 22 Mark Stafford, Unconscious
November 19 & December 10 Paola Mieli, Drives
January 14 & February 4 David Lichtenstein, Language
February 25 & March 12 Adriana Passini, Repetition
April 8 & 29 Martin Winn, Mirror Stage
May 20 & June 10 Lillian Ferrari, Angst
This seminar, which requires prior familiarity with Freud***s basic texts, is intended as an introduction to Jacques Lacan***s theory of the Real, the Symbolic, and the Imaginary as structuring human subjectivity.
To read more please go to:
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/announcements/ _________________________________________________
B. In the ARLOW UNPUBLISHED PAPERS Category:
IX. The Problem With Meaning
by David Brooks in The New York Times on January 6, 2015.
To read please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/arlowunpublishedpapers/ ______________________________________________
C. In the ART Category:
X. 21st Annual Upstream Gallery Juried Small Works Show
Jan. 8-Jan. 25, 2015
Reception Jan. 11, 2-5 PM
Upstream Gallery
8 Main St
Hastings on Hudson, NY 10706
914-674-8548
www.upstreamgallery.com
To read please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/art/ _________________________________________________
XI. The Helix Center Winter 2015 Roundtables
To read please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/art/ _________________________________________________
D. In the BOOKS Category:
XII. Mark Greif***s Brilliant Contribution to the History of Ideas
***The Age of the Crisis of Man*** traces the fall and rise of individualist pragmatism in America By Adam Kirsch on the Tablet Website on January 8, 2015.
Photo: A job applicant, 1940. (NARA via Wikipedia)
To read please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/books/
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XIII. A Mutual Enlargement of Understanding
a)by David Walsh on the Voegelin View website on February 11, 2011.
This essay is taken from Eric Voegelin and the Continental Tradition, edited by Lee Trepanier and Steven F. McGuire (University of Missouri Press, 2011) and appears here in four parts.
b) Heidegger: Thinking of Being on this website. (more***)
To read a) & b) please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/books/
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XIV. New Books in Psychoanalysis for the week on January 6, 2015
Freud, Psychoanalysis and Death
To read please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/books/
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XV. Inner Conflict in Freudian Theory
An excerpt from a chapter by Morris Eagle, entitled ***Inner Conflict in Freudian Theory***, from the forthcoming book Psychoanalysis and Conflict: A Critical Reassessment edited by Morris Eagle, Chris Christian, and David Wolitzky in the Division/Review Journal on June 5, 2015.
To read please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/books/
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XVI. The Pleasures and Perils of Fighting Among Ourselves
Click Here to Read: The Pleasures and Perils of Fighting Among Ourselves: A polarized group becomes less effective as its members become more certain By Susan Kolod, Ph.D on the Contemporary Psychoanalysis in Action blog on the Psychology Today blogs on January 4, 2015.
To read please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/books/
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XVII. Carl Sagan on Science and Spirituality
by Maria Popova on the Brain Picking Website.
To read please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/books/
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XVIII. A Godless Jewish Humanist
A Review of The Lives of Erich Fromm: Love***s Prophet by Lawrence J. Friedman Reviewed By Dinah M. Mendes on the Tablet Website on Jnuary 4, 2015.
To read please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/books/
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XIX. Henry Miller on Art, War, and the Future of Humanity
by Maria Popova on the Brain Pickings website.
To read please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/books/
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XX. The Best Fiction of 2014
By Chloe Schama on the New Republic Website. on December 31, 2014.
To read please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/books/
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E. In the BUSINESS AND FINANCE Category:
XXI. Growing Up on Easy Street Has Its Own Dangers
By Ron Lieber in The New York Times on January 9, 2015.
To read more please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/business-and-finance/ _____________________________________________
F. In the CHINA Category:
XXII. CAPA Dim Sum in NYC
Time Flies
Sign up for Dim Sum
Saturday, January 17 9:20 AM *** 12:30 PM
RED EGG 202 Centre Street NYC
9:20-9:40 Coffee/Tea
9:40-10:55 Discussion: Boundary Violations: Cultural Aspects (more***)
To read please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net;category/china/ ______________________________________________
G. In the EDITORIALS Category:
XXIII. Psychoanalytic Standards: Highest or Good Enough by Lee Jaffe Monday, January 5th, 2015
Psychoanalytic Standards: Highest or Good Enough
There is disagreement amongst psychoanalysts about the aspirations that we should strive for in recruiting candidates, graduating analysts, and appointing training analysts. Some believe we should strive for excellence and the HIGHEST STANDARDS, while others believe we should strive for GOOD ENOUGH STANDARDS. I regretfully think, for several reasons, that striving for the HIGHEST standards is a fatally flawed goal ***and know that I make these comments as a Training Analyst and Fellow of the American Psychoanalytic Association***s Board of Professional Standards***thus, someone who has supposedly met the HIGHEST standards ..
To read please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/editorials/ _______________________________________________________
H. In the GENERAL NEWS CATEGORY:
XXIV. Getting Grief Right
By Patrick O***Malley in The New York Times on January 10, 2015.
To read more please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/general-news/ ________________________________________
XXV. Charlie Hebdo attack: French officials establish link between gunmen in both attacks *** live
Click Here to Read: Charlie Hebdo attack: French officials establish link between gunmen in both attacks *** live by Matthew Weaver , Josh Halliday, Alexandra Topping, Jonathan Bucks, Alan Yuhas and Raya Jalabi in New York on the Telegraph website on January 9, 2015.
Paris is Charlie is projected onto the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, to pay tribute to the victims of a deadly attack on the headquarters of French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo. Photograph: MATTHIEU ALEXANDRE/AFP/Getty Images
To read more please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/general-news/ ________________________________________
XXVI. History of modern man unravels as German scholar is exposed as fraud. Flamboyant anthropologist falsified dating of key discoveries
by Luke Harding in The Guarian on February 18, 2005.
To read more please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/general-news/ ________________________________________
XXVII. Charlie Hebdo terrorists separated men and women before executions
By Bob Fredericks in The New York Post on January 9, 2015.
An injured person is transported to an ambulance after Wednesday***s massacre at the Charlie Hebdo offices in France. Two suspects (inset) remain at large.Photo: AP; AFP/Getty Images
To read more please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/general-news/ ________________________________________
XXVIII. Oldest known example of abstract symbolic representation discovered in Indonesia
By Philip Guelpa on the World Socialist Web Site on January 9, 2015.
The geometric pattern on Pseudodon shell, from Left to right, top to bottom: overview (scale bar *** 1 cm); schematic representation; detail of main engraving area (scale bar *** 1 cm); detail of the engraving (scale bar *** 1 mm). [Image credit: Josephine C. A. Joordens et al.]
To read more please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/general-news/ ________________________________________
XXIX. Elsa Cayat: la psy de Charlie Hebdo assassin**e
Eug**nie Basti** avec la r**daction du Madame Figaro.fr Le 08 janvier 2015.
To read more please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/general-news/ ________________________________________
XXX. Meet the Enemy: It Is Us: On owning your aggression
by Molly S. Castelloe, Ph.D. on her The We In Me blog on the Psychology Today blogs on January 5, 2015.
Ann Pellegrini, Professor, Performance Studies, Social & Cultural Analysis, New York University **molly castelloe
To read more please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/general-news/ ________________________________________
XXXI. Doctor, Shut Up and Listen
By Nirmal Joshi in The New York Times on January 4, 2015.
To read more please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/general-news/ ________________________________________
XXXII. Me, Me, Me and My Therapist
By Vivian Conan In The New York Times on January 3, 2015.
Eleanor Taylor
To read more please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/general-news/ ________________________________________
XXXIII. The Liberation of Growing Old
By Anne Karpf in The New York Times on January 3, 2015.
Ed Kashi/VII Photo
To read more please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/general-news/ ________________________________________
XXXIV. Get Started in Integrated Care by Picking Up the Phone
by John Kern, M.D. on the Psychiatric News Website.
Photo: John Kern
To read more please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/general-news/ ________________________________________
I. In the MOVIES Category:
XXXV. ***Selma*** Distorts History by Airbrushing Out Jewish Contributions to Civil Rights
Click Here to Read: ***Selma*** Distorts History by Airbrushing Out Jewish Contributions to Civil Rights Film***s Portrayal of Lyndon Johnson Is Not Only Inaccuracy By Leida Snow on the Jewish Daily Forward website on January 5, 2015.
to read please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/movies/ __________________________________________
XXXVI. Movie Monday: Orson Welles, The Trial
a) The Trial (1962 film) on Wikipedia.
b) Orson Welles*** ***The Trial*** Is a Study in Transcendental Sociology By Andrew Grossman on the PopMatters website on November 7, 2013.
c) The Trial to air on TMC on February 19, 2015 at 5:00pm.
d) Watch The Trial (1962), Orson Welles*** Worst or Best Film, Adapted From Kafka***s Classic Work in Film on the Open Culture website on January 10th, 2014.
to read a),b).c) & d) please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/movies/
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XXXVII. Life in modern Tokyo, and life during the two world wars: Kabukicho Love Hotel, Tsili and Theeb
By John Watanabe on the World Socialist Web Site on January 5, 2015.
photo:Love Hotel
XXXVIII. P**ter Forg**cs*** Memory Art Brings Phantoms of Eastern Europe to Light
***Letters to Afar*** is the latest of an emergent and haunting new form, Jewish material-memory film By J. Hoberman on the Tablet Website on November 20, 2014.
Still from a Polish home movie, c. 1920s-1930s. (Photo courtesy of the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, New York.)
to read please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/movies/ __________________________________________
J. In the OBITUARIES Category:
XXXIX. Stephen Freud, the ***forgotten*** brother of Lucian and Clement, dies aged 93
Less well-known sibling, who was also a grandson of Sigmund Freud, ran an ironmongery business and enjoyed horseracing By David Barrett on the Telegraph website on January 8, 2015.
Stephen Freud, the brother of Lucian and Clement Freud, and grandson of Sigmund Freud, pictured at home in Chiswick, London in 2008 Photo: Oli Scarff/The Telegraph
To read please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/obituaries/ ____________________________________________
XL. Singer Joe Cocker: 1944-2014
By James Brewer on the World Socialist Web Site on January 3, 2015.
photo: Cocker in the 1970s
To read a)-d) please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/obituaries/ ____________________________________________
K. In the PAPERS Category:
XLI. Class 8: Depression and Meloncholia
a) Class 8: Depression and Meloncholia by Drs. Martin Blum and Jonathan Easton.
b) Class 7: Sadism and Masochism by Drs. Martin Blum and Jonathan Easton.
c) Class 6: Paranoia by Drs. Martin Blum and Jonathan Easton on this website.
d) Class 5 Aggression: The Impulse to Mastery and the Reaction of Anger by Drs. Martin Blum and Jonathan Easton on this website.
To read a),b),c) & d) please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/papers/
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XLII. Both Freud and Hoffman are Right: Anxious-Aggressive and Empathic Dimensions of Guilt
by Itziar Etxebarria and Pedro Apodaca at Universidad del Pa**s Vasco (Spain).
To read please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/papers/ _____________________________________________
L. In the PHILOSOPHY THURSDAY Category:
XLIII. Philosophy Thursday: Denis Diderot
a) Denis Diderot on Wikipedia.
b) Denis Diderot (1713***1784) on the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
c) Denis Diderot and Science by Charles T. Wolfe on the Conversation website on October 5, 2013.
d) Diderot effect on the Wikipedia website.
e) Other posts on Philosophy Thursday on this website.
To read a),b),c),d) & e) please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/philosphythursday/ ___________________________________________
M. In the POETRY Category:
XLIV. Poetry Monday: Gigi Marks
POETRY MONDAY: January 4, 2015
Photo: Gigi Marks
Welcome back, everyone, and Happy New Year!
We have some lovely new poems for you this morning.
Gigi Marks lives in Ithaca, New York. Formerly a professor at Ithaca College, she now works with a range of people, aged 8 to 90 plus, who would like to develop their writing ***with craft and authenticity.*** Her other interests, she tells us, ***are more home-based, with a family who all help to raise gardens, bees, sheep, a couple of goats, and a variety of small mammals.***
To read more please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/poetry/
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N. In the PSYCHOLOGY SUNDAY Category:
XLV. Psychology Sunday: Jerry Fodor
a) Jerry Fodor on Wikipedia.
b) Jerry Fodor on on the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy Website.
c) meaningful words without sense, & other revolutions, Jerry Fodor interviewed by Richard Marshall on the 3 Am Magazine website.
d) The Mind-Body Problem Jerry A. Fodor from the Scientific American on the UCSD website. ..
To read a),b) c),& d) please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/psychsunday/ _____________________________________________
O. In the SCIENCE NEWS Category:
XLVI. To Treat Depression, Drugs or Therapy?
By Richard A. Friedman, M.D. in The New York Times on January 8, 2015.
To read please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/science-news/ ___________________________
XLVII. Childhood Guilt, Adult Depression?
Click Here to Read: Childhood Guilt, Adult Depression?: New research shows differences in the brains of kids who show excessive guilty behavior, which may put them at risk for a host of mood disorders later in life by Jenny Chen on The Atlantic website on January 5, 2015.
To read please go to
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XLVIII. Teen girls have different brains: Gender, neuroscience and the truth about adolescence
It***s indisputably true that in adolescence there are real differences in some brain functions with males, females Dr. Frances E. Jensen and Amy Ellis Nutt on the Salon website on January 3, 2015.
Winona Ryder and Christian Slater in ***Heathers*** (Credit: New World Pictures)
To read please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/science-news/ ___________________________
P. In the SOCIAL WORK SATURDAY Category:
XLIX. Social Work Saturday: Christopher Bollas
a) Christopher Bollas on Wikipedia.
b) Catch Them Before They Fall: The Psychoanalysis of Breakdown by Christopher Bollas, Reviewed by Tracy D. Morgan on the New Books in Psychoanalysis website on March 26, 2013.
c) Unconscious Thinking Out of Bounds: Christopher Bollas as Thinker and Artist by Christopher Bollas and Anneleen Masschelein. (more***)
To read a),b) & c) please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/social-work-saturday/ ______________________________________________
Q. In the UNCATEGORIZED Category:
L. Money and the Psychotherapist with Joseph Cronin at MITPP
The Metropolitan Institute for Training in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, The Metropolitan Center for Mental Health and
The Metropolitan Society of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapists Invite you to a Scientific Meeting
Friday, February 6, 2015 *** 7:30 PM * (please note earlier time) MONEY AND THE PSYCHOTHERAPIST: FEE AND INCOME MATTERS
Presenter: Joseph Cronin, L.C.S.W.
The therapist***s fee is a fundamental part of day-to-day clinical practice. Setting and collecting the fee, establishing a contract that covers the handling ..
To read please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/uncategorized/ ____________________________________
R. In the WRITERS WEDNESDAY Category:
LI. Writer***s Wednesday: Virginia Woolf
a) Virginia Woolf on Wikipedia.
b) The Unsaid: the Silence of Virginia Woolf By Hisham Matar in The Yorker on November 10, 2014.
c) Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf ebook on the Adelaide.edu website.
d) Virginia Woolf meets Sigmund Freud on the Charleston website, Canvas Issue 18.
e) Virginia Woolf and Psychology By Krista Chouinard on the Psychoanalysis and Modern Culture website. ..
To read a),b),c),d) & e) please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/ww/
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The length of this daunting list is balanced by the interesting and timely material which I am certain you will enjoy enjoy. Please leave your comments on the website.
Respectfully submitted by
Sasha Rolde, M.D.