We invite you to our discussion group #90 on Loneliness and Aloneness on Thursday January 17 from 7:30 to 10 pm at the Waldorf Astoria in New York City at the ApsaA meetings.
We will have a presentation of a four times per week analytic treatment of a young woman with a schizo-affective disorder who is using anti-psychotic medication. The problem most prominent in her life is fear of loneliness combined with fear of intimacy. Careening between these dangers, she had become unable to function. Understanding her feelings, wishes, moral scruples, and defenses is demonstrated to have an effect on her life choices and the satisfaction she can derive from them.
Those interested in a review of the literature please see our paper “On being lonely, socially isolated and single” on www.internationalpsychoanalysis.net.
Lucille Spira and Arlene Kramer Richards
212-371-1550 212-369-1379