Author: Tamar Schwartz

Sigourney Award Nominations
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“The Mary S.Sigourney Award Trust is currently accepting nominations for the 2009 Awards which will recognize outstanding contributions made to psychoanalysis by individuals or organizations residing in the United States.  Nominations must be received by July 15, 2009, and must include a statement detailing the reasons for the nomination and the C.V of the nominee.  Further details regarding the Award and the method of submitting a nomination appear on the Trust’s Web Site found at www.sigourney.org.”

I am posting this announcement in my role as co-trustee of the Trust. Please forward it to your local societies and engage them in discussing suitable nominees. Criteria for the awards are available on the website.

Judith S. Schachter

POETRY MONDAY: Linda McCarriston
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POETRY MONDAY:  February 2, 2009

Linda McCarriston

I’ve been an admirer of Linda McCarriston’s work for many years, for the way she confronts trauma and pain, both her own and that of others, to create poems of layered complexity and grace.  What she gives us in her poems in this vein is not the recovery of repressed memories but stark personal witness — actual memories, courageously actualized.
 
Of her three excellent collections, Talking Soft Dutch, Eva-Mary and Little River, the award-winning Eva-Mary (Tri-Quarterly Books/ Northwestern University Press) has received the most attention  The first two poems below are from Eva-Mary; the third is a new, unpublished poem Linda McCarriston has generously agreed to share with us.  I know our readers will fully appreciate the depths these poems plumb, what they have to offer, and to whom.
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46th Congress of the International Psychoanalysis Association in Chicago
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46TH CONGRESS OF THE INTERNATIONAL PSYCHOANALYTICAL ASSOCIATION
– EVERYONE IS WELCOME TO CHICAGO THIS JULY

The IPA’s 46th Congress “Psychoanalytic Practice: Convergences and Divergences” is your chance to listen to psychoanalysts from all over the world discuss challenges and controversies in the discipline today. Analysts and other professionals with an interest in mental health are welcome – whether IPA Members or not – as are psychoanalytic Candidates. Continue reading 46th Congress of the International Psychoanalysis Association in Chicago

Sigourney Award Announcement
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Dr.  Judit Meszaros            Dr. Norman Doidge            Dr. Carlos Mario Aslan

The annual dinner honoring the Sigourney Trust winners was held on Friday, January 16th at  the Essex House. Those in attendance included the officers of both the American Psychoanalytic Association and the International Psychoanalytic Association as well as previous winners of the award and the friends of the current winners.
 
James Devine, Esq. the co-trustee of the Trust gave a short statement about Mary Sigourney and her wish to reward contributors to psychoanalysis world wide. The 2008 winners came from from Canada, Latin America and Hungary, which at the time of Mary Sigourney’s death was still seen as part of the Russian zone of influence.
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Psychodynamic Treatment of Substance Abusers by William H. Gottdiener, Ph.D.
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THE NEW YORK PSYCHOANALYTIC SOCIETY & INSTITUTE:
Extension Division
247 East 82nd St., between 2nd & 3rd

PSYCHODYNAMIC TREATMENT OF SUBSTANCE ABUSERS
William H. Gottdiener, Ph.D.

Monday February 2, 2009
7 – 9 pm
Fee $75; Candidates/Students $45

Theory & Therapy
Research & Clinical Technique
Abstinence & Harm Reduction
Private Practice & Institutional Treatments

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