Click Here To Read: Seven Questions for Glen O. Gabbard by Ryan Howes, Ph.D. on December 24, 2008 in In Therapy
Author: Tamar Schwartz
Psychoanalysis in/and/of the Horror Film by Steven Jay Schneider
The Parted Eye: Spellbound and Psychoanalysis by David Boyd
A Review of Margaret Mahler: A Biography of the Psychoanalyst by Alma Bond
Click Here To Read: The Vicissitudes of Personal Experience and the Consequences for Psychological Theory: A Study of Margaret Mahler, M.D., American Child Psychoanalyst, A Review of Margaret Mahler: A Biography of the Psychoanalyst by Alma Bond.
This review was previously published as: Jacobs , Marilyn S. (December 3rd, 2008). The Vicissitudes of Personal Experience and the Consequences for Psychological Theory: A Study of Margaret Mahler, M.D., American Child Psychoanalyst, A Review of Margaret Mahler: A Biography of the Psychoanalyst by Alma Bond. PsycCRITIQUES 53(49) and appears here with all requisites rights and conditions.
Shocking revelation: Santa Clara University professor mirrors famous torture study
Philoctetes Roundtable: Freud, Psychoanalysis, and the Philippson Bible
Click Here To Read and View: Freud, Psychoanalysis, and the Philippson Bible Roundtable. Participants: Mary Bergstein, Abigail Gillman, Diane O’Donoghue (moderator), Bennett Simon, Andrew Stein Raftery, a Philoctetes Event at the New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute on December 15th, 2008.
Click Here To Hear and View: The Freud’s Jewish World Conference, in which both Mary Bergstein and Abigail Gillman participated.
A Review by Joe Gartner of American Therapy by Jonathan Engel
Letter to the Editor about Jonathan Engel’s American Therapy by Henry J. Friedman
Upublished Letter to the Editor of the New York Times by Henry J. Friedman
To the Editor:
As a practicing psychiatrist who utilizes psychoanalysis, psychotherapy and psychopharmacology in an effort to relieve the emotional suffering of my patients I feel a distinct need to respond to Scott Stossel’s review of Jonathan Engel’s book, “American Therapy: The Rise of Psychotherapy in the United States”. Stossel chooses to attack psychotherapy in general and psychoanalysis specifically despite the fact that Engel’s book, as described by the reviewer, is respectful of treatment and repeatedly cites psychotherapy research that supports the effectiveness of psychotherapy for a large percentage of patients. I can only wonder what motivates this reviewer to make unfounded statements, such as, “If it were to be conclusively demonstrated that therapy doesn’t work, therapists would be put out of business; that’s effectively what’s already happened to Freudian psychoanalysts.”. While it may be common parlance in uneducated circles to announce the death of Freudian psychoanalysis I would expect a more informed perspective in a review published in the Sunday Times Book Review. Stossel’s claims are entirely unfounded and appear to emerge from some hostility he feels about psychoanalysts and psychotherapists earning a living from the work that they perform with a wide variety of patients who are, indeed, helped to live with less anxiety and despair as a result of understanding the influence of their developmental and current life environments. Continue reading Letter to the Editor about Jonathan Engel’s American Therapy by Henry J. Friedman
Letter to The Editor of the New York Times by Fred M. Sander
Letter to The Editor of the New York Times by Fred M. Sander, published on December 19, 2008.
To the Editor:
David Brooks summarizes the thesis of Malcolm Gladwell’s new book, “Outliers”: “Exceptionally successful people are not pioneers who created their own success, he argues. They are the lucky beneficiaries of social arrangements.”
Mr. Brooks counters this view with the alternative hypothesis of the power of an individual’s will and capacity to focus imaginatively.
This merely restates an old question of whether leaders create their followers or the reverse. Continue reading Letter to The Editor of the New York Times by Fred M. Sander
Theater Series at The New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute
THE NEW YORK PSYCHOANALYTIC SOCIETY & INSTITUTE:
THEATER SERIES
247 East 82nd St., between 2nd & 3rd
Tuesday, January 13, 2009, 7 p.m.
Preview of David Grubin’s Documentary on The Trials of J. Robert Oppenheimer
His last documentary was on Freud. While the treatment of Oppenheimer was tragic, believe it or not, the recent administration’s record on civil rights, makes 1954 look good.
DISCUSSION: DAVID GRUBIN, FRED SANDER, DAN PREZANT
PLACE: NYPSI
FEE: FREE
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