Author: Tamar Schwartz

When We Cry: Loss and Grief from a Clinical, Neurobiological and Cultural Perspective at WCSPP
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The Westchester Center for the Study of Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy invites you to join us for our annual Conference entitled When We Cry: Loss and Grief from a Clinical, Neurobiological and Cultural Perspective on Saturday, November 18, 2017, 8:30 – 3:00 PM at the Renaissance Westchester Hotel, 80 West Red Oak Lane, West Harrison, NY.
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Continental Breakfast and Check-In (8:30 – 9:00 am)
Morning Program (9:00 am – 12:00 pm): Derived from his personal experiences with loss and historical psychoanalytic understandings of grief and mourning, George Hagman, LCSW, will present a framework for New Mourning theory which emphasizes the relational context of bereavement, the diversity of mourning processes and the complex attachment the survivor may maintain with the deceased. Treatment implications will be discussed. Following his paper, Maggie Zellner, Ph.D, LP will present the neurobiological underpinnings of the experience of loss and grief and how a therapist’s familiarity with these substrates can inform and enhance therapeutic interventions.
Lunch (12:00 – 1:00 pm) Provided.
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Post-Doctoral Clinical Psychology Fellowship and Introduction into Psychoanalytic Training at NYPSI
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New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute: Post-Doctoral Clinical Psychology Fellowship and Introduction into Psychoanalytic Training

NYPSI now offers a combined clinical psychology post-doctoral fellowship and introduction into psychoanalytic training program for new psychologists who are interested in psychoanalysis, but are unsure whether they want to pursue analytic training. The fellowship involves two components:

1) A one year full-time or two year half-time program for psychologists who have their Ph.D. but are not yet licensed. It provides further training in psychoanalytically-oriented adult and child psychotherapy and psychological testing with excellent supervision, seminars, and choices of research, teaching, parent-child work, and school consultation experience. Post-doctoral fellows are paid a fee for services when conducting psychotherapy and psychological assessments. Continue reading Post-Doctoral Clinical Psychology Fellowship and Introduction into Psychoanalytic Training at NYPSI

Announcement of Reading at Mocha Maya’s
By Categories: Poetry

Dear Poetry-loving Friends (and those who would like to be):

This is just to tell you that I will be reading in the Collected Poets Series at Mocha Maya’s Coffee Shop, 47 Bridge Street, Shelburne Falls, MA, on Thursday, December 7. It begins at 7:oo p.m.

If you can get there, I would love to see you and say hello. Books will be available
for signing and purchase – the new one, Climate of Opinion: Sigmund Freud in Poetry, an anthology of poetry from many parts of the world, including quite a few from Massachusetts, as well as the previous one, Reminder, with only my own poems. I should also mention that food is there as well, and it’s very good.

Looking forward – and let’s hope the weather is with us,

–Irene Willis
Poetry Editor

I’m a Psychiatrist. Making Gun Violence About Mental Health Is a Crazy Idea
By Categories: General News

Click Here to Read: I’m a Psychiatrist. Making Gun Violence About Mental Health Is a Crazy Idea: First, the policy solutions don’t work. And mentioning the link is becoming a crutch for politicians who refuse to do their jobs By Jonathan M. Metzl on the Politico website on November 09, 2017.

First Baptist in Southerland Springs courtesy of Wikipedia Commons