Author: Tamar Schwartz

IPA Berlin Congress: Clelia Manfredi de Poderoso
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Click Here to Read: Clelia Manfredi de Poderoso’s Contribution ,” Reflexiones  Sobre “Trauma” Y “Repetición” a Partir De La  Clínica Con Pacientes Con Pánico  Y  Estrés Postraumático (Caso Cromañon)” to the IPA Berlin Congress.  This Paper is in Spanish.

 Complete citation for the contribution: Manfredi di Poderosos, C., Julian, H.C., & Linetsky, L., “Reflexiones sobre  “Trauma” Y “Repetición” a Partir De La  Clínica Con Pacientes Con Pánico  Y  Estrés Postraumático (Caso Cromañon)” en Revista Psicoanalista, Vol 29, #1, 165-179, 2007.

Sheldon Bach consulting on October 4 at ICP
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Sheldon Bach, Ph.D. will be consulting on October 4 (NOT the 1st as previously listed!) at the Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy’s Master Clinician Series.  This will be the 1st of 4 evenings (8-10pm) during which a renowned psychoanalyst will discuss a case presented by an I.C.P. staff member.  Dr. Bach is Adjunct Clinical Professor of Psychhohlogy at the New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychoanalysis and a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research and the New York Freudian Society.  Continue reading Sheldon Bach consulting on October 4 at ICP

Leon Hoffman’s Letter to the Editor re: Mark Edmundson’s Article on “Defender of the Faith?”
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Agency and autonomy from the Israelites

NY Times Magazine
Letter to the Editor
September 13, 2007

Dear Editor,

In “Defender of the Faith?” (The Way we live now, September 9), Mark Edmundson writes that Freud stressed that the ability to believe in an internal, invisible God vastly improves people’s capacity forabstraction. Quoting Freud, he says,  “The prohibition against making an image of God – the compulsion to worship a God whom one cannot see,” he says, meant that in Judaism “a sensory perception was given second place to what may be called an abstract idea – a triumph of intellectuality over sensuality.” Continue reading Leon Hoffman’s Letter to the Editor re: Mark Edmundson’s Article on “Defender of the Faith?”

Miri Abramis’s Letter to The New York Times re the article: The Frayed Couch
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September 23, 2007
The City Section
An Active Approach to Psychic Change
To the Editor:

Re “Patching Up the Frayed Couch” (Sept. 9), about the New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute:

Idealization of leaders and institutes, Freud or otherwise, should always be questioned, and has led to institutional and intellectual fossilization. For many years, vital psychoanalytic debate and creativity could only thrive outside of the mainstream Freudian institutes. Continue reading Miri Abramis’s Letter to The New York Times re the article: The Frayed Couch

Another Letter to the New York Times by Larry Sandberg
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The New York Times
September 20, 2007
The Brain, the Mind and Mental Illness
To the Editor:

Sally Satel (“Mind Over Manual,” Op-Ed, Sept. 13) suggests that the diagnostic confusion within psychiatry is due to a lack of “a clear picture of the brain mechanisms underlying … mental illnesses.” She says psychiatry “lacks a firm grasp of the causal underpinnings of mental illness,” suggesting the “staggering complexity of the brain” as one reason.

Her article suffers in its being biased by the current zeitgeist that overemphasizes brain-based mechanisms as causes. While this may, in fact, have explanatory power for some conditions, it is more likely that causal explanations will often include frames of reference that are psychological (including psychodynamic) as well as biological.  Continue reading Another Letter to the New York Times by Larry Sandberg