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Larry Sandberg’s Letter Re: The New York Times article on “The Frayed Couch”
By Categories: Letters To Editors

The New York Times
September 16, 2007
The City

To the Editor:

Re “Patching Up the Frayed Couch” (Sept. 9):

It is not only psychoanalysis, but all intensive psychotherapies that have become less popular in contemporary culture. This is due, in part, to the introduction of alternative therapies like drug therapy and cognitive behavior therapy. But there is also a devaluation of time and an overemphasis on speed and efficiency that discourage many people who are in need from engaging in a deeply introspective process.

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Michael Holquist’s Review of Mark C. Baker’s The Atoms of Language: The Mind’s Hidden Rules of Grammar
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Click here to Read: A review of Mark C. Baker’s The Atoms of Language: The Mind’s Hidden Rules of Grammar by Michael Holquist.

This book is of particular interest to anyone involved with ‘the talking cure’, because it posits a connection between the way the mind works and the way that language works. A contribution to recent thinking about Universal Grammar, Baker focuses on “parameter theory.” Since this a thorny and highly technical landscape where linguistics contends with both biology and philosophy, we must be grateful that Baker has a gift for lucid exposition. He provides a plausible and clearly articulated account of why grammars from the most diverse languages vary within a surprisingly limited range. Analysts will find this a useful tool in meditating the question of how UG might relate to UC.
Michael Holquist

Reconsidering Men and Msculinities with Michael Diamond, Donald Moss and Sidney Phillips at CSPP
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NOVEMBER 22, 2014
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The New Haven Lawn Club, New Haven, Ct.

RECONSIDERING MEN AND MASCULINITIES DEVELOPMENTAL CONUNDRUMS AND CLINICAL QUANDARIES
with: MICHAEL J. DIAMOND, PH.D. DONALD MOSS, M.D. SIDNEY PHILLIPS, M.D.

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Op-Ed by Douglas Kirsner
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Douglas Kirsner discusses his new research published in his recent article, ‘Do as I say, not as I do: Ralph Greenson, Anna Freud and Superrich Patients’ (Psychoanalytic Psychology, Vol. 24, 3, 2007, pp. 475-486).
Op ed by Douglas Kirsner
     Today it can be difficult to imagine a time when psychoanalysis ruled the roost in mental health. During the 1950s and into the 1960s the major psychiatry programs were psychoanalytically oriented and more than half the chairs of psychiatry were analysts. Psychoanalysis was the default option for understanding and for cure. Psychoanalysts effectively controlled psychiatry, where psychoanalysis commanded immense respect as they did in the culture at large where it was an important part the zeitgeist, not only in New York. Continue reading Op-Ed by Douglas Kirsner