Author: Tamar Schwartz

Toward Understanding Loneliness in Women
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Reprinted by permission of The PANY Bulletin

Psychoanalytic Association of New York
Volume 39, Number 1 Spring 2001

Book Review
Toward Understanding Loneliness in Women
A Book Essay on Judith Hearne, Turtle Diary, and Ella Mason and Her Eleven Cats
by Arlene Kramer Richards, Ed. D. and Lucille Spira, Ph. D., C.S.W.

Many women come to treatment complaining that they are alone and lonely. others who are without partners do not complain about their loneliness, but rather focus on anxiety and feelings of helplessness. Loneliness is a concept and experience that has been of some interest to psychoanalysts and novelists alike. Aloneness and loneliness can be discrete; one can be lonely in the midst of others as well as comfortable when alone (Satran,1978; Buchholz,1997.) But chronic loneliness can be toxic (Fromm Reichmann, 1959.)

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Early Registration: Who is My Mother, Who is My Father, Who am I? Conference
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Early Registration available until September 15th.

Regular and IPA Members: $150.00

Candidates $75.00

The conference is sponsored by The Committee on Women in Psychoanalysis, which is a committee of the International Psychoanalytical Association. Our committee has sponsored meetings in Portugal, Italy, Spain, England, Mexico, Brazil, Scandinavia and Argentina. as well as France and Germany. This is our second meeting in the United States, the first being in Atlanta. Our aims are to give modern feminist thinking a place in psychoanalysis and to give psychoanalytic thinking a place in the feminist world. This New York Conference gives attendees the opportunity to join a community of parents who have children of a race other than their own and parents who have children of mixed racial heritage and those considering such options a chance to hear from people who have been adopted by people of another race and those of mixed heritage about what their experience means to them. This is a unique opportunity to consider the effects of our thinking on how we raise our children and on how to counsel parents raising children in the new world that they live in now. Come and be a part of the future of parenting. We look forward to welcoming you.

Conference: Who is My Mother, Who is My Father, Who am I?
October 26-28, 2007
At the New York Psychoanalytic Society
247 East 82nd Street
New York, NY 10028

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