We invite you to attend the Spring Symposium presented by the Western New England Institute for Psychoanalysis in New Haven, CT on May 1st entitled: ‘Skin Deep: Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Body Modification.’  Dr. Janice Lieberman, a Training and Supervising Psychoanalyst in New York City and author of, Body Talk: Looking and Being Looked at In Psychotherapy (New Jersey: Jason Aronson, 2000) and Professor Alessandra Lemma, author of Under The Skin: A Psychoanalytic Study of Body Modification (London: Routledge, 2010) and head of psychology for the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust in London will present papers. They will consider bodies and individual’s experiences of, fantasies about and underlying conflicts related to, why some people choose reconstructive surgical procedures to modify their bodies. Clinical case vignettes will be presented by an Ear Nose and Throat surgeon, Dr. David Astrachan, and a plastic surgeon, Dr. Deborah Pan. Please see the attachments below for further information and registration.

Click Here To Read:  Flyer for the Conference: Skin Deep: Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Body Modification, Saturday May 1st at the Yale Child Center in New Haven, CT, presented by the Western New England Psychoanalytic Society.

Click Here To Read: List of Stanley Greenspan’s Paper from PEP  Website.

Click Here to Read:  Appreciation of Stanley Greenspan by Jon Meyer.

Click Here to Read: Appreciation of Stanley Greenspan by Judith Schachter.

Click Here to Read: Obituary of Stanley Greenspan in the Washington Post on April 28, 2010. 

Click Here to Read: Mourning Stanley Greenspan on the YAI  Autism Community Website on April 28, 2010.

Click Here to Read:  Examiner Bio Dr. Stanley Greenspan dies, founded Floortime and developmental approaches to autism therapy by Mike Frandsen on the DC Autism blog in the San Francisco on April 28, 2010.  See also the video at the bottom of this article.

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CAPA has just accepted the third class for its Two-year Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Training Program
The students have been carefully vetted for their fluency (pretty good) in English
64 of our 72 teaching slots are filled. Continue reading CAPA: CHINA AMERICAN PSYCHOANALYTIC ALLIANCE

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METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE FOR TRAINING IN
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Phone: (212) 496-2858
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 PSYCHOTHERAPY AND THE SUBSTANCE ABUSER
Controversies in the field of substance abuse focus on treatment approaches: some clinicians tout 12- step programs while others rely on traditional psychotherapeutic approaches.  This three-session mini-course presents an integration of methods, drawing from cognitive theory, attachment theory, ego psychology and object relations theory.   Starting with an assessment of the substance abusing patient, this seminar will consider multiple perspectives of the internal and external world.   Achieving abstinence, early recovery and advanced recovery will be examined in the framework of transference and countertransference.  Clinical material from participants will be welcome. Continue reading 2010 Summer Institute at MITPP

METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE FOR TRAINING  IN
PSYCHOANALYTIC PSYCHOTHERAPY
160 West 86th Street, New York, NY 10024 o Telephone: (212) 496-2858
Email: mitppnyc@aol.com  o   Website: www.MITPP.org

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SUPPORTERS OR SABOTEURS?  THE PARENTS’ ROLE IN CHILD TREATMENT:
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Click Here to Read:  Obituary of Dr. William W. Meissner, SJ, MD by William J. Massicotte Ph.D.

Click Here to Read:  Rev. William Meissner; taught psychoanalytics at Harvard, BC,  by J.M. Lawrence in the Boston Globe on April 21, 2010.

Click Here for:  A list of titles of articles by William Meissner from the PEP Website.

Click Here to Read: James Masterson, Narcissism Expert, Dies at 84 By Margalit Fos in the New York Times on April 18, 2010.

Click Here to Read:  The titles of James Masterson’s papers on the PEP CD Rom.