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The Need for Psychoanalysis to Have a Public Health Mission: Op-Ed by William H. Gottdiener
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The Need for Psychoanalysis to Have a Public Health Mission by William H. Gottdiener

In a recent online discussion, a number of psychoanalytically oriented clinicians bemoaned the lack of attention that psychoanalysis gets from grant funding institutions such as, the National Institutes of Mental Health (NIMH). The lack of attention was put forth as evidence of an anti-psychoanalytic bias at NIMH. I replied that, although, an anti-psychoanalytic bias might exist that it is necessary for psychoanalysts to realize that the purpose of NIMH is to fund research that will lead to reductions in public mental health problems and improved treatments for those problems. I further noted that although many psychoanalysts work with people who are diagnosed with severe psychopathology, psychoanalysts have largely Continue reading The Need for Psychoanalysis to Have a Public Health Mission: Op-Ed by William H. Gottdiener

Teaching in China: One psychoanalyst’s account
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Teaching in China One psychoanalysts account
Arlene Kramer Richards

Having devoted most of my energy and passion to the practice of clinical psychoanalysis and psychodynamic psychotherapy, and to teaching and writing about it, I was amazed to find that my past decade has been devoted to psychoanalytic administration. This began when a Chinese psychiatrist contacted me by e-mail to invite me to teach in China. She explained that there was an enormous problem with the suicide of young women. This was a social as well as a personal problem because there were too few young women as a result of the abortions of female fetuses that resulted from the one child policy imposed on a society that relied on sons to support aging parents. The Continue reading Teaching in China: One psychoanalyst’s account