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Editorial from Tracy Morgan
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ANALYSTS READ THIS:
How can I tell you? How can I convince you, my psychoanalyst brothers and sisters, that you are in danger? Everyday that you wake alive, relatively happy, and assume your seat behind the couch, listening with the third ear, you are committing a rebellious act. You, as an alive and functioning psychoanalyst, as a person who believes in the existence of the unconscious, are a revolutionary.

There is little to nothing in this country that validates, protects or encourages your existence. Weekly if not daily we are told we are obsolete. It is nothing short of a miracle that you are here, at this conference, reading these words. Continue reading Editorial from Tracy Morgan

Psychoanalytic Manifesto by Will Braun
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*The word manifesto come from two Latin words: Manifestus: OBVIOUS and manifesto: MAKE PUBLIC, therefore the manifesto makes the obvious public. Manifestos, though short, omnipotent, playful and at times childlike, were powerful tools in many of the twentieth century avant-garde movements such as marxism, surrealism and gay rights to name only a few. Manifestos are both general and particular, they are abstract but call to action.***

Psychoanalytic Manifesto by Will Braun

Arron Beck is a salesman. We could learn a lot by taking a page from his playbook. He has made his empire by throwing psychoanalysis under the bus. Beck***s well-constructed sales pitch goes something like this: I trained as a psychoanalyst. Freud was wrong. Come and buy what I am selling. He effectively sets up his argument against psychoanalysis in order to sell seats. He has done a phenomenal job. Continue reading Psychoanalytic Manifesto by Will Braun

Thoughts on Measurement by Jane Hall
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Thoughts on Measurement
by Jane Hall

The following essay is based on personal thoughts accrued over 40 years of experience including memories of my candidacy – and although there are those who have different experiences, I hope these ideas can be considered with open minds.

Measuring each other is, more often than not, a fruitless exercise and breeds strife where there should be encouragement, ill will where there should be generativity, falsification of material due to perceived requirements, and mistrust where there should be trust.

If we can agree that the practice of psychoanalysis is intensive work with Continue reading Thoughts on Measurement by Jane Hall