Click Here to Read: The Modern Asylum By Christine Montross in The New York Times on February 18, 2015.
Category: Editorials
Opinions in the New York Times featuring Irvin Yalom
Breaking Up With My Meds
After a Guilty Plea, a Prison Term and a Movie, a Sex Abuse Case Returns
Psychotherapy as a Kind of Art
Op-Ed: What Selma means to the Jews
Click Here to Read: Op-Ed: What Selma means to the Jews By Susannah Heschel on the JTA website on January 18, 2015.
Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel (second from right), marches at Selma with Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., Ralph Bunche, Rep. John Lewis, Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth and Rev. C.T. Vivian. (Courtesy of Susannah Heschel)
The Battle to Belong: Depression and an Immigrant’s Struggle to Assimilate
Psychoanalytic Standards: Highest or Good Enough by Lee Jaffe
Psychoanalytic Standards: Highest or Good Enough
There is disagreement amongst psychoanalysts about the aspirations that we should strive for in recruiting candidates, graduating analysts, and appointing training analysts. Some believe we should strive for excellence and the HIGHEST STANDARDS, while others believe we should strive for GOOD ENOUGH STANDARDS. I regretfully think, for several reasons, that striving for the HIGHEST standards is a fatally flawed goal –and know that I make these comments as a Training Analyst and Fellow of the American Psychoanalytic Association’s Board of Professional Standards–thus, someone who has supposedly met the HIGHEST standards: Continue reading Psychoanalytic Standards: Highest or Good Enough by Lee Jaffe
