Click Here to Read:  Lapsus Linguae, or a Slip of the Tongue?: A Sexual Violation in an Analytic Treatment and Its Personal and Theoretical Aftermath by Muriel Dimen, Ph.D. (2011). in Contemporary Psychoanalysis, 47:35-79.

My beloved mentor, guide, inspiration and teacher, Muriel Dimen, passed away this morning. She left us after a short battle with cancer that was stronger than her will to live.

Muriel was a trailblazer, she bravely opened up avenues of progress in our field.  Most recently, in an honest and brave article on sexual boundary violations, she held up the mirror and asked us to look hard and close.  (I am attaching the article). In many of her Continue reading Muriel Dimen

Dear, dear friends and family of Edith Kurzweil,

It is with the greatest of sadness that we write with sorrowful news. Our mother passed away peacefully today, Saturday February 6, 2016, four days after a stroke. To the very end, she was in great shape and high spirits, and, as ever, intellectually nimble. (She had workout sessions and opera plans scheduled for the following week.)

Please join us if you can for the funeral service. The brief ceremony will be held this Tuesday, February 9, at 11:15am, at Riverside Memorial Chapel, 180 West 76^th Street (on Amsterdam Ave. at the corner of 76^th Street).  Continue reading EDITH KURZWEIL 1924 – 2016

An Acknowledgment of Dr. Donald Meyers

It is with much regret that we acknowledge the passing of Donald Meyers, M.D. Over the past year we had several contacts with Dr. Meyers as we sought his permission to dedicate Myths of Mighty Women to Helen Meyers, M.D., his wife. His graciousness and support touched both of us, as did the loving way he spoke about her when he gave his permission for us to honor her. Reflectively, and with feeling, he said, “Indeed she was a mighty women.”

After asking what he could do to help us with our book, following our suggestion, he immediately agreed to write Continue reading An Acknowledgment of Dr. Donald Meyers by Arlene Kramer Richards and Lucille Spira

Click Here to Read: Robert Spitzer, Psychiatrist Who Set Rigorous Standards for Diagnosis, Dies at 83 By Benedict Carey in The New York Times on December 26, 2015.

Dr. Robert L. Spitzer was a major architect of the modern classification of mental illnesses in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. Creditz: Alex di Suvero for The New York Times

Click Here to Read: Professor John Forrester (25 August 1949 – 24 November 2015) on the University of Cambridge websxite.

Click Here to Read:  Countertransference: My analysis with Harold Searles: An psychoanalyst reflects on her experience of meeting and being analyzed by Harold Searles by Ann-Louise S. Silver in the DIVISION/Review | April 2012.

Click Here to Read: Countertransference Related Subjects: Selected Papers by Harold F. Searles, M.D.

A TRIBUTE TO HAROLD F. SEARLES, M.D.
It is sad for me to tell you of the death of a pioneer of American psychoanalysis, Harold F. Searles, M.D. (1918-2015). Continue reading A Tribute to Harold F. Searles, MD

Click Here to Read: Robert S. Wallerstein – in memoriam on the IPA website.

Click Here to Read: Henry Krystal, Holocaust Trauma Expert, and Survivor, Dies at 90 By Sam Roberts in The New York Times on October 14, 2015.