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A Note from Arlene Kramer Richards: COWAP Conference a Success
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Click Here to Read:  COWAP Myths of the Mighty Woman Brochure

On October  11 & 12, 2014 in New York City COWAP presented a conference on Myths of Mighty Women organized by Lucille Spira and Arlene Kramer Richards. Over seventy people attended. Many of them were students at the American Institute of Psychoanalysis. That Institute hosted the conference and was generous in providing back-up staff and a lovely auditorium.

Gisella Galdi of AIP presented a paper on Karen Horney who was the founder of that institute and a woman of valor who spoke her own mind confronting Freud with an alternative view of female psychology that stands today as more true than the phallocentric idea of female development. Continue reading A Note from Arlene Kramer Richards: COWAP Conference a Success

Wuhan: The Beginning of an End by Arlene Kramer Richards
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Click Here to Read:  Chinese version of this presentation in Chinese.

I have just finished teaching in a a three year program in psychoanalytic psychotherapy in Wuhan, China. The following is a brief summary of what this meant to me and how I see the meaning of this program for psychotherapy for me, my fellow teachers and our Chinese students..

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Opening ceremony, farewell session, Wuhan Psychotherapy program
September 2014

The Beginning of an End

We have come to the start of an ending of a wonderful experience. For me this training has been the adventure of a lifetime. I have cherished learning a culture that seemed almost new to me. I have come to care deeply for my fellow teachers, For the wonderful administrators who take such great care in organizing our program, for the students in this program, for the Continue reading Wuhan: The Beginning of an End by Arlene Kramer Richards

Three Papers by Beatrice Beebe and her Coauthors
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Click Here to Read: On the Origins of Disorganized Attachment and Internal Working Models: Paper I. A Dyadic Systems Approach by Beatrice Beebe Ph.D., Frank Lachmann Ph.D., Sara Markese Ph.D. & Lorraine Bahrick Ph.D.

This paper originally appeared as Beatrice Beebe Ph.D. a , Frank Lachmann Ph.D. b , Sara Markese Ph.D. a & Lorraine Bahrick Ph.D. (2012) On the Origins of Disorganized Attachment and Internal Working Models: Paper I. A Dyadic Systems Approach. Psychoanalytic Dialogues  22:253–272 and appears here with all requisite rights and permissions.  Continue reading Three Papers by Beatrice Beebe and her Coauthors

The Great Discovery of Karl and Will Menninger
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WalterMenningerClick Here to Read: The Great Discovery ok Karl and  Will Mennnnger by Daniel V. Leander, MEd, MTh on the ACT Heals website.

Click Here to Read: The Freudians Come to Kansas Menninger, Freud and the Emigre Psychoanalysts by J.E. Carney on the KSHS  website.

Click Here to  Read:  Letter from Karl Menninger, M.D. to Thomas Szasz in Reading Notes, Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic, Vol. 53, No. 4, July 1989, pp. 350-352. October 6, 1988 on the Thomas Szasz.com website..

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Class 2 of Theory Course by Drs. Martin Blum and Jonathan Easton
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MartinBlumClick Here to Read:  Reading List for Theory III by Drs. Martin Blum and Jonathan Easton.

Click Here to Read:  Martin Blum and Jonathon Easton Class 2:  Freud.  Theory Ii: Beyond Wish and Defense Class 2: The Experiential Grounds of the Theory of Narcissism: Narcissistic Themes in Freud’s Self-analysis.

Click Here to Read:  Table of Contents for 2-10 of the Theory Ii Classes by Drs. Martin Blum and Jonathan Easton.

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Click Here to Read: Course Objectives for the Theory II by Drs. Martin Blum and Jonathan Easton.

Martin Blum, M.D., who died at age 81 in December 2013, was a psychoanalyst on the faculty of Institute for Psychoanalytic Education affiliated with NYU School of Medicine (formerly NYU Psychoanalytic Institute, formerly Downstate Continue reading Class 2 of Theory Course by Drs. Martin Blum and Jonathan Easton