Subverted in Haiti: Kliman and colleagues Retract earlier report on alleged child rape

Subverted in Haiti: Kliman and colleagues retract earlier report on alleged child rape. N. Szajnberg

The misery of Haiti is amplified by some of its own citizens.  A 2103 New York Times Review report by Berlinski (Haiti: The compromising reality. http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2013/jun/06/haiti-compromising-reality/?insrc=toc.) painfully, poignantly recounts multiple accounts of Western, well-intentioned well-doers have their efforts, funds subverted by some Haitians and that there is a long history and culture of such subversion. Berlinski offers few examples of successful foreign projects, usually those narrow in scope and whose foreign principal moves to, lives among and administers the funds. Continue reading Subverted in Haiti: Kliman and colleagues Retract earlier report on alleged child rape

CALL FOR PROPOSALS: 2015 BOSTON CONGRESS

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CALL FOR PROPOSALS: 2015 BOSTON CONGRESS

49th IPA CONGRESS: 23rd IPSO CONFERENCE
22-25 July 2015, Boston Seaport & World Trade Center, MA, USA
Changing World: the shape and use of psychoanalytic tools today

Dear colleagues,
We are happy to announce that proposals for the following activitIes are now invited for the 2015 Boston Congress:
• Individual Papers
• Panel Presentations
• Small Discussion Groups Continue reading CALL FOR PROPOSALS: 2015 BOSTON CONGRESS

Rudolf Ekstein’s Concerning the Life Cycle of Transitional Objects

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by Rudolf Ekstein.  

TRANSITIONS AND GENERATIVITY:  EKSTEIN ON ERIKSON AND WINNICOTT  By  David  James Fisher, Ph.D.

Occasionally, an essay appears that is designed to enchant, to strike an emotional chord, to stimulate thinking, to make surprising linkages, while simultaneously serving as an exercise in self-analysis.  This late essay by Rudolf Ekstein (1912-2005) does all this and more.  As the title suggests,

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