Click here to read: “In Defense of Slow and Tedious: Quick-Fix Therapy or the Kind That Takes ‘Forever’?” by Jane G. Goldberg, Ph.D. from The Huffington Post on May 31, 2012.
Category: Papers
The June Issue of InSight
Diagnosis in the field of psychotherapy: A plea for an alternative to the DSM-5.x
Off the Couch, Volume 2 Issue 1
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Celebrating a life in psychoanalysis: Upcoming issue of Clio’s Psyche on Peter Loewenberg
Celebrating a life in psychoanalysis: Upcoming issue of Clio’s Psyche on Peter Loewenberg
N. Szajnberg , MD, Managing Editor
It’s nice to celebrate a life’s work, particularly someone who has helped build a substantive part of our discipline. This article by Jimmy Fisher on his collegial and professional relationship with Dr. Loewenberg, which will appear in the upcoming issue of Clio’s Psyche (June 2012). Dr. Fisher’s piece appears as “Clio’s Psyche,” Volume 19, No. 1, June, 2012, pp. 90-95. Fisher wrote the popular review of “A Dangerous Method,” as well as other postings on IP.net.
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A tribute to Jean Laplanche by Dominique Scarfone Translated by Jonathan House and Article on Primal Fantasy by Jean Laplanche
For those interested, Laplanche’s Book Freud and the Sexual, Available Here.
A tribute to Jean Laplanche by Dominique Scarfone
(Translation: Jonathan House; French below):
Jean Laplanche died on May 6, 2012 just a few weeks before what would have been his 88th birthday. A philosopher (student of Jean Hippolyte, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Gaston Bachelard), a psychiatrist and a psychoanalyst, one of the great readers of Freud and translator of the just completed French edition of Freud’s complete works, he was, with Serge Leclaire, among the first Continue reading A tribute to Jean Laplanche by Dominique Scarfone Translated by Jonathan House and Article on Primal Fantasy by Jean Laplanche
Extracts from an interview with Jean Laplanche, interviewed by Alberto Luchetti
Laplanche in this interview covers some of his basic and often controversial ideas, such as the “normative” seduction of infants by their parents’ (infantile) sexuality. Note that Laplanche was considered one of Lacan’s promising students. Yet, Laplanche is able to stay much closer to clinical work in a non-ambiguous, non-teasing, and more comprehensible manner than his teacher. This gives us hope that our discipline can pursue ideas that are more fruitful despite our tendencies to carry on too slavishly the Continue reading Extracts from an interview with Jean Laplanche, interviewed by Alberto Luchetti
