Click Here to Read: “Three archaic components of the religious instinct: Awe, mysticism, and apocalypse” by Mortimer Ostow, MD—Presented at the NY Psychoanalytic Society, March 13, 2001, write up of the event by Leon Hoffman for the NYPSI Newsletter.
Click Here to Read: Discussion of “Three archaic components of the religious instinct: Awe, mysticism, and apocalypse” by Mortimer Ostow, MD, Discussion by Leon Hoffman, MD Presented at the NY Psychoanalytic Society March 13, 2001.
Click Here to Read: Illness in the Analyst and its Impact on ths Psychoanalytic Process by Jacob Arlow.
Introduction by Sheldon Goodman to Jacob Arlow’s Illness And Its impact On The Psychoanalyst Process
Most discussions of illness in the analyst during the course of psychotherpay or psychoanalysis emphasize the effect of the analyst’s illness on the patient, it’s relationaship to the Continue reading Illness in the Analyst and its Impact on ths Psychoanalytic Process
Introduction by Nathan Szajnberg, MD Managing Editor
Charles Strozier presents below a meticulous historical study of idea evolution in psychoanalysis. Previously, this careful biographer of Kohut, showed, given the limitations of historical research, that Kohut was his own analyst in the Mr. Z. case, something those of us in Chicago simply knew. Now, Strozier presents a scholarly textually-tight study of the historical intellectual relationship between Stolorow, a father of Continue reading Who’s on First, What’s on Second: Originality, Kohut, Stolorow (and Why Care)?
Click Here to Read: Head to Head: Does psychoanalysis have a valuable place in modern mental health services? Yes by Peter Fonagy and Alessandra Lemma.
This article originally appeared as Fonagy, Peter, and Lemma, Alessandra, (2012) Head to Head: Does psychoanalysis have a valuable place in modern mental health services? BMJ Psychotherapy 344:e1211 and appears here with all requisite rights and permissions.
Alessandra Lemma Peter Fonagy
Click Here to Read: A Seminal Leader in the Field of Psychoanalysis: Retrospective Sketches about the Life of Bertram David Lewin (1896-1971) by Lawrence M. Ginsburg.
Bertram David Lewin
Click Here to Read: An Ergodic Theory of Consciousness by Abraham Boyarsky and Pawel Gora.
This article originally appeared as: Boyarsky, Abraham and Gora, Pawel, (2009). An Ergodic Theory of Consciousness. International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos, Vol. 19 (4): 1397-1400 and appears here with requisite rights and permissionl.
Abraham Boyarsky
Rudi Ekstein, when he came to Chicago, called himself “Rudi Appleseed.” This captured his humor, his sense of wandering and his adopted America. He was a regular at the Orthogenic School, Dr. B. (Bettelheim) and he bantered warmly, even as Dr. B. insisted that the milieu was more useful for severely disturbed children than individual psychotherapy (at the early phases of residential care). Rudi, transplanted from Topeka to LA, now sporting Hollywoodish frilly tuxedo sleeves and collar, although tieless, leonine headed with full hair, was a physical counterpoint to bald Dr. B. Both were short, both were brilliant, dedicated pedagogues, clinicians. Continue reading Rudolf Ekstein: On the 100th Anniversary of his Birth by N. Szajnberg, MD Managing Editor
Click Here to Read: Remarks on 50 Years of the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy And Psychoanalysis by Martin L. Nass, Ph.D., ABPP This talk was given at The NYU Postdoc 50th anniversary.
