Click Here to Read:  One Country Saved Its Jews. Were They Just Better People? The surprising truth about Denmark in the Holocaust By Michael Ignatieff in The New Republic on December 14, 2013.

Click Here To Read:  The Shadow of Anti-Semitism in France By David Remnick in the New Yorker on January 13, 2015.

Outside the kosher supermarket in Paris where four hostages were killed, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, of Israel, paid his respects to the victims on  Monday.  CREDITPHOTOGRAPH BY AURELIEN MEUNIER/GETTY IMAGES

The therapist’s fee is a fundamental part of day-to-day clinical practice. Setting and collecting the fee, establishing a contract that covers the handling Continue reading Money and the Psychotherapist with Joseph Cronin at MITPP

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President’s Message

Dear Members,

We face a new year and a new presidency. As I begin my term, I look back with gratitude at the fine examples of leadership offered by each of our former Presidents. My own roots in leadership in the Division began when my concern for the needs and well-being of our younger members was recognized by then President Continue reading Division 39 News

Click Here to Read:  Poisonous Pedagogy: The Contentious Drift of Psychology By Marc-André Cotton.

This article originally  appeared as :   Cotton, Marc-André (2013). The Contentious Drift of Psychology The Journal of Psychohistory, Volume 40, No 4, Spring 2013 and appears here with all requisite rights and permissions.

Click Here to View: Dérives de la psychologie (Congrès de psychohistoire 2013 – New York) Lecture in French on Torture  with English Subtitles by Marc-André Cotton on YouTube.

The recent release of the Executive Summary of the Senate Select Committee Report on Intelligence has once again raised the distressing issue of psychologists involvement in the Bush Administration torture program and the role of APA.

As psychologists and psychoanalytic clinicians, I think we have two ethical obligations: (1) to do what we can to see that psychologists who have been involved in torture are held accountable for their actions;  and (2) to see that the APA be held responsible for its actions to the extent that it colluded with torture policy and with those who participated in illegal techniques.  Making public the Executive Summary of the report of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence is the first public admission by the US government that it has conducted a policy of torture in detention centers around the globe.   Continue reading On The Senate Select Committee Report on Intelligence from Frank Summers

Click Here to Read:  “Seeking for Utopia”—or were they? The Russian avant-garde and Soviet modernism n posters Exhibition at the Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo By John Watanabe on the World Socialist Web Site December 3, 2014.

Setagaya Art Museum exhibition poster

Tuesday, December 9, 2014, 8 PM
Therapeutic action and progress in analysis:A child struggles with death, life, and change
Charles Parks, PhD Continue reading Therapeutic action and progress in analysis: A child struggles with death, life, and change with Charles Parks, PhD at NYPSI

Click Here to Read:  Darren Wilson: America’s ‘Model Policeman’ Even as activists are organizing against police violence, many Americans continue to see blacks as criminals—and want our police to act accordingly Khalil Gibran Muhammad on the The Nation website on November 29, 2014.

Wednesday, November 19, 2014, 8 p.m.
The Referential Process: Theory, Measurements, and Applications with Drs. Wilma Bucci and Bernard Maskit Continue reading The Referential Process: Theory, Measurements, and Applications with Drs. Wilma Bucci and Bernard Maskit at NYPSI