Patient, Therapist and Personal Boundaries

By Tamar SchwartzApril 7, 2015 Letters To Editors

Click Here to Read: Patient, Therapist and Personal Boundaries Letters to the Editor of The New York Times on April 76, 2015.

A Focus on Violence Against Women

By Tamar SchwartzMarch 14, 2015 Letters To Editors

Click Here to Read: A Focus on Violence Against Women by Vivian Pender and Ruth Messinger: Letters to the Editor of the New York Times on March 15, 2015.

Can There Be Good Mental Asylums?

By Tamar SchwartzMarch 2, 2015 Letters To Editors

Click Here to Read: Can There Be Good Mental Asylums? Letters to the Editor in the New York Times on February 26, 2015.

Lacan: An Exchange: Fritz Fleischmann and Stuart Schneiderman, reply by Richard Wollheim

By Tamar SchwartzFebruary 20, 2015 Books, Letters To Editors

Click Here to Read: Lacan: An Exchange: Fritz Fleischmann and Stuart Schneiderman, reply by Richard Wollheim in The New York Review of Books on in the April 5, 1979 Issue.

Sunday Dialogue: Treating Mental Illness

By Tamar SchwartzJanuary 26, 2015 Letters To Editors

Click Here to Read: Sunday Dialogue: Treating Mental Illness Letters to the Editor in The New York Times on May 28, 2013.

Readers React CIA pscyhologists don’t represent their field on torture

By Tamar SchwartzDecember 18, 2014 Letters To Editors

Click Here to Read: Readers React CIA psychologists don’t represent their field on torture Letters to the Editor of the Los Angeles Times on December 15, 2014.

Irene Landsman’s Letter to the Editor on Torture

By Tamar SchwartzDecember 16, 2014 Letters To Editors

The following is Irene Landsman’s Letter to the Editor which was sent to The New York Times but has not been published as yet.

American Psychological Association President Nadine Kaslow (Letters, December 13) is shocked and dismayed that two psychologists were named in the Senate torture report. Relieved not to have been mentioned itself, the APA focuses on two “bad apples” in a spin designed to deflect attention from its own longstanding, well-documented complicity in the worst excess of the Bush-era war on terror.

The APA sought to make psychologists indispensible in rationalizing and legalizing practices long held to be torture, and gladly stepped into the breach when the American Medical and American Psychiatric Associations prohibited their members from participating. Continue reading Irene Landsman’s Letter to the Editor on Torture

Should a Therapist Reveal Herself?

By Tamar SchwartzDecember 1, 2014 Letters To Editors

Click Here to Read: Should a Therapist Reveal Herself? Letters to the Editor in The New York Times on November 30, 2014.

Elisa Talentino

Treating Depression to Prevent Suicide

By Tamar SchwartzAugust 25, 2014 Letters To Editors

Click Here to Read: Treating Depression to Prevent Suicide: Letters to the Editor in The new York Times on August. 24, 2014.

When Cell Door Opens, Tough Tactics and Risk

By Tamar SchwartzAugust 14, 2014 Letters To Editors

Click Here to Read: “When Cell Door Opens, Tough Tactics and Risk” (“Locked In” series, front page, July 29): Letter to the Editor by Susan McNamara in The New York Times on August 7, 2014.