Crews’ vs. Freud’s need for Certainty

Click  Here to Read: Physician Heal Thyself   Part I by Frederick Crews in the New Review of  Books September 29. , 2011.

Click Here to Read:  Physician Heal Thyself   Part II by Frederick Crews in the New Review of  Books October 13, 2011.

Crews’ vs. Freud’s need for Certainty
By William J. Massicotte and Harold J. Bursztajn

 On Crews’ Physician, Heal Thyself: the scientific studies showing clinical effectiveness for the psychodynamic psychotherapies Continue reading Crews’ vs. Freud’s need for Certainty

Paul Holinger’s Letter to the New York Times Re: Physical Punishment

To the Editor:

As a child analyst, I see the carnage of physical punishment every day in the office. Physical punishment is a major public health problem in this country.

Elizabeth Gershoff (Report on Physical Punishment in the United States) and Susan Bitensky (Corporal Punishment of Children) have recently summarized the data: physical punishment does not work; it makes things worse at every developmental level (it is associated with delinquency, antisocial behavior, abuse of one’ own children later on and so forth); and there are effective alternatives. Continue reading Paul Holinger’s Letter to the New York Times Re: Physical Punishment