Attention must be paid — James Q. Wilson and Psychoanalytic Organizations

Attention must be paid — James Q. Wilson and Psychoanalytic Organizations
Nathan Szajnberg, M.D., Managing Editor
Alfred Marcus, Ph.D., Professor and Spencer Chair in Strategy and Technological Leadership, Univ. of Minnesota (a student of James Q. Wilson)

“Attention must be paid!” Willy Loman’s wife cried to her hapless sons Biff and Hap shortly before their father’s fatal car crash.

But, why should attention be paid by psychoanalysts to James Q. Wilson after Continue reading Attention must be paid — James Q. Wilson and Psychoanalytic Organizations

“Three archaic components of the religious instinct: Awe, mysticism, and apocalypse” by Mortimer Ostow



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.

Illness in the Analyst and its Impact on ths Psychoanalytic Process

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

Who’s on First, What’s on Second: Originality, Kohut, Stolorow (and Why Care)?

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)?