Click Here to Read: Winnicott on creativity and living creatively: The Collected Works of D. W. Winnicott: 12-Volume Set by Arne Jemstdt on the Oxford University Press blog on March 23, 2017.
Toni Morrison on the Power of Language
Click Here to Read: Toni Morrison on the Power of Language: Her Spectacular Nobel Acceptance Speech After Becoming the First African American Woman Awarded the Accolade: “We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.” BY Maria Popova on the Brain Pickings website.
Psychoanalysis, Science, and Hermeneutics
A CLINICAL WORKSHOP: CHANGES IN THE THERAPIST’S LIFE: THEIR IMPACT ON THE PATIENT, THE THERAPIST AND THE DYAD with Ann Rudovsky at MITPP
THE METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE FOR TRAINING IN PSYCHOANALYTIC PSYCHOTHERAPY, THE METROPOLITAN CENTER FOR MENTAL HEALTH, and THE METROPOLITAN SOCIETY FOR PSYCHOANALYTIC PSYCHOTHERAPISTS invite you to
A CLINICAL WORKSHOP: CHANGES IN THE THERAPIST’S LIFE: THEIR IMPACT ON THE PATIENT, THE THERAPIST AND THE DYAD
SATURDAY, MAY 13, 2017, PRESENTER: ANN RUDOVSKY, LCSW
Changes in the therapist’s life often have a profound but unacknowledged impact on the treatment. These may include illness in the therapist as well as in his/her family members, impending separation, divorce, the birth of a child, especially a child with developmental or physical problems, and/or the emergence of severe conflicts with an adolescent. At the extreme, the therapist may be dealing with a death of a family member or catastrophic illness involving actual life or death issues. Whenever the nature of the crisis in the therapist’s personal life, however well-concealed it may seem, there are heightened transference and countertransference responses connected to a joint wish to collude in avoiding what seems like a shift in the therapist’s connection to his/her patient. The therapist can become overwhelmed by a variety of disturbing emotions: feelings of shame, guilt, anger, helplessness and narcissistic injury that accompany the reality of physical illness or Continue reading A CLINICAL WORKSHOP: CHANGES IN THE THERAPIST’S LIFE: THEIR IMPACT ON THE PATIENT, THE THERAPIST AND THE DYAD with Ann Rudovsky at MITPP
Movies Monday: The Live by Night
Click Here to Read: Nicholas Ray’s They Live by Night (1948): “They’re thieves, just like us” By Joanne Laurier on the World Socialist Website on March 20, 2017
Click Here to Read: They Live by Night on Wikipedia.
Click Here to Read: Nicholas Ray began his career with a masterpiece, They Live By Night By Mike D’Angelo on the A.V. Club website on August 15, 2013.
Click Here to Read: Criticwire Classic of the Week: Nicholas Ray’s ‘They Live By Night’ by Vikram Murthi onthe CriticWire website on August 28, 2015.
POETRY MONDAY: April 3, 2017
James Cummins
Is it spring yet? Hard to know, since here in the Northeastern U.S. as I wrote this, we were in a storm that just got upgraded to “blizzard” status, and I could hardly see out of my Berkshire windows. But here we are, anyway, thinking about what makes us happy – poetry.
As befitting National Poetry Month, our poet today is one whose life and career are devoted to poetry. Curator of the Elliston Poetry Collection, where he is also a professor of English, James Cummins has published five books of poetry, the most recent of which is Still Some Cake (Carnegie Mellon Press). His others are The Whole Truth (North Point Press); Portrait in a Spoon (University of South Carolina Press); Then and Now (Swallow Press); and, co-authored with David Lehman, Jim and Dave Defeat the Masked Man (Soft Skull Press). But this is far from all. Honors for his work include poems selected for several Best American Poetry Continue reading POETRY MONDAY: April 3, 2017
The Reason The Cold is So Bad: You’re Lonely
Big Little Lies Therapist Spills On Nicole Kidman, Her Own Psychoanalyst & Sunday’s Final
Psychology Sunday: Alison Gopnik
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Click Here to Read: What do Babies Think? Ted Talk by Alison Gopnik on the Ted Talk website in July 2011.
Click Here to Read: How an 18th-Century Philosopher Helped Solve My Midlife Crisis: David Hume, the Buddha, and a search for the Eastern roots of the Western Enlightenment by Alizon Gopnik in the Atlantic Monthly in the Ovtober 2015 Issue.
Click Here to Read: We All Start Out As Scientists, But Some of Us Forget: Psychologist Alison Gopnik explains why babies are so much better than adults at learning new things by Indre Viskonta and Chris Mooney in Mother Jones on November 8, 2013. Continue reading Psychology Sunday: Alison Gopnik