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

Annual Daniel S. Prager, MD lecture with Adrienne Harris at GWU

Psychodynamic Approaches to Treatment Resistance and Therapeutic Obstacles: 55th Annual Meeting at AAPDP

 

This topic Psychodynamic Approaches to Treatment Resistance and Therapeutic Obstacles is the theme of the 55th annual meeting of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis and Psychodynamic Psychiatry which is being held May 12- May 14th at the Waikiki Hotel in Honolulu  coinciding with part of the longer meeting of the American Psychiatric Association. Psychiatrists and other mental health professional who will be in Honolulu at this time  should consider spending some time at the Academy meeting in order to focus on this critically important topic. There are some excellent speakers and topics  at this meeting . The program can be reviewed on  their website www.AAPDP.org . There is no registration fee for trainees and very reasonable fees for others.