News from the January 2011 APsaA Meeting

By Tamar SchwartzMarch 13, 2011 General News

Click Here to Read: ‘Streetcar’ Provides Analysts With Much to Ponder by Joan Arehart-Treichel in the Psychiatric News Journal. Psychiatric News March 18, 2011 Volume 46 Number 6 Page 8.

Click Here to Read: Psychiatrist Suggests Strategy to Battle Bullying by Joan Arehart-Treichel in the Psychiatric News. Psychiatric News March 18, 2011 Volume 46 Number 6 Page 20.

Click Here to Read: Another article in the Psychiatric News of interest concerning APsaA Member John Oldham : Long Journey Led to Advances in Understanding, Treating BPD by Mark Moran. Psychiatric News March 18, 2011 Volume 46 Number 6 Page 16.

John Oldham

Record-breaking Gala for The New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute

By Tamar SchwartzMarch 13, 2011 Announcements, NYPSI Centenary 1911-2011

Record-breaking Gala for The New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute

Event:
On February 26th, The New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute’s Centennial Gala hosted 370 guests and raised over $360,000 to celebrate 100 years of service as the nation’s oldest psychoanalytic organization in the Americas and its influence on the cultural and intellectual life of New York City. Continue reading Record-breaking Gala for The New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute

Reigniting burnt-out doctors

By Tamar SchwartzMarch 13, 2011 Books

Click Here to Read: Reigniting burnt-out doctors by Judy Siegel-Itzkovich in the Jerusalem Post on the March 27, 2011.

A new Hebrew book examines the causes of physician burnout and suggests ways of returning genuine caring to medical practice.

Lessons for Japan’s Survivors: The Psychology of Recovery

By Tamar SchwartzMarch 13, 2011 General News

Click Here to Read: Lessons for Japan’s Survivors: The Psychology of Recovery by Benedict Carey in the New York Times on By March 19, 2011.

Aftermath Mental distress tends to linger longer after man-made disasters, than after purely natural ones, like an earthquake.

On the Lost Highway: Lynch and Lacan, Cinema and Cultural Pathology

By Tamar SchwartzMarch 13, 2011 Books

Click Here to Read: The Introduction to: On the Lost Highway: Lynch and Lacan, Cinema and Cultural Pathology by Bernd Herzogenrath (1999). We will be posting a chapter of this book per week on this website.

Bernd Herzogenrath

Symposium 2011: Carl Bagnini

By Tamar SchwartzMarch 13, 2011 Papers, Symposium 2011

Click Here to Read: Accessing the Unconscious Labyrinth of Couples through Their Dreams by Carl Bagnini from Symposium 2011: Our Practice Today: Treatment and Transformation at Mt Sinai Medical Center on March 5, and 6, 2011.

Carl Bagnini

An ancient rivalry revisited

By Tamar SchwartzMarch 13, 2011 General News

Click Here to Read: An ancient rivalry revisited By Gregory Rodriguez on the Pilly.com website on March 26, 2011.

The Early History of Psychoanalysis in San Francisco by Daniel Benveniste

By Tamar SchwartzMarch 13, 2011 Papers

Click Here to Read: The Early History of Psychoanalysis in San Francisco by Daniel Benveniste.

This article originally appeared as: Daniel Benveniste (2006). The Early History of Psychoanalysis in San Francisco. Psychoanalysis and History 8 (2) 195-233 and appears here with all requisite rights and permissions.

The Psychoanalytic Muse

By Tamar SchwartzMarch 13, 2011 Editorials

Click Here to Read: The Psychoanalytic Muse, blog by Mark Winborn on the BlogSpot website.

As Little Girls and Boys Grow, They Think Alike

By Tamar SchwartzMarch 13, 2011 Science News

Click Here to Read: As Little Girls and Boys Grow, They Think Alike by Avery Johnson in the Wall Street Journal on March 22, 2011.

Scientists combined MRIs of a girl and a boy brain. Blue shows where the two differ most, purple is a little different, and white virtually the same. At age 10, differences dominate. Similarities increase over time.