Sortir de la souffrance au travail
By Categories: Business and Finance

Click Here to Read:  Sortir de la souffrance au travail by Christophe Dejours on the LeMonde Website on February 21, 2011.  This article is in French.

Note from Jonathan House about this article:  

There is a major article published today in Le Monde is written by Christophe Dejours, a psychoanalyst whose work has focused on mental health in the workplace.  Since a series of suicides at France Telecom in 2009 public debate has grown about suffering caused by the dehumanizing organization of work.  Dejours’ participation in the debate has been central and he has participated as a psychoanalyst who has specialized in this area.  He has written a number of books on the subject and is directly involved in teaching doctors responsible for the mental health of workers.  In France employers are mandated to provide their employees with access to healthcare consultations including mental health.

Dedicated to Dr. Jeffrey Seinfeld – Annual conference on Feb 26th – Dialectics of Mortality and Immortality: Time as a Persecutory vs. a Holding Object at ORI
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Object Relations Institute – 20th Anniversary Annual Conference  
 Dialectics of Mortality and Immortality:
Time as a Persecutory vs. a Holding Object
 
Saturday, February 26, 2011 9:30 AM – 4:30 PM
 
Dedicated to Dr. Jeffrey Seinfeld, a colleague, teacher, author, and friend
 
Moderator: Dr. Jeffrey Lewis
Presenter: Dr. Susan Kavaler-Adler
Discussants: Dr. Margaret Yard & Dr. Jeffrey Rubin Continue reading Dedicated to Dr. Jeffrey Seinfeld – Annual conference on Feb 26th – Dialectics of Mortality and Immortality: Time as a Persecutory vs. a Holding Object at ORI

The Postgraduate Psychoanalytic Society & Institute 2011 Scientific Conference “Psychoanalysis and Art: Dialogues on the Creative Process”
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Click Here to Register:  The Postgraduate Psychoanalytic Society & Institute 2011 Scientific Conference “Psychoanalysis and Art: Dialogues on the Creative Process” Saturday, March 19, 2011 from 8:00 AM – 4:00 PM (ET) New York, NY. Continue reading The Postgraduate Psychoanalytic Society & Institute 2011 Scientific Conference “Psychoanalysis and Art: Dialogues on the Creative Process”

Historic Debate (Part III, rebutals): Leo Rangell and Andre Green at 1975 IPA Meeting
By Categories: NYPSI Centenary 1911-2011, Oral History, Papers

Introduction by Leo Rangell: At the IPA Congress in London in 1975, a debate took place in the opening plenary session between Andre Green and me on “Changes in Psychoanalytic Theory and Practice”. I argued for a continuing, cumulative single theory, while Green felt hat new and sicker patients required significant changes in theory. About a quarter century later, Martin Bergmann referred to this debate as a landmark in the history of psychoanalysis, placing it in a series with earlier debates, on Ferenczi’s active technique, Wilhelm Reich’s character analysis, and the Controversial Discussions between the proponents of Melanie Klein and Anna Freud. “In the debate itself,” Bergmann writes, “Rangell and Anna Freud [who was the discussant ofthe two papers] carried the day,” but continues, “the era they represented had already passed.” Although winning “hands down” on content, the analytic center, “so eloquently defended by Rangell and Anna Freud, could not turn back the tide of change that André Green had represented.”

Looking back at this intercontinental discussion, it might well be that this conclusion initiated the general attitude of pluralism over unity that followed as this debate was followed by an explosion of psychoanalytic theory from a fairly uniform system to a cluster of competing theories. The original tapes of this historic exchange have been preserved and can here be listened to again. From a current perspective, it might be asked: “What might have been the course of theory had the one who won actually won.”

NOTE: In the recordings linked below, Andre Green’s presentation is interpreted in the voice of a female interpreter.

This portion of the debate took place immediately following the remarks by Anna Freud as posted last time, and in fact picks up on the heels of the lengthy applaiuse which followed her talk.

Click Below to Listen to: Introduction and Leo Rangell, Rebutal, Part 1

Click Below to Listen to: Leo Rangell, Rebutal, Part 2

Click Below to Listen to: Andre Green, Rebutal, Part 1

Click Below to Listen to: Andre Green, Rebutal, Part 2