Mother-Infant Interaction Disburbances and the Origins of Insecure Attachement with Beatric Beebe

The Metropolitan Institute for Training in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, The Metropolitan Center for Mental Health and The Metropolitan Society of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapists

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MOTHER-INFANT INTERACTION DISTURBANCES
AND THE ORIGINS OF INSECURE ATTACHMENT

Presenter: Beatrice Beebe, Ph.D. Continue reading Mother-Infant Interaction Disburbances and the Origins of Insecure Attachement with Beatric Beebe

Memory, Repression and Transference in “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind”

A man comes to analysis complaining of strange behavior and large gaps in his memory. “I ditched work today, took a train out to Montauk. I don’t know why. I’m not an impulsive person.” He discovers that there are two years of entries torn out of his diary, entries he does not remember making.

He has other complaints as well. He describes himself as shy—“If only I could meet someone now. I think my chances of that happening are somewhat diminished seeing that I can’t make eye contact with a woman that I don’t know.”—and needy—“Why do I fall in love with every woman I see who shows me the least bit of attention?” Nevertheless, he has spent a night walking and lying on the iced over Charles River in Boston with a woman he just met on that trip to Montauk, and was about to take her home to his apartment.

The man’s name is Joel Barish, and he has not actually entered an analytic consulting room (nor the Twilight Zone), but into a film written by Charlie Kaufman, which is close to the same thing. Continue reading Memory, Repression and Transference in “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind”

Shepard Kantor & Mortimer Ostow on The Role of Medication in the Psychotherapeutic Relationship at NYPSI

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Shepard Kantor                        Mortimer Ostow

NOTE: Part of the introduction to these speakers was omitted from the beginning of the original recording made on March 7, 1989. The recording begins about a minute or so into the introduction. There is also a small gap in Dr. Kantor’s talk from when the cassette tape was turned over during recording.

Click Below to Listen To Introduction Shepard Kantor & Mortimer Ostow on The Role of Medication in the Psychotherapeutic Relationship at NYPSI Colloquium series: The Application of Psychoanalytic Principles to the Practice of Psychiatry

Click Below to Listen To: Shepard Kantor’s Presentation, Part 1:

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