Photography Friday: Gerald Seligman

“Euphoria, Brooklyn, NY” © by Gerald Seligman (no relation 🙂 Mr. Seligman has been a photographer for over 40 years, and his work has appeared in magazines, galleries, and on many album covers. You can see more of his images here: http://instagram.com/geraldseligman 

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Austen Riggs Center February 2017 News and Events

February 2017 News & Events
Upcoming Events

Special Screening
An American Conscience: The Reinhold Niebuhr Story
February 4, 6:00 p.m.

The Erikson Institute is co-sponsoring a special advanced screening of the film An American Conscience: The Reinhold Niebuhr Story. The film portrays Niebuhr as the most celebrated theologian of the twentieth century and features interviews with President Jimmy Carter, Andrew Young, David Brooks, Cornell West, Susannah Heschel, and more. Following the film, there will be a Continue reading Austen Riggs Center February 2017 News and Events

Philosophy Thursday: George Henry Lewes

Click Here to Read: George Henry Lewes on Wikipedia.

Click Here to Read: Problems of Life and Mind by George Henry Lewes

Click Here to Read: “The Novels of Jane Austen,” by George Henry Lewes in Littell’s Living Age 62 (1859), 424-436 [Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine 86 (1859) 99-113].

Click Here to Read: George Henry Lewes and His “Physiology of Common Life”, 1859 By R. E. SMITH, F.R.C.P. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine Vol. 53 569 from the Meeting on March 2, 1960. Continue reading Philosophy Thursday: George Henry Lewes

American Psychological Association Statement on Trump Administration’s Ban on Immigration

TRUMP ADMINISTRATION’S ORDERS POSE HARM TO REFUGEES, IMMIGRANTS, ACADEMIC RESEARCH AND INTERNATIONAL EXCHANGE, ACCORDING TO PSYCHOLOGISTS

APA asks president to consider impact on families, students and researchers

WASHINGTON – While safeguarding the nation from terrorist entry is of critical national importance, the Trump administration’s proposed restrictions on refugees and other visitors are likely to compound the stress and trauma already experienced by populations at risk for discrimination, limit scientific progress and increase stigma, according to the American Psychological Association.

APA voiced concern regarding the executive order issued Jan. 27 that suspends all refugee admissions for 120 days, Continue reading American Psychological Association Statement on Trump Administration’s Ban on Immigration

Claustro-Agoraphobic Dilemma and Impasses in Treatment with Susan Finkelstein and Heinz Weiis at CFS

Claustro-Agoraphobic Dilemma and Impasses in Treatment
A Psychoanalytic “Dialogue” about Claustro Agoraphobia (PART 1)

One-Session Program (2.5 Contact Hours)
Presenters: Susan Finkelstein, LCSW (NYC) and Heinz Weiss, MD (Germany)
Date: Friday, February 10, 2017
Time: 7:30-10:00pm
Location: Mt. Sinai Medical Center, Hatch Auditorium, Madison Ave @ 100th St, NYC

This “dialogue” addresses the Kleinian theory of primitive object relations as defined by Henri Rey, Herbert Rosenfeld and John Steiner’s ideas about Melanie Klein’s “holes in the mind.” The concepts of marsupial space, psychotic islands, and psychic retreats are “places” inside the mind and body that narcissistic, schizoid, psychosomatic and borderline patients psychically hide in order to avoid the pain of the separateness and Continue reading Claustro-Agoraphobic Dilemma and Impasses in Treatment with Susan Finkelstein and Heinz Weiis at CFS