Warsaw ghetto uprising leader Edelman dies at 90
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 Click Here to Read: Warsaw ghetto uprising leader Edelman dies at 90 by Monika Scislowska in the Associated Press on October 2, 2009.

Click Here To Read:  Marek Edelman, Commander in Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, Dies at 90 by Michael T. Kaufman in the New York Times on October 3, 2009.

Click Here To Read: Requiem for the Bund  By Moshe Arens Haaretz website on Wednesday October 21st, 2009. 

Click Here to Read:  A Towering Example: Remembering Marek Edelman, a leader of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising by Seth Lipsky on the Tablet website on Oct 28, 2009.

Psychoanalytic Principles of Child Development with David Sawyer and Ronald Rawitt at NYPSI
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THE NEW YORK PSYCHOANALYTIC SOCIETY & INSTITUTE:
Extension Division
247 East 82nd St., between 2nd & 3rd, NY, NY

PSYCHOANALYTIC PRINCIPLES OF CHILD DEVELOPMENT

David Sawyer, M.D. & Ronald Rawitt, M.D.
Wednesdays, November 4 – December 9, 2009
7:30 – 8:30 pm (5 Sessions)
Fee $150

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Pharmacology for Physicians and Non-Medicating Therapists at NYPSI
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THE NEW YORK PSYCHOANALYTIC SOCIETY & INSTITUTE:
Extension Division
247 East 82nd St., between 2nd & 3rd, NY, NY

PHARMACOLOGY FOR PHYSICIANS & NON-MEDICATING THERAPISTS:
WHEN TO RECOMMEND IT & WHAT TO EXPECT

Deborah Plachta, M.D.
Tuesdays, November 3 – 17, 2009
7 – 8:30 pm (3 Sessions)
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Lester Luborsky on The Symptom Context Method: Dealing with Psychosomatic & Psychological symptoms
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Click Here To Read: Lestor Luborsky’s Sigourney Award Page.

Click Below to Listen to: Virginia Teller’s Introduction to Lester Luborsky on the subject of the Symptom Context Method of dealing with psychosomatic and psychological symptoms, the Charles Fisher Memorial Lecture on May 6, 1997 at the New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute.

Click Below to Listen to: Lester Luborsky’s Presentation: Part 1

Click Below to Listen to: Lester Luborsky’s Presentation: Part 2

Click Below to Listen to: Discussion of Lester Luborsky’s Presentation by Aaron Esman and general discussion with the audience.

Robert Michels, MD is the recipient of Sigmund Freud Award for 2009
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The American Society of Psychoanalytic Physicians is pleased to announce that Robert Michels, MD is the recipient of its Sigmund Freud Award for 2009.  Previous award winners include Charles Brenner, Arnold Richards, Otto Kernberg, Glen Gabbard and most recently from our Psychiatry Department at MSMC, Hillel Swiller and Louis Linn. 

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Pearls From Tears by Arlene Kramer Richards
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 Click Here To Read:  Pearls From Tears: The Poetry of Irene Klepfisz  by Arlene Kramer Richards from the IPTAR Arts Symposium on October 25, 2009.

The poet whose work about the Shoah is closest to my heart is Irena Klepfisz. She was brought up by a single mother who survived the Holocaust after Irena’s father died fighting for the Jewish people. Mother and daughter emigrated to the US after the war and lived together in New York until Irena grew up. Here are a pair of poems that try to make sense of the incomprehensible:

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