Sessions the Musical: Theatrical Therapy
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Click Here To Read: A review of Sessions: The Musical at the Algonquin Theatre in Manhattan. 

Click Here To Read:  Sessions: The Musical’s website

We were quite pleasantly surprised by this show’s mixture of humor, pathos, music, and talent.  Fifteen minutes in, the storylines picked up, the cases were involving, and a play which had seemed trite at first turned out to be quite human and satisfying–Lawrence and Tamar Schwartz

The Anni Bergman Parent-infant Training Program
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 The Anni Bergman Parent-infant Training Program is accepting applicants for the 2009-2012 training cycle. The Anni Bergman Parent-infant Training Program began in 1997 and is affiliated with both The New York Freudian Society and the Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research.  The program is unique in offering intensive training in parent-infant work to psychoanalysts and advanced psychoanalytic  candidates. Applicants with particular interest and experience in research are also considered, as are applicants interested in only the infant observation year.

The three-year training program includes infant observation, the study of the literature on infancy, infant research, dyadic treatment of infants and their parents, and the application of this knowledge to
clinical work with children and adults.  A three-hour seminar led by the program faculty is held weekly.

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Anal Fantasies and Anal Defenses in “Men in Black”
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by H.H. Stein

“Any of the psychic danger situations can evoke regression to manifestations of ‘anal narcissism’—an attempt to master overwhelming feeling by a kind of emotional sphincter action, narrowing down the world to the controllable and the predictable. … the attainment of anal sphincter control functions … as a means to master primal (murderous, cannibalistic) affect.” (Shengold, 1985 p. 47)

“There’s always an alien battle cruiser or a Korilian death ray or intergalactic plague that’s about to wipe out life on this miserable planet. The only way people get on with their happy lives is, they do not know about it.” (Men in Black, 1997, dir. Barry Sonnenfeld) Continue reading Anal Fantasies and Anal Defenses in “Men in Black”

Season 2, Episode 3 of Be’Tipul
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Click Screen Below to View: Season 2, Episode 3 of Be’Tipul

Be’Tipul is the Original Israeli Version of In Treatment.

The first season and second seasons of the Israeli series on which the HBO Series In Treatment was based, Be’tipul, is available for purchase by contacting Tamar Schwartz at 718-728-7416 or by email at Psypsa@aol.com The series is Hebrew with English subtitles. The first season may not play on all DVD players and computers as it is in PAL format. The second season will play on all US players.

The Movies On My Mind: Breaking the Waves, Reviewed by Harvey Roy Greenberg
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 Click Here To Read: The Movies On My Mind: Breaking the Waves, directed by Lars Van Trier, Reviewed by Harvey Roy Greenberg. Breaking the Waves and most of the other films cited in Dr. Greenberg’s review are available either through Netflix, Ebay, or Amazon.com, as well as special internet sites.  Dr. Harvey Roy Greenberg, Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Albert Einstein College of Medicine at Yeshiva University, publishes widely on cinema, media, and popular culture. Other reviews and essays can be found at his website, http://www.doctorgreenberg.net.  Dr. Greenberg welcomes comment, criticism, and further discussion, of his reviews.