July Poetry Monday: Cheryl Keeler

JULY POETRY MONDAY: Cheryl Keeler

Cheryl Keeler

Poet Cheryl Keeler lives with her husband and son in a small town in Virginia where, she tells us, she is taken on brisk morning walks by her rescued Jack Russell terrier. Her poems have been published in 5 A.M. and the online journal, Dirty Napkin. An early childhood specialist, she has also published several short-stories for children. Currently, she is firming up a manuscript of breast cancer poems, Six Letters and a Lump, which awaits a publisher. This isn’t the only important thing Cheryl Keeler is doing, however. Since her small town lacked a public library, she started one, which she now manages—always trying to work in a little poetry with her brown bag lunches. Continue reading July Poetry Monday: Cheryl Keeler

Arthur F. Valenstein: “A Journey on the Train of Psychoanalysis”

Click Below To Listento Part 1 and Part 2 of Arthur F. Valenstein: “A Journey on the Train of Psychoanalysis” 48th Annual Freud Anniversary Lecture, April 28, 1998, at the New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute (introduction by Ted E. Becker). Please turn volume up to listen to this.

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Click Here To Read: Arthur Valenstein’s Page on the Sigourney Award Website.

New from International Psychoanalytic Books

New from International Psychoalytic Books:

Praise for the Beginning to Grow: Five Studies by Sylvia Brody . . .

Freud reminded us that theory was good but did not prevent reality from happening.  Sylvia Brody once more advances analytic understanding by maintaining relentless discipline in studying lives as they actually unfold.  This new rich and readable account of several lives studied across decades exposes and explores essential aspects of mental functioning now too often neglected.
 Warren S. Poland, M.D.

With clarity, and drawing on observational evidence, Brody brings mother infant interaction and its impact on subsequent development to the center stage of psychoanalytic theory.
 Peter Blos, Jr., M.D.

 This is a book not to be missed by anyone who works with children.  It provides an incisive history of infancy research and a longitudinal study of development from birth to age 18.
 Arlene Kramer Richards, Ed.D. 

Sylvia Brody has topped off a lifetime of interest in maternal influences on development with her brilliant new book, Beginning to Grow: Five Studies. Dr. Brody combines Freud’s theory of the component instincts, voyeurism, exhibitionism, and cruelty, with Erickson’s eight stages of ego maturation, and illustrates the development of the component instincts in five longitudinal studies of children from birth to the age of 18. No one interested in psychological development can afford to miss this ingenious, easy-to-read book.
-Alma H. Bond, Ph.D. (Author of Margaret Mahler: A Biography of the Psychoanalyst.)  
 
 Limited intial print-run.  To reserve your copy, phone 718-728-7416 or email psypsa@aol.com

Click Here for the Poster for Learning to Grow: Five Studies by Sylvia Brody.

Be’Tipul is the Original Israeli Version of In Treatment

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.

 “We don’t go to therapists–we just watch them on TV
Cartoon from the New Yorker on June 29, 2009.

Click Here to Preview: Season 1, Episode 1

Click Here to Preview: Season 2, Episode 1