Click Here to Read: Psychoanalysis: Burgeoning and Bleleagured by Arnold Richards. Originally appeared as: Arnold Richards (1992). Psychoanalysis: Burgeoning and Bleleagured, in Medical and Health Annual, Chicago: Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc, 1992, pp. 400-405 and appears with all requisite rights and permissions.
More Thoughts On The Pope’s Visit from Joseph P. Collins
Many thanks to Jane Hall for bringing the recent Papal visit to the attention of the psychoanalytic community. (Click here to read Jane S. Hall’s editorial.) An international event of this importance has the potential to elicit deeply held emotions in individuals that rise to the surface and reverberate in our society at large. Having attended the Papal Mass at the Washington Nationals Stadium, I witnessed both the hushed attentiveness of over forty thousand faithful in the stands as well as several placard-carrying protestors shouting outside the front gates. Not unexpectedly, people expressed strong feelings around this event. As a psychoanalyst as well as a practicing Roman Catholic, the Papal visit and the reactions to it were of great interest to me.I would now like to share some psychoanalytic thoughts about a particular incident that occurred during this time. My intent is to show that the effects of clerical sexual abuse might be evident in one victim’s encounter with the Pope. Continue reading More Thoughts On The Pope’s Visit from Joseph P. Collins
MITPP Scientific Meeting: Rage of the Oppressed: Countertransference Predicaments in the Treatment of Two Muslim Patients, Post 9/11
The Metropolitan Institute for Training in
Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy,
The Metropolitan Center for Mental Health and
The Metropolitan Society of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapists
Invite you to a Scientific Meeting
Friday, May 9, 2008 at 8:00 P.M.
Rage of the Oppressed: Countertransference Predicaments in the Treatment of Two Muslim Patients, Post 9/11
Presenter: Debra Gill, L.C.S.W.
Discussant: Doris Silverman, Ph.D.
Selected vignettes from the treatment of two very different patients, both practicing Muslims, will illustrate countertransference dilemmas for the therapist when she is confronted with unconscious fantasy material developed in the context of social and psychological oppression. While both patients endured various forms of cruelty and domination throughout their lives, each managed to live with the resulting internalized burdens until about one year after September 11th. Unconscious terrors resulting in rageful acting out led both of these patients to psychotherapy. The analysis of unmanageable affects and impulses allowed unconscious experiences of oppressed rage to enter the transference leaving the therapist in paralyzing countertransference states that closely mirrored the patients’ oppression.
DEBRA GILL, L.C.S.W. is a graduate of MITPP’s Adult Program, and is a graduate and member of the New York Freudian Society. She is on the Faculty and is a Supervisor at MITPP, and is a member of MSPP. She is a member of the MSPP Program Committee. She is a Visiting Faculty member of The American Institute for Psychoanalysis, and a Supervisor in the Psychology Intern Program at the Karen Horney Clinic and in the New York Freudian Society Psychotherapy Program.
No registration or fee required. Refreshments served following the presentation.
Meeting Will Be Held At:
The Karen Horney Psychoanalytic Institute and Center
329 East 62nd Street (1st & 2nd Avenues)
1st Floor Auditorium, New York, NY 10021
For further information: (212) 496-2858, email mitppnyc@aol.com or visit www.MITPP.org
Program Committee: Thomas McCoy, M. Div., LCSW, Chair * Debra Gill, LCSW *
Joyce A. Lerner, LCSW * Patricia Saunders, Ph.D. * Ivy Vale, BFA
Panic, Suffocation False Alarms, Separation Anxiety and Endogenous Opioids by Maurice Preter and Donald Klein
WW II: Character Changes in Battle by Howard Schlossman
My War with the Germans and the U.S. Army: From Civilian to Major to Civilian by Howard Schlossman
Combat Veterans: Impressions of an Analytic Observer in a Non-Analytic Setting
Click here for: The Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis and Dynamic Psychiatry
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Herbert H. Stein, M.D.
Published in The Journal of The American Academy of Psychoanalysis and Dynamic Psychiatry (2007) vol. 35:4.
Abstract: The hallmark presentation of combat trauma – nightmares, waking hallucinations, intrusive traumatic memories and extreme affective reactions to environmental triggers – may best be conceptualized as part of an adaptive mechanism intended to protect the individual against a repetition of trauma. Combat veterans continuously must cope with the extreme affects that combat induced. Fear, rage, guilt and grief predominate. Their mental and emotional life is complicated by a conscience split between war zone and civilian morality and by the special group dynamics of combat. Optimal clinical understanding of combat-related trauma, whether in a psychoanalytic or general mental health setting, requires an awareness of the interaction of the personal dynamics of each individual with the specific characteristics of their combat situation.
Continue reading Combat Veterans: Impressions of an Analytic Observer in a Non-Analytic Setting
Freud Anniversary Lecture: Sander Abend
Thoughts on the Group Self of psychoanalysis…
The International Psychoanalytic website is pleased to present an important op ed piece by Marian Tolpin. This eminent analyst from Chicago explains clearly, articulately, and persuasively why the training analyst title should be retired. The Executive Board of the International Psychoanalytic Association would not permit its publication. The International Psychoanalytic Blog stands for freedom of expression and welcomes comments on this important and timely article.
Jane S. Hall
Op Ed Editor
Thoughts on the Group Self of psychoanalysis,
in light of the controversy over Training Analysis status
Marian Tolpin, M.D.
There is currently a great deal of debate taking place in psychoanalytic training centers, around the world and here in the United States, concerning whether there should be a separate category of graduate psychoanalysts designated as specially qualified to analyze future psychoanalysts. Among those who do believe that there needs to be such a category, further debate has raged on what that special qualification might entail and on the particulars of how (when, by whom) it should be established and evaluated.
In what follows below I reflect on my own experiences in regard to this category and on the lengthy history of the Training Analysis question as a disruptive force in institutional psychoanalysis. As I consider why this fractious issue, which has caused so much dissension in our profession, remains perpetually unresolved, I conclude that the Training Analysis serves a Group Self cohesive function. As such, it joins a list of other myths that have served that function in the past; myths that were clung to but ultimately had to be relinquished in the face of contradictory evidence. Continue reading Thoughts on the Group Self of psychoanalysis…
The Future of Psychoanalytic Education Conference in The NAAP Newsletter
The following articles on The Future of Psychoanalytic Education Conference appeared in the NAAP News, Volume 31 Issue 1 (Winter 2008).
Click Here to Read: The Imposible Profession by Rob Marchesani.
Click Here to Read: The Future of Psychoanalytic Education: Psychoanalysis, Universities, and the New Cultural World by Frederick Feirstein.
Click Here to Read: Contemporary Psychoanalytic Education: Analyzing the Challenges and Proposing Some Changes—a Roundtable and “Umbrella Panel” by Norman A. (“Drew”) Clemens, Judith Logue, and Estelle Shane.
Click Here to Read: Constructing Our Psychoanalytic Ethos: How and What We Teach–impressions by Robert Quackenbush.
Click Here to Read: Educating Psychoanalysts in Today’s Regulated World: Licensing and Other Matters by Paul W. Mosher, Mary Beth Cresci, Cj Churchill, Phee Rosnick, Sy Coopersmith, and Arlene Kramer Richards.
Click Here to Read: Power and Authority in Institute Life by Joseph Scalia III,
Click Here to Read: What Do We Educate For? The Role of Psychoanalysis in The Age of Psychotherapy by William Hurst.