The Torture Election: Fighting for the Soul of the American Psychological Association
By Categories: Announcements, Controversial

In a surprising turn of events, New York psychologist Steven Reisner won over 30% of the votes in the mail balloting for nominations for the presidency of the American Psychological Association (APA), as announced at the beginning of April. This represented more votes than any other candidate running.

Click Here to Read:   The Torture Election: Fighting for the Soul of the American Psychological Association, from the blog of Michael Otterman, originally posted on Alternet.  Mr. Otterman thanks AlterNet editor Liliana Segura for editorial help on this article. 

CBS News Sunday Morning with Charles Osgood Featuring the New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute
By Categories: Announcements

THE NEW YORK PSYCHOANALYTIC SOCIETY & INSTITUTE
247 East Eighty-Second Street, New York, NY  10028

CBS NEWS SUNDAY MORNING WITH CHARLES OSGOOD
FEATURING NEW YORK PSYCHOANALYTIC SOCIETY & INSTITUTE

Sunday, April 27, 2008, 9 – 10:30 a.m. (Eastern Standard Time)

Maxine Gann, Ph.D. (along with Glen Gabbard, M.D. of Houston, TX) will be interviewed by Jeff Greenfield of CBS News.  They will discuss psychoanalysis, psychotherapy, Freud’s impact, and the New York Psychoanalytic Institute.

For information about our training programs please visit us at: www.psychoanalysis.org

News from the China American Psychoanalytic Alliance
By Categories: China

Here is an update on the activities of the Alliance. We are a completely volunteer organization. We have NO hired employees. We need help in a variety of capacities.

1. Psychoanalyses (20 in progress), Psychotherapies (4 in progress) Individual Supervisions (20 in progress). Now we will be screening all patients thoroughly. (Gardner Jacobs and Lana Fishkin will be doing these screenings.) VOLUNTEER FOR THE SCREENING COMMITTEE. We have people waiting for psychoanalysis, psychotherapy and individual supervision and we will have many more in September. VOLUNTEER TO ANALYZE, DO THERAPY AND SUPERVISE.

2. Two Year Psychotherapy Training Programs:
A. Massachusetts General Hospital, thanks to Scott Wilson, will be teaching one and possibly two programs in China starting this September. We will be providing much of the individual supervision and psychotherapies. Continue reading News from the China American Psychoanalytic Alliance

The Pope’s Visit
By Categories: Editorials

lilpope.jpgI was surprised at my own personal reaction to seeing the Pope on television here in New York City. My hope was stirred as I saw this man who in his white robe spoke of human rights and peace. Cynic that I can be, I was moved and wondered, with the psychoanalytic part of my brain, “what was going on?” I am not a Catholic, nor am I religious. In fact, organized religion mystifies me although I see its benefits for those who choose to practice it. I began to wonder what the Pope and psychoanalysis have in common and came up with one fact: both the church and psychoanalysis are losing candidates. Continue reading The Pope’s Visit

Academia and Psychoanalysis
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ACADEMIA AND PSYCHOANALYSIS

The Institute for Psychoanalysis of Chicago is pleased to announce a new six-year program for academics with advanced degrees to become clinical psychoanalysts.  The program consists of a 15-month preparatory part-time period of instruction at the Rush University Department of Psychiatry followed by the 5-year core psychoanalytic training at the Institute for Psychoanalysis.  The preparatory training is designed to allow the applicant to become familiar with clinical practice, psychiatric interviewing, and diagnostic nomenclature and to begin a psychotherapeutic experience.  Following this period the applicant would pursue psychoanalytic training resulting in a certificate of competence to practice psychoanalysis.  Interested applicants are invited to call 312-922-7474 or write CORST Committee, Institute for Psychoanalysis, 122 S. Michigan Avenue, Suite 1300, Chicago, IL 60603.

The Identity of Psychoananalysis and Psychoanalyts by Arnold Richards and Arthur Lynch
By Categories: Announcements, NYPSI Centenary 1911-2011

THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOANALYSIS

Of the Karen Horney Psychoanalytic Center

329 East 62nd Street, New York, NY 10065

212-838-8044 www.aipnyc.org

SCIENTIFIC MEETING

Thursday, May 1, 2008 at 8:00 PM

THE IDENTITY OF PSYCHOANALYSIS

AND PSYCHOANALYSTS

Psychoanalysis has been in a constant uninterrupted debate about its identity as a discipline and as a social institution. This paper considers the place of science in psychoanalysis, on the one hand, and the hermeneutic nature of our discipline, on the other. The aim is to articulate a typology of psychoanalytic knowledge that characterizes psychoanalysis as a form of therapy, an intellectual movement, and a theoretical system. This typology considers psychoanalysis as a thought collective that influences its members by exchanging and maintaining ideas. To a well-rounded psychoanalytic thinker or practitioner one must be able to move easily among three realms of knowledge – the humanities, the social sciences and the natural sciences. Each realm has its own criteria of truth and the challenge is to know when to employ which criteria.

Continue reading The Identity of Psychoananalysis and Psychoanalyts by Arnold Richards and Arthur Lynch

Antidepressants enhance neuronal plasticity in the visual system
By Categories: Announcements, Controversial

 Click Here to Read:  The article, “Antidepressants enhance neuronal plasticity in the visual system,” from the website Science Centric of the Journal Science.

This is an interesting study in the 18 April issue of Science, about the mechanism of action of antidepressant drugs.

The authors write  ” However, to produce a functional effect, antidepressant treatment also seems to require environmental stimuli, such as rehabilitation or therapy.”

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