Selective Publication of Antidepressant Trials and Its Influence on Apparent Efficacy
The following is an abstract of a paper which will appear shortly in the New
England Journal of Medicine on the efficacy of anti-depressants.
Click Here to Read: Abstract and Full Article: Selective Publication of Antidepressant Trials and Its Influence on Apparent Efficacy By Erick H. Turner, M.D., Annette M. Matthews, M.D., Eftihia Linardatos, B.S., Robert A. Tell, L.C.S.W., and Robert Rosenthal, Ph.D.
How to Make an American (Womb) Quilt
This morning (Thursday) at the Oral History Workshop of the American Psychoanalytic Association Meeting, Nellie Thompson, in discussing the life and contributions of Bertram Lewin mentioned his 1935 paper on “Claustrophobia”, reminding me that I had come across it years ago while preparing a discussion of the film, How to Make an American Quilt.
In his paper, Lewin tells of a young woman who had “ordered her life in general so as to escape marriage and the male sex.” From her arrangement of her room, her dreams, and her associations, Lewin convincingly concluded that “the patient was imagining herself a foetus in the maternal body—but this idea did not cause anxiety. Indeed, on the contrary, this was an idea of safety or defense. The anxiety arose when the defensive wall was threatened, that is to say, when the penis entered or threatened to touch her . . . The intrauterine fantasy is one of defense (flight) and relief from anxiety; the anxiety arises with the idea of being disturbed or dislodged by the father or father’s penis.” The other fear that disturbed the patient’s fantasy of being in the womb was of being born. Finn, the young woman who is the center of How to Make an American Quilt, has a similar problem. Continue reading How to Make an American (Womb) Quilt
Robert Pinsky To Give APsaA Plenary Address
9:45 a.m.-11:15 a.m.
Plenary Address: The Fate of the Modern
Chair: K. Lynne Moritz, M.D., President, (St. Louis, MO) Introducer: Rosemary Balsam, M.D. (New Haven, CT) Speaker: Robert Pinsky (Boston, MA)
Former United States Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky will explore the following questions: How is the work of psychotherapy like and unlike the work of art? How is the history of psychoanalysis like and unlike the history of modern poetry? Also a translator and
an essayist, Pinsky teaches in the graduate writing program at Boston University. His seventh volume of poetry, Gulf Music,is being published October 2007, by Farrar,Straus and Giroux.
Click Here to Read: Howard Shevrin’s Introduction to Robert Pinksy’s Essay on Psychiatrists.
Click Here to Read: Robert Pinsky’s Poem: Essay on Psychiatrists.
Click Here to Read: Review of Robert Pinsky’s The Figured Wheel: New and Collected Poems 1966-1996 by Katha Pollitt in the New York Times.
Click Here to Listen to: Favorite Poems Project. A partnership among Boston University, the Library of Congress and other organizations with major funding from the National Endowment from the Arts and the Carnegie Corporation of New York.
See particularly: “Nick and The Candlestick” by Sylvia Plath, read by Seth Rodney, Photographer, Long Beach, CA.
“Untitled Tanka (The Lower Leaves of Trees)” by Sone No Yoshitada translated by Ken Rexroth read by Kiyoshi Houston, Student, Santa Monica, CA.
“Sonnett 29” by William Shakespeare read by Daniel McCall, Retired Anthopologist, Boston, MA
Dr. Horst Kaechele in New York
I am posting this announcement on behalf of Dr. Horst Kaechele who has come to New York City this week to teach at the William Alanson White Institute and attend the APsaA meetings. If you are at the meetings you can seek him out for a discussion of his research work in Ulm, Germany.
To make an appointment, please email me or call: 212-787-1068
Dr Kaechele offers the entire text (in English,German, Italian and Russian) of the two volume work “Psychoanalytic Practice” by Thomae and Kaechele to students in all disciplines and at all levels of experience, including our members interested in this significant work now published in over a dozen languages.
Judith S. Schachter
Click here to Read and Download this work.
Obituary of Alexander Grinstein (1918-2007) Psychoanalyst, Humanist, Optimist
Alexander Grinstein died on Tuesday, December 11, 2007. Dr. Alexander Grinstein was a central figure in the establishment of the Michigan Psychoanalytic Institute and a world-renowned psychoanalytic scholar. The Michigan Psychoanalytic Foundation has established a Memorial Fund to honor the contributions of Dr. Grinstein.
Click Here to Read: Deanna Holzman, Ph.D.’s Obituary of Alexander Grinstein, M.D.
“The Uses of Medications in Psychoanalysis: What We Know; What is Uncertain” with Glen O. Gabbard
Public release date: 9-Jan-2008
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Contact: Dottie Jeffries
djeffries@apsa.org
212-752-0450 x29
American Psychoanalytic Association
Uses of medications in psychoanalysis Potential benefits and drawbacks
As Americans increasingly seek a “quick fix” to physical and mental ailments, psychoanalysts can be caught in the crossfire of a debate about the potential benefits and drawbacks of including medication in their treatment plans. A panel discussion entitled, “The Uses of Medications in Psychoanalysis: What We Know; What is Uncertain,” will be led by internationally renowned psychoanalyst Glen O. Gabbard, M.D., at the American Psychoanalytic Association’s 2008 Winter Meeting. The panel discussion will be held on Friday, January 18, 2008, from 2-5 p.m. at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York. Media are invited to attend.
Discussion Group #80 Analytic Neutrality in Couple and Family Therapy
Discussion Group #80 Analytic neutrality in couple and family therapy
Thursday 4:45-7:15 pm Devember 17th at the APsaA Meetings at the Waldorf-Astoria
For anyone wanting to attend this DG on the use of neutrality in couple and family therapy contact me and I will send out an invitation with our agenda and an attachment that will serve as background for exploring clinical data.
Fred Sander (for John Pareja, and Marv Nierenberg)
The New York Study Group on Analytic Couple and Family Therapy
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Perversion, Fetish, and Creativity by Anita Weinreb Katz
Click Here to Read: Perversion, Fetish, and Creativity: The Fate of Desire in “Utz” by Anita Weinreb Katz.
An earlier version of this paper was presented on November 8th, 2002, at the colloquium “Looking Out, Looking In: Cinema and Psychoanalysis” sponsored by the New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis.
God in Mind: The Psychodynamics of an Unsual Relationship by Ana-Maria Rizzuto
Click Here to Read: God in Mind: The Psychodynamics of an Unsual Relationship by Ana-Maria Rizzuto.
This article has been previously published–Rizzuto, Ana-Maria. (2006-2007). God in Mind: The Psychodynamics of an Unsual Relationship. The Annual of Psychoanalysis 34-33: Sprituality and Religion: Psychoanalytic Perspectives, pp. 25-46 and appears here with the requisite rights and permissions.