Claustro-Agoraphobic Dilemma and Impasses in Treatment A Psychoanalytic “Dialogue” about Claustro Agoraphobia with Susan Finkelstein at CFS
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Claustro-Agoraphobic Dilemma and Impasses in Treatment
A Psychoanalytic “Dialogue” about Claustro Agoraphobia

One-Session Program (2.5 Contact Hours)
Presenters: Susan Finkelstein, LCSW (NYC) and Heinz Weiss, MD (Germany)
Date: Friday, February 10, 2017
Time: 7:30-10:00pm
Location: Mt. Sinai Medical Center, Room TBA

This “dialogue” addresses the Kleinian theory of primitive object relations as defined by Henri Rey, Herbert Rosenfeld and John Steiner’s ideas about Melanie Klein’s “holes in the mind.” The concepts of marsupial space, psychotic islands, and psychic retreats are “places” inside the mind Continue reading Claustro-Agoraphobic Dilemma and Impasses in Treatment A Psychoanalytic “Dialogue” about Claustro Agoraphobia with Susan Finkelstein at CFS

Writer’s Wednesday: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Click Here to Read: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe on Wikipedia

Click Here to Read: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749—1832) on the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy website.

Click Here to Read: An Irresistible, Almost Magical Force: Goethe’s strange, elusive third novel, Elective Affinities By Michael Lipkin in the Paris Review on April 22, 2014.  Continue reading Writer’s Wednesday: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The Coming War on China
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Click Here to Read: The Coming War on China By John Pilger on the Reader Sponsored News website on December 6, 2016.

Philippine soldiers and a U.S. Army soldier from 2nd Stryker Brigade Combat of the 5th Infantry Division take their positions after disembarking from a C-47 Chinook helicopter during an air assault exercise inside the military training camp of Fort Magsaysay in Nueva Ecija province north of Manila, April 20, 2015. (photo: AFP)

Discussion Group # 108: Towards and Understanding of Loneliness and Aloneness with Arlene Kramer Richards, Lucille Spira, and Arthur Lynch at APsaA
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Dear Colleagues,

We invite those who are attending the above meetings to our Discussion Group # 108: Towards and Understanding of Loneliness and Aloneness

This group will explore loneliness as it appears in clinical work. Dr. Arthur Lynch will present his psychoanalytic work with an adult male patient who defensively avoided intimate connections. This case highlights the relationship between trauma and loneliness. The focus will be on the mid-phase of treatment and will include a summary of the patient’s history and the early phase of treatment.

The group should be of interest to psychoanalysts and psychotherapists who treat lonely and/orsocially isolated patients. Before the presentation, there will be a brief presentation on how we understand the overall topic.

Continue reading Discussion Group # 108: Towards and Understanding of Loneliness and Aloneness with Arlene Kramer Richards, Lucille Spira, and Arthur Lynch at APsaA

Countertransference to Patients Facing Death with Norman Straker, MD at NYPSI
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The New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute invites you to attend our 1017th Scientific Program Meeting:
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Countertransference to Patients Facing Death:Reflections on Death Anxiety, Presenter: Norman Straker, MD Discussant: Anna Burton, MD

Tuesday, December 13, 2016 at 8 pm, The Marianne & Nicholas Young Auditorium, New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute, 247 East 82nd Street, NYC (btwn 2nd and 3rd Aves)

This presentation will address the longstanding neglect of “death anxiety” by psychoanalysts. As a profession we have denied the importance of helping our patients with the existential crisis of facing death and have had a Continue reading Countertransference to Patients Facing Death with Norman Straker, MD at NYPSI