Arlene Kramer Richards, EdD & Lucille Spira, PhD: Myths of Mighty Women at AIP

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SCIENTIFIC MEETING: Thursday, March 17, 2016 at 8:00 PM
Arlene Kramer Richards, EdD & Lucille Spira, PhD: Myths of Mighty Women

Dr. Arlene Kramer Richards will present brief excerpts from Myths of Mighty Women: Their Application in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (Karnac, 2015) edited by Arlene K. Richards and Lucille Spira. The vignettes focus on mythical, biblical and literary figures that psychoanalytic psychotherapists can use to empower women.

Lucille Spira, Ph.D./LCSW will present Helen Knocks ‘Em Dead: A Story of Kidnapping, Rape, Revenge and the Aftermath. In this paper she proposes that Helen, Queen of Sparta, went to Troy as an act of vengeance. A clinical vignette is used to illustrate the impact of the Helen myth on today’s women. Continue reading Arlene Kramer Richards, EdD & Lucille Spira, PhD: Myths of Mighty Women at AIP

NHS chief declares war on post-natal depression and eating disorders

NHSDepression

Click Here to Read: NHS chief declares war on post-natal depression and eating disorders: Dedicated centres will treat the most severely ill ‘Hundreds of thousands of lives’ are affected because of care problems. NHS boss, Simon Stevens, will warn sufferers are feeling ‘stigmatised’ He wants better care for mothers who suffer with post-natal depression Therapists will work in GP surgeries to help those with eating disorders By Sophie Borland in the Daily Mail on February 14, 2016.

Is there too much stress on stress?

Stress

Click Here to Read: Is there too much stress on stress? About 10m working days a year are lost to stress. In our age of austerity, zero-hours working and weakened unions, has stress – a term only invented in the 1950s – become a shorthand for more complex problems? by Tim Adams on the Guardian website on February 14, 2016.

Under pressure: stress at work is an ever-increasing modern malaise. Photograph: Alamy

Writer’s Wednesday: Cicero

Cicero

Click Here to Read: Cicero on Wikipedia.

Click Here to Read: Cicero (106—43 B.C.E.) on the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

Click Here to Read: Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero/Speeches on the Wikisource website.

Click Here to Read: Marcus Tullious Cicero on History.com

Click Here to Read: Virtue and Irrationality in Republican Politics: Cicero’s Critique of Popular Philosophy by Carly Tess Herold, B.A., M.A. of the University of Texas. Continue reading Writer’s Wednesday: Cicero

Managing a Practice in the Age of Social Media: AIP Open House

THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOANALYSIS
329 East 62nd Street — New York, NY 10065 — (212) 838-8044 — aipkh@aol.com
The second oldest Psychoanalytic Institute in New York City — Established in 1941
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We invite you to meet our Faculty and Students at our
OPEN HOUSE
Saturday, March 12, 2016 12:00 PM – 2:00 PM Managing a Practice in the Age of Social Media
The Training programs at AIP have been serving the complex needs of clinicians for over 75 years.
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