Irene Landsman’s Letter to the Editor on Torture
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The following is Irene Landsman’s Letter to the Editor which was sent to The New York Times but has not been published as yet.

American Psychological Association President Nadine Kaslow (Letters, December 13) is shocked and dismayed that two psychologists were named in the Senate torture report. Relieved not to have been mentioned itself, the APA focuses on two “bad apples” in a spin designed to deflect attention from its own longstanding, well-documented complicity in the worst excess of the Bush-era war on terror.

The APA sought to make psychologists indispensible in rationalizing and legalizing practices long held to be torture, and gladly stepped into the breach when the American Medical and American Psychiatric Associations prohibited their members from participating. Continue reading Irene Landsman’s Letter to the Editor on Torture

The Psychological Basis of Change in a Talking Cure; How do we study it? with Drs. Wilma Bucci and Bernard Maskit at NYPSI
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NEW YORK PSYCHOANALYTIC SOCIETY & INSTITUTE:
ACADEMIC RESEARCH/REFERENTIAL PROCESS SEMINAR
Marianne and Nicholas Young Auditorium
247 East 82nd St., between 2nd & 3rd, NY, NY 10028
212-879-6900
www.psychoanalysis.org
www.nypsi.org

Wednesday, December 17, 2014, 8 p.m.
The Psychological Basis of Change in a Talking Cure; How do we study it?
Part II: Computerized Measures and New Applications
with Drs. Wilma Bucci and Bernard Maskit

Free and open to the public Continue reading The Psychological Basis of Change in a Talking Cure; How do we study it? with Drs. Wilma Bucci and Bernard Maskit at NYPSI

Master Class Supervision with Zvi Lothane at WSI
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WSI MASTER CLASS SUPERVISION
Supervisor: Dr. Henry Zvi Lothane
Candidate: Gail Israel

Thursday, December 18, 2014, 8:30-10:30 PM, 41 E. 11th St., 4th Fl., Lecture Hall
No registration needed: Regular fee $25 * Student fee $10
* Refreshments Served *

Henry Zvi Lothane, MD
Dr. Lothane is a clinical professor of psychiatry at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York City, and a faculty member at Washington Square Institute. He is a distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, a member of the American and International Psychoanalytic Associations, and author of the definitive In Defense of Continue reading Master Class Supervision with Zvi Lothane at WSI

Towards an Understanding of Loneliness and Aloneness at APsaA Winter Meetings
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APsaA Meeting: NYC Jan. 2015 : Those who are attending the meeting we invite you to our Discussion Group #113 : See below: On Jan. 15, 2015 : 7PM-9 PM . Arlene Kramer Richards and Lucille Spira

DISCUSSION GROUP:
Towards an Understanding of Loneliness and Aloneness
Co-chairs: Arlene K. Richards, Ed.D. (New York, NY) Lucille Spira, C.S.W., Ph.D.* (New York, NY)
Presenters: Jack Novick, Ph.D. (Ann Arbor, MI)Kerry Kelly Novick (Ann Arbor, MI)

Loneliness is an important feeling in adolescent development. Jack and Kerry Novick will use clinical material from analyses of some late adolescents, who defended against loneliness in various pathological ways. They will consider a psychoanalytic and cultural pathologizing of solitude and discuss issues of separation, isolation, autonomy, and creativity to demonstrate Continue reading Towards an Understanding of Loneliness and Aloneness at APsaA Winter Meetings

Writer’s Wednesday: Samuel Beckett
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Click Here to Read:  Samuel Beckett on Wikipedia.

Click Here to Read: The Letters and Poems of Samuel Beckett By Paul Muldoon in the New York Times on December 12, 2014.

Click Here to Read: Beckett and Bion: The (Im)Patient Voice in Psychotherapy and Literature by Ian Miller and Kay Souter on the Karnac Books website.

Click Here to Read:  A Psychoanalytic Reading of Vladimir and Estragon in Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot by Högskolan Dalarna on the Diva-portal.org website.