Re-tale therapy: Why there are no short cuts to your problems

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Click Here to Read:  Re-tale therapy: Why there are no short cuts to your problems: The desire for quick answers has more to do with consumerism than with therapy, says Lacanian psychoanalyst, Eric Laurent By Or Ezrati on the Haaretz Website.

Eric Laurent: “We have in hand the means of control over us. We are observed from every screen, and that resonates with the feel… / Photo by Ilya Melnikov

Quote for the Anniversary of Kristallnacht

A DANGEROUS LEGACY

According to me, anti-Semitism as an attitude is not the worst of sins, but it is a dangerous one. It is the first step in an exclusion mechanism that starts with social avoidance and in its extreme form leads to death and destruction. That is why it should be dealt with thoroughly in public debate. . . . When a leader of an organization is caught being anti-Semitic the organization must make it clear that this was not done on its account. This is even more true for a psychoanalytic organization. Only then can things return to normal.

A Dangerous Legacy: Judaism and the Psychoanalytic Movement By Hans Reijzer. London: Karnac Books, 2011, p. 116.

Funding Request for Research Proposal: The tragedy of 9/11 women who were pregnant and widowed and their infants

Funding Request for Research Proposal:
The tragedy of 9/11 women who were pregnant and widowed and their infants
Beatrice Beebe PhD; Clinical Professor, NYS Psychiatric Institute, Columbia University
Acute traumatic loss has wide-ranging effects on ordinary individuals, especially parents and children, yet infants and young children are often forgotten in a disaster. In October, 2001, Beatrice Beebe, a mother-infant researcher and therapist, together with other highly trained therapists, began a therapeutic project to try to help these women and their infants born after 9/11. This project also had a research component. Mothers and infants were seen for a video-based therapeutic consultation. Because of our therapeutic involvement we have a unique set of videotapes of mother-infant
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