Myths of Termination: What Patients Can Teach Psychoanalysts About Endings, by Judy Kantrowitz

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Myths of Termination: What Patients Can Teach Psychoanalysts About Endings, by Judy Kantrowitz (forward by Glenn Gabbard, MD) Routledge 2014.

Reviewed by N. Szajnberg, MD

Just before death (1956), Ernst Kris published his piece on personal myth and its transformation to personal history in psychoanalysis. Myths are archaic forms that live in the present, drive the present, as if they were still alive. Histories are life accounts that we feel are part of who we are, but do not drive our present. Resolving myths to histories permits us to build more autonomous futures. Continue reading Myths of Termination: What Patients Can Teach Psychoanalysts About Endings, by Judy Kantrowitz

Reliving Tragedy Was My Job at the National September 11 Memorial and Museum

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Click Here to Read: Reliving Tragedy Was My Job at the National September 11 Memorial and Museum How under the weight of history, all memory becomes holy—even the memory that should not By Julia Bosson on the Tablet website on September 11, 2014.

From the series 9.11 redux, in which the photographer returned a decade later to locations in lower Manhattan where he was on assignment in the days following the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks. (Jason Florio)

New from IPBooks: Pretend Ballads by Edward McCrorie

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On September 11, 2001, I was having dental work done in Providence, Rhode Island, when news of the attacks came through. My wife, Beatrice Beebe, was at work in New York City only a few miles from the World Trade Center. When we reunited later that week, we knew our lives were changing, and I encouraged her idea to help in Manhattan somehow, since she was well experienced aiding mothers with young children.

The poems, prose and pictures in this book are a culmination of many discussions, readings, clinical help and sundry emotions over the past twelve years. But I did not realize there might be poetry here until December, Continue reading New from IPBooks: Pretend Ballads by Edward McCrorie