CALL FOR PROPOSALS: 2015 BOSTON CONGRESS

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CALL FOR PROPOSALS: 2015 BOSTON CONGRESS

49th IPA CONGRESS: 23rd IPSO CONFERENCE
22-25 July 2015, Boston Seaport & World Trade Center, MA, USA
Changing World: the shape and use of psychoanalytic tools today

Dear colleagues,
We are happy to announce that proposals for the following activitIes are now invited for the 2015 Boston Congress:
• Individual Papers
• Panel Presentations
• Small Discussion Groups Continue reading CALL FOR PROPOSALS: 2015 BOSTON CONGRESS

Healing after Parent Loss in Childhood and Adolescence with Phyllis Cohen, K. Mark Sossin and Richard Ruth at Pace University

The “mighty woman”, G. Mahler, Freud & Downton Abbey from Sasha Rolde on IP.net

Dear colleagues,

On the eve of the Boston Marathon, apart from the “Boston Strong” slogan, the only other current result is a 3 day traffic jam and getting to Boston is an impossibility. Also, we wonder re Jews in Ukraine but can’t do much about it, etc.. So.. . you will have time tomorrow to read the wonderful posts on our website, while the runners get to the finish line, hopefully all triumphant and the situation in Ukraine will be left murky.  Levity aside, this spring is seething with international political activity, as is our own Continue reading The “mighty woman”, G. Mahler, Freud & Downton Abbey from Sasha Rolde on IP.net

History repeats itself, Autism, lying and character from Sasha Rolde on IP.net

Dear Colleagues.

Holidays and school vacation weeks give one the opportunity to read and lift one’s head to see what is going on in the world.

Having just read a gripping novel about Central Europe between 1938 and 1945 I am adding it to my report this week as it is the eve of the Holocaust Remembrance day. The book is “The Invisible Bridge” by Julie Orringer. Well worth reading. Continue reading History repeats itself, Autism, lying and character from Sasha Rolde on IP.net

Rudolf Ekstein’s Concerning the Life Cycle of Transitional Objects

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Click Here to Read:  Concerning the Life Cycle of Transitional Objects

by Rudolf Ekstein.  

TRANSITIONS AND GENERATIVITY:  EKSTEIN ON ERIKSON AND WINNICOTT  By  David  James Fisher, Ph.D.

Occasionally, an essay appears that is designed to enchant, to strike an emotional chord, to stimulate thinking, to make surprising linkages, while simultaneously serving as an exercise in self-analysis.  This late essay by Rudolf Ekstein (1912-2005) does all this and more.  As the title suggests,

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Sheba and Solomon’s Return by Nathan Szajnberg

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Click Here to Buy:  This book on IPBooks.net

Brief Review of Sheba & Solomon’s Return by Nathan Szajnberg, Reviewed by Ahron Freidberg

In the social sciences there tends to be an underlying tension between two distinct approaches to knowing:  The nomothetic, which is based in an effort to find laws that explain objective phenomenon, and the idiographic, which is based on understanding the unique, contextual and subjective meaning of a thing.  In Sheba & Solomon’s Return:  Ethiopian Children in  Continue reading Sheba and Solomon’s Return by Nathan Szajnberg