Click Here to Read: Nancy Sherman – Moral Damage and Moral Repair After War, Conference Presentation on the Erikson Institute website.
Jackson outburst shows problems with ‘other’ faces
Caring for the Alzheimer’s Caregiver
Psychoanalytic Aspects of Assisted Reproductive Technology by Mali Mann
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This book contributes in an important way to the psychoanalytic understanding and impact of Assisted Reproductive Technology on a majority of patients who have difficulties starting new families. Recent advances in reproductive technology and the increased use of techniques based upon it have created a need for psychoanalytic thinking and understanding of the psychological implications of assisted reproductive procedures, in-vitro fertilization and other similar procedures. Continue reading Psychoanalytic Aspects of Assisted Reproductive Technology by Mali Mann
The Complexity of Human Bonds: Its Impact on Treatment with AAPCSW
Call for Papers: The Art of Listening: Psychoanalytic Transformations at AAPCSW
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR PSYCHOANALYSIS
IN CLINICAL SOCIAL WORK – AAPCSW
March 12-15, 2015 Durham, North Carolina
CALL FOR PAPERS Deadline March 15, 2014
The Art of Listening: Psychoanalytic Transformations
As contemporary psychotherapy has become inundated with approaches offering a quick fix, the act of listening, the “art of listening” in healing psychic pain has lost its once exalted status. Psychoanalytic clinicians believe that deep and sustained transformations occur in an environment in which the individual feels both seen and heard. In this conference, we wish to emphasize that Continue reading Call for Papers: The Art of Listening: Psychoanalytic Transformations at AAPCSW
Sociology and Anthropology Monday: Charles Horton Cooley
Charles Horton Cooley (1864-1929)
Cooley was one of the leading American sociologists of the second generation who, along with George Herbert Mead (see last week’s column), developed a sociological theory of the self – the looking-glass self – which was probably influenced by Adam Smith’s Theory of Moral Sentiments in which the self was understood to be a construct based on the observation of others in relation to the self. Trained as a mechanical engineer and as an economist, Cooley later gravitated to his minor in Sociology, publishing three major books in that field: Human Nature and the Social Order (1902), Social Organization (1909) and Social Process (1918). He was influenced in Continue reading Sociology and Anthropology Monday: Charles Horton Cooley