Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy Program
is pleased to invite you to attend a meeting of our
Visiting Lecturer Series
“THE MYTH OF THE ADOLESCENT BRAIN AND ITS IMPLICATIONS FOR THERAPY”
By BJ Casey, Ph.D.
Monday, November 12, 2012, Reception at 7:30,
Program to Follow
at
IPTAR WEST- Conference Room Continue reading The Myth of the Adolecent Brain with BJ Casey at IPTAR
Click here to read “Do Animals Get Depressed?” by Sasha Ingber from The National Geographic News on October 4, 2012.
Learning more about depression in animals could one day benefit humans, say scientists who believe that mammals share the same basic wiring in their brain for emotions as humans do. (Although not every scientist agrees with that premise.)
At least this Doc’s Honest: Drugging to Improve Performance:
Front page (where it should be) in today’s NY Times, a pediatrician in rural Georgia promotes stimulants to improve poor children’s school performance…regardless of diagnosis. This pediatrician fesses up that the “diagnosis” is “an excuse…to treat what he considers the chilren’s true ill — Continue reading Attention Disorder or Not, Pills to Help in School
Shame on who? And what to do about it.
N. Szajnberg, MD Intro to Victor Chu’s Shanghai Congress Paper
Victor Chu, born in China has been practicing as a psychoanalyst and also is a Zen meditator. He attended the Shanghai IPA meeting and presented this paper on Shame, a major concern in China.
He writes an informal note about his subsequent visit with his German-born wife and daughter as they continued on a Zen tour of China: Thanks for the immediate response. Of course you can publish my paper on IP.net. It’s a great honor for me. Continue reading Victor Chu on The Psychology of Shame
