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THE METROPOLITAN CENTER FOR MENTAL HEALTH and THE METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE  FOR TRAINING IN PSYCHOANALYTIC PSYCHOTHERAPY CHALLENGES IN CHILD TREATMENT, Saturday, December 1, 2012, Presenter: Michèle M. Bartnett, Ph.D. It is widely accepted that children learn to create meaning through play. Much has been written about the importance of understanding the representations children communicate through imaginative […]

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THE METROPOLITAN CENTER FOR MENTAL HEALTH and THE METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE FOR TRAINING IN PSYCHOANALYTIC PSYCHOTHERAPY CHALLENGES IN CHILD TREATMENT Saturday, December 1, 2012 Presenter: Michèle M. Bartnett, Ph.D. It is widely accepted that children learn to create meaning through play. Much has been written about the importance of understanding the representations children communicate through imaginative […]

Click here to read about Dr. Jack Drescher’s book Textbook of Psychoanalysis from The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease.  The Textbook of Psychoanalysis could easily be subtitled Just About Anything You Wanted to Know About Psychoanalysis but Were Afraid to Ask. It is a collection of essays written by mainstream members of the American Psychoanalytic Association (APsaA) […]

Click Here to View: Video:  Patient Advocate Says Recovery From Serious Mental Illness Is Possible with Will Hall.
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Click Here to Read:  The Teenage Brain: Dr. Jay Giedd of the National Institute of Mental Health on the Monthly Prescribing Website on August16, 2012.
 Jay N. Giedd

Click Here to Read:   Andrew Scull on All We Have to Fear: Psychiatry’s Transformation of Natural Anxieties into Mental Disorders: Psychiatry’s Legitimacy Crisis by Allan V. Horwitz and Jerome C. Wakefield on August 8th, 2012. “…whereas thirty years ago less than five percent of Americans were thought to suffer from an anxiety disorder, nowadays some widely […]

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Click Here to Read: Good News for Mental Illness in Health Law By Richard A. Friedman  M.D. in The New York Times on July 9, 2012.