The Psychoanalytic Post

Co-chairs Ellen Sinkman and Arlene Kramer Richards invite you to participate in a Discussion Group, #47,  on Beauty and Body in Therapeutic Work. This year Janice Lieberman, PhD, will present on “Analytic Work with Beauty Addicts.”   It will be held Wednesday, January 16, 2013, 7:00-9:00 p.m. at the national meeting of the American Psychoanalytic […]

Huber, Klug and colleagues have published this work in German and it will be in Psychiatry next year. IP.net readers get it now.   This is a  remarkable effort: a three-year follow-up study  comparing psychoanalytic, psychodynamic and CBT treatment in a carefully diagnosed group.   More of this works needs to be done.   Bravo […]

Transcript HELEN KELLER 15 WEST 16th STREET, NEW YORK 11, N. Y. April 25, 1950 Dear Mr. Luhrs: I am indeed happy to inform you that a Committee on the Deaf-blind of America has been started. It is one of the departments of the American Foundation for the Blind with which I have worked for […]

The Schools  Committee of the American Psychoanalytic Association is now taking  submissions for the annual  Educational Achievement  Award This award is presented to a person, school or educational institution that furthers psychoanalytically informed work with pre-K-12 educators, schools and their students. This prize will be presented on January 18, 2013, at the  annual meeting of […]

Click Here to Read:  Sigmund Freud – Life and Work on the Freud Files website.

POETRY MONDAY: October 1, 2012 Phil Timpane Here’s a poet whose work I think you’ll find interesting. I first encountered Phil Timpane’s poems at a group reading hosted by the excellent ( and relatively new) literary magazine, Upstreet, and have had the opportunity to hear him read many times since. His poems have also appeared […]

Photo: Samuel Eisenstein, M.D. Before Labor Day, we ran a paper documenting that analysts live longer than other related professions. Click Here to Read: Analyst Living Longer, but How Do We Practice. But, what about what and how well we practice in these later years? Fisher and Hoffs bring us Samuel Eisenstein’s paper on the […]

“An Analyst Does Floor Time in the Classroom.”Book Review: Reflective Network Therapy in the Preschool Years By Gilbert Kliman (Elissa Burian, Contributing Editor).  UPA PRESS, 2011, Reviewed by By Nathan Szajnberg, MD, Managing Editor.  Finally, a psychoanalyst publishes something substantive about working with very severely disturbed preschool children.  After the French psychoanalytic embarrassment revealed in the […]

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