Meet the Author: Ilonka Venier Alexander “The Life and Times of Franz Alexander: From Budapest To California” – VIDEO
Ilonka Venier Alexander and Shari Thurer met in our library on June 21, 2016, to discuss The Life and Times of Franz Alexander: From Budapest To California published by Karnac in 2015. Ilonka’s grandfather, Franz Alexander, was the first graduate of the Berlin Psychoanalytic Institute, the man who turned down Freud’s offer to enter into private practice in Vienna, and the man Freud told to go to America and spread the doctrine of psychoanalysis. He was one of the founders of psychosomatic medicine and psychoanalytic criminology. This...
read moreForgiveness, Reconciliation, and Healing after Monstrous Offense: When, How, and What is Possible? with Dori Laub, MD and Donald Moss, MD
read moreFoundations of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry
Foundations of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry: The Bumpy Road to Specialization (Routledge, 2016) by Don R. Lipsitt, MD, documents the development of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry from its inception to the present. The book draws on contributions from philosophy, physiology, psychoanalysis, epidemiology and other disciplines to define the broad scope of the field. Distinctions and similarities between Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry and Psychosomatic Medicine will be of interest to psychiatrists, social workers, and health psychologists,...
read moreViolence in Orlando
June 17, 2016 From: James Walton, MD, President Re: Violence in Orlando Five days ago we were shocked to learn of the horrifying attack and murder of so many Americans at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando. We feel sadness and outrage at the terrible loss of life and great sympathy for the wounded and for the friends and families of those who were killed. In speaking of the attack on the nightclub frequented by the LGBTQ community, President Obama said, “The place where they were attacked is more than a nightclub. It is a place...
read moreMeet the Author: Paul Ornstein “Looking Back: Memoir of a Psychoanalyst” – VIDEO
Paul Ornstein and Daniel Jacobs met at Dr. Ornstein’s home on February 19, 2016, to talk about his new book “Looking Back: Memoir of a Psychoanalyst” written with Helen Epstein and published by Plunkett Lake Press in 2015. The book is the unusual memoir of a Holocaust survivor and physician who became prominent in American psychoanalysis and a leader of the psychoanalytic Self Psychology movement. Paul Ornstein, MD, was born in Hajdúnánás, Hungary in 1924 and educated at the Franz Josef Rabbinical Seminary in Budapest, where...
read moreThe Clinical Erik Erikson
The Clinical Erik Erikson: A Psychoanalytic Method of Engagement and Activation by Stephen Schlein, PhD (Routledge, 2016). The twentieth century has been described as the time of man’s discovery of himself; few have contributed more to this cause than Erik Erikson. The Clinical Erik Erikson: A psychoanalytic method of engagement and activation highlights Erikson’s transforming contributions to the field of psychoanalysis and honors his legacy by providing unpublished clinical case illustrations of his psychotherapeutic work. The publication...
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