“Shelter for the psyche: Expert on seasonal affective disorder surveys an extraordinary winter” by Alvin Powell, Harvard Gazette an interview with BPSI member, Jacqueline Olds, MD
As this long, dark New England winter drags on, Harvard psychiatrist Jacqueline Olds has a reminder for a region now three weeks late for work and struggling with a bad bout of seasonal blues: Spring is coming. She also has some advice. In an interview with the Gazette, Olds, an expert on seasonal affective disorder (SAD) and co-founder of a startup that makes devices for tracking personal exposure to bright light, prescribed doses of sun and socializing to dispel the psychological dumps of a brutal February. GAZETTE: What normally goes on at...
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Sexuality in Contemporary Psychoanalysis: Facets of Bedrock and Beyond (2016 Fall Academic Lecture) with Paul E. Lynch, MD September 15, 2016 Click Here for Further Information As It becomes Available From Mahler’s Nursery to Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy: A Multi-Generational Study of the Transformation of Internal Representations (2016 Nemetz Lecture) with Wendy Olesker, PhD and Miriam Steele, PhD September 24, 2016 Click Here for Further Information As It becomes Available Libidinal Landscapes and the Analyst’s Views with Lora Heims...
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THE SOBER TRUTH: Debunking the Bad Science Behind Twelve-Step Programs and the Rehab Industry by Lance Dodes MD, Zachary Dodes. Boston: Beacon Press, 2015. Click here to listen to Lance Dodes’s interview about The Sober Truth on Radio Boston. Check out reviews in the Lancet and the Atlantic. An exposé of Alcoholics Anonymous, 12-step programs, and the rehab industry—and how a failed addiction-treatment model came to dominate America. AA has become so infused in our society that it is practically synonymous with addiction recovery. Yet...
read more“Los Momentos Magicos”: A Practical Model for Child Mental Health Professionals to Volunteer by Supporting Caregivers in Institutions in Developing Countries
By Alexandra Murray Harrison, Boston, USA In the context of visits to orphanages and hospitals in Central America and India, I have developed a model for mental health professionals in developed countries to volunteer their consultation services to caregivers of children in developing countries, in a long-term relationship, with episodic visits and regular skype contact. What appears in this issue of Perspectives is an excerpt from my blog, Supporting Child Caregivers. Three critical points of this model of volunteering are (1)...
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By Phillip Freeman, MD, DMH The excerpt below comes from a paper given at the Cape Playhouse in Dennis, Massachusetts, on the occasion of its production of the Mark St. Germain play Freud’s Last Session, about an encounter between Sigmund Freud and C.S. Lewis. Following the excerpt is a brief article describing and suggested by the discussion that followed the paper. An excerpt from “Dramatizing Ideas in Mark St. Germain’s Freud’s Last Session”: When they asked David Cronenberg about his representation of Sigmund Freud in A...
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