BPSI Off the Couch: The Stories We Tell
By Jonathan Kolb M.D. Spoiler Alert: There are surprises in this film. Do not read what follows if you have not seen the film, and want to have the experience that it provides. The Stories We Tell, a film by Sarah Polley, played in some Festivals and opened to good reviews in the Spring of 2013. In a variety of formats, from black and white home movies to what seem like old color sequences, and more contemporary sequences shot in a studio, it tells the story of the Director Sarah Polley’s family, organized around the family...
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The largest APsaA- and IPA- affiliated institute in the country, BPSI is a vibrant professional and educational community of psychoanalysts, psychoanalytic therapists, and interdisciplinary scholars, devoted to the study and practice of psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy, and the applications of psychoanalysis in the community, medicine, and the arts. BPSI supports the education and individual developmental trajectories of Candidates, students and graduates throughout their professional lives. Our diverse...
read morePsychoanalysis and Academia: Present, Past, Future
Psychoanalysis and Academia: Present, Past, Future By Murray Schwartz When, in The Question of Lay Analysis (1926), Freud sketched his ideal of a “college of psychoanalysis,” he transcended a “Two Cultures” view of psychoanalytic education. By including such disciplines as history, mythology, religion, and “the science of literature,” along with sexuality and “the symptomology of psychiatry,” his vision encompassed science, medicine, and the humanities, the nosological and hermeneutic disciplines, and natural scientific...
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THE AMERICAN PSYCHOANALYTIC ASSOCIATION 4th Annual PSYCHOANALYTIC & PSYCHODYNAMIC TEACHER’S ACADEMY A Professional Development Program for Clinical Teachers of Psychoanalysis and/or Psychodynamic Therapy in: Psychiatry Residency Programs Psychology Graduate Programs Clinical Social Work Programs Also included: Paid Travel & Expenses to APsaA’s January 2014 National Meeting in NYC. Year Long Individual Mentorship Teaching Seminars Led by Master Teachers Course Development Applications now being accepted through August...
read moreWhat to Do When Your Child Is Struggling
What to Do When Your Child Is Struggling by Judy Yanof , M.D.* April 25, 2013 Seeing that their child is unhappy or struggling often leaves parents feeling not only distressed, but also helpless. As parents, we often do not know how to help our children, because children generally are not very good at telling us what is bothering them. They often do not know why they are unhappy, and they may not have the words to articulate their experience. Instead they “show” their parents that something is wrong through their behavior – behavior...
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