What 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...
read moreRemarks on the History of BPSI
by Anton O. Kris, M.D. May 28th, 2008 Remarks on the History of BPSI for the Celebration of the 75th Anniversary Howard asked me to say a few words about the history of our Society-Institute in celebration of our 75th Anniversary. A whole afternoon was devoted to this topic in 1958, at the 25th anniversary, recorded in Ives Hendrick’s book: The Birth of An Institute. So you won’t expect me to do justice to the topic in the very few minutes we can allot to it tonight. Hendrick’s review – amazingly readable, despite its detailed account –...
read moreBetween Winnicott and Lacan: A Clinical Engagement
Lewis A. Kirshner, MD New York: Routledge, 2011 D. W. Winnicott and Jacques Lacan, two of the most innovative and important psychoanalytic theorists since Freud, are also seemingly the most incompatible. And yet, in different ways, both men emphasized the psychic process of becoming a subject or of developing a separate self, and both believed in the possibility of a creative reworking or new beginning for the person seeking psychoanalytic help. The possibility of working between their contrasting perspectives on a central issue for...
read moreA Disturbance in the Field: Essays in Transference-Countertransference Engagement
Steven H. Cooper, PhD Routledge, 2010 The field, as Steven Cooper describes it, is comprised of the inextricably related worlds of internalized object relations and interpersonal interaction. Furthermore, the analytic dyad is neither static nor smooth sailing. Eventually, the rigorous work of psychoanalysis will offer a fraught opportunity to work through the most disturbing elements of a patient’s inner life as expressed and experienced by the analyst – indeed, a disturbance in the field. How best to proceed when such tricky yet...
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