"The paintings are scarily gorgeous. Even the virus can inspire beauty." ~ Doris Brothers Viral Inspiration (March 2020) I am at home. I love home. I love time. I love time at home. I hate what is happening in the world. People isolate for protection. Ascent from blood-filled mountains. To be together
My approach to deepening and revitalizing development for patients has been to understand the parallel process. We evolve in relation to our patients, intersubjectively, with the psychological field of the patient intersecting with, and influencing, our own. As therapists, we need our visual cues and
Dr. Doris Brothers was among several clinicians and scholars interviewed by the UK website Confer about the impact of the current crisis. In this conversation Dr Doris Brothers highlights how the uncertainty generated by the pandemic is that which lies at the very heart of trauma
Never before in human history have past and future been so tightly condensed together within a present, intensely bubbling to a boiling point: Are we on the threshold of the total fragmentation of humanity’s collective self, and a global catastrophe, the shattering of our blue
Read two new Op-Ed articles, an interview, poetry and more in the inaugural issue of our newly redesigned eForum.
In the Spring of 2016, we wrote an essay (Our Leadership Dilemma, IAPSP eforum, 2019) in which we applied ideas of Heinz Kohut, the founder of Self Psychology, regarding the psychology of leadership to the then current presidential campaigns of Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump.
by Charles B. Strozier and David M. Terman Whatever Donald Trump is, or is not, psychologically, Trumpism as a social movement deserves close scrutiny in terms of its values and motivations. Our focus is on a self psychoanalytic perspective that we believe can illuminate social and
In 2018, the last year for which we have numbers, almost 70,000 Americans died from an opioid overdose. This is a staggering number, almost impossible to comprehend. Opioid deaths have contributed to the lowering of the average lifespan in this country. Greedy pharmaceutical
This column attempts to explore the lives and work of IAPSP members from different parts of the world. In this eighth interview of the series, I am pleased to dialogue with Ingrid Pedroni from Rome, Italy. Ingrid has been President of ISIPSé School of psychoanalytic
In keeping with the 2019 theme of IAPSP’s conference in Vancouver, Engaging Difference and Sameness: Pathways to Empathic Dialogue, the Child and Adolescent Initiative hosted a presentation in which Keren Tamir of Israel presented a case of a child growing up in a multi-cultural family,