On Sunday, February 28, the Child & Adolescent Initiative hosted a Zoom meeting to discuss the experience of treating children and adolescents on virtual platforms during the pandemic. Nine people, representing 5 countries and multiple U.S. states, attended. The group discussed their creative ways of
In our last paper, Our Leadership Crisis Part 3, we analyzed the Trump phenomena through the lens of Intersubjective Self Psychology (ISP), and it is our objective in the following pages to better understand the motivation and beliefs of Trump’s most fanatical supporters through this
It has been said of Freud that he took the gods down from Olympus and placed them in the family. The prophecy that Oedipus so tragically lived out is replayed in the erotic intensities and aggressive fantasies between children and their parents. Freud’s
Our Leadership Crisis Part III In the big lie there is always a certain force of credibility; because the broad masses of a nation are always more easily corrupted in the deeper strata of their emotional nature than consciously or voluntarily; and thus in the primitive
IAPSP held it’s first New Years Party on Sunday, January 3rd, 2021. It was organized by Amy Eldridge and Shelley Doctors with the help of Kathy Wetmore and DC Multimedia Productions. In addition to the main party, guests were invited to attend a number of breakout
Photo of Heinz Kohut and me on my visit to his vacation house in Carmel, CA on 8/20/81. The photo portrays the enormous affection we felt toward one another despite our significant theoretical disagreements.
Once upon a time a great king appeared in the Land of Psychoanalysis. His name was Kohut. He had a beautiful new idea called Self Psychology, which he hoped would make Psychoanalysis a better land in which to live and work. Sadly, he became ill
I'm pleased to present the newest edition of the Book News column. Check out our newest book announcements, and be sure to email me at anne@anneparis.com if you have a new book you would like for us to announce! Please include a brief description of
Introduction My metapsychological and historical work has for decades traced core shifts in human character structure and self-formation that bore strong parallels with the work of Kohut. Engaging more and more intensively with Kohut’s work in the past fifteen years, I have increasingly integrated the insights
This paper sprung from my personal experience of an aspect of psychoanalytic practice that is increasingly being recognized and afforded serious consideration: namely: that patients’ socio-political milieus accompany them into the consulting room. The majority of my patients occupy a cultural space similar to my