Our fourth report comes from Beijing China. The First "Symposium of Intersubjective System Theory and Self Psychology" was held in Beijing Nowadays, with the increasing demand for psychological counseling in China and psychoanalytic counseling becoming more and more popular, the number of psychological counselors is increasing. After more
This new column invites dialogue about the role of the sociopolitical in the therapy process. It remains controversial whether or not the sociopolitical dimension constitutes a continuous presence in our work with our patients. This column hopes to provide an opportunity to
Miami is a culturally dynamic city, and my institute is looking for ways to build bridges with analytic communities in Latin America. A recent clinical presentation at my small but growing institute, a conservative organization for many years, by a senior Latin American analyst
Reactions to the 2017 IAPSP Conference in Chicago Andrea Harms & Martin Gossmann Dear friends and colleagues, We, Andrea Harms and me, Martin Gossmann, are writing to you as the chair and co-chair of the planning committee for the 2018 Annual Meeting in Vienna. Together with Shelley
This column attempts to explore the lives and work of IAPSP members from different parts of the world. In this fifth interview, I am pleased to dialogue with Renato Barauna from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Living and working in South America, we can wonder how
When I was contemplating a clinical career after a long period in and around academia, I often worried about the "salvage value" of my former life. As it has turned out, the study of history is pretty good training for psychotherapy and psychoanalysis.
Early last summer, my son called to tell me to drop everything and go online. Tickets for the Chicago run of "Hamilton" beginning in November were going on sale in just a few minutes, and, if I wasn't logged into the Ticketmaster site promptly,
Reactions to the 2016 IAPSP Conference in Boston Heather Ferguson, New York City The musicality of words and actions, along with the analyst's expressive freedom, were subtle potent themes, for me, during the 39th IAPSP conference in Boston--from Mal Slavin's spontaneous arm chair drumming as a way
To make sense of the current presidential campaign we must understand the fundamentally different psychological relationship between each candidate and their supporters. We believe that the key issue is the nature of the candidate's leadership. The psychoanalyst Heinz Kohut identified two common types of
Like many of us, I feel chronically behind in my reading not just with my New Yorkers, which I mercifully don't see in stacks any longer thanks to my IPad e-subscriptions, but even with the New York Times. As someone who entered the clinical