Psychoanalytic Events & News

Psychoanalysis urgently needs our help now. Two pieces of major health legislation, the national computerized record system and “mental health parity,” are in the regulation-writing stage, when government officials decide on the details for a bill’s implementation. As we all know, it’s in such details that the devil resides. Due to our proximity to the [...]

Relational Psychoanalysis has its foundations in Freud’s inner circle when Sandor Ferenczi and Otto Rank broke with Freud’s purely intrapsychic one-person model to consider the role of relationship and mutuality in treatment. The groundbreaking work of Melanie Klein, D.W. Winnicott, W.R.D. Fairbairn, Harry Stack Sullivan, Karen Horney, Eric Fromm, John Bowlby, Hans Loewald, Heinz Kohut [...]

Spring is the season for applying to training programs for the Fall. A new class is gathering to begin in Fall 2009 for the The New York Freudian Society’s program in Adult Psychoanalysis in Washington, DC.
The recently-revised curriculum is informed by post-Freudian developments and theoretical perspectives which include ego psychology, object relations, attachment theory, infant [...]