Contemporary Psychoanalytic Musings

Having recently attended a conference where the speaker read a paper which leaned heavily toward inferring, from the psychoanalytic situatio...

The Tampa Bay Institute for Psychoanalytic Studies, Inc boasts two Study Groups, each every other week, one on Relational Psychology, altern...

Soon after Labor Day each year, The Tampa Bay Institute for Psychoanalytic Studies, Inc (T-BIPS) recommences its two (Self and Relational) S...

Donna Orange, in her visit on April 9, 2011 to the Tampa Bay Psychoanalytic Society, spent most of the day discussing her take on the philos...

How we organize what we hear and observe is influenced by our own subjectivity, our experiences, and our theories. Because no theory holds t...

I have long struggled with attempts to integrate theories from Self Psychology with those of the varying ideas about Intersubjectivity. Self...

It is now well articulated that our own subjectivity greatly influences, both explicitly and implicitly, the work co-created by us and our p...

Having had the good fortune to hear Malcom O. Slavin, PhD speak on Saturday, February, 12, 2011 to the Tampa Bay Psychoanalytic Society, Inc...

Psychoanalytic training in the USA requires experience as an analysand, in addition to the clinical training as an analyst being supervised...

As I come off a three week break from facilitating classes at the Tampa Bay Institute for Psychoanalytic Studies, Inc., I think again about ...

“Psychoanalysis is emotional medicine for emotional ills.” (Orange, 1995). “Ideas, insights, interpretations, and other cognitive approaches...

King, the Moses of black Americans, though never to see it himself, was to deliver his people to the Promised Land, a promise of freedom aff...

I would like to assure Robert Stolorow that there was no "cruelty and viciousness" and no attacks on Stolorow's personhood in ...

Philip Ringstrom delighted the intimate group -- particularly students in attendance from the Tampa Bay Institute of Psychoanalytic Studies,...

Convergences In Psychoanalytic Theories Noting the far reaching impact of constant and immediate mutual influence (as documented in infant r...

Daunted by the Academy’s nomination this year of ten films for the honor of Best Picture , some that I might still choose to never see, I w...

In addition to Orange’s (1995) initial view of empathy as emotional availability, Lachmann’s discourse on empathy (February 13th, Tampa) als...

In her post of February 15th, Lycia Alexander-Guerra gives us a cogent summary of Frank Lachmann’s formulations of empathy at the Society’s ...

The Self Psychology Study Group of the Tampa Bay Institute for Psychoanalytic Studies, Inc. had its usual 'waging of dialogue' when ...

In the afternoon of Saturday, January 9, 2010, Robert Stolorow, PhD spoke to the Tampa Bay Psychoanalytic Society, Inc on “Contextual and E...