Contemporary Psychoanalytic Musings

On Saturday, September 13, 2008 the Tampa Bay Psychoanalytic Society hosted their friend and colleague from Miami's Florida Psychoanalyt...

Last Friday morning on National Public Radio's Story Corps, a life was truly celebrated through listening. A mom interviewed her son who...

I was impressed yesterday to learn that Gov. Palin has a five month old son with Down's Syndrome. Many an expectant mom would have mad...

by Lycia ALexander-Guerra, MD A road, a journey, the myriad of metaphors for life or life experiences, and for an analyst, a metaphor for th...

The links to the articles in the blog posts about the David Brooks article, and empathy in young children, have now been added to the posts....

Has David Brooks, the usually-conservative New York Times columnist, become a relationalist or a contestualist? http://www.nytimes.com/2008/...

A new study by two University of Chicago students has demonstrated that children ages 7 t0 12 years are hard-wired for empathy. Their MRI st...

SPLITS IN PSYCHOANALYTIC COMMUNITIES (AND IN TAMPA ...

Rupture and Repair and the 2008 Presidential Campaign Kim Vaz , Ph.D., Chair of the Womens Studies Dept. at the University of South Florida...

Remembering Charles Brenner, M.D. It was with great sadness that I read of the death of Dr. Charles Brenner on Monday, May 19, 2008. Dr. Bre...