Contemporary Psychoanalytic Musings

Dissociation: Dis-order of Subjectivity. Dis-aggregation; and Dis-connection De-personalization; De-realization; and De-contextualization Th...

Lew Aron visits Orlando-Tampa and shares with us his talk on "Rethinking Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis: What Does Feminism Have to D...

Recognizing and Treating Dissociative Adaptations to Trauma in Adults Richard A. Chefetz, M.D Saturday, October 25, 2008 9:00am - 4:30 pm Cr...

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...