Although the term psychoanalytic process is frequently used, there is no consensual definition of its meaning. Some authors use it to designate a recognizable set of experiences within psychoanalysis. Others, a majority, use it as a synonym for the entire psychoanalytic experience, describing in detail what analysts do to achieve their goals. A range of views may be found between these extremes...

The author suggests that contemporary enthusiasm for cognitive-behavioural therapy reflects our longing for swift, rational help for psychological suffering. Competition for funding threatens the psychoanalytic presence in the public sector. The psychoanalytic and cognitive-behavioural models are contrasted, and the relative richness of the psychoanalytic paradigm outlined. The author suggests ...

“three drops of blood” is among sadeq hedayat’s best-known stories and has captured both the general attention of many interested readers of literary fiction as well as the particular attention of numerous literary scholars and critics. the narrator-protagonist of the story,       who has been hospitalised at a mental hospital, describes the other patients and explains a traumatic event in his ...

Psychoanalysis as a living, growing science is illumined brightly by this examination of the biographies of its foremost exponents. Forty individuals are presented, ranging from early workers such as Abraham, Ferenczi, Jung and Adler to contemporary thinkers such as Alexander, Hartmann, Anna Freud and Erikson. Two additional chapters deal with special developments in the U.SA. and Eng-land. The...

Systematic research on psychoanalytic treatments has been limited by several factors, including a belief that clinical experience can demonstrate the effectiveness of psychoanalysis, rendering systematic research unnecessary, the view that psychoanalytic research would be difficult or impossible to accomplish, and a concern that research would distort the treatment being delivered. In recent ye...

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What happens when psychoanalytic knowledge leaves the clinic? What is to be gained from these interventions, and can psychoanalysis itself benefit from an application outside the context in which it originated? Those are the questions Stephen Frosh raises and attempts to answer in his nuanced and accessible new book. Writing from the relatively young discipline of psychosocial studies, he provi...

Richard D. Chessick: Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Northwestern University. Emeritus Training and Supervising Psychoanalyst, Center for Psychoanalytic Studies in Chicago. Psychoanalytic Fellow, American Academy of Psychoanalysis and Dynamic Psychiatry. Distinguished Life Fellow, American Psychiatric Association. Emeritus Senior Attending Psychiatrist, Evanston Hospit...

7:00 A.M. – 9:00 A.M. ........................................................................................... Breakfast at the ECCH 10:15 A.M. – 10:30 A.M. ................................................................................................. Dr. Sander Gilman Welcome and Introduction 10:30 A.M. – 11:00 A.M. ...........................................................................