As I prepare to leave for my fourth trip to India (teaching intensive psychotherapy in Ahmedabad and Hyderabad next week) a couple of fascinating items diverted my attention. The first is a small essay by the Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker, which I came across in an article in the December 31, 2016 issue of the Wall Street […]

Slavery’s Shadow: Racism in the American Psyche,  Part II   A screening of two 2016 documentary films, 13th and I Am Not Your Negro, offers both formal and facilitated audience discussion of racism in the American psyche today.  Saturday morning April 8, 2017, 9-1:30 at New Center for Psyhcoanalysis (Los Angeles). 13th, directed by  Ava DuVernay (Selma, Queen Sugar),  […]

I will be out of the office much more than usual this summer to teach intensive psychotherapy to other clinicians.  In early June, I joined Jon Frederickson MSW in Syria Virginia for the Washington School of Psychiatry ISTDP Summer School.  July 7-23, I have been invited to Melbourne to consult with psychotherapists doing advanced study […]

It is not schadenfreude (taking pleasure in another’s misery) but I received an unexpected ego boost buried in shockingly bad news in a new paper + editorial on Suicide and Antidepressant Use published in the  British Medical Journal, Jan. 28, 2016 (available http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj.i65). Danish researchers, Tarang Sharma and colleagues, uncovered confirmation that the rate of suicidality and aggression doubles […]

announcement: Captain Whidbey Inn will again be the site of the 2016 Summer School, August 21-26. I’ve organized over 50 meetings and events, a particular way of learning I enjoy, and the ISTDP Summer School on Whidbey Island, Puget Sound, this year has to rank as my favorite.  We had 21 students (and four teachers) […]