Congratulations to Newell Fischer!
As you will remember Newell was a Nominee to be a Representative from North America on the Board of the International Psychoanalytic Association. With our support he won that election in June. There are total of 7 representatives from each region of the Globe (North America, Europe, and South America - Asia and the Middle East are squeezed in one of the 3 regions)
In Mexico City last week Newell was then elected by the Board to be on the Executive Committee of the IPA - there are being 3 Global members plus the 3 Officers on the ExCom.
Congratulations!
Congratulations to Bruce Levin, MD for receiving one of this year's Edith Sabshin teaching awards given by the American Psychoanalytic Association. This award is presented to members of the American Psychoanalytic who have made significant contributions to our field through their commitment to teaching students who are not candidates. Bruce created our fellowship program in 1995 and as its director, has nurtured its development into the vibrant program it is today.
To read a February 17, 2011 article in the Montgomery Media about Dr. Levin's work and this award,
click here.
Congratulations to Salman Akhtar, MD on the release of his two new books:
IMMIGRATION AND ACCULTURATION : MOURNING ADAPTATION AND THE NEXT GENERATION
(Jason Aronson, Lanham, MD, 2011)
This book sheds light on the immigrant experience and addresses the areas of work, money, friendship, love, sex, marriage as well as the largely taboo topics of politics and religion. Deftly synthesizing psychoanalytic observations with those from anthropology, literature, history, economics, and other disciplines of humanities, the book deepens insight into the emotional lives of immigrants. Clinical strategies for working with immigrant and ethnically diverse patients and their offspring are also presented. To find a copy, click here.
MATTERS OF LIFE AND DEATH: PSYCHOANALYTIC REFLECTIONS
(Karnac Books, London, 2011)
The focus of this book is upon the intrapsychic vicissitudes of what it means to be truly alive and how death accompanies us at each step of life's journey. The socioclinical meditations contained in this book enhance appreciation of aspects of life that are inoptimally addressed in psychoanalytic literature and expand the view of death in ways that are personally and technically enriching. To find a copy, click here.
Congratulations to Ira Brenner, MD for winning the 2010 Gradiva Award from the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis for the category, "Best Clinical Book" for INJURED MEN: TRAUMA, HEALING, AND THE MASCULINE SELF (Jack Aronson Press, New York, 2009). To find a copy, click here.
Congratulations to Susan Levine, LCSW, BCD-P, on the 2009 publication of her book, LOVING
PSYCHOANALYSIS: TECHNIQUE AND THEORY IN THE THERAPEUTIC RELATIONSHIP (Jason Aronson, 2009).
This book was nominated for the 2010 Gradiva Award.
Loving Psychoanalysis is a playful and personal look at the therapeutic relationship from the analyst's perspective. The author considers a variety of technical and theoretical themes from the question of self disclosure and how the analyst handles her love of and creative strivings in clinical work, to the intertwining of courage and masochism and how chaos theory can help us understand the mind and psychoanalysis.
To find a copy, click here.
Congratulations to Monisha Akhtar, PhD on the publication of her book, PLAY AND PLAYFULNESS: DEVELOPMENTAL, CULTURAL, AND CLINICAL ASPECTS (Jason Aronson, 2011). "Play and Playfulness: Developmental, Cultural, and Clinical Aspects offers exciting and highly informative essays showing how play sustains the self, allows for ego-replenishing regressions, and adds to the joy of the vital and lived experience" (from book jacket).
To find a copy, click here.
Congratulations to Charles V. Giannasio, MD on being recognized as Practitioner of the Year by the Philadelphia Psychiatric Society and his recent publication on CNBC.com, "Marijuana Is Addictive, Destructive and Dangerous."
We take great pleasure in congratulating Dr. Anita Schmukler, who has recently been elected President of The Association for Child Psychoanalysis, an international organization that promotes clinical studies and research in the treatment of children and adolescents. She is the first Philadelphia psychoanalyst to be elected to this distinguished position.
Philly Magazine reported on the region's best physicians, and two of our members were rated within the top ten of 2010! Congratulations to Salman Akhtar, MD and Karl Doghramji, MD.
Member publications
"I Used to Be a Doctor"
Lawrence D. Blum, MD
"One Course, One Text: Freud's Single Shot at Capturing College Students"
Bev Cutler, PhD
"(Word) Playing and Reality: The Psychoanalytic Glossary From Sterba to Akhtar"
Susan S. Levine, LCSW, BCD-P, FOS