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A Year of Visiting Scholars
Rachel Peltz, Ph.D. and Deborah Melman, Ph.D. We are pleased to report that the implementation of Visiting Scholars program – one new dimension of the proposal for a revised curriculum – by all accounts, was a huge success. The program this past year included community presentations and candidate seminars with Sue Grand, Hazel Ipp, Patricia Gherovici and Robert Oelsner. Here are some of the community members’ responses to this years’ program. Suffice to say at ...
From Acting Past President: I Am PINC
Bob Carrere, Ph.D. I was born September, 1990. Conceived through the aspirations and ambitions of a stalwart few my gestation lasted two years before bearing fruit. Although homeless at my beginning I embraced my birthright with spirit and zeal towards becoming a center and community of many who share a common mission: to learn and to teach, to grow and be challenged, to foster an enriched contact with psychoanalysis. I am young still yet am ...
From the President: Change, Loss and the Next Generation
Barbara Cohen, Psy.D. (This article is a slightly edited and updated version of my comments at the Annual Dinner) Congratulations to our graduates, Peter Strauss and Drew Tillotson and to Jeanne Wolff Bernstein, who came from Vienna to be honored at PINC’s 2011 Annual Dinner celebration. Hemingway defines courage as “grace under fire.” Jeanne in so many ways – from her multi-cultural citizenship to her many roles at PINC from candidate and curriculum chair to ...
Don’t nobody know my troubles with God
(*paraphrase of song lyric by Moby) An Abbreviated presentation by Dianne Elise, Ph.D. based on presentation at Sitting on the Couch ECEC event, March 5, 2011 I want to speak about the subject of whether and how spiritual experience is brought into, included, invited into the clinical encounter. As clinicians, we hope our patients will be free to talk about any and every aspect of life that is important to them. It is hard to imagine how ...