Member Activities and Publications

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ACTIVITIES

Title: Poetry and Psychoanalysis: Theory and Technique

Presenter: Salman Akhtar, MD

Date & Time: Friday, May 30, 2025, 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM

Location: Cleveland Psychoanalytic Center

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Course Title: Exploring the New Foundations for Psychotherapy: Grasping the Provocations of Jean Laplanche (12 Hours of Continuing Education Credit for Mental Health Professionals)

Presenter: Lawrence Hedges, PhD, PsyD, ABPP

Date & Time: October 2025 - May 2026, Third Fridays, 9:30AM-11:00AM (Beijing Time)

Location: Zoom

Email Lawrence Hedges (lhedges@me.com) for more information

MULTIMEDIA CONTENT

Podcast Title: The New Books Network

Host: Karyne Messina, EdD

Aired: 2023

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PUBLICATIONS

2025

Title: Newsletter of the American Group Psychotherapy Association

Author: Willard Ashley, Sr., DMin, REV, SCP, CGP

Published: 2025

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Title: Human Aggression and War: The Psychological Roots of Violence

Author: Kevin Volkan, PhD

Published: 2025

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Title: Improving Clinical Case Formulation in Developmental Psychopathology: A Case Commentary on PDM-2 in a Multimethod Assessment Framework

Author: Robert Gordon, PhD

Published: 2025

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2024

Title: The Blindness of the Seeing Eye: Scenes from the Climate Crisis

Author: Judith Hughes, PhD

Published: 2024

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Title: An Empirical Study of Gauging Political Leadership: Comparing Trump, Putin and Zelenskyy

Author: Robert Gordon, PhD

Published: 2024

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Title: Analytic Anonymity Revisited: Cleaning out the Freudian Closet

Author: Neal Spira, MD

Published: 2024

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Title: Introduction to Psychotherapy and the Treatment Relationship from an Integrative Perspective

Author: Alan Chen, MD

Published: 2024

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Title: Psychoanalysis and Narrative: Literature, Film and Autobiography

Author: Jorgelina Corbatta, PhD

Published: 2024

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Title: Why War Revisited: Reflections on Psychoanalysis and Human Aggression

Author: Kevin Volkan, PhD

Published: 2024

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Title: The Return to the Consulting Room: Psychoanalytic Theories Compared

Author: Judith Hughes, PhD

Published: 2024

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Title: Listening in with Michael Eigen

Author: Isolde Keilhofer, LP

Published: 2024

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Title: Psychoanalytic Study of Political Leadership in the United States and Russia

Author: Karyne Messina, EdD

Published: 2024

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Title: Amazing Things I've Learned as a Scientist, Therapist, and Forensic Psychologist

Author: Robert Gordon, PhD

Published: 2024

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Title: Intimacy in Alienation: A Psychoanalytic Study of Hindu-Muslim Relationships

Author: Ashis Roy, PhD

Published: 2024

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Title: Harry's Peace: The War for a Mind

Author: James Bove, MD

Published: 2024

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Title: The Reversal of Helplessness with Displacement

Author: Lance Dodes, MD

Published: 2024

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Title: Barbie and the Great American Identity Crisis: The unfortunate reality of a nation plagued by racism, patriarchy, and stark hypocrisy

Author: Karyne Messina, EdD

Published: 2024

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Title: An Editorial, "The Psychoanalytic Review", Vol. 111(1), Guilford Press

Author: Aleksandra Wagner, LP

Published: March 2024

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Title: Illness, Aging, Dying, and the Psychoanalytic Process: Bibliography

Author: Suzan Sherman, MFA, LP

Published: 2024

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Title: Measuring the Mental Functioning of Putin, Trump, and Zelensky (Published in: A Psychoanalytic Study of Political Leadership in the United States and Russia Searching for Truth)

Author: Robert Gordon, PhD

Published: 2024

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Title: The Spirit of the Drive in Neuropsychoanalysis

Author: Mark Kinet, MD

Published: 2024

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2023

Title: Psychotherapies in Positive Psychiatry

Author: César Alfonso, MD

Published: 2023

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Title: The Impact of Patient Suicide on Clinicians

Author: César Alfonso, MD

Published: 2023

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Title: Clinical Implications of Countertransference in the Treatment of Addictions

Author: César Alfonso, MD

Published: 2023

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Title: It's Not Me, It's You!: How Narcissists Get What They Want and How to Stop Them

Author: Karyne E. Messina, EdD

Published: 2023

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Title: Sensazione e proto-storia nel pensiero di Cristoph Tuercke

Chapter Title: Tuercke and the Interpretation of Facts

Author: Klaus Wiedermann, PhD

Published: 2023

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Title: Asking for things and listening to criticism: Two fundamental challenges in intimate relationships and targets for couple therapy

Author: Arthur Nielsen, MD

Published: 2023

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Title: Revisiting Richard Hofstadter's "The Paranoid Style in American Politics"

Author: Judith Hughes, PhD

Published: 2023

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Title: Psychoanalytic Organizations: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

Editor: Douglas Kirsner

Published: 2023

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Title: The Secret Symmetry of Maimonides and Freud

Author: Nathan Moses Szajnber, MD

Published: 2023

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Title: Religion and Death One Century Later

Author: Dorothea Leicher, LCSW

Published: The Journal of Psychohistory (2023)

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Title: Beyond the Binary: Essays on Gender

Author: Shari Thurer, ScD

Published: 2023

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Title: Harry's Peace: The War for a Mind

Author: James Bove, MD

Published: 2023

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Title: Psychic Mimesis From Bible and Homer to Now

Author: Nathan Moses Szajnber, MD

Published: 2023

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Title: La rivoluzione di Martha Harris: Il pensiero psicoanalitico e le sue applicazioni nelle istituzioni

Author: Maria Paola Martelli, MA

Published: 2023

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Title: How the Mind Works: Cases and Concepts in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy

Author: Kevin Volkan, PhD

Published: 2023

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Title: The Jinn: Islam, Exorcism, and Psychology

Author: Kevin Volkan, PhD

Published: 2023

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2022

Title: Schizophrenia: Science, Psychoanalysis, and Culture

Author: Kevin Volkan, PhD

Published: 2022

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Title: "Domain-specific knowledge”: An additional “upgrade” to therapy integration

Author: Arthur Nielsen, MD

Published: 2022

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Title: J. D. Salinger and the Moral Wounds of War

Author: Thomas Allen, MD

Published: 2022

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Title: Quantum Physics and Psyche: A Creative Perspective

Author: Ken Silvestro, PhD

Published: 2022

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Title: Resurgence of Global Populism: A Psychoanalytic Study of Projective Identification, Blame-Shifting and the Corruption of Democracy

Author: Karyne E. Messina, EdD

Published: 2022

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Title: The Wisdom of Dreams: Science, Synchronicity and the Language of the Soul

Author: Greg Mahr, MD and Chris Drake, PhD

Published: 2022

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Title: Beyond the Binary: Essays on Gender

Author: Shari Thurer, ScD

Published: 2022

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Title: From Trainees to Trainers

Author: Ning Li, MA, Maranda Sze, PhD and Wei Lan, MA

Published: Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy in China (2022)

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Title: Integrative Couple Therapy in Action: A Practical Guide for Handling Common Relationship Problems and Crises

Author: Arthur Nielsen

Published: 2022

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Title: The Perversion of Holocaust Memory: Writing and Rewriting the Past after 1989

Author: Judith Hughes, PhD

Published: 2022

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Title: The Journey of Individuation: Experiences of Chinese Patients Treated by Western Psychoanalysts

Author: Ren Zhengjia MD, MPH, PhD and Zhongyao Xie, PhD

Published: Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association (2022)

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2021

Title: The Stream of Life: From Frozen Babies to the Birth of Psychic Life

Author: Maria Paola Martelli, MD, PhD

Published: Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy in China (2021)

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Title: Aftermath: Healing from the Trump Presidency

Author: Karyne Messina, EdD

Published: 2021

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Title: Future Research from China on Distance Psychoanalytic Training and Treatment

Author: Ren Zhengjia MD, MPH, PhD

Published: Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy in China, A Journal in English and Chinese (2021)

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Title: An International Survey of the Concept of Effective Psychodynamic Treatment During the Pandemic

Author: Robert Gordon, PhD, Zhenyu Shi, MD, PhD, David Scharff, MD, Ralph Fishkin, DO, and R Dennis Shelby, MSW, PhD

Published: Psychodynamic Psychiatry (2021)

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Title: International Survey of Negative and Positive Reactions to Psychoanalytic Distance Treatment at the Beginning of the Pandemic

Author: Robert Gordon, PhD, Zhenyu Shi, MD, PhD, David Scharff, MD, Ralph Fishkin, DO and R Dennis Shelby, MSW, PhD

Published: International Journal of Psychology and Psychoanalysis (2021)

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2020

Title: Archetypal Nonviolence: Jung, King, and Culture Through the Eyes of Selma

Author: Renée Moreau Cunningham, MFT

Published: 2020

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Title: Psicoanalisi Online

Author: Giuseppe Craparo, PsyD

Published: 2020

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Title: Selma Fraiberg: A Life Journey in Psychoanalytic Social Work

Author: Joel Kanter, LCSW

Published: Psychoanalytic Social Work (2020)

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Title: Care-seeking Behavior and Disclosure on Self-reported Mental Health Among Young Women in Urban Shanghai, China

Author: Simone Schwank, PhD

Published: Health Psychology Open (2020)

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Title: CAPA in China

Author: Maranda Yee Tak Sze, PhD and Wendy Cuiqin Wen, MSc