Sandra Buechler, Ph.D., a valued and popular speaker at a number of WMAAPP programs, has a new book out:   It is titled Psychoanalytic Approaches to Problems in Living: Addressing Life’s Challenges in Clinical Practice and published by Routledge.

She describes the book:
People often seek treatment for help dealing with one or more of life’s fundamental dilemmas. Should I give in to aging or fight it? Let mourning take its course, or push myself to “move on” to a new relationship? This book applies literature, clinical experience, and analytic theory to the task of addressing these challenges as they make appearances in sessions. The topics include the capacity to be alone, bearing life’s uncertainties and unavoidable suffering, forgiving others, and, given its inherent pain, forgiving life itself.

Lew was a giant figure in relational psychoanalysis. He was a long-serving Director of NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, the founding director of the International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy (IARPP), and a past president of the American Psychological Association’s Division of Psychoanalysis (Division 39). He edited the Relational Perspectives Book Series and was a co-founder and co-chair of the Sandor Ferenczi Center at the New School. With his dear friend and close colleague, Stephen Mitchell, he was one of the founders of Psychoanalytic Dialogues: The International Journal of Relational Perspectives. His edited volume with Mitchell, Relational Psychoanalysis: The Emergence of a Tradition (1999) and his book A Meeting of the Minds: Mutuality in Psychoanalysis (1996), are essential readings in the relational canon. Lew was recently a named a Fellow of the College of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis (2016-2020) and a Professor in the School of Psychology Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) in Herzliya, Israel.

Lew’s intellectual curiosity knew no bounds. Though he was an admitted relational partisan, he was also deeply Freudian. His writing explored a wide diversity of interests, including the patient’s experience of the analyst’s subjectivity, the legacy of Sandor Ferenczi, mutual regulation and mutual recognition, gender, ethics in psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic writing, controversies in psychoanalytic education and institutions, religion and spirituality, the development of psychoanalysis in America, the historically defined distinction between psychotherapy and psychoanalysis, and critiques of relational theory. His most recent work, Dramatic Dialogue: Contemporary Clinical Practice (2017), was co-written with his partner Galit Atlas, and explored the prospective function and therapeutic action of enactment.

A highly sought after and internationally-renowned teacher, clinician, organizational consultant, and speaker, Lew was also well known for his lively and thought-provoking reading groups on psychoanalytic theory in New York and internationally.

Lew is survived by his partner Galit Atlas, his 3 children with his former wife, Jane Ades, and Galit’s 3 children.

Lyn Yonack has published a blog entry with the title Sexual Assault Is About Power. 

Here is an excerpt,

Despite its name, sexual abuse is more about power than it is about sex. Although the touch may be sexual, the words seductive or intimidating, and the violation physical, when someone rapes, assaults, or harasses, the motivation stems from the perpetrator’s need for dominance and control.

To read the full text go to: https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/psychoanalysis-unplugged/201711/sexual-assault-is-about-power

Paul Lippmann has published a blog entry with the title Dreams help us connect our inner world.

Here is an excerpt,

November 4th is the 118th anniversary of the publication Sigmund Freud’s The Interpretation of Dreams, his masterpiece which brought the significance of dreams into our daily lives. More than a century later, does Freud’s work remain relevant? What is the value of dream interpretation in contemporary life?

To read the full text go to: https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/psychoanalysis-unplugged/201711/dreams-help-us-connect-our-inner-world