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By Carter Thornton, LP, LCAT 2024 marks the 100th anniversary of the Surrealist Manifesto, a document that sparked an art movement deeply intertwined with psychoanalysis. Though the movement started in central Europe, largely in reaction to people’s inability to make...
By Wade Anderson, PhD I imagine that at least a few of you who are reading this know who Deion Sanders is. He goes by Coach Prime these days and has taken over the head-coaching position for football at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Sanders was previously known...
By Cara Maniaci, MA, LCSW I too had a Weird Barbie. When I was about 11 or 12, my best friend Sarah and I gathered our Barbies, some hairspray and glue, nail polish remover and marker. We mismatched and cut up the Barbies’ clothes. We removed some of their printed-on...
TRAINING PROGRAM MANUALCouples Therapy Training Program Manual PSYCHOTHERAPY SERVICE INFORMATION & FORMSPsychotherapy Service Manual (includes Fee Setting Guidelines) One time use:Screening ReportTermination Summary Ongoing use:Treatment Progress Report – 15...
By Erica Forest, LCSW Rodrigo Garcia penned a letter to his deceased father, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, in the New York Times on May 6th, 2020, explaining that we were in a pandemic; he wondered what his father would have thought of it. The titles of Garcia Marquez’s...
By Julie Willstatter, LCSW-R It was the time of year when endings become beginnings because the ball drops and the clock strikes midnight; demanding I face the reality of time passing. I’d nestled into the week between Chrismukkah and New Year’s Eve, when suddenly my...
By Sylvia Steinert, LCSW Thanks to Google’s wiles, the Italian phrase I came upon this morning (se non e vero, e ben trovato, in English, ‘even if not true, it is well invented’) led to the discovery of the gruesome demise of its author, Giordano Bruno, philosopher of...
By Sharon Medoff Picard, LCSW If you’re hoping for some insider secrets on how to get a paper published in a journal, I wish I had a few. But, this entry isn’t a primer about writing a paper. It’s about the process of submitting a paper. Like many, I’ve acquired a...
By Janet Rivkin Zuckerman, PhD It was one week ago today that I arrived by car to visit my alma mater, my partner by my side. It is the place where we met, but didn’t forge our deeper bond till we re-discovered each other a decade later. A place so dear to me, with...
By Coren Schwartz, LCSW Ok. I’ll go first. Leslie Phillips and I, as co-chairs for the Leadership Development Committee, created this blog. I believe it’s a great idea. It’s a place where the creative minds from our community can be heard, and our members can listen...