1. Psychoanalyzing the Apocalypse: A Virtual Roundtable Discussion.
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Bornstein, Melvin, Chalker, Cynthia, Cortina, Mauricio, Goldin, Daniel, Hagman, George, Nebbiosi, Gianni, Orange, Donna, Rustin, Judith, Samuels, Andrew, and Weisel-Barth, Joye
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DESPAIR ,SOCIAL order ,SOCIAL scientists ,COMPLICATED grief ,IDENTITY (Psychology) ,POLITICAL science ,HUMAN behavior - Abstract
"As I conducted this analysis, the scholarly posts by Mauricio, George, and Andrew, the prose and poetry by Cynthia and Judith, the quote of Fromm, embellished my awareness of the human condition in discussing apocalypse and enriched my understanding of the patient and myself. Therapists are with their patients in the present and communicating, which is a continual reminder that therapists and patients are in the here and now focusing on the patient's difficulties with their inner and outer lives. By your calculus, since I am Black, and see Black patients, I need to seek out White patients because they are different from me. Gianni wrote this in his post which is the bases of my advocacy: I One thing that I have learned in this period from my patients, family, friends and i I colleagues is that the new reality we will all contribute to create, the new co-construction of our i I new reality, is based on one crucial word, one idea, one feeling: B Care. b i Cynthia Apocalypse: Week 4 Daniel - Week 4 - Summary - May 15 "Apocalypse" - the word George sees our obsession with apocalypse in pop narratives as representing "a profound preoccupation with fears of massive loss of selfobject ties and relational connections", rather than with real world-ending events. [Extracted from the article]
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- 2021
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