Mr. Rosenberg was a participant in the Aspen Music Festival in 1972 and the Marlboro Music Festival in 1973. He has played under such conductors as Pablo Casals, Pierre Boulez, Sir Georg Solti, Robert Shaw, John Nelson, Herbert Blomstedt, Gunther Schuller, Otto Werner-Mueller, William Steinberg and Leon Barzin.

Among the publications in which his writing has appeared are Symphony Magazine, Opera News, Opera (London), Musical America, Fanfare and Gramophone. He is the author of “The Cleveland Orchestra: Second to None” (Gray & Co. Publishers, 2000).

He has been a visiting faculty member at Oberlin College and recently taught a course in the Senior Scholars program at Case Western Reserve University.

Mr. Rosenberg is serving as president of the Music Critics Association of North America for a fourth term.

The Friends of the Cleveland Psychoanalytic Center, 60 strong, form a direct connection between the community at large and the Center. The Friends support the Center financially and through their enthusiastic participation in programs planned for them by the Friends’ Advisory Committee. They represent a wide variety of backgrounds, ages and interests. However, they are linked by their curiosity about psychoanalysis, particularly as it has become interwoven with everyday life.

The Friends also sponsor monthly Analytic Flicks, where a faithful group of participants has been meeting for many years on the first Sunday of the month. The film, selected by the CPC member who leads the discussion, is always interesting. While the story told in the film is important, thoughts about the cinematography, music and the original book if adapted for the film, all converge on center stage.  Last month the group discussed “Shame,” and films discussed in 2011 included “Biutiful,” “The King’s Speech,” and “Moneyball.”

Join the Friends online or print and mail the application with your payment. Questions may be directed to Deborah Morse, dmorsecpc@sbcglobal.net.

Monday, February 27, 2012

5:30 to 8:15 p.m.

An evening with internationally acclaimed forensic psychiatrist

Phillip J. Resnick, M.D.

Phillip J. Resnick, an informative and engaging speaker, is an internationally known forensic psychiatrist.  He is a past president of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law, and has provided consultation in many high profile cases including:  Jeffrey Dahmer, Susan Smith, Timothy McVey, and Theodore Kaczynski, the Unabomber.

Passion for Change is a not-for-profit organization which serves as a catalyst in breaking the stigma of mental illness by shedding light, challenging misperception and driving change through research, advocacy and education.

 Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association Education Center

Second Level – Galleria at Erieview

1301 East Ninth St.

Cleveland, OH  44114

Regular Tickets: $35      CLE Tickets: $55

Hors d’oeuvres and cash bar are included in both ticket prices.

Click below to register!

http://passionforchange.givezooks.com/events/the-unabomber

Faculty member Judith Pitlick received the Edith Sabshin Teaching Award, at the American Psychoanalytic Association’s Annual Meeting in New York last Week.  This award recognizes members of the APsaA who have made outstanding contributions as educators of students who are not candidates in psychoanalytic institutes.

Judith L. Pitlick, MA, LPCC is a child, adolescent, and adult psychoanalyst, psychotherapist, and counselor in private practice. She is on the faculties of the Cleveland Psychoanalytic Center, The Hanna Perkins Center, and is a Clinical Instructor, Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University and Department of Psychiatry, NEOMED.

Congratulations also to advanced candidate Catherine Sullivan, LISW who was approved for the first part of certification.

 Sustaining Psychoanalysis: International Symposium, Master Class of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy. Seoul: Korean Association of Psychoanalysis, 2011.  BF173.K6 S8 2011

This symposium catalog, acquired for the CPC library by Dr. Richard Lightbody, contains the proceedings of a conference held in Seoul Korea on September 23^-25, 2011.  The conference commemorated the 31^st anniversary of the Korean Association of Psychoanalysis, which came into existence in 1980 as the six-member Seoul Psychoanalytic Study Group. The title, Sustaining Psychoanalysis, refers to Freud’s remarks at the establishment of the IPA that psychoanalysis cannot be advanced without first being sustained.  From this symposium catalog it is possible to trace the history of the establishment of psychoanalysis in Korea from a six-member group to a national organization, and finally to the beginning of psychoanalyst training in Korea in collaboration with the IPA Korea Sponsoring Committee chaired by Dr. Lightbody.  CPC member Arthur Rosenbaum was one of the invited scholars who helped develop the Korean Psychoanalytic Study Group, and Jaehak Yu, chair of the Education Committee in Seoul is a graduate of the Cleveland Psychoanalytic Center. Dr Yu’s appointment as an IPA Training Analyst is pending approval by the IPA Board in January.

Contributions by David Sachs, Robert Michels, Nadine Levinson, Calvin Colaruso, Jaehak Yu , Do-Un Jeong, Georg Bruns, Tak Yoo Hong, Mee-Kyung Kim, and Maria Teresa Hooke, are abstracts of the papers delivered at the conference.  Some of the topics are:

• Methods of evaluation of the effectiveness of psychotherapy
• The inner attitude of the analyst and projective identification
• The future of psychoanalytic psychotherapy
• Trends in psychoanalysis in Europe
• Freuds’s analytical theories
• Current concepts of borderline psychopathology

The book is visually much more interesting than the usual symposium catalog with original illustrations, a large font, and generous white space, and the CPC copy is signed by Dr. Do-Un Jeong, President of the Korean Study Group.

Baranger, Madeleine and Willie Baranger.  The Work of Confluence: Listening and Interpreting in the Psychoanalytic Field.  London: Karnac, 2009. RC506.B37 2009.

This summary is excerpted from Montana Katz’s review in Psychoanalytic Quarterly, Vol. 79, Pg. 1144.

“The Work of Confluence consists of a collection of ten previously published essays as well as a foreword by Claudio Laks Eizirik and final comments by the editor, Leticia Glocer.

The innovative and truly path-breaking work of Madeleine and Willy Baranger is scantily known and poorly understood amongst North American psychoanalysts, while in Europe and South America their unique psychoanalytic perspective is highly valued. Over half a century ago, they described a new psychoanalytic model involving a particular kind of space they called the analytic field. In The Work of Confluence: Listening and Interpreting in the Psychoanalytic Field, important clinical and theoretical applications of this model are explored.

This is an unusual, challenging, and deeply rewarding book. The writing itself is highly original, elegant, clear, and thoroughly engrossing. This collection is essential reading for anyone interested in the fundamental tenets of psychoanalysis and their clinical application.”

Laufer, Moses. Adolescent Breakdown and Beyond.  Madison, CT: International Universities Press, 1997. RJ503.A3143 1997.

This book was reviewed by Peter Blos in Psychoanalytic Quarterly, Vol. 69, Pg. 183.

“Despite the many contributors, the monograph achieves a consistently readable style: there is little psychoanalytic jargon, the material is experiential and descriptive, and considerable respect is given to both therapists and non-therapists who collaborate and struggle to help these youngsters. The book begins with a clear description by M. Laufer of their observations and ideas about the challenges of adolescent development and the consequences when the tasks are

aborted or avoided. It is really, he suggests, a ‘breakdown of a process of development,’ which has its antecedents in earlier neglected developmental failures; in his view it is a last opportunity for assistance before lifelong, significant distortions of character occur.”

McWilliams, Nancy.  Psychoanalytic Diagnosis, 2^nd ed.: Understanding Personality Structure in the Clinical Process.  Guilford Publishers, 2010.  Rc489.T95 M38 2011

This second edition incorporates current advances in neuroscience and infant research, and reflects the effect of the ‘relational turn’ in contemporary psychoanalysis. It is a dependable resource for beginning therapists, a valuable teaching tool, and a comprehensive reference for seasoned clinicians.

Schafer, Roy.  Tragic Knots in Psychoanalysis: New Papers on Psychoanalysis. London: Karnac, 2009. BF173.S32785 2009

A person must choose a course of action knowing there are undesirable consequences as well as benefits, and all the consequences cannot be known.  The action taken may be physical behavior, speaking out, or remaining silent.  Even inaction is a consequential choice.  Roy Schafer regards this type of situation as tragically knotted.

Thompson, M. Guy.  The Ethic of Honesty: the Fundamental Rule of Psychoanalysis. Rodopi, 2003 BF175.T6 2004

The “Ethic of Honesty” discusses eight fundamental principles (or rules) of analytic technique. These eight principles, in chapter sequence, are as follows: the fundamental rule, free association, neutrality, abstinence, transference, countertransference, therapeutic ambition, and working through.  Proper understanding and application of these principles lead, in the author’s view, to the “good psychoanalytic experience.”  The eight principles all derive from Freud’s “Papers on Technique,” especially the “Recommendation” papers.

Other books by her are Mind and the Body Politic: a Collection of Essays, The Anatomy of Prejudices, and Cherishment: A Psychology of the Heart. A new book, Childism, is due to be published by Yale University Press.

This remembrance was posted on Dominique Browning’s Slow Love Life website on December 3, 2011.

The New York Times obituary appeared on December 5, 2011.

While you’re at it, you might also enjoy the spoof on drug ads also highlighted on the International website.

According to Steven Litt, Plain Dealer Art Critic, vonRydingsvard’s works are “eerily primitive yet utterly contemporary.”  In his review of the exhibit, Litt further states, “….the sculptures appeal to inchoate memories of nature or emotional states and may trigger a wide variety of associations among different viewers.”

On February 5, 2012 Cleveland Psychoanalytic Center member Vera Camden, Ph.D will discuss von 
Rydingsvard’s practice and artwork through the lenses of psychology, gender
studies, and literary theory.

This exhibit will be the last in the museum’s Cleveland Playhouse location. In October 2012 MOCA will move to its new permanent home in University Circle’s Uptown Neighborhood. The museum building, under construction at the corner of Euclid Avenue and Mayfield Road, was designed by Farshid Moussavi of Foreign Office Architects in London, England.  This picture is from the MOCA website.

Kerry Kelly Novick and Jack Novick, Ph.D. are internationally recognized child and adolescent psychoanalysts and founders of Allen Creek Preschool.  In their Emotional Muscle: Strong Parents, Strong Children (Xlibris, 2010), the authors describe the emotional strengths and abilities that parents need in order to foster emotional growth in their birth-to-six-years children.  Using examples from ordinary parent-child situations, they illustrate how the capacities to manage feelings, relate well to others, and cope with reality gradually emerge in young children, given parents who are sensitive to their developmental tasks.  By flexing metaphorical emotional muscles, both parents and children build character.   Free of off-putting jargon, Emotional Muscle is a modern parenting guide in the tradition of ego psychology.

 In another, highly readable volume for parents, Claudia M. Gold, M.D., applies research findings from Mentalization theory to depict the importance of trying to see the world from the child’s point of view.  The title of her book, Keeping Your Child in Mind: Overcoming Defiance, Tantrums, and Other Everyday Behavior Problems by Seeing the World Through Your Child’s Eyes  (Da Capo, 2011), is fully descriptive of its content.  Its central theme, which Gold elaborates and illustrates, is that being understood is crucial for the child to develop his mind, a sense of himself, and a secure attachment that lays a foundation for ongoing mental health.  The emphasis is placed on how to be with, rather than what to do with, one’s child from birth through the teen years.

Bestselling author Daniel J. Siegel, M.D., with co-author, Tina Payne Bryson, Ph.D., has written a fresh new parenting guide that uses neuroscience research to explain the child’s developing mind and how best to support it.  The Whole-Brain Child: Twelve Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture Your Child’s Developing Mind (Delacorte Press, 2011) examines how parents can work with the developing brain of the child from birth to twelve to help her thrive, not merely intellectually but emotionally; to develop resilience; and to form deep connections with others.   With this volume, the reader is introduced to the brain science that forms the basis for clearly explained strategies, such as “Name It to Tame It,” “Engage, Don’t Enrage,” and “Use It or Lose It: Exercising the Upstairs Brain.”  Science-based though it is, The Whole Brain Child, is eminently accessible to the non-scientist.  As an example, graphic illustrations (like comic strips) depict typical parent-child interactions and their alternatives.

These three titles offer different conceptual frameworks for parents and other caregivers to understand how children think, feel, and experience the world and to respond appropriately to their developmental needs.  Emotional Muscle explores the budding personality of under-six children and gives parents guidance to foster mastery of their developmental tasks.  The Novicks’ Emotional Muscle approach is solid, practical and familiar to me from my early training and practice as a child therapist.   Gold, in Keeping Your Child in Mind, parlays research on childhood experiences of being understood into guidance for parents.   I welcome this brief, parent-friendly title in part because of my interest in the research that has provided such useful new insights into the relationship between parents’ ability to mentalize their children’s minds and healthy emotional development in the child.

Seigel and Bryson’s The Whole-Brain Child bridges neuroscience and parenting in an engaging volume that should command the interest of therapists and teachers, as well as parents and other caregivers.  Here, the author of Parenting from the Inside Out (Tarcher/Penguin, 2004) and other critically acclaimed works brings the sensibilities of ego psychology, mentalization theory, and developmental neurology together in a new title that elucidates just how helpful to children their parents can be.   Any or all of these recent titles may be well worth a look.

Janet Sharp is a psychoanalyst and psychotherapist in Cleveland Heights, Ohio.

Erna Furman was an outstanding child psychoanalyst who was a pivotal member of Hanna Perkins Child Development Center in Cleveland, Ohio.  Erna Furman treated children and their parents, taught students and supervised psychoanalysts in training for fifty years.  She published eight books and over 200 articles on parental bereavement, normal and pathological child development, parenting, and early personality growth.  Recently, Kay McKenzie, a member of the Cleveland Psychoanalytic Center (CPC) and faculty member at Hanna Perkins Center (HPC), discovered a new book about Erna Furman and donated copies of the book to the CPC Library and the HPC Library.

Ways of Growing Up: Erna Furman, 1926-2002, Texts & Interviews, by Elena Makarova.  Veenman Publishers, 2007.

This book is a collection of interviews and memorabilia having to do with Erna Furman’s young life in Vienna, then in an orphanage in Prague, and finally, Terezin (Theresienstadt concentration camp).  The author, Elena Makarova, a Russian art teacher who now lives in Israel, was the curator of an exhibit on the life and work of Friedl Dicker Brandeis, an art teacher from Vienna who worked with children in Terezin.  Brandeis died at Auschwitz. Through Edith Kramer, art therapist and author, Makarova learned that Brandeis’ student, Erna Furman, was living in Cleveland, Ohio.  Makarova was excited to meet Erna Furman and discuss Brandeis’ method of using art to work through childhood trauma.  Makarova thought that Erna Furman’s memories and artifacts would add significantly to the Brandeis exhibit.

Erna Furman rarely spoke about her experiences in the holocaust. In one of the letters included in this book, she explains how very difficult it is for some survivors to discuss their experiences, especially with strangers.

But Makarova was patient. Makarova and Furman first corresponded in 1988, and then did not communicate again for ten years. The DVD that accompanies the book records the initial meeting of Edith Kramer, Bob and Erna Furman, and Makarova in Atlanta in 2001. At this time Furman gave permission for her drawings and calendars to become part of the Brandeis exhibit. The 96 pages of interviews were recorded later, over four days in Cleveland in February 2002, just six months before Erna Furman’s death.

The calendar entries are almost entirely simple recitations about camp activities.  There were lectures, performances, and classes.  But the death of Erna Furman’s mother, grandmother, and her aunt’s transport to Poland are noted with cryptic one and two word comments.  The author has annotated these entries to supply needed background. As the title implies, Erna Furman discusses the experiences that shaped her, “You can say that I grew up in Vienna, I grew up in Prague, and I grew up in Terezin.  Those were my ways of growing up.  Coping with life.  Not overwhelmed by the holocaust but deeply affected by it.”  The interviews tell the story of an extraordinary childhood and adolescence filled with uncertainty, deprivation, loss, and resilience.  More than once Erna Furman avoided being transported to another concentration camp by amazing presence of mind, intelligence, and courage.  Erna Furman went to Terezin with her mother, grandmother and three aunts.  Erna was the only one who survived.