I am excited to announce the publication of my first book: Introduction to Concepts and Evolutions of Psychoanalysis: Freud to Neuroscience. The book provides a clear overview for anyone interested in practicing psychotherapy, learning about psychoanalysis as an alive and evolving discipline, or refreshing their memory on who contributed what to this important movement. I …
Graduate Retreat – Open to All Grads July 11th – July 14th 2019 “If you think that peace and happiness are somewhere else and you run after them, you will never arrive.” Tich Nhat Hanh To thrive requires human connection, both personal and collective. When we are in trusted connection, we desire to know the other …
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JOURNEYING THE SPACES BETWEEN A Study and Process Group With Judith Schmidt, PhD. Journeying in wilderness spaces between a familiar identity dissolving and new being not yet glimpsed, or glimpsed and filling us with both hope and the dread of moving ahead. This is the way we grow into who we are called to be. …
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Friday Afternoon Study Group 2018-19 Loneliness and Longing 18 CE’s approved for MSWs in NY and applied for in CT As every clinician knows, loneliness and longing are frequently encountered existential issues which often have no resolution. The right partner is not found. A community is not created. A cause or calling looses meaning. …
A Study and Process Group: Journeying the Spaces Between Judith Schmidt PhD Someone recently told me that when we leave our physical bodies, we enter a dark space with neither light nor signposts to show us our way. If we abide the fear and trembling, the hope and despair, the unknowing of this space, …
Study Group 2017-2018 Broken Links: Dissociation in Multiple Guises 18 CEU Credits are Approved by CT Alexis Johnson PhD The broad concept of dissociation covers many psychic events denoting lack of inner wholeness. Aspects of self or psyche are separated, sometimes from each other, sometimes from self-awareness, and usually from memory. Dissociation is …
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d THE HARD WORK OF HOPE “…only kindness that raises its head from the crowd of the world to say it is I you have been looking for, and then goes with you everywhere like a shadow or a friend”. Naomi Nye Shabbib Currently, our world is a witness to many rough waves of …
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The East Coast Graduate Group will meet the following dates in 2017 – 2018: Thursday, November 9th – Sunday, November 12th 2017 Thursday, June 7th – Sunday, June 10th 2018
CIL REFLECTION: A PRAYER FOR HEARTBREAKING TIMES By: Judith Sarah Schmidt, PhD Early this morning, I sat out back. Just sitting, breathing the silence, looking out over the moss covered hillside. My eyes landed on two thin weeds with a single thread of delicate spider web between them, shimmering with early morning dew, holding a …
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