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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 …

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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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A CIL REFLECTION What’s In A Name? Judith Sarah Schmidt, PhD I would like to begin by sharing with you a rather amusing incident I was recently a part of.  In my writing group, Joanne brings her parrot whose name is Lily.  Lily likes to sit on her Joanne’s shoulder.  Beside me sits Bella, my …

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CIL REFLECTIONS  On Dealing With Our Dark Side Alexis Johnson, PhD  In order to help ourselves, our friends and partners, and our clients either manage or transform the various manifestations of shame, self hate, envy and other familiar demons we need the capacity to self-reflect and some theory of change and/or acceptance.  For me, this latter …

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A CIL REFLECTION    Charleston: Days of Heartbreak Judith Sarah Schmidt, PhD  Dear friends of CIL, Nine precious lives were taken in a torrent of hatred in a historic freedom loving Black church. We need to speak, to draw words out of the silence of shock, out of all the horrible painful places we are each sitting …

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CIL REFLECTIONS On not writing Alexis Johnson, PhD How do I know what I think until I see what I say? EM Forster – The Art of Thought For over 30 years I have wanted to write, to learn to write, to share my thoughts through writing.   Often when I teach, people say, have you written about …

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CIL REFLECTIONS: CRY FOR THE BELOVED PEOPLE Last week three Israeli youths died at the hands of Palestinians. Then, in seeming retaliation, a Palestinian youth died at the hands of an Israeli. An eye for an eye, the talion principle, embedded deep in our old survival brain. The tragedy of two peoples who carry nothing more than the …

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