Washington Center for Psychoanalysis

Weitz & Luxenberg’s clients range from very young children, some whom have been implanted with more than one defective device—thus have undergone multiple cochlear implant surgeries during critical periods of linguistic and speech development—to elderly clients whose miraculous restoration of their hearing through a cochlear implant suddenly ended when their devices stopped working. Weitz & [...]

If you believe that you may have received an “Important Notification” letter from Advanced Bionics about your HiRes90k or Clarion II cochlear implant in either 2004 or 2006, we urge you to contact us to receive important legal information – even if you CI is working. Many of our clients’ cochlear implants stopped working prematurely [...]

Herman Arnold Meyersburg, 93, a psychiatrist who was co-founder of a mobile medical clinic for poor residents of Montgomery County, died Sept. 12 at the Hebrew Home of Greater Washington in Rockville of complications from a fall. He lived in Kensington. Dr. Meyersburg practiced medicine for more than 60 years, most of that time in [...]

Organizations from the community of psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy throughout the Washington, DC – Baltimore region collaborate on developing and maintaining this website.  The organizations’ shared purpose is to provide information about their training and continuing education programs to their members and a wider community.  Participation is open to other organizations in the region with [...]

My Life As A Dog was filmed in Sweden and spoken in Swedish with English sub-titles. It was released in the USA, March 24, 1987. This film presents itself as a Drama/Comedy and more. The main character, Ingemor is a young boy, eleven years of age, who struggles to understand the meaning of decisions adults [...]

INTRODUCTION It is not the fruits of scientific research that elevate man and enrich his nature, but the urge to understand, the intellectual work, creative or receptive. Albert Einstein Although psychodynamic psychotherapy is an approach to the treatment of children and adolescents that is widely taught and practiced, efficacy research has been limited to a [...]

Introduction This one day workshop is open to all clinicians, but especially those who: •Have considered adding group therapy to their practices •Are interested in sorting out the nuts and bolts of group treatment •Have encountered problems in leading groups •Have never been a patient in a psychotherapy group •Are reluctant to refer patients for [...]

Saturday morning, June 7, 2008  10:00am–1:00pm Treatment of Trauma: Four Perspectives Come join APTP faculty and students as four distinguished faculty reflect on a case vignette, illustrating how their particular theoretical perspective informs their understanding and treatment of trauma •Ann Louise Silver, MD – Interpersonal Theory •Mauricio Cortina, MD – Attachment Theory •Virginia Hendrickson, MSW [...]

Annual Weeklong Immersion Course in Intensive Short Term Dynamic Psychotherapy Imagine the following scene: You are studying with highly skilled short term dynamic therapy clinicians in a group of devoted students, surrounded by the mountains of the Shenandoah National Park. You study videotapes and discuss clinical issues all day long and every night with your [...]

Saturday, June 28, 2008   9:00 AM–5:00 PM Sunday, June 29, 2008   9:00 AM–5:00 PM Yoga as “therapy” is on the rise, and it is being applied to both medical and psychological conditions. Some of the claimed benefits are credible; others seem exaggerated. Traumatic symptoms, depression, and stress are among the yoga-sensitive conditions that fall under [...]