CPC Blog: Posts tagged with 'parents'

“About a Girl,”directed by Mark Monheim, is the film we have chosen to sponsor at this year’s Cleveland International Film Festival, which runs from March 18-29  at the Tower City Cinemas. A member of the  Cleveland Psychoanalytic Center will introduce the film at its two showings, Sunday, March 22nd at 6:10 p.m. and Monday, March 23rd at 4:30 p.m. Participation in the Film […]

  Christine Anzieu-Premmereur, M.D. Psychoanalytic Training, Adult and Child, at Parisian Society  “Traumatized Mother,  Sleepless Baby: Mother-Infant Psychotherapy with an  18 Month-Old Boy”   Date:            Friday Evening, October 17, 2014 Reception:   6:00  —  7:00 p.m. Lecture:        7:00  —  8:30 p.m. Location:     Cleveland Psychoanalytic Center RSVP:         Please reserve by calling  (216) 229-5959  or email: dmorsecpc@sbcglobal.net The Cleveland Psychoanalytic Center […]

Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity, by Andrew Solomon. What are the challenges to parenting a child who is very different from her parents; whose characteristics and identity are shared more horizontally with a peer group instead of vertically with the nuclear family? From thousands of hours of interviews with […]

“Broken,” directed by Rufus Norris, is the film we have chosen to sponsor at this year’s Cleveland International Film Festival, which runs from April 3-14 at the Tower City Cinemas. A member of the  Cleveland Psychoanalytic Center will introduce the film at its two showings, Thursday 4/4 at 6:35 pm and Saturday 4/6 at 3:45 pm. “Broken” is the story […]

The emotional health and development of children is the topic of three current, parent-friendly books by child development experts.  Each has his or her own bent, but all subscribe to the importance of tuning in to the child’s subjective experience of the world at any given developmental moment. Kerry Kelly Novick and Jack Novick, Ph.D. […]

Periodically members and staff recommend books and invite discussion in this blog. Javier Galvez, M.D. recommends Priscilla Roth, Alessandra Lemma, and R. Horacio Etchegoyen, editors, “Envy & Gratitude Revisited.” Dr. Galvez writes: Fifty years  after the  publication of Klein’s seminal “Envy and Gratitude,” an outstanding group of contemporary analysts, including Ronald Britton, Irma Benman-Pick, Michael […]

The Mini-Lecture for May was “Heroes in the Nursery,” presented by Carl Rak, Ph.D.  The title of this lecture evokes a classic paper, “Ghosts in the Nursery,” by Selma Fraiberg, but instead of focusing on negative influences, Dr. Rak presented three cases in which a positive influence enabled at-risk youth to overcome the psychological challenges […]

Alex B. is a bright, energetic 14-year-old boy, whose mother recently confiscated his cell phone after receiving a monthly bill of over $400 for text messages.  Mrs. B had also noticed that Alex wasn’t as invested in his schoolwork and found out he was not only texting female friends during class, but also during homework […]

I gave a talk on October 10, 2010 to the Orthodox Mental Health Professionals of Cleveland at a home in Beachwood.  Ten enthusiastic participants engaged in dialogue this Sunday evening for an hour and a half around the topic, “Helping Parents Help Their Children—Treatment Via The Parent.”  I presented work with parents in a Therapeutic […]