Posted on Nov 16, 2014 in workshop | 8 comments

I landed my first university teaching job at 28 years of age in 1972 at what was then Sangamon State University in Springfield, Illinois (now a branch of the University of Illinois).  With my family, I lived on an old, decidedly non-working farm in the country.  I did have chickens and horses in the barn, but otherwise things were a bit feral. My dogs fed...

Posted on Oct 5, 2014 in workshop | 2 comments

In the opening event of TRISP’s 2014–2015 workshop series – Intersubjective Self Psychology – Peter Zimmermann used an illustrative metaphor to capture the shift from a traditional psychoanalytic approach to a self psychological approach. He said, “Where other perspectives ask What is the patient running from? the self psychologist asks What is the patient...