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		<title>Holding: Winnicott Comes Alive</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 23:35:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[   The psychoanalytic situation, as developed by Sigmund Freud, is notable for its constant setting, its regular hours, its ritualized trappings, which provide the patient with a feeling of safety, a sense of being held. D. W. Winnicott, a British pediatrician/psychoanalyst, gave a special importance to this aspect of psychoanalysis. He introduced the term &#8220;holding environment&#8221; as [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shirahvollmermd.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11480771&amp;post=3015&amp;subd=shirahvollmermd&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Edmund White: Great Characters</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 21:28:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Edmund White, a writer, professor of Princeton, read at the Hammer Museum last evening  http://hammer.ucla.edu/calendar/detail/type/program/id/1100.  from his new book &#8220;Jack Holmes &#38; His Friends&#8221; http://www.edmundwhite.com/html/jackholmes.htm.  I have never heard of him, but I had faith that the Hammer programs do not disappoint. I was partly right. His reading introduced us to two characters, named Jack and Will. Jack was [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shirahvollmermd.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11480771&amp;post=3011&amp;subd=shirahvollmermd&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Daniel Pearl: Ten Years Later-The Grief Never Ends</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 16:16:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[David Remnick, the editor of the New Yorker spoke at the Daniel Pearl Memorial lecture, http://www.international.ucla.edu/burkle/calendar/showevent.asp?eventid=9129, marking ten painful years since the unbearable torture and subsequent death of Daniel Pearl. What moved me was not Mr. Remnick, although he was an excellent and charismatic speaker, was the Israeli Dr. Judea Pearl, the  grieving father of Daniel Pearl. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shirahvollmermd.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11480771&amp;post=3008&amp;subd=shirahvollmermd&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;The Iron Lady&#8221;- Feminism and Love-Together At Last</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 21:17:51 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Movie Review]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8216;Iron Lady&#8217; is a remarkable film, layered with so much of life&#8217;s challenges and disappointments. Meryl Streep did an Oscar worthy performance as a remarkable female leader in a man&#8217;s world, supported by the love affair with her husband, with the background music from &#8216;The King and I&#8217;. What is remarkable about this film is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shirahvollmermd.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11480771&amp;post=3003&amp;subd=shirahvollmermd&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Blog Pride</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2012 16:10:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; A particular thrill&#8230;..http://en.gravatar.com/nyupostdoc&#8230;.a new follower! Filed under: Blogosphere Fans<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shirahvollmermd.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11480771&amp;post=3001&amp;subd=shirahvollmermd&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Adolescent Enthusiasm: It Can&#8217;t Be Beat</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 23:22:10 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Adolescence]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[  Frankie, twenty-one, female, senior in college is elated today. She is doing well at school. She enjoys her friends. She is eating and sleeping well and by her report she has &#8220;watched it with the alcohol.&#8221; By contrast, a week ago, Frankie felt her life was in the &#8220;dumper&#8221;. She hated school. She hated her [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shirahvollmermd.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11480771&amp;post=2999&amp;subd=shirahvollmermd&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Adolescence: The Dawn of Reproduction</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 23:10:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Vollmer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Adolescence]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Moses Laufer says that the key to understanding adolescence is to have a deep appreciation for the ability to make a human being, the ability to reproduce. This dawning creates anxiety and hope which shapes the adolescent mind, he claims. Willow, age twenty-four, has never had a serious relationship and she cannot figure out why. Mr. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shirahvollmermd.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11480771&amp;post=2995&amp;subd=shirahvollmermd&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bank of Good Feeling</title>
		<link>http://shirahvollmermd.wordpress.com/2012/01/25/bank-of-good-feeling/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 18:13:21 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Friendship]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[   Wendy and Jo, both age fifty, have been good friends for twenty years. They met when they worked together, but they both separated from that employer nineteen years ago. Still, they remained good friends. They were both married when they met. Now, Jo is remarried. Wendy is single and dating on and off. Wendy [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shirahvollmermd.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11480771&amp;post=2992&amp;subd=shirahvollmermd&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mirror Neurons</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 21:10:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Vollmer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Marello Dapretto PhD http://faculty.bri.ucla.edu/institution/personnel?personnel%5fid=46838 spoke today about how mirror neurons are abnormal in those with ASD-autism spectrum disorder. It was one of those lectures where I felt like I already knew this, and so I was not learning anything, but at the same time, she was demonstrating with pretty fMRI pictures that what I/we have suspected for years, is finally [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shirahvollmermd.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11480771&amp;post=2981&amp;subd=shirahvollmermd&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Late Adolescence: A Lesson Of Compromise</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 22:40:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Stability of self-esteem is the hallmark of the closure of adolescence. As self-esteem improves, compromise is possible. The adolescent can compromise on their ideals and begin to see all humans as flawed beings who are trying their best to succeed. The arrogance often recedes such that the emerging adult develops a more sanguine approach to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shirahvollmermd.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11480771&amp;post=2978&amp;subd=shirahvollmermd&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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