In the mid-1970s, IDI Fellow Dr. Frank Ochberg defined the “Stockholm syndrome” to identify and account for the bonds that sometimes form between the perpetrators and victims of hostage captivity. In this essay published in 2014, but with broad ongoing relevance, Dr. Ochberg expanded on that notion for an audience of abuse survivors. Unless otherwise noted, IDI Blog Posts … Read More
Via The Austen Riggs Center’s Erikson Institute for Education and Research, Dr. Ed Shapiro, IDI Board Member, former Riggs Medical Director/CEO and current Erikson Institute Senior Consultant, has made available a three-part lecture series on Psychodynamic Systems Theory. From the series materials: The first lecture focuses on basic principles, beginning with the recognition that the … Read More
From November 26 to November 28, 2015, IDI Co-Chair Dr. Robi Friedman and IDI Fellow Dr. Regine Scholz, in coordination with the Israeli Institute for Group Analysis and others, organized a group analytic conference entitled “Voices After Auschwitz.” Interested readers are invited to contact Drs. Friedman and/or Scholz via this website for more information.
Each year, the private independent Sigourney Foundation grants outstanding achievement awards to individuals who, or organizations which, have made major contributions to the fields of clinical psychoanalysis or psychoanalytic research. On October 4, 2015, the winners of the 2015 Sigourney Awards were announced. The IDI is pleased to announce that Dr. Vamik Volkan, Chair and founder … Read More
In May 2014, IDI Fellow Regine Scholz traveled to Sarajevo to work a seminar entitled “Trauma and Group Identity.” Her remarks on that conference, along with a link to her paper, follow. Richard Beck, a colleague from New York and Chair of the task force for Trauma and Disaster Management of the International Association of … Read More