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Cmdr. Russell B. Carr, M.D., acting chief of the psychiatry department at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, stated that almost everyone seen at Walter Reed and in clinics throughout the Department of Defense is suicidal. He also estimates that the best PTSD treatments in use today do not work for 30 to 40 percent of patients.

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David Kaczynski, Executive Director of New Yorkers Against the Death Penalty (NYADP) will be the presenter at the discussion group entitled " On Settling the Score: Crime, Punishment, and the Death Penalty" on Thursday, January 17, 2008 from 9:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. as part of the American Psychoanalytic Association's 2008 Winter Meeting to be held at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York.

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The American Psychoanalytic Association (APsaA) has announced the results of its investigation of the prevalence of teaching about psychoanalytic ideas in the undergraduate curricula of 150 highly-ranked colleges and universities, accomplished by conducting a software-based search of published course catalogues for references to psychoanalytic content.

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The Award for Excellence in Journalism of the American Psychoanalytic Association recognizes professional reporting of outstanding merit that contributes in an exceptional way to the public understanding of psychoanalytic and psychological principles and phenomena. The Award carries a prize of $1,000. Deadline for submissions is September 1, 2007.

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During APsaA's recent annual meeting held in Denver from June 20-24, the members of the association issued a positions statement, "When the War Comes Home", regarding the mental health care needs of veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars.

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The problems of returning veterans who suffered trauma in the war in Iraq and Afghanistan have received much media attention and public concern. "The Trauma of War" is the focus of the Presidential Symposium of the American Psychoanalytic Association's 96th Annual Meeting. This symposium will add a psychoanalytic perspective to this growing public health and moral challenge.

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The advent of managed care has shaped not only how psychiatry is practiced, but psychiatric thought and theory as well. This American Psychoanalytic Association symposium will trace the course of managed care's influence on psychiatry over the last several decades, describe the current state of the mental health and managed care dyad, and discuss future directions for managed care with an emphasis on psychoanalytic practice.

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"Improvising in Words and Music: Finding a Way in Jazz and Free Association" is a presentation offered at the 96th Annual Meeting of the American Psychoanalytic Association that will explore the interesting connections between jazz and psychoanalysis.

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The Public Forum will address issues and challenges of being a CEO in the current business climate, and provide an opportunity to understand more deeply the ethical problems plaguing American business today. Part of APsaA's Winter 2003 Meeting, the Public Forum is co-hosted by the Committees on Public Information and on Corporate and Organizational Consulting.

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It will not be business as usual for America's corporations as they approach the first anniversary of September 11. Members of the business community, from leaders to entry-level workers, need to be attuned to the possibility of delayed psychological and behavioral consequences following the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center.

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May 6th, 2002 marks the 146th birthday of Sigmund Freud. Though best known as the founder of psychoanalysis, Freud made contributions that go far beyond the realm of mental health care. His works resonates with concerns for culture, man's place in the world at large, and societal conflict.

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Knowing that effective health care (especially mental health care) can only be delivered when privacy between caregiver and consumer is secure, the members of the American Psychoanalytic Association have conveyed to Congress their concerns about the Bush Administration's proposed amendments to the medical privacy regulations which diminish the rights now guaranteed.

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Dr. Qin Wei of the Chengdu Psychoanalytic Centre affiliated with the Sichuan Provincial Association of Philosophy in Sichuan, China, will present a series of lectures on psychoanalysis in China, to be held in New York City on Tuesday, April 23 and Wednesday, May 8, and in New Haven, CT on Thursday, April 25.

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The President of The Boswell Group, LLC, has volunteered his services to corporate chief executives in helping their companies cope with the psychological aftermath of the attack on the World Trade Center.

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Psychoanalysts offer their expertise on mental health needs of adults, adolescents, and children in the aftermath of the trauma of the attack on America.

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The trauma Americans experience will provoke a range of immediate and delayed emotional reactions in both adults and children. These may include anxiety, depression, rage, insomnia, nightmares and irritability.

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Conference will bring together two national leaders, the Honorable Richard A. Gephardt, the US House Minority Leader and the Honorable US Representative Patrick Kennedy with mental health professionals advocates, and consumers.

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When there is a loss of an Early Primary Surrogate Mother, as with the loss of a parent, it is necessary for surviving family members to mourn openly to validate the loss, thus enabling the bereaved child to become involved in a healthy mourning process.

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Anxiety often arises with the return to school -- about school violence, bullies who harass other students, and other assaults. A noted psychoanalyst has developed several pragmatic tools to counter school violence that parents, students, and teachers will find most helpful.

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The Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis announces the Conference on Youth and Violence, a two-day event to be held in Chicago, which will address the widespread societal problem of youth violence.

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Clinical questions surrounding gay and lesbian patients -- the ways and means of counseling gays and lesbians and the issues they bring to the therapist's office -- will be explored at a March conference.

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The National Institute of Mental Health has made a policy decision to place more emphasis on studies that measure outcomes in psychiatric conditions as they occur in naturalistic settings, which will allow for improvement in real-life treatments where the rigorous controls of a laboratory do not exist.

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Dreams can help you to improve you physical and mental health recent neurological studies show.

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A century ago Sigmund Freud, in the spirit of scientific inquiry, and after years of research as a neurologist, published The Interpretation of Dreams. The book began his exploration of the mind and his development of psychoanalysis. The book's publication also marked the real beginnings of scientific research into the mind and to the development of truer understanding of mental health problems.

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The very bill designed to assure medical health record privacy will destroy patient confidentiality if the Senate passes it without modification, according to an expert on privacy rights representing the American Psychoanalytic Association.

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APSA supports language (such as H.R. 1027) which provides for a federal floor- and as of this moment, The Senate HELP Committee is not providing a federal floor and therefore, is eroding our privacy.