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From My Desk
Tragic Person Evolved: Transforming Tragedy Into Hope Through New, Alternative Treatments
Publication date to be determined.
Oct 11 min read
46th Annual International Conference of the IAPSP
I’m honored to be speaking at the 46th Annual International Conference of the International Association for Psychoanalytic Self...
Aug 141 min read
The 13th International Bion Conference | Agony and the Resistance to Change
A clinical presentation of why we fight the very change we seek. Saturday, June 7th 10:45 AM The New School for Social Research Room...
Jun 71 min read
Explorations – The Institute for the Psychoanalytic Study of Subjectivity (IPSS) – New York, New York.
Paper Presentation: Tragic Person Evolved: Navigating Existential Challenges Through Therapeutic Transformation.
Moderators: Bradley Jones and Sarah Mendelsohn,
Discussants: Jill Gentile and Leonard Bearne.
May 31 min read
efficient
"Efficiency is a far superior way than Optimization, any old day." ~DZ
Jan 181 min read
45th Annual IAPSP International Conference – Rome, Italy
Paper Presentation: Tragic Person Evolved: Navigating Existential Challenges Through Therapeutic Transformation.
Oct 27, 20241 min read
Jul 21, 20240 min read
The revolution, update:
"Momentum continues to rise to the greater good" D.Zimmerman
Jul 19, 20241 min read
Jul 18, 20240 min read
ROME - OCTOBER 2024
I'm very happy to have been selected to present my paper "Tragic Man Evolved" at the IAPSP conference in October/2024:...
May 16, 20241 min read
Website launched.
Http://www.DouglasZimmerman.Net I want to give a shout out to Amanda Lipp and Chris O'Connors for helping me create it. Please phone or...
May 13, 20241 min read
Work Ethic
A general. A master. A master general. Peter Laviolette has thus far proved to be all of the above. It may just be hockey, but the...
Apr 16, 20241 min read
ADHD/Big Brother Podcast (recorded on 11/27/23)
Why do we get depressed? (And what to do about it).
Apr 4, 20241 min read
Using the chip on your shoulder -
To start living fully. Reminded by two patients today that approaching life with a chip on your shoulder can be a very good thing. There...
Mar 28, 20241 min read
Follow The Dopamine
"Follow the dopamine," I often tell my patients. What I mean is, where does one feel motivated, feels the reward is within reach, and...
Mar 21, 20241 min read
Neuroplasticity (yet again)
It occurs to me that one of the cleanest evidences of neuroplasticity lies in any activity one does over and over. I'll give a quick...
Mar 18, 20241 min read
OCD: Nature/Nurture
FYI about OCD: https://iocdf.org/about-ocd/what-causes-ocd/ I have found it to be a pretty much 50/50 nature/nurture. Some recent...
Mar 16, 20241 min read
Mood Chart & Anatomy Of a Day - tools for therapy, tools for introspection.
I have been using a mood chart and Anatomy Of a Day for the past year and a half. And it has shown to have great utility. #MoodChart...
Mar 14, 20241 min read
Authenticity revisited again.
This morning, meditating on some of yesterday's sessions, I am nagged once more by thoughts of authenticity versus inauthenticity. I'm...
Mar 12, 20241 min read
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