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Zimmerman, D. (2025). Tragic Person Evolved: Transforming Tragedy Into Hope Through New, Alternative Treatments. Psychoanalysis, Self and Context, Vol. 20 (published December 2025)
ABSTRACT The paper, “Tragic Person Evolved: Transforming Tragedy Into Hope Through New, Alternative Treatments” was presented at the 45th IAPSP International Conference in Rome in October of 2024. The paper explores the integration of relational psychoanalysis and alter- native treatments, including ketamine-assisted psychotherapy, for individuals with OCD, ADHD, and ASD. Two case studies illustrate how fostering a deeply empathetic therapeutic relationship, combined with the
The revolution, update:
"Momentum continues to rise to the greater good" D.Zimmerman
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:...
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...
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...
ADHD/Big Brother Podcast (recorded on 11/27/23)
Why do we get depressed? (And what to do about it).
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...











