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News Room, a special service of the Public Information Committee, is a newsletter which is written for and distributed to the media to inform the press about mental health issues and to encourage media representatives to obtain a psychoanalytic slant on health news stories.


December 2004

- Four Steps to Keeping Your New Year's Resolutions
- Holiday Stress Buster Tips

September 2004

- A Letter to the Editor of the San Jose Mercury News

Fall 2004

- SFPI&S Votes Yes on Proposition 63

June 2004

An Evening of Art with the San Francisco Psychoanalytic Institute and Society - Wine and Cheese Event Open to the Public


October 2003

- Halloween Hangovers for Kids - It's Not Just the Candies

July 2003

- The San Francisco Psychoanalytic Institute & Society Mourns the Death of Adrienne Applegarth, M.D.

March 2003

- The Shrinkies: A List of 2002's Top Ten Psychological Films

January 2003

- Even in the Age of Prozac, Some Prefer the Couch

December 2002

- Psychology Today: Moms Who Kill

Summer 2002

- Talk Radio: Providing the Audience a Safe Haven

- The Stigma of Mental Illness in the United States

April 2002

- Did She or Didn't She_ The Pivotal Question in the Andrea Yates Trial -- By Mark I. Levy, M.D.

- Great News for Good Old Lovers this Valentine's Day

- Suicide Terrorists Consider Themselves an Extension of Society, Not As Individuals


February 2001

THE SOPRANOS: Art Imitating Life and Vice-Versa

- Why Dr. Melfi Will Not End Up in Bed with Tony Soprano

- Why Dr. Melfi Will Not Turn in Tony Soprano


August 2000

- Back-to-School Can Be Emotionally Difficult For Students

Winter 2000

- Elian's Plight: The Best Interests Of A Child

- Who's Caring For Child Care Providers_

- Symptoms Of Mental Illness In Children


January 2000

- Depression To Become The No. 2 Cause Of Disability -- New JAMA Study Offers Hope For Depression Sufferers

December 1999

- Naughty vs. Nice: Shouldn't Santa Love the Good and the Bad_

October 1999

- 100 Years of Freud's Interpretation of Dreams:
100 Years of Study of the Human Mind


June 1998

- San Francisco Foundation For Psychoanalysis To Bestow First Haskell F. Norman Prize For Psychoanalytic Excellence

May 1998

- Taking the High Road with Mom: Overcoming Conflict on Mother's Day

March 1998

- The 'Shrink's List of Top 10 Films' and Other Insights on the Academy Awards

- "Good Will Hunting" = Good Psychotherapy

- Stargazing: It's Part Transference Phenomenon, Part Voyeurism, and the Need to Be Part of Something Big

January 1998

- SUPERBOWL SUNDAY: The Vicarious Pleasure of Violence

- It's Winning and Losing and How You Play The Game

- Parenting a Teenage Athlete

December 1997

- The Scrooge Theory: Why do (Some) People Hate The Holidays

- Landmark Compensation for Traumatized Children-Over $201 Million

November 1997
- Reasons For Overeating During The Holidays

August 1997

- Why Some Children Become Violent

- When The Choice is Not to Have Children

- The Emotional Cost of Infertility


July 1997
- Summer Activities Promote Children's Growth

December 1996

- Happy Holidays

- Literature and Psychoanalysis

- Poetry and Psychoanalysis

- A Psychoanalytic Reading List

July 1996
- The Nature of Film and Reality

- The Appeal of Blue Velvet: Perverse and Erotic Excitement in a Love Story

- Piano Lessons
 
February 1996

- "Love Letter" to the Media for Valentine's Day

- Building a Successful Relationship

- Are Men and Women Really from Different Planets_

- Mommy, Am I Adopted_


September 1995

BACK TO SCHOOL ISSUE

- Who Is Raising Our Children_

- The Development Of Conscience

- Therapy in the Classroom


April 1995
- Therapist Misconduct: Relationships at Risk

- Sexual Misconduct: Likely Victims

- Battling for Adulthood

- Fighting Fair
September 1994
- Violent Teens

- How to Choose a Day Care Program
June 1994

- Men in Transition

- Perspectives on Menopause Changing

- Cultural Influences Affect Older Woman

- Boys and Girls Together





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