By Kent Ravenscroft, M.D. IPI Emeritus Faculty Tuesday 3/23 Mirogoane: Rendezvous with the Past Today I go to Mirogoane again. But first I need to bring you up to date …
Our Man in Haiti, Part VII
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Our Man in Haiti, Part VI
By Kent Ravenscroft, M.D. IPI Emeritus Faculty The Mirogane Clinic Stephanie, my IMG Director, mentioned that we’d be switching my beloved mobile mental health clinics in the countryside back into …
Our Man In Haiti, Part V
By Kent Ravenscroft, M.D. IPI Emeritus Faculty I was in a narrow muddy rutted road between tents when I saw a green steamroller, or maybe one of those big, bug-like …
Our Man in Haiti, Part IV
By Kent Ravenscroft, M.D. IPI Emeritus Faculty Saturday came around fast. I had to stand up in front of local Haitian IMC clinic doctors and nurses, and talk for 5 …
Our Man In Haiti, Part III
By Kent Ravenscroft, M.D. IPI Emeritus Faculty Fifty years ago when I was 20 I did my anthropology fieldwork in Masson, named for the remains of an old French plantation. …
Our Man in Haiti, Parts I and II
By Kent Ravenscroft MD IPI Emeritus Faculty Part 1 Haiti is an amazing country. It is devastated by yet another disaster, yet the strength and spirit of Haitians is stunning. …
A Group Dynamics Approach to Understanding America’s Current “Collapse”
By Charles Ashbach, Ph.D. In 1921 Sigmund Freud published his famous monograph Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego. Driven by the madness, savagery and destruction of the First …
Russia Letter
By David E. Scharff, M.D. October, 2008 Our invitation to Russia came from one of our International Psychotherapy Institute Fellows, Patrizia Pallaro, who returned from teaching in Moscow to inform …
Faith and Prejudice, Part Two: Identity
By Michael Stadter, Ph.D. In my previous posting, I described a remarkable trip that I took a year ago to the Middle East in the company of Christian seminarians of …
Faith and Prejudice, Part I
By Michael Stadter, Ph.D. “Now we hope that none of you will be slain but we wish you to know that the Kingdom of Heaven will be given as a …
