IRA STEINMAN M.D.

Curing Schizophrenia via an Intensive Psychotherapy. I was delighted when the New Therapist asked me to pull together some of my views on the Intensive Psychotherapy of Schizophrenia. In fact, I believe that, in the right hands, an Intensive Psychotherapy of psychotic states can lead to healing and, often, a cure of a previously debilitating…

I was on a radio  show two years ago, talking about “TREATING the ‘UNTREATABLE, Healing in the Realms of Madness”. Before the  show began, the staff gave me an email. They had apparently read the content of the email, for they presented it to me in a hushed and nearly reverential way. It was a…

On Saturday, October 5th, San Francisco psychiatrist Ira Steinman, MD , author of the Karnac book TREATING the ‘UNTREATABLE’: Healing in the Realms of Madness , gave a spirited seminar on the curative intensive psychotherapy of people with a diagnosis of psychosis at the Centro di Psicoanalisi in , Rome. The seminar was called Intrattabili…

Book Forum Book Review | October 01, 2013 Psychotherapy in an Age of Narcissism: Modernity, Science, and Society by Joel Paris , M.D. New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2012, 184 pp., $80.00. Reviewed by Ira Steinman, M.D. Am J Psychiatry 2013;170:1216-1217. Joel Paris has written an erudite, intelligent, thoroughly researched work on the benefits of brief…

Introductory remarks from a Seminar “Intrattabili” at I Seminari del Centro Psicoanalisi Romano, in Rome on October 5th, 2013 “There is nothing new under the sun” Ecclesiastes When my good friend and colleague, Riccardo, asked me to write a chapter in his book on the subject of whether or not there is anything different in…