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LETTER FROM THE EDITOR

Spring 2022

Dear CIPS Community, 

The message is not the medium here, but let’s pause to appreciate NewsBriefs new medium! Thanks to the CIPS Board and the creative and technical talent of Mafe Izaguirre, we at NewsBriefs are thrilled to introduce you to our improved, gorgeous, and easy-to-navigate contemporary format. 

 

LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT

Letter from President of VPSG

In September 2021, VPSG voted to re-join CIPS after a thoughtful process of reflection about VPSG’s current interests and direction, and the benefits of formally reuniting with other Independent Societies while we are still a study group.

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Letter from President of VPSG

In September 2021, VPSG voted to re-join CIPS after a thoughtful process of reflection about VPSG’s current interests and direction, and the benefits of formally reuniting with other Independent Societies while we are still a study group.

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NEWS FROM CIPS

NEWS FROM CIPS MEMBERS

REFLECTIONS

The Reflections below are each wonderful and unique. Thank you for your willingness to offer part of yourselves with us.

Reflections on Climate Change

Margaret Bergmann-Ness, LICSM, Jennifer Davids, BPAS, FIPA, Meredith Redding, LMFT, and Carolyn Steinberg, MD, FIPA, share with us some of their experiences, thoughts and feelings related to climate change. We can each recall the climate horrors of 2021 (and ongoing) –out of control wildfires, heat domes, flooding and smoke that made it difficult for many of our CIPS community members to breath. Harder though –and so we can consider these contributors as courageous – is to make the links in our minds and hearts as these realities are sometimes too much to bear. That said, we must bear them and contributors guide the way.

Additional Reflections on Living in the Time of a Pandemic

Michael Krass, PhD, FIPA, speaks poignantly to the salve not only of community but of psychoanalytic community in particular, while Gretchen Schmutz, PsyD, FIPA, shares about challenges and triumphs in remote work with children. Your editor took the liberty of adding a note of thanks to a particular group of unsung heroes.

Pregnant on a Burning Planet by Meredith Redding, LMFT

Captain Kirk is crying on CNN. He is describing what he felt as he looked back at earth from the cold void of space. He says he was overcome, not with awe, but heartbreak. He was able to see just how rare and radiant our miracle planet is, how seemingly unique in the cosmos, and he was flooded with grief at our continued failure to protect her. I’m crying too.

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Climate Change: A Glimpse ​by Carolyn Steinberg, MD, FIPA

It’s the end of the week. British Columbians are in the midst of the third climate disaster of 2021. The first two were so called ‘heat bubbles’ one of which burned the town of Lytton to a crisp in 20 minutes. This week the town of Hope was inundated with more than 300 mm of rain in a 24-hour period from an ‘atmospheric river’.

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These Times (this time)​ by Michael Krass, PhD, FIPA

We find ourselves in yet another strange and scary holiday season. When I drove to Fairfax County Government Center last February to get my first shot of the Moderna vaccine, I was sure that something was going to impede me, someone was going to tell me they had run out, or I would not be allowed in, or I did not have the proper ID, or I’d shown up on the wrong day.

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More unsung hero ​by Leslie Wells, LP, FIPA

Without question, the pandemic years with their numerous local, national and international horrors, tragedies and injustices have taken a toll on us. An extra-ordinary time – and we are surviving it individually and collectively in many ways because of the on-going ordinary.

Continue Reading »

Pregnant on a Burning Planet by Meredith Redding, LMFT

Captain Kirk is crying on CNN. He is describing what he felt as he looked back at earth from the cold void of space. He says he was overcome, not with awe, but heartbreak. He was able to see just how rare and radiant our miracle planet is, how seemingly unique in the cosmos, and he was flooded with grief at our continued failure to protect her. I’m crying too.

Continue Reading »

Climate Change: A Glimpse ​by Carolyn Steinberg, MD, FIPA

It’s the end of the week. British Columbians are in the midst of the third climate disaster of 2021. The first two were so called ‘heat bubbles’ one of which burned the town of Lytton to a crisp in 20 minutes. This week the town of Hope was inundated with more than 300 mm of rain in a 24-hour period from an ‘atmospheric river’.

Continue Reading »

These Times (this time)​ by Michael Krass, PhD, FIPA

We find ourselves in yet another strange and scary holiday season. When I drove to Fairfax County Government Center last February to get my first shot of the Moderna vaccine, I was sure that something was going to impede me, someone was going to tell me they had run out, or I would not be allowed in, or I did not have the proper ID, or I’d shown up on the wrong day.

Continue Reading »

More unsung hero ​by Leslie Wells, LP, FIPA

Without question, the pandemic years with their numerous local, national and international horrors, tragedies and injustices have taken a toll on us. An extra-ordinary time – and we are surviving it individually and collectively in many ways because of the on-going ordinary.

Continue Reading »

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