Howard Steele, Author at Public Seminar

Psyche

Fear of Death Amid a Pandemic

Divergent psychoanalytic approaches

June 11, 2020 • by Howard Steele

Throughout the modern period, philosophers and psychologists have debated whether anxiety and fear are fundamental human feelings. For those treating patients using psychoanalytic methods, I have long pondered two divergent psychoanalytic approaches to two specific kinds of fear: (1) the fear of annihilation and (2) the fear of loss of ...

The Dedication of the Safran Reading Room

Reflections on a legacy

December 13, 2018 • by Howard Steele

The follow post is Howard Steele's opening remarks for the dedication ceremony of the Safran Reading Room on December 5th, 2018. Click here to read Ali Shames-Dawson's comments on the dedication. Good evening, everyone, my name is Howard Steele. I am a professor here and the chair for the clinical psychology ...

Separation Is Never Ending: Attachment Is a Human Right

Why 40 researchers say attachment is a basic right and separation a clear wrong

July 3, 2018 • by Howard Steele

For over 75 years, psychologists and psychiatrists have known that abrupt and/or prolonged separation can have major implications, including depression, anxiety, and behavioral disturbances. In 1952, Bowlby & Robertson argued, “There is now evidence that prolonged periods of maternal deprivation in very young children can, in some cases, give rise to extremely ...