Indeed rather sad. I live in the within walking distance. Unfortunately, many of the area home owners have a false sense of security, almost as if they live in a bubble.
Many homes aren’t well secured. Many keep their front door open as if they live in Mayberry.
We live in NYC and danger lurks all around. Let’s do a full security assessment of your entire life. Doesn’t mean a complete paranoid reaction, rather a proactive analysis.
Are your basement windows secured, doors, all other windows, garage, etc etc ...
Contrary to what NYPD or the Mayor’s office want to report, crime happens every single minute. In the last few week alone, our quiet neighborhood has experienced a rash of crimes, muggings, a husband raped his wife, and now this tragic murder.
Please everyone think safety first. The you can enjoy a better life.
My condolences to his family.
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So sad, so senseless, the murder of this thoughtful man who contributed so much to our understanding of psychotherapy. A central area of his research was on Rupture & Repair. He found that working to understand and repair a problem in the theraputic relationship helps a patient's resilience.
How sad that there is no fixing this cruel murder. My heart goes out to his family and those close to him. I hope we all can look again at his research & his teachings.
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Dr. Safran was dedicated to teaching, practicing, and developing and enhancing psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic therapy and research. He was a tireless advocate for researching Psychoanalytic concepts —not easily amenable to empirical research methods — and among many many other accomplishments he was the past president of the International Association for Relational Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis and a founding co-chair of the Division 39 (Division of Psychoanalysis) of the American Psychological Association’s Scholars Program. This program is dedicated to fostering Psychoanalytic professional identities for graduate students and early career professionals. The most cursory glance at his website makes his affiliation clear -- and to categorize him as a CBT therapist is a disservice to him and his legacy in our field, as well as to his many students, colleagues, mentees, and patients.
Dana Charatan
Secretary, Division 39 (APA Division of Psychoanalysis)
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Jeremy Safran was an internationally renowned Psychoanalyst (not a cognitive behavioral therapist). His most important contributions were made to the field of psychoanalytic theory and practice. In fact, his last book, winner of the prestigious 2013 Gradiva Award, was titled: Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Therapies. The accurate designation would have been important to Jeremy, as it is to his many friends and colleagues.
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The loss of Dr. Safran has reverberated in the psychoanalytic community where he was a valued and esteemed teacher writer, researcher and practitioner. Although I never had the opportunity to meet Dr. Safran, I have read his work and have had the opportunity to work with analysts who were very close to him in my own psychoanalytic training. To not recognize him as a psychoanalyst is to miss a central part of his professional life and legacy.
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The psychoanalytic, psychological, and psychotherapy research worlds have been devastated by news of this horrific event. We lost one of the major contributors to our fields.
Dr. Safran was perhaps best known for his work on the development of tensions ("ruptures") between psychotherapists and their patients. These are times when patients feel hurt or misunderstood by the therapist. Dr. Safran demonstrated that a lot of the curative power of psychotherapy comes from identifying, understanding, and repairing these ruptures. In the process patients learn improved ways of relating to others who may unintentionally hurt them, leading to better functioning in the world.
He developed this idea and then spent years researching it and teaching other therapists how to notice and repair ruptures in their working alliance with their patients. He will be sorely missed.
Stephen Soldz
Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis
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This is a tragic and horrible and shocking event. However, it is also compounded by the misrepresentation in this article of Dr. Safran's professional expertise. Though he began his career as a cognitive-behavioral therapist, his legacy is and most of his career was focused on psychoanalysis and research into psychoanalytic therapy. This is easily discerned by a cursory visit to his website, as well as scanning the titles of his books and the articles he wrote. It would be very important to correct that in order to accurately portray the identity of the victim of this crime.
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Please correct your article characterizing Jeremy Safran as a cognitive-behaviorist. He was no such thing. He was a highly regarded PSYCHOANALYST, esteemed in the New York area and around the world. As an educated psychologist, Dr. Safran was well acquainted with cognitive-behavioral methods and research and sought to understand any dialectic between the two theoretical disciplines. Though he worked toward integration in some ways, he should not be considered primarily oriented toward behavioral methodology of any type. In fact, Dr. Safran had an interest in the dialectic of Buddhism and psychoanalysis as well but he is not identified principally as a Buddhist. As philosopher-scientists and practitioners of psychotherapy, psychoanalysts will examine and research many aspects of human experience, but the identification as a psychoanalyst is a critical feature of these studies and inquiries. Again, while Dr. Safran has a number of accomplishments in several domains to his credit, the proper umbrella designation is "Psychoanalyst". Thank you.
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Additions and corrections...Prof Jeremy Safran was an internationally revered psychologist/psychoanalyst, and a Past president of the International Association of Relational Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. Safran, a beloved Professor at the New School University as well as the New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, was recognized internationally for his research on the relational aspects of the psychotherapy process. An extraordinarily integrative thinker, trained in both Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy and Psychoanalysis, his work involved an exploration of the emotional aspects of the psychotherapy relationship, evolving from an early interest in the interpersonal aspects of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, through a most recent book entitled, Psychoanalysis and the Psychoanalytic Psychotherapies. In 2017 he was awarded the Society for Psychotherapy Research Distinguished Research Career Award and The American Psychological Association Division of Psychoanalysis (39) Award for Distinguished Contributions to Psychoanalytic Research. He did significant work on the development of short term Psychodynamic Psychotherapy as well.
Susan Warshaw, Psychologist, New York City
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Dr. Safran's primary identification was as a psychoanalyst, and the article would do better to describe him as such.
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After reading this sad story, I would like to offer condolences to Dr. Safran's family. I lost my Dad several years ago and think about him everyday.
I also disagree with Josh Lomask's negative comment that this is still NYC and Brooklyn. I live in and love Brooklyn, but have traveled around the globe. Tragedies of this nature can occur, have occurrred, and are (unfortunately) occuring everywhere these days. Neighbors are important to our safety. Get to know them.
I am a proud Brooklynite.
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Many important facts have been left out of this story. See: “Neighbor's Text Saves Wife, Daughter as Professor Murdered”
She spotted intruder enter Brooklyn home
http://www.newser.com/story/259010/neighbors-text-saves-wife-daughter-as...
"A professor in Brooklyn was murdered by an intruder on Monday, police say—and his wife and daughter may have been saved by a sharp-eyed neighbor. Doreen Giuliano says she noticed a man apparently casing the home for hours and then saw him enter through a side door. Giuliano tells CBS2 that she texted the wife of professor Jeremy Safran asking if they had a tenant or work being done on the home; when the answer was negative, she told the wife an intruder had entered the home. After the women fled the home and called 911, police found the 66-year-old professor dead in the home's basement."
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Incredible tragedy. Please update this to reflect the credentials Dr. Safren earned.
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So sad to read this. Prayers for his family, friends, colleagues, and students.
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Terrible, tragic loss of a major researcher and theoretician of psychotherapy research. One correction: in the article it states that Dr. Safran was a CBT researcher--I believe Dr. Safran was a psychodynamic psychotherapy researcher, not a CBT researcher. In fact he endeavored in his career to show that CBT was not superior, as CBT proponents argued, to other approaches, including psychoanalytic and psychodynamic psychotherapies. The field has lost a great figure.
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NY Times reporter, Luis Ferre-Sadurni, has it wrong.
Prof. Jeremy Safran was also an expert in psychoanalysis. That is his claim to fame.
The New School's obituary has this info: "An internationally renowned psychotherapist, Jeremy was deeply respected and admired by The New School community and his colleagues throughout the psychology profession for his work on psychoanalytic theory and practice, as well as research on psychotherapy processes and outcomes. "
You will see other psychologist colleagues sending in the details.
Leonard Davidman, PhD
President, Manhattan Psychological Association
http://www.mpapsych.org/
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So very sad. Prayers for his family.
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What a heartbreaking loss, this kind and erudite soul. God bless him and his family.
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