Dear Colleagues,
As you are recovering from what I hope was an enjoyable Thanksgiving feast, unless you are traveling during this holiday weekend, you will have a little more time to read the variety of posts and comment on the international psychoanalysis website. The increasing global financial and political turbulence is reflected in this week***s content. The issue of medical and mental health coverage in the USA is also much more prominent.
Having chosen a few posts that stood out for me, I would especially direct you to the Annoucements which I usually just list. Austen Riggs has a new director and CEO, Donald E. Rosen, M.D.*** He is conducting a clinician survey and is asking the following questions: * Treatment modalities you see as effective;
* Changes in treatment approaches you foresee;
**** Which treatment centers you view as outstanding;
* Trends in your practice that indicate an increase in the number of treatment-resistant patients
I think that this is a marvelous for psychoanalysts to raise their voices, , and make a contribution and be heard at a marvelous residential treatment center in Stockbridge, MA, which has traditionally been a bastion of psychodynamic treatment. Please consider responding.
Having underscored this, let me give you my choices this week, followed by the table of contents:
1) Clinician Survey from Austen Riggs
Click Here to Read: This Article
2) I would urge you to read both books listed below on Freudianism and Marxism , and on Freud***s Free Clinics. They both take us back to what psychoanalysis was about at its roots.
Click Here to Read: This Article
3) John Lagos*** The Life Report is very moving and I recommend it to all.
Click Here to Read: This Article
4) The posts on the film ***A Dangerous Method*** are numerous and important for its historical value to us, as, beyond knowing that Freud, Jung and Sabina Speilrein were the principals in the story *** the veracity of the film cannot be proven and as you know has been challenged.
Click Here to Read: This Article
5) Reading the paper by Jacob Arlow on being a candidate in the Forties, and by Robert Langs on Psychoanalysis and Science are both interesting and thought provoking!
Jacob Arlow:
Click Here to Read: This Article
Robert Langs:
Click Here to Read: This Article
6) Last but not least may we be practicing next in outer space? ***Stephen Hawking, who has Lou Gehrig’s disease, leaving him almost completely paralyzed and unable to speak. says the colonization of outer space is key to the survival of humankind, predicting it will be difficult for the world’s inhabitants “to avoid disaster in the next hundred years.”
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Below is this week***s table of contents:
A. In the ANNOUNCEMENTS Category:
I. Minding the Cap III Meeting a NYPSI Postponed
PLEASE NOTE: The following conference has been postponed from Dec. 3rd until spring due to a scheduling conflict. The new date will be announced shortly.
MINDING THE GAP III: DREAMING: PSYCHOANALYSIS OR NEUROBIOLOGY?
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _______________________________________________________
II. WCSPP Special Guest Lectures Friday, Dec. 16 and Saturday, Dec. 17 Thomas A. Kohut, Ph.D.
Special Guest Lectures: Friday, Dec. 16 and Saturday, Dec. 17***Thomas A. Kohut, Ph.D.***Sue and Edgar Wachenheim III Professor of History, Williams College
***Friday Evening, Dec. 16, 2011, 8:00 PM
Wainwright House***260 Stuyvesant Avenue
Rye, NY. 10580
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _______________________________________________________
III. Clinician Survey from Austen Riggs
Dear Colleague,
As I begin my new position as Medical Director/CEO at
theAustenRiggsCenter, I am pleased to carry forward the Riggs tradition of continuously seeking to improve our clinical services. We are conducting a very short clinician survey and would very much value your thoughts about treatment-resistance in psychiatric disorders .
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _______________________________________________________
IV. Master Clinicians Series with Alan Bass at IPTAR
MASTER CLINICIANS- Series***Presenter: Alan Bass
IPTAR West Conference Room***140
West 97th Street
December 16, Friday, 2-3:30 p.m.
RSVP: Ellen Sinkman, Chair***(212) 595-4201
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _______________________________________________________
V. Pedrito: Blood of the Ancestors with Martha Bragin at IPTAR
BENJAMIN; BRAGIN; MOSKOWITZ; REICHBART THE DIVERSITY COMMITTEE OF IPTAR PRESENTS MARTHA BRAGIN, Ph.D.***Winner of the International Psychoanalytic Association Hayman Prize***PEDRITO: BLOOD OF THE ANCESTORS Saturday morning Dec. 10: 9:30am -12:
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _______________________________________________________
VI. When Words Hurt at MITPP
THE METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE FOR TRAINING IN PSYCHOANALYTIC PSYCHOTHERAPY 160 West 86th Street, New York, NY 10024 o
(212) 496-2858***mitppnyc@aol.como www.MITPP.org
OPEN HOUSE LUNCHEON & CLINICAL PRESENTATION FOR THOSE CONSIDERING POSTGRADUATE TRAINING: WHEN WORDS HURT
Wednesday, December 7, 2011***1:00 PM *** 2:30 PM
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _______________________________________________________
VII. Therapy for the Mind, Pharmacology for the Brain? David Schab, M.D. at NYPSI
PLEASE JOIN NYPSI AS IT CONTINUES ITS CENTENARY CELEBRATION CELEBRATING A CENTURY OF ADVANCEMENT THROUGH SELF-KNOWLEDGE***THE NEW YORK PSYCHOANALYTIC SOCIETY & INSTITUTE:
Arnold Pfeffer Center for Neuropsychoanalysis
247 East 82nd St., between 2nd & 3rd, NY, NY 10028
212-879-6900www.psychoanalysis.org
Saturday, December 3, 2011, 10 am *** 12 pm,
Free*** ***Therapy for the Mind,***Pharmacology for the Brain?*** David Schab, M.D.***Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry,***Columbia University
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _______________________________________________________
VIII. Michele Press, M.D. discusses Jacob Arlow***s Unconscious Fantasy and Disturbances of Conscious Experience at NYPSI
PLEASE JOIN NYPSI AS IT CONTINUES ITS CENTENARY CELEBRATION CELEBRATING A CENTURY OF ADVANCEMENT THROUGH SELF-KNOWLEDGE***THE NEW YORK PSYCHOANALYTIC SOCIETY & INSTITUTE:
Extension Committee Centennial Program
247 East 82nd St., between 2nd & 3rd, NY, NY, 10028
212-879-6900***www.psychoanalysis.org
CLASSIC PAPERS SERIES
***Tuesday, November 29, 2011, 8:15 pm, Free
Michele Press, M.D. discusses Jacob Arlow***s Unconscious Fantasy and Disturbances of Conscious Experience (1969)*
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _______________________________________________________
B. In the BOOKS Category:
IX. Freudianism and Marxism
a) An exchange of letters on Freudianism and Marxism
A WSWS contributor responds to Intrepid Thought: psychoanalysis in the Soviet Union and Frank Brenner replies on the World Socialist Website on November 30, 1999.
b) Marxism and Psychoanalysis *** Notes on Wilhelm Reich***s Life and Works Written by Alessandro D***Aloia on the In Defence of Marxism website eon October 15, 2004.
c) Revolutionary Desire: Schizophrenizing Freudo-Marxism from the A Cop Sleeps in Each of Us Freudo-Marxism and Beyond website.
To read a), b) and c) please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _______________________________________________________
X. Freud***s Free Clinics: Psychoanalysis & Social Justice, 1918-1938 by Elizabeth Ann Danto reviewed by David James Fisher
Classical Psychoanalysis, Politics, and Social Engagement in the Era Between the Wars: Reflections on the Free Clinics. Review of : Freud***s Free Clinics: Psychoanalysis & Social Justice, 1918-1938 by Elizabeth Ann Danto reviewed by David James Fisher, Ph.D.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _______________________________________________________
C. In the CHINA Category:
XI. CAPA DIM SUM LUNCH
DIM SUM LUNCH
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _______________________________________________________
D. In the GENERAL NEWS Category:
XII. The Life Report: John Lagos
in the New York Times on November 23, 2011
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _______________________________________________________
E. In the MOVIES Category:
XIII. When psychoanalysis met female sexual desire
a) When psychoanalysis met female sexual desire by Andrew O***Hehir on the Salon website on November 22, 2011.
b) Other posts on A Dangerous Method on this website.
c) Keira Knightley details her hysteria in ***Dangerous Method*** on the Reuters Canada website on November 22, 2011.
d) Birth of Psychoanalysis in A Dangerous Method; Last Days of the Brothel in House of Pleasures By J. Hoberman in the Village Voice on November 23, 2011 .
e) Viggo Mortensen on Playing Freud in ***A Dangerous Method by Chris Lee on the Daily Beast website on***November 22, 2011.
f) Taming Unruly Desires and Invisible Monsters by A. O. Scott in the New York Times on November 22, 2011.
g) Sex, sadomasochism and the genesis of psychoanalysis [VIDEO] by Naomi Pfefferman on November 23, 2011
h) Review: ***A Dangerous Method*** is compelling cinema By Mark Rabinowitz on the CNN website on November 23, 2011.
i) A Dangerous Method David Cronenberg***s portrait of the relationship between Freud and Jung isn***t gory, but it***s scary good. By Dana Stevens by Slate on Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2011
j) Margaret Wheeler Johnson: ***A Dangerous Method***: Should We Care If She Was His Mistress? Submitted by Celebrity News Wire on November 24, 2011.
k) David Cronenberg on Viggo, Psychoanalysis and His ***Dangerous Method*** by Peter Knegt on the Indiewire website on November 23, 2011. l) Freud vs. Jung a beautiful period piece by Neely Swanson in on the Easy Reader website on November 24th, 2011.
m) Famous Minds, Keeping Secrets By A. O. Scott and Manohla Dargis in the New York Times on November 25, 2011
To read a) to m) please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _______________________________________________________
F. In the PAPERS Category:
XIV. Being A Candidate at the New York Psychoanalytic Institute in the Forties
by Jacob Arlow.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _______________________________________________________
XV. Psychoanalysis and Science by Robert Langs
Psychoanalysis and Science: Some Unrecognized But Critical Considerations by Robert Langs, M.D.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _______________________________________________________
G. In the SCIENCE NEWS Category:
XVI. Psychoanalysis and Neuroscience
Psychoanalysis and Neuroscience: Ten Years Later, Philoctetes Roundtable Discussion with Cristina Alberini, Heather Berlin, Vittorio Gallese, Robert Michels, Donald Pfaff, and Mark Solms.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _______________________________________________________
XVII. Human survival depends on space exploration, says Stephen Hawking
By Cassandra Szklarski in The Canadian Press November 18, 201.1
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _______________________________________________________
This being a ***lighter*** week than usual, please find time to post your comments on the website, share your thoughts and experience. Thank you.
Respectfully submitted by
Sasha Rolde