Dear Colleagues,
This week we continue to have numerous posts on the beginnings of psychoanalysis with books on Freud and the Dangerous Method. The counterpoint is the stunning preliminary evidence on the neuroscience on the boundaries of consciousness.
As always I have chosen a few from the many as suggestions:
1) The Dangerous Method is a never ending source of fascination and surprise comments on the founders of psychoanalysis and on Sabina Spielrein. Please read the several posts listed *** either in the MOVIES Category or in its own Category, A DANGEROUS METHOD.
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2) In case you have only negative feelings toward rats, please read about their empathic behavior and rescue abilities directed toward their own kind.
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3) Books on Freud listed this week ( the reluctant philosopher, Freud’s Legacy, Freud & meaning, Freud’s Last Session) add new light on the large repertoire of books written about him.
Freud, the Reluctant Philosopher by Alfred I. Tauber
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Understanding Freud s Legacy Through the Eyes of W. H. Auden
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Freud and Meaning, Part 2 by Judith Levy
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4) More on Steve Jobs by Nahan Szajnberg *** What can we learn as psychoanalysts?
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5) Congratulations to Arnold Richards for receiving the 2013 Hans Loewald Award
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6) Did you ever wonder why and how you lose consciousness under anesthesia? Please read . Neuroscientists Close in on the Boundaries of Consciousness.
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The content list is below:
A. In the ANNOUNCEMENTS Category:
I. Between Film and History: Jung, Freud and Sabina Spielrein with John Kerr at the New School for NPAP
The Program Committee of the National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis presents
BETWEEN FILM AND HISTORY: JUNG, FREUD AND SABINA SPIELREIN***John Kerr FRIDAY, DECEMBER 16, 2011, 8 pm.
Theresa Lang Community and Student Center, Arnhold Hall,***The New School, 55 W 13 Street 2 Floor
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II. Master Clinicians Series with Alan Bass at IPTAR
MASTER CLINICIANS Series
Presenter: Alan Bass***I
PTAR West Conference Room
140 West 97th Street
December 16, Friday, 2-3:30 p.m.
RSVP: Ellen Sinkman, Chair***(212) 595-4201
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B. In the AUDIO/VIDEO Category:
III. Ink on Shrinks with Dinitia Smith and Roger Rosenblatt
In this last installment of our ***Ink on Shrinks*** series, Dinitia Smith gives us ***What Would Freud Think?*** with updates, and Roger Rosenblatt reads from ***Kayak Morning.***
Introductions by Genevieve Crane.
Welcome from Magdalene Brandeis.
This event took place on Monday Devember 5,
2011 Stony Brook Manhattan, 101-113 East 27th St., (midway between Park Avenue South and Lexington), 3rd Floor.
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IV. Steven Levy interviewing Mari Ruti about her article in JAPA
Inaugural Podcast from the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association which features JAPA editor Steven Levy interviewing Mari Ruti about her article on The Singularity of Being: Lacan and the Immortal Within, JAPA, December 2010 58: 1113-1138.
To listen please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ __________________________________________________
V. Empathy and Pro-Social Behavior in Rats
a) A new model of empathy: the rat by David Brown in the Washington Post on December 8, 2011.
b) Empathy and Pro-Social Behavior in Rats by Inbal Ben-Ami Bartal1, Jean Decety1,2,4, Peggy Mason3,4 in Science in the December 9, 2011 issue, Vol. 334 no. 6061 pp. 1427-1430.
To read and view a) & b) please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _______________________________________________________________
C. In the BOOKS Category:
VI. Talented Life of Diane Arbus
Reconsidered Photographer Who Committed Suicide Is Examined in Book By David Kaufmann in Jewish Daily Forard on December 09, 2011, issue of December 16, 2011.
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VII. Understanding Freud***s Legacy Through the Eyes of W. H. Auden
By Maria Konnikova on the Scientific American website on December 14, 2011.
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VIII. Freud, the Reluctant Philosopher by Alfred I. Tauber
******************Review of Freud, the Reluctant Philosopher by Alfred I. Tauber,
Reviewed by E. James Lieberman on the Metapsychology Online Reviews website.
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IX. Freud and Meaning, Part 2 by Judith Levy
a) Freud and Meaning, Part 2: how does contemporary psychoanalysis conceptualize meaning? by Judith Levy on Eric Maisel, Ph.D.***s Rethinking Psychology blog on the Psychology Today blogs on December 10, 2011
b) Part 1 of Judith Levy***s article.
***To read a) & b) please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _______________________________________________________
X. On Freud***s Dream from Robert Langs
Last night I opened a book entitled Religion in Human Evolution: From the Paleolithic to the Axial Age by Robert N. Bellah . I did so because I have a policy to read books in fields other than psychoanalysis that are written by outstanding scholars. I find that the subjects that great minds are working over and the insights they derive always have a bearing on psychoanalytic issues
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XI. Jackie O: On the Couch Wins the Pinnacle Book Achievement Award
******a) Jackie O: On the Couch Wins the Pinnacle Book Achievement Award on the Digital Journal website
b) This book and others by Alma Bond on IPBooks.net.
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XII. Holiday Gift Ideas (2): Five Books To Help You Make The Most Of Living S
Holiday Gift Ideas (2): Five Books To Help You Make The Most Of Living by Todd Essig on the Forbes Magazine website on December 9, 2011.
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D. In the EDITORIALS Category:
XIII. Denting the Universe II: Can Psychoanalysts Learn From an Apple? Nathan Szajnberg, MD, Managing Editor
My first ***Denting*** piece looked at the internal ingredients in Steve Jobs that nourished his ingenuity; I focused on his feeling a ***chosen*** child because of his adoption. Touchingly, ***.
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E. In the GENERAL NEWS Category:
XIV. When Soccer Crowds Get Depressed
by Alan Black on the Beautiful Blog on December 15, 2011.
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XV. The Second Gilded Age: Has America Become an Oligarchy?
By Thomas Schulz on the Spiegel Online website on October 28, 2011,
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XVI. Review of Freud***s Last Session by Merle Molofsky
a) Freud***s Last Session Wins 2011 Gradiva Award on this website.
b) A New Couch for Freud to Rest On and Other posts on Freud***s Last Session on this Website.
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XVII. The Neuroscience of the Bar Mitzvah
******The Neuroscience of the Bar Mitzvah by William Grassie on the Huffington Post on December 10, 2011.
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XVIII. Our Own Worst Enemies
By A. O. Scott in the New York Timeson December 6, 2011.
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F. In the MOVIES Category:
XIX. ***A Dangerous Method*** Clip
a) ***A Dangerous Method*** Clip: Keira Knightley Talks Sex With Viggo Mortensen.
b) Other posts on A Dangerous Method on this website.
To read a) & b) please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ________________________________________________________
XX. Freudian slip David Cronenberg***s A Dangerous Method exposes the woman who came between Freud and Jung
a) Freudian slip David Cronenberg***s A Dangerous Method exposes the woman who came between Freud and JungBy J.R. Jones on the Reader website.
b) Other Post on A Dangerous Method on this website.
To read a) & b) please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ __________________________________________________________
XXI. ***Dangerous Method*** analyzes pioneers of head game
a) ***Dangerous Method*** analyzes pioneers of head game by Pam Grady in the San Francisco Chronicle on December 11, 2011.
b) Other Posts on A Dangerous Method on this website.
To read a) & b) please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _________________________________________________________
G. In the PAPERS Category:
XXII. Arnold Richards Receives 2013 Hans Loewald Award: Past Honorees***s Papers Here
Hans W. Loewald (1906-1992) was a practitioner, scholar, and teacher with a deep respect for the history and complexity of psychoanalytic thought. He was also an innovator who was willing to challenge prevailing wisdom and to extend the boundaries of psychoanalytic knowledge. His Collected Papers (1980) and his volumes on
Psychoanalysis and the History of the Individual (1978) and Sublimation (1988) endure as seminal explorations of psychoanalytic theory and process, creativity, and culture. The Forum (previously Federation) has established the Hans W. Loewald Memorial Award to recognize an individual***s distinguished contribution to psychoanalytic education.
To read please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ____________________________________________
H. In the SCIENCE NEWS Category:
XXIII. Neuroscientists Close in on the Boundaries of Consciousness
by John Farrell, Follow on Forbes Magazine website on December 13, 2011.
To read please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ______________________________________________
I. In the Science News Category:
XXIV. Higgs Boson Search: CERN Releases New Data Said To Narrow Hunt For ***God Particle***
by Malcolm Ritter on the Huffington Post website on December 13, 2011.
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XXV. Interview with Estela Welldon
a) I Speak My Mind, Patient Take that Very Well, Interview with Estela Welldon By Rita Cochrane in the Guardian UK in the November 18, 2011 issue.
b) The same article in Italian.
To read a) & b) please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ________________________________________________________
I hope you enjoyed this weeks rich and erudite posts and urge you to please leave your comments on the website.
Respectfully submitted by
Sasha Rolde