Dear Colleagues,
At the end of this year I am tempted to review the year on the international website but since it would be an impossible task, suffice it to say that we have made an enormous mark for
psychoanalysis globally and are an extremely popular site for visitors from all over the world. I will limit myself to the highlights of this week and give you the menu.
Here are my own choices:
1) the posts on ” A Dangerous Method” are a continued source of thought provoking gems which I hope you will enjoy as much as I have.
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2) Navigating Love and Autism is a serious article in the NYTimes – a must read for those interested in growing up with autism.
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3) Is neuroscience heralding the end of Free Will. This is of particular interest to lawyers. My son has always maintained that there is no such thing as a free will when told that he could do something if he wanted to. Clearly he knew something about his brain that we didn’t.
Thus this is also of particular interest to child therapists and to psychoanalysts who believe that doing away with resistances will allow individuals to live a “freer” life or to put differently, consciously map their lives – Possibly*..?
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4) ERs filled with mentally ill as services in states diminish – where do we come in?
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5) Finally, the “Latency years” may not be as quiescent as we thought with brain development and hormone production increasing rapidly.
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Below is this week’s list of contents:
A. In A DANAGEROUS METHOD Category:
I. ‘A Dangerous Method’ plays mind games
a) ‘A Dangerous Method’ plays mind games by Colin Covert in the Star Tribune on December 29, 2011
b) David Cronenberg’s “A Dangerous Method”: Proseminar as filmed entertainment bu Jay Gabler on the Daily Planet website on December 30, 20112.
c) Other posts on A Dangerous Method on this website.
To read a), b) & c) please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _______________________________________________________________________
II Freud, Schmeud
a) Freud, Schmeud The iconic psychoanalyst is a hot cultural property, but his theories and views on Judaism are coming under attack. Eric Herschthal on the in the Jewish Week on December 27, 2011.
b) Other Posts on A Dangerous Method on this website.
To access a) & b) please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ________________________________________________________________________
III. A Dangerous Method Reviewed by James Bowman
a) A Dangerous Method By James Bowman in the American Spectator on December 27, 2011.
b) Other posts on A Dangerous Method on this website.
To access a) & b) please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _______________________________________________________________________
IV. A Pretty Boring Dangerous Method
a) A Pretty Boring Dangerous Method: Cronenberg’s movie mostly misses true excitement of psychoanalysis by Prudence Gourguechon, MD on her Psychoanalytic Excavation blog on the Psychology Today blogs on December 18, 2011.
b) Other Posts on A Dangerous Method website.
To access a) & b) please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ______________________________________________________________________
V. A moment in history with David Cronenberg
a) A moment in history with David Cronenberg By Mark Feeney on the Boston.com website on December 23, 2011|.
b) Other Posts on A Dangerous Method on this website.
To access a) & b) please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ________________________________________________________________________
B. In the ANNOUNCEMENTS Category:
VI. Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy with Cancer Patients and Their Spouses by Norman Straker at NYPSI
PLEASE JOIN NYPSI AS IT CONTINUES ITS CENTENARY
CELEBRATION_CELEBRATING A CENTURY OF ADVANCEMENT THROUGH
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INSTITUTE:_Extension Committee_
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PSYCHOANALYTIC PSYCHOTHERAPY with CANCER PATIENTS & their SPOUSES Norman Straker, M.D.
_Thursdays, 30 – 8:40 pm, January 19, January 26, & February 2, 2012 (3 Sessions), Fee $90
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ___________________________________________________________________
VII. 2011 Sigourney Awards Announced
2011 Sigourney Awards Announced on the Sigourney Awards website.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ___________________________________________________________________
VIII. Psychoanalytic Career Paths with Sabrina Cherry at NYPSI
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Wednesday, January 4, 2012, 8:30 p.m. Free_Psychoanalytic Career Paths: A Prospective Study of Recent Graduates_Sabrina Cherry, M.D.
To read please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ______________________________________________________________
IX. Principle of Psychosomatic Pathology with Muriel Morris & Larry Goldblatt at NYPSI
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247 East 82nd St., between 2nd & 3rd, NY, NY 10028
212-879-6900_
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PRINCIPLES of PSYCHOSOMATIC PATHOLOGY:
Theory & Practice for Psychoanalysts & Psychotherapists_-
Muriel Morris, M.D. & Larry Goldblatt, M.D.
Thursdays, 7:45 – 9:15 pm, January 19 – March 8, 2012_(8 Sessions), Fee $160 To read please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ____________________________________________________________
X. The Mind in Conflict with Ian Buckingham at NYPSI
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THE MIND IN CONFLICT_Ian Buckingham, M.D.
Thursdays 8:30 – 10 pm January 12 – March 1, 2012_(8 Sessions) Fee $80
To read please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _______________________________________________________________
C. In the ART Category:
XI. Janet Malcolm: Free Associations
a) Janet Malcolm: Free Associations
December 08, 2011 – January 14, 2012
Online Exhibition Press Release on the Lori Bookstein Fine Art Website.
b) Old Anxieties Get a New Life: Artist Janet Malcolm Digs Up Ancient Case Files From a Mystery Psychiatrist by Casey Schwartz on the Daily Beast website on December 31, 2011.
To read a) & b)please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ____________________________________________________________________
D. In the AUDIO/VIDEO Category:
XII. Lady Gaga’s ‘Marry the Night’ Video and the Transformation of Shame
By Joseph Burgo PhD on the Psych Central Website.
To read and view please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _______________________________________________________________________
XIII. Act Three. Christmas Freud
by David Rakoff playing Freud in the windows of Barney’s department store. (15 minutes) Song: “Christmas Freud Caroling”, The Formerly Known As Family on This American Life on WBEZ on NPR Radio.
To listen please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ________________________________________________________________
XIV. In Treatment: Season 3 Trailer (HBO)
posted by Alex Em on the Vimeo website.
To view please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ __________________________________________________________________
XV. Navigating Love and Autism
By Amy Harmon in the New York Times on December 26, 2011.
To read and view please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ______________________________________________________________________
E. In the BOOKS Category:
XVI. The Mentally Ill in America
PDF version on the Book The Mentally Ill in America by Albert Deutch. New York: Columbia University Press, 1946 on the This Book is Drenched website.
To read please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _______________________________________________________________
F. In the CHINA category:
XVII. CAPA Dim Sum Lunch and Discussion Groups
Reserve your seat for the CAPA Discussion Groups and Dim Sum Lunch Saturday, January 14, 9:30AM-2:30PM $60/person.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ___________________________________________________________________
G. In the GENERAL NEWS Category:
XVIII. Freud 2 Lacan website
___ Freud 2 Lacan website. (Richard G. Klein)
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ __________________________________________________________________
XIX. The Self-Contained Snowstorm
By Hilary Greenbaum and Dana Rubenstein in the New York Times on December 30, 2011.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _____________________________________________________________________
XX. The Candidate Connection of APsaA Newsletter of Special Issue “On Happiness.”
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ______________________________________________________________________
XXI. Insight: Division 39 Enews for January 2012
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XXII. The End of Free Will?
by Megan Erickson on the Big Think website on December 29, 2011.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ __________________________________________________________________
XXIII. For Somali Women, Pain of Being a Spoil of War
by Jeffrey Gettleman in the New York Times on December 27,2011.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ___________________________________________________________________
XXIV. Mentally ill flood ERs as states cut services
By Julie Steenhuysen and Jilian Mincer on the MSNBC.com website on December 26, 2011.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ___________________________________________________________________
XXV. A Second Look At The Death Penalty
by Susan Estrich on the National Memo website on December 28, 2011.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _________________________________________________________________
XXVI. Yiddish & Seinfeld . . The Bar Mitzvah
Yiddish & Seinfeld . . The Bar Mitzvah on YouTube.
To view please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ____________________________________________________________
XXVII. North Korean Labor Camps in Siberia
By Shane Smith from the vice.com website on the CNN.com website on December 15, 2011.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _____________________________________________________________________
F. In the OBITUARIES Category:
XXVIII. Sir Michael Dummett Obituary
Philosopher who focused on falsehood and truth in language in the Guardian UK on December 28, 2011
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ____________________________________________________________________
XXIX. Adrienne Cooper, Yiddish Singer, Dies at 65
by Joseph Berger in the New York Times on December 28, 2011.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ________________________________________________________________________
XXX. Robert Ader, Who Linked Stress and Illness, Dies at 79
By Paul Vitello in the New York Times on December 25, 2011.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _____________________________________________________________________
G. In the PAPERS Category:
XXXI. Uncertainty and Countertransference by Robert Tyson
3/85 There are, of course, many ways by which uncertainty may affect the psychoanalytic interaction between analyst and analysand. The nature and quality of that interaction determines whether or not it is a psychoanalytic one, or some other variety, and it ultimately also determines whether it is a process which proceeds, or one which becomes arrested. I will examine some clinical examples of how the analyst’s uncertainty can affect the analytic process through the countertransference, but first I will establish working definitions of countertransference and of uncertainty
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _________________________________________________________________
H In the SCIENCE NEWS Category:
XXXII. Scholars Retract Another Study Linking Virus to Fatigue Syndrome
By David Tuller in the New York Times on December 26, 2011.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/
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XXXIII. The Hormone Surge of Middle Childhood
By Natalie Angier in the New York Times on December 26, 2011.Today’s NY Times “Now We are Six” reviews recent work on latency.
This article emphasizes Ted Shapiro’s early classic, “Seven plus or minus one” cited in the recent review of the latency study by Franieck.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/
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I. In the UNCATEGORIZED Category:
XXXIV. Register Now Online for Symposium 2012: On Loneliness Friday, December 30th, 2011
With the the year coming to a close, ask your accountant if you can deduct online registation for this March 2012 event as a 2011 Business or Educational expense.
Loneliness is perhaps one of the most painful affective states a person can experience. It is a subjective experience that most of us have, at some point in our lives, had. It may be experienced as an intense emptiness or solitude, an isolation from others both internal and/or external. Or, it can be experienced as grief; a loneliness in the presence of others. It can be also be understood by its duration (e.g., temporary or chronic) or, as Sartre noted, an essential feature of the human condition. Sartre believed this condition arose from conflict between the need to create meaning in life and the awareness of isolation or nothingness in the universe. For a psychoanalyst this idea might translate into an infantile experience of needing the mother and becoming aware that she is not always available. For a psychoanalyst this idea might translate into an infantile experience of needing the mother and becoming aware that she is not always available._
Use the button below to register online now.
Select: Regular or Student
Regular Rate $125.00 USD
Student $40.00 USD
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Chronic loneliness has been linked to physical (e.g., cancer, stroke, high blood pressure and cardiovascular disease) and psychological (e.g., depression and schizoid pathology, impaired cognition and personal determination, sleep disturbance, suicide, alcoholism and substance abuse) difficulties. As we can see from the variety of manifestations loneliness is often a complex phenomena in both its etiology and presentation .
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/
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This holiday week has obviously been busy on the website. Given the long holiday weekend, I hope you will have time to read. Please comment on your favorites !
I wish you all a Happy New Year!
Respectfully submitted by
Sasha Rolde