*Dear colleagues,
There is much activity on the international psychoanalytic website, dovetailing with similar kind of rising ante everywhere – whether it finally be winter in the northeast, heat in the Republican primaries, tornadoes in the Midwest, elections in APsaA or horrors in the middle east.*** I will attempt to guide you on the website with some suggestions of my own, as well as with the usual list of contents for this week.
To begin with my choices:
*1) A century later we continue to learn about Sigmund Freud’s family life.* This week* I* am moved by the extremely short and tragic life story of S. Freud’s niece, nee Marta , children’s book illustrator, Tom Seidmann-Freud (she took a man’s name – read about the reason) whose surreal, whimsical art was saved by her daughter and grandchildren.* It is a testimony not just to this artist, but to the strength of her offspring and the entire family. PTSD does not always lead to disaster.
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2)* Freud, his family and the history of psychoanalysis are intextricable joined and the association is explored by Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen and Sonu Shamdasani in* “the Freud Files – an inquiry into the History of Psychoanalysis”.* Reading the excerpt on the website (published in the Atlantic Monthly) does give one pause and raises the question of what psychoanalysis really is, how it became so widely disseminated, and at what price.
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* 3)* this seems to be a week of “tales of famous families”* You may be interested in that of Max Eitingon as told by Tom Segev in The Makings of History / Tales of a nuclear family.
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* 4)* Please note the phasing out of psychiatric services at the Cedars-Sinai Hospital, foreshadowing the scary prospect of psychiatry getting less and less funding in the future and training fewer if any residents
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**5)* Edwin Black, the author of IBM and the Holocaust as well as of the Transfer Agreement ( the research for which was substantially added to by a very close friend of mine, a Canadian sociology professor) has come up with more evidence in “IBM in Auschwitz: New Documents” He says on the RSN website:
“the documents portray with crystal clarity the personal involvement and micro-management of IBM president Thomas J. Watson in the company’s co-planning and co-organizing of Hitler’s campaign to destroy the Jews.
IBM’s twelve-year alliance with the Third Reich was first revealed in my book IBM and the Holocaust, published simultaneously in 40 countries in February 2001. It was based on some 20,000 documents drawn from archives in seven countries. IBM never denied any of the information in the book; and despite thousands of media and communal requests, as well as published articles, the company has remained silent.”
*If you read the article, please also glance at the comments below it, which I found extremely interesting.* They range from immediate refusal to believe what Black says to outright denial of the Holocaust.* To us as psychoanalysts, this should give some food for thought as to how and why some people cannot assimilate evidence which is in front of their eyes – in this case it is possible that it was the enormity of the crime, the fear it engenders, etc.
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Below is the list of contents for this week:
A.* In the ANNOUNCEMENTS Category:
*I. InSight: Division 39 of the APA E-news March Issue
*To read please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ___________________________________________________
B.* In the Art Category:
II. Not a Fairy Tale.
Children’s book illustrator Tom Seidmann-Freud-Sigmund Freud’s niece-led a short and tragic life, but her surreal, whimsical art endures
By Marjorie Ingall on the Tablet website on February 28, 2012.
To read please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ________________________________________________________
*III.* 500 Years of Female Portraits in Western Art
Music: Bach’s Sarabande from Suite for Solo Cello No. 1 in G Major, BWV 1007 performed by Yo-Yo Ma Nominated as Most Creative Video 2nd Annual YouTube Award.
To read, view and listen please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _______________________________________________________________
C.* In the AUDIO/VIDEO Category:
IV. Time for a Good Old-Fashioned Nervous Breakdown?
by Melinda Beck in the Wall Street Journal on February 28, 2012.
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V. Musical experience slows aging in the brain, study finds
*by Alex Gallucci and Anuja Vaidya on the Medill Reports Chicago website on February 23, 2012.
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D.* In the BOOKS Category:
VI. How Freud Canonized Himself
* by Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen in the Atlantic Monthly on March 1, 2012.
*To read please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _______________________________________________________
*VII.* It’s the Cops, Stupid!
*Review by Heather Mac Donald of* The City That Become Safe: New York’s Lessons for Urban Crime and Its Control_by Franklin Zimring February 2, 2012.
*To read please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _______________________________________________________
VIII.* The Makings of History / Tales of a nuclear family
**By Tom Segev the Haaretz website on* March 02, 2012.
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IX.* Category: Books about psychoanalysis on Wikipedia
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X. Psychology in Nahj al-Balagha
to be published. Announcement by the ABNA.co (AhlulBayt News Agency) on March 1, 2012.
*To read please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _______________________________________________________
XI.** BOOK LAUNCH: CITY WITHIN A CITY by Basia Berman
*FRIDAY MARCH 2, 2012 1:00 to 2:30 P.M.*
at YIVO Institute for Jewish Research,
*15 West 16th Street, NY, NY 10011
I would like to describe this state within a state, or rather city within a city, this most underground of all underground communities, whose members met with each other, worked and talked in the midst of a population which didn’t suspect anything; where every street, every coffee shop, every tram stop called to mind dozens of unique adventures. Every name was false, every word that was uttered carried a double meaning, and every telephone conversation was more encrypted than the secret diplomatic documents of embassies.”
This diary was written in Polish when Basia (Batya), and her husband Dr. Adolf- Abraham Berman, lived on the Aryan side of Warsaw-the part designated by the Nazis for Polish Christians only-and led a secret network helping thousands of Jews to hide and survive.
SPEAKERS:_
Introduction by EMANUEL BERMAN, Son of the author, editor of the English translation; SAMUEL KASSOW, Author of Who Will Write our History? AVIVA BLUMBERG, Child Survivor, Warsaw Ghetto; LEON HOFFMAN, Psychoanalyst, will speak about Leon Kupferstein, to whom this book is dedicated.
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XII.* Introduction to the Problem by Arnold Goldberg
**Chapter 1 from the book: The Analysis of Failure: An Investigation of Failed Cases in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy by Arnold Goldberg, published by Routledge Press in 2011.
*to read please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _______________________________________________________
*XIII.* Anthony Sampson: the private world of the man who knew everyone
*The author and Observer journalist laid bare the inner workings of the country in his Anatomy of Britain in 1962. His papers, made public for the first time, reveal an irresistible listener by Robert McCrum in the The Observer on February 22, 2012.
*To read please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _______________________________________________________
*XIV.* From Illinois To Mesopotamia
*Excavating sites in Egypt and the Near East, writing groundbreaking books and developing a talent for courting wealthy donors by John Ray on the Wall Street Journal website on February 23, 2012.
*To read please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _______________________________________________________
E.* IN the BUSINESS and FINANCE Category:
*XV. Elimination of Psych Services at Cedars-Sinai Could Foreshadow Similar Cutbacks Elsewhere
*By Stephen Barlas in the Psychiatric Times on February 8, 2012
*To read please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _______________________________________________________
XVI.* Research Shows Wealth-Greed Link, But Kindness Helps
**a) By Todd Essig on the Forbes Magazine website February, 28, 2012.
*b) Are rich people more unethical? By Amanda Gardner on the CNN Health.com website on* February 27, 2012.
*To read a) & b)please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _______________________________________________________
XVII.* ‘Big Data’ Got You Creeped Out? Transparency Can Help
*by Todd Essig on the Forbes Magazine website on February 27, 2012.
*To read please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _______________________________________________________
XIII.* Moral Hazard: A Tempest-Tossed Idea
*By Sheila Dewan in the New York Times on February 25, 2012.
**To read please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _______________________________________________________
*XIX.* Far From ‘a Total Loss’
*By Melanie Grayce West in the Wall Street Journal on February* 25, 2012.
*To read please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ______________________________________________________
*F.In the EDITORIALS Category:
*XX. Love and Death
*By Todd May in the New York Times on February 26, 2012.
*To read please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _______________________________________________________
G.* In the GENERAL NEWS Category:
XXI. Reforming Psychoanalysis Again
*The question for us now is to redraw those lines by George Makari, M.D. on his Revolution in Mind blog on the Psychology Today blogs on March 1, 2012.
*To read please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _______________________________________________________
XXII. IBM at Auschwitz, New Documents
a) by Edwin Black on the Reader Supported News website on February 28, 2012.
b) Auschwitz survivor Leon Greenman displays his number tattoo
*To read and view a) & b) please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ______________________________________________________
XXIII.* They’re, Like, Way Ahead of the Linguistic Currrrve
*by By Douglas Quenqua in the New York Times on February 27, 2012.
*To read please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _______________________________________________________
XXIV. The Savior Santorum: The Rise of White Male Religious Elitism
by Aaron Anson on the Huffington Post website on February 27, 2012.
*To read please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _______________________________________________________
XXV.* Hysteria, Heredity and Anti-Semitism
*Freud’s challenge to the Jewish stereotype’ – A Talk by Estelle Roith at the Freud Museum London.
*To read please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _______________________________________________________
XXVI.* Psychoanalysis & Dogs, Part 3: Freud’s Last Dog
By Edie Jarolim* on the Will My Dog Hate Me?* blog on February 20, 2012
*To read please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _______________________________________________________
XXVII.* The scientific argument for being emotional
***New research shows that our feelings are more important to our health than we ever thought. An expert explains by Hannah Tepper* on the Salon.com website on February 25, 2012 .
*To read please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _______________________________________________________
XXIII.* Marilyn & Joe
*By Mat Wilson on the American History website.
*To read please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _______________________________________________________
XXIX.* Life, With Dementia
by By Pam Belluck in the New York Times on February 25, 2012.
*To read please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _______________________________________________________
XXX.** An Interview with Marjorie McKinnon on Incest and Childhood Sexual Abuse
*by David Van Nuys, Ph.D. on the MentalHealth.net website Dec 14th 2011.
*To read please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _______________________________________________________
XXXI.* An Interview with Otto Kernberg, MD on Transference Focused Therapy
*by David Van Nuys, Ph.D. on the MentalHealthnet website on October 15th 2008.
To read please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _______________________________________________________
XXXII.** Branding a Soldier With ‘Personality Disorder’
**By James Daod in The New York Times on February 24, 2012.
To read please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _______________________________________________________
*XXXIII.* Atelier Works refreshes International Psychoanalytical Association branding
Atelier Works refreshes International Psychoanalytical Association branding By Emily Gosling* on the Design Work website on February 24, 2012.
*To read please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _______________________________________________________
XXXIV.** Trying to Find a Cry of Desperation Amid the Facebook Drama
*By Jan Hoffman in the New York Times on February 23, 2012
Dr. Megan A. Moreno has studied college students’ Facebook postings for signs of depression. Some showed signs of risk.
To read please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _______________________________________________________
H.* In the MOVIES Category:
XXXV. March 16th at 7 pm WCSPP Film Night: “Still Walking”
*COMING: March 16 at 7 p.m. WCSPP Film Night: “Still Walking”
Please join us. Wine and cheese will be served.
RSVP: Jane Bloomgarden, 914-472-8180 or jwillbloom@gmail.com
Location: Wainwright House, 260 Stuyvesant Ave, Rye NY 10580
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I.* In the OBITUARIES Category:
XXXVI. Ulric Neisser Is Dead at 83; Reshaped Study of the Mind
*By Douglas Martin in The New York Times on February 25, 2012.
*To read please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _______________________________________________________
J.* IN the ORAL HISTORY Category:
*XXXVII. Dining with Anna Freud
*By Isaac Tylim in the Buenos Aires Herald on October 16, 2011.
*To read please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _______________________________________________________
K.* In the PAPERS Category:
*XXXVIII. College Students and Suicide Risk
*Prevention and the Role of Academic Psychiatry Sidney Zisook, M.D.; Nancy Downs, M.D.; Christine Moutier, M.D.; Paula Clayton, M.D. in Academic Psychiatry 2012 ;36:1 on January 01, 2012.
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L. In the PHOTOGRAPHY Category:
XXXIX. Photography Friday
Untitled by Joel Seligmann
If you would like to have your photography considered for
internationalpsychoanalysis.net’s Photography Friday. please send you jpeg images to Joel Seligmann, the photo editor.
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XL.* 4 Planets & Moon Dominate Weekend Night Sky
*by Tariq Malik on the* SPACE.com* website on February 25, 2012.
*To read please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _________________________________________________
M.* In the SCIENCE NEWS Category:
*XLI. What’s Causing Cheerleader Hysteria? Signs of a Struggle Within the Brain
*To read please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _________________________________________________
XLII.* Consciousness Emerges
*Consciousness Emerges: Somewhere along a tangled path, sights, sounds and insights pop into awareness By Laura Sanders on the Science Times website on February 25th, 2012.
*To read please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _________________________________________________
N.* In the UNCATEGORIZED Category:
*XLIII. IPTAR CHILD & ADOLESCENT PSYCHOTHERAPY PROGRAM OPEN HOUSE Sunday, March 4th
*PLEASE JOIN US_for an informal gathering to learn about training at our
CHILD & ADOLESCENT PSYCHOTHERAPY PROGRAM_(the CAP program)_Sunday, March 4th, 3:00-5:00 p.m., At the home of Bettina Buschel, Faculty, graduates, and candidates* will be there to describe the program,, talk about their experience, and answer any questions. Refreshments will be served.** _
*To read please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ________________________________________________
This concludes the week’s menu on the website.* I urge you more than ever to share your thoughts with out global colleagues and with us. Your comments are very valuable and important for dissemination of psychoanalytic concepts and ideas.
*Respectfully submitted by
*Sasha Rolde