Dear Colleagues,
On the eve of a long weekend, I wanted to give you the opportunity to receive the contents of the international psychoanalytic website earlier, so that you would have time to read the posts with more leisure.
The variety of posts at least in my opinion is tied loosely together by a lighter than usual tone – perhaps to lift our mood out of the doldrums of the world’s environmental, financial and political turmoil. Of course that does not preclude some serious business -as in the Announcements which include advance notice of what to expect at the APsaA Chicago meetings.
The posts I want to point out are:
1) the numerous entries in the Art Category – to make you smile.
Click Here to Read this Category
2) Please note the 3) posts on therapy: the light hearted PRADA post, Glen Gabbard’s Psychoanalytic Therapy Session* via YouTube from The Royal Road*Psychoanalytic Approaches to the Dream and Herbert J. Schlessinger*s Colloquium On *Keeping Psychotherapy Efficient* .
Click Here to Read Psychoanalytic Therapy Session Article
Click Here to Read: The Interpretation of Dreams Article
Click Hee to Read: Herbert Schlesinger’s Article
3) The book review: Are You My Mother? by Alison Bechdel should be read by all – yet another book on the tortured mother-daughter relationship.
Click Here to Read This Article
I could not help but contrast it with the small children’s book by the same name, where the protagonist has momentarily loses its mother and on its quest for her it sadly asks every animal it meets ” are you my mother” until it finally finds it’s beloved mother and is happy again. If only life could be so simple.
4) A parallel between the present and the Vienna atmosphere in Freud’s lifetime is interesting to read – history does repeat itself as no one learns from it.
Click Here to Read This Article
5) Psychoanalysts should weigh in more on issues such as the post “Transgender Five-Year-Old” Please comment!
Click Here to Read This Article
6) Please read about the remarkable life and accomplishments of the Education Pioneer Annemarie Roeper.
Click Here to Read This Article
7) Yes, and all (esp. the doubters at APsaA) should read A Richer Life by Seeing the Glass Half Full. It’s now a scientific fact.
Click Here to Read This Article
_____________________________________________________________
Table of contents:
A. In the Announcements Category:
I. Helping Post Partum Mothers Attachment with their Babies
THE PACELLA PARENT CHILD CENTER
247 East 82nd St., between 2nd & 3rd, NY, NY 10028
212-665-6309
www.theparentchildcenter.org
Dear Colleague,
We would like to let you know about our mother support groups, where mothers attend with their babies and toddlers.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ___________________________________________________________________
II. The Treatment of Celebrity Patients with Ellen L. Mezan, Ph.D. at NYPSI
CELEBRATING A CENTURY OF ADVANCEMENT THROUGH SELF-KNOWLEDGE THE NEW YORK PSYCHOANALYTIC SOCIETY & INSTITUTE:
WORKS IN PROGRESS
Marianne and Nicholas Young Auditorium
247 East 82nd St., between 2nd & 3rd, NY, NY 10028
212-879-6900
www.psychoanalysis.org
Wednesday, June 6, 2012, 8:30 p.m. Donations Accepted
The Treatment of Celebrity Patients
Ellen L. Mezan, Ph.D.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ___________________________________________________________________
III. Towards An Understanding of Loneliness and Aloneness: At APSaA Conference 2012, Chicago, Illinois
Towards An Understanding of Loneliness and Aloneness: At APSaA Conference 2012, Chicago, Illinois
How does a psychoanalyst understand loneliness? Literary works through their dramatic characters allow us to examine and consider human passion, foibles and pain in a way that otherwise might not be as easily recognizable. We invite you to to a discussion by Dr. Jeffrey Stern about the loneliness of particular characters in …
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ___________________________________________________________________
IV. MITPP 2012 SUMMER INSTITUTE
WORKING WITH PARENTS AND CHILDREN OF DIVORCE
This six week clinical mini course will educate the therapist about legal issues, mandated reporting, letters to the court, subpoenas and establishing custody. The impact on children of separation and divorce, high conflict, the loss of the father, and the *caught in middle* syndrome will be explored. Parental capacity and goodness of fit with the child will be assessed. Other topics covered will be: who in the family to see, couples therapy, attachment and its *
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ___________________________________________________________________
B. In the ART Category:
V. The Jews of Tsarist Russia
to read about the upcoming YIVO Institute at the Center for Jewish History exhibit, *The Jews of Tsarist Russia,* which will be on view in the Constantiner Gallery, June 4 * August 31, 2012.
please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/
___________________________________________________________________
VI. The 2012 Whitney Biennial in New York City
by Clare Hurley from World Socialist Web Site on May 24, 2012.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ___________________________________________________________________
VII. Pinter*s The Caretaker at the Harvey Theater in Brooklyn: A classic has lost none of its power
by Fred Mazelis from World Socialist Web Site on May 23, 2012.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ___________________________________________________________________
VIII. Hysteria; Loose Cannons; film notes
by Sawyer J. Lahr from Windy City Media Group on May 23, 2012.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ___________________________________________________________________
IX. PRADA presents *A THERAPY*
by Prada via YouTube on May 22, 2012.
To viewplease go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ___________________________________________________________________
C. In the AUDIO/VIDEO Category:
X. Interview with Stuart Feder Discussing Gustav Mahler
Podcast of Interview with Stuart Feder Discussing Gustav Mahler on the Shrink Rap program on WNYC on October 25, 2004.
To listen, please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ________________________________________________________________
XI. Eigen, Kaballah, Psychoanalysis
Mike Eigen, a Bion scholar, has given several talks on Kaballah and psychoanalysis at the NYU postdoctoral program on Contemplative studies.
He*s generously offered that we can post them on IP.net
– Nathan Szajnberg, MD, Managing Editor
To listen to the rendered audio of three Kabbalah and Psychoanalysis seminars given by Michael Eigen, sponsored by the NYU Contemplative Studies Project, as well as another for NPAP 2010-2012, *Madness and Murder, Faith and Transformation, Contact with the Depths.*
please to go http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/
_______________________________________________________
XII. You*ve Got Paul J. Zak
To watch: *You*ve Got Paul J. Zak* via AOL.com, which features neuroeconomist Paul J. Zak explaining the role of oxytocin in allowing humans to feel more trust and love for one another.
please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/
Dr. Zak is the founding Director of the Center for Neuroeconomics Studies at Claremont Graduate University. He is also credited with the first published use of the term *neuroeconomics* * a discipline that integrates neuroscience and economics.
____________________________________________________________
XIII. Old Man In Nursing Home Reacts To Hearing Music From His Era
To watch *Alive Inside* posted on YouTube April 7, 2012, which follows the story of an elderly, typically depressed man in a nursing home who reacts positively to hearing music from his era
please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/
____________________________________________________________
XIV. Psychoanalytic Therapy Session
via YouTube from The Royal Road*Psychoanalytic Approaches to the Dream produced by Dr. Glenn Gabbard; Menninger Video in 1988.
to view and listen please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ____________________________________________________________
XV. Herbert J. Schlessinger on Keeping Psychotherapy Efficient at NYPSI (1989)
at the New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute on February 7, 1989.
a) To Introduction to Schlessinger*s Presentation and Part I:
b) Part 2 of Dr. Schlessinger*s Presentation:
c) Part 3 of Dr. Schlessinger*s Presentation:
d) Question and Answer Period with Dr. Schlessinger:
to view and listen a), b), c) & d) please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/
____________________________________________________________
D. In the BOOKS Category:
XVI. Are You My Mother? by Alison Bechdel
Review by Laura Miller from The Guardian on May 24, 2012.
To read please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ____________________________________________________________
XVII. Bert Cohler, Psychoanalysis and the Classroom with Intro by Nathan Szajnberg
Bert presented this paper, co-authored with Bob Galatzer-Levy, at a conference honoring Bruno Bettelheim and held at the University of Chicago, in the very room where Dr. B. would teach. This paper and others presented are published in *Educating the Emotions: Bruno Bettelheim and Psychoanalytic Development,* edited by this managing editor.
The paper speaks to the intent and meaning in Learning and Teaching. For instance, Bert relates how the University revised its first year social science and humanities curriculum to better accommodate the *.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ____________________________________________________________
XVIII. Laplanche in Translation: Freud and the Sexual
To read more and to order please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ____________________________________________________________
XIX. Jackie O. Book by Alma Bond Finalist in 2012 International Book Awards
Jackie O: On the Couch, Inside the Mind and Life of Jackie Kennedy Onassis by Alma H. Bond is an Award-Winning Finalist in the Fiction: Historical category of the 2012 International Book Awards.
On the PRWeb website on May 24, 2012.
to read more and to buy This Book and Other Books by Alma Bond, please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/
______________________________________________________________________
XX. Schlesinger on Psychoanalysis
Herb Schlesinger presented the 47th Freud Anniversary Lecture at the Psychoanalytic Association of New York on April 21st on how we know we are doing psychoanalysis. We will summarize that presentation in the near future. Until then, here is a review of his gem-like classic, The Texture of Treatment. It is reprinted from the Hebrew, Sichot. N. Szajnberg, MD.
Book Review: The Texture of Treatment: On the Matter of
Psychoanalytic Technique. Herbert J. Schlesinger (2003) Analytic Press.
By Nathan Szajnberg, MD and Keren Segal, BA *.
to read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ __________________________________________________________________
XXI. Alain Badiou: a life in writing
written by Stuart Jeffries from The Gaurdian on May 18, 2012.
to read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ____________________________________________________________________
XXII. Their Sense of Belonging: A historian vividly reconstructs Eastern Europe as a place of Jewish life rather than of Jewish death.
written by Timothy Snyder from The Wall Street Journal on May 18, 2012.
to read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ___________________________________________________________________
XXIII. Review of The Life and Death of Psychoanalysis: On Unconscious Desire and its Sublimation by Jamieson Webster
Joanna Kellond *Deciding How to Live: Review of The Life and Death of Psychoanalysis: On Unconscious Desire and its Sublimation by Jamieson Webster in Excursions, 3, 1 (2012).
to read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ______________________________________________________________________
E. In the GENERAL NEWS Category:
XXIV. The Interpretation of Alastair Campbell*s Dreams
by Anouchka Grose from The Gaurdian on May 24, 2012.
to read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ______________________________________________________________________
XXV. With Europe on the brink, the U.K. faces its own crises
by Niall Ferguson from his Daily Beast blog, London*s Last Waltz, on May 21, 2012.
The article provides an interesting description of the environment in which Freud was living and working.
to read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ______________________________________________________________________
XXVI. Transgender at Five?* Hormone treatment in childhood and sex
What decisions should small children be permitted to make? By Mona Charen on the National Review Online website on May 22, 2012.
to read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ______________________________________________________________________
XXVII. Education Pioneer Annemarie Roeper Passes Away
written by Julie M. Rodriguez from the Care2 website posted on May 20, 2012.
to read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ______________________________________________________________________
XXVIII. Depressed people spend more time chatting online
By Linda Carroll on the tails at MSNBC website on May 18, 2012.
to read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ______________________________________________________________________
XXIX. Mary R. Kennedy*s Death Teaches What United Behavioral Health Forgets: Depression Kills
by Todd Essig on the Forbes Magazine website on May 19, 2012.
to read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ______________________________________________________________________
XXX. Today is 506 Anniversary of the death of Christopher Columbus
Was Columbus secretly a Jew? By Charles Garcia on the CNN website on May 20, 2012.
View the picture of Christopher Columbus bids farewell to his son Diego at Palos, Spain, before embarking on his first voyage on August 3, 1492.
and to read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ______________________________________________________________________
XXXI. Dr. Blumenfield Assumes Presidency of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis and Dynamic Psychiatry
by Michael Blumenfeld on the Psychiatry Talk website on May 18, 2012.
to read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ______________________________________________________________________
F. In the MOVIES Category:
XXXII. Two significant works: Fritz Lang*s House by the River (1950) and Carol Reed*s The Third Man (1949)
by Kevin Kearney from the World Socialist Web Site on May 22, 2012.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ____________________________________________________________
XXXIII. The Story of Melancholia
by *sa Jansson on the History of Emotions website on The Story of Melancholia on November 28, 2011.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ____________________________________________________________
XXXIV. Review of Bully by Selma Duckler
Bully is a very popular highly rated documentary playing in first run theaters around the country now.
25 years ago a documentary of this type would have been shown to select parent teacher groups or other education/school groups, and it would have been shocking. It would not have been shown in movie theaters along with the movie fare of the day because it wouldn*t have been considered marketable*..
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ____________________________________________________________
XXXV. Review of Jeff Who Lives at Home by Selma Duckler
Jeff Who Lives at Home is a film with a theme of loss that is advertised as a comedy, criticized as being contrived, and given consistent high ratings because it was seen as inspiring.
Jeff is a conflicted 30 year old man who belies his anxieties with a laid back manner, his bulky body in loose athletic clothing, his face, still so boy like that one easily dismisses the intense absorbed look that makes Jeff seem not quite connected with the real world. He has a soft appearance that is likable, but lacks any suggestion of strength*despite a big muscular body.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ____________________________________________________________
G. In the MUSIC Category:
XXXVI. Mahler on the Couch
Wednesday, May 23rd, 2012
*Mahler on the Couch* Recounts Fateful Therapy Session How Mahler Channeled a Marital Crisis into the Tenth Symphony Wednesday By Brian Wise on the WQXR blog on May 23, 2012.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ____________________________________________________________
H. In the SCIENCE NEWS:
XXXVII. A Richer Life by Seeing the Glass Half Full
by Jane E. Brody*s from The New York Times on May 21, 2012.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ____________________________________________________________
XXXVIII. Drugs Help Tailor Alcoholism Treatment
by Douglas Quenqua in The New York Times on May 21, 2012.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ____________________________________________________________
XXXIX. Paralysed woman moves robot with her mind
a) by Nature Video on YouTube.
to view please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net. _____________________________________________________________
b) Paralyzed, Moving a Robot With Their Minds by Benedict Carey in The New York Times on May 16, 2012.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ __________________________________________________________________
I wish you all a relaxed holiday, enjoyable reading and again encourage you to write your comments on the website.
Respectfully submitted by
Sasha Rolde