Dear colleagues,
Toward the end of August while we enjoy the last few weeks of vacation, let the posts on the international psychoanalyst website keep you abreast of issues important to us a analysts. Whether it is heroism or the demise of education, identity formation or bullying, we will all find something of interestl
In addition to the total list, I have chosen a few which caught my eye as being of importance to me. My choices this week include the following:
1) Watching the flight thru the universe and the video of the next Mars Rover in Action suggested to me a flight thru the unconscious and the peeling of the layers of defenses – see what your think.
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2) The psychology of heroism – good topic but inn my opinion the article only scratches the surface. Can we do better?
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3) Understanding the hoarder’s brain – does this post explain the cause or the effect? Please read the post.
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t4) A lovely story of how a “child learns that she matters” is a stunning example of identity formation/consolidation in adolescence of many children in families where the struggle to survive takes precedence over focus on psychological needs.
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5) How the American University Was Killed – please read a pretty accurate statement that dovetails with what happened in medicine & I might add to us – it’s the “money” (makes the world go ’round)
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6) Was it Ayn Rand, or the people she attracted? What do you think?
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7) Please read A. Kumar’s Antarctic State of Mind – a description of an emotional state under extreme conditions and a salute to man’s psychological potential.
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8) In case you didn’t know or realized by now, Managed Behavioral Health Care may shorten your life.
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9) Please view Warren Procci’s overview of psychoanalysis
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In the ANNOUNCEMENTS CATEGORY:
I. Nominations for NYPSI*s Leon Kupferstein Memorial Award CELEBRATING A CENTURY OF ADVANCEMENT THROUGH SELF-KNOWLEDGE THE NEW YORK PSYCHOANALYTIC SOCIETY & INSTITUTE:
LEON KUPFERSTEIN MEMORIAL AWARD
247 East 82nd St., between 2nd & 3rd, NY, NY 10028
212-879-6900
www.psychoanalysis.org
A CALL FOR NOMINATIONS FOR NYPSI*S LEON KUPFERSTEIN MEMORIAL AWARD FOR INNOVATION IN PSYCHOANALYSIS
The New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute (NYPSI) formally announces the first call for nominations for the Leon Kupferstein Memorial Award for Innovation in Psychoanalysis.
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II. 2012 Program Summary from YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, which will kick off with Tuesday, September 4 at 7 PM with a lecture from Marc Caplan titled *Watch the Throne: Spectacle and Specters in the Stories of Reb Nakhmen and Der Nister.
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III. A Tribute to Shelly Bach at NYU Postdoc
SAVE THE DATE:
Sunday Nov. 18, 10-4 at NYU Kimmel Center
Original papers will be presented by Shelly Bach, Ph.D., Eugene Mahon, M.D., Steve Ellman, Ph.D., and Aaron Thaler, Ph.D.,with short tributes by Postdoc members. The speakers will discuss Shelly*s influence, as a person and thinker, on their own work.
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IV. Absolute Truth and Unbearable Psychic Pain: Book Party with Allan Frosch at IPTAR
SAVE THE DATE:
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 9 3:00-5:30PM,
IPTAR WEST140 WEST 97TH
ABSOLUTE TRUTH AND UNBEARABLE PSYCHIC PAIN: Psychoanalytic Perspectives On Concrete Experience EDITED BY ALLAN FROSCH THE CIPS SERIES ON THE BOUNDARIES OF PSYCHOANALYSIS Karnac
To read more, please go to http://international psychoanalysis.net/ __________________________________________________________________
V. APsaA Teacher*s Academy
THE AMERICAN PSYCHOANALYTIC ASSOCIATION
3rd Annual PSYCHOANALYTIC & PSYCHODYNAMIC
TEACHERS* ACADEMY
A Professional Development Program for Clinical Teachers of Psychoanalysis and/or Psychodynamic Therapy in:
Psychiatry Residency Programs
Psychology Graduate Programs
Clinical Social Work Programs
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B. In the ART Category:
VI. A Month in the Country
Thursday, August 16th, 2012
Click Here to Read: Group Psychoanalysis on a Russian Estate: *A Month in the Country,* at Williamstown Theater Festival, Reviewed by Ben Brantley in The New York Times on August 10, 2012.
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C. In the AUDIO/VIDEO Category
VII. Flight Through the Universe
Astronomy Picture of the Day: A Flight Through the Universe, by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey on YouTube.
To read & view more, please go to http://international psychoanalysis.net/ __________________________________________________________________
VIII. Mars Curiosity. Very Nice Video of the Next Mars Rover
Video of the Next Mars Rover in Action, watch in High Definition on YouTube.
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IX. Psychoanalysis of Bruce Wayne as Batman
a video in the Emery Looks At Hollywood Series on the Emery The Post website on August 15, 2012.
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X. Rep. Jackson being treated for bipolar depression, clinic says
by the CNN Wire Staff on August 14, 2012.
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XI. The psychology of heroism: Why some people leap in front of bullets
by John Cloud from Time.com on August 13, 2012.
To read & view more, please go to http://international psychoanalysis.net/ __________________________________________________________________
XII. Science Book Review: “Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud & Civilization and Its Discontents by Sigmund Freud”
a) by Sigmund Freud* by James Strachey from ScienceBookMix on Aug 12, 2012.
*Science Book Review: Civilization and Its Discontents by Sigmund Freud* by James Strachey & Peter Gay from ScienceBookMix on Aug 12, 2012.
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XIII. Inside the hoarder*s brain: A unique problem with decision-making
by Maia Szalavitz from Time.com on August 7, 2012.
To read & view more, please go to http://international psychoanalysis.net/ __________________________________________________________________
XIV.Night of the Murdered Poets
a) Night of the Murdered Poets Article on Wikipedia.
b) Brokshtiker (Shards) by Peretz Markish on YouTube.
To read & view a) & b), please go to http://international psychoanalysis.net/ __________________________________________________________________
D.In the BOOKS Category:
XV. Learning to Matter
Learning to Matter: Review of Looking for Me * In This Great Big Family by Betsy R. Rosenthal, Reviewed by Ellen Handler Spitz on The Book, the online review website of The New Republic on August 15, 2012.
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XVI. Job by Isaac Bashevis Singer
Translated by David Stromberg, in The New Yorker on August 14, 2012. This story was first published in Yiddish in 1970.
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XVII. From Hunger by Harvey Roy Greenberg
FROM HUNGER by Harvey Roy Greenberg
An earlier version of Dr. Greenberg*s review appeared in his column, THE MEDIA ON MY MIND: ADVENTURES IN POP CULTURE, published by Clinical Psychiatry News.*
The Hunger Games, a novel by Stephanie Collins
The Hunger Games, the film, directed by Gary Ross
Philosophers since Plato have portrayed Utopias * earlthy paradises crafted and lead by the best of the best. Science fiction mainly favors dystopian hells over utopian heavens. In story or film, dystopian futures may be precipitated by natural disaster or alien attack. In recent years, they*ve been emerging from our assaults upon the planet or each other. (more*)
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XVIII. Absolute Truth and Unbearable Psychic Pain: Book Party with Allan Frosch at IPTAR
BOOK PARTY: SAVE THE DATE SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 9 3:00-5:30PM, IPTAR WEST140 WEST 97TH
ABSOLUTE TRUTH AND UNBEARABLE PSYCHIC PAIN: Pychoanalytic Perspectives On Concrete Experience EDITED BY ALLAN FROSCH THE CIPS SERIES ON THE BOUNDARIES OF PSYCHOANALYSIS Karnac (more*)
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XIX. How Ayn Rand Seduced Young Men and Helped Make the U.S. into an Uncaring Nation By Bruce Levine The Bruce Levine website on December 17, 2011.
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XX. *Seven-fold Betrayal*: The Murder of Soviet Yiddish
by Joseph Sherman on the Midstream website July/august 2002 issue.
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E. IN the EDITORIALS Category
XXI. How The American University was Killed, in Five Easy Steps
on the Homeless Adjunct Blog on August 12, 2012.
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XXII. Beware a Beautiful Calm
By Maureen Dowd in The New York Times on August 18, 2012.
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XXIII. An Antarctic State of Mind
by Alexander Kumar from The New York Times on August 13, 2012.
Alexander Kumar, a physician and researcher at Concordia Station, writes from Antarctica, where he conducts scientific experiments for the European Space Agency*s human spaceflight program.
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XXIV. The Bullying Culture of Medical School
by Pauline W. Chen, M.D. from The New York Times on August 9, 2012.
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F. In the GENERAL NEWS Category:
XXV. On Depression Studies
a) A Systematic Review of Comparative Efficacy of Treatments and Controls for Depression by Arif Khan, James Faucett, Pesach Lichtenberg, Irving Kirsch, Walter A. Brown in the Plos One Journal website
b) *Depression medicine, placebo equally effective* By Judy Siegel-Itzkovich in the Jerusalem Post on August 16, 2012.
To read a) & b) please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ __________________________________________________________________
XXVI. The disconnect syndrome
by Purba Dutt in the Times of India on August 19, 2012.
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XVII. Psychotango anyone?: Psychoanalysis in Argentina
Do Argentines Need Therapy? Pull Up a Couch By Simon Romero in The New York Times on August 18, 2012.
The practice of psychoanalysis has surged in Argentina, like at this Buenos Aires studio, even as it has declined in the United States and other countries.
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XXIII. Overview of Psychoanalysis
Overview of Psychoanalysis with Warren Procci for About.com on YouTube.
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XXIV. Pussy Riot Loses the Battle, But Have They Won the War?
by Dan Amira in New York magazine on August 15, 2012.
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XXV.Local Programs Give a Psychoanalytic Voice to Welcoming Home Service Members and Veterans
Local Programs Give a Psychoanalytic Voice to Welcoming Home Service Members and Veterans on the American Psychoanalytic Association website on August 14, 2012.
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XXVI. Woman Becomes First Openly Gay General
by Matthew L. Wald from The New York Times on August 12, 2012.
An Army officer being promoted to brigadier general openly acknowledged her homosexuality on Friday by having her wife pin her star to her uniform, thus becoming the first openly gay officer of flag rank in the United States military.
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XXVII. Struggling With an Abusive Aging Parent
By Marc E. Agronin, M.D. in The New York Times on August 13, 2012.
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XVIII. Degenerative Brain Disease Threatens Afghan War Vets
David Wood on the Huffington Post website on August 15, 2012.
A Blackhawk helicopter lifts wounded troops from a battlefield in Afghanistan.
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XXIX. If Romney beats Obama, Ryan will set the tone and call the shots and call the shots* by Martin Kettle from The Gaurdian on August 15, 2012.
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XXX. Pussy Riot Closing Statements
by the band members, translated by Maria Corrigan and Elena Glazov-Corrigan from n+1 magazine on August 13, 2012.
a) Chess Champ Garry Kasparov: *They Were Trying to Break My Leg* on the Daily Beast website on August 17, 2012.
b) Pussy Riot, Modern Russian Women Trapped in Putin*s Time Machine on the Daily Beast website on August 18, 2012.
To read a) & b) please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ __________________________________________________________________
XXXI. A Tribute to David Rakoff
by Kathi Wolfe from Washington Blade on August 15, 2012, which honors the actor who played Freud on Barneys New York 1996 Christmas display.
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XXXII. Chalk a Sidewalk, Go to Jail
MAP: Across the nation, police are arresting adults and even citing kids for temporary drawings By Josh Harkinson in Mother Jones Magazine on August 14, 2012.
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XXXIII. Binge Eating Among Men Steps Out of the Shadows
By Abby Ellin in The New York Times on August 13, 2012.
Matt Roth for The New York Times
FIRSTHAND Andrew Walen, a recovering binge eater, now counsels others.
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XXXIV. James Holmes, aka The Llama
Bizarre photo, impressive docs from grad school application By Michael Roberts on The Latest Word Website on August 13 2012.
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XXXV. Association between psychological distress and mortality
individual participant pooled analysis of 10 prospective cohort studies in Brittish Medical Journal 2012;345:e4933 on July 31 2012.
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XXXVI. *Mere Anarchy* on James Holmes by Harvey Roy Greenberg
It*s still far too early in the aftermath of the lethal game which James Holmes played out in an Aurora, Colorado multiplex to get more than a shadow of a read about his motivation. his narrative. Psychoanalysts possess a native madness to interpret * it*s in our blood. Few verified details have emerged about Holmes prior life, hardly enough to piece together a coherent pictures of the inner man, or the external circumstances which might have precipitated his murderous scenario.
At this point, I will only address some aspects of the Aurora massacre
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XXXVII. War Wounds
By Nichola D. Kristof in The New York Times on August 10, 2012.
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XXXVIII. What*s So Bad About a Boy Who Wants to Wear a Dress?
By Ruth H Padawer in The New York Times on August 8, 2012
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XXXIX. In Defense of Single Motherhood
By Katie Roiphe in The New York Times on August 11, 2012.
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XL. Managed Behavioral Health Care Just May Shorten Your Life
by Todd Essig on the Forbes Magazine website on August 10, 2012.
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XLI. Beware the Nocebo Effect
By Paul Enck and Winfried Hauser in The New York Times on August 10, 2012.
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G. In the GUTHRIE CENTENARY Category:
XLII. Woody Guthrie Centenary
As Woody Turns 100, We Protest Too Little By Lawrence Downes in The New York Times on August 18, 2012.
The life of Woody Guthrie, who died in 1967, will be celebrated at the Kennedy Center, but respectability was never his goal
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H. In the MOVIES Category:
XLIV. Bernardo Bertolucci*s rise and fall
Sydney Film Festival*Part 6: Bernardo Bertolucci*s rise and fall By Richard Phillips on the World Socialist Website on August 19, 2012.
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XLV. Sydney Film Festival 2012*Part 4: Two love stories and a couple of class-conscious dramas from Korea and Brazil
by Robert Maras from World Socialist Web Site on August 15, 2012.
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XLVI. The Queen of Versailles: American *royalty* seeks to build its own palace
By Fred Mazelis on the World Social Web Site on August 11, 2012.
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XLVII. My Queen: The last days of the ancien r*gime
By Stefan Steinberg on the World Socialist Web Site on August 11, 2012.
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I. In The OBITUARIES Category:
XLVIII. Bluma Swerdloff 1915- 2012
in the New York Times on August 15, 2012.
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J. In the PAPERS Category:
XLIX. Analysts Living Longer: But, How do We Practice?
We have paired companion pieces, the first we run now and was published in 2001, written by an industrial engineer (retired). He documents the longer life span of (male) analysts. My guess, given the series out of London of elderly female analysts, we might find the same for women.
But, the follow-up piece we will run is on the nature of clinical practice as we age. This article by Eisenstein comes to us thanks to Jimmy Fisher in LA and his colleague Dr. Hoffs. Give us your thoughts.
N. Szajnberg, MD Managing Editor.
The Mortality of Psychoanlaysts by Edward Jeffreys (more*)
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K. In the PLAYS Caegory:
L. In the Tantalising take on Oedipus
by Chris Boyd from The Australian on August 16, 2012.
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LI. Freud, Dali and a truly barmy farce
by Quentin Letts from The Daily Mail on August 9, 2012.
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L. in the SCIENCE NEWS Category:
LII. Researchers provide exciting first glimpse into the competitive brain
by Medical Xpress on the Medical Xpress Research Ewebsite on August 13, 2012.
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LIII.Princeton study reveals the brain*s mysterious switchboard operator
by Morgan Kelly on the Princeton University website on August 17, 2012.
Princeton University researchers have found that the pulvinar, a mysterious region deep in the human brain, acts like a switchboard operator to make sure that separate areas of the brain are communicating about the same external information most important to our behavior at a given moment. The pulvinar uses electrical impulses to synchronize and allow more effective communication between brain cells in the visual cortex, which processes visual information. The researchers produced neural connection maps that show the pulvinar*s connection to these brain regions. In this scan, the pulvinar communicates with the occipital lobe (yellow) and the temporal lobe (red) individually, and with both (green). Image courtesy of Science/AAAS
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LIV. Study of Judges Finds Evidence From Brain Scans Led to Lighter Sentences
by Benedict Carey from The New York Times on August 16, 2012.
Judges who learned that a convicted assailant was genetically predisposed to violence imposed lighter sentences in a hypothetical case than they otherwise would have, researchers reported on Thursday, in the most rigorous study to date of how behavioral biology can sway judicial decisions.
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LV. Breakthrough research shows heroin addiction can be blocked with new drug
from AFP Relax News on August 16, 2012.
Drug known as plus-naloxone *reduces the reward level down to the equivalent of food, sex, and hugs.* Could be used to treat addicts or patients who need pain relief, but are worried about becoming addicted.
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LVI. The Teenage Brain: Dr. Jay Giedd of the National Institute of Mental Health
on the Monthly Prescribing Website on August16, 2012.
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LVII. U.K. Recession Drives More Than 1,000 To Suicide: Study
*U.K. Recession Drives More Than 1,000 To Suicide: Study* by Kate Kelland from Reuters on August 15, 2012.
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M. In the UNCATEGORIZED Category:
LVIII. Paul Ryan*s Anti-Intellectual Center
by Todd Essig on the Forbes Magazine website on August 17, 2012.
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Please remain undaunted and invigorated by the long list and enjoy the timely topics this week. If your time permits, please write your comments on the website.
Respectfully submitted by
Sasha Rolde