Dear colleagues,
Early September events are now cropping up on the international website, and those of you who have access to NYC are thus getting advance notice in this post.
My own choices are listed as follows:
1.) For those of us who treat children, the post on the rise of eating disorders in children is particularly important. In my opinion, not enough emphasis is placed on the importance of counseling parents regarding their role. Please read.
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2) Similarly, “raising the Ritalin generation” should give all pause, especially since in the past decade, antipsychotics like risperdal have been added to the endless list of anti-ADHD medications for children, whose lives would be much improved if their environments and the adults who deal with them could change.
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2) Jan Van Schaik’s OpED post on “toward a less prosperous America”, as well as another on the “veil of opulence” give food for thought to those of us who wonder about the meaning of money vs. human values and relationships. Hope you read them.
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3) “Haunted by Voices” – not just a psychotic symptom? did S. Freud, Martin Luther Kind and others also hear them? I had treated a woman in her 70’s years ago. She heard someone singing lot of the time. Her PCP sent her to me at a clinic. She was given antipsychotic medication. The singing voices stopped. I asked if she felt better. She said “Doctor, I really miss them.”
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4) I am intrigued by the notion that James Eagan Holmes May Have Been Psychologically Unable to Not Go on a Killing Spree. Is there “free will” or not? What does that say about our psychoanalytic theory?
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5) Selma Duckler’s very detailed review of the Israeli film “the Matchmaker” is a treat for those interested in past and current life in Israel.
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6) There is a treat waiting for you when you read Vamik Volkan’s so-timely paper on Extreme Religious Fundamentalism and Violence.
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7) Please note the study on high #, ca. 38%, of US doctors admitting to emotional exhaustion and burnout, affecting not just them but their patients and their families. It is not clear if this includes mental health professionals, but it may be important to study our group, as the article describes a high degree of “depersonalization” toward patients, viewing them as objects.
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The total list of contents is listed below:
A. In the ANNOUNCEMENTS Category:
I. Doctors of the Dark Side at Mt. Sinai NYC
Mt. Sinai NYC Sept 6 screening of Doctors of the Dark Side SCREENING AND DISCUSSION
A documentary about the critical role of physicians and psychologists in detainee torture.
WHERE: Mt. Sinai School of Medicine, Annenberg Building,
1468 Madison Ave, New York City 13th Floor Room 13-01
WHEN: Thursday, September 6, at 6 PM
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ __________________________________________________________________
II. What Heals? Keeping Resilience in Mind at CFS-NY
Contemporary Freudian Society *
NY Division Scientific Programs 2012 * 2013
What Heals? Keeping Resilience in Mind
CFS-NY Annual Conference,
Sunday, October 21, 2012, 1:00 * 5:00 pm
Mt. Sinai Medical Center, Hatch Auditorium,
Madison Avenue & 100th Street
Early Registration: $65 CFS Members; $75 non-Members; $20 Candidates and full-time students
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ __________________________________________________________________
III. August Strindberg*s Late Plays with George Mandelbaum at NYPSI
CELEBRATING A CENTURY OF ADVANCEMENT THROUGH SELF-KNOWLEDGE THE NEW YORK PSYCHOANALYTIC SOCIETY & INSTITUTE:
Extension Committee
247 East 82nd St., between 2nd & 3rd, NY, NY, 10028
212-879-6900
www.psychoanalysis.org
PSYCHOANALYSIS & DRAMA: AUGUST STRINDBERG*S LATE PLAYS
George Mandelbaum, Ph.D.
Mondays 7:30 * 9 pm, September 24, October 1, 8, 15, & 22, 2012, (5 sessions), Fee: $125
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ __________________________________________________________________
IV. Conference on Women and Creativity in Genoa in September * Book Now
IPA President-Elect Stefano Bolognini will be giving the opening presentation at the *Women and Creativity* Conference, organized by the IPA*s Committee on Women and Psychoanalysis (COWAP).
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ __________________________________________________________________
V. International Psychoanalytic Association Bulletin #26 for August, 2012
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ __________________________________________________________________
VI. A Professional Development Program for Clinical Teachers of Psychoanalysis and/or Psychodynamic Therapy at APsaA
PSYCHOLOGIST APPLICATIONS DEADLINE EXTENDED UNTIL
September 10, 2012
THE AMERICAN PSYCHOANALYTIC ASSOCIATION
3rd Annual
PSYCHOANALYTIC & PSYCHODYNAMIC
TEACHERS* ACADEMY
A Professional Development Program for
Clinical Teachers of
Psychoanalysis and/or Psychodynamic Therapy in:
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ __________________________________________________________________
B. In the AUDIO/VIDEO Category:
VII. Child eating disorders on the rise
By Cindy Harb on the CNN website on August 22, 2012.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ __________________________________________________________________
C. In the BOOKS Category:
VIII. Simon Reynolds interviews Greil Marcus
a)*Myths and Depths: Greil Marcus talks to Simon Reynolds (Part 1)* from Los Angeles Review of Books on April 27th, 2012.
b) part two, c) part three, and d)part four.
To read parts a),b),c) & d) please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/
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IX. Searching Through the Ashes of an Exploded Life
a review of D. T. Max*s biography of David Foster Wallace from The New York Times on August 22, 2012 by Michiko Kakutani.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ __________________________________________________________________
X. The Einsteins of Sex
by Benjamin Ivry from the Jewish Daily Forward on August 21, 2012.
More than just spiritual forefathers of the sex therapist and ex-Haganah sniper Ruth Westheimer, a trio of German Jewish sexologists preceded Sigmund Freud in innovations. Magnus Hirschfeld (1868*1935); Iwan Bloch (1872*1922); and Albert Moll (1862*1939) are no longer household names, but they star in Modernism and Perversion: Sexual Deviance in Sexology and Literature, 1850-1930.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ __________________________________________________________________
XI. The Flawed Hero of Penn State Sports
a review of Joe Posnanski*s biography of Penn State coach, Joe Paterno, by Dwight Garner from The New York Times on August 20, 2012.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ __________________________________________________________________
D. In the EDITORIALS Category:
XII. Haunted By The Voices
by Cathy Saunders from The West Australian on August 23, 2012.
Sir Anthony Hopkins heard them. So did Martin Luther King, Carl Jung, Sigmund Freud, Mahatma Gandhi, Joan of Arc and Socrates. These well-known identities have all reported hearing voices * a phenomenon which is reasonably common, with 4-10 per cent of the population admitting to it.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ __________________________________________________________________
XIII. Versions of Stoppard
from the September/October 2012 edition of INTELLIGENT LIFE magazine, a bi-monthly lifestyle and culture magazine from The Economist.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ __________________________________________________________________
XIV. The Veil of Opulence
By Benjamin Hale on The Stone Blog on The New York Times Opinionator website on August 12, 2012.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ __________________________________________________________________
XV. Anxiety: Child*s Play
by Kara Baskin from The Anxiety Series of The New York Times on August 20, 2012.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ __________________________________________________________________
XVI. A move toward a less prosperous America
an OpEd piece by Jan Van Schaik from the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel on August 18, 2012.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ __________________________________________________________________
XVII. Raising the Ritalin Generation
by Bronwen Hruska from The New York Times on August 18, 2012.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ __________________________________________________________________
E. In the GENERAL NEWS Category:
XVIII. Going public with depression
By Kat Kinsman on the CNN website on August 22, 2012.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ __________________________________________________________________
XIX. James Eagan Holmes May Have Been Psychologically Unable to Not Go on a Killing Spree
Lowell McDonald by Lowell McDonald on the policymic website on August 21, 2012.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ __________________________________________________________________
F. In the GUTHRIE CENTENARY Category:
XX. Woody Guthrie Centenary
Do Re Mi by Woody Guthrie on YouTube.
To listen please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ __________________________________________________________________
G. In the MOVIES Category:
XXI. Matchmaker Movie Review by Selma Duckler
The Matchmaker, directed by Avi Nesher is an Israeli film shown at the Israel film festival, that won 7 awards and was a candidate for best Israel film.It is a charming,delightful, and bittersweet film. it takes place in Haifa and It is not a political or a war film although politics and war are part of the reality of this story. The opening scene is in 2006 when the city is bombarded with Lebanese missiles,and even though we are focused on personal stories, we see some of the chaos, and throughout the movie, we are made aware of alarming newspaper headlines.The story quickly moves to remembrance of times past.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ __________________________________________________________________
H. In the OBITUARIES Category:
XXII. THE ESCAPE ARTIST: The death and life of Stefan Zweig
by Leo Carey from The New Yorkers on August 27, 2012.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ __________________________________________________________________
I. In the PAPERS Category:
XXIII. Extreme Religious Fundamentalism and Violence: Some Psychoanalytic Psychopolitical Thoughts
by Vamik Volkan on his website.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ __________________________________________________________________
J. In the PHOTOGRAPHY Category:
XXIV. Michael Arlow*s Photographs from Poland
Please view at http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/
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K. In the SCIENCE NEWS Category:
XXV. Father*s Age Is Linked to Risk of Autism and Schizophrenia
by Benedict Carey from The New York Times on August 22, 2012.
Older men are more likely than young ones to father a child who develops autism or schizophrenia, because of random mutations that become more numerous with advancing paternal age, scientists reported on Wednesday, in the first study to quantify the effect as it builds each year. The age of mothers had no bearing on the risk for these disorders, the study found.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ __________________________________________________________________
XXVI. How Well You Sleep May Hinge on Race
by Douglas Quenqua from The New York Times on August 20, 2012.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ __________________________________________________________________
XXVII. Nearly half of US doctors struggle with burnout:
Study by Frederik Joelving from Reuters on August 21, 2012.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ __________________________________________________________________
XVIII. 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/ __________________________________________________________________
There is a lot of pertinent contemporary material to digest in this week’s posts. I hope that you will take time to enjoy and thoughtfully discuss the implications of many of them, and write your comments on the website.
Thank you.
Respectfully submitted by
Sasha Rolde