Dear Colleagues,
Though back to your busy fall routines, I hope that you will be able to take time to glance at the international psychoanalytic website this weekend. It has been a politically charged one globally and some of this unrest is reflected in our posts. On the eve of the Jewish holidays and anniversary of 9/11, it seems particularly important that we apply our psychoanalytic understanding to these issues.
My choices this week are:
1) 2 announcements of events related to children in the ANNOUNCEMENTS Category ( I. re Latency, & II.re child soldiers in Sierra Leone.) Try to attend if you can.
Click Here to Read This Article on Latency
Click Here to Read This Article on Children in the Sierra Leone
2) Please read the 9/11 hind sight. Did the US know but didn’t want to know? Echo of the 1930’s?
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3) Years ago I traveled across Canada. Driving thru the many miles of burnt forests with dead tree trunks as evidence of the trauma, made me think of the centuries of trauma, repression and recollection that we see in human history, the PTSD in our patients, etc. To me at that time it brought back the Holocaust. There have been many disasters before and since. Though I have not yet read it, I suspect that Candace Savage’s book ” A Geography of Blood: Unearthing Memory from a Prairie Lanscape” would evoke similar associations. I suggest it if you are interested in trauma and its repression.
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4) Please let us become more vocal on how to discipline children in public schools. Read this week’s post, comment, have suggestions, think about it.
It is our responsibility to contribute. Children are the future. If we traumatize them, we do it to posterity.
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5) I am impressed by Russell Jacoby’s continued contributions to the history of psychoanalysis – as evidenced in the post: “When Freud Came to America”
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6) Nowhere in the posts do we see the reflection of disaster more than in the movies – please read “Take Shelter and Melancholia: Apocalypse in Film.
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7) More on our financial survival: Medical Insurance 2012 or 1903? “Government Aid or Self-Help”
by Alfred Adler
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Below is the entire list of this week’s posts:
A. In the ANNOUNCEMENTS Category:
I. Coherence, Competence & Confusion in Fictional Narratives of Latency with Lissa Weinstein, 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, October 3, 2012, 8:30 p.m. Donations Accepted
Coherence, Competence & Confusion in Fictional Narratives of Latency: A Look at How the Real is Remembered Lissa Weinstein, Ph.D.
To read more, please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _____________________________________________________________________
II. Trauma & Resilience: Child Soldiers in Sierra Leone with Dr. Roberto Raver at NYPSI
CELEBRATING A CENTURY OF ADVANCEMENT THROUGH SELF-KNOWLEDGE THE NEW YORK PSYCHOANALYTIC SOCIETY & INSTITUTE:
ACADEMIC RESEARCH SEMINAR
247 East 82nd St., between 2nd & 3rd, NY, NY 10028
212-879-6900
www.psychoanalysis.org
Tuesday, October 2, 2012, 8:30 p.m., $10 Donations
Trauma & Resilience: Child Soldiers in Sierra Leone with Dr. Roberto Raver
To read more, please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _____________________________________________________________________
III. The History of Psychiatry from the Patient*s Viewpoint with Fred Sander, M.D. 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
The History of Psychiatry from the Patient*s Viewpoint Fred Sander, M.D. First Tuesday of the month 7:30 * 9 pm October 2, 2012 * May 7, 2013 (8 sessions)
Fee: $200
To read more, please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _____________________________________________________________________
IV. Contemporary Freudian Society * NY Division Annual Conference
Sunday, October 21, 2012
1:00 * 5:00 pm
Mt. Sinai Medical Center, Hatch Auditorium
Madison Avenue & 100th Street
The Efficacy of Psychodynamic Psychotherapy:
The Talking Cure in the Era of Prozac, Managed Care, and Evidence-Based Practice Jonathan Shedler, PhD, presenter
To read more, please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _____________________________________________________________________
V. Two Meetings at IPTAR
a) William Czander at IPTAR on October 3, 2012. Note that this conference has been rescheduled from September 26th, 2012 to October 3, 2012.
b) Betsy Lawrence at IPTAR West on October 16, 2012.
To read a) & b), please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _____________________________________________________________________
VI. 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.
To read more, please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _____________________________________________________________________
VII. 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 (more*)
To read more, please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _____________________________________________________________________
VIII. Conference to Honor Norbert Freedman and Irving Steingart at IPTAR
SAVE THE DATE: OCTOBER 13 AND 14, 2012
IPTAR CONFERENCE TO HONOR NORBERT FREEDMAN AND IRVING STEINGART
The Analyst*s Receptivity: Exploring Intersections and Divergences in Contemporary Freudian, Kleinian/Bionian and Field Theory
Participants Giuseppe Civitarese, Larry Brown, Lissa
Weinstein and Steven Ellman. (more*)
To read more, please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _____________________________________________________________________
IX. What Can Mathematics Teach Us About the Mind/Brain at the Helix Center at NYPSI
CELEBRATING A CENTURY OF ADVANCEMENT THROUGH SELF-KNOWLEDGE THE NEW YORK PSYCHOANALYTIC SOCIETY & INSTITUTE:
The Helix Center for Interdisciplinary Investigation
247 East 82nd St., between 2nd & 3rd, NY, NY, 10028
212-879-6900
www.psychoanalysis.org
Saturday, September 15, 2012, , 2:30 * 4:30 PM, Donations accepted What Can Mathematics Teach Us About the Mind/Brain
To read more, please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _____________________________________________________________________
X. Outreach Activities in the European Region on the IPA website
To read more, please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _____________________________________________________________________
XI. Freud, Fliess & *The Androphilic Current* with Joel Whitebook at NYPSI
CELEBRATING A CENTURY OF ADVANCEMENT THROUGH SELF-KNOWLEDGE THE NEW YORK PSYCHOANALYTIC SOCIETY & INSTITUTE:
Scientific Meeting
247 East 82nd St., between 2nd & 3rd, NY, NY, 10028
212-879-6900
www.psychoanalysis.org
Tuesday, September 11, 2012, 8:15 * 10:00 PM, Donations accepted Freud, Fliess & *The Androphilic Current* Joel Whitebook, Ph.D.
To read more, please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _____________________________________________________________________
B. In the AUDIO/VIDEO Category:
XII. Evidence piles up that Bush administration got many pre-9/11 warnings
by Robert Windrem from NBC News on September 11, 2012.
To read more, please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _____________________________________________________________________
XIII. Cameron Diaz voices Sigmund Freud
An exclusive clip of A Liar*s Autobiography * The Untrue Story of Monty Python*s Graham Chapman. The film*s world premiere is TIFF and opens in theaters and on EPIX on November 2, 2012.
To view and listen, please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _____________________________________________________________________
C. In the BOOKS Category:
XIV. Blood and thorns, secrets and ghosts
A review of: A Geography of Blood: Unearthing Memory from a Prairie Landscape by Candace Savage, Reviewed by Brett Joseph Grubisic on the Globe and Mail website on September 7, 2012.
To read more, please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _____________________________________________________________________
D. In the EDITORIALS Category:
XV. Eleven Years Since 9/11: If You Don*t Take Time to Remember, You Forget
by Todd Essig from Forbes.com on September 10, 2012.
To read more, please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _____________________________________________________________________
XVI. The Ryan Sinkhole
By Thomas B. Edsall in The New York Times on September 9, 2012.
To read more, please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _____________________________________________________________________
XVII. A Terrifying Way to Discipline Children
By Bill Lichtenstein in The New York Times on September 8, 2012.
To read more, please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _____________________________________________________________________
E. In the GENERAL NEWS Category:
XVIII. The *Crime Committed in France, by France*
Click Here to Read: The *Crime Committed in France, by France* by Fran*ois Hollande in the New York Review of Books on August 18, 2012.
To read more, please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _____________________________________________________________________
XIX. When Freud Came to America
By Russell Jacoby in the Chronical of Higher Education on September 21, 2009.
To read more, please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _____________________________________________________________________
XX. *Government Aid or Self-Help* by Alfred Adler
on the Alfred Adler Institutes of San Francisco San Francisco and Northwestern Washington website.
To read more, please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _____________________________________________________________________
XXI. Rep. Jackson leaves Mayo Clinic after bipolar disorder treatment
by Deirdre Walsh on CNN website on September 8, 2012
To read more, please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _____________________________________________________________________
XXII. Grand Old Marxists
by Timothy Snyder on the NPR blog website on August 28, 2012.
Friedrich Hayek, Paul Ryan, Ayn Rand
To read more, please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _____________________________________________________________________
XXIII. Panic Buttons: *Monkey Mind,* by Daniel Smith
Reviewed By Ben Greenman in The New York Times on September 7, 2012.
Friedrich Hayek, Paul Ryan, Ayn Rand
To read more, please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _____________________________________________________________________
F. In the MOVIES Category:
XXIV. *Take Shelter* and *Melancholia*: Apocalypse in Film Friday, September 14th, 2012
by Herbert H. Stein
Each generation chooses its favorite myths and images. Listening to patients and acquaintances and following the news, I have the sense that our own culture and folklore includes a fascination with apocalyptic predictions and prophecies. This year we had the *rapture* prediction in the spring and we all await the end of the Mayan calendar some time in December.(I personally was not planning to use a Mayan calendar.)
I am not going to attempt to explain this phenomenon here, but would like to point your attention to two films that came out in 2011, Take Shelter and Melancholia, which both partake in this fascination with apocalyptic visions. Not surprisingly, they also allow us to vicariously enter into a psychotic depression.
To read more, please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _____________________________________________________________________
G. In the MUSIC Category:
XXV. The Rage in Bob Dylan*s *Tempest*
By David Yaffe, The Daily Beast on September 4, 2012.
To read more, please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ____________________________________________________________________
H. In the OBITUARIES Category:
XXVI. Thomas Szasz, Relentless Freedom Fighter, Dead at 92 by Jacob Sullum from Reason.com on September 11, 2012.
To read more, please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ____________________________________________________________________
I. In the PAPERS Category:
XXVII. The absurdities in psychoanalysis and science that make psychoanalysis a science: Reasons sociology, epistemology, ontology and metaphysics why psychoanalysis is a science: Meaninglessness
by Colin Leslie Dean from Scribd.com.
To read more, please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ____________________________________________________________________
XXVIII. *Government Aid or Self-Help* by Alfred Adler
by Alfred Adler on the Alfred Adler Institutes of San Francisco San Francisco and Northwestern Washington website.
To read more, please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ __________________________________________________________________
J. In the POETRY Category:
XXIX. Poetry Editor Irene Willis will be reading from her own work
To Our Readers:
Poetry Editor Irene Willis will be reading from her own work at The Mount in Lenox, MA, on Sunday, September 16. It*s on the terrace at 10:00 a.m., as part of Berkshire Wordfest. If any of you are coming up that weekend, this would be worth a look (and a listen).
To read more, please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ____________________________________________________________________
K. In the SCIENCE NEWS Category:
XXX. Scientists shocked to find antibiotics alleviate symptoms of schizophrenia
Chance discovery of link between acne drug and psychosis may unlock secrets of mental illness by Jeremy Laurance on The Independent website on March 02, 2012.
The brain of a person shortly after diagnosis with schizophrenia (top) showing it relatively unscathed. Five years later, there is substantial loss of grey matter (above). Damage starts in the outer regions of the brain and spreads to all parts over the years. Patients with the worst tissue loss tend to have the worst symptoms.
To read more, please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ____________________________________________________________________
XXXI. Early Music Lessons Have Longtime Benefits
by Perri Klass, M.D. from The New York Times on September 10, 2012.
When children learn to play a musical instrument, they strengthen a range of auditory skills. Recent studies suggest that these benefits extend all through life, at least for those who continue to be engaged with music.
To read more, please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ____________________________________________________________________
XXXII. Scientists create artificial memory in brain tissue, in vitro for the first time
by Anne Seccombe from The Examiner on September 11, 2012.
To read more, please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ____________________________________________________________________
XXXIII. The Nazis and Thalidomide: The Worst Drug Scandal of All Time
by Roger Williams and Jonathan Stone from The Daily Beast on September 10, 2012.
To read more, please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ____________________________________________________________________
XXXIV. Who*s Trustworthy? A Robot Can Help Teach Us
by Tara Parker-Pope from The New York Times on September 10, 2012.
To read more, please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ____________________________________________________________________
XXXV. When Real Neuroscientists Look at Fake Neuroscience
by Daniel Luzer on the Washington Monthly website on September 7, 2012.
To read more, please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ____________________________________________________________________
L. In the TELEVISION Category:
XXXVI. And Now for a Word From Our Therapist
by Neil Genzlinger from The New York Times on September 10, 2012, which reviews NBC*s new comedy *Go On.*
To read more, please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ____________________________________________________________________
M. In the UNCATEGORIZED Category:
XXXVII. International Psychoanalytic Books at the Cutting Edge
The IPBooks website.
To read more, please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ____________________________________________________________________
XXXVIII. My American Dream
By Neal Spira on The Deeper Look Blog on September 9, 2012.
To read more, please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ____________________________________________________________________
XXXIX. Freud: *The brethren* were unkind and scornful of me**
by Robert L. Lippman, Ph.D. This paper is previously unpublished.
To read more, please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ____________________________________________________________________
XL. Surprising methods heal wounded troops
AP IMPACT: Surprising methods heal wounded troops Marilynn Marchione on the CBS Money Watch website on September 10, 2012.
To read more, please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ____________________________________________________________________
XLI. Expressive Therapies Summit
Please join us for this exciting two-day trauma training event, ideal for both novice and experienced practitioners working with trauma*
THURSDAY, November 8 and FRIDAY, November 9 , 10:00 am * 5:15 pm TWO-DAY TRAINING INTENSIVE
Creative Arts Therapies & Trauma Treatment across Contexts and Cultures
Ani Buk, MFA, MA, ATR-BC, LP, LCAT
Amber Elizabeth Gray, MPH, MA, BC-DMT, NCC, LPCC
Craig Haen, MA, RDT, CGP, LCAT
Brian Harris, MA
Shanee Stepakoff, PhD
Anna Marie Weber, MA, RDT, CDVC
Stephanie Wise, ATR-BC, LCAT
To read more, please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ____________________________________________________________________
I trust that you have noted the theme of trauma pervades the posts this week and that you will give us your thoughts as your read them. Please share, as this is the most important psychological problem that the entire world population faces and we have a lot to contribute.
Respectfully submitted by
Sasha Rolde, M.D.