Dear Colleagues,
As summer turns to fall and the US elections are overtaking the news and the economists threaten a downward turn, the international psychoanalytic website continues to reflect our world with its ups and downs giving it a professional slant that we should be proud of.
My own choices this week are:
1) Timon & Hamlet – Who/What is Timon? Did you know that Shakespeare wrote Timon – a little known, rarely mentioned & possibly unfinished tragedy – nicely compared & contrasted with Hamlet from the psychological, political and social point of view in a posting this week. Well worth reading.
Click Here to Read This Article
2) There are a number of post on child abuse (and more than*) including the Syrian children’s “horror stories” where recovery may be a distant dream, to “how child molesters get away with it”
Click Here to Read This Article Syrian Children
Click Here to Read This Article on Child Molesters
3) City within a City – a new book on what we have become accustomed to think of as the “good” in the good & bad category. In my opinion, we need to learn about and apply our analytic understanding to this type of extraordinary heroism.
Click Here to Read This Article
4) The Science News contains 2 cautionary posts on now very common ways that influence our brain – antipsychotic drugs and mobile technology – please read.
Click Here to Read This Article on Antipsychotic Drugs
Click Here to Read This Article on Mobile Technology
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The following is this week’s list of contents:
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A. in the ANNOUNCEMENTS Category:
I. WCSPP Book Signing Event with Suzanne Burger
Sunday, October 4, 2012
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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
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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
fr First Tuesday of the month 7:30 * 9 pm October 2, 2012 * May 7, 2013 (8 sessions) Fee: $200
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IV. 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.
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V. 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.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ __________________________________________________________________
VI. Winnicott Week at NYPSI
NEW YORK PSYCHOANALYTIC SOCIETY & INSTITUTE:
Marianne and Nicholas Young Auditorium
247 East 82nd St., between 2nd & 3rd, NY, NY, 10028
212-879-6900
www.psychoanalysis.org
Winnicott Week at NYPSI, November 10, 13, & 15, 2012,
First Event: Saturday, November 10, 2012, 2:15 * 5:15 PM, $10 Donation, RSVP admdir@nypsi.org
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VII. Reflections on Narcissism, Mania, and Analysts* Envy with Irwin Hirsch at MITPP
The Metropolitan Institute for Training in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, The Metropolitan Center for Mental Health and The Metropolitan Society of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapists
Invite you to a Scientific Meeting Friday, October 26, 2012 at 8:00 P.M.
REFLECTIONS ON NARCISSISM, MANIA AND ANALYSTS* ENVY
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VIII. Psychoanalysis and Sexual Issues with Mark J. Blechner at WCSPP
at The Wainwright House on September 28, 2012
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B. In the ART Category:
IX. Expo Chicago: Money and art mingle, with little benefit to art
by Jeff Lusanne from World Socialist Web Site on September 27, 2012.
After a six-year hiatus, Chicago was once again host in 2012 to an international art fair, Expo Chicago. The event was held September 20-23 in the massive Festival Hall at Navy Pier, a tourist destination near the city*s center. One hundred galleries exhibited work in the fair, presenting enough material to easily fill up a day of viewing. Such a presentation offered a unique opportunity to survey the world of contemporary art*and, specifically, its problems and possibilities.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ __________________________________________________________________
X. *Twinned Brothers* : the Parallel Personalities of Timon and Hamlet
by Amanda Machado an Honors Projects Overview from the Rhode Island College Honors Projects on Rhode Island College Digital Commons website.
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C. In the AUDIO/VIDEO Category:
XI. Obama*s Freudian Slip
*Obama misspeaks, zings Romney* from CNN.com on September 26, 2012.
President Obama misspoke to a crowd in Ohio and attributed his flub to *channeling* Mitt Romney.
To view please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ __________________________________________________________________
XII. Syrian children*s horror stories released; Obama pledges support
by the CNN Wire Staff from CNN.com on September 25, 2012.
To view please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ __________________________________________________________________
D. In the BOOKS Category:
XIII. Save Us
By Nathaniel Rich in The New Tork Times on September 28, 2012.
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XIV. City Within a City by Basia Temkin-Berman
NEW RELEASE!! First-Ever English Edition!
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E. In the CHINA Category:
XV. Chicago in China by Nathan Szajnberg
Thursday, September 27th, 2012
Four U of Chicago grads did China for two weeks in September. Arlene Kramer Richards (AB 54 ); Arnie Richards (AB 52 ) Nathan Szajnberg (BA *71; MD *71) and Jeffrey Stern (Ph.d ) taught psychoanalysis in Wuhan, Shanghai and NIngbo. All four have been appointed to the faculty at Wuhan Mental Hospital. After a week last April, we were asked to return to teach an ongoing three-year program in
psychoanalytic psychotherapy to two hundred practitioners from many regions in China. Wuhan, a small city of eight million, is like the Chicago of China: centrally located, about 1.5 hours flight from ..
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F. In the EDITORIALS Category:
XV. How child molesters get away with it
A Critic at Large: In Plain View: How child molesters get away with it by Malcolm Gladwell in The New Yorker on September 24, 2012.
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XVI. Why the Beaver Should Thank the Wolf
By Mary Ellen Hannibal in The New York Times on September 28, 2012.
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XVII. The Psych Approach
By David Brooks in the New York Times on September 27, 2012.
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XVIII. Jack Straw admits to suffering depression
by Adam Lusher from The Telegraph on September 22, 2012.
Jack Straw, the former Foreign Secretary, has revealed that he has suffered from depression after becoming an MP.
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XIX. Almanac: Sigmund Freud
by CBS News from September 23, 2012.
And now a page from our Sunday Morning Almanac . . . September 23rd, 1939, 73 years ago today . . . the day a young medical specialty lost its world-renowned founder. For that was the day Sigmund Freud died at the age of 83 in London, a year-and-a-half after fleeing the Nazi occupation of his native Vienna.
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G. In the GUTHRIE CENTENARY Category:
XX. Woody Guthrie Centenary: 1912-2012
Woody Guthrie*s *I Ain*t Got No Home In This World Anymore* on YouTube.
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H. In the PLAYS Category:
XXI. Smile and Be a Villain; Despair and Be One, Too
by Patrick Healy from The New York Times on September 20, 2012.
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I. In the SCIENCE NEWS Category:
XXII. Language use simpler than thought
from ANI on September 26, 2012.
Language scientists have assumed that sentence structure is fundamentally hierarchical, made up of small parts which in turn are made of smaller parts, like Russian nesting dolls. But a new Cornell University study has suggested language use is simpler than they had thought.
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XXIII. A Call for Caution on Antipsychotic Drugs
by Richard A. Friedman, M.D. from The New York Times on September 24, 2012.
You will never guess what the fifth and sixth best-selling prescription drugs are in the United States, so I*ll just tell you: Abilify and Seroquel, two powerful antipsychotics. In 2011 alone, they and other antipsychotic drugs were prescribed to 3.1 million Americans at a cost of $18.2 billion, a 13 percent increase over the previous year, according to the market research firm IMS Health.
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XXIV. How mobile tech can influence our brain
by Adam Gazzaley from CNN on September 23, 2012.
The rapid evolution of mobile technology has placed quite a burden on our brains.
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J. In the RAPAPORT-HOLT Category:
XXV. Chapter 2 of the Holt Rapaport Letters
a) Chapter 2, part 1, Holt to Rapaport*March 1, 1952.
b) Chapter 2, part 2, Rapaport to Holt*Early March 1952
c) Chapter 2, part 3, Holt to Rapaport*March 19, 1952.
To read a), b) & c) please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ __________________________________________________________________
This slightly shorter list will hopefully give you more time and ample opportunity to read and comment on the website and share your opinion with our colleagues around the world.
Respectfully submitted by
Sasha Rolde