Dear Colleagues:
At the end of the week, when I try to chose posts of interest to suggest to you, my usual composure was shattered by the “apocalyptic” events in Newtown, CT, – namely the shooting of 20 small children and 6 adults in an elementary school. Before I write my message to you, I therefore want to express my deepest sorrow and condolences to the families affected by these losses and to the the other students in that school as well as countless other children whose innocence was destroyed that day.
In the same vein, my personal choices and recommendations to you begin with this event:
1) Please read “Connecticut school shooting: Resources for parents” in the GENERAL NEWS Category, as well as Jane Hall and Henry Friedman’s post in the EDITORIALS.
Click Here to Read This Article on Resources for Parents
Click Here to Read This Article by Jane Hall
Click Here to Read This Article by Henry Friedman
2) I learned a lot from the Excerpt from *The Imperial Cruise* by James Bradley, The Queasy Side of Theodore Roosevelt*s Diplomatic Voyage by Janet Maslin in the NYT and review of the Pearl Harbor controversy paper about US and world history.
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3) What are your thoughts on HSBC*s verdict and criminal justice?
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4) Commenting on Virginia Tech, and 33 dead, the author, Yale Kramer, writes:
“COMMON SENSE IS ONE OF THE RAREST of commodities these days. And it has been made rarer by the gradual transformation of our society, in the past half century, into a *therapeutic culture.* There does not seem to be right or wrong anymore, no good or bad behavior, no problems that cannot be cured, no complications that cannot be solved, no flaws that cannot be removed, and no flawed people who cannot be made perfect. Freud cannot be blamed for all of this; after all, he warned that all that psychoanalysis could do at best was to change neurotic misery into everyday unhappiness. It was those social reformers who came after him, in the twenties and thirties, who took his ideas and ran with them, too far, too fast, and with too much arrogance. Philosophers like John Dewey, progressive educators, the Child Guidance Movement, and social work schools.”
Please read! There are 103 comments on the website.
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5) And then there is of course the reaction to DSMV.
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6) In the MOVIES section, please glance at the post on film & psychoanalysis in Lima, Peru.
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7) Those of you who have not visited the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin, please view the post in PHOTOGRAPHY section.
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8) Ironically, in light of recent events, SCIENCE section tells us how children develop empathy.
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The list of this week’s contents follows:
A.In the ANNOUNCEMENTS Category:
I. Psychoanalysis, Analytic Institutes and the Influence of the European Unconscious With Jonathan Sklar at AIP
THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOANALYSIS
OF THE KAREN HORNEY PSYCHOANALYTIC CENTER
Established in 1941
329 East 62nd Street * New York, NY 10065
(212) 838-8044 * www.aipnyc.org * aipkh@aol.com
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Our Work Continues
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SCIENTIFIC MEETING
Thursday, January 17, 2013 at 8:00 PM, Jonathan Sklar, M.D.
PSYCHOANALYSIS, ANALYTIC INSTITUTES AND THE INFLUENCE OF THE EUROPEAN UNCONSCIOUS
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _________________________________________________________________
II. Maternal Altruism & Boundary Violation with Beth Seelig at NYPSI
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, January 9, 2013, 8:30 p.m., Donations Accepted
Maternal Altruism & Boundary Violation: A Supervisory Challenge, Beth J. Seelig, M.D.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _________________________________________________________________
III. The Contributions of Haydee Faimberg at IPTAR
IPTAR*s Investigative Section and Program Committee are very pleased to announce an evening devoted to
The Contributions of Hayd*e Faimberg With Hayd*e Faimberg, Mary Libbey, Jay Frankel
Date: Friday, January 11, 2013, 8:00 PM
Location: Helen Mills Theater, 137-139 West 26th St., Manhattan
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _________________________________________________________________
IV. The IPA News Bulletin for December 2012
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _________________________________________________________________
V. Message from Prudence Gourquechon of APsaA
Dear colleagues,
APsaA*s advocacy arm*the Gender and Sexuality Committee, Committee on Advocacy Relations, Jim Pyles our legislative representative and Geralyn Lederman, Director of Public Information have all been closely following the progress on court challenges to the federal Defense of Marriage Act and the California Proposition 8 with close attention. Our position statements have
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _________________________________________________________________
B. In the ART Category:
VI. A Voyage Round my Father at the Freud Museum
The DreamWork exhibition builds a bridge between a daughter and the early life of her obsessive-compulsive father by Markie Robson-Scott on the artsdesk.com website on December 09, 2012.
*Sleepover* by Christie Brown: *An uncanny narrative has been interrupted which may resume at any time*. Philip Sayer
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _________________________________________________________________
C. In the AUDIO/VIDEO Category:
VII. Life and Movement Panel at the Helix Center
on Friday, October 26th with Linnda Caporael, Jes*s Ilund*in-Agurruza, J. A. Scott Kelso, and Maxine Sheets-Johnstone.
To read & view please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _________________________________________________________________
VIII. Male-Male Competition Panel at the Helix center
The Inaugural Series: Male-Male Competition: Globalization, War, and Violence at the Helix Center
on Saturday, October 27th, 2012 at 2:30 * 4:30 PM.
R. Brian Ferguson
Professor of Anthropology, Rutgers University-Newark
To read & view please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _________________________________________________________________
IX. In Defense of Sandler*s *Hallelujah*
a) The comic wasn*t butchering Leonard Cohen*s classic. He was rescuing it By Liel leibovitz on the Tablet website on December 13, 2012.
b) Leonard Cohen singing his song Hellelujah on YouTube.
To read & view a) & b) please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/
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X. The Psychology of Women
from Richard Heffner*s Open Mind with special guest Ethel Person on June 6, 1984, via THIRTEEN.
To read or view go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _________________________________________________________________
XI. Film Showing & Psychoanalysis in Peru
This Film & Psychoanalysis Show has been going on in Lima since 2007. The idea was concocted by Pilar Gavilano, member of the Peruvian Society of Psychoanalysis, given the simultaneity of a Peruvian psychoanalytic congress on Eros, Love and Sexuality. Thus the first theme of the film show was *Eros in Film* within pre-congress activities.
To read &view go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _________________________________________________________________
XII. Charles Limb on Neuroscience of Jazz
Limb*s TED Talk from 2010.
To read & view go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _________________________________________________________________
D. In the BOOKS Category:
XIII, Neurofeminism and Anne Jaap Jacobson
by neuroanth from PLOS.com on December 11, 2012.
To read please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _________________________________________________________________
XIV. Review of Helping Men by Loretta and Felix Loeb
A Psychoanalytic Approach by Loretta and Felix Loeb, Reviewed by Douglas Van der Heide. This review is previously unpublished.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _________________________________________________________________
XV. Review of *Bye-Bye* Loneliness by Meg Stanton
Reviewed by Sheldon Goodman. This review was previously unpublished. Neurofeminism and Anne Jaap Jacobson
Wednesday, December 12th, 2012
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _________________________________________________________________
XVI. December 7th in History
The book *The Imperial Cruise* points out that the history of our relations with Japan dates back to 1905 and the adventurism of Teddy Roosevelt
a) Excerpt from *The Imperial Cruise* by James Bradley in The New York Times on November 18, 2009.
b) The Queasy Side of Theodore
Roosevelt*s Diplomatic Voyage by Janet Maslin in The New York Times on November 18, 2009.
To read a) & b) please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _________________________________________________________________
E. In the BUSINESS AND FINANCE Category:
XVII. HSBC*s record $1.9bn fine preferable to prosecution, US authorities insist
Click Here to Read: HSBC*s record $1.9bn fine preferable to prosecution, US authorities insist. Officials defend decision not to prosecute in money-laundering case despite HSBC*s *blatant failure* to implement controls Dominic Rushe in New York and Jill Treanor in London guardian.co.uk on the gaurdian.co.uk website on December 11 , 2012.
Assistant attorney general Lanny Breuer said taking away HSBC*s US banking licence could have cost thousands of jobs. Photograph: Richard Drew/AP
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _________________________________________________________________
F. In the CONTROVERSIAL Category:
XVIII. Special Report: Thirty-Three Dead By Yale Kramer
Special Report
Thirty-Three Dead
By Yale Kramer
Published 4/27/2007 12:08:17 AM
Many years ago * before the sixties, when activist reformers discovered the notion that mentally ill patients were an oppressed people, like Negroes (as blacks preferred to be called then), women, and homosexuals (as gay men were identified then), and decided that they must be set free from their sadistic doctors and nurses (deinstitutionalized) in order to become independent (homeless) * I was a resident physician studying psychiatry at Bellevue Psychiatric Hospital.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _________________________________________________________________
G. In the EDITORIALS Category:
XIX. Bitterness, Retaliatory Action and Apocalyptic Mass Murder by Henry Friedman
Like the rest of the public I have been watching the coverage of the Newtown, CT rampage by a single 20 y.o. who is described as having had a mental disorder. Mental Health commentators have expressed many opinions about why this may have happened, why this individual in their terms *snapped*. Some, like a cautious psychiatrist that I heard during the day respond to Chris Matthews was reluctant to comment without having more information but he did, wisely in my opinion, emphasize that most schizophrenics were not
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _________________________________________________________________
XX. The Sandy Hook Massacre: What We Can Do by Jane Hall
Our hearts go out to those in Sandy Hook and Newton * once fairy tale communities. We salute the brave teachers, the clergy, the strong and empathic citizens, and most of all, we send our deepest condolences to the parents and families who lost their children and to the families of those adults who died.
One common theme over the past several days since this latest tragedy has*
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _________________________________________________________________
XXI. The DSM*s Controversial Update
by Kent Sepkowitz from The Daily Beast on December 10, 2012.
Pushing back on the DSM*s controversial update.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _________________________________________________________________
XXII. Subject Appears Anxious
by Julie Threlkeld from The New York Times on December 10, 2012.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _________________________________________________________________
G. In the MOVIES Category:
XXIII. Review of Life of Pi by Selma Duckler
The Tiger
By William Blake
1757-1827
TIGER, tiger, burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?
In what distant deeps or skies
Burnt the fire of thine eyes?
On what wings dare he aspire?
What the hand dare seize the fire?
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XXIV. The Life of Pi: In a lifeboat alone with a tiger
By David Walsh on the World Socialist Web Site on December 15, 2012.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _________________________________________________________________
XXV. The Master:
a perversion of psychoanalysis incited by the compulsion to repeat by Aaron Balick on his Mind Work blog on December 12, 2012
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _________________________________________________________________
XXVI. Film Showing & Psychoanalysis in Peru
This Film & Psychoanalysis Show has been going on in Lima since 2007. The idea was concocted by Pilar Gavilano, member of the Peruvian Society of Psychoanalysis, given the simultaneity of a Peruvian psychoanalytic congress on Eros, Love and Sexuality. Thus the first theme of the film show was *Eros in Film* within pre-congress activities.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _________________________________________________________________
H. In the MUSIC Category:
XXVII. In Defense of Sandler*s *Hallelujah*
a) The comic wasn*t butchering Leonard Cohen*s classic. He was rescuing it. By Liel leibovitz on the Tablet website on December 13, 2012.
b) Leonard Cohen singing his song Hellelujah on YouTube.
To vide & listen more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _________________________________________________________________
XXVIII. Jazz musician Dave Brubeck dies at 91
by Hiram Lee from World Socialist Web Site on December 10, 202.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _________________________________________________________________
XXIX. Charles Limb on Neuroscience of Jazz
Limb*s TED Talk from 2010.
To watch please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _________________________________________________________________
I. In the OBITUARIES Category:
XXX. Jazz musician Dave Brubeck dies at 91
by Hiram Lee from World Socialist Web Site on December 10, 202.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _________________________________________________________________
J. In the ORAL HISTORY Category:
XXXI. Psychoanalyst Louis Breger Interviewed by Jon Seirup
This interview is previously unpublished.
To read please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _________________________________________________________________
K. In the PAPERS Category:
XXXII. Sigmund Freud and Melanie Klein: You Get the Picture
by Daniel Benveniste.
This article originally appeared as:
Benveniste, D. (2012). Sigmund Freud and Melanie Klein: You get the picture. Selected Facts: Newsletter of the Northwestern Psychoanalytic Society. October 2012 and appears here with all requisite rights and permission.
To read please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _________________________________________________________________
XXXIII. Sigmund Freud and King Tutankhamun
by Daniel Benveniste, Ph.D.
This article originally appeared as:
Benveniste, D. (2012). Sigmund Freud and King Tutankhamun. The Alliance Forum: The Newsletter of the Northwest Alliance for Psychoanalytic Study Spring 2012 and appears here with all requisite rights and permission.
To read please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _________________________________________________________________
XXXIV. Creative writers and analytic listening by Fred Griffin
Listening like a Writer: What Creative Writers Can Teach Us about the Psychoanalytic Process by Fred Griffin. This paper is previously unpublished.
To read please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _________________________________________________________________
XXXV. Pearl Harbor: Fifty Years of Controversy
a) by Charles Lutton from The Journal of Historical Review, vol. 11, no. 4, pp. 431-467 via The Institute for Historical Review website.
b) After Pearl Harbor: LIFE in the Pacific and on the Home Front on the LIFE Magazine website.
To read a) & b)please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _________________________________________________________________
L. In the PHOTOGRAPHY Category:
XXXVI. A Photographic Commentary on the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe
in *The Power of Witnessing*, eds. Nancy R. Goodman and
Marilyn B. Meyers.
a) Photograph 1.
b) Photograph 2.
c) Photograph 3.
To view a), b) & c) please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _________________________________________________________________
M. In the SCIENCE NEWS;
XXXVII. Can Neuroscience Predict Human Behavior?
by Judith G. Edersheim, J.D., M.D. Written with Justin T. Baker, M.D., Ph.D., and Bruce H. Price, M.D. in the Huffington Post on December 14, 2012.
To read please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _________________________________________________________________
XXXVIII. Fukushima Radiation: Japan Irradiates the West Coast of North America
by George Washington on September 19, 2012.
To read please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _________________________________________________________________
XXXIX. Understanding How Children Develop Empathy
by Perri Klass, M.D. from The New York Times on December 10, 2012.
To read please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _________________________________________________________________
Ending my report for this week I hope that you will comment on these posts as lot has happened and we really want your opinion to be heard. Thank you.
Respectfully submitted by
Sasha Rolde