Dear Colleagues,
It has been a long week of national soul searching an solution suggesting in response to the extraordinary massacre in Newtown, Ct. From those who propose the abolition of the NRA to others who wish to place armed guards in all schools, we are bombarded by extremes. The posts on the international psychoanalytic website are an attempt to bring to you a reasoned representation of the world at large, with hopefully not as many extremes, but much to ponder. As I sorted through the list, I was particularly struck by the following but also encourage you to follow your own interests. My choices were:
1) Of interest to those of you who plan to attend the IPA meetings in July 2013 may be the post Congress Psychological Birth and Infant Development Symposium in Pribor, Czech Republic.
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2) elaboration of the tragedy in Newtown, CT is depicted in a number of post:
a) as more information ( the Associated Press)
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b) as efforts to support all child and adult survivors ( Elizabeth Landau on CNN).
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c) as distractions (by Juliette Kayyem in Boston Globe)
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d) as healing efforts ( by Todd Essig in Forbes)
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e) as APsaA Position Statement
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3) In connection with #2) please note the numerous posts on the gun debate, the NRA rise in membership and “who does the shooting”
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Click Here To Read This Article: On Gun Control and Mental Illness
Click Here To Read This Article on th Gun Control and Mental Illness
4) As a counterpoint to the recent terrible tragedy, please read the post on “the Other Kindertransport’.
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5) Psychedelic drugs as treatment for PTSD? Please read in the Science News.
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The list of this week’s contents follows:
A. In the ANNOUNCEMENTS Category:
I. Facing Death Panel at APsaA
Discussion Group 86: ***Facing Death*** Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy of Patients
Chair Norman Straker, M.D. (New York, NY)
Presenter Dan Birger, M.D. (New York, NY)
Daniel Birger, M.D a senior analyst who miraculously recovered from sepsis and aplastic anemia, one year ago will describe the several weeks he spent in a Reverse Isolation Unit. Fully aware that there was no cure for his illness, he faced death several times, while extremely sick. He describes the psychological steps he took to manage his terror that he experienced about dying. His self- ***.
to read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ___________________________________________________________________
II. A screening of Hitchcock***s Rear Window followed by a psychoanalytic discussion with Peter Dunn, M.D. at NYPSI
NEW YORK PSYCHOANALYTIC SOCIETY & INSTITUTE:
THE FRIENDS OF THE A. A. BRILL LIBRARY
Marianne and Nicholas Young Auditorium
247 East 82nd St., between 2nd & 3rd, NY, NY, 10028
212-879-6900
www.psychoanalysis.org
Friday, January 11, 2013, 7 pm, $10 Suggested Donation
Presents a screening of***Hitchcock***s Rear Window followed by a psychoanalytic discussion with Peter Dunn, M.D.
to read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ___________________________________________________________________
III.Aby Warburg, The Hopi Serpent Ritual and Ludwig Binswanger, with Peter J. Loewenberg, Ph.D. at NYPSI
NEW YORK PSYCHOANALYTIC SOCIETY & INSTITUTE:
Scientific Meeting
Marianne and Nicholas Young Auditorium
247 East 82nd St., between 2nd & 3rd, NY, NY, 10028
212-879-6900
www.psychoanalysis.org
www.nypsi.org
Tuesday, January 15, 2013, 8:15 *** 10:00 PM, Donations accepted
Aby Warburg, The Hopi Serpent Ritual and Ludwig Binswanger, Peter J. Loewenberg, Ph.D.
to read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ___________________________________________________________________
IV. 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/ ___________________________________________________________________
V. Donations to InternationalPsychoanalysis.net
Internationanalpsychoanalysis.net has flourished in a remarkable way since it was launched in January 2007. It has become both an archive and a news source.
One of the serendipitous outgrowths of its presence and has been that we have even more reasons to experience ourselves as a community with a history, elders, anniversaries, anecdotes, a paper trail, photos and relics of our founders *** and evidence of our on-going growth and adaptation to a very changed therapeutic world.
But the growth has outpaced the cottage and one computer.
Are you able to contribute to the cost of our widening scope?
We will use contributions to internationalpsychoanalysis.net to scan and transcribe papers, search archives, find photographs format documents and upload recordings and videos. It is labor intensive and for me a labor of love [but for the helpers, indeed, work].
to read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ___________________________________________________________________
VI. Psychological Birth and Infant Development Symposium in Pribor, Czech Republic
A symposium in Sigmund Freud***s birthplace, P****bor, Czech Republic, following the IPA Congress in Prague, August, 2013.
Sunday Evening, August 4, 2013: welcome reception and cultural program.Monday, August 5, 2013: full day symposium.
a) Flyer for the Conference
b) Article on the Conference
Learn more and register at our website:
please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/
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VII. Discussion Group on Loneliness and Alonenes at the APsaA Meeting
We invite you to our Jan. 17, 2013 Discussion Group on loneliness and aloneness at the Waldorf Astoria, NYC. The psychoanalytic literature provides many theories about loneliness. Dr. Arthur Lynch will present a clinical case of a psychoanalytic patient who suffered with painful loneliness. How Dr. Lynch recognized and understood his patient***s loneliness and the defenses that kept it in place, will be highlighted. The participants in the course of the discussion will
to read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ___________________________________________________________________
VIII. CAPA Dim Sum Lunch & Discussion Groups
to sign up and
to read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ___________________________________________________________________
IX. Advances in Understanding and Treating Depression at Mount Sinai School of Medicine
SAVE THE DATE:
Innovations in Psychiatry Symposium: Advances in Understanding and Treating Depression, Friday, February 1, 2013, Goldwurm Auditorium
The inaugural Innovations in Psychiatry Symposium will be held in Goldwurm Auditorium at Mount Sinai Medical Center on Friday, February 1, 2013. It is entitled ***Advances in Understanding and Treating Depression.*** The program features presentations by Mount Sinai experts including Drs. Dennis Charney and Eric Nestler as well as
distinguished faculty from other leading institutions *** Drs. Maurizio Fava (MGH), Andrew Krystal (Duke) and Carlos Zarate (NIMH). Please save the date. We look forward to seeing you there!
to read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ___________________________________________________________________
B. In the ART Category:
X. The Art from the Edge
The Art from the Edge website.
to view and read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ___________________________________________________________________
XI. Cartoons about the Newtown Massacre
to View and to read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ___________________________________________________________________
C. In the AUDIO/VIDEO Category:
XII. Herschel, the Magnificent Jew
with Lou Charloff, Video on Holy Cannoli***s posterous blog on January 13, 2011.
to view please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ___________________________________________________________________
XIII. Psychoanalytic Theory Sigmund Freud
by Kamarina Tajuddin on the Slide Share website on December 13, 2012.
to view please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ___________________________________________________________________
XIV. Connecticut Shooting Victims*** Stories Begin To Emerge
a) from The Associated Press on December 16, 2012 by Associated Press writers Denise Lavoie, Mark Scolforo, Allen Breed, Pat Eaton-Robb, Bridget Murphy, Christopher Sullivan and Danica Coto.
b) Victoria Soto, 27, was one of 26 people killed in the Dec. 14 mass shooting.
to read & view a)&b) please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ___________________________________________________________________
XV. Support crucial for kids after trauma
by Elizabeth Landau from CNN on December 17, 2012.
School shootings such as the one at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Connecticut, may have long-lasting consequences, but with proper support, many children are able to move on, experts say.
to read & view please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ___________________________________________________________________
D. In the BOOKS Category:
XVI. Facing Cancer and the Fear Of Death, Edited by Norman Straker
a) Table of Contents of Facing Cancer and the Fear Of Death, edited by Norman Straker,
b) Introduction Facing Cancer and the Fear of Death: A Challenge for The 21-Century A Psychoanalytic Perspective on Treatments, edited by Norman Straker MD.
c) Chapter 13: Conclusion to Facing Cancer and the Fear of Death by Norman Straker MD.
d) Editor and Authors of Facing Cancer and the Fear of Death.
to read a) to d) please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ___________________________________________________________________
XVII. Chaplin: A Life by Stephen Weissman Covers
by Stephen Weissman Covers of US and Foreign Editions.
to view please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ___________________________________________________________________
E. In the BUSINESS & FINANCE Category:
XVIII. Fiscal cliff: D.C.***s Mayan apocalypse
By Peter Wolson on the Reuters website on December 20, 2012.
to read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ___________________________________________________________________
F. In the EDITORIALS Category:
XIX.. Details are a distraction in Newtown killings
Click Here to Read: Details are a distraction in Newtown killings By Juliette Kayyem in the Boston Globe on December 20, 2012,
to read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ___________________________________________________________________
XX. Newtown: Why Healing Should Still Trump Policy
by Todd Essig on the Forbes Magazine website on December 17, 2012.
to read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ___________________________________________________________________
XXI. APsaA Position Statement on Violence
by Executive Council on May, 2000 from the American Psychoanalytic Association website.
to read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ___________________________________________________________________
XXII. Cartoons about the Newtown Massacre
to view more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ___________________________________________________________________
G. In the GENERAL NEWS Category
XXIII. In Gun Debate, a Misguided Focus on Mental Illness
By Richard A. Friedman, M.D. in The New York Times on December 17, 2012.
to read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ___________________________________________________________________
XXIV. NRA sees rise in membership after Connecticut school shooting
Fox News*** James Rosen contributed to this reporton the Fox News Website on December 19, 2012.
to read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ___________________________________________________________________
XXV. Nurturing a spirit of caring and generosity in children
by Kenneth Barish on the OUP blog website on December 19th, 2012.
to read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ___________________________________________________________________
XXVII. Walking the Tightrope on Mental Health Coverage
by Ron Lieber in The New York Times on December 21, 2012.
to read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ___________________________________________________________________
XXVII. Child-rape Rates of 300/month in Seven Haitian Earthquake Refugee Camps Are Dropping to Zero
Earthquake Refugee Camps Are Dropping to Zero by Gilbert Kliman, M.D. of the The Children***s Psychological Health Center, Inc.
to read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ___________________________________________________________________
XXVIII. Gun control and preventive mental health care to honor the lost children of Newtown
a) by Claudia M Gold on the Boston.com website on December 15, 2012.
b) Adam Lanza and preventive mental health care by Claudia M Gold on the Boston.com website December 19, 2012.
to read a) & b) please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ___________________________________________________________________
XXIX. Nursery of Violence by Merton Shill
A NURSERY OF VIOLENCE?
The chicken bobbed around, darting now here, now there. Randomly. There was no head. I couldn***t help noticing. I was 5 years old. The neighbor boy was showing me how to cut chickens*** heads off with an axe. Then he said that the horn on my Lionel electric train sounded like pigs being electrocuted. These images have never left my mind. They never will. It was rumored there was a lot of domestic violence at his house.
to read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ___________________________________________________________________
XXX. Don***t Blame Autism for Newtown
By Pricilla Gilman in The New York Times on December 17, 2012.
to read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ___________________________________________________________________
XXXI. Ihe Newtown Shootings
The Newtown Shootings *** The View from 300.01 By David L. Levine on the Scientific American blogs website on December 20, 2012.
to read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ___________________________________________________________________
XXXII. Guns and the Limits of Shame
posted by Jon Lee Anderson on the New Yorker Blog website on December 16, 2012.
to read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ___________________________________________________________________
XXXIII. Lack of funding, stigma stymies mental health care
Although one in 17 Americans live with a serious mental illness, fewer than one-third receive professional treatment by Ron Mott on the NBC website on December 20, 2012.
to read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ___________________________________________________________________
XXXIV. The Other Kindertransport: As Nazis Closed In, 150 Teens Improbably Found Freedom
Thursday, December 20th, 2012
a) By Sarah Wildman in The Jewish Daily website on December 19, 2012.
b) A Reunion Postponed: Judit Shaked left Czechoslovakia for Denmark in 1939. Recently, she reunited with some of the survivors of the second kindertransport.
to read a) & b) please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ___________________________________________________________________
XXXV. The Anxiety of the Long-Distance Meditator
By Jeff Warren in The New York Times on December 17, 2012.
to read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ___________________________________________________________________
XXXVI. Poem by Megan Baer McKamy *** social worker from Topeka Kansas
Pops from big kid roman candles cut across the time zones
narratives of personal surface burn and itchy imbedded metal scraps sparklers tested by tiny fingers consequences of curiosity about what happens when something gets too close or we***
get too close to something
to read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ___________________________________________________________________
XXXVII. ***I Am Adam Lanza***s Mother***
a) thinking the Unthinkable an article that originally appeared in the Blue Review by Liza Long reprinted on The Anarchist Soccer Mom website with Comments by Others.
b) A Joint Statement from Sarah and Liza with Comments by Others on The Anarchist Soccer Mom website.
c)Another Reprinting of the Liza Long article on the in Huffington Post with Comments from a broad spectrum of readers.
to read a),b) & c) please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ___________________________________________________________________
XXXVIII. Methodical Massacre: Horror And Heroics
December 15, 2012|By EDMUND H. MAHONY and DAVE ALTIMARI,
emahony@courant.com, The Hartford Courant
Adam Lanza blasted his way into the Sandy Hook Elementary School. He fired a half-dozen thunderous rounds from a semiautomatic rifle to open a hole big enough to step through in one of the school***s glass doors. …
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to read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ___________________________________________________________________
H.I In the GUTHRIE CENTENARY Category:
XXXIX. Woody Guthrie Centenary 1912- 2012
Video of Woody Guthrie performing his ***Ranger***s Command,*** in 1945 on YouTube.
to view & listen please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ___________________________________________________________________
I. In the LETTERS TO THE EDITORS Category:
XL. Letter to Times Literary Supplement by Arnold Goldberg
Psychoanalysis: Letter to Times Literary Supplement by Arnold Goldberg on December 14, 2012.
Sir, *** Andrew Scull***s review of After Freud Left: A century of psychoanalysis in America, edited by John Burnham (November 23), begins with a reference to Freud***s ***suicide*** and ends with the statement that psychoanalysis has ***essentially collapsed***. Most students of the history of psychoanalysis learn ***
to read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ___________________________________________________________________
J. In the MOVIES Category:
XLI. On the Road, With Their Baggage ***The Guilt Trip,*** With Barbra Streisand and Seth Rogen
by Stephen Holden in The New York Times on December 18, 2012.
to read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ___________________________________________________________________
XLII. The Master: a perversion of psychoanalysis incited by the compulsion to repeat
by Aaron Balick from Minds Work on December 12, 2012.
to read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ___________________________________________________________________
XLIII. Oscar Night and the Blacklist in the Fishko files
on the WNYC radio station on March 19, 1999.
to read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ___________________________________________________________________
K. In the MUSIC Category:
XLIV. Ravi Shankar, acclaimed Indian musician, dies at 92
By Kapila Fernando and K. Ratnayake and Peter Symonds on the World Socialist Website on December 20, 2012.
to read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ___________________________________________________________________
L. In the PHOTOGRAPHY Category:
XLV. Photographs from Underwater
a) Photographs from Underwater in the Lembeh Strait, Indonesia in December 2012 by Marie-Elizabeth Mali on her Marie Elizabeth Albums website.
b) Other Albums on the site.
to view a) & b) please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ___________________________________________________________________
M. In the SCIENCE NEWS Category:
XLVI. Durability of improvement in post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms and absence of harmful effects or drug dependency after 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine-assisted psychotherapy
a prospective long-term follow-up study by Michael C Mithoefer et al. in the Journal of Psychopharmocology on he Sage Publications website.
to read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ___________________________________________________________________
XLVII. The dopamine side(s) of depression
By Scicurious on the Scientific American bkog website on December 17, 2012.
XLVIII. Neuroscience: The extraordinary ease of ordinal series fMRI study reveals that learned sequences activate less brain activity when shown in the right order
on the Eureka Press Release website.
to read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ___________________________________________________________________
N. In the UNCATEGORIZED Category:
LIX. Listening to Scrooge
a) to Download: Listening to Scrooge by Stephen Grosz, A Book Available for Download for the Amazon Kindle.
b) Download: Listening to Scrooge by Stephen Grosz, A Book Available for Download on the iTunes website for iPad and iPhone.
To read a) & b) please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/
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After reading the posts of your interest, please write your comments and share your thoughts on the website and share with our colleagues on the world stage. This holiday week may give you more opportunity to take the time to do so. Enjoy.
Respectfully submitted by
Sasha Rolde
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Alexandra K. Rolde, M.D.
27 Fields Pond Rd.
Weston, MA 02493
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