DSM-5, God’s voice, glial cells, social monkeys and brain geography from Sasha Rolde on IP.net

Dear Colleagues,

with graduations looming, end of the year chaos and preparations for summer vacations, many of us are really busy, but I will urge you again to take time to read this week’s post on the international psychoanalytic website and to comment on them. It connects us with our world in a very unique way and it is growing in scope over the years. As always I try not to repeat the Announcements from previous weeks but as some of the events have not yet taken place, you may want to look at the entire category of announcements rather than just the ones I mention here.

My favorite posts this week are:

1) Our thanks go to Dr. Newell Fischer for his Reviews of Nine Lives, a most welcome addition to our published repertoire of our work.
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2) It seems oddly apt that in the Editorials section there are two posts – one on the the European Psychiatrists/ concerns regarding DSM-5 and the other on “Is that God Talking” – Please comment!!
Click Here to Read This Article on the DSM-5
Click Here to Read This Article on God Talking

 

3) In the General News Category there are posts too numerous to mention in my introduction (see below) but suffice it to say that they are worth reading as a whole, as they refer in one way or another to the condition of psychoanalysis in the present time – be it the culture of “just do it”, or the “dark side of psychoanalysis”. And yet, we still look for “psychological explanations” – for PTSD, the mind of the con man or the bombers in Boston, and the issue of being gay and how to deal with it does not go away.
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3) It’s the glia! New remedies may be possible from study on sleep deprivation easing depression. Could you have guessed?
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4) Monkeys see, monkey do? Apparently yes. See the Science News.
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5) Finally – our brains have a geographic grid (map) of where we are.
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Below is the list of contents for the week:

A. In the ANNOUNCEMENTS Category

I. Jeffrey Seinfeld*s Memorial Workshop / Lecture

On May 5th, 2013 at 10 am * 1 pm sponsored by the Object Relations Institute and St. John*s University.

To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ______________________________________________________________

II. Which Way Forward for Psychoanalysis?

Sponsored by Society for Psychoanalytic Inquiry (SPI) at the University of Chicago on May 17-19, 2013.

To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ______________________________________________________________

III. Foundations of Psychoanalytic Practice at CFS

We are pleased to offer a new 10-week course on Analytic Listening and Concepts beginning on September 30th, 2013.

This stand-alone course is suitable for students from a wide variety of backgrounds, including practicing clinicians from all disciplines, recent graduates of Masters-level or Doctoral-level programs, professionals considering changing careers, and anyone interested in exploring the possibility of post-graduate psychoanalytic training.

To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ______________________________________________________________
IV. A celebration of the 100th birthday of Dr. Martin Bergmann 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
www.nypsi.org

Wednesday, May 15, 2013, 8:30 p.m.
A celebration of the 100th birthday of Dr. Martin Bergmann
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ______________________________________________________________

V. Building a Private Practice in 2013 with Barbara Reichenthal at MITPP
THE METROPOLITAN CENTER FOR MENTAL HEALTH and
THE METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE
FOR TRAINING IN PSYCHOANALYTIC PSYCHOTHERAPY

Building a Private Practice in 2013: Navigating and Surviving Managed Care, Fiscal Cliffs, Life Coaches, and Sound Byte Cures
Saturday, May 11, 2013
Presenter: Barbara Reichenthal, L.C.S.W., B.C.D.

To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ______________________________________________________________
VI. Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis Open House

on the Roosevelt University Department of Psychology website on April 2013.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ______________________________________________________________
VII. Black Analysts Speak: Part II at IPTAR

SATURDAY MAY 11, 2013, 9:00 * 5:00
BLACK PSYCHOANALYSTS SPEAK: PART II
Janice O. Bennett, Anton H. Hart, Dorothy Evans Holmes, Dolores O. Morris, Craig K. Polite, Cleonie White

*What are the experiences of psychoanalysts of color?
*What is the relevance of psychoanalysis to communities of color? *How can psychoanalytic training better meet the needs of black psychotherapists and black patients?
*How can psychoanalysis be made more accessible and relevant to a more diverse population?

To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ______________________________________________________________

B. IN the AUDIO/VIDEO Category

VIII. In Memoriam * James H. Hansell

on the Michigan Psychoanalytic Institute Society website.

To read & view please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ______________________________________________________________

IX. U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum marks 20 years

By Rachel S. Karas in The Washington Post on April 29, 2013.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ______________________________________________________________

X. Monkeys Are Adept at Picking Up Social Cues, Research Shows
Research Shows By Pam Belluck in The New York Times on April 25, 2013.
Even Monkeys Learn to Eat Local: A new study on groups of vervet monkeys suggests that social learning may have a greater influence on behavior development than previously thought.

To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ______________________________________________________________

C. In the BOOKS Category:

XI. Facing Cancer and Maintaining Emotional Wellness

Podcast about the book by Norman Straker on the NPR website.
To listen please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ______________________________________________________________

XII. The Last Books

By Jonathan Brent on The Jewish Ideas Daily website on May 1, 2013.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ______________________________________________________________

XIII. Neuroscience in Fiction: Hannibal Lecter*s Memory Palace
By Susana Martinez-Conde on the Scientific American Blogs website on April 26, 2013

To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ______________________________________________________________

XIV. Reviews of Nine Lives by Newell Fischer

Customer Reviews of Nine Lives: Nine Case Histories Reflecting the Human Condition on Amazon.com.

To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ______________________________________________________________
D. In the CHINA Category:

XV. Dissent on China

N. Szajnberg, MD , Managing Editor

This Spring*s Dissent issue has five articles on China * change and its discontents; its many nationalisms; women*s rights at risk; Youth and their disaffection from politics; and workers at Foxconn. These are primarily descriptive pieces, but give glimpses to the shifts in life in contemporary China.

To read The Spring Issue of Dissent Magazine please to go
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/

We will be running some pieces on our teaching in Wuhan over the next few weeks, including some case conferences to give a sense of our efforts in Wuhan.

To read The Spring Issue of Dissent Magazine please to go
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/
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E. In the EDITORIALS Category:

XVI. Why DSM-5 Concerns European Psychiatrists

Why DSM-5 Concerns European Psychiatrists: A guest contributor from Paris explains why the manual*s power is misplaced by Christopher Lane, Ph.D. on his Side Effects Blog on the Psychology Today blogs on March 28, 2013.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ______________________________________________________________

XVII. Is That God Talking?

By T. M. Luhrmann in The New York Times on May 1, 2013.

To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ______________________________________________________________

F. In the GENERAL NEWS Category:

XVIII. Psychoanalysis in the Age of *Just Do It *

Presidential address to the APA Division 39 Spring Conference in Boston 3 by Frank Summers, PhD, ABPP, on Kristi Pikiewicz*s on Meaningful You blog on the Psychology Today blogs on May 3, 2013.

To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ______________________________________________________________
XIX. Suicide Rates Rise Sharply in U.S.

By Tara Parker-Pope in The New York Times on May 2, 2013.

To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ______________________________________________________________

XX. Does Depression Contribute to Dementia?

By Judith Graham in The New York Times on May 1, 2013.

To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ______________________________________________________________

XXI. The Dark Side of Psychoanalysis

1. John Nathaniel Rosen and the Refrigerator Mothers by Manuell Casanova on his Cortical Chauvinism blog on April 10, 2013.

2. John Nathaniel Rosen: Therapy or Outright Patient Abuse? by Manuell Casanova on his Cortical Chauvinism blog on April 18, 2013.
3. John Nathaniel Rosen: Fraud by Manuell Casanova on his Cortical Chauvinism blog on April 29, 2013.

To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ______________________________________________________________

XXII. U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum marks 20 years

By Rachel S. Karas in The Washington Post on April 29, 2013.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ______________________________________________________________

XXIII. With the Words *I*m Gay,* an N.B.A. Center Breaks a Barrier
By Hoard Becj and John Branch in The New York Times on April 29, 2013,

To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ______________________________________________________________

XXIV. Months After Newtown, Sorting Boxes of Grief

By Amy Lawton in The New York Times on April 28th, 2013.

To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ______________________________________________________________

XXV. AAPS Sues to End Recertification Program

By David Pittman on MedPage Today on April 25, 2013.

To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ______________________________________________________________

XXVI. Eclipsed: Poland*s Secret Jews

I was raised in Warsaw as a Catholic Pole. Today I have embraced my Jewish identity by Tusia Dabrowska on the aish.com website.

To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ______________________________________________________________

XXVII. Addict*s Father, Now Advocate

By Abigail Zuger, M.D. in The New York Times on April 29, 2013.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ______________________________________________________________

XXVIII. Potential psychological explanations behind bombings
By Deborah Kotz on the Boston Globe website on April 29, 2013.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ______________________________________________________________

XXIX. The Politics of Yiddish

By Ruth Wisse on the Jewish Ideas website on April 29, 2013.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ______________________________________________________________

XXX. President Obama*s White House Correspondents* Dinner speech
Full transcript in The Washington Post on April 28, 2013,

To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ______________________________________________________________

XXXI. Love Is All to You Need

on YouTube.

To view please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ______________________________________________________________

XXXII. The Mind of a Con Man

By Yudhujit Bhattacharjee in The New York Times on April 26, 2013.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ______________________________________________________________

XXXIII. Diagnosing the Wrong Deficit

By Vatsal G. Thakkar in The New York Times on April 27, 2013.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ______________________________________________________________
XXXIV. Finding the Courage to Reveal a Fetish

By Jillian Keenan in The New York Times on November 9, 2012.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ______________________________________________________________

XXXV. In therapy? In Argentina, it*s the norm

By Elizabeth Landau, on the CNN website on April 28, 2013.
Buenos Aires, the capital of Argentina, is also a haven for psychoanalysis, a method of psychology invented by Sigmund Freud. It*s common for expatriates and natives alike to take advantage of the city*s many therapists to explore their problems. The people in this photo are not necessarily patients.

To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ______________________________________________________________

XXXVI. When did life itself become a treatable mental disorder?
by Patricia Pearson in The Globe and Mail on April 27 2013.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ______________________________________________________________

XXXVII. Should Gun Restrictions Be Placed on Veterans With PTSD?
By Thomas James Brennan in The New York Times on April 26, 2013.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ______________________________________________________________

XXXVIII. Comfort Dogs Help Boston Recover

by Megan Drake on the Care2 website on April 18, 2013.

To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ______________________________________________________________

G. In the PAPERS Category:

XXXIV. David Lichtenstein*s Address at Symposium 2013

*I Am Not What I Am,* David Lichtenstein*s Keynote Presentation at Symposium 2013: Envy and Jealousy at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York on April 6, 2013.

To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ______________________________________________________________

XXXV. First Panel from Symposium 2013

a) Kenneth Winarick*s Presentation at Symposium 2013

b) Steven Ellman*s Presentation at Symposium 2013.

c) Francis Baudy*s Presentation at Symposium 2013.

To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ______________________________________________________________

H. In the PHOTOGRAPHY Category:

XXXVI. Photography Friday:Elsa Blum

*Michigan Station* by Elsa Blum. This photograph is part of a show called *Still Standing* at Soho Photo beginning June, 5 2013. If you would like your photography considered for internationalpsychoanalysis.net*s Photography Friday, please send your jpegs to Joel Seligmann, the Photography Editor.

To view please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ______________________________________________________________

I. In the PLAYS Category:

XXXVII. Muddled *Love Therapy* needs its head examined

By Frank Scheck in the New York Post on May 2, 2013.

To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ______________________________________________________________

J. In the SCIENCE NEWS Category:

XXXVIII. The Criminal Mind

Advances in genetics and neuroscience are revolutionizing our understanding of violent behavior*as well as ideas about how to prevent and punish crime By Adrian Raine in The Wall Street Journal on April 26, 2013.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ______________________________________________________________

XXXIX. For sand tiger sharks, a deadly, cannibalistic battle inside the womb is part of evolution

By Juliet Eilperin in The Washington Post on May 1, 2013.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ______________________________________________________________

XL. Monkeys Are Adept at Picking Up Social Cues, Research Shows
By Pam Belluck in The New York Times on April 25, 2013.

Even Monkeys Learn to Eat Local: A new study on groups of vervet monkeys suggests that social learning may have a greater influence on behavior development than previously thought.

To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _____________________________________________________________

XLI. A Sense of Where You Are

By James Gorman in The New York Times on April 29, 2013.

To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ______________________________________________________________

XLII. Why Sleep Deprivation Eases Depression

Glial activity reveals how sleep deprivation elevates mood By David Levine in Scientific American in the May/June 2013 issue.

To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ______________________________________________________________
K. In the UNCATEGORIZED Category:

XLIII. Cancers Share Gene Patterns, Studies Affirm

Studies Affirm By Gina Kolata in The New York Times on May 1, 2013.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ______________________________________________________________

XLIV. Diagnostic Manual of Mishegas

A different version of the famed manual of mental disorders By Jay Neugeboren, Michael B. Friedman, and Lloyd I. Sederer, M. D. on the April 30, 2013

To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ______________________________________________________________
It has been a busy week on the website and I hope that you will find posts of interest to each of you. Please share your comments.

Respectfully submitted by

Sasha Rolde