Drugs and talk therapy, memory, aging, Prague from Sasha Rolde on IP.net

Dear Colleagues,

As I read through this week’s international psychoanalytic website, it became abundantly clear to me that that the debate pro and con “talk therapy”  is   heating up with several posts comparing, contrasting, and judging different types of therapy and pharmacotherapy. I find this curious in light of the fact that whenever there is a human disaster of any sort in this country – cause by man ( vis Newtown, Boston Marathon or consequences of bullying) or nature (tsunami, tornados, earth quakes) the mental health  professionals are called upon to provide “talk therapy”. the ambivalence in the population yearning for human connection vs. a quick fix with a drug is mind boggling.
Your comments to all would be much appreciated.

My suggestions this week are:

1) The PINE seminars in Psychoanalytic Learning, now in its second year have been a resounding success, worth all the effort the faculty put into it – please look at the curriculum in the ANNOUNCEMENTS Category.
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2) would you like to be able to paint thru the power of your thoughts? Scientists have made this a reality. What does this mean? Please look in the ART category.
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3) a number of books caught my interest:

A) two reviews on the value and problems in/with psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic therapy – one by Brigitta Mowat, the other by Christian Perring ( on Robert Langs’ The Evolution of the Emotion Processing Mind)

Click Here to Read This Article by Britta Mowat
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b) more on DSM V – Heroes of Uncertainty and of course Encounters with Loneliness
Click Here to Read This Article On the Heroes of Uncertainty.
Click Here to Read These Articles on the DSM V
Click Here to Read This Article on Encounters with Loneliness.

4) I would be lying if I said that I did not almost totally identify with Stanly Fish’s article on Moving On. Only a step ahead of what he has just done, namely downsize, the young and old and all in between should read this post, not only to enhance understanding of themselves but also to understand aging in our society, and in our patients.
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5) I suggest reading Debra Rothschild, PhD’s persuasive article on Psychoanalysis as the Missing Piece for treatment of addicts, in the General News Category.
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6) Once again, coming from the country where the film The Shop on Main Street originated I want to add to Selma Duckler’s extremely detailed review of the film. If you go to see it, and those who are going to Prague to the IPA Congress may want to, please do not be completely persuaded by the review. It is true that Slovakia was a very poor country in comparison to the Czech part. The Slovak people were actually mostly shepherds, as it is very mountainous, as well as peasants, and were also quite friendly Hungarians. It is not true that they needed much seduction and corruption by the nazis. On the whole the country, somewhat like Hungary was extremely antisemitic to begin with and the nazi regime allowed this to come out without much persuasion. I won’t go into details of the difference between the czechs and the slovaks but it was only an accident of WWI that the 2 countries were joined into one, and the jewish people in both parts were treated very differently on the whole long before WWII.(please reference post # XLII in the UNCATEGORIZED Category).
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7) There are 3 post on memory in the Science News Category all of which I recommend. ( toddlers, how we use tools, what happens after losing memory due to a trauma)

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Click Here to Read This Article  on Memory and Tools.
Click Here to Read This Article on Memory and Trauma

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Below is the list of contents for the week:
A. In the ANNOUNCEMENTS Category:

I. Talk on Outreach Psychoanalysis

on the International Psychoanalytic University website on May 24, 2013.
to read please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _______________________________________________________
II. Seminars in Psychoanalytic Learning

at the PINE Psychoanalytic Center.

to read please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _______________________________________________________
III. The Adolescent Neurosis in Fact & Fiction By Theodore Jacobs, 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
www.nypsi.org

Wednesday, May 29, 2013, 7:30 pm, $10 Suggested Donation
Register at www.nypsi.org under Events and Lectures

Presents a reading & discussion

The Adolescent Neurosis in Fact & Fiction By Theodore Jacobs, M.D.
to read please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _______________________________________________________
IV. *Mind Sciences* A Focus on Psychoanalysis and Neuroscience during the month of October at NYPSI
Monday, May 27th, 2013
*Mind Sciences* A Focus on Psychoanalysis and Neuroscience during the month of October @ NYPSI

New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute, in conjunction with its divisions, The Arnold Pfeffer Center for Neuropsychoanalysis and The Helix Center, presents a series of events focused on Psychoanalysis and Neuroscience during the month of October.

*Connecting the various disciplines of mental health continues to be of great interest to psychoanalysts,* explains Dr. Roger Rahtz, President of NYPSI. *The overlapping interest in our programs from medical professionals, therapists, artists and the general public suggests that a multidisciplinary approach will stimulate new collaborations.*
to read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _______________________________________________________

B. In the ART Category:

V. Their Own Petard *Forty-One False Starts*

Review of *Forty-One False Starts,* by Janet Malcolm Reviewed By Adam Kirsch in The New York Times on May 23, 2013.

to read please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _______________________________________________________
VI. Lisa Yuskavage * Upstaging Masculinity and Speaking With the Power of Pretty

Kristeva, Lacan and an Aside That Changes Everything by Xavier Lopez Jr on the Seatttle PI blog on May 26, 2013,

to read please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _______________________________________________________
VII. Painting through the power of thought enabled by scientists
by Richard Gray on the Telegraph website on May 25, 2013.
to read please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _______________________________________________________
VIII. Unmasking the agony: Combat troops turn to art therapy
By Bill Briggs on NBC News website on May 26, 2013.

For soldiers suffering from traumatic brain injury and the psychological effects of war, a Department of Defense art therapy program hopes to provide relief.

to read please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _______________________________________________________
IX. Museum Hours and The Artist and the Model:

In defense of art and the artistic personality By David Walsh on world Socialist Web Site on May 24, 2013.

Museum Hours

to read please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _______________________________________________________

C. In the BOOKS Category:

X. The Problem with Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy

by Kirsty Hall, Nicola Godwin and Iain Snell, Reviewed by Brigitta Mowat on the Contemporary Psychotherapy website.

to read please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _______________________________________________________

XI. Encounters with Loneliness: Only The Lonely

a) The Foreword to Encounters with Loneliness by harold P. Blum.
b) To Preorder Encounters with Loneliness: Only The Lonely on the IPBooks website.

to read a) & b) please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _______________________________________________________
XII. A Forlorn Hope: Psychoanalysis in Search of Scientific Respectability
Review of The Evolution of the Emotion Processing Mind by Robert Langs, Reviewed by Christian Perring.

to read please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _______________________________________________________

XIV. Heroes of Uncertainty

By David Brooks in The New York Times on May 27, 2013.

to read please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _______________________________________________________

D. In the CHINA Category:

XV. Are you going to Prague:

CAPA Invites you to a DimSum Lunch
Friday August 2 at 12:30
At a restaurant near the meeting site.
Please contact elise.snyder@yale.edu

to read please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _______________________________________________________

E. In the EDITORIALS Category:

XVI. Moving On

By Stanley Fish in The New York Times on May 27, 2013.
to read please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _______________________________________________________

F. In the GENERAL NEWS Category:

XVII. Reinforcing and Reducing: Dialogue between Traditional Chinese Medicine and Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy

by Peichao Zhang and Xinli Chi.

This article originally appeared as Peichao Zhang & Xinli Chi (2013). Reinforcing and Reducing: Dialogue between Traditional Chinese Medicine and Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy. International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies. Published online in Wiley Online Library ( wileyonlinelibrary.com) DOI: 10.1002/aps.1358).

to read please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _______________________________________________________
XVIII. Psychoanalysis Is Addiction Treatment*s Missing Piece
Sobriety doesn*t guarantee a good life. By focusing on the whole person*not just the drug or drug use*psychoanalysis can help addicts grow in ways that go beyond recovery by Debra Rothschild on the fix website.
Debra Rothschild, PhD photo

to read please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _______________________________________________________
XIX. Why Rational People Buy Into Conspiracy Theories

By Maggie Kderth-Baker in The New York Times on May 21, 2013.
to read please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _______________________________________________________
XX. *I don*t forget*: Memories of battles past stay forever with oldest veterans

By Bill Briggs on the NBC News website on May May 26, 2013.
to read please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _______________________________________________________
XXI. Civilization And Its Discontents

Burying The Boston Marathon Bomber by Harvey Silverglate on the Forbes Magazine website on May 14, 2013,

to read please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _______________________________________________________
XXII. Remembering a Child*s Grief

By Jackie Ashton in The New York Times on May 27, 2013.
to read please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _______________________________________________________
XXIII. What do women not want from men?

a) What do women not want from men? by Russ Wellen on the Scholars and Rogues website on May 28, 2013

b) What do Women Want by Daniel Bergner in the New York Times and on this website.

to read a) & b) please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _______________________________________________________

XXIV. Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis Offers Post-Graduate Clinicians
Unique Training Program and Opportunity to Help Underprivileged Children in the Community in the Chicago Tribune on May 21, 2013.

to read please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _______________________________________________________
XXV. Defining My Dyslexia

By Blake Charlton in The New York Times on May 22, 2013.
to read please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _______________________________________________________

XXVI. A Fossil Fuel-Free New York State by 2050

by Bruce Melton on the Truthout website on May 26, 2013,
to read please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _______________________________________________________
XXVII. The Candidate Connection Newsletter

June 2013 issue.

to read please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _______________________________________________________
XXVIII. N.Y. police probe possible cyberbullying after girl found hanged
By Chris Boyette on the CNN website on May 24, 2013.

to read please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _______________________________________________________

G. In the LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Category:

XXIX. Sunday Dialogue: Treating Mental Illness

in the New York Times on May 25, 2013.

to read please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _______________________________________________________

H. In the MOVIES Category:

XXX. The Shop on Main Street Reviewed by Selma Duckler

The Shop on Main Street (1966) became the highest rated film in the history of Slovak, Czech and Czechoslovak cinema. It was the first production from Central Europe, whether communist or democratic, to win the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film. Ida Kaminska was nominated for Best Actress in a Leading Role for her part. Slovakia was Communist dominated, but it was possible to make it as it was a period of political and cultural relaxation. The government allowed it to be released to the US, Finland,
to read please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _______________________________________________________
XXXI. The plight of African boat people in The Pirogue, and other films
By Joanne Laurier on the World Socialist Web Site on May 27, 2013.
to read please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _______________________________________________________
I. In the OBITUARIES Category:

XXXII. Abortion rights crusader Henry Morgentaler, revered and hated, dead at 90

by Sandra Martin in The Globe and Mail on May 29, 2013.
to read please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _______________________________________________________

J. In the PAPERS Category:

XXXIII. Falsification and the Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes
by Imre Lakatos.

to read please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _______________________________________________________
K. In the SCIENCE NEWS Category:

XXXIV. New brain imaging study advances understanding of how humans use tools

on the HealthCanal website on May 31, 2013.

to read please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _______________________________________________________
XXXV. Who Was H.M.?

Click Here to Read: Who Was H.M.? Inside The Mind Of The Amnesiac Who Revolutionized Neuroscience A botched lobotomy left 27-year-old Henry Molaison unable to form new memories. This is how Molaison*s personal tragedy became science*s gain. By Suzanne Corkin on the Popsci website on May 29, 2013.
to read please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _______________________________________________________
XXXVI. Depressed brains are less *plastic*
by Anna Salleh on the ABC Science website on May 28, 2013.

to read please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _______________________________________________________
XXXVII. Environmental Enrichment Reduces Autism Symptoms
on the Doctor*s Lounge website on May 24, 2013.
to read please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _______________________________________________________
XXXVIII. Scientists believe they*ve learned why toddlers don*t retain early memories

By Linda Carroll on the NBC News website on May 24, 2013.

to read please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _______________________________________________________

L. In the UNCATEGORIZED Category:

XXXIX. Aging Chinese Face a Bleak Picture

High Rates of Poverty, Disability and Mental Illness Haunt Elderly, Pose Growing Economic Challenge by Tom Orlik in The Wall Street Journal on May 30, 2013

to read please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _______________________________________________________
XL. Enactment, Rupture and Repair or Impasse Workshop at CFS
Open to Members and Candidates of the Psychoanalytic Community
This clinical workshop is designed to represent analysts with different psychoanalytic models of mind, e.g.,Contemporary Freudian, Contemporary Kleinian, Lacanian, Relational, and Classical Freudian Analysis. In addition to Eva and Susan, invited case presenters include Deborah Moses, Jamieson Webster, and Avgi Saketopoulou. Each presenter will describe the…

to read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _______________________________________________________
XLI. MITPP SUMMER INSTITUTE 2013
Wednesday, May 29th, 2013
THE METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE FOR TRAINING IN PSYCHOANALYTIC PSYCHOTHERAPY 160 West 86th Street, New York, NY 10024 * Telephone: (212) 496-2858 Email: mitppnyc@aol.com * Website: www.MITPP.org
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MITPP SUMMER INSTITUTE 2013
Mini-Courses and Workshops

TRAUMA RECONSIDERED
Instructor: Marion Oliner, Ph.D.

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XLII. June Programs and the Center For Jewish History

Tuesday, June 4, 6:30pm
Center for Jewish History and the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum present: Hungary and the Holocaust: Assessing the Past, Preparing for the Future A transport of Jews from Subcarpathian Rus is taken off the trains and assembled on the ramp at Auschwitz-Birkenau. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Yad Vashem (Public Domain).
to read please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _______________________________________________________

XLIII. Boy Scouts End Longtime Ban on Openly Gay Youths
by By Erik Eckholm in the New York Times on May 23, 2013.
to read please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _______________________________________________________
XLIV. Two Posts on Parenting by Ken Barish

a) How to Avoid the Most Common Parenting Mistake by Ken Barish on the Huffington Post website May 25, 2013.

b) The Most Common Parenting Mistake by Ken Barish on the Huffington Post May 17, 2013.

to read a) and b) please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _______________________________________________________
XLV. Ray Manzarek, a founding member of The Doors, dead at 74
By Hiram Lee on the World Socialist Web Site on May 25, 2013.
to read please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _______________________________________________________
I hope that you found browsing through the website as enlightening as I did and, as always, I urge you to write your comments,

Respectfully submitted by

Sasha Rolde