Dear Colleagues,
As we anticipate the spring meeting of APsaA in Washington as well as the soon to happen IPA Congress in historic Prague, and watch in wonder the ever changing face of the weather and of world politics, it is no surprise that the international psychoanalytic website reflects the changing tide in psychiatry and psychoanalysis. As usual I will direct you to some posts that caught my attention and urge you to find those of interest to you once you are on the website.
My choices this week:
1) for those of us whose first language was not English, there is room for regret that we can’t contribute some of our earliest introductions to psychodynamic thinking. The Symposium on Children’s Literature and Psychoanalysis would greatly benefit from discussing a book from my childhood – in czech – The Fireflies – to my knowledge never translated. It is a trans-generational story of baby fireflies growing up into adulthood, taking them thru the the seasons of several years. At some point I would like to translate the book. At present I use episodes from it which I translate for my patients. Please attend the Symposium if you can at U.Penn.
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2) Do listen to Heather Craige, Harold Kudler, David Smith and Paul Brinich on YouTube explain in a simple and unique way psychoanalysis as theory and treatment to the uninitiated drug seeking public.
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3) Please hear Julian Johnson compare Freud and Copernicus and say that Freud redefined what it is to be a human.
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4) Tthere is an interesting post about a rare book :”I was a Nazi and Here is Why” by Melita Maschmann, a former Nazi, and the first German woman to publish such a book. The review is thorough, but does not mention what I recall about German Nazi women – they had a reputations of being far more militant and sadistic as a group than the men did. As analysts we may have some comments to make.
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5) the post “Gary Greenberg Psychoanalyzes Psychoanalysis” is in my opinion an outrageous misnomer. Although it is well written and contains much that is quite true and we would agree with, it says absolutely nothing about psychoanalysis – neither the theory nor the treatment. Please read and comment.
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6) What happens “post psychoanalysis”? Please read Joseph Schachter’s excellent presentation on post termination contact.
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7) Kneydl vs. Knaidel? How about “dumpling”? In czech it is “knedlik” A spelling bee?
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8) A question that has plagued me throughout my career is handled in a post “After Tragedy Who Bounces Back”? Add after trauma – why are some resilient and some not?
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9) Both Zvi Lothane’s “reappraisal”paper on Freud’s Civilization and its Discontents and related works as well as “Psychoanalysis and the Tragic Sense of Life” by Richard L. Rubens are both extremely well written and important for us to integrate into our thinking and work again.
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Click Here to Read This Article by Richard L. Rubens
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Below is the list of contents for the week:
A. In the ANNOUNCEMENTS Category
I. *Enchanted Places*, Imagined Childhoods: A Symposium on Children*s Literature and Psychoanalysis
Collaboration Liaison Committee of the Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia and the University of Pennsylvania
contact email: mezickler@gmail.com
Featured Author: Jerry Spinelli
Saturday, September 20, 2014, University of Pennsylvania
to read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _____________________________________________________________
II. The GW Psychiatrist Newsletter
May 2013, Vol 1, Issue 1.
to read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _____________________________________________________________
III. Children*s Concepts About Death & Dying with Patricia Nachman, Ph.D. at NYPSI
NEW YORK PSYCHOANALYTIC SOCIETY & INSTITUTE:
CHILD & ADOLESCENT ANALYSIS DIVISION
DIALOGUES ON CHILDHOOD
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, June 12, 2013 8 * 9:15 p.m.
to read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _____________________________________________________________
IV. Altruism and Empathy at the Helix Center
NYPSI*s Helix Center for Interdisciplinary Investigation is pleased to present
Altruism and Empathy
Stephanie Brown, Lisa Cataldo, Alan Leslie, Wynn Schwartz
Saturday, June 8, 2013, 2:30 * 4:30 pm
The Marianne & Nicholas Young Auditorium
247 East 82nd Street, NYC
Free and open to the public.
Please register at www.nypsi.org under Events and Lectures (more*)
to read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _____________________________________________________________
B. In the ART Category:
V. From Shylock to Rothschild
Liliane Weissberg examines Jews, money, and clich*s in new exhibition by Loraine Terrell on the Penn Arts and Sciences website in June 2013.
to read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _____________________________________________________________
C. In the AUDIO/VIDEO Category:
VI. Psychoanalysis: An Introduction
with Heather Craige, Harold Kudler, David Smith, and Paul M. Brinich on YouTube.
to read and listen please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ______________________________________________________________
VII. City of Dreams (Vienna 1900-1935): Sigmund Freud
from Philharmonia Orchestra on Vimeo.
to read & listen please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _____________________________________________________________
D. In the BOOKS Category:
VIII. Psychoanalysis as Literature
Stephen Grosz*s *The Examined Life* A psychoanalyst distilled 25 years and 50,000 hours of therapy into a slim volume, filled with details and moments worthy of the masters of fiction. Review by Lucy Scholes on the Daily Beast website on June 5, 2013.
to read please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ______________________________________________________
IX. *I Was a Nazi, and Here*s Why*
Click Here to Read: *I Was a Nazi, and Here*s Why*, Review of Fazit, or *Account Rendered* by Melita Maschmann.
Reviewed by Helen Epstein on The New Yorker website on May 29, 2013.
to read please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ____________________________________________________
X. Gary Greenberg Psychoanalyzes Psychoanalysis
Author of *Book of Woe* Delivers Chilling Diagnosis
By Nan Goldberg in The Jewish Daily Forward on May 31, 2013.
to read please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _____________________________________________________
E. In the BUSINESS and FINANCE Category:
XI. China*s Economic Empire
By Herbiberto Araujo and Juan Pablo Cardenal in The New York Times on June 1, 2013.
to read please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _____________________________________________________
XII. 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/ _____________________________________________________
F. In the CHINA Category: Thursday, June 6th, 2013
XIII. Will Xi Jinping*s *Chinese dream* include the rule of law?
By Fred Hiatt on the Washington Post on June 2, 2013.
to read please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _____________________________________________________
G. In the EDITORIALS Category:
XIV. Jewish Identity, Spelled in Yiddish
a)Jewish Identity, Spelled in Yiddish by Dara Horn in The New York Times on June 4, 2013.
b) Knaidel v. Kneydl: Debating the Winning Spelling Bee Word By Katy Steinmetz in Time Magazine on June 05, 2013.
c)) Scripps 86th Annual Spelling Bee: Kneydlekh on this website.
to read a),b) & c) please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _____________________________________________________
H. In he GENERAL NEWS Category:
XV. Is There Life After the End of Psychoanalysis?
Joseph Schachter on post-termination contact: presented at NYPSI, June 5, 2013
Reported by Nathan Szajnberg, MD, Managing Editor
Joe Schachter asks analysts questions and gets answers, which provoke us to think further.
Wednesday night he presented his study of contacts with analysands after termination, a paper in the current (100th- year anniversary issue) of Psychoanalytic Review that he co-authored with Horst Kachele. Schachter recently published and presented two papers on training analyses: an empirical study of analysands who had both training analyses and *regular* analyses and compared their experiences. But, this evening was on what happens after what Click Here to Read: Knaidel v. Kneydl: Debating the Winning Spelling Bee Word By Katy Steinmetz in Time Magazine on June 05, 2013.
to read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _____________________________________________________
XVI. Defender of the Faith?
By Mark Edmundson in The New York Times on September 9, 2007.
a) Papers by Arnold Richards on Freud*s Jewish Identity and Freud*s Need Not To Believe on this Website.
b) Religion in Human Evolution, part 7: Moses and monotheism. Moses should be seen not as a historical figure, but a charter for a new regime in which people live under God, not king? by Andrew Brown on the Guardian UK website on August 26, 2012.
to read a) & b) please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _____________________________________________________
XVII. How We Lost The Syrian Revolution
By Edward Dark on the Al-Monitor website on May 28, 2013.
to read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _____________________________________________________
XVIII. The Suicide Epidemic
By Tony Dokoupil on the Daily Beast Website on May 22, 2013.
What makes some people, such as Vincent van Gogh, desire death in the first place?
to read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _____________________________________________________
XIX. After tragedy, who bounces back?
Keys to resiliency may lie in childhood by By Rebecca Ruiz on the NBC News website on June 2, 2013.
to read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _____________________________________________________
XX. We Are Only as Mad as the Other Is Deaf
by Molly Castelloe, Ph.D. in her “The Me” in We blog on the Psychology Today blogs on June 2, 2013.
to read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _____________________________________________________
XXI. Quote for Today
*Natural ethics as it is called has nothing to offer here except narcissistic satisfaction of being able to think oneself better than others*
S Freud (1929) Civilization and its Discontents p 143.
Interview with Martin Bergman interview by Jane Kupersmith on this website on this website.
to read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _____________________________________________________
XXII. A Simple Way to Reduce Suicides
By Ezekiel J. Emanue in The New York Times on June 2, 2013.
to read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _____________________________________________________
XXIII. Scripps 86th Annual Spelling Bee: Kneydlekh
a) The Agony and the Ecstasy of the National Spelling Bee: Photographs on the Daily Beast website on May 31, 2013.
b) Knaidel, Kneydl: New Yorkers Dish on Dumpling Spellings By WNYC Newsroom on the WNYC website on May 31, 2013.
c) Some Say the Spelling of a Winning Word Just Wasn*t Kosher By Joseph Berger in The New York Times on May 31, 2013.
So, we couldn*t help overhearing the tuml about the fellow who won the Scripps 86th National Spelling Bee, thereby exposing how Merriam-Webster has mangled a word near and dear to the hearts of us all. And then the matsoh ball hit the fan*
to read a),b) & c) please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _____________________________________________________
XXIV. New on US television
Arrested Development (again), Behind the Candelabra and Family Tree By Joanne Laurier on The World Socialist Web Site on June 1, 2013.
to read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _____________________________________________________
XXV. Notes from Endometriosis Conference 2013
on the Chances Our blog on April 1, 2013.
to read please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _____________________________________________________
I. In the MOVIES Category:
XXVI. Big Jew-Off at Cannes:
European cineastes clash with American ironists and shlock-meisters at the film-world*s biggest hoedown By Vladislav Davidzon on The Tablet website on May 31, 2013.
to read please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _____________________________________________________
J. In the PAPERS Category:
XXVII. Psychoanalysis and the Tragic Sense of Life
by Richard L. Rubens, Ph.D. from the Columbia.edu website.
to read please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _____________________________________________________
XXVIII. Freud*s Civilization and its Discontents and related works: a reappraisal
by Zvi Lothane, M.D.
This article originally appeared as Lothane, Z. (2012). Freud*s Civilization and its Discontents and related works: a reappraisal. Psychoanalytic Inquiry, volume 32(6):524-542 and appears here with all requisite rights and permissions.
to read please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _____________________________________________________
K. In the PHOTOGRAPHY Category:
XXIX. Photography Friday: Lawrence Schwartz
Untitled, by Lawrence Schwartz.
If you would like to have your photography considered for
internationalpsychoanalysis.net*s Photography Friday, please send your jpegs to Joel Seligmann, the Photography Editor.
to view this winter wonderland, please go to
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L. In the POETRY Category:
XXX. POETRY MONDAY: June 3, 2013
When a book comes along that deals with both poetry and psychoanalysis, it can*t be ignored here. Below, instead of a featured poet, is a brief review.
An Accident of Hope: The Therapy Tapes of Anne Sexton by Dawn M. Skorczewski, 242 pp. Routledge.
Dawn Skorczewski, an Associate Professor of English and Director of University Writing at Brandeis University, has a special interest in the relationship between psychoanalysis and pedagogy and did her doctoral dissertation at Rutgers on the work of Anne Sexton. She asserts that her motivation for this book was to answer questions about how the content of Sexton*s therapeutic *..
to read please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _____________________________________________________
M. In the SCIENCE NEWS Category:
XXXI. Closed Thinking
Without scientific competition and open debate, much psychology research goes nowhere By Bruce Bower in Science News June 1, 2013; Vol.183 #11.
to read please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _____________________________________________________
XXXII. The trouble with neuroscience
by David Robson on the New Scientist Life website on June 03, 2013.
There*s much more to human behaviour than brain activity (Image: Alexander Tsiaras/SPL)
to read please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _____________________________________________________
XXXIII. When Social Skills Are a Warning
Behavior Changes Serve as an Early Signal of Mental-Health Issues; Starting Treatment Sooner by Shirley S. Wang in The Wall Street Journal on May 20, 2013.
With many neurological disorders, from Alzheimer*s to ADHD, the first clue something is wrong may be atypical social behavior. Shirley Wang reports on Lunch Break. Photo: Getty Images.
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Having reached the end of this week’s posts, please comment on these thought provoking post, relevant all over the globe, not just in our american world. It will contribute to others and you will have an added sense of belonging and interacting with the wider psychoanalytic community.
Respectfully submitted by
Sasha Rolde