Dear Colleagues,
To me, the Fourth of July always seems like the beginning of another year in the life of the USA. Thus the upcoming events and this weeks statistics become iconic in my mind – it’s all about ” choices” and perhaps my choices this week reflect that.
I will direct your attention to some of these. For instance consider:
1) Gettysburg – revisit the choices and their consequences resulting in history
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2) “Opiate pain reliever deaths among women spiked five-fold in the decade from 1999 to 2010, climbing to 6,631, up from 1,287, according to an analysis by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. During that same period, prescription painkiller deaths among men jumped 3.6 times, to 10,020. As more women are becoming addicted, the landscape of pain management
seems to be changing. Where do we as psychoanalysts come in? Please comment.
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3) The IPA Congress and the trip back in time to central Europe, the birth of psychoanalysis and the birthplace of S. Freud is again at the forefront of the news. Is this a harbinger of a return to more analytic thinking?
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4) Continuing with the retrospective, The BOOKS category contains an interesting counterpoint of a the writings of Mikhl Herzog, Columbia Professor and Yiddishist, and an account of an elite nazi club in England during WWII.
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5) with the movement forward there is the push back- China orders children to “visit” their parents
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6) Bertolt Brecht’s 1944 play likewise takes us down memory land in a new setting but an old theme – history continues to repeat itself.
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Below is the list of contents for the week:
A. In the ANNOUNCEMENTS Category:
I. IPA Congress Bulletin, 6
Have you registered for the IPA Prague Congress yet?
There’s just a few weeks to go, so if you haven’t registered please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/.
You will need your Username and Password.
If you’ve already registered ‘
Please remember to bring your confirmation letter with you. ‘..
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II. ‘Dialogues on . . . ‘ Series at NYPSI
What: New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute’s Child and Adolescent Psychoanalysis division announces the second series in the ‘Dialogues on’‘ discussions with leading child development experts.
With the ‘Dialogues on’‘ series of discussions, the NYC community has access to child development experts on relevant and pressing topics. The events are free and open to the public and are an integral part of NYPSI’s commitment to community outreach. The series began in 2012-2013 and proved overwhelmingly successful.
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III. Movie: ‘The Green Room’ at NYPSI
CALENDAR / EVENT LISTING
When: Thursday, December 5, 2013, 7:00 pm
What: New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute and Friends of the Abraham A. Brill Library present a film screening and discussion of the much-admired 1978 Francois Truffaut film ‘The Green Room.’ Dr. Francis Baudry and Henry James scholar Dr. Rita Charon will explore the role of death for Truffaut and James.
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IV. Analytic Listening and Concepts at CFS
The Psychoanalytic Training Institute of the Contemporary Freudian Society NY ‘ Foundations of Psychoanalytic Practice
We are pleased to offer a new 10-week course on Analytic Listening and Concepts beginning on September 30, 2013 in New York.
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.
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V. Open House with CFS
The Psychoanalytic Training Institute of the Contemporary Freudian Society
OPEN HOUSE Tuesday, July 9, 2013
Considering Further Training in Psychotherapy?
Interested in expanding and deepening your theoretical understanding and clinical skills?
Please join us to learn about our two-year Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Program.
A clinical case will be presented and discussed by Hadassah Ramin, LCSW Training and Supervising Analyst and Permanent Faculty of the Psychoanalytic Training Institute of the Contemporary Freudian Society
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VI. Foundations of Psychoanalytic Practice at CFS
Contemporary Freudian Society: Foundations of Psychoanalytic Practice
We are pleased to offer a new a one-year course on Infant Observation beginning on October 1, 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.
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VII. Yedies fun YIVO
We are pleased to announce the new Online Yedies fun YIVO (News from YIVO)! Check out yivo.org/blog for news about our projects and events, highlights from our collections, stories from our archivists and librarians about amazing finds, reports on Jewish life from correspondents in Warsaw and Berlin, and much, much more. We’re only just getting started and would love to hear your feedback. What would you like to learn more about? Let us know!
New articles as of June 28, 2013:
Introducing the Online Yedies fun YIVO
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B. In the ART Category:
VIII. Charged Images
By Luara Kipnis in The New Yorl Times on June 21, 2013.
Eric Fischl’s ‘Self-Portrait: An Unfinished Work,’ 2011.
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IX. Sex, breasts, politics and psychoanalysis
By Kaelen Wilson-Goldie in The Daily Star on July 01, 2013.
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C. In the AUDIO/VIDEO Category:
X. Emory Looks at Hollywood: A Psychoanalysis of Superman
Jared DeFife, Ph.D. on the Emory Post website on July 2, 2013. In this episode of ‘Emory Looks at Hollywood’ Emory Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Jared DeFife, Ph.D., gives a psychoanalysis of one of the world’s most beloved and heroic fictional figures, Clark Kent’aka Superman.
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XI. Opiate overdose deaths ‘skyrocketed’ in women
CDC finding by JoNel Aleccia on the NBC News website on July 2, 2013.
More women are dying after overdosing on prescription painkillers, a new study finds. Deaths spiked among women in the decade from 1999 to 2010.
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D. In the BOOKS Category:
XII. Freedom and Happiness (Review of ‘We’ by Yevgeny Zamyatin)
on the Orwell Prize website.
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XIII. Mikhl Herzog, Columbia Professor and Yiddishist, Dies at 85
Director of The Yiddish Atlas Project Had Prolific Career By Benjamin Ivry on the Forward Mobile website on July 3, 2013.
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XIV. Photos from the Stay, Illusion! The Hamlet Doctrine Reading
at BAM with Simon Critchley and Jamieson Webster and Courtney Love.
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XV. Comments on the Power of Witnessing for the IPA in Prague
a) Facing the Pain: Learning from the Power of Witnessing the Holocaust by Nancy Goodman to be presented at Prague, IPA August 3. 2013.
b) Comments for ‘The Power of Witnessing’ Panel by Dori Laub to be presented Prague, IPA August 3. 2013.
c) Introduction to my paper for ‘The Power of Witnessing’ Panel by Arnold Richards to be presented Prague, IPA August 3, 2013.
d) Introduction to my paper for ‘The Power of Witnessing’ Panel by Marilyn Meyers to be presented Prague, IPA August 3, 2013.
To read a),b),c) & d) please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _________________________________________________________
XVI. Human behaviour: is it all in the brain ‘ or the mind?
Review of Brainwashed by Sally Satel and Scott Lilienfeld in the Guardian on June 29, 2013.
XVII. Secrets of English World War II Upper-Class Nazi Club Revealed by a Venetian Dandy
A new film about England’s avowed anti-Semites stirs a champion of European tolerance, liberalism, and civilization By Vladislav Davidzon on The Tablet website on June 26, 2013.
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XVIII. The Table of Contents of Psychodynamic Psychiatry
Summer 2013 Issue.
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E. In the CHINA Category:
XIX. Why China Is Ordering Adult Children to Visit Their Parents
By Bruce Einhorn on the Bloomberg News Website on July 02, 2013.
A mother and daughter stroll in Shanghai as a Chinese law requiring people to visit elderly relatives takes effect
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XX. Cultural Revolution Vigilantes
By Joe Nocera in The New York Times on June 28, 2013.
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F. In the EDITORIALS Category:
XXI. After 150 years, the choices made at Gettysburg still reverberate
By George F. Will in the Washington Post on June 30, 2013.
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G. In the GENERAL NEWS Category:
XXII. How Exercise Can Calm Anxiety
By Gretchen Reynolds in The New York Times on July 3, 2013.
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XXIII. Gay Marriage: Same, but Different
By Tara Parker-Pope in The New York Times on July 1, 2013
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XXIV. New Approach to Depression
By Roni Caryn Rabin in The New York Times on July 1, 2013.
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XXV. A New Declaration of Independence (1909)
by Emma Goldman
(Published in Mother Earth, Vol. IV, no. 5, July 1909.)
When, in the course of human development, existing institutions prove inadequate to the needs of man, when they serve merely to enslave, rob, and oppress mankind, the people have the eternal right to rebel against, and overthrow, these institutions.
The mere fact that these forces ‘ inimical to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness ‘ are legalized by statute laws, sanctified by divine rights, and enforced by political power, in no way justifies their continued existence.
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XXVI. Happy Fourth of July
Some Little Known Facts about the Fourth of July, Video in the New York Times.
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XXVII. The German mini-series Generation War
Five young people traumatized by World War II By Bernd Reinhardt on the World Socialist Web Site on July 3, 2013.
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XXVIII. Return of the Repressed
Is a Mysterious Outbreak of Mass Hysteria Proving Freud Right? What is Conversion Disorder? by Stephen A. Diamond, Ph.D. in Evil Deeds on the Psychology Today blogs on February 5, 2012.
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XXIX. 150 years since the Battle of Gettysburg
a) 150 years since the Battle of Gettysburg By Tom Mackaman on the World Socialist Web Site on July 1, 2013.
b) Why They Fought By David Brooks in The New York Times on July 1, 2013.
c) After 150 years, the choices made at Gettysburg still reverberate By George F. Will in the Washington Post on June 30, 2013.
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XXX. Refreshment from Freud’s Faucet: A Birthday Salute to Siggie
Though much maligned, Sigmund Freud is the father of modern psychotherapy by Stephen A. Diamond, Ph.D. in Evil Deeds blog on the Psychology Today blogs on May 5, 2013.
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XXXI. The Gospel According to ‘Me’
By Simon Critchley and Jamieson Webster in The New York Times on June 29, 2013.
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H. In the MOVIES Category:
XXXII. All in the Family
Review of Arnon Goldfinger’s The Flat, Reviewed by Joanne Intrator and Scott Rose. This article was originally published in the Journal for the Study of Antisemitism.
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I. In the MUSIC Category:
XXXIII. Czech legendary star killed by Nazis was honored at Library of Congress Oct. 10
By Marsha Dubro on The Examiner.com website on October 10, 2012.
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XXXIV. Martin Bookspan had life-long friendships with two great classical music geniuses, Leonard Bernstein and Aaron Copland.
As the voice of the PBS television series Live from Lincoln Center from 1976 to 2006, Martin Bookspan riveted audiences with his eloquently distinctive voice and extensive knowledge of classical music. The N.Y. Times (May 24, 2006) described Bookspan as ‘One half erudite informer, the other half grandfatherly guide, [who kept audiences] tuned in (more’)
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J. IN the PAPERS Category:
XXXV. The Analytic Surface
Summary of a panel written Lawrence B. Inderbitzin, M.D. and Beth J. Seelig, M.D.H. Panel held at the Annual Meeting of the American Psychoanalytic Association, New York, May 13, 1990. Panelists: Marianne Goldberger, M.D., Warren S. Poland, M.D., Henry F. Smith, M. D.; Discussant: Dale Boesky, M.D.
XXXVI. Facing the Pain by Nancy Goodman
by Nancy Goodman to be presented at Prague, IPA August 3. 2013. ddXXXVII. Four Articles by Daniel Benveniste
a) Freud and the Question of God by Daniel Benveniste.
This article was originally appeared in two parts as Daniel Benveniste (January and Spring 2013) Freud and the Question of God in The Alliance Forum: The Newsletter of the Northwest and appears here with all requisite rights and permissions.
b) Robert Oelsner on Heinrich Racker: Countertransference as a Technical Tool by Daniel Benveniste.
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K. IN the PHOTOGRAPHY Category:
XXXVII. Photography Friday: Janet Bachant
‘Osprey Leaving Nest,’ by Janet Bachant taken on Lake Marion in South Carolina. Janet is a psychoanalyst in New York City, and she also teaches and lectures in China.
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.
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XXXVIII. Some Were Neighbors
Collaboration and Complicity in the Holocaust on the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum website.
Overseeing Deportation
An elderly Jewish couple en route to the Westerbork transit camp. A Dutch policeman stands beside the group, overseeing the deportation. The Netherlands, October 1942.
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L. In the PLAYS Category:
XXXIX. The Caucasian Chalk Circle
Brecht’s parable on ‘the temptation to do good’ By Fred Mazelis on the World Socialist Web Site on July 4, 2013.
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XL. Sir Antony Sher set to star in Sigmund Freud play
on the London Evening Standard website on July 2, 1013,
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M. In the SCIENCE NEWS Category:
XLI. IVF may slightly increase mental retardation risk
by William Hudson on the CNN website on July 2nd, 2013.
A medical worker prepares to perform intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI)
XLII. Can Neuroscience Explain What Occurs in Addiction Recovery?
Marc Galanter, M.D., points out that part of AA’s success is due to participants’ feeling of ‘belonging’ to the group and that participation has neurobiological effects.
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XLIII. Human behaviour: is it all in the brain ‘ or the mind?
Review of Brainwashed by Sally Satel and Scott Lilienfeld in the Guardian on June 29, 2013.
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The above concludes this week’s international psychoanalysis contents. Please follow your interest and wart your comments and ideas on the website.
Respectfully submitted by
Sasha Rolde