Dear Colleagues,
With NSA spying revelations, students killing their teachers in our schools, world wide abuse of women and child trafficking, where does a person turn when seeking to grow and learn of better more encouraging and even pleasant news? Please try to read the posts on our international psychoanalytic website. I can’t promise “all good” but hopefully at least more interesting and thought provoking. My own choices are listed below, followed by the entire list of contents.
1) Women’s attitudes toward their bodies are very cogently spelled out by Chiara Bottici in “What’s Left After Penis Envy” in the ART category.
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2) Who spends over $1 million dollars to decorate their office? Read about John Thain!
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3) Please learn about the book: “The Stories We Tell Ourselves”
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4) Ted Merwin gives psychoanalysis a boost in The Jewish Week where he wrote: Psychoanalyze This!
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5) Did Freud really have an affair with Minna or did they share a hotel room to save money? Please read Freud’s Mistress by Karen Mack and Jennifer Kaufman on The Huffington Post website on October 22, 2013.
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6) Finally it is official – In business, there*s abundant evidence that inclusion of women in senior positions is linked to better results – and some are asking for inclusion of women on boards, in politics and in business. Please read “Twitter, Women and Power.”
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7) An excellent article on why the brain needs more downtime is a must in today’s world, especially for psychoanalysts who may tend to think “resistance” when a patient’s mind goes “blank”. ( In the General News)
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8) I recommend a number of excellent posts on the prison populations, prisoner’s treatment and their mental health.
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Click Here to See This Video on Mental Illness in Prison
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8) Personally, despite the increasing discussion of psychiatrists and mental health professionals in general leaving private practice and joining clinics, I hope that I never have to do this, as for ethical reasons I could not just prescribe medication and be forced to not use my training and therapeutic, never mind psychoanalytic expertise. Please read the post in General News.
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9) And there is still more on epigenetic transmission of (Holocaust and other) trauma.
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10) No, it isn’t “right/ left”, it’s “top/bottom” half of the brain! Read in Science category.
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Below is the list of contents for the week:
A. In the ANNOUNCEMENTS Category:
I. Lacan on Psychoanalytic Savior-Faire and the Sinthome with Adriana Passini and Martin Winn at Apres-Coup
Apr*s-Coup PSYCHOANALYTIC ASSOCIATION
Friday, November 1, 2013, 6:30 pm * 8:00 pm
LACAN ON PSYCHOANALYTIC SAVOIR-FAIRE AND THE SINTHOME, Seminar ADRIANA PASSINI and MARTIN WINN
Beginning with readings of selected classes from Lacan*s Seminar XI, The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis, we will address the notions of the unconscious, repetition, and transference, and Lacan*s idea of psychoanalysis as the search for knowledge as truth.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _____________________________________________________
II. Applying Recent Research in Working Psychoanalytically with Couples with Robin Bryant at NYPSI
NEW YORK PSYCHOANALYTIC SOCIETY & INSTITUTE:
Extension Program
247 East 82nd St., between 2nd & 3rd, NY, NY, 10028
212-879-6900
www.psychoanalysis.org
www.nypsi.org
Applying Recent Research in Working Psychoanalytically with Couples Robin Bryant, Ph.D.
Mondays, 8:30 * 10 pm, Nov. 4 * Nov. 18, 2013, 3 classes *.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _____________________________________________________
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III. Psychotropic Drugs: What You Need to Know and Current Trends with Deborah Plachta at NYPSI
NEW YORK PSYCHOANALYTIC SOCIETY & INSTITUTE:
Extension Program
247 East 82nd St., between 2nd & 3rd, NY, NY, 10028
212-879-6900
www.psychoanalysis.org
www.nypsi.org
PSYCHOTROPIC DRUGS: WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW & CURRENT TRENDS Deborah Plachta, M.D.
Tuesdays, 7 * 8:30 pm, November 5- 19, 2013, 3 sessions, Fee $90 …
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _____________________________________________________
IV. *Freud was born too soon* fifty years too soon* with Fred Sander 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, November 6, 2013, 8 * 10 p.m.
*Freud was born too soon* fifty years too soon*
Fred Sander, M.D.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _____________________________________________________
V. Joseph Cornell: An Illustrated Discussion of his Life & Works from a Psychoanalytic Perspective with Melissa Wanamaker at NYPSI
NEW YORK PSYCHOANALYTIC SOCIETY & INSTITUTE:
Extension Program
247 East 82nd St., between 2nd & 3rd, NY, NY 10028
212-879-6900
www.psychoanalysis.org
www.nypsi.org
JOSEPH CORNELL: An Illustrated Discussion of his Life & Works from a Psychoanalytic Perspective
Melissa Wanamaker, Ph.D., LCSW-R
Thursdays, 7:30 * 9:30 pm, November 14 & 21, 2013, (2 classes) $100 …
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ______________________________________________
VI. Save the Date: Symposium 2014
Save the Date: March 22nd, 2014.
Symposium 2014: *Therapeutic Action: What works in Psychodynamic Therapy.* at Mt. Sinai Medical Center in New York City.
To Read the Schedule of Symposium 2014 please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/
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VII. Return to the Neighborhood: Film Premiere and Celebration of Fred Rogers
a) Screening of Film by Judith Rubin at the Tishman Auditorium of the New School on November 9, 2013 at 6;30 pm.
b) Lessons from the Neighborhood Trailer on YouTube.
To read a) & b) please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _____________________________________________________
VIII. The complete Standard Edition is now available on Kindle
The complete Standard Edition is now available on Kindle (or the Kindle app for iPad) for $2.99. Yes, $2.99. It is even searchable.
You can get it on Amazon: please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/
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IX. Unconscious Phantasy, Symbol Formation & Actualization with UPMS
UNCONSCIOUS PHANTASY, SYMBOL FORMATION & ACTUALIZATION
Presenter: Catalina Bronstein, MD
London Contemporary Kleinian Adult & Child Analyst
May 1, 2014
The concept of unconscious phantasy continues to play a central role in psychoanalytic thinking. Through the details of clinical case material, Bronstein will discuss the various symbolic forms by which unconscious phantasies manifest themselves in the analytic session as they are lived out and enacted in the transference relationship. She will explore the impact that *.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _____________________________________________________
X. Training Analysis with Douglas Kirsner at IPTAR
TRAINING ANALYSIS: LESSONS FROM THE PAST NOT TO BE IGNORED Professor Douglas Kirsner, Ph.D.
Deakin University, Melbourne
Author of Unfree Associations: Inside Psychoanalytic Instittutes, Jason Aronson, 2009
IPTAR WEST 140 West 97th Street New York, New York
Saturday November 9th
9:30 coffee and registration 10:00 -12:00 Program
Audience Discussion and Debate Welcomed
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _____________________________________________________
XI. The Leo Rangell Professorial Endowment in Psychoanalysis
We are very pleased to announce The Leo Rangell Professorial Endowment in Psychoanalysis, which has been established at the University of California Los Angeles within the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior. The Professorship has been made possible through the generosity of the Rangell family and of Stewart and Lynda Resnick.
Each year, an outstanding scholar will visit UCLA to dialogue with faculty and present a lecture on important recent developments in psychoanalysis, neuroscience, psychiatry, psychology. The 2013 Leo Rangell …
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _____________________________________________________
B. In the ART Category:
XII. John Thain*s $87,000 Rug
John Thain*s $87,000 Rug Charlie Gasparino reveals how Merrill Lynch*s CEO spent over $1 million to redecorate his office last year*even as the firm faced a financial crisis on On a Daily Beast on January 22, 2009.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _____________________________________________________
XIII. The Secret Life of Lucian Freud
by Mary P. Lane on the Speakeasy website on October 22, 2013.
* The Lucian Freud Archive / Reproduced by permission of Chatsworth Lucian Freud*s mother shown in *Large Interior* from 1973.
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XIV. A New Book Gives A Rare Glimpse Into The Life of Lucian Freud
by Erin Cunningham on the Daily Beast website on October 22, 2013. A new memoir exposes intimate details of the artist*s private life*from his burning temper, and excessive gambling to nude sittings with his 14-year-old daughter. By Erin Cunningham
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _____________________________________________________
XV. What*s Left After Penis Envy?
By Chiara Bottici on the Public Seminar website on October 15th, 2013.
View Sophia Wallace standing before one of her photographs at The Newspace Center for Photography in San Francisco, March 2013. * Tim Roth | Flickr
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C. In the AUDIO/VIDEO Category:
XVI. The Stories We Tell Ourselves by J. Mark Thompson and Richard Tuch
a) Article about: The Stories We Tell Ourselves: Mentalizing Tales of Dating and Marriage by J. Mark Thompson and Richard Tuch.
b) Chapter one of the book.
c) Table of Contents of the book.
d) Endorsement for the book by Morris N. Eagle.
e) Back Cover Description of the book.
f) About the Authors of the book.
To read a) to f) please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _____________________________________________________
XVII. Trapped: Mental Illness in American*s Prison
To view please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _____________________________________________________
D. In the BOOKS Category:
XVIII. The art of feeling Sholem Aleichem*s unforgettable legacy
Review of *The Worlds of Sholem Aleichem: The Remarkable Life and Afterlife of the Man Who Created Tevye* by Jeremey Dauber, Reviewed by Elaine Margolin on the Jewish Journal Website on October 22, 2013.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _____________________________________________________
XIX. Philosophy Thursday: Edmund Husserl
a) Towards a Phenomenology of Repression * A Husserlian Reply to the Freudian Challenge by Nicholas Smith.
b) Husserl and Freud on the Psychic Body in Action: A Comparative Analysis with a Reference to the Neurosciences by Antoine Vergote Translated by Stewart Sadowsky.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _____________________________________________________
XX. Freud*s Mistress
by Karen Mack and Jennifer Kaufman on The Huffington Post website on
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _____________________________________________________
XXI. Psychoanalyze This!
by Ted Merwin in The Jewish Week on October 22, 2013.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _____________________________________________________
XXII. Book of Lamentations
By Sam Kriss on the New Inquiry website on October 18, 2013.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _____________________________________________________
E. In the BUSINESS AND FINANCE Category:
XXIII. Twitter, Women and Power
By Nichaolas D. Kristof in The New York Times on October 23, 2013
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _____________________________________________________
F. In the CHINA Category:
XXIV. The Shanghai Secret
By Thomas L. Friedman in The New York Times on October 22, 2013.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _____________________________________________________
XXV. How Deng Did It
By Jonathan Mirsky in The New York Times on October 21, 2011.]
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _____________________________________________________
G. In the GENERAL NEWS Category:
XXVI. Why Your Brain Needs More Downtime
Research on naps, meditation, nature walks and the habits of exceptional artists and athletes reveals how mental breaks increase productivity, replenish attention, solidify memories and encourage creativity By Ferris Jabr on the Scientific American website on October 15, 2013.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _____________________________________________________
XXVII. Psychiatric Patients in Prisons Are Frequent Rape Victims
By Alen Frances, MD in The Psychiatric Times on October 21, 2013.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _____________________________________________________
XXVIII. Therapists Explore Dropping Solo Practices To Join Groups
by Sarah Varney on the NPR Radio website on October 24, 2013
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _____________________________________________________
XXIV. *Masters of Sex*: TV*s Hot New Experiment
By Evan Tuohey on The Quad website on October 25, 2013.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _____________________________________________________
XXV. Intrigued by a Freudian trip
by Gemma Nisbet on The West Australian website on October 24, 2013.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _____________________________________________________
XXVI. Bullying among boys easily dismissed?
By Wendy Sachs on the CNN website on October 22, 2013.
Just as bullying has shifted over the years, Hollywood has shifted how bullies are portrayed in film and TV. Take a look back at some of pop culture*s best-known bullies. Here Matt Dillon, second from left, is the head bully in charge of runt Chris Makepeace, right, who hires a very large classmate to take on his tormenter in the 1980 film *My Bodyguard.*
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XXVII. Dream On
by Alec Wilkinson in The New Yorker on October 28, 2013.
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XXVIII. Mental health in prisons: It*s a crime
With nowhere else to turn, prisons are stepping up to the challenge of treating mentally ill offenders by Jonathan Martin in the Seattle Times on October 19, 2013.
Offenders in the Intensive Management Unit of the Monroe Correctional Complex sit in a class chained to their desks. Twice a week, offenders are let out of solitary for hours of cognitive behavior therapy classes.
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XXIX. On narcissism: the mirror and the self
People from Tiger Woods to the Obamas are routinely denounced for their narcissism. But what does the word really mean and are there good as well as bad types of self-love? On the New Statesman website on August 2, 2013.
A rounded image: but modern culture is solipsistic, fixed on looking inward at our own preoccupations. Photo: Fleur van Dodewaard, part of the *Sun Set Series* (2011)
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XXX. After diagnosis, some keep their cancer a secret
By Diane Mapes on the TODAY website on October 20. 2013.
When Melanie Young was first diagnosed with cancer, she decided to keep her diagnosis a secret from her work colleagues. Here, she smiles on a celebratory trip to France, one year after finishing treatment, in September 2010*..
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XXXI. Why We Make Bad Decisions
By Noreena Hertz in The New York Times on October 19, 2013.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _____________________________________________________
H. In the MUSIC Category:
XXXII. Opera Fights Hungary*s Rising Anti-Semitism
Ivan Fischer*s Opera *The Red Heifer* Addresses Prejudice By Rachel Donadio in The New York Times on October 20, 2013.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _____________________________________________________
I. In the OBITUARIES Category:
XXXIII. Dr. Ernest Hartmann, researched sleep, the nature of dreaming; at 79
By Bryan Marquard in the Boston Globe on August 25, 2013.
Dr. Hartmann spent decades contemplating what dreams and nightmares can reveal.
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XXXIV. John Kennell, Advocate of Infant Bonding, Dies at 91
By Paul Vitello in The New York Times on September 21, 2013.
Dr. John H. Kennell, seated, around 1960. *No one was paying attention to what the baby wanted,* he said of his research.
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J. In the PAPERS Category:
XXXV. A Foucauldian Analysis of Psychoanalysis
A Discipline that *Disciplines* by Alan Milchman and Alan Rosenberg on the Academy
for the Study of the Psychoanalytic Arts website.
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XXXVI. Epigenetic Transmission of Holocaust Trauma: Can Nightmares Be Inherited?
by Natan P.F. Kellermann.
This article originally appeared as Kellermann, Natan P.F. (2013) Epigenetic transmission of Holocaust Trauma: Can nightmares be inherited? Israel Journal of Psychiatry & Related Sciences, 50(1), 33-39 and appears here with all requisite rights and permissions.
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K. In the SCIENCE NEWS Category:
XXXVII. Penn Research Helps Show that *Endowment Effect* is Not Present in Hunter-Gather Societies
on the Penn News Website on October 21, 2013.
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XXXVIII. Data-Mining Our Dreams
By Kelly Bulkeley in The New York Times on October 18, 2013.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _____________________________________________________
XXXIX. A New Map of How We Think: Top Brain/Bottom Brain
Forget dated ideas about the left and right hemispheres. New research provides a more nuanced view of the brain By Stephen M. Kosslyn and G. Wayne Miller on the Wall Street Journal website on October 18, 2013.
Author and neuroscientist Stephen Kosslyn talks to WSJ editor Gary Rosen about the practical implications of new brain research. Are you a Mover, Stimulator, Perceiver or Adaptor?
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This completes the palette of posts on the website for the week. I hope you have found articles of interest to you. Please share your comments with colleagues nationally and globally. Thank you.
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Sasha Rolde
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