Psychoanalysis/psychiatry/science/the brain and humanism on IP.net from Sasha Rolde

Dear Colleagues,

The loss of life globally whether is is passengers in commercial aircrafts, soldiers and civilians in the middle east, mental health workers in hospitals, or just starving children and victims of infections – all seems uncontrollable. We all look for psychological explanations, and with that in mind I will give you my choices on the international psychoanalytic website as well as the list of contents. Perhaps we and the philosophers have an answer. Personally I am beginning to think that what is happening in the world is the primordial nature’s attempt to keep the human population down and manageable. Animals kill each other and survival of the fittest seems to have kept life on earth going. Any other ideas?

Here are my choices:

1) I encourage all of you to read about the upcoming colloquium: “On the Subject of Psychiatry and the Subject of Psychoanalysis at APRÉS-COUP” as it outlines the current humanistic dilemma facing psychoanalysts and psychiatrists.
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2) Boston is featured this week in the Audio/Video Category – The Beth Israel Hospital with opening Mental Health Notes to Some Patients, and the BPSY with a phenomenal wideo for the Third Annual Solange Skinner Conference re Freud’s “Remembering, Repeating and Working Through”.

Click Here to Read This Article on Patient Notes

Click Here to Read This Article on the Solange Skinner Conference

3) Jane Hall wrote an excellent paper in defense os psychoanalysis – please read in the Editorials section.
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4) The film “Venus in Fur” does not seem to match “Ida”, but please read and judge for yourselves.

Click Here to Read This Article on Venus in Fur
Click Here to Read This Article on Ida

5) On the subject of “psychoanalytically minded” philosophers, please note among other details of his background that Henri Bergson married Louise Neuberger, a cousin of Marcel Proust, and had a dead daughter, Jeanne.
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6) Is the brain/computer analogy apt or not? Please read in the Science News.
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7) If stress tend to promote building of negative memories, is cortisol not increased in situations of positive stress, or is there no such thing as only positive stress? See the Science News Category.
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8) The fractured world we live in: As a counterpoint to all the posts on Science, it seems that 5 states wish to make our children scientifically illiterate by teaching creationism.
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Below is the list of contents for the week:

A. In the ANNOUNCEMENTS Category:

I. On the Subject of Psychiatry and the Subject of Psychoanalysis at APR**S-COUP
ALFAPSY and APR**S-COUP PSYCHOANALYTIC ASSOCIATION

Photo: Ren** Magritte, Not to be Reproduced (La reproduction interdite), 1937. Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam

COLLOQUIUM:
On the Subject of Psychiatry and
the Subject of Psychoanalysis
September 19***20, 2014

To read more please go to:
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/announcements/ ___________________________________________________________________

II. Donations to InternationalPsychoanalysis.net
Internationanalpsychoanalysis.net has flourished in a remarkable way since it was launched in January 2007. It has become both an archive and a news source.

One of the serendipitous outgrowths of its presence and has been that we have even more reasons to experience ourselves as a community with a history, elders, anniversaries, anecdotes, a paper trail, photos and relics of our founders *** and evidence of our on-going growth and adaptation to a very changed therapeutic world.

But the growth has outpaced the cottage and one computer.

Are you able to contribute to the cost of our widening scope?
We will use contributions to internationalpsychoanalysis.net to scan and transcribe papers, search archives, find photographs format documents and upload recordings and videos. It is labor intensive and for me a labor of love [but for the helpers, indeed, work]***.

To read more please go to:
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/announcements/ ___________________________________________________________________

III. YIVO News

2014 Uriel Weinreich Summer Program in
Yiddish Language, Literature, and Culture
Public Events

Tuesday, July 22, 2014 | 5:30pm
***The Capital of Yiddishland***:
YIVO and its Relationship to Vilna
Podbrodzer Lecture

photo: Cecile Kuznitz, Bard College

To read more please go to:
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/announcements/ ___________________________________________________________________
B. In the AUDIO/VIDEO Category:

IV. Beth Israel Opens Mental Health Notes To Some Patients
by Sacha Pfeiffer on Wbur Website on July 21, 2014.

To view and listen please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/audio/
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V. Unlocking The Brain: Are We Entering A Golden Age Of Neuroscience?
by Carey Goldberg on the Wbur Website on the June 12, 2014.
To view and listen please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/audio/
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VI. Video for the Third Annual Solange Skinner Conference

THE BOSTON PSYCHOANALYTIC SOCIETY AND INSTITUTE, INC.
169 Herrick Road, Newton Centre, Massachusetts 02459
Telephone: 617.266.0953 Fax: 857.255.3253 www.bpsi.org
July 10, 2014

We are pleased to announce the full video for the Third Annual Solange Skinner Conference is now available on the BPSI website. Please share this video with those who might be interested. Watch for more video posts in the future.

Three Critics on Freud***s
***Remembering, Repeating, and Working Through***
To view the full program, please click here.

To view and listen please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/audio/
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C. In the BOOKS Category:

VII. In the Eye of the Storm: Israeli Psychoanalysis and its Political Surroundings

a) In the Eye of the Storm: Israeli Psychoanalysis and its Political Surroundings by Emanuel Berman. This paper is previously unpublished.
b) City Within A City by Basia Berman from IPBooks.net

To read & order a) & b) please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/books/
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D. In the BUSINESS & FINANCE Category:

VIII. An Eye to the Past Can Help Guide the Future

By Carl Richards in The New York Times on July 21, 2014.

to read more please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/business-and-finance/ _____________________________________________________

E. In the EDITORIALS Category:

IX. Psychoanalysis! Is that still around?

an OpEd piece by Jane S. Hall. This paper is previously unpublished.
To read more please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/editorials/ ___________________________________________________

F. In the GENERAL NEWS Category:

X. The Passenger depicts the Holocaust and its aftermath in opera form
By Fred Mazelis on the World Socialist Web Site on July 25, 2014.
The Passenger [Photo **Stephanie Berger/Lincoln Center Festival]
To read more please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/general-news/ _______________________________________________

XI. Below the surface of Louis Theroux***s LA Stories: City of Dogs
By Charles Thorpe and Norisa Diaz on The World Socialist Web Site on July 23, 2014.

Louis Theroux***s City of Dogs. Photograph: Steve Schofield/BBC
To read more please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/general-news/ _______________________________________________

XII. Kansas State Historical Society places historic Menninger records online
By Beccy Tanner in the The Wichita Eagle on September 5, 2012.
To read more please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/general-news/ _______________________________________________

XIII. Pope demands justice for AMIA Jewish center attack

Friend Claudio Epelman of the Latin American Jewish Congress shot video last month when he visited Francis at the Vatican by Nicole Winfield and Almudena Calatrava in The Times of Israel on July 18, 2014.

To read more please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/general-news/ _______________________________________________

G. In the MOVIES Category:

XIX. Dan***s Review: ***Venus in Fur*** explores the psychology of domination
by DanN Metcalf, Jr. on the Davis Clipper website on July 18, 2014.
To read more please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/movies/
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H. In the PHILOSOPHY THURSDAY Category:

XX. Philosophy Thursday: Henri Bergson

a) Henri Bergson on Wikipedia.

b) Henri Bergson on Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

c) The Philosophy of Bergson (Russell) on the Wikisourve website.
to read a),b) & c) please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/philosphythursday/ __________________________________

I. In the SCIENCE Category:

XXI. From photography to supercomputers: how we see ourselves in our inventions
Neuroscience encourages us to think of our brains as calculation machines, but such analogies, while useful, also demonstrate our limitations by Vaughan Bell in The Observer on July 26, 2014.
Photo: Paraplegic Juliano Pinto kicked off this year***s World Cup using a brain-controlled robotic exoskeleton.