Dear Colleagues:
As the winter doldrums continue and the violence in the world is keeping up pace, our government threatens a partial shut down and children face a much longer school year due to snow days, what good is there happening on our planet? I turn to the international psychoanalytic website, as it is usually pretty accurate in how it follows national and international events and trends , for solace.
I give you a choice of view posts which I have picked out, followed by the entire list of contents. Please follow your own interests and do write down your opinions and comments.
1) Evidently for the first pleasant post we had to go far away to the West Australian website:
“Imagine being able to examine an X-ray of Sigmund Freud’s skull, peruse letters in his desk drawer left at his death in 1939, and get familiar with his iconic psychoanalyst’s couch.”
Seven WA artists spent three weeks in residence at the Freud Museum in London. Research is featured in An Internal Difficulty: Australian Artists at the Freud Museum London.
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2) Did you know that there is such a thing as face blindness. I am probably displaying my ignorance as, among others, Oliver Sacks was afflicted with this condition.
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3) All the posts in the BOOKS category are, as usual, compelling. I picked 2 well known to all of us, one not so much, but please read the others as well. Philosophy seems to predominate – perhaps a reflection of how we currently need to look at life on this planet.
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a) D.H. Lawrence
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b) John Stuart Mill’s relationships, his “mental crisis,” and the writing of The Subjection of Women
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c) Did you know: Scientist, Spy, Genius: Who Was Bruno Pontecorvo?
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4) The plight of our profession:
a) Susannah Cahalan describes Analysts–couch therapy is a “shrinking” profession in The New York Post
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b) Joachim Hagopian outlines on the Global Research websiteThe Psychology how Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis Nexus: “Mental Disorders” Drives Big Pharma Profit and Social Control
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5) In contrast to 4 a) & b) please read Todd Essig’s excellent article encouraging a revival of psychoanalytic psychotherapy for all the right reasons.
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6) More apropos than any other in a world populated increasingly by displaced individuals with PTSD the film Jimmy P: Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian is a must.
a) Click Here to Read This Article on Jimmy P.
b) Click Here to Read This Article on Jimmy P.
c) Click Here to Read This Article on Jimmy P.
d)Click Here to Read This Article on Jimmy P.
7) Having known Leonard Cohen and shared Montreal and McGill University days with him so many decades ago, I urge you to read about him, the history of the city and of his career, even if it does not bring the same memories. It is very compeling.
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8) I could not chose one from the series of phenomenal papers this week from Salman Akhtar to Marx, so please just go to PAPERS Category and enjoy!
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9) “The Healing World” by Thomas Szasz is a must read especially at the present time.
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Below is the Table of Contents for the week:
A. In the ANNOUNCEMENTS Category:
I. Taming of The Crew: Understanding & Coping with Childhood Aggression in the Context of Home & Family II with Wendy Olesker. 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, March 11, 2015, 8 *** 9:15 p.m.,
To read more please go to:
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/announcements/ _________________________________________________
II. North American Working Parties Mtg *** 3/7 Co-Sponsored by CFS
North American Working Parties Steering Committee
Working Parties of the North American WP Project
Saturday, March 7 and Sunday, March 8, 2015
Sites: New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute and Private Psychoanalytic Offices in New York City
Co-Sponsored by the Contemporary Freudian Society
and the Canadian Psychoanalytic Society
Cost: $196
To read more please go to:
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/announcements/ _________________________________________________
B. In the ART Category:
III. Up close with Freud
by Lyn DiCiero on the West Australian website February 26, 2015.
The artists in Freud***s study at the Freud Museum. Thea Costantino, Nalda Searles, Susan Flavell, Tarryn Gill, Travis Kelleher, Pilar Mata Dupont, Andrew Nicholls. Picture: Pilar Mata Dupont
To read please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/art/ _________________________________________________
IV. Alice Neel***s Brothers Karamazov
by Dan Piepenbring on the in The Paris Review on February 24, 2015.
To read please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/art/ _________________________________________________
C. In the AUDIO/VIDEO Category:
V. Strangers in the Mirror Podcast with Oliver Sacks
a) Strangers in the Mirror Podcast with Oliver Sacks on the Radio Lab website on June 15, 2010.
b) Oliver Sacks on this website.
c) A Brain With a Heart on this website.
d) My Own Life: Oliver Sacks on Learning He Has Terminal Cancer on this website.
To view please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/audio/ _______________________________________________
D. In the BOOKS Category:
VI. Lured by Literature
So intoxicated in 1968 by the counterculture***s energies, Dickstein suggests adding ***The Story of O*** to Columbia***s core curriculum By Edward Rothstein in the Wall Street Journal on February 25, 2015,
To read please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/books/
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VII. All The Yiddish That***s Fit To Print in Easthampton, Massachusetts
***Hot Lead Shop*** Is Rarity in Internet Age By Dan Friedman in The Jewish Daily Forward on February 25, 2015.
To read please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/books/
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VIII. Writer***s Wednesday: D.H. Lawrence
a) D.H. Lawrence on Wikipedia.
b) D.H. Lawrence Biography Poet, Playwright, Author, Journalist (1885***1930) on the Biography.com Website.
c) The Deep End: A new life of D. H. Lawrence. by Benjamin Kunkel In The New Yorker in the December 19, 2005 Issue.
d) The trial of Lady Chatterley***s Lover: No other jury verdict has had such a profound social impact as the acquittal of Penguin Books in the Lady
Illusions of a Future: Psychoanalysis and the Biopolitics of Desire Tuesday, February 24th, 2015
To read a),b),c) & d)please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/books/
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IX. Illusions of a Future: Psychoanalysis and the Biopolitics of Desire
Review of Kate Schechter 2014 ***Illusions of a Future: Psychoanalysis and the Biopolitics of Desire*** Reviewed by Justin Clemens on the Society and Space Website.
To read please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/books/
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X. Picking Up a Memoir of Madness: ***He Wanted the Moon*** Is an Extraordinary Effort to Chronicle Bipolar Disease
by By Mimi Baird, with Eve Claxton, in The New York Times on February 23, 2015.
To read please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/books/
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XI. John Stuart Mill***s relationships, his ***mental crisis,*** and the writing of The Subjection of Women
by **ule **zler, Ph.D. and Pys.D. on the UCLA website.
To read please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/books/
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XI. ***The Evil Hours,*** by David J. Morris
Reviewed by Jennifer Percy in The New York Times on February 20, 2015.
To read please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/books/
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XII. Empty Ideas: A Critique of Analytic Philosophy
a) by Peter Unger , Reviewed by Timothy Williamson in The Times Literary Supplement on January 16 2015.
b) Empty Ideas: A Critique of Analytic Philosophy by Peter Unger, Reviewed by Katherine Hawley, University of St Andrews on the University of Notre Dame Website on December 25, 2014.
To read please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/books/
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XIII. Scientist, Spy, Genius: Who Was Bruno Pontecorvo?
Review of: Half-Life: The Divided Life of Bruno Pontecorvo, Physicist or Spy by Frank Close, Reviewed by Freeman Dyson in The New York Review of Books in the March 5, 2015 Issue.
Archivio GBB/Contrasto/Redux Bruno Pontecorvo around the time of his defection to the USSR
To read please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/books/
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E. In the EDITORIALS Category:
XIV. When the Best Sex Is Extramarital
By Lawrence Josephs in The New York Times on February 24, 2015.
To read please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/editorials/ _______________________________________________________
XV. Why It***s Time To Take A New Look At Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
by Todd Essig on the February 23, 2015.
To read please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/editorials/ _______________________________________________________
F. In the GENERAL NEWS Category:
XVI. Medicating Women***s Feelings
By Julie Holland in The New York Times on February 28, 2015,
To read more please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/general-news/ ________________________________________
XVII. A Visit to the Kitchen of the British Royals*** Favorite Chef
Anton Mosimann prepared the wedding banquet for Prince William and Kate Middleton. Here, the Swiss chef talks about the kind of clean, simple cooking the royals fell in love Edited from an interview with Paul Levy in The Wall Street Journal on February 26, 2015.
To read more please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/general-news/ ________________________________________
XVIII. A Disease Doctors Refuse to See
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Needs Effective Treatments By Julie Rehmeyer in The New York Times on February 25, 2015.
To read more please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/general-news/ ________________________________________
XIX. The Psychology, Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis Nexus: ***Mental Disorders*** Drives Big Pharma Profit and Social Control
By Joachim Hagopian on the Global Research website on February 23, 2015.
To read more please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/general-news/ ________________________________________
XX. Analysts*** couch therapy is a ***shrinking*** profession
By Susannah Cahalan in The New York Post on February 22, 2015.
To read more please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/general-news/ ________________________________________
XXI. Sheep or goat? Chinese New Year is more about substance than zodiac creature
on the Japan Times News website on February 20, 2015.
To read more please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/general-news/ ________________________________________
G. In the MOVIES Category:
XXII. Every Thing Will Be Fine from Win Wenders, Taxi from Jafar Panahi, and other films
By Hiram Lee on the World Socialist Website on February 27, 2015.
photo: Every Thing Will Be Fine
to read please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/movies/ __________________________________________
XXIII. Haiti and Romania: Drama and social life in Murder in Pacot and Why me?
By Stefan Steinberg On the World Socialist Web Site on February 25, 2015.
to read please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/movies/ __________________________________________
XXIV. 87th Academy Awards: A more intriguing event than in recent years Tuesday, February 24th, 2015
By David Walsh on the World Socialist Web Site on February 24, 2015.
Photo: Citizen Four
to read please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/movies/ __________________________________________
XXV. Still Alice and Kingsman: The Secret Service***A woman battles disease and a street kid helps save the world
By Joanne Laurier on the World Socialist Web Site on February 23, 2015.
Photo: Still Alice
to read please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/movies/ __________________________________________
H. In the MOVIES MONDAY Category:
XXVI. Movies Monday: Jimmy P: Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian
a) Jimmy P: Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian on Wikipedia.
b) Arnaud Desplechin***s ***Jimmy P*** by Richard Brody In The New Yorker on February 17, 2014.
c) Therapist and Patient, Odd and Charming: ***Jimmy P.*** Recounts a Case Study of a Noble Soul in Torment By A. O. Scott in The New York Times on February. 13, 2014.
d) Two Exiles, Digging Through The Past For Clues To Their Present by Mark Jenkins on the NPR website on February 13, 2014.
to read a),b),c) & d) please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/movies/
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I. In the MUSIC Category:
XXVII. Leonard Cohen***s Montreal
by Bernard Avishai in The New Yorker on February 28, 2015.
Photograph by Rob Verhorst/Redferns via Getty
to read please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/music/ ___________________________________
J. In the OBITUARIES Category:
XXVIII. Leonard Nimoy***s Mame-loshn: A Yiddish Story
on the Yiddish Book Center website.
To read more please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/obituaries/ ______________________________________
XXIX. Pearl King obituary: Psychoanalyst who was able to free individuals and institutions from conflict
by Ken Robinson on The Guardian Website on February 5, 2015.
To read more please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/obituaries/ ______________________________________
K. In the PAPERS Category:
XXX. Prof. Salman Akhtar: The Paternal in Culture and Psychoanalysis
on YouTube.
To read please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/papers/ _____________________________________________
XXXI. The Great Escape: World War II, Neo-freudianism, and the Origins of U.S. Psychocultural Analysis
by Edward J. K. Gitre in History of the Behavioral Sciences, Vol. 47(1), 18***43 Winter 2011.
To read please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/papers/ _____________________________________________
XXXII. What Man Has Made of Man
A Study of the Consequences of Platonism and Postivism in Psychology by Mortimer J. Adler on the archive.com website.
To read please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/papers/ _____________________________________________
XXXIII. Sigmund Freud***s Jewish Identity: Evidence From his Correspondence
by Moshe Gresser.
photo: Moshe Gresser
To read please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/papers/ _____________________________________________
XXXIV. On The Jewish Question by Karl Marx
Written: Autumn 1843; First Published: February, 1844 in
Deutsch-Franz**sische Jahrb**cher, on the Marxists.org website.
To read please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/papers/ _____________________________________________
L. In the PHILOSOPHY THURSDAY Category:
XXXV. Philosophy Thursday: John Stuart Mill
a) John Stuart Mill on Wikipeda.
b) John Stuart Mill on the Stanford University Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
c) John Stuart Mill as a social science founder on the Understanding Philosopjy website on August 31, 2009.
d) John Stuart Mill***s relationships, his ***mental crisis,*** and the writing of The Subjection of women by **ule **zler, Ph.D. and Pys.D on UClA website.
To read a),b),c) & d) please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/philosphythursday/ ___________________________________________
M. In the PHOTOGRAPHY Category:
XXXVI. 20 Photos: The 2015 Sony World Photography Awards
By Alan Taylor On The Atlantic Photo Website on February 25, 2015.
to view please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/photo/ ___________________________________________
N. In the PLAYS Category:
XXXVII. Once a Kingdom: The Life of Maurice Schwartz and the Yiddish Art Theatre
by Martin Boris on The Museum of Family History website.
To read please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/plays/ _____________________________________________
O. In the PSYCHOLOGY SUNDAY Category:
XXXVIII. Psychology Sunday: Reuben Fine
a) Reuben Fine on Wikipedia.
b) Reuben Fine, American Chess Giant, Dead at 79
By Harold C. Schonberg in The New York Times on March 27, 1993.
c) Reuben Fine Books List on the Ranker website.
d) Reuben Fine, Chess and Psychology by Edward Winter on the Chess History Website.
e) Other Posts on Psychology Sunday on This Website.
To read a),b),c),d) & e) please go to:
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/psychsunday/ _______________________________________
XXXIX. Psychology Sunday: Jerome Kagan
a) Jerome Kagan on Wikipedia.
b) Understanding our personalities requires a lesson in history To better understand human behavior, developmental psychology pioneer Jerome Kagan urges psychologists to look back before moving ahead By Amy Novotney American Psychological Association Monitor in the 2008, Vol 39, No. 11 Issue.
c) SPIEGEL Interview with Jerome Kagan: ***What About Tutoring Instead of Pills?*** Harvard psychologist Jerome Kagan is one of the world***s leading ***..
To read a),b) & c), please go to:
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/psychsunday/ _______________________________________
P. In the SCIENCE NEWS Category:
XL. My Stroke of Insight: Jill Bolte Taylor***s Ted Talk
on the Ted Website filmed February 2008.
To view please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/science-news/ ______________________________________
Q. In the UNCATEGORIZED Category:
XLI. The Healing Word: Its Past, Present, and Future
by Thomaz Szasz on the Thomas Szasz Cybercenter for Liberty and Responsibility website.
To read please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/uncategorized/ _______________________________________
As a conclusion of this week’s summary, I want to underscore how the posts are becoming ever so much more relevant to both dilemmas in psychoanalysis as well as in the world at large. Writers, philosophers, psychoanalysts and other great thinkers have great deal to say that would help society if only their wisdom was more disseminated. Hence it is really important that we all do our share by making our views known – please write your comments on the website. Thank you.
Respectfully submitted by
Sasha Rolde