Dear Colleagues:
As we brace for yet another snow storm in the northeast, the international psychoanalytic website is the silver lining to provide us with interesting reading psychoanalytic material that applies to both our profession and the to society and world events.
Once again, I will give you my choices followed by the list of contents.
1) There is a current revival of Sabina Spielrein’ contributions. If you can, do attend this meeting:
“Dr. Launer has used in-depth research into Spielrein***s letters, diaries and professional papers to show much of this familiar story *** dramatized in the film ***A Dangerous Method*** *** is a myth. In its place, Dr. Launer rediscovers a highly original thinker..”
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2) Well worth watching are the videos on Why Do We Have War & What Can Our Generation Do About It? with Vamik Volkan and on related – how Childhood Trauma Affects Health Across a Lifetime.
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3) As an advocate for chronically and severely ill psychiatric patients, Christine Montross, a staff psychiatrist at Butler Hospital in Providence, R.I, makes a powerful case for a return to albeit modern psychiatric asylums. Please read and comment.
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4) I hope that you will find Dr. Irvin Yalom’s “A Curious Case of Writer’s Block” as a touching an example of a psychoanalytic intervention as I did:
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5) Toward an understanding of ISIS:
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Below is the Table of Contents for the week:
A. In the ANNOUNCEMENTS Category:
I. Sabina Spielrein: Sideshow & Sex Object or Thinker of Original Genius? with John Launer at NPAP
NPAP *** National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis Continuing Education Committee invites
members, candidates and the wider analytic community
to a Visiting Scholar Evening
Dr. John Launer
Tavistock Clinic, London
Sabina Spielrein:
Sideshow & Sex Object or
Thinker of Original Genius?
Sunday, April 12, 2015, 6-8 pm
To read more please go to:
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/announcements/ _________________________________________________
II. Contemporary Psychoanalytic Field Theory with Montana Katz at NPAP
THE PROGRAM COMMITTEE
OF THE NATIONAL PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION FOR PSYCHOANALYSIS PRESENTS: CONTEMPORARY PSYCHOANALYTIC FIELD THEORY: A COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE PRESENTER: Montana Katz, Ph.D.
DISCUSSANT: Martin Silverman, M. D.
MODERATOR: Alan Roland, Ph.D.
Montana Katz will describe and compare the three main paradigms of contemporary psychoanalytic field theory. These are the models based on the work of Madeleine and Willy Baranger in South America, on psychoanalytic developments in North America which are included in the Relational Turn, and on the work of Antonino Ferro in Europe.
To read more please go to:
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/announcements/ _________________________________________________
III. Psychoanalysis and the Endings of Shakespeare***s plays with Erwin Flaxman 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
NOTE CHANGE IN DATE: TUESDAY March 3, 2015, 8 p.m.
Erwin Flaxman, Ph.D. will present Psychoanalysis and the Endings of Shakespeare***s plays
To read more please go to:
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/announcements/ _________________________________________________
IV. Elective on Aging and Treating the Older Patient at CFS
Contemporary Freudian Society *** NY
Elective on Aging and Treating the Older Patient
Three Wednesdays
March 2015
Instructor: Batya R. Monder, MSW, BCD
The literature on aging has been growing over the past few decades as analysts have been more willing to face their resistance to this important subject and better recognize both how much growth can take place late in life and how critical it is to mourn the losses as they are experienced. This three-week course will address the ***.
To read more please go to:
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/announcements/ _________________________________________________
B. In the AUDIO/VIDEO Category:
V. Why Do We Have War & What Can Our Generation Do About It?*** A Conversation with Dr. Vam**k D. Volkan
on the Vimeo Website.
To view please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/audio/ _______________________________________________
VI. How Childhood Trauma Affects Health Across a Lifetime
A Ted Talk by Nadine Burke Harris on the Ted Website.
To view please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/audio/ _______________________________________________
VII. 36 Hours in Beijing
Video by Jonah M. Kessel, Max Duncan and Aaron Wolfe on The New York Times Website on February 18, 2015.
To view please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/audio/ _______________________________________________
VIII. Voices of Auschwitz
on the CNN Website.
To view please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/audio/ _______________________________________________
C. In the BOOKS Category:
IX. Esther Freud***s stories give order to the chaotic past of a house, a novel and its author
by Fiona Gruber on the Sydney Morning Herald website on February 21, 2015.
To read please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/books/
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X. Lacan: An Exchange: Fritz Fleischmann and Stuart Schneiderman, reply by Richard Wollheim
in The New York Review of Books on in the April 5, 1979 Issue.
To read please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/books/
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XI. A Writer Expresses His ***Discontent*** With Civilization
by Michael Schaub on the NPR Books website on February 18, 2015.
To read please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/books/
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XII. The Freud Project: On Dreams
on the Irish Medical Times Website on February 18, 2015,
To read please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/books/
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XIII. Cold War in Psychiatry: Human Factors, Secret Actors
By Robert van Voren on the VDDB Library website.
To read please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/books/
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XIV. Writer***s Wednesday: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
a) Fyodor Dostoyevsky on Wikipedia.
b) When Dickens met Dostoevsky by Eric Naiman in the Times Literary Supplement on April 10, 2013.
c) Dostoevsky and psychoanalysis *** psychiatry in 19th-century literature by Ruth Yvonne Pavlovic and Alexandar Mido Pavlovic on the BJPsych Website on March 1, 2012.
To read a),b) & c) please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/books/
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XV. Coming Soon From IPBooks: Psychoanalysis and Dreams
The Table of Contents and Front Matter from of Psychoanalysis and Dreams edited by James Anderson and Jeffrey Stern.
From the Back Cover: Sigmund Freud regarded dreams as ***the royal road to the unconscious,***and dreams longheld an exalted place in psychoanalysis.In the late twentiethcentury , dreams receivedless attention. This book demonstrates that there is a resurgence in psychoanalysis of interest in dreams and presents a range of the outstanding current thinking and writing on this subject.
To read please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/books/
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D. In the EDITORIALS Category:
XVI. My Own Life: Oliver Sacks on Learning He Has Terminal Cancer
By Oliver Sacks in The New York Times on February 19, 2015.
To read please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/editorials/ _______________________________________________________
XVII. The Modern Asylum
By Christine Montross in The New York Times on February 18, 2015.
To read please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/editorials/ _______________________________________________________
XVIII. Opinions in the New York Times featuring Irvin Yalom
A Curious Case of Writer***s Block By Irvin D. Yalom in The New York Times on February 14, 2015.
To read please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/editorials/ _______________________________________________________
E. In the GENERAL NEWS Category:
XIX. The Jewish Journey: America
a) The Jewish Journey: America Premieres March 3, 2015 on PBS.
b) ***Jewish Journey*** To Premiere March 3 on the Times Herald.com website on February 21, 2015,
c) The Jewish Journey on this Website.
To read a),b) & c) please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/general-news/ ________________________________________
XX. A Black Mississippi Judge***s Breathtaking Speech to Three White Murderers
By National Public Radio February 19, 2015.
To read more please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/general-news/ ________________________________________
XXI. Uncovered Letter Reveals Freud***s Surprisingly Evolved Take On Homosexuality
on the Queerty website.
To read more please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/general-news/ ________________________________________
XXII. PBS documentary traces 350 years of Jewish migration
a) by Tom Tugend on the Jewish History website on February 19, 2015.
b) The Jewish Journey: America on this Website.
photo:German emigrants boarding a Hamburg-Amerika Line ship at the port of Hamburg. Photo courtesy of National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)
To read more please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/general-news/ ________________________________________
XXIII. ***Out of My Mouth Comes Unimpeachable Manly Truth***
a) What I learned from watching a week of Russian TV. By Gary Shteyngarth in The New York Times Magazine on February 18, 2015.
b) Writer***s Wednesday: Gary Shteyngart on this website.
To read a) & b) please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/general-news/ ________________________________________
XXIV. Doctors Strive to Do Less Harm by Inattentive Care
by Gina Kolata in The New York Times on February 17, 2015.
Dr. Michael Bennick, center, medical director for patient experience at Yale-New Haven Hospital, handles concerns about care.
CHRISTOPHER CAPOZZIELLO FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
To read more please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/general-news/ ________________________________________
XXV. Freud On How To Forget The Past
by Bret Kahr on the Huffington Post website on February 17, 2015.
To read more please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/general-news/ ________________________________________
XXVI. What ISIS Really Wants
The Islamic State is no mere collection of psychopaths. It is a religious group with carefully considered beliefs, among them that it is a key agent of the coming apocalypse. Here***s what that means for its strategy***and for how to stop it by Graeme Wood on The Atlantic Monthly Website
in the March 2015 Issue.
To read more please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/general-news/ ________________________________________
XXVII. ISIS Hurls Gay Men Off Buildings, Stones Them: Analysts
By Cassandra Vinograd on the NBC News Website on February 15, 2015.
To read more please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/general-news/ ________________________________________
XXVIII. Lithuanian fascists march beneath swastikas near execution site of 10,000 Jews
by JTA in the Jerusalem Post on February 17, 2015,
To read more please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/general-news/ ________________________________________
F. In the MOVIES Category:
XXIX. American Sniper
Review of American Sniper, Reviewed by Bennett Roth.
to read please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/movies/ __________________________________________
XXX. The Great American Shooter
by J. Hoberman in The New York Review of Books in the February 13, 2015 Issue.
to read please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/movies/ __________________________________________
G. In the MOVIES MONDAY Category:
XXXI. Movies Monday: Heaven Can Wait
a) Heaven Can Wait (1943) on Wikipedia.
b) Heaven Can Wait (1978) on Wikipedia.
c) Heaven Can Wait (1943) on YouTube.
d) Heaven Can Wait (1943) THE SCREEN; *** Heaven Can Wait,*** an Amusing Comedy of Manners, With Don Ameche, Gene Tierey and Charles Coburn, Opens at Roxy By Bosley Crother in The New York Times on August 12, 1943. (more***)
to read a),b),c) & d) please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/movies/
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H. In the PAPERS Category:
XXXII. Nietzsche, Heidegger and creativity
by Bert Oliver on Mail and Guardian Website on February 15, 2015.
To read please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/papers/ _____________________________________________
I. In the PHILOSOPHY THURSDAY Category:
XXXIII. Philosophy Thursday: Michel Foucault
a) Michel Foucault on Wikipedia.
b) Michel Foucault on the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
c) Human Nature: Justice versus Power: Noam Chomsky debates with Michel Foucault 1971 on the Chomsky.info Website.
To read a),b) & c) please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/philosphythursday/ ___________________________________________
J. In the PLAYS Category:
XXXIV. In Boston, Klezmer musical spoofs Jewish infighting
Based on a novel by Israel Zangwill, ***The King of Second Avenue*** pits an uptown Ashkenazi mogul against a downtown Sephardi ***schnorrer*** with nothing but ***kishkes***
BY Matt Lebovic in The Israel Times on February 20, 2015.
To read please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/plays/ _____________________________________________
K. In the SCIENCE NEWS Category:
XXXV. Neuroscientists deride Human Brain Project as misguided, unhelpful
by Tom Bartlett On the Genetic Literacy Project Website on February 17, 2015.
To read please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/science-news/ ___________________________
L. In the UNCATEGORIZED Category:
XXXVI. A Cleveland Son***s Debt to Anny Katan and Sigmund Freud
How I Learned the Art of Psychoanalysis By Austin Ratner in The Jewish Daily Forward in this issue of February 20, 2015.
To read please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/uncategorized/ ____________________________________
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Respectfully submitted by
Sasha Rolde