Dear Colleagues,
The overshadowing cloud on this week has been the deaths of Elizabeth Young-Bruehl and Abraham Zaleznik, both of whom many of us knew well, mainly due to their immense contributions as teachers and to the community. The topics on the international psychoanalysis website this week range from trauma to addictions to ability to predict and more. I strongly recommend a few but there are many more.
My choices are:
1) Freman Dyson’s review of Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman in the NY Times Review of Books. Would you believe that numbers and statistics are better at predicting outcomes than clinical judgment? He says: :A cognitive illusion is a false belief that we intuitively accept as true. The illusion of validity is a false belief in the reliability of our own judgment.”
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2)Note the meeting in Athens on From Addiction to Relationships: Neuropsychoanalytic Perspectives
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3) Several posts on “A Dangerous Method”
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4) The post questioning the complicity of the wives of sex offenders
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5) Thomas Bartlett’s informative and well expressed paper on APsaA governance.
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6) The posts in Memoriam of Elizabeth Young-Bruehl
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7) Abraham Zaleznik’s obituary brings back memories of a well respected non-mainstream psychoanalyst.
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The entire list of contents for the week is listed below.
A. In the ANNOUNCEMENTS Category:
I. International Ferenczi Conference: Faces of Trauma
International Ferenczi Conference: Faces of Trauma conference in Budapest on May 31st to June 3rd, 2012.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _________________________________________________________
II. From Addiction to Relationships: Neuropsychoanalytic Perspectives on Craving, Caring and Clinging with NPSA in Athens 14-16 June 2012*** EDUCATIONAL DAY: Thursday 14
June***CONGRESS: Late Thursday 14 to Saturday 16 June
*** To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ __________________________________________________________
III. Master Clinicians Series with Alan Bass at IPTAR
MASTER CLINICIANS Series***Presenter: Alan Bass
***IPTAR West Conference Room
140 West 97th Street
December 16, Friday, 2-3:30 p.m.
***RSVP: Ellen Sinkman, Chair***(212) 595-4201
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IV. Screening of***John Huston***s The Dead with Francis Baudry at NYPSI
PLEASE JOIN NYPSI AS IT CONTINUES ITS CENTENARY CELEBRATION CELEBRATING A CENTURY OF ADVANCEMENT THROUGH SELF-KNOWLEDGE***THE NEW YORK PSYCHOANALYTIC SOCIETY & INSTITUTE:
BOOKSTORE & THE A. A. BRILL LIBRARY
247 East 82nd St., between 2nd & 3rd, NY, NY, 10028
***212-879-6900***www.psychoanalysis.org
Friday, December 9, 2011, 7:30 pm
present a screening of*** John Huston***s The Dead followed by a psychoanalytic******.
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V. Pedrito: Blood of the Ancestors with Martha Bragin at IPTAR
BENJAMIN; BRAGIN; MOSKOWITZ; REICHBART
***THE DIVERSITY COMMITTEE OF IPTAR PRESENTS ***MARTHA BRAGIN, Ph.D. ***Saturday morning Dec. 10: 9:30am -12:30pm
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VI. Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
a) Reviewed by Freeman Dyson in the New York Review of Books on December 22, 2011.
b) How cognitive illusions blind us to reason: Why do Wall Street traders have such faith in their powers of prediction, when their success is largely down to chance? by Daniel Kahneman in the Observer on October 29, 2011.
c) Daniel Kahneman: The riddle of experience vs. memory on Video on the TED website.
To read and view a), b) & c) please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/
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VII. Hannah Arendt and the Study of Evil With Elisabeth Young-Bruehl
Hannah Arendt and the Study of Evil With Elisabeth Young-Bruehl *** author of Why Arendt Matters *** who recalls the life of a great thinker on All Things Considered on the NPR website on October 14, 2006.
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C. In the BOOKS Category:
VIII. ***The Jester and the Sages*** looks at Twain and his contemporaries
A study of the great American writer and three contemporaries goes above the literary
By Alexander Heffner in the Kansas City Star on December 8, 2011.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ——————————————————————————————————————– IX. The Freud Project, Year One
The Early Works on the Irish Medical Times website on December 8, 2011.
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X. Retro Science
Retro Science Jargon: Negroes, Retards, Morons, Feeble-minded Idiots and Perverts By Jesse Bering in the Scientific American on December 3, 2011.
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D. In the BUSINESS AND FINANCE Category:
XI. Words That Don***t Work
by George Lakoff on the Huffington Post website on December 7, 2011.
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XII. Head Case
Stories City Lights: Head Case By Don Bauder on the San Diego website on December 7, 2011.
Steve Erie uses the oedipal theories Sigmund Freud (right) to describe San Diego boosters*** ***edifice complex.*** Freud***s colleague Alfred Adler (left) might say that San Diego has a ***civic inferiority complex
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E. In the EDITORIALS Category:
XIII. How Dangerous Is ***A Dangerous Method***? Boundary violations are hazardous
a) How Dangerous Is ***A Dangerous Method***? Boundary violations are hazardous by Tamara McClintock Greenberg, on her 21st Century Aging on the Psychology Today blogs on December 5, 2011.
b) Other posts on A Dangerous Method on this website.
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XIV. Freud and Meaning
A psychoanalyst examines the role of meaning in modern psychoanalysis by Eric Maisel, Ph.D. in Rethinking Psychology blog on the Psychology Today blogs on December 6, 2011.
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XV. Art and the Limits of Neuroscience
By Alva No** in the New York Times on December 4, 2011.
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XVI. Bring Health Care Home
By Jack Resnick in the New York Times on December 4, 2011.
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F. In the GENERAL NEWS Category:
XVII. The Wives of Sex Offenders: Was Dottie Sandusky Complicit?
by Jessica Bennett on the Daily Beast website on December 5, 2011.
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XVIII. People can smell your neuroticism
The nose knows more than you***d think, a new study suggests By Rachel Rettner on the BodyOdd website on MSNBC.com.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/
XIX. Creative Aggression by Elisabeth Young-Bruehl
#65. Creative Aggression by Elisabeth Young-Bruehl on her Who***s Afraid of Social Democracy? website. The talk was given to a luncheon meeting of the New York Institute for the Humanities on November 18, 2011 at Deutches Haus, NYU.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/
XX. Thomas Bartlett on APsaA Governance Sources of Conflict
The following is a slightly simplified summary, as I understand it, of the governance structure of the American Psychoanalytic Association (APsaA). For some newer members this may be informative, for others review.
I believe the facts I***ll report here are now by and large accepted and no longer controversial.
Opinions I express ABOUT these arrangements may be controversial, though ***
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G. In the MOVIES Category:
XXI. How Dangerous Is ***A Dangerous Method***? Boundary violations are hazardous
a) by Tamara McClintock Greenberg, on her 21st Century Aging on the Psychology Today blogs on December 5, 2011.
b) Other posts on A Dangerous Method on this website.
To read a) & b)please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _____________________________________________________________
XXII. Sexual obsessions and psychoanalysis take centre stage
Steve McQueen***s ***Shame*** explores addiction; Jan Svankmajer***s ***Surviving Life*** charts one man***s disturbing dreams
By Iain Millar on the Art Newspaper in the December 2011 issue.
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XXIII. Honor Roll 2011 on David Cronenberg On His ***Dangerous Method***
a) by Peter Knegt on the IndieWire website on December 7. 2011. David Cronenberg with Sony Classics heads Tom Bernard and Michael Barker and actor Viggo Mortensen in Toronto.
b) Other Posts on a Dangerous Method on this Website.
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XXIV. A Dangerous Method: Psychology, Development, and Psychotherapy Jung, Spielrein, and Freud
a) ***Complex Relationships Contemporary Relevance
by Lawrence Blum, M.D. and Leon Hoffman, M.D. in the Beyond Freud Blog on the Psychology Today Blogs on December 4, 2011.
b) Other Posts on A Dangerous Method on this website.
To read a) & b)please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ___________________________________________________________
XXV. Freudian slips
By Cindy Adams in the New York Post on December 5, 2011.
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XXVI. David Cronenberg: It***s as if my old movies don***t exist
a) on the Salon website on December 3, 2011.
b) Other Posts on A Dangerous Method on this website.
To read a) & b) please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/
H. In the MUSIC category:
XXVII. Joni Mitchell singing *** Twisted***
from the album: Court and Spark on YouTube.
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I. In the OBITUARIES Category:
XXVIII. Abraham Zaleznik, at 87, professor emeritus of Harvard Business School
By Herald staff on the Boston Herald website on December 9, 2011.
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XXIX. Elisabeth Young-Bruehl, Who Probed Roots of Ideology and Bias, Dies at 65 a) By Margalit Fox in the New York Times on December 5, 2011. b) In Memoriam: Elisabeth Young-Bruehl on this website.
c) Creative Aggression by Elisabeth Young-Bruehl on this website.
To read a),b) & c) please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ____________________________________________________________
XXX. In Memoriam: Elisabeth Young-Bruehl
by Dominique Browning on her Slow Love Life website on December 3, 2011.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/
J. In the PAPERS Category:
XXXI. Group Psychology & the Study of Institutes by Jacob Arlow (1970s)
*** by Jacob Arlow written in the 1970s.
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XXXII. Our Sexy Brain; Our Compelling Environment: Interaction in Female Development by Doris K. Silverman
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This article originally appeared as: Silverman, D.K. (2010). Our Sexy Brain; Our Compelling Environment: Interaction in Female Development. The Psychoanalytic Review 97:(1) and appears here with all relevant rights and permissions.
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K. In the UNCATEGORIZED category:
XXXIII. Division 39 Enews
for December 2011.
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