Dear Colleagues,
In this relatively quiet week, much has been added to the international psychoanalytic website. As usual, I will list the posts that I found of interest and follow them with the whole list of contents.
1. My choices this week, not surprisingly again began with the books.
The two are a) “City Within at City” – a mother’s diary and an important historical document about the Warsaw ghetto is a treasure for all to read.
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b) the other is a novel – “Web of Angels”, described as resembling Sybil, and obviously of interest to psychoanalysts.
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2) The essay by Aver Falk ” Mass Murder as Unconscious Liberation” held my interest as it is an effort to understand the motivation of the murderer in the Norwegian Tragedy of 2011, Anders Behring Breivik. Generally I hesitate to put my faith in an analysis of individuals whom we don’t know well. I suggest that you read it and come to your own conclusions.
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3) The post on Psychologist and Torture, Then and Now, not only gives us a lengthy history of Psychologists’ involvement with the government, but it also reveals the dark side of our government policies.
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4) Given our constant concern about the viability of our profession, it behoves all to read BOTH post on:
“Does psychoanalysis have a valuable place in modern mental health services?”.
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5) For a real treat please listen to Jim Hall play “all of a sudden My Heart Sings”
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6) That analysts are artists, writers and photographers we know – please add “poets” to the list after you read the 3 lovely poems this week.
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And now this week’s menu:
A. In the DANGEROUS METHOD Category:
I. Surface tensions ( also to be found in Movies category)
The founders of psychoanalysis made wonderful discoveries, whose implications may take several centuries to realize
By Harry Eyres in the Financial Times on March 2, 2012.
To read please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _______________________________________________________________
B. In the ANNOUNCEMENTS Category:
II. Shared Therapy with Charles Murkofsky 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:
Extension Committee
247 East 82nd St., between 2nd & 3rd, NY, NY 10028
212-879-6900
www.psychoanalysis.org
SHARED THERAPY: THE COLLABORATION BETWEEN PSYCHOTHERAPIST & PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGIST
Charles A. Murkofsky, M.D.,
Tuesdays, 7:30 *** 8:45 pm, April 17, 24, & May 1, 2012 (3 sessions) Fee: $45
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _______________________________________________________________
III. Freud, Fliess & ***The Androphilic Current with Joel Whitebook 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:
Scientific Meeting
247 East 82nd St., between 2nd & 3rd, NY, NY, 10028
212-879-6900
www.psychoanalysis.org
Tuesday, April 10, 2012, 8:15 *** 10:00 PM, Donations accepted
To read please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _______________________________________________________________
IV. 40 YEARS OF ASYLUM A Film by Peter Robinson
The Program Committee of the National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis with ***Cabinet*** Magazine presents
40 YEARS OF ASYLUM A Film by Peter Robinson (1972),
FRIDAY, MARCH 16,
6 *** 8 pm *** screening ,
8 *** 10 pm *** The Legacy of R. D. Laing
Theresa Lang Community and Student Center, Arnhold Hall,
The New School, 55 W 13 Street 2 Floor
A model of cinema verit**, Asylum documents one of the most controversial projects in the history of psychiatry and psychotherapy. At its center is Archway, part of a community founded in London where therapists and patients sought new ways of working and living together.
The screening will be followed by a panel discussion reflecting on Laing***s legacy in the era of wonder-drugs, and a glimpse into footage from his 1972 U.S. college campus tour.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _______________________________________________________________
V. Minding the Gap III with NYPSI
PLEASE JOIN NYPSI AS IT CONTINUES ITS CENTENARY CELEBRATION CELEBRATING A CENTURY OF ADVANCEMENT THROUGH SELF-KNOWLEDGE THE NEW YORK PSYCHOANALYTIC SOCIETY & INSTITUTE:
Scientific Meeting
247 East 82nd St., between 2nd & 3rd, NY, NY 10028
212-879-6900
www.psychoanalysis.org
MINDING THE GAP III: DREAMING: PSYCHOANALYSIS OR NEUROBIOLOGY? Saturday, May 5, 2012,
9:15 am to 4:45 pm, No Charge
No Registration Required
Location: Mt. Sinai Medical Center (Stern Auditorium) (more***)
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _______________________________________________________________
VI. NYPSI Open House
CELEBRATING A CENTURY OF ADVANCEMENT THROUGH SELF-KNOWLEDGE THE NEW YORK PSYCHOANALYTIC SOCIETY & INSTITUTE:
247 East 82nd St., between 2nd & 3rd, NY, NY 10028
212-879-6900
www.psychoanalysis.org
NYPSI: OPEN HOUSE & COCKTAILS FOR PROSPECTIVE CANDIDATES
Thursday, March 8, 2012, 7:30-9 p.m.,
for LOCATION: admdir@nypsi.org
To read please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _______________________________________________________________
VII. Psychological enslavement understood through Ferenczi***s concept of identification with the aggressor with Jay Frankel at NYFS Wednesday, March 7th, 2012
New York Freudian Society *** NY Division Scientific Program Tuesday, March 20, 2012, 8:30 *** 10:00 pm
Mt. Sinai Medical Center, Hatch Auditorium
Madison Avenue & 100th Street
Psychological enslavement understood through Ferenczi***s concept of identification with the aggressor: Clinical and sociopolitical aspects
Jay Frankel, PhD
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VIII.***On Therapeutic Action: Relational and Lacanian Perspectives*** with Drs. Adrienne Harris and David Lichtenstein
moderated by Dr. Chris Christian.
Friday, March 30th
7:30pm *** 9:30pm
Wolff Conference Room
The New School for Social Research
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IX. Treating the Child Who Learns Differently with Rena Matison Greenblatt at MITPP
THE METROPOLITAN CENTER FOR MENTAL HEALTH AND THE METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE FOR TRAINING IN PSYCHOANALYTIC PSYCHOTHERAPY
TREATING THE CHILD WHO LEARNS DIFFERENTLY
Saturday, April 14, 2012
Presenter: Rena Matison Greenblatt, Ph.D.
TIME: 10:00 AM *** 1:00 PM, Breakfast at 9:30 AM
LOCATION: The Metropolitan Center for Mental Health
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C. In the AUDIO/VIDEO category:
X. Stop Motion Freud by Luciano do Amaral
on the Cartoon Brew website. This video is in Spanish
To view please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _______________________________________________________________
D. In the BOOKS Category:
XI. Reviving Warsaw***s Dead: ***City Within a City*** at YIVO
Nathan Szajnberg, MD, Managing Editor
***City Within a City*** debuted in English Friday at YIVO. Psychoanalyst Emanuel Berman, a Sigourney award winner, presented the publication of his mother***s diary of the Warsaw Ghetto years. Berman was named after Emanuel Ringelbum, killed after the Ghetto***s fall, who documented the Jews*** fates, provided social aid and hid those documents in metal milk cans and boxes in Spring 1943, before the Warsaw uprising.
Berman***s mother died in Israel, after a chronic illness shortly after he turned seven. He recalls little of her and found her diary a ***paper bridge*** to her and her past. His mother***s accounts are detailed, deeply human, alive.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _______________________________________________________________
XII. Resemblance to Sybil overshadows disturbing novel
Review of the novel Web of Angels by Lillian Nattel,
Reviewed by Debby Waldman in the Edmonton Journal on March 3, 2012.
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E. In the GENERAL NEWS Category:
XIII.Born to Bully
Click Here To Read: Born to Bully Instead of preaching kindness, we should realize, as the Bible did long ago, that we***re all bullies***and that the best advice is to give in to that reality By Liel Leibovitz on the Tablet website on March 8, 2012.
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XIV. Mass Murder as Unconscious Liberation
Reflections on the Norwegian Tragedy of 2011 by Avner Falk on his Avner Falk website.
To read please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _______________________________________________________________
XV. Woody at 100
by Jim Hightower on The National Memo website on March 7, 2012.
To read please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _______________________________________________________________
XVI. University shines the spotlight on science
on the get reading website on March 08, 2012.
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XVII. Dispatches from America: Patricians, plebeians and the president
Dispatches from America: Patricians, plebeians and the president by Dinesh Sharma in the Asia Times on March 09, 2012.
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XVIII. Mental Health: Use of Statins May Lower Depression Risk
By Nicholas Bakalar in the New York Times on March 5, 2012.
To read please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _______________________________________________________________
XIX. Psychologists And Torture, Then And Now
By Laura Melendez-Pallitto and Robert Pallitto, Op Ed on the Eurasia Review website on March 4, 2012.
To read please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _______________________________________________________________
XX. When Innocence Isn***t Enough
By Raymond Bonner in the New York Times on March 2, 2012.
Edward Lee Elmore was in prison for 30 years, convicted of a crime that the evidence strongly suggests he did not commit.
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XXI. Things to Fear and Loathe
By Patricia Peason in the New York Times on March 3, 2012.
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F. In the LETTERS TO EDITORS Category:
XXII. Does psychoanalysis have a valuable place in modern mental health services? no
by Adrian Salter, Ronald S Doctor, William J. Lang, Francis Dunne, Anuradha Menon, Andrew F Clark, Peter J. Gordon, T.David Simpson and Raymond F Travers on the BMJ website on March 2, 2012.
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G. In the MOVIES Category:
XXIII. The Tao of Hoffman
By Giles Foden in the New York Times on March 2, 2012.
In the Second act In the HBO series ******Luck,****** Dustin Hoffman plays a gambler recently released from prison
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H.In the MUSIC Category:
XXIV. My Heart Sings played by the Jim Hall Trio
***My Heart Sings*** played by the Jim Hall Trio with Don Thompson on piano and terry Clarke on drums on YouTube.
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XXV. Will the Woody Guthrie Museum in Oklahoma distort the folksinger***s views
By Tom Hall on the World Socialist website on March 3, 2012.
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I. In the PAPERS Category:
XXVI. Abstract of: Management vs. Interpretation: Teaching Residents to Listen
by Shapiro ER. from the Nervous Mental Disease 2012 Mar;200(3):204-7. You may purchase the article here.
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XXVII. Head to Head: ***Does psychoanalysis have a valuable place in modern mental health services? Yes
by Peter Fonagy and Alessandra Lemma.
This article originally appeared as Fonagy, Peter, and Lemma, Alessandra, (2012) Head to Head: Does psychoanalysis have a valuable place in modern mental health services? BMJ Psychotherapy 344:e1211 and appears here with all requisite rights and permissions.
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J. In the POETRY Category:
XXVIII. POETRY MONDAY: March 5, 2012
Arnold Richards
It***s no secret *** and certainly not to the readers of these pages *** that psychoanalysts are deeply interested in poetry. For that reason, our featured poet this month, the Editor-in-Chief of International Psychoanalysis, should not be a total surprise. The best response to a poem, it has been said, is another poem, and Arnold Richards is one whose response to poems is immediate and sensitive.
His professional role is familiar to many of you. Editor of JAPA (Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association) from 1994 to 2003 and the author of numerous books and papers in the field, he is currently a Training and Supervising Analyst at the New York Psychoanalytic Institute. He was awarded a 2000 Mary F. Sigourney Award and gave the 50th Annual Leo Baeck Memorial Lecture.
The three poems that follow are from a book published this year by Kamac Books in London and edited by Salman Akhtar. The title couldn***t be more appropriate: Between Hours: A Collection of Poems by Psychoanalysts.
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K. In the SCIENCE NEWS Category:
XXIX. A Conversation With Eeric R. Kandel: A Quest to Understand How Memory Works
by Claudia Dryfus in the New York Times on March 06, 2012.
INSIDE THE MIND Dr. Eric R. Kandel at Columbia University Medical Center.
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