Dear Colleagues,
There is a multitude of posts this week, exaggerated by the fact that this comes to you a day or so later than usual. I the interest of brevity, I will therefore give you a brief list of my suggestions right away followed by the main list of contents.
My suggestions:
1) Please read the last 3 posts in the ART category – an interesting take on how the mind works
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2) Some years ago I consulted to Luis Uchitelle on the mental health aspects of layoff in the USA. It seemed like a novel idea for society to consider this, as well as for mental health practitioners who apparently did not have any interest in discussing it with him, though he was writing a very important book on all aspects of layoffs. This week we have a post in the Business and Finance Category on our website: Increasingly in Europe, Suicides ‘by Economic Crisis’
“The economic downturn that has shaken Europe for the last three years has also swept away the foundations of once-sturdy lives, leading to an alarming spike in suicide rates.”
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3) Please read Drs. Nathan Szajnberg’s and Arlene Kramer Richards’ comments on the memoir of Claude Lanzmann – an incredible life and testimony of what is human potential.
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4) Written in the best psychoanalytic tradition, the paper ” The Replacement Child: Variations on a Theme in History and Psychoanalysis” by Leon Anisfeld and Arnold Richards is a “must read”.
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5) Did you know that fish brain can regenerate itself? Please read the Science News post.
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6) A number of posts on Depression are worth paying attention to – from post-Prozac to electrodes in the brain.
Click Here to Read This Article Treating depression with electrodes inside the brain
Click Here to Read This Article Post-Prozac Nation: The Science and History of Treating Depression
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Below is the list of this week’s contents:
A. In A DANGEROUS METHOD Category:
I. ***A Dangerous Method*** Review: Expertly-Crafted
by Alex Grunde on the AllMediaNY website on April 14, 2012.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _________________________________________________________________
B. In the ANNOUNCEMENTS Category:
II. The Art of Madness at Fordham University
A Study Weekend in New York City**
THE ART OF MADNESS**April 27-29, 2012, Fordham University, Lincoln Center, 60th Street and Columbus Ave, MacMahon Hall, Room 109.
Madness***a term reintroduced in our times as if it were sorely needed***is not merely a doubling of the coldly clinical psychosis. While clearly-diagnosed psychosis is sequestered in hospitals or is nowadays more often contained and controlled in a private regimen of prescriptions and pills, madness is more public, more fluid, more threatening. It is measured only against the social order that somehow always fails to exclude it. It crops up everywhere. Few of us are psychotic, but we all feel at times that we may be a bit mad. If madness is a disturbance in the***..
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _________________________________________________________________
III. Open House on Analysts a Work at AIP
THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOANALYSIS OF THE KAREN HORNEY PSYCHOANALYTIC CENTER
329 East 62nd Street ** New York, NY 10065
(212) 838-8044 ** www.aipnyc.org ** aipkh@aol.com
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We invite you to meet our Faculty and Students at our OPEN HOUSE: Analysts at Work :
WEDNESDAY, May 23, 2012
8:00 PM *** 10:00 PM
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _________________________________________________________________
IV. Perspectives in Autobiographical Narratives with Prof. Tilmann Habermas 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: WORKS IN PROGRESS 247 East 82nd St., between 2nd & 3rd, NY, NY 10028
212-879-6900
www.psychoanalysis.org
Wednesday, May 9, 2012, 8:30 p.m., Donations Accepted
Perspectives in Autobiographical Narratives with Prof. Tilmann Habermas
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _________________________________________________________________
V. A Literary Example of Soul Murder: Jules Renard***s ***Poil de Carrote*** with Leonard Shengold 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, April 27, 2012, 7:30 pm, $10 Suggested Donation
Presents a screening of A LITERARY EXAMPLE OF SOUL MURDER: JULES RENARD***S ***POIL DE CARROTE***
followed by a psychoanalytic exploration by Leonard Shengold, M.D. (more***)
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _________________________________________________________________
VI. Envy: Why We Feel it and How to Work with it in Treatment with Carolyn Ellman at MITPP
THE METROPOLITAN CENTER FOR MENTAL HEALTH AND THE METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE FOR TRAINING IN PSYCHOANALYTIC PSYCHOTHERAPY
Saturday, May 19, 2012 , Presenter: Carolyn Ellman, Ph.D.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _________________________________________________________________
VII. Abraham Sutzkever***s Poem ***To My Child*** from Anna Ornstein***s Plenary
The Poem ***To My Child*** by Abraham Sutzkever was used in Anna Ornstein***s Plenary at the American Psychoanalytic Association***s Meetings at the Waldorf Astoria on January 19th, 2008.
a)Read the Poem in English.
b)Read the Poem in Yiddish.
c)A Review Abraham Suztkever***s Poetry by Ruth Wisse on The National Yiddish Book Center Website.
To read a), b) & c) please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _________________________________________________________________
VIII. Intrinsic Connectivity and the Psychodynamic Brain with Maggie Zellner at AIP
THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOANALYSIS
OF THE KAREN HORNEY PSYCHOANALYTIC CENTER
329 East 62nd Street ** New York, NY 10065
(212) 838-8044 ** www.aipnyc.org ** aipkh@aol.com
************************************************************************************************- Celebrating 70 Years of the American Institute for Psychoanalysis ************************************************************************************************- SCIENTIFIC MEETING
Thursday, April 26, 2012 at 8:00 PM, Maggie Zellner: Intrinsic Connectivity and the Psychodynamic Brain
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _________________________________________________________________
IX. The Anni Bergman Parent-Infant Training Program
THE ANNI BERGMAN PARENT-INFANT TRAINING PROGRAM is accepting applicants for the 2012-2015 training cycle. Please see the description below for information about the program and applying.
Program Description
THE ANNI BERGMAN PARENT-INFANT TRAINING PROGRAM began in 1997 and is affiliated with both the New York Freudian Society and the Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research. The program is unique in offering
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _________________________________________________________________
X. Depression After Prozac with Mark Solms at WCSPP
Come Join Us at our Scientific Meeting
Friday, May 4, 2012 8:00p.m.
Location:
The Wainwright House
260 Stuyvesant Ave, Rye NY
Meet members and enjoy a stimulating clinical discussion by Mark Solms, Ph.D. ***Depression After Prozac***
To Read: The Flyer for this Event please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/
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XI. Minding the Gap III with NYPSI
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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)
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _________________________________________________________________
XII. Integrating Psychotherapy Research & Clinical Practice: Let***s Create a Dialogue with Dr. Jacques P. Barber 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:
ACADEMIC RESEARCH SEMINAR
247 East 82nd St., between 2nd & 3rd, NY, NY 10028
212-879-6900
www.psychoanalysis.org
Tuesday, April 24, 2012, 8:30 p.m., Donations Accepted
Integrating Psychotherapy Research & Clinical Practice: Let***s Create a Dialogue Dr. Jacques P. Barber, Dean, Gordon F. Derner Institute of Advanced Psychological Studies, Adelphi University
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _________________________________________________________________
C. In the ART Category:
XIII. Freedom and Art
by Charles Rosen in New York Review of Bnoks, May 10, 2012 Issue.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _________________________________________________________________
XIV. 3,000 Ancient Buddhas Unearthed in China
Pictures: 3,000 Ancient Buddhas Unearthed in China by Ker Than on the National Geographic website on April 17. 2012.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _________________________________________________________________
XV. Matisse was a neuroscientist
a) By Dan Vergano in USA Today April 13, 2012.
b)The Unconscious and the Silent Brain and other posts on Eric Kandel on this website.
To read a) & b) please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _________________________________________________________________
D. In the AUDIO/VIDEO Category:
XVI. Kaddish by Leonard Bernstein with libretto by Shmuel Pisar
played by The Warsaw Symphony on YouTube.
To view and listen please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _______________________________________________________________________
E. In the BOOKS Category:
XVII. Paging Dr. Freud: A Viennese Espionage Thriller
Review of Waiting for Sunrise by William Boyd, Reviewed by Aengus Woods on the NPR Book Reviews website on April 18, 2012.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _________________________________________________________________
XVIII. A Quote for Yom Ha Shoah *** Holocaust Rememberance Day
***This was the end. This was the sum total of hundreds of generations of building, of Torah, of piety, of freethinking, of Zionism, of Bundism, of struggles and of battles, of the hopes of an entire people *** this empty desert I looked around me at what had been the Jews of Warsaw. I felt one hope, and I feel it now. May this sea of emptiness bubble and boil, may it cry out eternal
condemnation of the murderers and pilagers, may it be forever the shame of the civilized world which saw and heard and chose to remain silent***
B Goldstein (2005). Five Years in the Warsaw Ghetto: the stars bear witness Oakland CA AK Press
Epigraph: Richards, A (2012). Witnessing the Death of Yiddish Language and Culture. Holes in the Doorposts in The Power of Witnessing edited by N Goodman and M Meyers. Routledge New York
London,
To access the Website for The Power of Witnessing please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/
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F. In the BUSINESS AND FINANCE Category:
XIX. Increasingly in Europe, Suicides ***by Economic Crisis***
By Elisabetta and Doreen Carvajal on April 14, 2012.
George Mordaunt of Clonmel, Ireland, considered suicide when his car business hit hard times.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ____________________________________________________________________
G. In the CHINA Category:
XX. NOTES FROM WUHAN: PSYCHOANALYSIS AND SHAKESPEARE
JEFFREY STERN, PH.D.
Here is the talk I gave in Wuhan on Friday, April 13th. I was going to read the entire article I***d published years ago in Shakespeare Quarterly, but could see that it would be tedious to do so given that I***d have to stop every sentence for the translator and given that the text had already been translated for the attendees into Chinese. At the same time I didn***t think it safe simply to spend***..
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ____________________________________________________________________
H. In the GENERAL NEWS Category:
XXI. A Veteran***s Death, the Nation***s Shame
by Nicholas Kristof in the New York Times on April 14, 2012.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ____________________________________________________________________
XXII. This Justifies a Life: Lanzmann***s Memoir and Yom HaShoah by Nathan Szajnberg
***This Justifies a Life: Lanzmann***s Memoir and Yom HaShoah*** By Nathan Szajnberg, MD and Arnold Richards, MD. April 17, 2012
To write such a book, one must live a full life. For Claude Lanzmann *** Shoah***s filmmaker, Simone de Beauvoir***s lover, Sartre***s confidant *** this is a memoir of several lives, all his.
And several near-deaths: as a fifteen-year old resistance fighter against the Nazis in France, ambushing SS convoys; near-drowning off Ceasaria***s Beach (feeling guilt for promises made); mad voyages at de Beauvoir***s demand; walking through a plate glass window to halt a parking citation (severing an iliac vessel); flying gliders or F16***s. Much was driven by passion, as is much of his life.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ____________________________________________________________________
XXIII. A Quote for Yom Ha Shoah *** Holocaust Rememberance Day
***This was the end. This was the sum total of hundreds of generations of building, of Torah, of piety, of freethinking, of Zionism, of Bundism, of struggles and of battles, of the hopes of an entire people *** this empty desert I looked around me at what had been the Jews of Warsaw. I felt one hope, and I feel it now. May this sea of emptiness bubble and boil, may it cry out eternal
condemnation of the murderers and pilagers, may it be forever the shame of the civilized world which saw and heard and chose to remain silent***
B Goldstein (2005). Five Years in the Warsaw Ghetto: the stars bear witness Oakland CA AK Press
Epigraph: Richards, A (2012). Witnessing the Death of Yiddish Language and Culture. Holes in the Doorposts in The Power of Witnessing edited by N Goodman and M Meyers. Routledge New York
London,
To access the Website for The Power of Witnessingn and to read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/
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XXIV. A heart shattered by a glimpse into autism
By Rob Gorski, on the CNN website on April 16, 2012.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ____________________________________________________________________
XXV. I***m Carrying the Holocaust in My Pocket by Rivka Greenberg
Dear Friends,
My new documentary about the third generation titled I***m Carrying The Holocaust In My Pocket will be airing in New York this week. The documentary and my upcoming play Eavesdropping On Dreams are two variations of the same theme. Each piece helps to validate the other.
The documentary will premiere tomorrow Wednesday, April 18th, the eve of Yom Hashoah at 9:00 AM on Channel 34, and again at 2:00 PM on Channel 56.
I hope you will be able to tune in.
Regards,
Rivka
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ____________________________________________________________________
XXVI.***We Have Nothing to Fear, But . . .
Makari on the Anxieties in Today***s NYTimes
Makari***s brief but articulate and scholarly historical sweep about anxiety in today***s NYTimes Opinionator puts psychoanalysis back in play about the anxieties. After a short vignette, Makari runs through time to give a history of the anxieties, from Latin ***anxietas,*** through Catholic priest***s interventions, short-circuited by the Reformation, and the medicalization of this experience, beginning in 1621. Ultimately, Makari, thinking of his prospective patient, prepares himself for the ***worry *** a thread that led back to psychic burdens*** and invites him into his office. Listen to how he invites us to think more carefully about our anxieties, including our relevance in today***s clinical practice.
N. Szajnberg, MD, Managing Editor
To Read: In the Arcadian Woods By George Makari in the New York Times on April 16, 2012. please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis. __________________________________________________________________
XXVII. US universities benefit from overseas students
by Cheng Yingqi in Beijing and Ma Liyao in New York (China Daily) on the China Daily USA website on April 13, 2012.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ____________________________________________________________________
XXVIII. Once Taboo, Germans*** Anti-Israel Whispers Grow Louder
By Nicholas Kulish in The New York Times on April 13, 2012.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ____________________________________________________________________
I. In the MUSIC Category:
XXIX. Guitars Ring With Harmonious Humility, as Youth Meets Age
Guitars Ring With Harmonious Humility, as Youth Meets Age by Julian Lage Sits in With Jim Hall Trio at Blue Note by Nate Chenin in the New York Times on April 18, 2012.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ____________________________________________________________________
J. In the PAPERS Category:
XXX. The Replacement Child: Variations on a Theme in History and Psychoanalysis
by Leon Anisfeld, D.S .W. and Arnold D. Richards, M.D presented by Arnold D. Richards in Wuhan, China.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ____________________________________________________________________
XXXI. The Nonlinear Psychoanalytic Clinician, Lecture by Robert Galatzer-Levy
given in honor of John Kafka at the Washington Psychoanalytic on on YouTube.
To view please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ____________________________________________________________________
K. In the SCIENCE NEWS Category:
XXXII. Changing The Brain to Enhance Well-Being, Happiness
By Rick Nauert PhD Reviewed by John M. Grohol, Psy.D. on the PsychCentral website on April 19, 2012.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ____________________________________________________________________
XXXIII. A humble fish helps us understand our own brains
By Angela Herring in Neuroscience on April 19, 2012.
Biology professor and chair G**nther Zupanc (right) published results in the journal Neuroscience today demonstrating the mechanism by which new neurons find home
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ____________________________________________________________________
XXXIV. Treating depression with electrodes inside the brain
By Dr. Sanjay Gupta and Andy Segal on the CNN website on April 14, 2012.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ____________________________________________________________________
L. In the UNCATEGORIZED Category:
XXXV. 100 Years of the IPA: The Centenary History of the
International Psychoanalytical Association 1910-2010
Evolution and Change, Reviewed by Vanessa Sinclair.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ____________________________________________________________________
XXXVI. Child & Adolescent Psychotherapy Program Open House at IPTAR
IPTAR PLEASE JOIN US for an informal gathering to learn about training at our CHILD & ADOLESCENT PSYCHOTHERAPY PROGRAM (the CAP program)
Sunday, May 20th, 3:00-5:00 p.m., At the home of Rori Shaffer (more***)
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ____________________________________________________________________
XXXVII. Post-Prozac Nation: The Science and History of Treating Depression
By Siddhartha Mukherjee in the New York Times on April 19, 2012.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ____________________________________________________________________
XXXVIII. Inside the Session: What Really Happens in Psychotherapy
Review of Inside the Session: What Really Happens in Psychotherapy by Paul L. Wachtel. Reviewed by Robert Cohen, Ph.D. on the Matapsychology Reviews website on April 17th 2012.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ____________________________________________________________________
Once again, I urge you to write your comments and share your views on the website. I hope you enjoyed this week’s fare.
Respectfully submitted by
Sasha Rolde