Dear colleagues,
This week it has been very difficult to focus a single theme as so much is happening in our analytic world. We wonder about the influence of mothers on world leaders, neuroscience interfaces with our approach in ethical questions regarding the loss of a “self”, in our understanding of autism and Asperger diagnosed children, we are finding more data on the atrocities of the Holocause and we mourn 3 men whose lives have touched so many – Jean Laplanche whose contribution to psychoanalysis is unforgettable and Maurice Sendak whose ability to use the unconscious to speak to children and adults is unsurpassable, and Bertram Cohler who meant so much to many of his students. I list them first in my choices.
1) Please read the tribute to Jean Laplanche by Dominique Scarfone and extracts from an interview with Laplanche by Alberto Luchetti I would also like to thank Jonathan House from all of us for his detailed account of Laplanche’s work and his translations which he so kindly contributed as described in his post on Laplanche by our managing editor, N. Szajnberg, MD,
Click Here to Read: Extracts from an interview with Jean Laplanche, interviewed by Alberto Luchett
Click Here to Read: Laplanche: Whom and What We Have Lost by N. Szajnberg, MD, Managing Editor
Click Here to Read: A tribute to Jean Laplanche by Dominique Scarfone Translated by Jonathan House and Article on Primal Fantasy by Jean Laplanche
2) In addition to the posts here about Maurice Sendak as seen in the NY Times, I hope some of you were lucky enough to hear interviews with Maurice Sendak recorded just a couple of years ago and aired on NPR last week. He was a remarkable man.
Click Here to Read: The Many Meanings of Where the Wild Things Are on this website.
Click Here to Read: The Nightmarish Power of Maruice Sendak’s Classic
3) Read Dr. Bertram Cohler’s obituary by N. Szajnberg’s obituary to learn about this beloved teacher, clinician and leader.
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4) Please read and listen to the video of Dr. Howard Shevrin discussing the unconscious and his career as a preparation to hearing him at the upcoming APsaA meetings in Chicago.
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5) The article in the NY Times by James Atlas on “the Amygdala made me do it” reminds me of patients who come in saying “I have a chemical imbalance in my brain”
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7) which leads into the discussion yet again on the interminable creation of the DSM V.
Click Here to Read This Article on Classifying Children as Psychopaths
8) History continues to be made with Dr. Robert L. Spitzer, a major architect of the modern classification of mental disorders, sharing his apology publicly to the gay community.
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9) Please peruse the MOVIES section for some excellent movies and reviews.
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The List of all contents:
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A. In the ANNOUNCEMENTS Category:
I. Dr. Blumenfield Assumes Presidency of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis and Dynamic Psychiatry
by Michael Blumenfeld on the Psychiatry Talk website on May 18, 2012.
To read please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ______________________________________________________________
II. Open Forum: What Neuropsychoanalysis Means to You at NYPSI
CELEBRATING A CENTURY OF ADVANCEMENT THROUGH SELF-KNOWLEDGE THE NEW YORK PSYCHOANALYTIC SOCIETY & INSTITUTE:
Arnold Pfeffer Center for Neuropsychoanalysis
247 East 82nd St., between 2nd & 3rd, NY, NY 10028
212-879-6900
www.psychoanalysis.org
Saturday, June 2, 2012, 10 am * 12 pm, Donations accepted
Open Forum: What Neuropsychoanalysis Means to You
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ______________________________________________________________
III. The Alpha & the Omega: Beginning & Ending at NYPSI
CELEBRATING A CENTURY OF ADVANCEMENT THROUGH SELF-KNOWLEDGE THE NEW YORK PSYCHOANALYTIC SOCIETY & INSTITUTE:
The Helix Center for Interdisciplinary Investigation
247 East 82nd St., between 2nd & 3rd, NY, NY, 10028
212-879-6900
www.psychoanalysis.org
Saturday, May 19, 2012, 2:30 * 4:30 PM, Donations accepted
The Alpha & the Omega: Beginning & Ending
To read please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ______________________________________________________________
IV. Helping Post Partum Mothers Attachment with their Babies
THE PACELLA PARENT CHILD CENTER
247 East 82nd St., between 2nd & 3rd, NY, NY 10028
212-665-6309
www.theparentchildcenter.org
Helping Post Partum Mothers Attachment with their Babies
Dear Colleague,
We would like to let you know about our mother support groups, where mothers attend with their babies and toddlers.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ______________________________________________________________
V. IPTAR Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy Program Open House
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
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ______________________________________________________________
B. In the ART Category:
VI. Remnants and recollections: Highlighting the experience of Sephardi Jews during the Holocaust
on the United States Holocaust Museum Website.
To view & read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ________________________________________________________________________
C. In the AUDIO/VIDEO Category:
VII. A Discussion with Dr. Howard Shevrin
to watch a video from the Algama Foundation via YouTube of Dr. Howard Shevrin discussing the unconscious and his career, please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/
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VIII. Interview with Peter Fonagy
on YouTube.
To view please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ___________________________________________________________
VIII. The Many Meanings of Where The Wild Things Are
a) on the Day 6 with Brent Bambury show interviewing Richard Gottlieb about Maurice Sendak on the CBC Radio website on May 11, 2012.
to listen please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ __________________________________________________
b) Maurice Sendak, Author of Splendid Nightmares, Dies at 83 by Margalit Fox in The New York Times on May 8,
to read please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ___________________________________________________________
D. In the BOOKS Category:
IX. *The Tragedy of Leon Trotsky,* which discusses Joshua Rubenstein*s latest book, Leon Trotsky: A Revolutionary*s Life, from the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research on March 8, 2012.
for more information about the above topic on this site please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/
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X. Reading Minds: A Guide to the Cognitive Neuroscience Revolution by Michael Moskowitz
a) Chapter 4: Trauma: how events shape the brain and the mind from Reading Minds: A Guide to the Cognitive Neuroscience Revolution by Michael Moskowitz.
b) Review of Reading Minds: A Guide to the Cognitive Neuroscience Revolution by Michael Moskowitz, review in the British Journal of Psychiatry.
To read a) & b) please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ________________________________________________________________________
XI. Goldman-Bred Neuroscientist Bares Secret of Testosterone Trading
by James Pressley from San Francisco Chronicle via Bloomberg News on May 14, 2012.
To read please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ________________________________________________________________________
XII. Social Neuropsychoanalysis: It*s a Topsy-Turvy World Monday, May 14th, 2012
Chapter 11 of Minding the Social Brain by Jay Harris.
From Jay Harris, author of the upcoming book, Minding the Social Brain: I invite you to the final chapter of Minding the Social Brain, a book about how the functional brain externalizes its structure to form human society. The anterior prefrontal cortex contains the full verbal and iconic
To read please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ________________________________________________________________________
XIII. Introduction to Antiphilosophy by Boris Groys
reviewed by Stuart Kelley on the The Guardian website on May 11, 2012.
Nietzsche: one of the begetters of *antiphilosophy*. Photograph: Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images
2012.
To read please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ___________________________________________________________
E. In the EDITORIALS Category:
XIV. The Amygdala Made Me Do It
By James Atlas in the New York Times on May 12, 2012
To read please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ___________________________________________________________
XV. Diagnosing the D.S.M.
written by New York Times op-ed contributor, Allen Frances, which was published May 11, 2012.
To read please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ___________________________________________________________
F. In the GENERAL NEWS Category
XVI. A Bar Mitzvah, With Autism
By Joel Yanofksy in The New York Times on May 18, 2012.
To read please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ___________________________________________________________
XVII. Psychiatry Giant Sorry for Backing Gay *Cure*
By Benedict Carey in The New York Times on May 18, 2012.
Dr. Robert L. Spitzer , a major architect of the modern classification of mental disorders, apologizes to the gay community and retracts his beliefs.
To read please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ___________________________________________________________
XVIII. Education minister faces copycat allegations over *Freudian slip* Wednesday, May 16th, 2012
published in the 222 issue of University World News on May 16, 2012.
To read please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ___________________________________________________________
XIX. *The Self* in the Future: Will it be Extinguished, by Neuroscience? Wednesday, May 16th, 2012
written by Hank Pellisier from The Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies on May 16, 2012.
XX. iPad gives voice to kids with autism
by Supraja Seshadri from CNN on May 14, 2012.
To read please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ___________________________________________________________
XX. Jews, the Left and the Rest
a) by Eitan Kensky from The Jewish Daily Forward on May 15, 2012.
b)) Psychoanalysts of the Left and Far Left Panel with Richard Brent, Arnold Richards, and Nathan Szajnberg on this website.
c) *Slideshow: Yiddish Communist Magazine* by Eitan Kensky from The Jewish Daily Forward on May 15, 2012.
To read a)& b) and to read and view c) please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/
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XXI. Can You Call a 9-Year-Old a Psychopath?
by Jennifer Kahn in the New York Times on May 11, 2012.
to read please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ____________________________________________________________
XXII. Laplanche: Whom and What We Have Lost by N. Szajnberg, MD, Managing Editor
Jean Laplanche, a man as careful with words as a surgeon with scalpel, died this week. International Psychoanalysis.net will honor his life and work with three pieces: his 1991 *Is Psychoanalysis Curable* (courtesy of Jimmy Fisher); a classic translated by Jonathan House; and an interview.
In the *Curable,* piece below, Laplanche states that overusing psychoanalytic terms leads to ridicule; further, even in 1991, psychoanalysis was considered pass*.
Yet, for Laplanche, psychoanalysis * the method * leads to lucidity and freedom. These are subversive and even revolutionary activities.
to read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ____________________________________________________________
XXIII. Presidential Historian: Moms May Be Secret Behind Success
By Doug Wead on the Newsmax website on May 12, 2012.
to read please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ____________________________________________________________
XXIV. Dictators With Mommy Issues
written by Uri Friedman from ForeignPolicy.com on May 11, 2012.
to read please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ____________________________________________________________
XXV. Excruciating details emerge on Jewish ghettos
written by Randy Herschaft and Verena Dobnik from The Associated Press on May 9, 2012.
to read please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ____________________________________________________________
G. In the MOVIES Category:
XXVI. Crulic*The Path to Beyond from Romania: The tragic fate of a decent, humble human being
the second of a series of articles on the 2012 San Francisco International Film Festival by World Socialist Web Site, *Crulic * The Path to Beyond from Romania: The Tragic fate of a decent, humble human being,* written by Kevin Kearney and posted to the site on May 19, 2012.
to read please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ____________________________________________________________
XXVII. Oedipus in Lebanon: *Incendies*
by Herbert H. Stein
I don*t know how many readers of International Psychoanalysis have seen the French Canadian film, Incendies. For those who have not seen it, I must warn you that this article will include important *spoilers,* so reader beware.
It is an award winning film, highly acclaimed, that brings the viewer to the horror and cruelty of war and of ethnic hatred amidst a story of incredible courage with the inevitable accompaniment of intense trauma. But that is not why I particularly bring Incendies to your attention. I thought that it might be of interest to analysts because it bears striking parallels with Sophocles* Oedipus Rex (perhaps more properly Oedipus Tyrannus).
to read please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ____________________________________________________________
XXVIII. Bernardo Bertolucci & Andrea Sabbadini An Additional Lens
Bernardo Bertolucci in conversation with Andrea Sabbadini May 1997 on the British Psychoanalytical Society website.
to read please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ____________________________________________________________
H. In the OBITUARIES Category:
XXIX. A tribute to Jean Laplanche by Dominique Scarfone Translated by Jonathan House and Article on Primal Fantasy by Jean Laplanche For those interested, Laplanche*s Book Freud and the Sexual, Available Here.
to read please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ____________________________________________________________
XXX. A tribute to Jean Laplanche by Dominique Scarfone
(Translation: Jonathan House; French below):
Jean Laplanche died on May 6, 2012 just a few weeks before what would have been his 88th birthday. A philosopher (student of Jean Hippolyte, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Gaston Bachelard), a psychiatrist and a psychoanalyst, one of the great readers of Freud and translator of the just completed French edition of Freud*s complete works, he was, with Serge Leclaire, among the first *.
to read please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ____________________________________________________________
XXXI. Extracts from an interview with Jean Laplanche, interviewed by Alberto Luchetti
Laplanche in this interview covers some of his basic and often controversial ideas, such as the *normative* seduction of infants by their parents* (infantile) sexuality. Note that Laplanche was considered one of Lacan*s promising students. Yet, Laplanche is able to stay much closer to clinical work in a non-ambiguous, non-teasing, and more comprehensible manner than his teacher. This gives us hope that our discipline can pursue ideas that are more fruitful despite our tendencies to carry on too slavishly the *.
to read please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ____________________________________________________________
XXXII. Bert Cohler (December 3 1938 * May 9, 2012)
Obituary for Bertram Cohler in the Chicago Tribune on May 13, 2012.
Bert Thoughts: In Memoriam for Bertram Cohler.
Bert and I met in 1970 when I was a counselor at the Sonia Shankman Orthogenic School and he was preparing to follow Dr. B. as the director. I began working as Leslie Aranow*s co-counselor and also the night counselor for the six boys in the youngest dorm.
to read please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ____________________________________________________________
I. In the SCIENCE NEWS Category:
XXXIII. Psychoanalyzing Facebook*s *Like* Button
by Quentin Fottrell from SmartMoney.com on May 18, 2012.
to read please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ____________________________________________________________
XXXIV. French Autism Treatments: Children In The European Country Mostly Get Psychotherapy
by Marie Cheng from the Associated Press on May 18, 2012.
to read please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ____________________________________________________________
XXXV. This is the cost of being human
The same genes that allowed modern humans to evolve speech may cause autism. Part of brain that recently evolved helped us speak and make complex decisions also responsible for *Fragile X* syndrome, leading cause of inherited autism By Rob Waugh on the Daily Mail website on May 14, 2012.
to read please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ____________________________________________________________
Every post this week is very informative for clinicians,
theoreticians, teachers and students. I hope that you will try to read those of interest to you and comment on the website.
Respectfully submitted by
Sasha Rolde