Dear colleagues,
You are probably very busy during this week before the national meetings in Chicago but again, I urge you to take time out to read some of the posts – you may find them helpful as preparation for the meetings.
My choices this week include:
1) Adam Phillips – writer and psychoanalyst and a “solo” thinker.
Click Here to Read This Article
2) “Why is Portnoy’s Complaint Such an Enduring Novel”? Please read the post and form your own opinion!
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3) Artists often ask: “Does psychoanalysis affect creativity. Will it take my ability away?” Read “How Psychoanalysis Changed Siri Hustvedt*s Life”.
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/2012/06/08/how-psychoanalysis-changed-siri-hustvedts-life/
4) Free Will? ” If our brains are making our decisions for us subconsciously, how can we be responsible for our actions? How can our legal system punish criminals or God punish sinners who aren’t in full control of their decision-making processes?”
Please read and ponder.
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5) Did you always believe that women managed better in old age? Read a study comparing depression in elderly men and women caring for their dying spouses.
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6) What really happened with Etan Patz?
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7) Reinforcing the very negative effects of bullying on children.
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8) More on DSM
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9) Another (Psychoanalytic) take on Greece and the Euro.
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10) Loss of extraordinary human beings: Dr. May Weber and Maurice Sendak.
11) Sulking /psychosis?
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12) the multitude of post on depression and guilt (incl.dogs) says it all.
Blaming Yourself and Depression
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LIST OF CONTENTS:
A. In the ANNOUNCEMENTS Category:
I. Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Education Division: Spring Update
by Gary Grossman, Ph.D. from The San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis onJune 1, 2012.
To read please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ____________________________________________________________
II. Mary Chaput to Speak at American Psychoanalytic Association Annual Meeting in Chicago
to read: *Mary Chaput to Speak at American Psychoanalytic Association Annual Meeting in Chicago,* a press release on PRWEB from Clearwater Compliance on June 6, 2012, please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net
Mary Chaput to join James C. Pyles in a discussion of Health Care Reform and Privacy Program, and to highlight relevant findings from the ANSI report *The Financial Impact of Breached Protected Health Information*
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III. Suri Husvedt on Between Your and Me: Art and Psychoanalysis at NPAP
National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis (NPAP)
The Continuing Education Committee invites you to our end of the year Celebration. In our wish to honor 10 years of collaboration with the Neuropsychoanalytic Clinical Study Center, we have invited SIRI HUSTVEDT who will speak on:
BETWEEN YOU AND ME: ART AND PSYCHOANALYSIS
Inside The Room, SUNDAY, JUNE 24, 2012, 6:00 to 8:00 PM
At NPAP, 40 West 13 Street, New York, NY (more*)
To read please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _________________________________________________________
IV. 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 intensive training in parent-infant work to psychoanalysts and advanced psychoanalytic candidates. Applicants from other disciplines with *.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _______________________________________________________________
V. A Benefit Dinner for the Allen Creek Preschool, June 22 at Paesano Restaurant in Ann Arbor
In honor of the 60th anniversary of *Singing* in the Rain* and the 100th birthday of the film*s star, Gene Kelly, Paesano Restaurant in Ann Arbor is hosting a special benefit celebration on Friday, June 22, 6:30 p.m. at the restaurant.
Call for reservations at 734-971-0484.
For more information and to view the event flier
please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/
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VI. Top Experts Discuss Privacy Risks at 2nd International Summit on the Future of Health Privacy, June 6-7
Patient Privacy Rights and Georgetown University Law Center*s O*Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law Host Event
Psychiatry Patient*s Story Highlights Growing Threat to Privacy
Washington, DC * June 4, 2012 * *When a lawyer named *Julie* sought psychiatric treatment in Boston, she never imagined that the notes of sessions with her therapist would be digitized and made available to thousands of doctors and nurses, even dermatologists and podiatrists with no conceivable need for such private records. But that is precisely what happened. *Personal details that took me years to disclose during therapy are being shared throughout my medical network, against my will,* Julie says. *It*s destroyed my trust with my doctors.**
Julie will tell her story for the first time at the 2nd International Summit on the Future of Health Privacy, to be held in Washington, DC, on June 6-7.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _______________________________________________________________
VII. The Inseminating Couple: Bion and Intuitive Psychoanalysis with Enid Young at CFS
Salon Meetings at The Contemporary Freudian Society
Hosted by the 27 Rue de fleurus
Committee
Co-Chairs, Debra Gill, LCSW and Nancy Cromer- Grayson, LCSW Meetings Coordinated by Susan Finkelstein, LCSW
The Inseminating Couple: Bion and Intuitive Psychoanalysis, Enid Young , Ph.D, Date: Wed., October 3, 2012, Time: 8:00 PM,
Location: upper west side location
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _______________________________________________________________
VIII. Psychoanalysis and Suggestion with Robert Caper at CFS
Salon Meetings at The Contemporary Freudian Society
Hosted by the 27 Rue de fleurus Committee
Co-Chairs, Debra Gill, LCSW and
Nancy Cromer- Grayson, LCSW
Meetings Coordinated by Susan Finkelstein, LCSW
Psychoanalysis and Suggestion: Is the Divorce Final ? Robert Caper, MD, Time: 8:00 PM, Date: Wed., Sept 19th *..
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _______________________________________________________________
IX. The Chicago YIVO Society invites you to Celebrate Father*s Day with Papa!
The Chicago YIVO Society invites you to Celebrate Father*s Day with Papa!
*Translating Sholem Aleichem*
Aliza Shevrin, currently the world*s foremost translator of Sholem Aleichem*s stories from Yiddish into English, will describe how she came to Sholem Aleichem*s huge corpus: what she picked first, how her choices have evolved, and what she has planned for the future.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _______________________________________________________________
B. In the AUDIO/VIDEO Category:
X. Time lapse video of Venus transit seen from SDO
posted on Watts Up With That? on June 6, 2012 by Anthony Watts.
To view please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _______________________________________________________________
XI. President Obama Honors the 50th Anniversary of the Vietnam War on Memorial Day
*The 50th Anniversary of the Vietnam War* by Matt Compton from The White House Blog on May 31, 2012.
To view please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _______________________________________________________________
XII. Diagnostic Inflation in DSM (Allen Frances, MD, Emeritus Professor, Duke University)
Click here to watch: *Allen J. Frances on the Overdiagnosis of Mental Illness* via YouTube. The video comes from his lecture, Diagnostic Inflation: Does Everyone Have a Mental Illness?
Please see below for some commentary from our Managing Editor, N. Szajnberg, MD.
This is a crisp, forthright account of *rising* incidence of psychiatric disorders in the US (especially when compared to other Western societies) and the social/fiscal factors that artificially inflate *diagnoses,* outside of scientific or clinical considerations.
To read & view please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _______________________________________________________________
XIII. Out in America: In Their Own Words * A Moving, Diverse Portrait of LGBT Americans
directed by Emmy award-winning director Andrew Goldberg, in association with Oregon Public Broadcasting. The hour-long film first premiered last year in June.
For more information about the film please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/
XIV. Appreciation of Bob Holt at The Rapaport-Klein Study Group
a) Audio recording of the June 2009 meeting of the Rapaport-Klein Study Group, which was dedicated to Bob Holt, the senior and guiding spirit of the Group for many years.
b) Photos of Bob Holt and his Colleagues.
c)Transcript of the June 2009 Meeting
To view a) & b) and to read c)
please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/
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XV. *Happy kid* kills himself over bullying at two NYC schools
by Roseanne Colletti on the World News MSNBC website on May 31st, 2012.
he family of a 12-year-old says the boy had been teased about his father*s death before the child killed himself. WNBC-TV*s Roseanne Colletti reports.
To view please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _______________________________________________________________
C. In the BOOKS Category:
XVI. In a new book, UCSC*s Forrest Robinson ties Mark Twain to the intellectual legacies of Marx, Freud and Nietzsche
by Wallace Baine from Santa Cruz Sentinel on June 7, 2012.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _______________________________________________________________
XVII. After Freud Left: A Century of Psychoanalysis in America & Hidden Minds: The History of the Unconscious
Edited by John Burnham and Hidden Minds: The History of the Unconscious by Frank Tallis* by Evan McMurry from Bookslut, which provides a review of both works.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _________________________________
XVIII. Finding a Space Between Silence and a Scream
by Sheila Wayman from The Irish Times on June 5, 2012, which tells the personal story behind author and professor of psychoanalysis and clinical psychology at Hampshire College in Amherst, Annie Rogers*, book titled The Unsayable: The Hidden Language of Trauma (2006.)
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _________________________________
XIX. Missing Out by Adam Phillips: Review
by Rowland Manthorpe from The Telegraph on June 4, 2012.
Adam Phillips*s *Missing Out* offers a humane look at our imagined lives.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _________________________________
XX. Adam Phillips: a life in writing
by Susanna Rustin from The Gaurdian on June 1, 2012.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _________________________________
XXI. Why Is *Portnoy*s Complaint* Such An Enduring Novel?
by Bernard Avishai from The Huffington Post on May 31, 2012.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _________________________________
D. In the EDITORIALS Category:
XXII. How Psychoanalysis Changed Siri Hustvedt*s Life
by The International Psychoanalytic University on June 4, 2012.
The New York-based writer Siri Hustvedt has explored neurological subjects and psychoanalytical issues not only due to intellectual curiosity, but also for reasons of personal concern. And this concern was triggered off by the sudden occurrence of uncontrollable shaking in her whole body when she was giving a talk about her father who has died two years previously.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _________________________________
XXIII. Bathroom Psychology: A Neglected Topic?
By Susan Perry from MinnPost on June 4, 2012.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _________________________________
XXIV. Free Will Is an Illusion
by Victor Stenger from The Huffington Post on June 1, 2012.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _________________________________
XXV. The June Issue of InSight
To read the American Psychoanalytic Association*s June issue of InSight: Division 39 E-News please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/
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E. In the GENERAL NEWS Category:
XXVI. A few other problems with diagnosis in Psychiatry and the DSM
(Un)Reliability and DSMV
on the Maggie’s Farm website on June 7, 2012
This piece is a bit technical, but explains and documents the drop in interater reliability for some categories of diagnoses in upcoming DSM-V.
N. Szajnberg, MD Managing Editor
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _________________________________
XXVII. My Own Horace Mann Story and The New York Times Abuse Report
by Kate Aurthur from The Daily Beast on June 7, 2012.
a)the original New York Times article, *Prep-School Predators: The Horace Mann School*s Secret History of Sexual Abuse*
b) Some thoughts on the recent events in Penn State by Bennett Roth on this website.
To read a) & b) please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _________________________________
XXVIII. Greece and the Euro: Fifty Ways to Leave Your Lover
by 4thmedia.org from Spyghana.com on June 7, 2012, which compares the Euro to a failing marriage of incompatible partners and offers five creative alternatives to its symbolic divorce.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _________________________________
XXIX. Gay Marriage*s Jewish Pioneer: The activist called Faygele ben Miriam started Washington state*s battle over marriage more than 40 years ago
by Eli Sanders from Tablet Magazine on June 6, 2012.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _________________________________
XXX. Prep-School Predators: The Horace Mann School*s Secret History of Sexual Abuse
By AMOS KAMIL in the New York Times on June 6, 2012.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _________________________________
XXXI. Psychiatrists Offer Theories About Suspect in Patz Case
by Benedict Carey from The New York Times on June 1, 2012.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _________________________________
XXXII. A Special Burden for Women
By Paula Span in The New York Times on May 31, 2012.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _________________________________
XXXIII. At Museum on 9/11, Talking Through an Identity Crisis
By Patricia Cohen in The New York Times on June 2, 2012.
In eight years of planning a museum at the National September 11 Memorial, every step has been muddied by contention.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _________________________________
XXXIV. Psychiatrists Offer Theories About Suspect in Patz Case
By Benedict Carey in The New York Times on June 1, 2012.
A shrine this week in front of the SoHo building where Pedro Hernandez told investigators he had strangled Etan Patz, 6.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _________________________________
XXXV. The Sisterhood of Grief
By Anne Penketh in the New York Times on June 1, 2012.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _________________________________
F. In the MOVIES Categpry:
XXXVI. Best Exotic Marigold Hotel Reviewed by Selma Duckler
Film is an extraordinary media in which amazing visual and literary achievements are recorded and enjoyed, which lends itself to artistry in many ways.
Movies are an entirely different aspect of film making all together. Movies in the commercial film studios are made for profit and good business. We read that sex and violence sells but what really sells these 2 areas of delight is the *.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _________________________________
G. In the OBITUARIES Category:
XXXVII. Dr. May Weber, 1918-2012: Psychiatrist also was founder of Chicago primitive art museum
by Joan Giangrasse Kates from The Chicago Tribune on June 7, 2012.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _________________________________
XXXVIII. Remembering Maurice Sendak
by Christine Schofelt from World Socialist Web Site on June 7, 2012.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _________________________________
H. In the PAPERS Category:
XXXIX. The Couch as Icon by Ahron Friedberg & Louis Linn
originally published in The Psychoanalytic Review, volume 99, No. 1, February 2012.
The couch has always been an integral part of psychoanalytic practice. It has even become a cultural icon representing psychoanalysis itself. However, minimal evidence exists in the psychoanalytic literature that using the couch is necessary or even necessarily helpful to establish a psychoanalytic process and conduct an analysis. Furthermore, it can potentially be harmful to patients such as those who have experienced early loss and trauma or who have significant ego organizational problems. Therefore, the use of the couch per se does not seem well suited as a defining criterion of psychoanalysis. To the extent that it may be clinically valuable, the use of the couch should be more carefully con- sidered and critically examined.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _________________________________
XL. *On Sulking* by Dr. Joseph Berke
Sulking is a state of sullen resentment, irritability and negativity manifested by and through extreme inactivity. It is a key to understanding many self destructive phenomena including the refusal to talk, to eat or to thrive. Moreover, in therapy or analysis, sulking often lies behind the negative therapeutic reaction. Most severely, conditions such as paranoia, somatic psychoses, and manic episodes may signify intense, unremitting, unrestrained sulking*
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _________________________________
XLI. Freud*s Dogs
by Peter Byrne from Swans Commentary on June 4, 2012.
*Hence comes the four-legged friendships of so many of the better kind of men, for on what indeed should one refresh oneself from the endless deceit, falseness, and cunning of men if it were not for the dogs into whose faithful countenance one may look without distrust?* *Arthur Schopenhauer, Ethics
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _________________________________
XLII. Remarks at the Festival of Economics, Trento Italy
a recent speech by George Soros on June 2, 2012.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _________________________________
XLIII. Notes for Reminiscences of David Rapaport
by Robert R. Holt, which was read during the discussion at the *40th Anniversary of the Rapaport-Klein Study Group: Reflections on David Rapaport* panel, held on June 14, 2003, at the Annual Meeting of the Rapaport-Klein Study Group.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _________________________________
XLIV. Shell Shocked
by Dr. Edgar Jones from the June 2012 American Psychological Association*s 43 volume, which outlines the World War I story of Charles S. Myers who convinced the British military to understand Shell Shock as a serious illness and developed approaches that continue to guide treatment today.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _________________________________
XLV. *My Friend Peter Loewenberg* by Josh Hoffs, MD
with an introduction by N. Szajnberg, MD Managing Editor
Dr. Josh Hoffs* piece below will be in Clio*s Psyche and tells us more of a life full-lived. Among other significant achievements for our field, Dr. Loewenberg along with Nellie Thompson of NYPSI edited the centenary history of the International Psychoanalytic Association, 100 years of the IPA (London: Karnac, 2011). As Dean of his Institute, he catalyzed the union of the two LA Institutes. In the psychoanalytic land of fission (see Doug Kirshner*s Unfree Associations), this is like discovering fusion in nuclear science. But there is much more here, including Dr. Loewemberg*s initiatives in China, once his refuge and childhood home.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _________________________________
XLVI. Why B. F. Skinner, Like Freud, Still Isn*t Dead
by John Horgan from Scientific American on June 1, 2012.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _________________________________
XLVII.Conceptualizing Gender: Karen Horney*s Womb Envy
by Azadeh Azad From Iranian.com on May 31, 2012.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _________________________________
XLVIII. In Defense of Slow and Tedious: Quick-Fix Therapy or the Kind That Takes *Forever*?
by Jane G. Goldberg, Ph.D. from The Huffington Post on May 31, 2012.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _________________________________
I. In the POETRY Category:
XLIX. POETRY MONDAY: June 4, 2012
Karen Morris
Our featured poet today is especially appropriate for these pages. A psychoanalyst in private practice in Manhattan and Honesdale, PA., Karen Morris specializes in the integration of poetics with clinical work and ethical concerns and has published several papers on this topic in the Psychoanalytic Review. Her paper, *Torture and Attachment: Conscience and the Analyst*s *
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _________________________________
J. In the SCIENCE NEWS Category:
L. Psychologists use murky research methods, survey finds
by Paul Taylor from The Globe and Mail on June 7, 2012.
Murky research methods, which essentially distort the truth, may be very common in the field of psychology, a study suggests. While subtle, these questionable research practices pose a great threat to scientific integrity.
to read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _________________________________
LI. Oh, The Guilt! Why You Blame Yourself For Everything When You*re Depressed
by Alice G. Walton from Forbes on June 7, 2012.
Similar news also appeared in Counsel & Heal , ZeeNews.com and The Daily Mail:
a) *Brain Scan Reveals Guilt Differs in People with History of Depression*
b) *Freud was Right: Depression IS Linked to Feelings of Guilt*
c) *Depression is Linked to Feelings of Guilt: Study*
to read a),b) & c) please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _________________________________
LII. Brain Scan Reveals Guilt Differs in People with History of Depression
a) *Brain Scan Reveals Guilt Differs in People with History of Depression* from Counsel & Heal on June 5, 2012.
Similar news also appeared in ZeeNews.com and The Daily Mail:
b) *Freud was Right: Depression IS Linked to Feelings of Guilt.*
c)*Depression is Linked to Feelings of Guilt: Study.*
to read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _________________________________
LIII. Depression is Linked to Feelings of Guilt: Study
a)*Depression is Linked to Feelings of Guilt: Study* from ZeeNews.com on June 5, 2012.
People prone to depression often respond more strongly than others to feeling guilty, according to a new neuroimaging research, which may help explain how the emotions are processed by the brain.
b) Similar news also appeared in The Daily Mail. To read more about this topic please click here to read *Freud was Right: Depression IS Linked to Feelings of Guilt.*
to read a) & b) please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _________________________________
LIV. Astronomy Mysteries: 8 Space Science Questions Scientists Still Can*t Explain
by SPACE.com Staff published by The Huffington Post on May 31, 2012.
to read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _________________________________
LV. Stress and Antidepressants: By Their Powers Combined
by Scicurious from Scientific American on May 28, 2012.
to read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _________________________________
LVI. Do Dogs Feel Guilty?
by Jason G. Goldman from Scientific American on May 31, 2012.
to read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _________________________________
K. In the UNCATEGORIZED Category:
LVII. The importance of belonging
By Amanda Enayati on the CNN website on June 1, 2012.
Writing the story of your experiences may help you cope with stress, researchers say.
to read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _________________________________
Daunted though you may feel by the multitude of posts this week, please comment on the website and share your opinions.
Respectfully submitted by
Sasha Rolde