Dear Colleagues,
even though the US national elections and other sociopolitical issues elsewhere in the world are taking front stage, I hope you will find time on this long weekend to read and comment on post that interest you on the international psychoanalytic website. They encompass a wide array of topics from a large number of programs in NYC, to psychoanalytic slant on political issues, and the negative effects of benzodiazapines. Enjoy.
As usual, I will note my choices before giving you the full menu.
1) The ban on gay conversion therapy will be signed by the CA governor but it seems that the debate is not over. Please read in the AUDIO/VIDEO category
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2) If you are interested in how analysis and society dovetail, the book Psychoanalysis and Politics, dealing with histories of Psychoanalysis under conditions of restricted political freedom is very likely to be one of interest to you. I fear that it can be both a salutary way of viewing analysis or a rather chameleon if not destructive way. Judge for yourselves and please comment.
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3) Dr. Richard’ ‘sphoto and Nathan Szajnberg, MD is a must – our colleagues are doing us proud in China.
Click Here for Dr. Richards’s photo
Click Here to Read for Nathan Szajnberg on China
4) both posts in the GENERAL NEWS Category:1)Does Dependency on Government Make Americans Weak? and 2) What to Watch for in the Presidential Debates
are worth reading
Click Here to Read This Article on Dependency Government
Click Here to Read The Article on the Presidential Debates
5) Selma Duckler’s detailed review of the Best of Youth, gives a birds eye view of this epic masterpiece, and Kenneth Jones tantalizing remarks make me want to go to the next film about S. Freud:
“On the day England enters World War II, Freud and Lewis clash on the existence of God, love, sex, and the meaning of life * only two weeks before Freud chooses to take his own.”’
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6) There are tattoos and then there are “tattoos to remember” Please see the Photography section and comment on the generational transmission of trauma.
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7) The Science News Category holds several gems, including the bias against women in science and the correlation between benzodiazepine use and dementia.
Click Here to Read This Article on Women in Science
Click Here to Read This Article on Dementia
A. In the ANNOUNCEMENTS Category:
I. On Self and Self Awareness with Rodolfo Llin*s at Arnold Pfeffer Center
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, October 6, 2012, 10 am * 12 pm, Donations accepted, Rodolfo Llin*s: Thomas & Suzanne Murphy Professor of Neuroscience; Department of Physiology and Neuroscience, NYU
to read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanaalysis.net/ _____________________________________________________________________
II. SPEAKING TO THE NARCISSISTIC DISORDERS with George Gross, M.D. at NYSPI
NEW YORK PSYCHOANALYTIC SOCIETY & INSTITUTE:
Extension Committee
247 East 82nd St., between 2nd & 3rd, NY, NY, 10028
212-879-6900
www.psychoanalysis.org
SPEAKING TO THE NARCISSISTIC DISORDERS George Gross, M.D.
Wednesdays 7:30 * 9 pm
October 17 * November 14, 2012 5 sessions Fee $200
to read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanaalysis.net/ _____________________________________________________________________
III. Lois Oppenheim, Ph.D. in Conversation with . . . Edmund White at NYPSI
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
Friday, October 12, 2012, 7:30 pm, Fee $25; $10 with valid student ID
ADVANCE TICKET PURCHASE WILL GUARANTEE YOU A SEAT TO THIS POPULAR EVENT
Lois Oppenheim, Ph.D. in Conversation with . . . Edmund White
to read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanaalysis.net/ _____________________________________________________________________
IV. Psychoanalytic Principles of Child Development with David Sawyer, M.D. & Ronald Rawitt, M.D., at NYPSI
NEW YORK PSYCHOANALYTIC SOCIETY & INSTITUTE:
Extension Committee
247 East 82nd St., between 2nd & 3rd, NY, NY, 10028
212-879-6900
www.psychoanalysis.org
Psychoanalytic Principles of Child Development with David Sawyer, M.D. & Ronald Rawitt, M.D., Wednesdays 7:30 * 8:30 pm, October 17, 2012 * November 14, 2012, 5 sessions, Fee: $100
to read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanaalysis.net/ _____________________________________________________________________
V. On Freud*s *Femininity* with Graciela Abelin-Sas Rose, MD & Leticia Glocer Fiorini, MD at NYPSI
NEW YORK PSYCHOANALYTIC SOCIETY & INSTITUTE:
A. A. BRILL LIBRARY
Marianne and Nicholas Young Auditorium
247 East 82nd St., between 2nd & 3rd, NY, NY, 10028
212-879-6900
www.psychoanalysis.org
Saturday, November 10, 2012, 9 am * 12 noon, $10 Suggested Donation
Presents a panel discussion with five of the international contributing authors of the landmark publication
On Freud*s *Femininity*
Graciela Abelin-Sas Rose, MD & Leticia Glocer Fiorini, MD editors Karnac, 2010
to read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanaalysis.net/ _____________________________________________________________________
B. In the AUDIO/VIDEO Category
VI. Ben Goldacre: *Battling bad science* on TED
on the TED website on September 1, 2011.
To view please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _____________________________________________________________
VII. California governor OKs ban on gay conversion therapy, calling it *quackery*
By Josh Levs on the CNN website on October 1, 2012.
to read and view please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ______________________________________________________________________
C. In the BOOKS Category:
VIII. Psychoanalysis and Politics
Review of: Psychoanalysis and Politics: Histories of Psychoanalysis under Conditions of Restricted Political Freedom Edited by Joy Damousi and Mariano Plotki, n Reviewed by Marco A. Ramos in the 2012 Culturas Psi Journal.
to read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanaalysis.net/ _____________________________________________________________________
IX. Novelist imagines the life of Freud*s sister
Sigmund Freud*s Sister Complex: Acclaimed New Novel Imagines the Fate of Adolfina Freud by Nicholas Meyer in the Jewish Daily Forward on September 19, 2012.
D. In the CHINA Category:
X. Photography Friday: Dr. Arnie Richards
*Beer on the Bund. East meets West * By Arnie Richards taken in Nimbo, China
To view please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ___________________________________________________________
XI.Chicago in China by Nathan Szajnberg
Four U of Chicago grads did China for two weeks in September. Arlene Kramer Richards (BA); Arnie Richards (BA) Nathan Szajnberg (BA *71; MD *71) and Jeffrey Stern (MA, *73 Ph.D *81 ) taught psychoanalysis in Wuhan, Shanghai and NIngbo. All four have been appointed to the faculty at Wuhan Mental Hospital. After a week last April, we were asked to return to teach an ongoing three-year program in
psychoanalytic psychotherapy to two hundred practitioners from many regions in China. Wuhan, a small city of eight million, is slike the Chicago of China: centrally located, about 1.5 hours flight from Shanghai, it is a transport hub, an agricultural and stockyard center and has a Univeristy with 56,000 students (well, in that sense, it is Chicago logarithmically).
Arnie Richards spoke about the *replacement child,* when a child is born to replace one or several others lost in the familiy. This concept resonated powerfully with the audience, in a one-child society.
Arlene Richards, having spoken last April about the woman*s skin, spoke about the power of dress and fashion, our second skins. Her emphasis was on the non-verbal communications abounding in fashion and shopping that analysts could attend to and enquire about in learning to understand their female patients.
Jeffrey Stern taught Self Psychological Theory in Wuhan, a theory that was developed at The Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis and within the Psychiatry Department of the Pritzker School of Medicine by Dr. Heinz Kohut. In an effort to bring psychoanalytic theory to life * and because the Chinese students are greatly interested in the subject He lectured on Shakespeare*s King Lear in Wuhan and Hamlet at the Third International Psychoanalytic Congress in Shanghai.
I was asked to teach on attachment. I learned that the heart-centered agenda, however, was connected to the one-child policy, a policy complicated by some parents having to ask the grandparents to raise their one child while the parents work. These professionals and parents felt that they had but one shot with their child and wanted to get it right.
In the afternoons, however, we all supervised smaller groups of 25-30 who presented clinical cases
for us to assess and discuss and advise. These ranged fascinatingly from children through adults. And the therapists felt strongly about their patients. One therapist kept pressing her thumb to her sternum, unwittingly, as she talked about how the parents of the child she was treating caused her heartache. Another therapist, quite concerned that her adolescent patient may not survive, twisted her ankle during our *break* and spent the second half of our supervision with her foot iced and elevated.
I asked myself, *Why the interest in psychoanalysis?* My sense is that these professionals are attracted to a central idea of analysis: fostering internal freedom, autonomy and healthy self-control. In this sense, psychoanalysis is a *subversive* enterprise, as it always has been. It aims for inner focus, inner direction and both awareness and control of impulses.
I brought with me many of my Chicago teachers, including Bruno Bettelheim , but also Peter Giovacchini and Alfred Flarsheim.
And, we had the marvelous sense that all four of us, while graduating in different eras, brought the breadth of training and thinking that we gathered from Chicago.
We return next April.
N Szajnberg, MD
to read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanaalysis.net/ _____________________________________________________________________
E. In the EDITORIALS Category:
XII. Interleaving: Writing and the Auto/Biographical Process
by Esther Altshul Helfgott from The Seattle Star.
I have always had an ambivalent relationship to The Academy. On the one hand I love research; on the other hand, when I am actively engaged in a research project, as I am now, I feel separated from the community in which I live. So when The Seattle Star awakened from its sixty-five year-old sleep, I offered to write a column on *Writing and the Biographical Process.* I thought it would give readers a chance to share in the nitty-gritty of what one writer does during the day; and it would help me feel less isolated in the particularities of my writing life.
to read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanaalysis.net/ _____________________________________________________________________
F. In the GENERAL NEWS Category:
XIII. Does Dependency on Government Make Americans Weak?
A Psychoanalyst*s Perspective by Peter Wolson on the Huffington Post Blog website on October 01, 2012.
to read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanaalysis.net/ _____________________________________________________________________
XIV. What to Watch for in the Presidential Debates
Click here to read *What to Watch for in the Presidential Debates* by By George Lakoff from Reader Supported News on October 2, 2012.
I*ve been applying cognitive linguistics and neuroscience to politics in six books over the past two decades. The ideas in those books were on display in many of the speeches at the Democratic National Convention. Look for them in the debates.
to read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanaalysis.net/ _____________________________________________________________________
G. In the MOVIES Category:
XV. Judd Hirsch and Tom Cavanagh Will Star in Freud*s Last Session in California
by Kenneth Jones from Playbill.com on September 28, 2012.
Mark St. Germain*s two-character play Freud*s Last Session will star two-time Tony Award winner Judd Hirsch as Sigmund Freud and Tom Cavanagh (of TV*s *Ed*) as C. S. Lewis under the direction of Tyler Marchant in a Los Angeles-area run in early 2013.
to read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanaalysis.net/ _____________________________________________________________________
XVI. The Best of Youth Reviewed by Selma Duckler
The Best of Youth (La meglio gioventu).This comes from the title of a series of poems written in 1954 in Friulian (an ancient Italian dialect) by Pier Palolo Pasolini. D.Maffia, biographer
writes,*Paslolini*s dialect poetry*came to be in order to decipher the present using the distant past*.
One could use the same language to describe psychoanalysis, and it is also the major theme of this majestic 6 hour film that is one of finest movies I have ever seen.It was made in 2003 as an Italian mini series for Italian television, now available in two 3 hr discs.At the Cannes 2003 Film Festival it won the prestigious Un Certain Regard award, and accumulated rave reviews wherever it was shown. In the US it was shown in a few cities in art houses.
to read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanaalysis.net/ _____________________________________________________________________
H. In the MUSIC Category:
XVII. Italian pianist revives music created in concentration camps
A convert to Judaism, Francesco Lotoro has salvaged thousands of scores, diaries and other artifacts left by victims of the Holocaust By Ruth Ellen Gruber on the The Times of Isreal Website on September 27, 2012,
to read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanaalysis.net/ _____________________________________________________________________
I. In the PHOTOGRAPHY Category:
XVIII. A Tattoo to Remember
Children and grandchildren of Auschwitz survivors are memorializing the darkest days of history on their own bodies.
to view photos in *A Tattoo to Remember* by The New York Times on September 30, 2012 please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/
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J. In the POETRY Category:
XIX. October Poetry Monday: Phil Timpane
POETRY MONDAY: October 1, 2012
Here*s a poet whose work I think you*ll find interesting. I first encountered Phil Timpane*s poems at a group reading hosted by the excellent ( and relatively new) literary magazine, Upstreet, and have had the opportunity to hear him read many times since. His poems have also appeared in a number of other journals, and in 2007 he had the distinction of receiving the Atlanta Review*s International Publication Award.
to read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ______________________________________________________________________
K. In the PSYCHOANALYTIC ARCHIVES Category:
XX. The Online Books Page presents SERIAL ARCHIVE LISTINGS for The Psychoanalytic Review
to access SERIAL ARCHIVE LISTINGS for The Psychoanalytic Review.
The Psychoanalytic Review began publication in 1913. Issue copyright renewals began in 1932. From 1958 to 1962, it was known as *Psychoanalysis and the Psychoanalytic Review*, reflecting a merger with the journal *Psychoanalysis*. It reverted to its original name in 1963. It is still published today.
a) SERIAL ARCHIVE LISTINGS for The Psychoanalytic Review.
b) the first volume.
to read a) & b) please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ______________________________________________________________________
L. In the SCIENCE NEWS Category:
XXI. Technology can reduce our stress, too
By Amanda Enayati on the CNN website on October 5, 2012.
to read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ______________________________________________________________________
XXII. Xanax and Valium Boost Dementia Risk by 50 Percent Read more: Xanax and Valium Boost Dementia Risk by 50 Percent Important: At Risk For A Heart Attack? Find Out Now.
by Sylvia Booth Hubbard from NewsMaxHealth on September 27, 2012.
Benzodiazepines, the generic name for a family of prescription drugs that include Xanax and Valium used to treat anxiety and insomnia, raise the risk of developing dementia within 15 years by 50 percent. An alarming study found that the drugs, which are used to treat anxiety and insomnia, increased risk in people over the age of 65 who had used benzodiazepines.
to read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ______________________________________________________________________
XXIII. Breaking the Bias Against Women in Science
by Shea Roggio from The New York Times on September 30, 2012.
A new Yale study has revealed that there is a pervasive and unconscious bias on university campuses that favors male science students over their female counterparts. The result is fewer women in scientific professions.
to read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ______________________________________________________________________
XXIV. Researchers develop blood test that accurately detects early stages of lung, breast cancer in humans
the Kansas State University press release, *Researchers develop blood test that accurately detects early stages of lung, breast cancer in humans* via EurekAlert! on September 26, 2012.
Researchers at Kansas State University have developed a simple blood test that can accurately detect the beginning stages of cancer.
to read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ______________________________________________________________________
M. In the UNCATEGORIZED Category:
XXV. Woody Guthrie Centenary: 1912-2012
Woody Guthrie Performing Ranger*s Command on YouTube.
to view and listen please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _______________________________________________________________________
XXVI. And So You Thought You Knew Freud
A Play by Robert L. Lippman. Ph.D. This play was previously unpublished.
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This rich melange of information has surely sparked your interest enough to write your comments on the website and I encourage you to do so. I hope that you have found the posts as inspiring and interesting as I have.
Respectfully submitted by
Sasha Rolde