Dear Colleagues,
For a relief from the national as well as APsaA election campaigns and excitement, I invite you to join me in reading and discussant the topical posts on the international website, which at least in my opinion tend to be possibly more scholarly. I say this with apologies to our candidates, who of course can be very erudite and often visionary.
I will list the posts that stood out for me this week followed by the entire weekly menu as usual. Please note that some of the posts in the ANNOUNCEMENTS Category had been noted by me before, but not last week and I review them in case you would like to attend any of the meetings.
1) Being an immigrant of sorts, if anyone is in Paris this November, I suggest attending the conference on “The Wanderings of Transmission”
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2) Did you know that Darwin talked about competition? I suggest that the conference on “Male-Male Competition: Globalization, War, & Violence” discussion exploring an evoutionary perspective on globalization, war and violence” may be very interesting:
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“Little attention is paid to the fact that Charles Darwin, in his book, The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex, devoted twelve chapters to male-male competition, describing it as *the law of battle*. Darwin details intra-species male morphological and behavioral differences from molluscs through mammals, arriving finally and specifically at human mammals.”
3) A “different” psychoanalysis in Tehran, same unconscious, different culture. Should be read by western analysts to learn about “globalization of analysis:”
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4) Note the specialized test for High school students in NYC – your thoughts?
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5) Clumsily translated there is the czech proverb:” man craves the largest piece of the forbidden crust of bread”. It comes to my mind with the NYT article on Boy Scout Files.
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6) Please read the timely post on Suicide in Children and Adolescents.
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7) While on the subject of politics, culture and the unconscious – a reexamination of the Dora case is an interesting read.
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8) The controversy about formula ban in hospitals vs.the better alternative – breast feeding is interesting in contrast to evidence that maternal exhaustion and depression retards babies’ development. Can’t win.
Clearly this was an issue for centuries as evidenced by the popularity of “wet nurses” – probably prior to formula business.
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The following is a list of all posts this week:
A. In the ANNOUNCEMENTS Category:
I. PSYCHOTROPIC DRUGS: WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW & CURRENT TRENDS with Deborah Plachta, M.D. at NYPSI
NEW YORK PSYCHOANALYTIC SOCIETY & INSTITUTE:
Extension Program
247 East 82nd St., between 2nd & 3rd, NY, NY, 10028
212-879-6900
www.psychoanalysis.org
Tuesdays, 7 * 8:30 pm, November 6 * 20, 2012, 3 sessions, Fee $60
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _________________________________________________________________
II. The Wanderings of Transmission (November 24 * 25, 2012)
Please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/
to learn about the upcoming conference The Wanderings of Transmission on November 24 * 25, 2012 in Paris. This is the First Franco-American Conference organized by Association de psychanalyse Encore and Apr*s-Coup Psychoanalytic Association.
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III. REFLECTIONS ON NARCISSISM, MANIA AND ANALYSTS* ENVY on Irwin Hirsch at MITPP
The Metropolitan Institute for Training in
Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy,
The Metropolitan Center for Mental Health and
The Metropolitan Society of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapists Invite you to a Scientific Meeting
Friday, October 26, 2012, at 8:00 P.M.
Presenter: Irwin Hirsch, Ph.D.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _________________________________________________________________
IV. The Serious Mental Illness Blog Website
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _________________________________________________________________
V. Male-Male Competition: Globalization, War, & Violence Panel at NYPSI
NEW YORK PSYCHOANALYTIC SOCIETY & INSTITUTE:
The Helix Center for Interdisciplinary Investigation
Marianne and Nicholas Young Auditorium
247 East 82nd St., between 2nd & 3rd, NY, NY, 10028
212-879-6900
www.psychoanalysis.org
Saturday, October 27, 2012, 2:30 * 4:30 PM, Donations accepted
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _________________________________________________________________
VI. 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://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _________________________________________________________________
VI. Workshop on the Ripple Effect at Columbia University Medical Center
An Integrative Framework for Enhancing Trauma-Informed Practices Across Systems Developed by Chandra Ghosh Ippen, PhD, Christopher Layne, PhD & Bob Pynoos, MD, MPH
November 8th, 9AM*1PM, Columbia University Medical Center location
Cost * students: $25, professionals: $75
The Ripple Effect is an integrative framework for understanding and *
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _________________________________________________________________
VII. Ego Psychology in the Analytic Encounter With Fred Busch and Marilyn Rifkin on November 3, 2012 at IPTAR
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _________________________________________________________________
VIII. WCSPP: CLINICAL CONSULTATION
WCSPP is offering a unique opportunity to consult with its Supervisory Faculty at a reduced cost.
See if WCSPP*s Clinical Consultation is for you: download an application here. Prefer to talk with someone first? Inquire with caspe@wcspp.org. Plus, find out why WCSPP enjoys the
psychoanalytic-training reputation that it has sustained for over thirty years. Visit wcspp.org .
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _________________________________________________________________
IX. Transforming the Sadistic Superego in Psychosomatic Illness
with Phyllis Sloate on November 2nd & 3rd at WCSPP.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _________________________________________________________________
X. The Therapist*s Mind as a Stable Place with Nancy Cromer-Grayson at MITPP
THE METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE FOR TRAINING
IN PSYCHOANALYTIC PSYCHOTHERAPY
160 West 86th Street, New York, NY 10024 o (212) 496-2858 mitppnyc@aol.como www.MITPP.org
on Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn
OPEN HOUSE LUNCHEON & CLINICAL PRESENTATION
FOR THOSE CONSIDERING POSTGRADUATE TRAINING
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _________________________________________________________________
XI. THE THERAPIST*S MIND AS A STABLE PLACE:
WORKING WITH THE CHAOTIC PATIENT
Wednesday, December 5, 2012, 1:00 PM * 2:30 PM (more*)
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _________________________________________________________________
XII. The Analytic Relationship and the Dialogue of Unconsciouses with Anthony Bass at the Sandor Ferenczi Center
A workshop with Anthony Bass, PhD at The Sandor Ferenczi Center at the New School for Social Research on November, 10, 2012.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _________________________________________________________________
XIII. Challenges in Child Treatment with Michele Bartnett at MITPP
THE METROPOLITAN CENTER FOR MENTAL HEALTH
and THE METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE
FOR TRAINING IN PSYCHOANALYTIC PSYCHOTHERAPY
Saturday, December 1, 2012
Presenter: Mich*le M. Bartnett, Ph.D.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _________________________________________________________________
B. In the BOOKS Category:
XIV. Doing Psychoanalysis in Tehran: In treatment, state and system:
An exploration of the *Persian psyche* challenges Western
preconceptions, finds Shahidha Bari, reviewing a book by Gohar Homayounpour on The Higher Education Times website on October 18, 2012,
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _________________________________________________________________
XV. Close What Freud Said About Writing Fiction
By Maria Popova in the Atlantic Monthly on October 16, 2012.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _________________________________________________________________
C. In the EDITORIALS Category:
XVI. China*s Nobels
By Larry Seims and Jeffrey Yang in The New York Times on October 17, 2012.
From Poem by Liu Xiaobo:
In memory and bravery
this day lives forever
It is an immortal stone
and though stone, can cry out
It is the grave*s wild grass growing eternal green
and though wild grass, it can take flight
The blade-tip that pierces the heart*s center drips
with the blood of snowbright memory
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _________________________________________________________________
XVII. *Standards* v Diversity
Testing Standards Reduce Diversity In Elite Schools by Edward C. Sullivan from New York Civic on October 14, 2012.
The Specialized High School Achievement Test which the New York City Department of Education uses to select students to eight specialized high schools has come under fire from the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund. They have filed a complaint with the U.S. Department of Education that the test is not predictive of success in these high schools and that its use has led to a diminution of the enrollment of minorities in the schools, which means fewer will enter the work force and the middle class.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _________________________________________________________________
XVIII. Helping Children Succeed: Principles of positive character development in children
by Kenneth Barish, Ph.D. on his Pride and Joy Blog on the Psychology Today blogs on October 15, 2012.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _________________________________________________________________
D. In the GENERAL NEWS Category:
XIX. Boy Scout Files Give Glimpse Into 20 Years of Sex Abuse
by Kirk Johnson from The New York Times on October 18, 2012.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _________________________________________________________________
XX. As China Readies for Leadership Handover, Where are Marx and Mao?
by Hannah Beech from TIME on October 17, 2012.
Marxist ideas, which normally enjoy public celebration before major political events in the People*s Republic, have been curiously diminished on the eve of China*s once-in-a-decade leadership transition.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _________________________________________________________________
XXI. App promises to psychoanalyze debates in real time
by Heather Kelly from CNN.com on October 16, 2012.
In olden times, watching the presidential debates was a lonely, one-dimensional experience. Now, we have running Twitter commentary, instant fact-checks and liveblogs to help us digest the candidates* various claims and arguments as they make them.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _________________________________________________________________
XXII. Joe Biden Was Right to Laugh
By Matt Taibbi, in Rolling Stone on October 12, 2012.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _________________________________________________________________
XXIII. Sigmund Freud * Life and Work
on the Freud Files website.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _________________________________________________________________
XXIV. Fractured funny bone
by Vijay Nagaswami on the The Hindu website on October 13, 2012.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _________________________________________________________________
XXV. Suicide in children and adolescents
on the Science Codex website from European College of
Neuropsychopharmacology on October 14, 2012.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _________________________________________________________________
XXVI. Poking Fun at My Patients
By Mikkael A. Sekeres, M.D. in The New York Times on October 11, 2012.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _________________________________________________________________
E. In the PAPERS Category:
XXVII. Freud and Dora: repressing an oppressed identity
by Michael Billig, to appear in the British Journal of Social Psychology, now on the Virtual Faculty website.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _________________________________________________________________
F. In the SCIENCE NEWS Category:
XXVIII. Training the brain to stress less
by Amanda Enayati from CNN.com on October 18, 2012.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _________________________________________________________________
XXIX. But How Do You Really Feel? Someday the Computer May Know
by Karen Weintraub from The New York Times on October 15, 2012.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _________________________________________________________________
XXX. Hospitals Ditch Formula Samples to Promote Breast-Feeding
by Pam Belluck from The New York Times on October 15, 2012.
For years, virtually every new mother has been sent home from the hospital with a gift bag full of free product samples, including infant formula. Now health authorities and breast-feeding advocates are leading a nationwide effort to ban formula samples, which often come in stylish bags with formula company logos.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _________________________________________________________________
XXXI. Chronic stress during pregnancy prevents brain benefits of motherhood
in the Science Blog website.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _________________________________________________________________
XXXII. Could Stem Cells Treat Autism? Newly Approved Study May Tell
By Mary Brophy Marcus on the HealthDay website on October 13, 2012.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _________________________________________________________________
G. In the UNCATEGORIZED Category:
XXXIII. CONTEMPORARY FREUDIAN PERSPECTIVES ON THE MODERN KLEINIANS (6 Weeks) INSTRUCTORS: Naama Kushnir-Barash, PhD, Neal Vorus, PhD
AT IPTAR
This two-part course, which is part of an ongoing series that will cover different theorists each academic year, addresses the theoretical contributions of two Contemporary Kleinians, Michael Feldman and Ronald Britton.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _________________________________________________________________
XXXIV. Psychotherapy for the People with Lewis Aron and Karen Star at AIP
THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOANALYSIS OF THE KAREN HORNEY PSYCHOANALYTIC CENTER
Established in 1941
329 East 62nd Street * New York, NY 10065
(212) 838-8044 * www.aipnyc.org * aipkh@aol.com
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SCIENTIFIC MEETING
Thursday, October 18, 2012 at 8:00 PM, Lewis Aron & Karen Starr: A *PSYCHOTHERAPY FOR THE PEOPLE*:
TOWARD A PROGRESSIVE PSYCHOANALYSIS
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _________________________________________________________________
In conclusion of this week’s international website presentation, I will again ask you to please post your comments and ideas on the website after you have read the posts of your choice.
Respectfully submitted by
Sasha Rolde