Dear Colleagues,
Wwhether you are concerned about Hurricane Sandy, the nat’l elections or current pertinent issues issues in our psychoanalytic world, all of which are clearly uncertain, please take time out to read the international psychoanalytic website posts for this week to keep you informed.
My suggestions this week include:
1) 2 posts in the ANNOUNCEMENTS on trauma:
a) War, Trauma and Public Art
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b) Vicarious Traumatization, Resilience, and Transformation
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2) interesting audio summary of The Letters of Sigmund Freud and Otto Rank in the BOOKS Category
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3) the post on “inside Foxconn : in the CHINA category is informative and must read.
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4) And what could we, psychoanalysts, do with, for, about the following: “But of all the things one might be addicted to, nothing tops the greed-laden pursuit of wealth in its audacity, manipulativeness, and gross insensitivity to the eeds and feelings of others. ”
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5) both the french and english commentary on the presidential debates are interesting interpretations.
Click Here to Read The Article on the Presidentail Debates in French
Click Here to Read This Article on the Debates in English
Click Here to Read This Article A Second Article on the Debates in English
6) The Science News Ctegory this week has several fascinating post.
a) do you know what delayed gratification is about?
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b) did you know that team of researchers from all over the world has built the first atlas of white-matter microstructure in the human brain?
Click Here to Read This Article
c) what do you know about the power of a handshake?
Click Here to Read This Article
the answer to all three is IMO contained in psychoanalytic theory and practice, now complimented by scientific findings.
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the following is a list of all posts this week:
A. In the ANNOUNCEMENTS Category:
I. War, Trauma and Public Art at New York University on November 1 at 7 PM
NYU’s panel discussion, War, Trauma and Public Art, taking place on November 1, 2012 and 7 PM. The panel discussion commemorates Veterans Day and celebrates Krzysztof Wodiczko’s Abraham Lincoln: War Veteran Projection (in Union Square Park, November 8th through December 9th).
to read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ __________________________________________________________________
II. The Conscious Id Panel at NYPSI
NEW YORK PSYCHOANALYTIC SOCIETY & INSTITUTE:
Arnold Pfeffer Center for Neuropsychoanalysis
Marianne and Nicholas Young Auditorium
247 East 82nd St., between 2nd & 3rd, NY, NY 10028
212-879-6900
www.psychoanalysis.org
Saturday, November 3, 2012, 10 am – 12 pm, Donations accepted
The Conscious Id, Revisited: A Panel Discussion. Mark Solms, Ph.D., University of Cape Town, Jaak Panksepp, Ph.D., Washington State University, Heather Berlin, Ph.D., Mount Sinai Medical School
to read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ __________________________________________________________________
III. The YIVO Institute and the Museum of the History of Polish Jews Announce Landmark Partnership Agreement
The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research’s press release announcing their partnership with the Museum of the History of Polish Jews.
New Multi-Level Partnership will Promote General Knowledge of Polish Jewish History and Culture through Innovative Exchange and Educational and Public Programs.
to read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ __________________________________________________________________
IV. Winnicott Week at NYPSI
NEW YORK PSYCHOANALYTIC SOCIETY & INSTITUTE:
Marianne and Nicholas Young Auditorium
247 East 82nd St., between 2nd & 3rd, NY, NY, 10028
212-879-6900
www.psychoanalysis.org
Winnicott Week at NYPSI, November 10, 13, & 15, 2012,
First Event: Saturday, November 10, 2012, 2:15 – 5:15 PM, $10 Donation, RSVP admdir@nypsi.org
to read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ __________________________________________________________________
V. Maternal Altruism & Boundary Violation: A Supervisory Challenge WIth Beth J. Seelig at NYPSI
NEW YORK PSYCHOANALYTIC SOCIETY & INSTITUTE:
WORKS IN PROGRESS
Marianne and Nicholas Young Auditorium
247 East 82nd St., between 2nd & 3rd, NY, NY 10028
212-879-6900
www.psychoanalysis.org
Wednesday, November 7, 2012, 8:30 p.m., Donations Accepted
to read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ __________________________________________________________________
VI. Otherness and the Analysis of Action with Jay Greenberg 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
Our Work Continues
SCIENTIFIC MEETING: Thursday, November 8, 2012 at 8:00 PM
Jay Greenberg: OTHERNESS AND THE ANALYSIS OF ACTION
to read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ __________________________________________________________________
VII. SHEBA AND SOLOMON’S RETURN: Ethiopian Children in Israel with Nathan Szajnberg at APM
THE ASSOCIATION FOR PSYCHOANALYTIC MEDICINE
The monthly meeting of the Association for Psychoanalytic Medicine will be held at the New York Academy of Medicine, 2 East 103rd Street, New York City, on WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 2012 at 8:00 p.m.
Please note that due to the Presidential Election, the day of the November APM meeting has been changed to Wednesday, November 7.
to read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ __________________________________________________________________
VIII. APsaA Annual Educational Achievement Award
The Schools Committee of the American Psychoanalytic Association is now taking submissions for the annual Educational Achievement Award
This award is presented to a person, school or educational institution that furthers psychoanalytically informed work with pre-K-12 educators, schools and their students. This prize will be presented on January 18, 2013, at the annual meeting of the American
Psychoanalytic Association at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City. There is a $500 honorarium.
to read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ __________________________________________________________________
IX. Vicarious Traumatization, Resilience, and Transformation with Laurie Anne Pearlman, PhD at CFS
Comtemporary Freudian Society: NY Division
Scientific Program: Friday, December 7, 2012, 8:00 – 9:30 pm, The Culture Center, 410 Columbus Avenue (between 79th & 80th)
Free admission.
to read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ __________________________________________________________________
X. Symposium Following IPA Congress in Prague
Psychological Birth and Infant Development In Sigmund Freud’s Birthplace in Pribor, Czech Republic.
to read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ __________________________________________________________________
XI. AMERICAN PSYCHOANALYTIC ASSOCIATION: RALPH E. ROUGHTON PAPER AWARD ANNOUNCED
The Committee on Gender and Sexuality of the American Psychoanalytic Association today named the winner of the Ralph E. Roughton Paper Award for 2013, ***The Historical Moment in the Analysis of Gay Men,*** by Bertram J. Cohler and Robert M. Galatzer-Levy. The paper was selected as an original and creative contribution to the psychoanalytic understanding and treatment of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender individuals.
to read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ __________________________________________________________________
XII. The Tehran Psychoanalytic Institute
a) The Website of The Tehran Psychoanalytic Institute.
b) Doing Psychoanalysis in Tehran: In treatment, state and system on this website.
to read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ __________________________________________________________________
B. In the ART Category:
XIII. DEPTH OF FIELD: Thomas Struth’s way of seeing
by Janet Malcolm from The New Yorker on September 26, 2011.
Thomas Struth’s large-scale portrait of Queen Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh, taken at Windsor Castle, was commissioned by the National Portrait Gallery in London, for an exhibition of paintings and photographs of the Queen commemorating her Diamond Jubilee, next year. When Struth was approached, he wondered, “Would I be able to say something new about people like this?”
to read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ __________________________________________________________________
XIV. Authentication of Rembrandt’s Self-Portraits through the Use of Facial Aging Analysis
by Tal Friedman, MD, MHA, Doron J. Lurie, PhD and Avshalom Shalom, MD, MHA. IMAJ 2012: 14: October: 591-594.
to read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ __________________________________________________________________
C. In the BOOKS Category:
XV. Biography Book Review: The Letters of Sigmund Freud and Otto
Audio summary of The Letters of Sigmund Freud and Otto Rank: Inside Psychoanalysis by E. James Lieberman, Robert Kramer, Gregory C. Richter from BiographyBookMix.com on October 25, 2012.
to listen please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ __________________________________________________________________
XVI. On Loving and Hating; on Art and Neuroscience and on wisdom: An interview with Eric Kandel
On Loving and Hating; on Art and Neuroscience and on wisdom: An interview with Eric Kandel
Eric Kandel articulates the binding dilemma of Vienna, echoing Peter Gay’s memoir, entitled, “My German Problem.”
Kandel begins: “I really like the city of Vienna. I like its art, its music and its architecture. In short, I like the culture that Vienna represents. What really captures me is the period around 1900 — the time of Freud, Schnitzler and Klimt. This is the period in which the modern view of mind that we now hold was born. It was like a second Renaissance in Western culture. Austria was ….
to read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ __________________________________________________________________
XVII. Mad to Be Saved
a book review by Thomas Powers of The Voice Is All: The Lonely Victory of Jack Kerouac by Joyce Johnson from The London Review of Books on October 25, 2012.
to read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ __________________________________________________________________
XVIII. The Casebooks of Sigmund F.
Two novels turn an analytic eye to Sigmund Freud himself. Sam Sacks reviews Goce Smilevski’s “Freud’s Sister,” Lidia Yuknavitch’s “Dora: A Headcase” and Scott Hutchins’s “A Working Theory of Love, Reviewed by Sam Sacks in the Wall Street Journal on October 19, 2012.
to read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ __________________________________________________________________
D. In the CHINA Category:
XIX. Inside Foxconn
a) Inside Foxconn By James Fallows on the Atlantic website on October 18, 2012.
b) Inside Foxconn #2: Strolling By James Fallows on the Atlantic website on October 19, 2012.
c) Inside Foxconn #3: Some Dormitories By James Fallows on the Atlantic website on October 20, 2012.
d) Inside Foxconn #4: New Recruits, ‘Flying Tiger,’ CEO By James Fallows on the Atlantic website on October 21, 2012.
d) Inside Foxconn #5: Food By James Fallows on the Atlantic website on October 24, 2012.
to read a),b),c),d) please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ __________________________________________________________________
E. In the EDITORIALS Category:
XX. Are you mentally ready to retire?
by Sheryl Cash from AMNews on October 8, 2012.
Successful retirements can hinge on whether physicians know what they want to do with all the time freed up from no longer practicing.
to read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ __________________________________________________________________
XXI. Janus words in the language of dreams
by Ruth Walker from The Christian Science Monitor on October 24, 2012.
Words with mutually contradictory meanings indicate how our minds cope with complexity.
to read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ __________________________________________________________________
XXII. Mormon Women and Mitt Romney’s Pregnancy Problem
by Geoffrey Dunn from Metro Active via Reader Supported News on October 18, 2012.
to read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ __________________________________________________________________
XXIII. Greed: The Ultimate Addiction
by Leon F. Seltzer, Ph.D. from Psychology Today on October 17, 2012. Dr. Seltzer contributes regularly to PT via his blog, Evolution of the Self: On the paradoxes of personality.
to read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ __________________________________________________________________
XXIV. “At the Corner of Hope and Worry,” by Dan Barry
in the New York Times on October 14, 2012
Infrequently, someone’s front-page piece is so elegiacal, that it catches momentarily in the back of one’s throat. Here are some snippets from Dan Barry’s vignette of Oct 14 in the NY Times. “Another day begins with a sound softer than a finger snap…” “(Her glasses) …smudged with grill grease..(s)he sees the world trough the blur of her work.” “(She sees) food as life’s binding agent.” “…the past improves with distance the present keeps piling on, and a promising future is practically willed…” “Where the American dream they talk about can sometimes seem like a tease.”
If these are appetizing, look at the full piece here. This kind of journalism breathes life into our souls.
N. Szajnberg, MD, Managing Editor
to read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ __________________________________________________________________
F. In the GENERAL NEWS Category:
XXV. China’s extreme birdman contest
by Emma Owen from BBC News on October 18, 2012.
to read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ __________________________________________________________________
XXVI. Le troisi*me d*bat : Romney, un Obama bis ?
Le psychanalyste a regard* le d*bat pr*sidentiel. Pour lui, les deux candidats *taient * front renvers*. Son analyse par Jacques-Alain Miller sur let site de Le Point.fr. This article is in French.
to read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ __________________________________________________________________
XXVII. Debates a showcase of primal styles
by Lawrence D. Blum from Philly.Com on October 21, 2012.
All people wish to kill. Killing for food, land, money, political advantage, religious principle, sexual partners, and even amusement are all part of our complex heritage. Children around the world play at hunting, war, and “cops and robbers.” The wish to kill also informs our language: a successful comedian “kills” the audience; a sports team that wins big “slaughters” its opponents.
What distinguishes us from each other as individuals is how we handle these universal wishes. The recent presidential debates provided an instructive illustration.
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XXVIII. What Freud Said About Writing Fiction
by Maria Popova from The Atlantic on October 16, 2012.
“The creative writer does the same as the child at play,” and other quips
to read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ __________________________________________________________________
XXIX. Florida Okays Execution of Schizophrenic Man in Direct Violation of Supreme Court Ruling
By Rania Khalek from Truthout on October 20, 2012.
The Florida Supreme Court has ruled that the state can proceed with the execution of 64-year-old John Erroll Ferguson, despite its finding that he is a paranoid schizophrenic. The decision will be appealed to the US Supreme Court.
to read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ __________________________________________________________________
G. In the GUTHRIE CENTENARY Category:
XXX. Woody Guthrie Centenary 1912-2012
Woody Guthrie Singing “Ludlow Massacre” on YouTube.
to view on YouTube please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ __________________________________________________________________
H. In the OBITUARIES category:
XXXI. Ethel Person, Who Studied Sexual Fantasies, Dies at 77
a) Ethel Person, Who Studied Sexual Fantasies, Dies at 77 By Leslie Kaufman in The New York Times on October 20, 2012.
b) Open Mind: Feeling Strong with Psychiatrist Dr. Ethel Person on the Psychology Concepts website.
c) As The Wheel Turns: A Centennial Reflection on Freud’s Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality in The Journal of the American
Psychoanalytic Association vol: 53:4 .
to read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ __________________________________________________________________
I. In the PSYCHOANALYTIC ARCHIVES Category::
XXXII. On the Frontiers of Psychoanalysis and Neuroscience: Essays in Honor of Eric R. Kandel
the table of content to a special issue of The Psychoanalytic Review, “On the Frontiers of Psychoanalysis and Neuroscience: Essays in Honor of Eric R. Kandel.”
to read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ __________________________________________________________________
J. In the SCIENCE NEWS Category:
XXXIII. Does Birth Order Affect Personality Traits?
from The TODAY Show on October 23, 2012.
to read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ __________________________________________________________________
XXXIV. Delayed gratification as much about worldview as willpower
by Bruce Bower from Science News Prime’s October 22, 2012 edition.
to read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ __________________________________________________________________
XXXV. In With Good and Out With Bad Memories
by Sindya N. Bhanoo from The New York Times on October 22, 2012.
Most people have a moment or two they would rather not remember. The brain has two opposite ways of dealing with those memories, researchers report in a new study.
to read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ __________________________________________________________________
XXXVI. 1st Micro-Structure Atlas Of Human Brain Completed
by BioNews via Biocholar on October 20, 2012.
A team of researchers has built the first atlas of white-matter microstructure in the human brain.The project’s final results have the potential to change the face of neuroscience and medicine over the coming decade.
to read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ __________________________________________________________________
XXXVII. Power of handshake revealed
from ANI via ZeeNews.com on October 20, 2012.
In a new neuroscience research, scientists have confirmed an old adage about the power of a handshake – strangers do form a better impression of those who proffer their hand in greeting.
to read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ __________________________________________________________________
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Sasha Rolde