One-child policy, hypochondria, games or guns? from Sasha Rolde at IP.net

Dear Colleagues,

following a really exciting few days in New York at the APsaA annual meetings I wish that I could post some of the wonderful presentations I am hearing, but we will have to wait for those, so I mention it only to whet your appetite for next time.
In the meanwhile, the website is still replete with interesting material and I list my choices, followed the by rest of the posts.

1) Is this true as in China that only children are “less trusting, less trustworthy, less competitive and more risk-averse than those with siblings, as well as “more neurotic, less conscientious and more pessimistic?” Please read the study in the CHINA category.
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2) If any of you have a paper that is due by a certain deadline (this year is particularly bad), and those of you who think you might ore just have a dead line of some sort ( who doesn’t) please read the post on “positive procrastination”. If it does not accomplish anything else for you, it might make you feel better. ( in the EDITORIALS category, in case you wondered)
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3) Apropos the Newtown shooting: Please read the “It’s the Guns Not (video)Games”. Incidentally, I wonder why the copy-cat phenomenon is not stressed more.
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4) For comic relief, enjoy Woody Allen’s note on “not hypochondriac, an alarmist!”
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5) Many a time a writer expresses worry that analysis will make the creative process in them “disappear”. Fred Griffin’s paper comparing the writer’s hovering attention to analytic listening should dispel those fears.
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The folllowing is a list of all posts for this week:

A. In the ANNOUNCEMENTS Category:

I. Book Event for: A Psychotherapy for the People

Save the date:
Please join us to celebrate the release of Lewis Aron & Karen Starr*s A Psychotherapy for the People: Toward a Progressive Psychoanalysis Thursday March 7 @ 7 p.m.
Wollman Hall: 65 West 11th Street, 5th floor
co-sponsored by:
The Sandor Ferenczi Center
&
The New School Clinical Psychology Program

to read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _________________________________________________________________

II. Ghosts in the Twenty-First Century at the New School for Social Research
The Ferenczi Center at the New School for Social Research Presents
GHOSTS IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY: A CLINICAL WORKSHOP ON THE PRESENCE OF THE UNCANNY IN THE UNCONSCIOUS INTERMINGLING WORLDS OF PATIENT AND ANALYST.

SATURDAY FEBRUARY 9th 10am-3pm

to read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _________________________________________________________________

III. Screening of Gods and Monsters at Div 39

Section I, Division 39, APA Invites you to a special Discussion and film Screening of Gods and Monsters Academy Award 1998: Best Screen Play Adaptation.

Sunday, February 24, 2013, 11:00 AM. * 3:00 PM.
Training Institute for Mental Health
15 East 27th Street 4th Floor
New York, NY. 10001

Presenter: William Fried, PhD Board Section I, Div. 39, APA Fellow International Psychoanalytic Assoc.

to read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _________________________________________________________________

IV. The Power of Witnessing: International Holocaust Remembrance
The inspirational ways that survivors of the Holocaust testify to their experiences teaches us all about the place of witnessing when trauma haunts the mind*in the past and today. Please join Nancy Goodman, Marilyn Meyers, Arlene Kramer Richards, Arnold Richards, Sophia Richman, Katalin Roth, Nina Shapiro-Perl (film maker) and Margit Meissner.

Dear Friends,

An Invitation for 27 January 2013

Nancy R. Goodman

and

Marilyn B. Meyers

to read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _________________________________________________________________
V. Latin American Contributions to Psychoanalysis

Flyer for Latin American Contributions to Psychoanalysis on March 16, 2013 at the New School for Social Research*

to read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _________________________________________________________________

VI. Psychosomatic Psychopathology with Muriel Gold Morris 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
www.nypsi.org

PSYCHOSOMATIC PATHOLOGY:Theory & Practice for Analysts & Therapists Muriel Gold Morris, M.D.

Thursdays, 7:45 * 9:15 pm, January 24 * March 14, 2013, (8 Sessions), Fee $200 Course Meets at Dr. Morris* Office: 49 East 96 St., Apt. 19B (corner of Madison Ave.)

to read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _________________________________________________________________

VII. Knowledge as Fact and Knowledge as Experience: Freud*s Constructions in Analysis with David Bell, M.D. at NYPSI

NEW YORK PSYCHOANALYTIC SOCIETY & INSTITUTE & THE PSYCHOANALYTIC ASSOCIATION OF NEW YORK at NYPSI
Marianne and Nicholas Young Auditorium
247 East 82nd St., between 2nd & 3rd, NY, NY, 10028
212-879-6900, www.psychoanalysis.org, www.nypsi.org

Thursday, January 24, 2013, 8:15 * 10:00 PM, Donations accepted
Knowledge as Fact and Knowledge as Experience: Freud*s Constructions in Analysis by David Bell, M.D.

to read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _________________________________________________________________

VIII. Dr. Barbara Milrod Receives NYPSI*s Leon Kupferstein Memorial Award for Innovation in Psychoanalysis

January 14, 2013 (New York) * New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute today announces that Barbara L. Milrod, M.D. is the recipient of the first juried Leon Kupferstein Memorial Award for Innovation in Psychoanalysis.

Dr. Milrod is currently Professor of Psychiatry at Weill Medical College of Cornell and she also maintains a private practice in Manhattan specializing in panic disorder and agoraphobia, with expertise in anxiety and mood disorders

to read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _________________________________________________________________

IX. CFS Open House on January 31st

Announcement for Contemporary Freudian Society Open House on January 31.
to read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _________________________________________________________________

B. In the BOOKS Category:

X. The New York (SF) Giants and The Year of Durocher

a) They Left Their Hearts at Coogan*s Bluff By George Vecsey in the New York Times on January 13, 2013.

b) to Preorder: The Book: The Year of Durocher by Theodore Jacobs from IPBooks.

to read a) & b) please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _________________________________________________________________

C. In the CHINA Category:

XI. Study Measures Impact of China*s One-Child Policy

By Sindya N. Bhanoo in The New York Times on January 14, 2013.
to read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _________________________________________________________________

D. In the EDITORIALS Category:

XII. This Was Supposed to Be My Column for New Year*s Day
By John Tierney in The New York Times on January 14, 2013.
to read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _________________________________________________________________

E. In the GENERAL NEWS Category:

XIII. Hypochondria: An Inside Look

by Woody Allen in The New York Times on January 12, 2013.

to read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _________________________________________________________________

XIV. The Newtown Shootings: Guns, Not Games

By Harvey Roy Greenberg. Dr. Greenberg*s previous article about the New Town Shootings originally appeared in CLINICAL PSYCHIATRY NEWS.*
to read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _________________________________________________________________

F. In the GUTHRIE CENTENARY Category:

XV. Woody Guthrie Centenary 1912-2012

Bruce Springsteen singing Tom Joad (Woody Guthrie cover) on You Tube.
to listen to Bruce Springsteen please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/
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G. In the MOVIES Category:

XVI. Father/Daughter Fantasy in *The Artist*

On the face of it, it is astounding that a silent film would win awards as best motion picture of the year; although, the anomaly may be a key to its success, as we may admire and enjoy something that is so different.

The film, The Artist, has a further burden. It centers around a silent film star, George Valentin, whose career plummets at the e…
to read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _________________________________________________________________

H. In the PAPERS Category:

XV. Listening like a Writer by Fred Griffin

Life stand still here. What Creative Writers Can Teach Us about the Psychoanalytic Process by Fred Griffin. This paper is previously unpublished.

to read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _________________________________________________________________

This concludes the list of items on the website this week, short partly due to the meetings. I hope you enjoyed the fare and urge you to please write your comments – they reach colleagues in over 50 countries who would love to hear from you.

Respectfully submitted by

Sasha Rolde