Dear colleagues:
With a somewhat quieter horizon on the news front (only a cyber war with China and some rumblings about the world coming to an end in half a century due to global warming), the website too is replete with more contemplative and informative posts.
Without much preamble let me give you a few post to contemplate but please glance at the others as well that may be of interest to you.
My choices:
1) Please enjoy the BRAVE NEW DRONES. They take the fear out of the hype on all the scary talk shows
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2) Note the juxtaposition of Viktor Frankl’s excerpts on moral freedom under extreme hardships and attempts at soul murder in the nazi camps and the post on “How (NOT) to Stop a Bully. Perhaps we should begin to teach the children who are at risk or are indeed being bullied how to achieve emotional freedom and moral high ground.
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3) Betty Friedan – remembered, lauded and criticized 50 yrs. later is a must read.
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4) Similarly the review of Elizabeth Young-Bruehl’s biography of Anna Freud is not to be missed.
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5) Are conservatives really terrified?
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6) Please read comments and discussion re the Chelyabinsk meteor
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7) So are we really “done” ? Please read yet some more about global warming. Was Freud right about the death instinct?
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8) Lore Reich Rubin M.D. gives us more history: please read her comments in the papers category.
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9) The piece de resistance are the 5 letters in the Rapaport-Holt Letters Category – please read and see who was involved.
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10) And of course – Erik Erikson
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Below is the list of contents for the week:
A. In the ANNOUNCEMENTS Category:
I. Shared Therapy with Charles A. Murkofsky 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
SHARED THERAPY: THE COLLABORATION BETWEEN PSYCHOTHERAPIST & PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGIST***Charles A. Murkofsky, M.D.***Tuesdays, 7:30 *** 8:45 pm, March 19, April 2, & 9, 2013, 3 sessions, Fee: $60
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _______________________________________________________
II. NYPSI Open House and Supper for Prospective Candidate
THE NEW YORK PSYCHOANALYTIC SOCIETY & INSTITUTE:***Marianne & Nicholas Young Auditorium***247 East 82nd St., between 2nd & 3rd, NY, NY 10028 212-879-6900***www.psychoanalysis.org***www.nypsi.org
NYPSI OPEN HOUSE & SUPPER FOR PROSPECTIVE CANDIDATES***Thursday, March 7, 2013, 7:30-9:30 p.m.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _______________________________________________________
III. Psychoanalysis and Meditation with Jeffrey Rubin at CFS
Contemporary Freudian Society***NY Division***Scientific Program Tuesday, March 19, 2013, 8:30 *** 10:00 pm, Mt. Sinai Medical Center, Hatch Auditorium, Madison Avenue & 100th Street, Free admission. Psychoanalysis and Meditation: Partners in Healing
Jeffrey Rubin, PhD, presenter***Edward Kenny, MD, discussant
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _______________________________________________________
***IV. The Clinical Moment with the Contemporary Freudian Society
a) the flyer for this event.
Psychoanalytic Training Institute of the Contemporary Freudian Society presents A New Series The Clinical Moment
Wednesday, March 13, 2013***8:00 *** 9:30 pm***b) Manhattan Location
To read a) & b) please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _______________________________________________________
V. ***Dialogues on***Sibling Rivalry*** with Phil Herschenfeld at NYPSI
CALENDAR / EVENT LISTING
When: Wednesday, March 6, 2013, 8:00 pm *** 9:15 pm***What: ***Dialogues on***Sibling Rivalry*** with Phil Herschenfeld, M.D.***New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute***s Child and Adolescent Psychoanalysis division continues the ***Dialogues on****** series of discussions with leading child development experts.
Who:***Phil Herschenfeld is a graduate of Einstein Medical School, and has been teaching Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis for many years. He is affiliated with Mt. Sinai School of Medicine. He is a Training and Supervising Analyst at NYPSI
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _______________________________________________________
VI. ***Conversations with****** Oliver Sacks at NYPSI
When:
Wednesday, October 9, 2013, 8pm
What:***New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute continues its popular ***Conversations with***.*** series and is pleased to present the acclaimed neurologist and author Oliver Sacks who will reflect on his research, creative process and career.
In addition, by special arrangement, the 1974 film Awakenings *** The Documentary will be screened. This 47-minute film of the patients Sacks describes in his book Awakenings was produced for British television and broadcast in the U.K. but has never been broadcast in the U.S.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _______________________________________________________
VII. Marion M. Oliner, Ph.D. on Psychic Reality in Context: Perspectives on Psychoanalysis, Personal History, and Trauma at NYPSI
***New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute and***the Friends of the Abraham A. Brill Library***invite you to a special event
Marion M. Oliner, Ph.D. on Psychic Reality in Context: Perspectives on Psychoanalysis, Personal History, and Trauma
Saturday, February 23, 2013, 10:30 am *** 12 noon,
NYPSI***s Marianne & Nicholas Young Auditorium***247 East 82nd Street, NYC $10 suggested donation***for tickets and information: visit www.nypsi.org under ***Events and Lectures*** or email admdir@nypsi.org To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _______________________________________________________
VIII. What***s New at IPBooks
Books published By IPBooks:
Beginning to Grow by Sylvia Brody
Created in our own images.com by Fred Sander
Greed: Sex, Money, Power and Politics edited by Elizabeth Ronis and Leslie Shaw The Laundryman***s Grand Daughter Poems by Arlene Kramer Richards Reluctant Warriors by Nathan Szajnberg
A City Within a City by Basia Temkin-Berman
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _______________________________________________________
B. In the ART Category:
IX. **David Levine: American Presidents & Selected Paintings at Forum Gallery
******To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _______________________________________________________
X. Brave New Drones
****** By Paul Greenberg and Scott **Menchin in The New York Times on February 17, 2013.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _______________________________________________________
C. In the AUDIO/VIDEO Category:
XI. Freud in Zion: Psychoanalysis and the Making of Modern Jewish Identity Freud in Zion: Psychoanalysis and the Making of Modern Jewish Identity, An Author***s Talk: ** Eran Rolnik with Stephen Frosh filmed at the Freud Museum London on Feb 8th, 2013.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _______________________________________________________
XII. Viktor Frankl
a)Viktor Frankl in **Other Voices on the Question of God website. b) Viktor Frankl: Why to believe in others on The Ted: **Best of the Web website.
To read a) and view b) please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/
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XIII. How (Not) To Stop a Bully
How (Not) To Stop a Bully: Emily Bazelon***s new book argues that bullying comes in different forms and so should its antidotes By Vox Tablet on the Tablet website on February 19, 2013.
To listen please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _______________________________________________________
D. In the BOOKS Category:
XIV. The life and death of psychoanalysis: On unconscious desire and its sublimation by Jamieson Webster
Review by Jamieson Webster, Reviewed By Ruti, Mari in Psychoanalytic Psychology.
This article originally appeared as: **Ruti, Mari (2013). **Review of The life and death of psychoanalysis: On unconscious desire and its sublimation by Jamieson Webster. **Psychoanalytic Psychology, Vol 30(1), Jan 2013, 110-115 and appears here with all requisite rights and permissions.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _______________________________________________________
XV. The Retrospective By A. B. Yehoshua
The Retrospective (Excerpt from a Novel)**By A. B. Yehoshua Translated from Hebrew by Stuart Schoffman.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _______________________________________________________
XVI. This Is Your Life
This Is Your Life: A psychoanalytic writer urges us to just deal with it, Review of Missing Out: **In Praise of the Unlived Life by Adam Phillips, Reviewed by Joan Acocella in The New Yorker on February 25, 2013.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _______________________________________________________
XVII. Speak, Memory by Oliver Sacks
****** Review of**Speak, Memory by Oliver Sacks in The New York Review of Books in the February 21, 2013 issue.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _______________________________________________________
XVIII. Scholar Finds Flaws in Work by Archenemy of Comics
By Dave Itzkoff in The New York Times on February 19, 2013.
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XIX. Psychoanalysis, American Style
***Psychoanalysis, American Style: Unlike Freud, Erik Erikson tried to create a vision of psychological energy and health, Review of Identity***s Architect: A Biography of Erik H. Erikson by Lawrence J. Friedman, reviewed by Mark Edmunson in the New York Times on August 22, 1999.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _______________________________________________________
XX. Freud***s Dream
*** Review of Freud***s Dream: **A Complete Interdisciplinary Science of the Mind by Patricia Kitcher, Reviewed by Frank Sulloway.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _______________________________________________________
XXI. Betty Friedan***s ***The Feminine Mystique***: 50 Years Later
a) Betty Friedan***s ***The Feminine Mystique***: 50 Years Later By Peter Dreier on the Truthout website on February 177, 2013.
b) Criticisms of a Classic Abound**By Jennifer Sschuessler in The New York Times **on****February 18, 2013.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _______________________________________________________
XXII. Becoming a Subject: Reflections in Philosophy and
Psychoanalysis by Marcia Cavell
Review of Becoming a Subject: Reflections in Philosophy and Psychoanalysis by Marcia Cavell, reviewed by Laxminarayan Lenka on the metapsychology online reviews website.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _______________________________________________________
XXIII. Beyond the Pleasure Principle by Sigmund Freud
******Reviewed by Michael Larson on the metapsychology online reviews website.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _______________________________________________________
XXIV. Anna Freud: A Biography by Elisabeth Young-Bruehl
Review of Anna Freud: A Biography by Elisabeth Young-Bruehl, Reviewed by Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi on the metapsychology online reviews website.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _______________________________________________________
E. In the CHINA Category:
XXV. China in Revolt ******by Eli Friedman on the Jacobin website.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _______________________________________________________
F. In the EDITORIALS Category:
XXVI. What Data Can***t Do
By David Brooks in The New York Times on February 18, 2013 To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _______________________________________________________
G. In the GENERAL NEWS Category:
XXVII. Robert Langs
Robert Langs on the Wikipedia website.
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XXVIII. Why Is the Conservative Brain More Fearful?
Why Is the Conservative Brain More Fearful? The Alternate Reality Right-Wingers Inhabit Is Terrifying**By Joshua Holland on the Alternet Website on**May 1, 2012.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _______________________________________________________
XXIX. Viktor Kornmehl & Sigmund Freud***s High School
*** by Edie Jarolim**on the Freud***s Butcher website on February 18, 2013
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XXX. Gun Control in JAMA
a) **Curbing Gun Violence: Lessons From Public Health Successes bt Dariush Mozaffarian, MD, DrPH, David Hemenway, PhD, David S. Ludwig, MD, PhD in JAMA. 2013;309(6):551-552. do***i:10.1001/jama.2013.38,
b) **Silencing the Science on Gun Research by**Arthur L. Kellermann, MD, **MPH, Frederick P. Rivara, MD, MPH in **JAMA. 2013;309(6):549-550. doi:10.1001/jama.2012.208207
c)** Mental Illness and New Gun Law Reforms: The Promise and Peril of Crisis-Driven Policy**Jeffrey Swanson, PhD in**JAMA. 2013;():1-2. doi:10.1001/jama.2013.1113
d) A Systematic Plan for Firearms Law Reform by**Katherine L. Record, JD, MPH, MA, Lawrence O. Gostin, JD in**JAMA. 2013; ():1-2. doi:10.1001/jama.2013.1127
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _______________________________________________________
XXXI. The Benefits of Positive Parenting
*** The Benefits of Positive Parenting By David Bornstein in The New York Times on February 20, 2013.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _______________________________________________________
XXXII. Ireland apologizes to women of Catholic laundries
***Ireland apologizes to women of Catholic laundries by**Shawn Pocatchnick **Associated Press****February 19, 2013 .
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _______________________________________________________
XXXIII. Xanax ***helps me be a better mom***
By Shawn Bean on the **CNN.com website on**February 18, 2013.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _______________________________________________________
XXXIV. Science, society and the Chelyabinsk meteor
By Don Barrett on The World Socialist Website on February 18, 2013.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _______________________________________________________
XXXV. We***re done
We***re done by Guy McPherson on his Nature Bats Last website on June 20, 2013.
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XXXVI. Doctors Who Don***t Speak Out
By Barry Meier in The New York Times on February 15, 2013 . Andrew Testa for The New York Times.***A faulty hip replacement a doctor removed from a patient.
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XXXVII. Why Gender Equality Stalled
By Stephanie Coontz in the New York Times on February 16, 2013.
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H. In the MOVIES Category:
XXXVIII. Avraham Lincoln Avinu
*** Spielberg***s timely new Civil War biopic portrays a man leading his people to the gates of the Promised Land**By J. Hoberman in The Tablet Magazine on November 9, 2012.
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XXXIX. Steven Soderbergh to retire after Side Effects?
Problems of independent filmmaking By Joanne Laurier on the World Socialist Website on February 15, 2013.
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I. In the PAPERS Category:
XL. Grasping the Nettle
Grasping the Nettle: Or Why Psychoanalytic Research is Such an Irritant by Peter Fonagy. Paper presented at the Annual Research Lecture of The British psychoAnalytical Society on 1st March, 2000.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _______________________________________________________
XLI. Wilhem Reich and Anna Freud
Wilhem Reich and Anna Freud: His Expulsion from **Psychoanalysis by Lore Reich Rubin M.D.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _______________________________________________________
XLII. Fourteen Hundred Hours of Analysis with Doctor Freud: Viktor von Dirsztay Fourteen Hundred Hours of Analysis with Doctor Freud: Viktor von Dirsztay: **A Biographical Sketch by Ulrike May, Berlin, Germany. To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _______________________________________________________
J. In the RAPPAPORT-HOLT LETTERS Category:
XLIII. Announcing the Rapaport-Holt Letters
I am pleased to make available an extraordinary collection of correspondence between David Rapaport and Robert Holt.
When in response to a call from me, Bob Holt told me that he had a trove of**correspondence between him and his mentor, David Rapaport, I was bowled over by the discovery of this treasure. In these letters, which date from 1948 through 1960, the two colleagues both support and challenge one another during a period of remarkable intellectual activity for both of them.
I was a resident at the Menninger School of Psychiatry from 1960 to 1962, years after David had left to go to Austen Riggs, but many members of the staff who were my mentors had trained with him,**and all of the residents learned about**his brilliance and contributions to the basic science of psychoanalysis. His Organization and Pathology of Thought was a foundational text for us, to be read and reread. Topeka was a place which many had left by the time I arrived: Bob *** To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _______________________________________________________
XLV. The Rapaport-Holt Letters: A Master-Apprentice Collaboration on Psychoanalytic Theory
by Robert R. Holt
Late in July 2011, I had an unexpected call from Arnold D. Richards, M.D., an old acquaintance.** He asked if I happened to have any unpublished papers on psychoanalysis; if so, he offered to make them available to their most likely audience through International Psychoanalysis.** It happened that, for about a year, I had been trying to find a publisher for a collection of letters between David Rapaport and me during his final 12 years (1948***1960).** When I mentioned that to Dr. Richards, he at once expressed interest, and at last here we are.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _______________________________________________________
Chapter 1: Letters of 1948***1951
**Topics Discussed:
*** ***Stimulus Barrier***
*** Authoritarian personality
*** Ego autonomy and hierarchical structure *** Application of psychoanalysis to the TAT *** Underlying mechanistic vs. organismic assumptions *** Kant vs. Whitehead
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Chapter 2: Letters of 1952
Topics Discussed:
*** Channels of communication
*** Application of psychoanalysis to the Rorschach *** Problems of structural theory
*** Projection and projective techniques
*** Autonomy and regression in service of ego *** States of consciousness
Plus: A Note on George S. Klein
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Chapter 3: Letters of 1952***1953
Topics Discussed:
*** Rapaport***s memories from arrival in U.S., his first job, and his
first years at Menninger***s
*** Holt-Luborsky book Personality Patterns of Psychiatrists *** Problems of selecting persons for training in psychiatry and psychoanalysis
Rapaport***s informal, often caustic comments about his first encounters with American psychiatrists and his first colleagues and the account of his early struggles make fascinating reading.
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Chapter 4: Letters of 1954
Topics Discussed:
*** Immediate memory and reminiscence
*** Theory of thinking: primary and secondary processes in relation to
metapsychology and clinical measurement
*** Tension reduction
Plus: Staff Seminar Minutes
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Chapter 5: Letters of 1955
** Topics Discussed:
*** Problems of research on psychoanalysis *** Sigmund Koch and the APA***s Project A on theories of psychology
*** Rapaport***s decision to do section on psychoanalysis *** Holt***s critique of Rapaport***s drafts of The Structure of Psychoanalytic Theory and his responses
*** Methodology of psychoanalysis
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Persons Mentioned in the Rapaport-Holt Letters
Persons Mentioned To read more please go to
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References for works cited in the Rapaport-Holt Letters
References To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _______________________________________________________
K. In the SCIENCE NEWS Category:
XLVI. Strong Headline, Middling Study: TV violence and Kids
Today***s NY Times reports on a pediatric study that claims that redirecting **3-5 year old children to prosocial (as opposed to ***antisocial*** or aggressive TV shows) result in less aggression in the children. The study as reported in the Times is flawed. First, the entire study is based on parent report: how much TV the children watched, that the parents redirected the children***s shows and that the children became less ***violent.*** **(Readers, such as myself, assume that the Times is reporting the methodology accurately.) **Second, the Times reports that the average American 3-5 year old watches 4.5 hours of TV daily***daily***
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XLVII. Obama Seeking to Boost Study of Human Brain
by John Markoof in The New York Times on February 17, 2013.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _______________________________________________________
L. In the UNCATEGORIZED Category:
XLIII. A Foucauldian Analysis of Psychoanalysis
A Foucauldian Analysis of Psychoanalysis: A Discipline that
***Disciplines*** by Alan Milchman and Alan Rosenberg on the Academy for the Study of the Psychoanalytic Arts Website
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IXL. Marion M. Oliner, Ph.D. on Psychic Reality in Context: Perspectives on Psychoanalysis, Personal History, and Trauma at NYPSI ***New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute and***the Friends of the Abraham A. Brill Library***invite you to a special event
Marion M. Oliner, Ph.D. on Psychic Reality in Context: Perspectives on Psychoanalysis, Personal History, and Trauma
Saturday, February 23, 2013, 10:30 am *** 12 noon,
NYPSI***s Marianne & Nicholas Young Auditorium***247 East 82nd Street, NYC $10 suggested donation***for tickets and information: visit www.nypsi.org under ***Events and Lectures*** or email admdir@nypsi.org To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _______________________________________________________
Clearly, the posts this week reflect a historical retrospective of psychoanalysis at the same time as we read about the current real upheavals in our world , be it global warming, meteorites, bullying and mass shooting.
After reading those of interest to you please do write your comments on the website.
Respectfully submitted by
Sasha Rolde