Dear Colleagues,
As the “lazy days of summer” begin, they are not so lazy for those of us anticipating the IPA congress in Prague. I hope to see many of you there Meanwhile, in the international tradition, our psychoanalytic website is filled with interesting posts which our colleagues all over the globe read and anticipate your comments.
My choices this week include:
1) Please note the IPA Congress Timetable and the many possibilities it offers.
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2) Note the “dangerous implications of the growing popularity of brain science in the public sphere” in the AUDIO/VIDEO Category.
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3) We can all find a book for summer reading in the BOOKS Category
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4) I am of mixed mind about the americanization of the world. See “Faking-it-in-china”. Many countries are losing their originality due to the trend of wanting to be like & have/do what Americans have/do. You may unfortunately see that in Prague as well if you go to the IPA Congress.
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5) If you are interested in philosophy, history and architecture, read about The Star Royal Summer Palace in Prague. This post made me realize that there is much that I had not learned yet about Prague.
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6) Did your older sibling beat you up or did you experience bullying at home? It is now widely known that the importance of sibling relationships has been underestimated in psychoanalysis – please read the article about sibling bullying in the GENERAL NEWS Category.
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7) There is much to be learned from Alan Stone’s “conversion” from a “believer” to a “non-believer”. Please add your thoughts to “where will psychoanalysis survive”
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8) Of the movies listed, the most unusual is I think the “Ghosts of Soviet Holocaust Cinema Finally Escape From the Censors’ Files”
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9) Emphasis on early analysts this week focuses on Freud, Fliess,& Ferenzi An early paper by Erich Fromm caught my interest – please read in the PAPERS category
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A. In the ANNOUNCEMENTS Category:
I. Object *AAAH* With Manya Steinkoler at Apr*s-Coup
Apr*s-Coup PSYCHOANALYTIC ASSOCIATION
Friday, June 28, 2013, 6:30 pm * 9:00 pm
OBJECT *AAAH*: THE INVENTION OF THE OPERATIC VOICE, Visiting Speaker MANYA STEINKOLER
It is not by chance that the operatic voice was a Renaissance invention, historically close to that of perspective, i.e. represented space. Singing, like painting, was formalized, *naturalized* along definite principles*principles of relevance to Lacan*s object a and his later work on the infinite line.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ____________________________________________________________
II. IPA Prague Congress * Timetable, Working Parties, Gala Dinner, and other developments
IPA CONGRESS BULLETIN,
IPA CONGRESS PAPER DATABASE * PRAGUE PAPERS
The IPA has launched an interactive Congress Paper Database which works as a search engine for you to access many papers and presentations delivered at the Prague Congress. Records include complete papers, as well as some abstracts and summaries. To find a paper all you need to do is enter either the title, name of author, type of session or a key word (subject). All confidential papers have been excluded from the database. The papers can be downloaded as PDFs.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ____________________________________________________________
III. Translating Early 20th Century Yiddish Plays for 21st Century Audiences
SUNDAY 23 JUNE 2013 11:30am-2:00pm
Translating Early 20th Century Yiddish Plays for 21st Century Audiences Co-sponsored by the New Worlds Theater Project
TRANSLATION WORKSHOP
This hands-on translation workshop will feature New Worlds Theater Company*s Producing Artistic Director, Ellen Perecman, who will facilitate translation and discussion of short pieces from playwrights such as Hirshbein, Leivick, Ash, and Bimko.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ____________________________________________________________
IV. The 2013 Jan Karski & Pola Nirenska Prize at YIVO Awarded to Prof. Barbara Engelking
Read the press release in Polish here.
The Award Committee of the Jan Karski and Pola Nirenska Award has the pleasure to announce that Prof. Barbara Engelking of Warsaw, Poland was named the receipient of this year*s prize. Endowed by Prof. Jan Karski at YIVO Institute for Jewish Research in 1992, the $5,000 prize goes to authors of published works documenting Polish-Jewish relations and Jewish contributions to Polish culture.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ____________________________________________________________
V. Foundations of Psychoanalytic Practice at CFS
Contemporary Freudian Society: Foundations of Psychoanalytic Practice
We are pleased to offer a new a one-year course on Infant Observation beginning on October 1, 2013.
This stand-alone course is suitable for students from a wide variety of backgrounds, including practicing clinicians from all disciplines, recent graduates of Masters-level or Doctoral-level programs, professionals considering changing careers, and anyone interested in exploring the possibility of post-graduate psychoanalytic training.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ____________________________________________________________
VI. Peter Fonagy , Ph. D., awarded the Order of the British Empire
Here is the announcement from the Anna Freud Centre, where Sir Peter Fonagy is Chief Executive Officer.
Professor Fonagy first came into contact with the Centre as a teenager when he received help from the organisation after being separated from his family upon leaving Hungary. Now over 30 years later and after ten years successfully leading the Centre that once helped him, Professor Fonagy has been honoured with an OBE in recognition of his services to psychoanalysis and psychology.
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B. In the ART Category:
VII. Clinical Consultation by WCSPP
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C. In the AUDIO/VIDEO Category:
VIII. Brainwashed: The use and misuse of neuroscience
Sally Satel and Scott Lilienfeld, in Conversation with David Brooks on the AEI 75 website on Monday June 17, 2013.
To read & view please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ____________________________________________________________
IX. In *What Doctors Feel,* Pain Is Not Just the Realm of Patients
By Katie Hafner in The New York Times on June 17, 2013.
To read & view please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ____________________________________________________________
X. Women in Nepal Suffer Monthly Ostracization
By Allyn Gaestel in The New York Times on June 14, 2013.
To read & view please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ____________________________________________________________
XI. Mind the Brain Podcast Episode 02: the Neuroscience of Music
Anticipation and Reward By Ruchir Shah on the Plos Blogs website on June 18, 2013.
To read & view please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ____________________________________________________________
D. In the BOOKS Category:
XII. Some Books for Summer Reading: The Light, the Erudite, and the Profound
a) Forty-one False Starts: Essays on Artists and Writers by Janet Malcolm
b) Brainwashed: The use and misuse of neuroscience by Sally Satel and Scott Lilienfeld
c)The Year of Durocher by Theodore Jacobs
d) Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman
To read a),b),c) & d) please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ____________________________________________________________
XIII. Standing in the quicksand of other people*s lives
a) Review of Forty-one False Starts: Essays on Artists and Writers by Janet Malcolm, Reviewed by Don Anderson on the Brisbane Times website on June 22, 2013.
b) Their Own Petard: Review of *Forty-One False Starts* on this website.
Janet Malcolm has firm views on biography. Photo: Nina Subin
To read a) & b) please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ____________________________________________________________
XIV. Brainwashed: The use and misuse of neuroscience
The authors of Brainwashed: The use and misuse of neuroscience, Sally Satel and Scott Lilienfeld, in Conversation with David Brooks on the AEI 75 website on Monday June 17, 2013.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ____________________________________________________________
XV. Is NIMH Brilliant, Stupid, or Both?
a) (or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Voles) part 1 by Jonathan Shedler on Facebook.
b) (or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Voles) Part 2 by Jonathan Shedler on Facebook
To read a) & b) please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ____________________________________________________________
XVI. Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman
a) Review of Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman By Adam Kirsch in The New Republic on December 6, 2011.
b) Everything Flows by Vasily Grossman; On a new translation of a novel that was smothered by the KGB. Reviewed by Christopher Tayler in the The Guardian on May 21, 2010.
c) A Writer at War by Vasily Grossman Reviewed by Brendan Wolfe on the Quarterly Conversation website.
d) The Maximalist: on Vasily Grossman on the Berdichev Revival Website Courtesy:*The Nation*, by Jochen Hellbeck * December 2010.
To read a),b),c) & d) please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ____________________________________________________________
XVII. In *What Doctors Feel,* Pain Is Not Just the Realm of Patients
By Katie Hafner in The New York Times on June 17, 2013.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ____________________________________________________________
XVIII. The Still Small Voice by Donald L. Carveth
Front and Back Covers of The Still Small Voice: Psychoanalytic Reflections on Guilt and Conscience by Donald L. Carveth.
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XIX. Secrets
review of The Correspondence of Sigmund Freud and S*ndor Ferenczi. Vol I: 1908-14 edited by Eva Brabant, Ernst Falzeder and Patrizia Giampieri-Deutsch, translated by Peter Hoffer, Reviewed by Adam Phillips in the London Review of Books in Vol. 16 No. 19 * 6 October 199.
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XX. Two IUP books featured in upcoming YIVO Institute book sessions
Two IUP books featured in upcoming YIVO Institute book sessions on the Indiana University Press blog on June 15, 2013.
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XXI. Bid to censor Anne Frank*s *pornographic* diary in schools fails
Bid to censor Anne Frank*s *pornographic* diary in schools fails Michigan school committee rejects mother*s plea to remove edition of Diary of a Young Girl from students* eyes by Alison Flood on the Guardian website on May 16, 2013.
*Inappropriate*? Anne Frank. Photograph: Everett Collection / Rex Feature
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E. In the CHINA category:
XXII. Home to one Jew, Harbin Synagogue to be renovated
A new tourism scheme by the Chinese government sets its eyes * and its funds * on an area once home to 23,000 Jews including a former PM*s grandparents By By Erica Lyons in The Times of Israel on June 22, 2013.
A postcard of Harbin*s Old Synagogue (photo credit: courtesy Dan Ben-Canaan)
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XXIII. Faking It in China
by Ian Johnson in The New York Review of Books on June 6, 2013.
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F. In the EDITORIALS Category:
XXIV. David Brooks on *Neurocentrism*
Beyond the Brain By David Brooks in The New York Times on June 17, 2013.
Brooks in today*s NYT*s column cites several recent books that reframe the popularity of brain picturing in today*s science and popular press.
He summarizes four conceptual complications about using brain imaging alone to explain our functioning. First, that a brain region may serve a variety of different tasks. Second, (and complementary), that one task may use different brain reactions or states. Third, that one activity, such as *working memory*, may distribute over multiple regions (at least 30 in the case of working*
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G. In the GENERAL NEWS Category:
XXV. Culinary Mindfulness And The Complexity Of Change:
How To Get Started by Todd Essig on the Forbes Magazine website on June 20, 2013 .
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XXVI. The Star Royal Summer Palace in Prague
(Letohradek Hvezda) on the Universetopia website.
The Star (Hvezda) Royal Summer Palace in Prague belongs to those rare buildings the primary purpose of* which was not purely utilitarian, as its location, layout and the surviving interior decorations reveal.
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XXVII. Intra-Family Bullying Bad for Kids* Mental Health
on the Psychiatric News website on June 21, 2013.
Effects of Bullying Don*t End When School Does by Joan Arehart-Treichel in Psychiatry News on April 05, 2013. DOI: 10.1176/appi.pn.2013.4a13
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XXVIII. Where Will Psychoanalysis Survive?
a) What Remains of Freudianism When Its Scientific Center Crumbles by Alan A. Stone on the Harvard Magazine website in the July/August 2013 Issue.
b) Letters to the Editor about the above article.
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XXIX. Italian Praised for Saving Jews Is Now Seen as Nazi Collaborator
By Patricia Cohen in The New York Times on June 19, 2013.
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XXX. Tony Soprano, psychoanalysis and the Jews
By Ami Eden on the JTA website on June 19, 2013.
XXXI. Getting Started With Czech-Jewish Genealogy
by E. Randol Schoenberg and Julius Mueller on the Austria-Czech Special Interest Group website.
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XXXI. The Problem With Psychiatry, the *DSM,* and the Way We Study Mental Illness
By Ethan Watters on the Pacific Standard website on June 3, 2013 .
In the 1880s, women by the tens of thousands displayed the distinctive signs of hysteria: convulsive fits, facial tics, spinal irritation, sensitivity to touch, leg paralysis. (ILLUSTRATION: MICHELLE THOMPSON)
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XXXII. Heading Into the *I* of the Knaidel Controversy Over Yiddish Spelling Bee Word Misses the Point
By Philologos on The Jewish Daily Forward website on June 16, 2013.
a) Spelling Trouble: 13-year-old Arvind Mahankali won this year*s Scripps National Spelling Bee and uncorked a linguistic debate.
b) Knaidel/Kneydl and other posts on this issue on this website.
To read a) & b) please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ____________________________________________________________
H. In the LETTERS TO EDITORS Category:
XXXIII. Priority for Mental Illness
Letter to the Editor by Herbert Pardes in The New York Times on June 16, 2013.
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XXXIV. Freud & Ferenczi
By Phyllis Grosskurth in response to The Lovable Analyst by Axel Hoffer from the December 8, 1988 issue on the New York Review of Books Website on August 17, 1989.
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I. In the MOVIES Category:
XXXV. Man of Steel: Superman returns*again
By Hiram Lee on the World Socialist Web Site on June 22, 2013.
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XXXVI. Mother and Child Movie Review by Selma Duckler
*THE RELATIONSHIP OF MOTHER AND CHILD REMAINS INDELIBLE AND INDESCRIBABLE*THE STRONGEST BOND ON EARTH* * Theodore Reik
Mother and Child (2009) is a good movie,even though it has a contrived plot,and is predictable. The acting and writing is superb. It absorbed my attention and reflection long after I saw the movie.
Rodrigo Garcia, the writer and director is a master of relationship dialogue. He was the writer of the popular HBO series, The Sopranos, and the executive producer, developer,creator, writer and director of the HBO series , In Treatment, (taking it from the wildly successful original BeTipul, in Israel.)
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XXXVII. Judy Blume*s Tiger Eyes brought to the screen
Judy Blume*s Tiger Eyes brought to the screen: An understated examination of grief By Christine Schofelt on the World Socialist Web Site on June 17, 2013.
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XXXVIII. Ghosts of Soviet Holocaust Cinema Finally Escape From the Censors* Files
Long-lost and suppressed classics with complicated depictions of the Shoah have found a revivalist champion By Lea Zeltserman on the Tablet website on June 12, 2013.
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J. IN the PAPERS Category:
XXXIX. Psychoanalysis and Academia
Present, Past, Future By Murray Schwartz on the BPSI website.
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XL. Forgotten Analysts and Their Legacy
Edmund Bergler and Psychic Masochism By Joseph Reppen, PhD.
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XLI. Individual and Social Origins of Neurosis by Erich Fromm
This article originally appeared as Erich Fromm (1944). Individual and Social Origins of Neurosis. American Sociological Review ( IX: 4 and appears here with all requisite rights and permissions.
Erich Fromm*s Wikipedia page:
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XLII. Freud*s Baby, Fliess*s Maybe
Homophobia, Anti-Semitism, and the Invention of Oedipus by Daniel Boyarin.
This article originally appeared as: Daniel Boyarin, (1995). Freud*s Baby, Fliess*s Maybe: Homophobia, Anti-Semetism, and the Invention of Oedipus. GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies April 1995 2 (1 and 2) : 115-147; doi:10.1215/10642684-2-1_and_2-115 and appears here with all requisite rights and permissions.
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K. In the PLAYS Category:
XLIII. Homophobia in the Ring Delivers Fatal Blows *Champion* at Opera Theater of Saint Louis
By Vivien Schweitzer in The New York Times on June 21, 2013.
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L. In the SCIENCE NEWS Category:
XLIV. A zap to the brain makes you think people are more attractive
by Meghan Holohan on NBC News website on June 21, 2013.
Most of us can*t actually be as attractive as professional good-looking people like Kate Upton. But new research shows that an electrical shock to the brain can make people perceive other people to be more attractive. The research may one day point toward new treatments for neurological disorders like depression or Parkinson*s.
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XLV. Depression: ED psychiatrists perform nuanced assessments of traumatized patients
by jack Pula on the Clinical Psychiatry News Website on June 4, 2013.
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XLVI. Scientists create high-resolution 3-D atlas of human brain
By Meeri Kim in the Washington Post on June 20, 2013.
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XLVII. This is your brain on happy
Machine can read your emotions by Maggie Fox on the NBC News website on June 19, 2013.
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XLVIII. Dad*s Stress Could Affect Offspring Through Epigenetic Changes To Sperm, Mouse Study Shows
on the Huffington Post website on June 16, 2013.
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M. IN the UNCATEGORIZED Category:
IXL Alaska*s Murkowski becomes third GOP senator to back same-sex marriage
By Michael O*Brien on the NBC News website on June 19, 2013.
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This week the website has a remarkable number of posts about history (with emphasis on Czechoslovakia triggered by the coming IPA Congress in Prague)and early psychoanalysts, interspersed with attention to science and neuroscience, social factors such a sibling bullying and more. Please read as many as you can and add your comments.
respectfully submitted by
Sasha Rolde