Dear colleagues,
On the eve of the Boston Marathon, apart from the “Boston Strong” slogan, the only other current result is a 3 day traffic jam and getting to Boston is an impossibility. Also, we wonder re Jews in Ukraine but can’t do much about it, etc.. So.. . you will have time tomorrow to read the wonderful posts on our website, while the runners get to the finish line, hopefully all triumphant and the situation in Ukraine will be left murky. Levity aside, this spring is seething with international political activity, as is our own profession, so please get involved, comment, and if possible, help this website by contributing to it.
My choices this week are:
1) Myths of The Mighty Woman: What Makes a Woman? Sponsored by the Committee on Women and Psychoanalysis of the International Psychoanalytical Association at the Karen Horney Clinic in NYC should be an important meeting to attend if you can. My only objection to it is that it seems to concentrate only on the myths depicting women as powerful – what about all the cultures where women are devalued and the resultant poor self esteem.
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2) I read the book “Hitler’s Willing Executioners,” some time ago and highly recommend reading and listening to the discussion on the Audio/Video Category.
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3) Having just heard the Boston Symphony Orchestra play a Gustav Mahler symphony last night to a wildly cheering audience, I must direct you to read about him and his music on the Audio/Video category. BTW – he comes from my part of the world – was born in Moravia, part of the Czech Republic.
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4) Please read the stunning post by Rebecca Newberger Goldstein in the NYT ON “What Would Plato Tweet” and her comparison of the Greek rise from illiteracy to democracy and the parallels in our society.
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5) The General News category is brimming with excellent post, but let me direct you to
a) the political situation in Ukraine
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b) the influence of the Depression on the attitude of American Jews to the plight of European Jews in the 1930’s
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c) Sigmund Freud on Downton Abbey
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Below is the list of contents for the week:
A. In the ANNOUNCEMENTS Category:
I. YIVO News
What Now? Jews and the Ukrainian Revolution 2014
THURSDAY, APRIL 24, 2014 | 7pm
DISCUSSION
What is the political situation in Ukraine today? Join Josef Zissels, the preeminent leader of Ukraine;s Jewish community, in conversation with scholar David Fishman, for a look at ***
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _______________________________________________
II. A panel discussion on The Uncanny at NPAP
The Program Committee of the National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis
Invites you to a panel discussion on The Uncanny
Saturday, May 3, 2014 * 10:30 am *** 1:00 pm
NPAP Meeting Room
40 W 13 Street, New York City * Buzzer 216
***The uncanny is that class of the frightening which leads back to what is known of old and long familiar*** (Sigmund Freud, 1919).
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _______________________________________________
III. Healing after Parent Loss in Childhood and Adolescence with Phyllis Cohen, K. Mark Sossin and Richard Ruth at Pace University
PACE UNIVERSITY DYSON COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES Department of Psychology invites you to a: Conversation Pertaining to Therapeutic Implications of Parent Loss in Childhood and Adolescence
Come welcome the book and honor the contributors to Healing after Parent Loss in Childhood and Adolescence: Therapeutic Interventions and Theoretical Considerations Edited by Phyllis Cohen, K. Mark Sossin and Richard Ruth
When: Sunday, May 4th, 2014. 5:00pm *** 7:30pm
Where: Pace University
Bianco Room, 3 Spruce Street, New York City
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _______________________________________________
IV. Perpetrators and Victims *** Now and Then with Dorothee C. von Tippelskirch-Eissing at IPTAR
The Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research (IPTAR) Laurence J. Gould Center for Socio-Analytic Studies
Monthly Case Conference
Wednesday, April 23rd, 11:30-1:00
Dorothee C. von Tippelskirch-Eissing, PhD
Perpetrators and Victims *** Now and Then
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _______________________________________________
V. Thinking Queer Knowledge With and Without Foucault with Massimo Prearo at Apr**s-Coup
Apr**s-Coup PSYCHOANALYTIC ASSOCIATION
Friday, April 25, 2014, 6:30 pm ** 9:00 pm
THINKING QUEER KNOWLEDGE WITH AND WITHOUT FOUCAULT, Visiting Speaker MASSIMO PREARO
Michel Foucault***s The History of Sexuality (1976) is a paradigm for academicians in gay and lesbian studies, gender studies, and queer theory. Yet it and the academic knowledge it has spawned have ignored or
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _______________________________________________
VI. Listening With Bion with Nancy Wolf at IPTAR
Listening With Bion Instructor: Nancy Wolf
Fridays, May 30 June 6, 13, 20, 2 *** 3:30 pm
Upper West Side Location To Be Announced to Participants
Wilfred R. Bion visited Brasilia in 1975 and Sao Paulo in 1978 to conduct clinical seminars. In this 4 week course, we will read material from some of those seminars to learn how Bion listened to the clinical material brought to him, to discern how his theories informed his listening, and to gain a sense of his approach to the patient and his understanding of what psychoanalysis could accomplish.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _______________________________________________
VII. Psychoanalysis and Reincarnation with Ruth Rosenbaum at NPAP
National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis
NPAP: Continuing Education Committee Presents
PSYCHOANALYSIS AND REINCARNATION: An Integration of Freud***s Timeless Unconscious And The Buddhist Concept of Many Lives
Presenter: Ruth Rosenbaum, Ph.D., L.P.
Discussant: Alan Roland, Ph.D.
Sunday, May 4, 2014
5:30 *** 7:00 pm
at NPAP, 40 West 13 Street*
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _______________________________________________
VIII. Donations to InternationalPsychoanalysis.net
Internationanalpsychoanalysis.net has flourished in a remarkable way since it was launched in January 2007. It has become both an archive and a news source.
One of the serendipitous outgrowths of its presence and has been that we have even more reasons to experience ourselves as a community with a history, elders, anniversaries, anecdotes, a paper trail, photos and relics of our founders *** and evidence of our on-going growth and adaptation to a very changed therapeutic world.
But the growth has outpaced the cottage and one computer.
Are you able to contribute to the cost of our widening scope?
We will use contributions to internationalpsychoanalysis.net to scan and transcribe papers, search archives, find photographs format documents and upload recordings and videos. It is labor intensive and for me a labor of love [but for the helpers, indeed, work].
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _______________________________________________
OWAP Conference: Myths of the Mighty Woman: What Makes a Woman?
Flyer for the Myths of The Mighty Woman conference.
Myths of The Mighty Woman: What Makes a Woman? Sponsored by the Committee on Women and Psychoanalysis of the International Psychoanalytical Association.
October 11 and 12, 2014
At: The Karen Horney Clinic, 329 East 62nd Street, NYC
Myths about women permeate the culture and impact female psychic development. The infinite variety of roles that attempt to define women have included: The Virgin Mother; Super Girl; Warrior Woman; Evil Temptress. This forum will examine particular ***.
To read more and view the flyer, please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/
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B. In the ART Category:
X. How to Buy Warhol, Degas and Renoir on the Cheap
How to Buy Warhol, Degas and Renoir on the Cheap One sign of the overheated art market is the growing appetite for minor works by major artists***But are all these etchings and doodles authentic? By Ellen Gamerman in The Wall Street Journal on April 11, 2014.
Demand is on the rise for lower-priced works from the art world***s biggest names, from Pierre-Auguste Renoir to Pablo Picasso. A color etching by Joan Mir**, pictured, sold for $4,250 last year. Swann Auction Galleries
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XI. Ai Weiwei***s Spring: Three Shows on Two Continents
The artist is seeing his work mounted in museums in Berlin and New York and at a gallery in London by Mary M. Lane in the Wall Street Journal on April 10, 2014.
Ai Weiwei is seeing his work mounted in museums in Berlin and New York and at a gallery in London. Ai Weiwei Studio/Brooklyn Museum
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _______________________________________________
C. In the AUDIO/VIDEO Category:
XII. Garc**a M**rquez, Magical Realism Master
a) by Sophia Perpetua in The New York Times on April 17, 2014.
b) Gabriel Garcia Marquez: 1927-2014 by Michael Jacobs in the New Republic on April 17, 2014
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _______________________________________________
XIII. Casual marijuana use linked with brain abnormalities, study finds Wednesday, April 16th, 2014
by Loren Grush on the Fox News website on April 15, 2014.
To read & view please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _______________________________________________
XIV. Hitler***s Willing Executioners
a) Part I with Daniel Jonah Goldhagen on Richard Heffner***s Open Mind Website.
b) Hitler***s Willing Executioners, Part II with Daniel Jonah Goldhagen on Richard Heffner***s Open Mind Website.
To read m& view please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _______________________________________________
XV. Heartbleed: How and Why to Change Your Passwords Today
by Geoffrey A. Fowler in The Wall Street Journal on April 9, 2014.
You know how you***ve been meaning to update your passwords? Today***s really the day to do it.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _______________________________________________
XVI. A Debut Symphony That Embraced The World
Click Here to Read and Listen to: A Debut Symphony That Embraced The World by Marin Alsop on the NPR website on April 12, 2014.
Gustav Mahler wanted each of his symphonies to contain a world of emotions and ideas.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _______________________________________________
D. In the BOOKS Category:
XVII. Reviews of Marilyn Monroe: On The Couch by Alma Bond
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _______________________________________________
XVIII. Combative Director, Even in Letters
Review of The Selected Letters of Elia Kazan Edited by Albert J. Devlin with Marlene J. Devlin, Reviewed by Janet Maslin in The New York Times on April 16, 2014.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _______________________________________________
XIX. The Worlds of Sholem Aleichem
The Remarkable Life and Afterlife of the Man Who Created Tevye. Jeremy Dauber***s biography looks at how Fiddler on the Roof came to represent the ultimate Americanisation of Jewish culture, Reviewed by J. Hoberman on the Guardian website on April 11, 2014,
Photo: Henry Goodman as Tevye at the Savoy theatre in 2007. Photograph: Tristram Kenton for the Guardian
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _______________________________________________
E. In the CHINA Category:
XX. How China***s Lost Jews Celebrate Passover
By Anna Goldenberg in The Jewish Daily Forward on April 9. 2014.
Photo:Tsuri (Heng) Shi, far left, with Michael Freund, right, and Kaifeng Jews. / Shavei Israel
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _______________________________________________
F. In the EDITORIALS Category:
XXII. What Would Plato Tweet?
By Rebecca Newberger Goldstein in The New York Times on March 16, 2014.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _______________________________________________
G. In the GENERAL NEWS Category:
XXIII. Nearly Half Of All Jailed Youths In New York City Have Brain Injury
By Jake Pearson on the Huffington Post website on April 18, 2014.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _______________________________________________
XXIV. Is Hookup Regret More Common in Women?
The better the sex, the less regret by Susan Kolod, Ph.D on the Contemporary Psychoanalysis Blog on the Psychology Today blogs on April 19, 2014.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _______________________________________________
XXV. ***Downton Abbey*** Producer Develops Sigmund Freud Crime Drama Series
by Leo Barraclough on the Variety website on April 16, 2014.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _______________________________________________
XXVI. Shellburne Thurber***s images of consulting rooms
By Antonia Macaro and Julian Baggini in The Financial Times Magazine on April 18, 2014. When it comes to consulting rooms, psychoanalysts are supposed to provide a ***blank canvas***. Yet the reality is they are rooms full of useful insights.
Photo:Buenos Aires: analyst***s office with television and picture of Sigmund Freud.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _______________________________________________
XXVII. CIA torture architect breaks silence to defend ***enhanced interrogation***
by Jason Leopold on The Guardian website April 18, 2014.
Mitchell insists the torture techniques he developed had produced results, and is dismissive of critics of the CIA program. Photograph: US Department of Defense/AP
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _______________________________________________
XXVIII. The Antidepressant Generation
By Doris Iarovici in The New York Times on April 17, 2014.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _______________________________________________
XXIX. How the President Got to ***I Do*** on Same-Sex Marriage
By Jo Becker in The New York Times on April 16, 2014.
Photo illustration by Daan Brand for The New York Times. Obama: Mark Wilson/Getty Images.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _______________________________________________
XXX. Jews ordered to register in east Ukraine
by Oren Dorell on the USA TODAY website on April 17, 2014.
Ukraine Is Not Ordering Its Jews to Register by Juia Ioffe in the New Republic on April 17, 2014.
A leaflet distributed in Donetsk, Ukraine, calls for all Jewish people over 16 years old to register as Jews. The leaflet demanded the city***s***
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _______________________________________________
XXXI. How the Depression Blinded American Jews to Their German Relatives*** Pleas for Help In 1936
Nazis celebrated Easter with Judenrein eggs***but a new book of family letters shows the crisis didn***t translate By Charlotte Bonelli| on the Tablet website on April 17, 2014.
photo: Luzie Hatch with her stepmother Helene in Berlin. (Courtesy of Ralph Hatch)
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XXXII. A Son***s Deafness Prompts a Scientific Journey
By Kathierine Bouton in The New York Times on April 14, 2014.
Photo: Lydia Denworth and her son Alex at home in Brooklyn. His deafness was not discovered until relatively late, age 2. Credit Michael Nagle for The New York Times
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _______________________________________________
XXXIII. Conference investigates faith, psychotherapy link
By Peter Smith on the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette website on April 13, 2014.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _______________________________________________
XXXIV. Raising a Moral Child
By Adam Grant in The New York Times on April 11, 2014.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _______________________________________________
XXXV. Meeting the Needs of the Power Structure
By Bruce E. Levinon the Occupy Times website.
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XXXVI. Tragic Trends in the Treatment of Addictive Illness
by By Edward J. Khantzian, MD in The Psychiatric News on March 18, 2014.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _______________________________________________
XXXVII. ***Mad Men*** Season 7: Anxiety rides the red-eye
By Hank Stuever in The Washington Post on April 11, 2014.
Frank Ockenfels n3/ AMC
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XXXVIII. MH370 and the black box of the mind
Psychoanalyst Josh Cohen on the flight recorder as a potent image of our helpless relationship to the world and to ourselves by Josh Cohen on the Guardian website on April 11, 2014.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _______________________________________________
XXXIX. Intersection
Quarterly Newsletter of the Institute for Social Psychohistory.
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XL. Idea of New Attention Disorder Spurs Research, and Debate
by Alan Schwarz in The New York Times on April 11, 2014.
Keith McBurnett, a scientist, said, ***We haven***t even agreed on the symptom list*** for sluggish cognitive tempo. Credit Jason Henry for The New York Times
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H. In the MUSIC Category:
XLI. Blue Note***s Jim Hall tribute show really a missing-man formation for guitar giant
by Wayne Lockwood in the New York Daily News on April 18, 2014.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _______________________________________________
XLII. New York City radio drive collects 2,500 musical instruments for public school students
By Fred Mazelis on The World Socialist Web Site on April 14, 2014.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _______________________________________________
I. In the PHILOSOPHY THURSDAY Category:
XLIII. Philosophy Thursday: William James
a) William James b. New York, 1842; d. Chocorua, New Hampshire, 1910 on the PBS WGBH Masterpiece American Collection website.
b) William James on Wikipedia.
c) William James in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. (more***)
To read a),b) & c) please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _______________________________________________
J. In the PHOTOGRAPHY CATEGORY:
XLIV. In the Shadow of Freud***s Couch by Mark Gerald
by Mark Gerald on his website.
Photo: Dr. Anni Bergman in her office.
Photo of Erma Brenner, Charles Brenner, and Alice Arlow
Wednesday, April 16th, 2014
Photo of Erma Brenner, Charles Brenner, and Alice Arlow
To read & view please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _______________________________________________
K. In the PLAYS Category:
XLV. In the Spotlight, Finding His Religion
Several Moss Harts Are in ***Act One,*** at Lincoln Center by Ben Brantley In The New York Times on April 17, 2014.
Photo: Act One Santino Fontana, left, and Tony Shalhoub in an adaptation of Moss Hart***s memoir at the Vivian Beaumont Theater. Credit Sara Krulwich/The New York Times
To read & view please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _______________________________________________
L. In the POETRY Category:
XLVI. POETRY MONDAY: April 7, 2014
Happy Poetry Month, everyone! You who are readers of this column probably agree that every month should be poetry month, but we have to take whatever we can get. Perhaps those of you who don***t always buy poetry books will think about a visit to your local independent bookstore, if you***re lucky enough to still have one, to look at the various slim new volumes on display as well as the collected and new / selected works of your old favorites. If you do have a poetry library of your own, you might want to note the publishers*** names and then go online to look for their web pages and order directly from them. This can be our way of celebrating what many of us cannot live without.
Our featured poet this month is Howard Stein, who is Poet Laureate of the High Plains Society for Applied Anthropology. He is a psychoanalytic, medical, organizational, and applied anthropologist, as well as a psychohistorian and organizational consultant *** all of which disciplines inform and inspire ***.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _______________________________________________
M. In the PSYCHOLOGY SUNDAY Category:
XLVII. Psychology Sunday: Lois Barclay Murphy
a) Lois Barclay Murphy on the Open Library website.
b) Lois Barklay Murphy by Nancy Chodorow Webster.edu website.
c) Lois Barclay Murphy on the Psychology***s Feminist Voices website.
To read a),b) & c) please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _______________________________________________
XLVIII.Psychology Sunday: Gordon Allport
a) Gordon Allport on Wikipedia.
b) Was Gordon Allport a Trait Theorist? by David C. Zuroff of McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
c) Why should we care about Gordon Allport? A talk given at the March 14th, 2001 Allport Award Dinner to the St. Olaf Psychology Department Faculty and Students By Chuck Huff.
To read a),b) & c) please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _______________________________________________
N. In the SCIENCE NEWS Category:
IXL. Casual marijuana use linked with brain abnormalities, study finds
by Loren Grush on the Fox News website on April 15, 2014.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _______________________________________________
L. Decoded: How brain pays attention
in The Free Press Journal on April 14, 2014.
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LI.Neuroscientists: Brain activity may mark the beginning of memories
on the Science Codex website on April 14, 2014.
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LII. Cosmos reboot falls short of the mark
By Bryan Dyne on the World Socialist Web Site on April 14, 2014.
Photo: Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ _______________________________________________
O. In the UNCATEGORIZED Category:
LIII. Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Program Session at NYPSI
NEW YORK PSYCHOANALYTIC SOCIETY & INSTITUTE:
247 East 82nd St., between 2nd & 3rd, NY, NY 10028
212-879-6900
www.psychoanalysis.org
www.nypsi.org
PSYCHODYNAMIC PSYCHOTHERAPY PROGRAM INFORMATION SESSION
Wednesday, April 23, 2014, 7:15 *** 8:30 pm
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Obviously there is a lot of material here to digest – please leave your comments on the website. I hope you enjoy these weekend posts and that you will share your views with our colleagues all over the world.
Respectfully submitted by
Sasha Rolde