Dear Colleagues:
An early Labor Day weekend offers an opportunity to spend time reading the interesting posts on the international psychoanalytic website. It is a time of turmoil in the world and will hopefully offer some respite as well as some insight into the societal issues.
My choices this week are:
1) For those of us who did not know much about the Islamic State – The “Fertile Crescent had been a cradle to strange and fascinating sects” – the post about the “land of lost gods” in the Art Category is a must!
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2) Has the Affordable Care Act really helped people receive more psychotherapy under Medicaid? Read the Article On Expansion of Mental Health Care Hits Obstacles by Abby Goodnough in the NYT.
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3) The artists and writers preceded us! Please read the description of Dali’s collection of prints depicting Dante’s Divine Comedy in the ART Category.
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4) First it was fear of flying – now it is fear of water. See the Audio/Video Category.
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5) And the Books have it again!. This time in volume of posts as well as the number of books related to Freud, therapists feminism & our work. Please browse the entire category.
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Personally, I was much taken by the post on Heine and Freud. Being the inheritor of the entire works of Heine which my mother at great peril secretly kept from the Germans during WWII, I can relate to this history and the interpretation of the “jewishness” of both men. Also, as we know from understanding child development, our identity always remains there conscious or unconscious.
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6) Treatment of the mentally ill is discussed in a couple of posts in the General News – both in prisons and in an article on current access to therapy. Please read and comment – we need to advocate!
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7) The “Russians” post evokes empathy – odd at the present time.
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8) Dr. Henry Friedman’s letter to the editor of NYT on treatment of depression is a must read!!
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9) and finally science explains why we are empathic and how to overwrite bad memories- in mice.
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Below is the list of contents for the week
A. In the ANNOUNCEMENTS Category:
I.The IPA Visiting Scholar Clinical Weekend with CFS and the IPA
Knowledge as Construction, Knowledge as Experience:Reflections on Psychic Change, at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in NYC on November 21-23, 2014
To read more please go to:
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/announcements/ _________________________________________________
II. Mourning the Body as Bedrock: Treating Massive Gender Trauma Psychoanalytically with Avgi Saketopoulou, PsyD at CFS
27 RUE DE FLEURUS, A SALON MEETING OF THE CONTEMPORARY FREUDIAN SOCIETY
Thursday, October 2, 2014, 8:00 to 9:45pm, The Culture Center. 410 Columbus Ave (bet. 79 & 80th St), NYC
Psychoanalysis has traditionally treated the body as bedrock. Work with transgender patients however unsettles the centrality of the body***s materiality in the constitution of identity and psychic experience.
To read more please go to:
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/announcements/ _________________________________________________
III. Gradiva** Award Nominations***2014
on the NAAP website.
To read more please go to:
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/announcements/ _________________________________________________
IV. This Week in Yedies: News from YIVO
Song of the Murdered Jewish People:
Looking for the ***Real*** Yitzkhak Katzenelson
a) Poet and playwright Yitzkhak Katzenelson (1885-1944) was known chiefly for his work in Hebrew before World War II, especially in Lodz, where he helped found Ha-Bamah ha-***Ivrit (The Hebrew Stage) Theater Company. But when he was incarcerated in the Warsaw Ghetto, he turned to Yiddish poetry as a way of reaching more readers. ***.
b)YIVO Public Program Video and Audio Archive ***..
To read a0 & b) please go to:
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/announcements/ _________________________________________________
V. Referrals of couples at WCSPP
Celebrating 40 Years of Excellence In Psychoanalytic Scholarship and Service LOOKING FOR HIGH-QUALITY, LOW-COST COUPLES TREATMENT?
The Psychotherapy Service of the Westchester Center for the Study of Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy is now accepting referrals of couples!
WCSPP has a 40-year reputation for quality training in psychoanalysis and related disciplines, and the unsurpassed level of service that our affiliated clinicians provide to their communities.
To read more please go to:
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/announcements/ _________________________________________________
B. In the ART Category:
VI. The Islamic State and the land of lost gods
The Islamic State and the land of lost gods: From the dawn of civilization, the Fertile Crescent has been a cradle to strange an d fascinating sects. Not any more by Tom Holland The Spectator website on August 23, 2014.
To read, please go to: http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/art/ _________________________________________________
VII. Dal**, Psychoanalysis & Dante***s Divine Comedy
on the Rauner Special Collections Library website on August 29, 2014
To read, please go to: http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/art/ _________________________________________________
C. In the AUDIO/VIDEO Category:
VIII. HBO***s True Detective: Gruesome doings and deep-going pessimism
By Christine Schofelt on the World Socialist Web Site on August 28, 2014.
To read please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/audio _________________________________________________
IX. Expansion of Mental Health Care Hits Obstacles
By Abby Goodnough in The New York Times on August 28, 2014.
Terri Hall talks about her struggles with depression, and the care she has been receiving since she signed up for health insurance. Video Credit By Abby Goodnough on Publish Date August 28, 2014.
To read please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/audio _________________________________________________
X. Deli Man
Deli Man Sizzle Reel Video on Vimeo.
Photo: Alan Desrshowitz, Esquire
To view please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/audio _________________________________________________
XI. In Performance: A Yiddish ***Waiting for Godot***
By Erik Piepenburg in The New York Times on October 1, 2013.
To read & view please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/audio
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XII. New Yorker Faces His Phobia, One Stroke at a Time With Intensive Swim Lessons, a Man Attacks His Fear of Water
By N. R. Kleinfield in The New York Times on August 29, 2014.
To read & view please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/audio
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D. In the BOOKS Category:
XIII. ***Feminism Unfinished*** by Dorothy Sue Cobble, Linda Gordon and Astrid Henry
Reviewed By Elaine Showalter in the Washington Post on August 29, 2014.
Photo: Rep. Bella Abzug, center, and Gloria Steinem, right, at a demonstration staged by the Reproductive Rights Committee of the New York City chapter of the National Organization for Women in 1976. (Bernard Gotfryd/Getty Images)
To read more please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/books/
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XIV. Jewish Identity: Heine and Freud
a) Chapter 15 from: The Faith of Fallen Jews: Josef Hayim Yerushalmi and the Writing of Jewish History edited by David N. Myers, Alexander Kaye.
This chapter originally appeared as Myers, David N. & Kaye Alexander. (2013). Chapter 15: The Purloined Kiddush Cups Reopening The Case on Freud***s Jewish identity in: The Faith of Fallen Jews: Josef Hayim Yerushalmi and the Writing of Jewish History . New York: Brandeis, p. 333-342.
b) Heinrich Heime; Flight and Return: The Fallacy of Being Only a Human Being by Martin Greenberg.
To read a) & b) please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/books/
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XV. Risks from the Unconscious by Donald Marcus
Review of Taking Risks from the Unconscious: A Psychoanalysis as Experienced from Both Sides of the Couch by Donald Marcus, Reviewed by William Edkins.
To read more please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/books/
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XVI. Posters for Plagrave Journals
Journal of the American Institute of Psychoanalysis, Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society, and subjectivity.
To read more please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/books/
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XVII. When Boys Become Boys
by Judy Y. Chu, Reviewed by Hennie Weiss on the Metapsychology Online Reviews website on August 26th 2014.
to read more please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/books/
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XVIII. YIVO Institute for Jewish Research Archives on Wilna Poland
Poland Press Release.
To read more please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/books/
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XIX. The Therapist in Mourning: From the Faraway Nearby
edited by Anne J.Adelman and Kerry L. Malawista Reviewed by Linda Chernus.
The article originally appeared as: Chernus, Linda (2014). Review of The Therapist in Mourning: From the Faraway Nearby, edited by Anne J. Adelman and Kerry L. Malawista. Psychotherapy Vol.51, (3) :464***465 and appears here with all requisite rights and permissions.
To read more please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/books/
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XX. Volunteers Tackle Cobwebs and Dust at Vilna Ghetto Library
by Geoff Vasil, photos by Milda Jakulyt**-Vasil on the Lietuvos Zydu (Lidvaku) Bendruomeme website.
To read more please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/books/
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XXI. Yiddish Writers Murdered By Stalin Honored
By Masha Leon in The Jewish Daily Forward on August 25, 2014.
To read more please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/books/
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XXII. Freud Among the Great Books: Beyond a Monolithic ***Freudian Theory***
by Peter Blum on the Imaginative Conservative website on June 2, 2014.
To read more please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/books/
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XXIII. Review of Wisdom from the Couch by Jennifer L. Kunst
Review of by Ofra Eshel of: Jennifer L. Kunst***s Wisdom from the Couch: Knowing and Growing Yourself from the inside out Las Vegas: CRP Central recovery Press, 2014, pp. 231.
Wisdom from the Couch is an effort to transport the useful ideas of psychoanalysis out of the scholarly journals and the consulting room to a general audience. It fulfills the desire of the author, Los Angeles psychoanalyst Jennifer Kunst, to bring psychoanalytic wisdom to people who are seeking deep personal development but, for reasons of time and money and
To read more please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/books/
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E. In the GENERAL NEWS Category:
XXIV. Freud***s City, From Couch to Cafes
by Stephen Heyman in The New York Times on August 29, 2014.
photo:Caf** Landtmann, Freud***s go-to coffee house. Credit Josef Polleross for The New York Times
To read more please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/general-news/ ________________________________________
XXV. Federal Judge Approves California Plan to Reduce Isolation of Mentally Ill Inmates
By Erica Goode August 29, 2014.
To read more please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/general-news/ ________________________________________
XXVI. And a Box of Tissues
By John Leland in The New York Times on August 29, 2014.
To read and order: 50 shrinks by Sebastian
Zimmerman on IPBooks.net please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/general-news/ ________________________________________
XXVII. Billionaire Chairs Quit Center for Jewish History: Steinberg and Ackman Resign
***Transparency*** Cited by Paul Berger in the Jewish Daily Forward on August 28, 2014.
To read more please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/general-news/ ________________________________________
XXIII. Expansion of Mental Health Care Hits Obstacles
By Abby Goodnough in The New York Times on August 28, 2014.
Terri Hall talks about her struggles with depression, and the care she has been receiving since she signed up for health insurance. Video Credit By Abby Goodnough on Publish Date August 28, 2014.
To read more please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/general-news/ ________________________________________
XXIX. France***s Troubled Liberation
By Alan Riding in The New York Times on August 24, 2014.
To read more please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/general-news/ ________________________________________
XXX. Girls top adoption preference among foreign couples
on the Z News website on August 10, 2014.
To read more please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/general-news/ ________________________________________
XXXI. When a Change in Talk Therapy for Depression Is Needed
Talk therapy is an effective treatment for major depression, but not without the right type of therapy and therapist. Here***s how to know if it***s time for a change. By Marie Suszynski Medically reviewed by Farrokh Sohrabi, MD on the Every Day Health website on July 30, 2014.
To read more please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/general-news/ ________________________________________
XXXII. Study hints of jealousy in dogs
By Sue Manning in the Southeast Missourian on August 24, 2014.
photo -Emotion researcher Christine Harris, professor of psychology at the University of California-San Diego.
(Steve Harris/University of California-San Diego ~ Associated Press)
To read more please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/general-news/ ________________________________________
XXXIII. Do we need to change the way we are thinking about mental illness?
Experts on both sides of the debate over the classification of mental disorders make their case by Simon Wessely in The Observer May 11, 2013.
To read more please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/general-news/ ________________________________________
XXXIV. Psychiatrists under fire in mental health battle
Click Here to Read: Psychiatrists under fire in mental health battle British Psychological Society to launch attack on rival profession, casting doubt on biomedical model of mental illness by Jamie Doward in The Observer, May 11, 2013.
British psychologists are to say that current psychiatric diagnoses such as bipolar disorder are useless. Photograph: Justin
Paget/Fuse/Getty
To read more please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/general-news/ ________________________________________
XXXV. Trial Testimony in Brown et Al. V Board of Education of Topeka: Louisa Holt
a) Psychology Sunday: Kenneth B. Clark, Mamie Phipps Clark and Stuart W. Cook on this website.
b)The Rapaport/Holt Letters on InternationalPsychoanalysis.net on this website. . Louisa Holt was Bob Holt***s first wife.
c) Psychology Sunday: Robert Holt on this website.
To read a). b) & c) please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/general-news/ ________________________________________
XXXVI. YIVO Digital Archive on Jewish Life in Poland
Portrait of Four Sisters: Maza, Berta, Fanya and Sonia Lewin in Bialystock 1915.
To read more please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/general-news/ ________________________________________
XXXVII. The Body in the Street
By Charles P. Pierce in Esquire Magazine on August 22, 2014
To read more please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/general-news/ _________________________________________
XXIII. A tour of a little Catskills resort with a large heart
As the last of the great Borscht Belt hotels is demolished, a look at the working-class ***kochelein,*** where punchlines were in Yiddish by Uriel Heilman in The Times of Israel on August 22, 2014.
To read more please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/general-news/ ________________________________________
F. In the GUTHRIE CENTENARY Category:
XXXIX. The Russians
by Gaither Stewart The Greanville Post on August 28, 2014.
Russia has been forced to fight off invaders and plunderers for millennia. The West has attacked her directly (Napoleon, the Nazis), or by proxy (The Turks in the 1850s Crimean War, egged on by the French and British) almost every 50 years. Russia has always prevailed***or survived***but at huge cost in lives and suffering. Image: Relief of the (British) Light Brigade, National Army Museum.
To read more please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/guthrie/
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G. In the LETTERS TO EDITORS Category:
XL . Treating Depression to Prevent Suicide
Letters to the Editor in The New York Times on August. 24, 2014.
To read please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/written-to-the-media-published-or-not/ ___________________________________________
H. In the PAPERS Category:
XLI. Is Psychoanalysis a Science or an Art?
by Prof. Donald L. Carveth on the York University Website.
To read more please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/papers/
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XLII. Davanloo***s Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy in a tertiary psychotherapy service
overall effectiveness and association between unlocking the unconscious and outcome by Robert Johansson, Joel M. Town, and Allan Abbass on the PeerJ website on August 28, 2014
photo – Dr. Habib Davanlo
To read more please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/papers/
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XLIII. Some remarks about my limited experience with psychoanalysis in China by Alexandre Berlinski
by Alexandre Berlinski on his website. This paper is also available there in Chinese and French.
To read more please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/papers/
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XLIV. My Interview with George S. Klein by Lucy Zabarenko
a) My Interview with George S. Klein by Lucy Zabarenko, Ph.D.
b) Psychology Sunday: George S. Klein on This website.
To read a) & b) please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/papers/
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I. In the PHILOSOPHY THURSDAY Category:
XLV. Philosophy Thursday: Giambattista Vico
a) Giambattista Vico on Wikipedia.
b) Giambattista Vico on the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy Website.
c) Imagination and Historical Knowledge in Vico: A Critique of Leon Pompa***s Recent Work by Randall E. Auxier in Humanitas Volume X, No. 1, 1997. National Humanities Institute.
To read a), b) & c) please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/philosphythursday/ ___________________________________________
J. In the PHOTOGRAPHY Category:
XLVI. Roman Vishniac Archive Now Available Online
Digitized archive features iconic images of pre-war Jewish life in Europe By Stephanie Butnick on the Tablet Website on August 28, 2014.
a) the Archive
b) The International Center for Photography
c) United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Photo: Marion, Renate, and Karen Gumprecht photographed with their family in Hamburg. (US Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Karen Komar)
To read and view a), b) & c) please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/photo/
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K. In the PSYCHOLOGY SUNDAY Category:
XLVII. Psychology Sunday: Kenneth B. Clark, Mamie Phipps Clark and Stuart W. Cook
a): Kenneth and Mamie Clark on Wikipedia.
b) Featured Psychologists: Mamie Phipps Clark, PhD and Kenneth Clark, PhD on the American Psychological Association website.
c) Kenneth B. Clark and Mamie Phipps Clark on the Columbia University website.
d) History of the Research Center for Mental Health, New York University (NYU) bt Robert R. Holt [This paper was presented on June 10, 2006, at the Annual Meeting of the Rapaport-Klein Study Group]. (more***)
To read a),b),c),& d) please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/psychsunday/ ______________________________________________________
L. In the SCIENCE NEWS Category:
XLVIII. Neuroscientists say it***s possible to overwrite bad memories
a) By Agence France-Presse on the Raw Story website on August 28, 2014.
b) Using Light Technique, Scientists Find Dimmer Switch for Memories in Mice By Pam Belluck in The New York Times on August 27, 2014.
To read a) & b) please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/science-news/ ______________________________________
LXIX. Scientists switch ***good*** and ***bad*** memories in mice
By Rachel Feltman in The Washington Post on August 27, 2014.
This cartoon summarizes one of the main findings of the study. (Collective Next and Roger Redondo)
to read more please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/science-news/ ______________________________________
L. How Things Work: Neuroscience studies explain why humans experience empathy
on The Tartan website on August 24, 2014.
to read more please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/science-news/ ______________________________________
LI. Holding a Mirror to Their Natures: Looking at Twin Personality Through Look-alike
By David Levine in The New York Times on August 25, 2014.
to read more please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/science-news/ ______________________________________
M. In the UNCATEGORIZED Category:
LII. Max and Mirra, Edo and Enam
on the Mosiac Investigations and Fantasies website on August 25, 2014
To read please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/uncategorized/ _______________________________________________
LIII. Difficult Girl: Growing up, with help by Lena Dunham
in The New Yorker on September 1, 2014.
Photograph by Robert Parkharrison, ***Edison***S Light*** (1998)/Bonni Benrubi Gallery.
To read please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/uncategorized/ _______________________________________________
LIV. Yivo: Fall Season is Now Online!
Dear Friends,
What an extraordinary season we have planned for you at YIVO. This fall we***re proud to present: the U.S. premiere of Letters to Afar at the Museum of the City of New York; a brand-new Artists and Scholars Series; lectures; panels; theater and puppet performances; an artist and scholar collaboration; programs in Yiddish; an artist-in-residence with Letters*** creator P**ter Forg**cs, and more. Visit here for a complete list of fall offerings.
Want to delve deeper into program content? This season, we***re excited to introduce pre-event study groups