Dear Colleagues:
the aggression in the world does not seem to diminish with time. I happen to be in Montreal as the the Canadian public is shaken but the violence in Ottawa. It is my firm belief that as psychoanalysts we have an obligation to try to exert as much influence on society as our profession can have to promote growth and maturity and prevent impulsivity and the acting out of unconscious conflicts. The international psychoanalytic website with its global readership tries to contribute to that end. This week, it encompass a range of issues from literature and art (historically growth promoting) to talks on ethics, mental illness, how the brain works and of course therapy. I will mention my own choices followed by a list of all the posts. Please chose those which relate to your own interests as well. Please note that I have not included previously posted announcements.
Let me also remind you that the editors of the website welcome any contributions you can make to it to keep it viable as it is growing.
My choices this week are:
1) How history influences us are is demonstrated admirably by Jane McAdam Freud. Please read her comments in the art section.
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2) The books have it again with me- all speaking to the idea of change for the better in society.
a) Werner Herzog on Creativity, Self-Reliance, Making a Living of What You Love, and How to Turn Your Ideas Into Reality
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b) Mended By the Muse: Creative Transformations of Trauma ” Sophia Richman skillfully uses her own history as a holocaust survivor and writer to illustrate the healing power of the creative process. In addition to her own experience, Richman writes about artists she has interviewed, as well as theorists that have been influential to her such as Winnicott and Jung. ”
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c) 10 Mind-Altering Philosophy
“2014 has been a hallmark year for works of philosophy that can genuinely impact your life (even in the immediate future) without becoming self-help nonsense. These books deal try to change what is possible in politics, sex, feminism, art, and more.
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d) Doctors Tell All and Its Bad speaks to the corroding doctor-patient relationship at the the heart of the health-care crisis.
This particularly interested me as I went to a medical school where teaching was based on William Osler’s dictum: “listen to the patient”
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3) Please read about two Polish Films posted on the blog, both with an unusual twist.
a) Precious Windows on a Vanished World
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b) “The Return,” a new documentary from Adam Zucker
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4) What I love about psychoanalysis among other things is that we follow in the footsteps of famous writers and philosophers. This week please read about Bertrand Russell.
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5) The ever present Sylvia Brody in our hearts is again featured on the website – please read about her infant development work in:
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6) So glad to hear “we are not brain puppets”!
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Below is the Table of Contents for the week:
A. In the ANNOUNCEMENTS Category:
I. PSYCHOTROPIC DRUGS: WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW & CURRENT TRENDS with Deborah Plachta, M.D., 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
Tuesdays, 7 *** 8:30 pm, November 4- 18, 2014, 3 Classes, Fee $90
Register and/or see Extension Programs click HERE or 212-879-6900
To read more please go to:
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/announcements/ _________________________________________________
II. Little Feelings with Jill Bellinson at MITPP
The Metropolitan Institute for Training in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, The Metropolitan Center for Mental Health and
The Metropolitan Society of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapists Invite you to a Scientific Meeting
Friday, November 7, 2014 *** 8:00 PM
LITTLE FEELINGS: COUNTERTRANSFERENCE
IN PSYCHOTHERAPY WITH CHILDREN
Presenter: Jill Bellinson, Ph.D.
We often fall in love with our child patients and imagine ourselves to be the good caretakers who will fix all their difficulties. This is because they are cute, needy and eager *** and because we truly are good caretakers. And it is also because we are experiencing a
countertransference reaction, one of many that might be evoked as we conduct child therapy. Child patients …
To read more please go to:
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/announcements/ _________________________________________________
III. ***The Other Current*** with Priscilla Roth at CFS
The Third Rita Frankiel Memorial Lecture: ***The Other Current*** by Priscilla Roth
Friday November 7, 20147:00-9:00pm
Mt Sinai Medical Center, Hatch Auditorium, Madison Ave @ 100th St
The title of Priscilla Roth***s paper comes from Freud***s discussion of disavowal and refers also to John Steiner***s development of this concept in his description of psychic retreats. It also recalls the Meeting of the Rivers of the Amazon, where the Rio ***..
To read more please go to:
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/announcements/ _________________________________________________
IV. NAAP Annual Conference Congratulates Josephine Meckseper
SHAME, GUILT & PREJUDICE:Emerging Possibilities: The NAAP Annual Conference Committee
CONGRATULATES!!! Josephine Meckseper
NAAP***S MORNING KEYNOTE ARTIST PRESENTATION
On her commission for the New York TimesT Magazine 10th anniversary issue on newsstands October 19.
Saturday, November 15, 2014
at The Scholastic Center, New York City ******.
To read more please go to:
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/announcements/ _________________________________________________
B. In the ART Category:
V. MOMA hails Henri Matisse with ***Cut-Outs*** exhibition
By Patricia Reaney on the Reuters website on October 8, 2014.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/art/ _________________________________________________
VI. Sculptor Jane McAdam Freud on war, family and getting to know her great granddad Sigmund.
by Bridget Galton on the David Key website on October 23, 2014.
Photo:Jane McAdam Freu
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/art/ _________________________________________________
VII. To Celebrate Its Jewish History, Poland Presents ***a Museum of Life*** Thursday, October 23rd, 2014
Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw to Unveil Core Exhibition By Rick Lyman in The New York Times on October 21, 2014.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/art/ _________________________________________________
C. In the AUDIO/VIDEO Category:
VIII. A Case for Psychoanalysis: Exploring the Scientific Evidence
by John Thor Cornelius on YouTube.
To view please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/audio/ _______________________________________________
IX. Reflections on The Post-Termination Phase
Scientific Mtg: Postscripts: Reflections on The Post-Termination Phase at The New York Psychoanalytic Institute on YouTube on April 8, 2014.
To view please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/audio/ _______________________________________________
D. In the BOOKS Category:
X. Philip Roth, The Art of Fiction No. 84
Interviewed by Hermione Lee in The Paris Review.
To read please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/books/
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XI. Werner Herzog on Creativity, Self-Reliance, Making a Living of What You Love, and How to Turn Your Ideas Into Reality
by Maria Popova on the Brain Pickings website.
To read please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/books/
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X. Mended By the Muse: Creative Transformations of Trauma
by Sophia Richman, Reviewed by Christopher Bandini on The New Books in Psychoanalysis Website on October 21, 2014.
To read please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/books/
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XI. 10 Mind-Altering Philosophy Books from 2014
By Jonathon Sturgeon on the Flavor Wire Website on October 14, 2014.
To read please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/books/
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XII. Nobel Prize Winner Patrick Modiano Summons the Shadow-World of Postwar French Jewry
Born by his own account of ***the mud of the Occupation,*** the French author remains haunted, like his compatriots, by memory By Cl**mence Boulouque on the Tablet Website on October 20, 2014.
Photo; Patrick Modiano gives a press conference in Paris, on Oct. 9, 2014, following the announcement earlier in the day of his Nobel Literature Prize. (Thomas Samson/AFP/Getty Images)
To read please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/books/
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XIII. Okhrana: The Paris Operations of the Russian Imperial Police
by Ben B. Fischer History Staff Center for the Study of Intelligence on the Central Intelligence Agency Website.
To read please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/books/
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XV. Raleigh publisher rescues important Yiddish tales
by Glenn McDonald in the News and Observer on October 18, 2014.
Jacob Dinezon was a best-selling author and central figure in 19th century Yiddish literature.ARCHIVES OF YIVO INSTITUTE FOR JEWISH RESEARCH
To read please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/books/
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XVI. Splashing through the Puddles
Review of The Zone of Interest by Martin Amis, Reviewed by Michael Hofmann in the London Review of Books in the October 23, 2014 Issue.
To read please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/books/
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XVII. Sigmund Freud
By W.H. Auden on from the Atlantic Monthly on October 6, 1952.
To read please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/books/
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XVIII. Doctors Tell All***and It***s Bad
A crop of books by disillusioned physicians reveals a corrosive doctor-patient relationship at the heart of our health-care crisis Meghan O***Rourke on October 14 2014.
To read please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/books/
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XIX. Publishing and Jewish Life in Russia
By Richard F. Shepard in The New York Times on August 6, 1988.
a) Dr. Arnold Richards***s remarks on the opening of the YIVO exhibition ***Revolutions in Print: Jewish Publishing Under the Tsars and the Soviets, June 6, 1988.
b) Larger image of the picture at right
***Searching for Leaven,*** a cartoon published in Odessa in 1906. It is included in an exhibition at YIVO Institute for Jewish Research.
To read a and view b) please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/books/
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XX. IPBooks Catalogue
Published IPBooks
1) Basia Berman: City Within a City
2) Sylvia Brody: Beginning to Grow: Five Studies
3) Newell Fischer: Nine Lives: Case Histories Reflecting the Human Condition
to Order 1),2) or 3)please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/books/
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E. In the CHINA Category:
XXI. Finding Light in China***s Darkness:
Yan Lianke on Writing in China By Yan Lianke in The New York Times on October 22, 2014.
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/china/ ________________________________________________
XXII. Can Major League Baseball Bring China Into the Big Leagues?
By Tony Dokoupil in Newsweek Magazine on April 15. 2013.
Photo: Major League Baseball***s first Chinese training camp, in Wuxi, opened in 2009. Laura Barisonzi
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/china/ ________________________________________________
F. In the GENERAL NEWS Category:
XXIII. Bullying Starts in Families and Spreads Like Cancer
By Gerald Sshoenwolf, PH.D. on the Psych Central Website.
To read more please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/general-news/ ________________________________________
XXIV. Why Does Religion Turn Violent? A Psychoanalytic Exploration of Religious Terrorism
by James W. Jones on the PsyBC.com website.
To read more please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/general-news/ ________________________________________
XXV. Mental Health Issues Put 34,500 on New York***s No-Guns List
By Anemona Hartocollis in The New York Times on October 19, 2014.
photo: Dr. Mark J. Russ and other mental health experts say the reporting requirement could discourage patients from seeking help. CreditUli Seit for The New York Times
To read more please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/general-news/ ________________________________________
XXVI. Blowing the Whistle on CIA Torture From Beyond the Grave
By Cora Currier, The Intercept on the RSN website on October 17, 20.14
To read more please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/general-news/ ________________________________________
XXVII. Why Kids Sext
by Hanna Rosin in The Atlantic Monthly on October 14, 2014.
To read more please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/general-news/ ________________________________________
XXVIII. How Billionaire Oligarchs Are Becoming Their Own Political Parties
By Jim Rutenberg In THe New York Times on October 17, 2014.
Charlie Crist (left) and Rick Scott (right).Credit Photo illustration by Craig Cutler. Crist: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images. Scott: Associated Press. Prop stylist: Randi Brookman Harris.
To read more please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/general-news/ ________________________________________
XXIX. Why Doctors Need Stories
By Peter D. Kramer in The New York Times on October 18, 2014.
To read more please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/general-news/ ________________________________________
XXX. Ruth Bader Ginsburg Pens Scathing Dissent On Texas Voter ID Law
By Braden Goyette on The Huffington Post website on October 18, 2014.
To read more please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/general-news/ ________________________________________
XXXI. Sigmund Freud
By W.H. Auden on from the Atlantic Monthly on October 6, 1952.
To read more please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/general-news/ ________________________________________
XXXII. Treating Depression Before It Becomes Postpartum
By David Bornstein in The New York Times on October 16, 2014.
photo: KATRIEN DE BLAUWER
To read more please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/general-news/ ________________________________________
XXXIII. PHR Calls for Federal Probe into American Psychological Association***s Role in CIA Torture Program
James Risen***s New Book Gives Evidence of Collusion Between Health Professionals and CIA on the Physicians for Human Rights Website on October 16, 2014.
To read more please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/general-news/ ________________________________________
XXXIV. Thomas Nagel: Thoughts Are Real
in The New Yorker on July 16, 2013.
To read more please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/general-news/ ________________________________________
XXXV. The Great Psychoanalysts: John Bowlby
on The Philosopher***s Mail website.
photo: John Bowlby
To read more please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/general-news/ ________________________________________
G. In the MOVIES Category:
XXXVI. New film suggests a bright future for Polish Jews
A talk with the director of ***The Return,*** which opens Saturday in New York, on how he presents a positive look at a growing, hip Jewish community in an unexpected place BY Jordon Hoffman in The Times of Israel on October 24, 2014.
to read more please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/movies/
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XXXVII. Art Song on the Couch: Lieder in Freud***s Vienna
NEW YORK FESTIVAL OF SONG opens the 2014-15 Mainstage series at Merkin Concert Hall, Kaufman Music Center with ***ART SONG ON THE COUCH: LIEDER IN FREUD***S VIENNA*** Tuesday, November 11, 2014, 8:00 p.m. at Merkin Concert Hall at Kaufman Music Center, New York City.
to read more please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/movies/
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XXXVIII. Precious Windows on a Vanished World ***Letter to Afar***
Pre-Holocaust Home Movies from Poland By Joseph Berger in The New York Times on October. 22, 2014.
photo: The filmmaker Peter Forgacs with his installation at the Museum of the City of New York.Credit**ngel Franco/The New York Time
to read more please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/movies/
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XXXIX. The Gary Webb story in Kill the Messenger: Shedding light on CIA criminality and conspiracy
By Joanne Laurier on the World Socialist Web Site on October 17, 2014.
photo: Kill the Messenger
to read more please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/movies/
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H. In the MUSIC Category:
XLI. The Gold Mine by Kelsey Waldon: Life, more or less
By Dylan Lubao on the World Socialist Web Site on October 16, 2014.
photo: Kelsey Waldon [Credit: Tim Duggan]
To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/music/ ____________________________________________
I. In the OBITUARIES Category:
XLII. John Mitchell Stevens Jr., 93, psychiatrist and analyst
By Bonnie L. Cook on the Philly.com website on October 18, 2014.
To read more please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/obituaries/ ____________________________________________
J. In the PAPERS Category:
XLIII. Beginnings: Volume I the Candidate Journal
to read more please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/papers/
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XLIV. The Tragedy of Schizophrenia without Psychotherapy
by Bertram P. Karon on the Psychrights.org website.
to read more please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/papers/
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K. In the PHILOSOPHY THURSDAY Category:
XLV. Philosophy Thursday: Bertrand Russell
a) Bertrand Russell on Wikipedia.
b) Bertrand Russell on the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
c) The Bertrand Russell Archives on the McMaster University Website.
d) Bertrand Russell Quotes on the Brainy Quote Website.
e) The Analysis of Mind By Bertrand Russell, ebook on the Gutenberg.org website.
To read a),b),c),d) & e) please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/philosphythursday/ ___________________________________________
L. In the PHOTOGRAPHY Category:
XLVI. Therapists
Thursday, October 23rd, 2014
a) An Intimate Peek Into The Offices Of New York***s Many Therapists By Priscilla Fran in the Huffington Post on October 17, 2014.
b) Fifty Shrinks by Sebastian Zimmerman on IPBooks.net
To read and to buy please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/photo/
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XLVII. 52 Colorized Historical Photos That Give Us A New Look At the Past
by Jake Heppner on the Distractify website on July 3rd, 2014.
To read please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/photo/ _____________________________________________
M. In the PSYCHOLOGY SUNDAY Category:
XLVIII. Psychology Sunday: Sylvia Brody
a) The Observing Ego by Dr. Sylvia Brody on this website.
b) Psychoanalytic Theories of Infant Development and its
Disturbances: A Critical Evaluation by Sylvia Brody and a letter to Dr. Brody from Charles Brenner on this Website.
c) Sylvia Brody***s Letter to the Editor of the New York Times on this website.
d) Beginning to Grow: Five Studies on IPBooks.net
e) Other posts from Psychology Sunday on this Website.
To read a),b),c),d), and e) please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/psychsunday/ ____________________________________________
N. In the SCIENCE NEWS Category:
XLIX. Memo to Neuroscience: ***We Are Not Brain Puppets***
by Deepak Chopra on the Huffington Post Website on October 21, 2014.
To read more please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/science-news/ ___________________________________________
L. NASA releases actual recordings from space *** and they***re absolutely breathtaking
by Chris Coplan on the Consequences of Sound website on October 20, 2014.
To read more please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/science-news/ ___________________________________________
LI. Myth-conceptions: How myths about the brain are hampering teaching
on the HealthCanal Website on October 10, 2014.
To read more please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/science-news/ ___________________________________________
O. In the UNCATEGORIZED Category:
LII. Richard C. Friedman, MD Received ASPP Sigmund Freud Award for 2014
The American Society of Psychoanalytic Physicians is pleased to announce that Richard C Friedman, MD is recipient of the Sigmund Freud Award for 2014. Previous awardees include Otto Kernberg, Charles Brenner, Arnold Richards, Glen Gabbard, Henry Lothane, Robert Michels, Aaron Beck, James Strain and, most recently, Mark Solms. Dr. Friedman was cited for his pioneering work on human sexuality.
Dr. Friedman is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Weill Medical College (Cornell) and Lecturer in Psychiatry at Columbia. He has been a researcher, educator and clinical scholar in *** …
To read more please go to
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LIII. A Message to the 21st Century
by Isaiah Berlin on The New York Review of Books Website on october 23, 2014.
Photo: The grave of Karl Marx, Highgate Cemetery, London, March 2014
To read more please go to
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/uncategorized/ _______________________________________________________
LIV. The Role of Anxiety in Child & Adolescent Development at CFS
A Psychoanalytic Perspective
Panel Presenters: VIRGINIA UNGAR, JAMES HERZOG & MARSHA LEVY-WARREN
November 8th, 2014, Saturday *** 9:00am to 4:45pm, Pace University NYC Campus, One Pace Plaza
ANNUAL SCIENTIFIC MEETING OF THE CONTEMPORARY FREUDIAN SOCIETY Co-Sponsored By: PACE UNIVERSITY DOWNTOWN NYC DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHOLOGY
Psychoanalysis has led to the creation of a new approach to mental development. Psychoanalytic observations have taught us that since the beginning of life babies experience anxieties and libidinal impulses and also great disappointments while ***.
To read more please go to
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As you saw, this lengthy list contains the history of the past, events in the present and subtle predictions of the future which call for psychoanalytic comments and discussion. Please feel free to add your thoughts and enjoy the readings.
Respectfully submitted by
Sasha Rolde