Global parenting, Power of resistance, Living submerged by Sasha Rolde

Dear colleagues,

I am not sure what in the current global news to focus on : global
warming, the affordable health care(?), the lawyers who resigned or
were fired …. al of it seems so horrendous and I can’t find a silver
lining anywhere tonight, so I will just plunge into giving you my
choices on the international psychoanalytic website for the past 2
weeks as I always do, followed by the entire menu.

My choices:

1) There are a number of posts on families and children. The first
that caught my eye is:
“Do Parents Matter?: Why Japanese Babies Sleep Soundly, Mexican
Siblings Don’t Fight, and American Families Should Just Relax”

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2) In case you are not convinced by the letter that we sent to the
NYT, please read a lay opinion:
Click Here to Read: ” Eve Ensler: On the Predatory Mindset of President Trump”

Click Here to View: Why therapists are having such a hard time talking about Trump by Soumya Karlamangla in the Los Angeles Times on February 24, 2017.

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3) IN the BOOKS,

aº”The Remains of the Day “(Ishiguro, 1988) is a poignant story of a middle
aged English butler’s journey to self awareness. I t is well worth
reading the review:

b) consider also IPBooks: Myopia: A Memoir by Phyllis Skoy
Click Here to Purchase: What Survives by Phyllis Skoy from IPBooks.net. The Kirkus Books Review of Myopia: A Memoir by Phyllis Skoy: A memoir traces the history of a …

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4) On the power of resistance:

A Girl Stands Firm on Wall Street by Gail Collins in The New York
Times on March 8, 2017.

Please read to all little girls you know:

Click Here to Read: Trump, Putin and the Pipelines to Nowhere: You can’t understand what Trump’s doing to America without understanding the “Carbon Bubble …

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5) For you to ponder: If We Are Not Just Animals, What Are We?

INFLAMMATORY RHETORIC BY A PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE IS DANGEROUS. We, the undersigned mental health professionals and psychoanalysts, believe that inflammatory rhetoric …

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6) 6000,000 vs. “Living Submerged”: Jews Hiding as Non-jews in Nazi
Germany and in other countries: Please read:

Click Here to Read:

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7) Not often written about:
“Chrissy Teigen Wrote A Moving Essay About Having Postpartum Depression”

Click Here to Read:

We’ve arranged a terrific Innovations in Psychiatry Symposium at Mount Sinai entitled Advances in Understanding and Treating Psychotic Disorders.

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Below is the table of contents from 2/25/17:

A. In the ANNOUNCEMENTS Category:

I. Do Parents Matter?: Why Japanese Babies Sleep Soundly, Mexican
Siblings Don’t Fight, and American Families Should Just Relax

a) Do Parents Matter?: Why Japanese Babies Sleep Soundly, Mexican
Siblings Don’t Fight, and American Families Should Just Relax by
Robert A. LeVine & Sarah LeVine on Amazon.com

b) Symposium 2017: Women Now at Goldwurm Auditorium, Mount Sinai
Medical Center on April 8, 2017, including a presentation by Robert A.
LeVine & Sarah LeVine.

to read a) and b) please go to
internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/announcements International Psychoanalysis » Announcements
internationalpsychoanalysis.net
the metropolitan institute for training in psychoanalytic psychotherapy, the metropolitan center for mental health, and the metropolitan society for psychoanalytic …

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II. From the Chair to the Couch at NYPSI

The New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute invites you to a
clinical series:
FROM THE CHAIR TO THE COUCH
2016 – 2017
Interested in pursuing psychoanalytic training or learning how to
deepen your clinical practice? Please join us for our five part
clinical series and learn more about NYPSI’s psychoanalytic training
program. Each evening focuses on a different aspect of analytic work.
In the fourth evening’s presentation on Thursday, April 6th at 7 PM,
Navah Kaplan, PhD will present an adult analysis in it’s middle phase.
The evening will demonstrate what happens in the ‘thick” of an
analysis, such as lines of interpretation, and transference/
countertransference issues. The discussants will be NYPSI Training
Analysts Wendy Olesker, PhD and John Crow, MD.

As usual, there will be food and drink and a lively discussion of
clinical material. Professionals and students with ……

To read more please go to
internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/announcements International Psychoanalysis » Announcements
internationalpsychoanalysis.net
the metropolitan institute for training in psychoanalytic psychotherapy, the metropolitan center for mental health, and the metropolitan society for psychoanalytic …

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III. The Fundamental Epistemological Situation with Howard B. Levine at CFS

The Fundamental Epistemological Situation: Psychic Reality and the
Limitations of Classical Theory”
Presenter: Howard B. Levine, MD, Friday, March 10, 2017 8:00-10:00pm

While many of Freud’s formulations were restricted by the
epistemological assumptions of his times, his creative genius allowed
him to anticipate post-modern views that are at the cutting edge of
contemporary analytic thinking. This paper will attempt to examine the
epistemological basis – what do we think we know and how do we think
we come to know it? – for the shift in the aims of analysis from a
predominant emphasis on uncovering mental contents to one that also
includes the creation of mental contents and the strengthening of the
instruments for thinking and the capacity for thought. A brief
clinical example will illustrate some of the clinical implications of
this shift.

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IV. An Integrative Model of Autism Spectrum Disorder with William
Singletary at NYPSI

Upcoming meetings: of the Arnold Pfeffer Center for
Neuropsychoanalysis of the New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute
287 East 82nd Street New York City

Saturday, March 4, William Singletary, M.D., An Integrative Model of
Autism Spectrum Disorder: ASD as a
Neurobiological Disorder of Experienced Environmental Deprivation,
Early Life Stress and Allostatic Overload
Tomorrow, 10 a.m.-noon Open to the public, all welcome

internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/announcements International Psychoanalysis » Announcements
internationalpsychoanalysis.net
the metropolitan institute for training in psychoanalytic psychotherapy, the metropolitan center for mental health, and the metropolitan society for psychoanalytic …

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V. Pregnancy and Postpartum Depression at MITPP

THE METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE FOR TRAINING IN PSYCHOANALYTIC
PSYCHOTHERAPY, THE METROPOLITAN CENTER FOR MENTAL HEALTH, and THE
METROPOLITAN SOCIETY FOR PSYCHOANALYTIC PSYCHOTHERAPISTS
invite you to A CLINICAL WORKSHOP
PREGNANCY AND POSTPARTUM DEPRESSION: TREATMENT AND ITS COMPLICATIONS
SATURDAY, MARCH 18, 2017
PRESENTER: ALEXANDRA CATTARUZZA, M.S., L.P.

Treatment during a patient’s pregnancy can prove quite challenging as
the new mother has to meet the biological, psychological and
environmental demands of an expected or newborn baby. In some mothers
who have experienced a lack of good-enough care from their own mothers
and have internalized a bad parental object, there is a powerful
resistance that can result in the patient abandoning the treatment.
Women who have a history of abandonment by one or both of the parents,
may repeat this experience in the transference, prematurely
terminating the treatment.

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VI. The Status of Women at NYPSI

The Friends of the Brill Library invite you to attend The Status of Women
An Evening with Vivian Pender, MD, Alexander Kalogerakis, MD and
Sargam Mona Jain, MD

March 22, 2017 at 8:00 pm, New York Psychoanalytic Society &
Institute, 247 East 82nd Street, NYC
General Admission: $10, All proceeds support the A.A. Brill Library,
Register Here

The Friends of the Brill Library invite you to an evening with the
editor and several contributors to the recent publication The Status
of Women: Violence, Identity and Activism (Karnac, 2016). Together
they will discuss the book’s overall project and review their own
individual contributions. This will be followed by a discussion with
the audience.

This book examines the current status of women. It consists of a
collection of papers that focus on the political, economic, biologic,
cultural, academic and psychological challenges

To read more please go to
internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/announcements
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VII. Psychoanalytic Conversations on Diversity and Race: A Panel
Discussion at NYPSI

SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM MEETING
Psychoanalytic Conversations on Diversity and Race: A Panel
Discussion; Free For Members & NYPSI Students
Tuesday, March 14, 2017, 8:00 pm, Moderator: Beverly Stoute, MD,
Panelists: Anton Hart, PhD, Milton Hollar, MD and Kathy Pogue White,
PhD

This will be an interactive presentation devoted to how we discuss our
experiences of and resistances to thinking and talking about
difference. How do we experience difference in the analytic dyad? How
do we frame it? How ready are we to look inward? What are our
resistances as individuals and as a field? How do we deal with a lack
of openness to curiosity? What are the resistances to curiosity
regarding difference? What is the reluctance to allowing curiosity to
develop in analysis? Although the conversation about diversity and
race has evolved in some quarters toward issues of “cultural
competence” and knowledge, it is our position that a productive
psychoanalytic frame would involve a persistent exploration of how we
experience curiosity – or its inhibition – in approaching matters of
race, difference, and otherness.

2 CME/CE credits offered.

$20 – General Admission

To read more please go to
internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/announcements
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VIII. Austen Riggs Center to Award $3,000 Prize for Excellence in
Mental Health Media

CALL FOR ENTRIES: Austen Riggs Center to Award $3,000 Prize for
Excellence in Mental Health Media

The Austen Riggs Center is pleased to announce the call for entries
for its 2017 Prize for Excellence in Mental Health Media.

The Prize for Excellence in Mental Health Media recognizes a select
group of professional journalists, writers, and media professionals
who create exemplary work that contributes to the public’s
understanding of mental health issues.

To read more please go to
internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/announcements
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IX. CMPS Annual Conference: This Year on Fear of Breakdown

The CMPS Annual Conference is coming up on March 11, 2017. We will
explore ideas raised in and inspired by Winnicott’s posthumously
published paper “Fear of Breakdown”… an apt title for the times.

To read more about the conference info, please go to
internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/announcements
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X. “When the Body Speaks….” Sunday Salon at IPTAR

Sunday Salon at IPTAR: Institute for Psychoanalytic Training &
Research: “When the Body Speaks….” The Body in the Psychoanalytic
Encounter

When unconscious fantasies, dynamics, object relations are ‘spoken’
through the body –from movement and gesture, to psychosomatic illness,
disordered eating, conversion symptoms, through countertransference
and projective identification – how can the ‘talking cure’ relieve
psychosomatic suffering and create new experiences of embodiment?

Join the conversation. Sunday March 19, 2017 Roundtable 2:00-4:00 all
are invited Open House reception to follow 4:00-5:00

IPTAR: 1651 Third Ave. #205 (92nd and Third Ave.)
Naama Kushner Barash, PhD, (IPTAR Fellow and Faculty), Sharone
Bergner, PhD, (IPTAR Member and Faculty)
Carol Munter, MA, LP, (IPTAR Member and Faculty), Moderator: Judith
Hanlon, PhD, (IPTAR Fellow and Faculty)

Please RSVP – space is limited! evatsalis@earthlink.net CE Credits: 2

To read more please go to
internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/announcements
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B. In the ART Category:

XI. Hanne Darboven Reflects the Infinite Feeling of History

The artist’s “Kulturegeschichte 1880–1983” (“Cultural History
1880–1983”) is a seemingly endless archive that renders the viewer
mute by Cynthia Cruz on the HyperAllergic website on March7, 2017.

Installation view, Hanne Darboven, “Kulturegeschichte 1880–1983
(Cultural History 1880–1983)” (1980–83) at Dia:Chelsea (© 2016 Hanne
Darboven Foundation, Hamburg/Artists Rights Society, ARS, New York;
photo by Bill Jacobson Studio, New York, courtesy Dia Art Foundation,
New York)

to read and view please go to
internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/art
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XII. 38,000-Year-Old Cave Paintings Could Have Huge Impact on
Archaeology and Modern Art

By John Bonazzo on the Observer website on March 01, 2017.

Photo: Some of the newly discovered cave paintings. Randall White, et al.

to read and view please go to
internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/art
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XIII. Georgia O’Keeffe: The Brand A new show at the Brooklyn Museum
reconstructs one of the 20th century’s most enduring personas. BY
RUMAAN ALAM March 3, 2017

by Ranaan Alam on the New Republic website on March 3, 2017.

to read and view please go to
internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/art
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C. In the AUDIO/VIDEO Category:

XIV. Eve Ensler: On the Predatory Mindset of President Trump

By Democracy Now! on the Reader Supported News Site on March 10, 2017

To read and view please go to
internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/audio
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XV. Psychoanalysis, Post Freud

with Oliver Burkeman and Jonathan Shedler on the Meaning of Life website.

To read please go to internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/audio
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D. In the BOOKS Category:

XVI. The Remains of the Day Reviewed by Ada Frumerman

The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro on Reviewed by Ada Frumerman.

To read please go to internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/books
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XVII. Is Consciousness an Illusion?: From Bacteria to Bach and Back:
The Evolution of Minds

Review of: From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds by
Daniel C. Dennett Reviewed by Thomas Nagel in The New York Review of
Book in the March 9, 2017 Issue.

Soledad Aznarez/AP Images
Daniel Dennett at the Centro Cultural de la Ciencia, Buenos Aires,
Argentina, June 2016

To read please go to internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/books
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XVIII. Coming Soon from IPBooks: Myopia: A Memoir by Phyllis Skoy

a) To purchase” What Survives by Phyllis Skoy from IPBooks.net

he Kirkus Books Review of Myopia: A Memoir by Phyllis Skoy:

A memoir traces the history of a Jewish family from Russia to New
England. Novelist Skoy (What Survives, 2016) turns to nonfiction in
this exploration of her family history that presents a panorama of
Jewish life, from Bershad, a shtetl in what is now Ukraine, to the
whaling town of New Bedford, Massachusetts. The central character in
the book is Skoy’s father, Nathan Mitnick, who is introduced as an
ailing 91-year-old man so intent on dying that he asks his daughter to
poison him with potassium. “Have I ever known him?” the author
wonders. “How well does one ever know another human being? Has there
always been a part of him that stayed behind in those frozen places of
his past where I’ll never walk?” Life in Bershad, then part of Russia,
was brutal, with one of Mitnick’s uncles beaten to death by the
anti-Semitic sons of local farmers and another burned to death in a
synagogue while Cossacks guarded the doors. “If this is the best God
can do for his chosen people, I wish he’d choose somebody else,”
Mitnick’s father would say. Mitnick eventually fled with his mother
and brother in a hay wagon, ending up in the ,,,,

To read more please go to internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/books
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XIX. Comments on Vygotsky’s critical remarks by Jean Piaget

Comments on Vygotsky’s critical remarks concerning The Language and
Thought of the Child, and Judgment and Reasoning in the Child, by Jean
Piaget on the Marxists.org website.

To read more please go to internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/books
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XX, Cold War Freud and Freud: An Intellectual Biography review – the
politics of psychoanalysis

Click Here to Read: Cold War Freud and Freud: An Intellectual
Biography review – the politics of psychoanalysis
A pair of rich, illuminating studies epitomise a new wave of thinking
about the Freud wars and the history of analysis by Lisa Appignanesi
on the Guardian Website on March 1, 2017.

Still many strands to pursue … Sigmund Freud. Photograph: Bettmann Archive

To read please go to internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/books
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XXI. Austen Riggs Center to Award $3,000 Prize for Excellence in
Mental Health Media

CALL FOR ENTRIES:
The Austen Riggs Center is pleased to announce the call for entries
for its 2017 Prize for Excellence in Mental Health Media.

To read please go to internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/books
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XXII. Freud and Jung: A Meeting of Minds

As David Cronenberg reveals he is to make a film about Sigmund Freud
and Carl Jung, Arifa Akbar analyses the relationship between
psychiatry’s biggest brains on the Independent website on February 27,
2010.

To read please go to internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/books
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E. In the BUSINESS AND FINANCE Category:

XXIII. A Girl Stands Firm on Wall Street

by Gail Collins in The New York Times on March 8, 2017.

Mark Lennihan/Associated Press

to read more please go to
internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/…
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F. In the EDITORIALS Category:

XXIV. If We Are Not Just Animals, What Are We?

by Roger Scruton in The New York Times on March 6, 2017.

RUTH FREMSON / THE NEW YORK TIMES

To read more please go to
internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/editorials
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G. In the GENERAL NEWS Category:

XXV. Glenn Close and Patrick Kennedy on the Weight of Mental Illness

By Philip Galanes in The New York Times on March 11, 2017.

Photo: Glenn Close and Patrick Kennedy at the Dutch in SoHo. After a
car crash in 2006, when Mr. Kennedy was representing Rhode Island in
Congress, he revealed that he had sought treatment for addiction at
the Mayo Clinic. Ms. Close, whose sister got a bipolar diagnosis,
helped found BringChange2Mind, an organization that works to ease the
stigma of mental illness.CreditGeorge Etheredge for The New York Times