Click Here to Read: A Crisis of Confidence for Masters of the Universe by Richard Friedman in the New York Times on December 16, 2008.
Author: Tamar Schwartz
10 ideas that changed the world
The Future of the Stock Market: Roundtable
The Future of the Stock Market: Roundtable Participants: Justin Fox (moderator), Bernard Madoff, Ailsa Roell, Robert A. Schwartz, Muriel Seibert, Josh Stampfli from the Pliloctetes website. The event took place on October 20, 2007 at the New York Psychoanalytic Sociey and Institute.
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Oedipal and Latency Dynamics in the Original Star Wars Trilogy
Over the past three months, I have posted articles on unconscious dynamics of sibling relationships in films. In this post, I’ll expand the field and discuss a trilogy that plays upon the dynamics of friendships and their interaction with family dynamics “post Oedipally.” My subject is the original Star Wars trilogy from the ’70’s and ’80’s.
Continue reading Oedipal and Latency Dynamics in the Original Star Wars Trilogy
Posters Presented at the APsaA Winter Meeting 2008
In Memoriam: Dr. Samuel Ritvo
Music in the Head: Living at the Brain-Mind Border by Leo Rangell
Didier Anzieu’s Concept of Skin Ego at the New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute
THE NEW YORK PSYCHOANALYTIC SOCIETY & INSTITUTE:
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247 East 82nd St., between 2nd & 3rd
Wednesday, December 17, 2008, 8:30 p.m.
Didier Anzieu’s Concept of Skin Ego
Dr. Christine Anzieu-Premmereur will discuss the skin ego, formal signifiers and how they relate to working with borderline patients.
For information about our training programs please visit us at: www.psychoanalysis.org
“Exercise builds small blood vessels in brain, study says” from Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Exercise builds small blood vessels in brain, study says from Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
12-03-08
Dec. 2–CHICAGO — Exercise is known to help prevent cognitive decline and maintain the brain as people age, and now researchers think they know one reason why.
People who engaged in long-term, regular exercise had substantially more small blood vessels in their brains and more blood flow than people who performed little exercise over the years, according to a study presented Monday. Continue reading “Exercise builds small blood vessels in brain, study says” from Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
An Open Letter to President Obama From Children’s Rights Advocates
An Open Letter to President Obama From Children’s Rights Advocates
Dear President Obama:
Your election to the presidency represents a long-awaited victory in the struggle against inequality and injustice. Your achievement is an inspiration to the world, and all eyes are on you. Not since the elections of Lincoln and F.D.R has so heavy a responsibility rested on the shoulders of a U. S. president, nor have
such golden opportunities to do good for mankind been within grasp!
The purpose of this letter is to highlight one very serious, long-neglected issue. It is, in our opinion, the final and perhaps the most important rung in the ladder of human rights: the human rights of children. Continue reading An Open Letter to President Obama From Children’s Rights Advocates