These editors will be post their own pieces as well as pieces submitted by you. If you’d like to submit a piece for posting, please send it via email to Tamar Schwartz and include the editor’s name in the subject line.

Book Mark Our Book Mart: The second new feature is our Book Mart, accessible from the link on the horizontal menu (a/k/a dashboard) up top. To start off, Book Mart will feature a short list of recommended books at discounted prices, but we hope that the list will grow to include more titles and even some journals. In addition, we can get for you titles from IUP that are not available anywhere else. Tamar Schwartz can take your credit card order via email or telephone.

Dr. Richards has asked me to bring to your attention a blog he found of interest. Psyche, Science, and Society — Blog of Stephen Soldz: Psychoanalyst, Psychologist, Researcher, and Activist. One of Soldz’ recent postings features a video: “Obedience, the classic film on the Milgram experiments on obedience to authority.”

To find Soldz’ blog easily in the future (after it scrolls off our main page here) I have added it to the quick links down the left sidebar, under the “Blogs” heading. I have also added a link directly to the Google site hosting the video on the static page currently called Media that you can access by clicking on the Media button on the horizontal menu bar (a/k/a dashboard) toward the top of our blog.

We are continually trying to improve on the functionality of the website and create a consistent structure so that you can easily find items of interest. In addition to commentary in the form of blog posts, you will also find blog postings about meetings, publications and such. Each posting is assigned to one or more categories, and the categories box toward the top left of your screen allows you to filter the front page to display blog posts from only a selected catagory. Because posts so quickly scroll off the page of a busy blog, we have also created a number of static pages that you may access from the menu buttons near the top of the page. Here is a brief description of what you will find on each of those pages. Continue reading What’s What, and Where

Empathy — The ability to imagine oneself in another’s place and understand the other’s feelings, desires, ideas and actions. So simple, and yet so enigmatic! The development of empathy, the limitations of empathy, the influence of theory on empathy, and the role of culture in the determination and use of empathy were the four panel topics addressed at the Empathy Symposium on March 3 and 4, 2007, culminating with a final discussion by Glen Gabbard. Posted here at InternationalPsychpoanalysis.net are selected streaming audio files from that conference.
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