On Holocaust Restitution

Click Here to Read:  NY judge awards Freud’s grandson $168,000 in Holocaust case which appeared in the Jerusalem Post on Dec. 15, 2005 posted on the Free Republic website.

Click Here to Read: The road to restitution By John Authers from the Financial Times website on Friday Aug 15 2008. 

Click Here To Read: Auschwitz survivor tells of family’s ordeal by a staff report in the Derry Journal on  January 27, 2009

Beatrice Beebe, Ph.D. will speak about Disturbances of mother-infant interaction at the New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute

THE NEW YORK PSYCHOANALYTIC SOCIETY & INSTITUTE
247 East 82nd St., between 2nd & 3rd
                                       
Tuesday, September 9, 2008, 8:15 p.m.
 
Beatrice Beebe, Ph.D. will speak about Disturbances of mother-infant interaction.
 
Join us for light refreshments from 7:30 to 8 p.m.
 
For information about our training programs please visit us at:
www.psychoanalysis.org

Oh for Freud’s Sake! Should There Be a Place for Lacan in the Future of Psychoanalysis? At the New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute

THE NEW YORK PSYCHOANALYTIC SOCIETY & INSTITUTE
247 East 82nd Street, between 2nd & 3rd

Friday, October 10, 2008, 7:30 p.m.
Candidate-Sponsored Scientific Program

Oh for Freud’s Sake!
Should There Be a Place for Lacan in the Future of Psychoanalysis?

Dany Nobus, Ph.D. will speak about Lacan being the most important analyst since Freud.  Dr. Nobus will address the significance of Lacan’s contributions, resistance to Lacan as well as why Lacan resists entering the mainstream.

Join us for a wine and cheese reception at 6:30 p.m.

Please RSVP at: info@nypsa.org

For information about our training programs please visit us at: www.psychoanalysis.org

Franz Kafka’s Papers Finally Made Public

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Below are two articles about Franz Kafka’s papers being made public.  

Click Here To Read: End of a Kafkaesque nightmare: writer’s papers finally come to lightDocuments hoarded for 40 years in Tel Aviv flat by executor’s secretary by Kate Connolly in Berlin in The Guardian, Wednesday July 9 2008.

 Click Here To Read: A Kafkaesque battle for writer’s papers by Ethan Bronner, New York Times, Monday, August 18, 2008 which appeared on page A-12 of the San Francisco Chronicle.

See below for two related conferences:

Click Here To Read: Judaism and Psychoanalysis: A Continuing Dialogue Conference Chicago, IL on Sunday, October 5, 2008.

Click Here to Read:  A Standing Interdisciplinary Forum: Psychoanalysis, Belief and Religious Conflicts: Conference in Israel, Freud Center for Psychoanalytic Studies and Research, Israel Psychoanalytic Society on November 20-21, 2008.

Press Release: Military Psychologist Refuses to Testify About Abusive Treatment of Detainee at Guantánamo by Stephen Soldz

Click Here To Read: Press Release: Military Psychologist Refuses to Testify About Abusive Treatment of Detainee at Guantánamo by Stephen Soldz which appeared on Psyche, Science, and Society, the Blog of Stephen Soldz on August 15th, 2008.

Click Here to Read: Psychologists Clash on Aiding Interrogations By Benedict Cary which appeared in the New York Times on August 15, 2008.