Dear Colleagues,

On the eve of the IPA Congress in Boston, I know that you are preparing yourselves for the trip and may not have the time to read all the posts on the international psychoanalytic website this weekend, so please bring your laptops and read while you are en route or here. We hope that the richness of the website will supplement your experience at the meetings. Historic events are occurring around the globe with Iran, Greece, China and in the USA where the president is visiting prisons. Change is in the air. Be part of it.

My choices on the website are:

NEW YORK PSYCHOANALYTIC SOCIETY & INSTITUTE:
ACADEMIC RESEARCH/
REFERENTIAL PROCESS SEMINAR
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www.nypsi.org
Wednesday, March 18, 2015, 8 p.m.

Dear Colleagues:

Adding to our ongoing discussion of torture, violence and killing as we read and listen to last week to Robert J. Lifton, the trial of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the self admitted Boston Marathon bomber, came to an end this week with a death sentence. As it dominated the news here, a discussion of capital punishment is ubiquitous. To me it seems counterintuitive as human beings seems to be waging war on an almost constant basis without much regard to to life and killing many. With this in mind, I will try to find some posts that may be relevant, but perhaps you will find others that appeal to your interests.
As usual I will list may preferences followed by the full menu.
My choices are as follows:

The world political landscape this week is concerned with inclusion and acceptance (contract with Syria, refugees, new contenders for US presidency) our psychoanalytic societies struggle with similar issues, and our website this week attempts to be all inclusive as do I in my choices as usual followed by the full week’s menu of posts:
1) Please look at the books as always:

Interpretation: Freud’s Specific or Relevant Action, and Klein’s Point of Urgency” by Chris Mawson presented by Understanding Primitive Mental States

Friday, May 1, 2015, 7:30-9:30pm