Our Yiddish Theatre, Ourselves

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Click Here to Read:  Our Yiddish Theatre, Ourselves: Review of Inventing the Modern Yiddish Stage: Essays in Drama, Performance, and Show Business edited by Joel Berkowitz, Barbara Henry, reviewed Stuart Hecht.

This article originally appeared as Stuart Hecht (2013). Review of Berkowitz, Joel; Henry, Barbara, eds., Inventing the Modern Yiddish Stage: Essays in Drama, Performance, and Show Business. H-Judaic, H-Net Reviews. June, 2013 and appears here with all requisite rights and permissions.

Facing Cancer and the Fear of Death

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” Facing Cancer and the Fear of Death, a Psychoanalytic Perspective on Treatment” has been recommended for purchase for the hematology and oncology fellows at the Mt Sinai Medical Center by Janice Gabrilove MD, Chief of Neoplastic Diseases. She has once again also requested that her fellows attend the annual lectures for the PGY 4 Psychiatry Residents and C- L fellows on Psycho – oncology given by Norman Straker.  Dr Straker is a member of the faculty of the NY Psychoanalytic and has been teaching at Mount Sinai as part of the collaboration between the Institute and Psychiatry Department. The endorsement of his recent book by the Chief of Neoplastic Diseases, a world renown cancer researcher is validation for a renewed effort by psychoanalysts for a greater role in collaborating with their medical colleagues in the treatment of chronic diseases.

Alan Frances on unclear writing in DSM V as source for errors

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“If it ain’t ‘writ’ good, ya cain’t understand”: Alan Frances on poor writing in DSM-V
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Frances, the shepherd of DSM-IV has pointed out two major errors in any DSM: 1. bad conceptual choices; 2. bad writing. We’ve already linked to his previous article on poor conceptual posts. Click Here for The Previous Article:. Here, he outlines how imprecise language in the current DSM-V makes diagnosis murkier.   Listen to his examples: Click Here To Read This Article