Click Here to Read: Suicide, With No Warning By Elisabeth Rosenthal in The New York Times on March 8, 2013.
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International Women’s Day
Click Here to Read: International Women’s Day: Photos and Quotes From Women ExplorersPosted by Amy Bucci of NG Staff on the National Geographic website on March 8, 2013.
Primatologist Jane Goodall has been an inspiration and role model for 50 years, on International Women’s Day and every day. Photograph by Mike Nichols
Lincoln Analyzed by a Psychiatrist
Insight is Key: My Journey with Bipolar Disorder
Parents to Congress: Police no solution to mental illness
Click Here to Read: Parents to Congress: Police no solution to mental illness By Maggie Fox on the NBC News website on March 5, 2013.
Liza Long, who penned an essay pouring out her anguish over her son’s mental illness after Adam Lanza shot and killed 26 people in Newtown Conn., including 20 young children.
Abraham Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Speech on March 4, 1865
On March 4, 1865, Abraham Lincoln was inaugurated in Washington D.C. for his second term…
In the course of which ceremony, he made some rather memorable comments. It’s worth taking a couple of minutes to refresh yourself of the whole thing, especially with things, these days, being as they are. It’s only 700 words and has a rather rousing conclusion:
Fellow-countrymen…
At this second appearing to take the oath of the presidential office, there is less Continue reading Abraham Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Speech on March 4, 1865
Freuds Widmung für Mussolini
Click Here to Read: Freuds Widmung für Mussolini on the Schrift and Charakter website. This post letter is in German.
Benito Mussolini
Here is the English Translation of the German:
The existence of that dedication as well as the specific circumstance of its creation have been knows for a while. Ernest Jones report: “A consultation which Freud held that month [the footnotes are missing] had interesting consequences a few years later: Weiss referred to a complicated patient from Rome who was treated by him. She was accompanied by her father, who happened to be a close friend of Mussolini. He asked Freud to donate one of his works to Mussolini and also to write a few words in the book; Freud agreed for the sake of Weiss. He selected the book “Warum Krieg?” [Why War?], which he had written together with Einstein and on the cover sheet with a reference to the archeological excavations sponsored by Mussolini, he wrote the following words: “From an old man who recognizes the dictator as a cultural hero.” [the transcription is wrong, Machthaber is not dictator, it is a potentate, the best rendition of literally, the holder of power]
