Read a blog post with an excerpt from “An Occupational Neurosis: A Psychoanalytic Case History of a Rabbi” – Maya Balakirsky Katz report as set forth in the Association of Jewish Studies Review (April 2010).

And catch “Baseball Goes On The Psychatrist’s Couch” by Scott Hensley at National Public radio, here.

MMA’s rise? Freud would have a field day: Dismissed by many as an ‘orgy of violence,’ mixed martial arts is a far cry from karate or jiu-jitsu.
Sigmund Freud was right. The father of psychiatry said aggression and sex are the two most powerful drives in humans.

Consider the raw rage and simmering eroticism that are expected to be on display among raucous fans at tonight’s Vancouver debut of Ultimate Fighting Championship at GM Place.

Read Douglas Todd’s piece in the Vancouver Sun – click here.

“Sometimes a Baseball Is Just a Baseball: When shrinks take on the national pastime, going ‘home’ has a whole new meaning.”

The shrinks are in Washington, D.C., this week for the annual meeting of the American Psychoanalytic Association and they’ve spent a lot of time talking up their usual esoteric topics: Freud, dreams, and the superego.

Click here to read Claudia Kalb’s piece in Newsweek online.
 

Click here to read “What Good Soldiers Bear: An exploration of the invisible wounds of war” by Nancy Sherman in America: The National Catholic Weekly

Peter G. Stromberg’s blog for Psychology Today has a piece titled “Culture, Evolution and Dominance: Are human beings nice or nasty?” Click here to read.

Click here to read What is Darth Vader’s diagnosis?, a short piece by by
CNN.com Health Writer/Producer, Elizabeth Landau.

Fictional Stars, Real Problems: In Medical Schools, Therapists Train on Characters From Hit Movies, Television and Books – click here to read this piece by Melinda Beck in The Wall Street Journal.

Click here to see “Do psychologists still listen to Freud?” by Elizabeth Landau in the Health section of of CNN’s web site.