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Loneliness Discussion Group at APsaA Meeting: Jan. 2014
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We invite you to our Jan. 16th, 2014 Discussion Group # 110 on Loneliness and Aloneness at the Waldorf Astoria, NYC. The psychoanalytic literature provides many theories about what drives loneliness. Dr. Richard Reichbart will present a clinical case of a woman whom he believes uses her loneliness as a way to avenge the perceived and real hurts by particular men in her life. Also, he will use examples from situations with other women patients who demonstrate similar dynamics.

Different theories of loneliness will be referred to as we distinguish between loneliness and solitude. Inter-pretations that might help a person to move beyond his/her loneliness will be considered as they apply to this patient and perhaps to some other patients whom we treat. Dr. Arlene Kramer Richards will lead the discussion and Dr. Lucille Spira briefly will summarize psychoanalytic ideas about loneliness.

Date: Jan. 16th
Time: 7:00-9:00 PM
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Letter to the editor response to Jim Anderson by Arnold Richards
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Anderson Discussion Paper by Arnold Richards

Dr. Anderson has offered a convincing argument that Freud’s Judaism was central to his creation of psychoanalysis. His perceptions that the difference between Jewish and Christian attitudes toward pleasure and sexuality, and between Jewish and Christian views about the moral weight of thoughts versus actions, had much to do with the way the young science developed, are especially on the mark. In that spirit, I would like to add another aspect of Freud’s Judaism that also influenced his work — that is, his ambivalence about it, about his own Jewishness, and about his Galician shtetl forbears (including his parents).

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Bloodshed in Egypt: No End In Sight
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Click Here to Read:  Bloodshed in Egypt: No End In Sight ; With corpses filling Cairo’s streets and both sides vowing to escalate, any glimmers of revolutionary hope have been all but extinguished by . Sharif Abdel Kouddous on The Nation wbsite on August 18, 2013

A trampled poster of Egypt’s ousted President Mohammed Morsi is seen on the ground outside the Rabaah al-Adawiya mosque, where supporters of Morsi had a protest camp in Nasr City, Cairo, Egypt, Friday, August 16, 2013. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)