Dear Colleagues,
As usual, a few posts among many others this week on the international psychoanalysis website have strongly captured my interest. I list them below only as guideline to the full fare:
1) If Hungary has accepted it as a sure winner with its public, then ***In Treatment*** is not just good *** it must have a universal message that even the Hungarians can’t resists. Who would have thought! Continue reading Brain and the ‘good news’, anorexia and finance & more from Sasha Rolde
C lick Here to Read: Emotions Affect Cognitions. When emotions are strong our cognitive functions are profoundly affected by Leon Hoffman on the Beyond Freud blog on the Psychology Today blogs on October 23, 2011
Aaron Hilkevitch, who served as a medical doctor in the Spanish Republican Army during the civil war and was the last surviving Illinois member of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, died in Chicago on October 4. He was 96.
Specializing in psychiatry, Aaron practiced in Chicago for over 50 years,merging his professional work with a distinctly left political point of view. “Dr. Hilkevitch saw psychoanalysis as a route to personal freedom and integrity,” said a former colleague, Dr. Robert Galatzer-Levy. During the
Continue reading Aaron Hilkevitch and the Anniversary of the Spanish Civil War
Training Analysis: An Inevitable Bind?
Nathan Szajnberg, MD
Shevrin addresses one crucial aspect of the recent dissatisfactions within the American Psychoanalytic: training analysis. Click Here to Read:
He states a foundational problem clearly: organizations value power. Privileged knowledge (the intimate vulnerabilities of a candidate’s personal life) when combined with official power (overseeing promotion, graduation, Continue reading Training Analysis: An Inevitable Bind? by Nathan Szajnberg
Dear Colleagues,
During a much better weekend than last week, the post on the international website are multiplying and flourishing as you may all have noticed from the enormous variety and their informative nature.
My picks this week, which by no means dwarf the rest of the posts are:
1) I suggest reading the interesting clip about Gordon Brown’s taste in art in the ART category. Click Here to Read
2) Similarly, did you know that Rembrandt’s choice of Jewish models was a departure from lthe then current art? It is noteworthy in the same category.
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3) Marilyn S. Jacobs, PhD,’s review of Freud’s Free Clinics: Psychoanalysis and Social Justice, 1918-1938 by Elizabeth Ann Danto is timely in reminding us of the original connection between the rise of psychoanalysis and the European progressive social movement after WWI. This is a must read for psychoanalysts of today. Click Here to Read
4) Nathan Szajnberg’s “Unsexed Reich” is excellent please read his coments. Click Here to Read’
Click Here to Read: Metatheory and Methodology in Developmental Psychology by Willis F. Overton on his website.
Willis F. Overton
