Click Here to Read: Voyeuristic Art Comes to Whitechapel By Lauren Houssin in the New York Times on October 30, 2009,
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Ignoring the Evidence: Why do psychologists reject science?
Click Here To Read: Ignoring the Evidence: Why do psychologists reject science? by Sharon Begley in the Newsweek Magazine on Oct 2, 2009.
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Katherine Nordal’s Letter-to-the-editor of NEWSWEEK in response to Sharon Begley
Dear Editor:
The assertions by Sharon Begley (Oct 12, Ignoring the Evidence: Why do Continue reading Ignoring the Evidence: Why do psychologists reject science?
Excerpts From Unfree Associations: Updated Edition by Douglas Kirsner
Click Here To Read: Foreword by Otto Kernberg from Unfree Associations: Updated Edition by Douglas Kirsner.
Click Here to Read: Epilogue 2009 by Douglas Kirsner from Unfree Associations by Douglas Kirsner.
These recentlywere published as Kernberg, Otto (2009). Foreword 2009. In: Unfree Associations: Inside Psychoanalytic Institutes: Updated Edition. New York: Jason Aronson, p. vi-viii, and Kirsner, Douglas (2009). Epilogue 2009. In: Unfree Associations: Inside Psychoanalytic Institutes: Updated Edition. New York: Jason Aronson, p. 257-261. Both appear here with all requisite rights and permissions.
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It’s My Life And I Demand To End It When I Want
Freud’s granddaughter visits Clark: ‘Dysfunctional’ family history, ordeals told
Henri Parens’ Interview with America’s Table
Therapeutic spaces by Yuval Saar
Fed with Tears: Poisoned with Milk
Click Here to Read: Review of Fed with Tears: Poisoned with Milk: The Nazareth Group Relations Conferences by H .Shmuel Ehrlich , Mira Erlich-Ginor and Hermann Beland Psychosozial-Verlag, 2009, reviewed by James E. Liberman on the Metapsychology Reviews website.
Click Here to Read: Hermann Beland’s Paper: Collective Mourning – Who or What Frees a Collective to Mourn? on this website.
Click Here to Read: Understanding Conversation and the Ubiquitous Human Potpourri of Conflicted Opinions by Leo Rangell on this website.
Taming Male Envy in “Jurassic Park”
by HH Stein
(continuing with the sci fi theme this spring and summer (May: The Day the Earth Stood Still; June: Independence Day; July: Men in Black)
Psychoanalysis is well known for its concept of penis envy, but the corresponding male envy of a woman’s ability to bear children is less publicized although certainly no less important. Edith Jacobson addressed this issue in a 1950 paper entitled “Development of a Wish for a Child in Boys.” Jacobson’s paper refers to a point in the first two to three years of childhood when children are fascinated by the magic of pregnancy and birth. She writes about a little boy’s envy of his powerful mother and her god-like ability to create life. Interestingly, Jacobson’s ideas are represented in an unlikely place, Steven Spielberg’s film, Jurassic Park. Continue reading Taming Male Envy in “Jurassic Park”