Click Here To Read: Psychoanalytic Power: Its Unique Character and Self-Destructive Effect by Howard Shevrin.
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IPA Chicago Congress Papers
Meet the Presenter: Body and infinite by Leopold Nosek at the IPA Chicago Congress
Meet the Presenters at the IPA Chicago Congress: Jane Hall, Jorge Garcia Badaracco, Kenneth Eisold, & Leo Rangell
Jane Hall Kenneth Eisold Leo Rangell
The Closed Mind: A Roundtable Discussion Moderator: Jane S. Hall. Participants: Garcia Badaracco (Argentina) Ken Eisold (New York) Leo Rangell (Los Angeles)
An Open Mind is hard to find. Why do human beings find it so difficult to be open minded, flexible, or willing to consider another way of thinking about something? Using the field of psychoanalysis we have an opportunity to examine this world wide, age-old problem. For as far back as we can remember, people have argued, debated, waged war, and insisted on one point of view over another. Rarely do we hear the phrases, “Let me think about that” or “You may have a point” or “Listening to your argument gives me a whole different slant on this issue”. Instead of listening to another opinion, we busily shore up our arguments and barely listen to another. The best we seem able to do is bargain. Continue reading Meet the Presenters at the IPA Chicago Congress: Jane Hall, Jorge Garcia Badaracco, Kenneth Eisold, & Leo Rangell
The Need Not To Believe: Freud’s Godlessness Reconsidered by Arnold Richards
Click Here To Read: The Need Not To Believe: Freud’s Godlessness Reconsidered by Arnold Richards.
A shorter version of this paper was given at The First Conference: This Unbelievable Need to Believe. Sponsored by the Freud Center for Psychoanalytic Studies and Research Israel Psychoanalytic Society Mishkenot Sha’ananim. The conference was held in Jerusalem, Israel on November 20, 2008.
A longer version of the paper was given at: The Israeli Psychoanalytic Society at 13 Disraeli Street, Talbieh, Jerusalem.
A revised version of this paper is currently in press in the next issue of the Psychoanalytic Review.
Freud at the Precipice: How Freud’s Fate Sealed the Fate of Psychoanalysis, Chapter 2 by Robert Langs
Click Here To Read: Freud at the Precipice: How Freud’s Fate Sealed the Fate of Psychoanalysis, Chapter 2 by Robert Langs.
Introduction to the chapter:
This chapter adopts a new view of Freud’s 1897 shift in thinking about the human mind by casting it as a paradigm shift based on unconscious archetypes. The introduction of universals, which are neglected by mainstream psychoanalysts largely because they are expressed primarily through unconscious adaptations to death-related traumas, brings Freud and psychoanalysis into alignment with some of the greatest scientists and Continue reading Freud at the Precipice: How Freud’s Fate Sealed the Fate of Psychoanalysis, Chapter 2 by Robert Langs
Fragmented Psyches, Uncomfortable Emotions: Sing Out!
Warren S. Poland’s Keynote Address at the IPA Congress
Click Here To Register for: The 46th Annual IPA conference in Chicago on July 27th 2009 to August 1, 2009. Early Bird Booking has been extended to April 17th.
Click Here To Read: Warren Poland’s paper and the other IPA keynote papers on this website.
Warren S. Poland, M.D. will present a keynote address entitled “Problems of Collegial Learning in Psychoanalysis: Narcissism and Curiosity,” responding to his specific charge to address difficulties that interfere with analysts’ hearing each other. Continue reading Warren S. Poland’s Keynote Address at the IPA Congress
In Treatment, 2nd Season, and 1st Seasons of In Treatment and Be’tipul
In Treatment, the dramatic series on HBO, begins it second season with back to back episodes on April 5th and 6th at 9pm. It stars Gabriel Byrnes as the psychoanalyst and the series includes new patients played by John Mahoney and Hope Davis, Aaron Shaw, and Alison Pel, as well as the analyst’s wife, Kate, played by Michelle Forbes and his supervisor, played by Dianne Wiest.
Click Here To View: to the Monday shows of the first season of both Israeli series Be’tipul as well as the HBO Intreatment series.
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My Media and My Inner World: A Natural History by Robert M. Young
Click Here to Read: My Media and My Inner World: A Natural History by Robert M. Young.
Robert M. Young is from Dallas, Texas but has lived in England since 1960. He studied Philosophy at Yale, Medical Sciences at Rochester and History & Philosophy of Science at Cambridge where he taught for a dozen years. He later trained as a psychoanalytic psychotherapist and was Professor of Psychotherapy and Psychoanalytic Studies at the University of Sheffield until he retired. He now lives in London and practices psychotherapy. Further information and writings are at http://www.psychoanalysis-and-therapy.com
Email: robert@rmy1.demon.coo.uk