Click Here to Read: The end of the psychopharmacological revolution by Peter Tyrer on the BJ Psych website. With thanks for Paul Mosher.
Kandel Illuminates Art and Mind: Book Review by Barry and Kupferman
Click here to read “Healing a Shattered World: The Bridge Between Neuroscience and Art,” a review by Virginia Barry & Justine Kupferman of Eric R. Kandel’s The Age of Insight: The Quest to Undertand the Unconscious in Art, Mind and Brain.
Here is a treat for us at multiple levels. Eric Kandel, Nobel-prize winning neuroscientist, a scholar of memory, has written a new book on insights into art and our minds. This refugee from Vienna returns to the Secessionist artists to reflect on how they portray inner life on the canvas.
For me, this is a personal reminiscence. Bruno Bettelheim was invited to speak at the Pratt Institute well after he retired. His Ph.D. in Vienna was on aesthetics. He spoke about his favorite artists, Schiele, Kokoschka and Klimt. He was moved to be invited to Pratt and to talk of his first love, these artists.
We are fortunate to have a mother-daughter team review this book. Dr. Virginia Barry, a Chicago psychoanalyst (who trained at Michael Reese when I also trained there under Roy Grinker Sr.) joins her daughter, Justine Kupferman, a graduate student in neuroscience at Columbia.
No more delays. Dive into a fascinating review of a remarkable book.
Nathan Szajnberg, MD, Managing Editor.
Psychiatric Considerations in Colorado Shooting
Click here to read “Psychiatric Considerations in Colorado Shooting” by Michael Blumenfield, MD from Psychiatric Times on August 6, 2012.
Dr Blumenfield is president of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis and Dynamic Psychiatry. He is Sidney E. Frank Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at New York Medical College, and a past speaker of the Assembly of the American Psychiatric Association. He has a private practice in Los Angleles and he writes a blog,www.PsychiatryTalk.com, as well as periodically contributing to the Psychiatric Times “Couch in Crisis” blog.
Four younger sisters of Sigmund Freud
Four younger sisters of Sigmund Freud: Regine, Marie, Esther and Pauline. As Austrian Jews, Marie, Pauline and Regine were sent to Treblinka in 1942. They died there in the gas chambers. Esther was deported to Theresienstadt in 1943. She died there after being severely beaten. Another sister, Anna, escaped to New York and survived the war. Freud escaped to London, where he lived until his death from cancer in 1939.
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Two genocide survivors share experiences, hope
The Science of Genocide
Woody Guthrie Centenary 1912-2012
August 6, 1944 Lodz Ghetto Liquidated
1944 August 6, LODZ GHETTO (Poland)
The last ghetto in Poland was liquidated. 60,000 Jews were sent to Auschwitz.
Living With Voices: A new way to deal with disturbing voices offers hope for those with other forms of psychosis
Hazing Is Just Structured Bullying: Why we cherish rituals that let the strong prey on the weak
Click here to read “Hazing Is Just Structured Bullying: Why we cherish rituals that let the strong prey on the weak” by Olga Cheselka, Ph.D. from Psychology Today on August 5, 2012.
Olga Cheselka, Ph.D. is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the William Alanson White Institute, where she teaches in the Postdoctoral Externship Program and the Eating Disorders, Compulsions and Addictions Service. She has a special interest in the issue of development of selfhood in interaction with society and culture. She has a private practice in New York City and Westchester, New York, where she works with adults, couples, and adolescents.