Contemporary Freudian Society – NY Division
Annual Conference
Sunday, October 21, 2012, 1:00 – 5:00 pm, Mt. Sinai Medical Center, Hatch Auditorium, Madison Avenue & 100th Street
The Efficacy of Psychodynamic Psychotherapy: The Talking Cure in the Era of Prozac, Managed Care, and Evidence-Based Practice Continue reading The Talking Cure in the Era of Prozac, Managed Care, and Evidence-Based Practice At CFS
Click Here to View: John Huston’s World War II documentary Let There Be Light on the National Film Preservation Foundation website.
This film is legendary for its censorship controversy that its sheer power as a film has been easy to miss. Produced by the U.S. Army in 1945, it pioneered unscripted interview techniques to take an unprecedented look into the psychological wounds of war. However, by the time the film was first allowed a public screening—in December 1980—its remarkable innovations in style and subject, which in the 1940s were at least a decade ahead of their time, could be taken as old hat, especially because of the poor quality of then-available prints. This new restoration finally reveals the film’s full force.
Click Here to Read: Why has Jewish ritual of circumcision survived so long, and remained so resonant? Sigmund Freud, in his writings on primal trauma, may have inadvertently provided an explanation By Benjamin Kerstein in The Times of Israel on June 30, 2012.
Sigmund Freud (photo credit: Max Halberstadt/LIFE/Wikimedia Commons)
Click Here to Read: Tag serotonin ‘vacuums’ to track depression, posted by David Salisbury on the Futurity website on June 28, 2012.
Serotonin transporters are an important research subject because they are the target for the most common drugs used to treat depression, including Prozac, Paxil, and Lexapro. Above, neurons with serotonin transporters labeled with quantum dots. (Credit: Jerry Chang/Vanderbilt)
