Click Here to Read: Greening the Knowledge Economy: A Critique of Neoliberalism By Michael A Peters on June 10, 2012.
The Thinker, Musee Rodin. (Photo: John Kroll)
Leo Greenbaum is Collector of Collectors of Jewish Artifacts at YIVO Institute
Click Here to Read: Leo Greenbaum is Collector of Collectors of Jewish Artifacts at YIVO Institute by Leo Adam Bigo on his blog on June 9, 2012.
Archivist Leo Greenbaum showing the visitors pages from a century-old manuscript on folklore written in Lithuanian, an item in YIVO’s Bund Archives. Left to right, Foreign MinisterVaitiekūnas; Vilius Kavaliauskas; Leo Greenbaum; Prime Minister Kirkilas
The Last Days of Mary Kennedy
Risky rise of good-grade pills
Click Here to Read: Risky rise of good-grade pills: Strained students increasingly take stimulants to study, take tests to get into top schools by Alan Schwartz on the MSNB website on June 9, 2012.
“Now I have to worry about this, too? Really? This shouldn’t be what they need to do to get where they want to,” said Dodi Sklar, after listening to her ninth-grade son, Jonathan, describe how some classmates abuse stimulants.
How Psychoanalysis Changed Siri Hustvedt’s Life
Click here to read: “How Psychoanalysis Changed Siri Hustvedt’s Life” by The International Psychoanalytic University on June 4, 2012.
The New York-based writer Siri Hustvedt has explored neurological subjects and psychoanalytical issues not only due to intellectual curiosity, but also for reasons of personal concern. And this concern was triggered off by the sudden occurrence of uncontrollable shaking in her whole body when she was giving a talk about her father who has died two years previously.
Psychologists use murky research methods, survey finds
Click here to read: “Psychologists use murky research methods, survey finds” by Paul Taylor from The Globe and Mail on June 7, 2012.
Murky research methods, which essentially distort the truth, may be very common in the field of psychology, a study suggests. While subtle, these questionable research practices pose a great threat to scientific integrity.
Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Education Division: Spring Update
In a new book, UCSC’s Forrest Robinson ties Mark Twain to the intellectual legacies of Marx, Freud and Nietzsche
A few other problems with diagnosis in Psychiatry and the DSM
(Un)Reliability and DSMV
This piece is a bit technical, but explains and documents the drop in interater reliability for some categories of diagnoses in upcoming DSM-V.
N. Szajnberg, MD Managing Editor
Click Here to Read: A few other problems with diagnosis in Psychiatry and the DSM on the Maggie’s Farm website on June 7, 2011.
My Own Horace Mann Story and The New York Times Abuse Report
Click here to read: “My Own Horace Mann Story and The New York Times Abuse Report” by Kate Aurthur from The Daily Beast on June 7, 2012.
Click here to read the original New York Times article, “Prep-School Predators: The Horace Mann School’s Secret History of Sexual Abuse”
Click Here to Read: Some thoughts on the recent events in Penn State by Bennett Roth on this website.