Philosophy Thursday: Frank P. Ramsey
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Click Here to Read: Frank P. Ramsey on Wikipedia.

Click Here to Read:  ‘One of the Great Intellects of His Time’ Review of Frank Ramsey (1903–1930): A Sister’s Memoir by Margaret Paul, with a foreword by Brian McGuinness and an afterword by Gabriele TaylorRay, Reviewed by Ray Monk in The New York Review of Books in the December 22, 2016 Issue.

Click Here to Read:  The Philosophy of F.P. Ramsey by Nils-Eric Sahlin (this short introduction was written 2001 for this site) on the Nils-Erc Sahlin website. Continue reading Philosophy Thursday: Frank P. Ramsey

Finding Unconscious Fantasy in Narrative, Body Pain and Trauma at CFS
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The Contemporary Freudian Society Presents Finding Unconscious Fantasy in Narrative, Body Pain and Trauma
Sunday, December 3, 2017, 1:00-4:00pm

PRESENTERS: Paula L. Ellman and Nancy R. Goodman (Chairs) Part I – Nancy R. Goodman, Janice Lieberman, and Carolyn S. Ellman Part II – Paula L. Ellman, Batya Monder, and Arlene Kramer Richards

Nancy Goodman and Paula Ellman chair the two parts of this program introducing discoveries from their new book, Finding Unconscious Fantasy in Narrative, Trauma, and Body Pain: A Clinical Guide (publisher, Routledge 2017. The presentations by contributors in the book demonstrate the way Trauma and Body Pain join and interweave with Narrative in discovering dimensions of unconscious life causing pain and conflict for patients. Emphasis is on the processes involved to make contact with the patient and with unconscious fantasies appearing as scenes in the “theater of the mind”. Contributors to the book present close process material with patients where body pain and trauma mix with unconscious fantasy. Throughout these explorations of “finding unconscious fantasy” the interplay of transference and Continue reading Finding Unconscious Fantasy in Narrative, Body Pain and Trauma at CFS

Writer’s Wednesday: Harold Pinter
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Click Here to Read:  Harold Pinter on Wikipedia.

Click here to read: “Pinter’s The Caretaker at the Harvey Theater in Brooklyn: A classic has lost none of its power” by Fred Mazelis from World Socialist Web Site on May 23, 2012.

Click Here to View: Nobel Lecture by Harold Pinter.

Click Here to Read:  Harold Pinter by Michael Billington on the Guardian website on December 25, 2008. Continue reading Writer’s Wednesday: Harold Pinter

Professor Jaak Panksepp (1943 – 2017)
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It is with profound sadness that we announce the recent passing of our dear colleague and friend Professor Jaak Panksepp. Words alone fail to do justice to the significance and impact of his life. As a scientist, Jaak inspired generations – from eminent academics to the students he so lovingly taught. His was a most distinguished career. In life, Jaak touched everyone he met with his gentle kindness and beautiful mind. In death, his career achievements leave a lasting legacy, laying fundamental groundwork for further exploration and discovery within the neurosciences – not least of which the field of neuropsychoanalysis – in the quest to understand mind and brain. Our discipline of neuropsychoanalysis is poorer for his passing. Continue reading Professor Jaak Panksepp (1943 – 2017)

The New Mirror: The Influence of Technology on the Psychological Theory and Clinical Practice at IPTAR
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IPTAR PRESENTS: THE NEW MIRROR: The Influence of Technology on the Psychological Theory and Clinical Practice

“Because the essence of technology is nothing technological, essential reflection upon technology and decisive confrontation with it must happen in a realm that is, on the one hand, akin to the essence of technology and, on the other hand, fundamentally different from it.”
— Martin Heidegger, “Question Concerning Technology”
Saturday, June 3, 9:30 am-5pm, Sunday, June 4, 9:30 am-noon

Participants
Jama Adams, PhD, Alison Brown, PhD, Alex Kriss, PhD,, Janice Lieberman, PhD, Ellen Luborsky, PhD, Michael Mance, PhD, Jared Russell, PhD, Isaac Tylim, PsyD

Learning Objectives

1. To explore the essence of technology and how it affects human relatedness. Continue reading The New Mirror: The Influence of Technology on the Psychological Theory and Clinical Practice at IPTAR

Warsaw Ghetto Uprising: April 19, 1943 – May 16, 1943
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Click Here to Read: The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, by Marek Edelman “The Ghetto Fights,” by Marek Edelman published in a pamphlet called The Warsaw Ghetto: The 45th Anniversary of the Uprising Interpress Publishers, pp. 17-39 on the Literature of the Holocaust website.

Click Here to Read: April 19, 1943: The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising By Erica Terry This Day in Jewish History on the JSpace News website on April 17, 2014.

Click Here to Read: Postcards Sent from Warsaw Ghetto Gifted to Jewish Institute By JTAH istoryJudaism on the JSpace News Website on November 4, 2015. Continue reading Warsaw Ghetto Uprising: April 19, 1943 – May 16, 1943