Filling in the painful spaces by Ilany Kogan
By Categories: Art, Oral History, Papers

Filling in the painful spaces

N. Szajnberg, MD, Managing Editor         

Ilany Kogan, writes about holes: voids, memory-erased spaces of open-mouthed silent screams.  She presents cases of children or grandchildren of those who survived the Holocaust, documenting how their psychic holes are populated, filled in with unconscious fantasies, enacted in their lives.

Her work, as you will read here or in her books, is pains-taking:  she absorbs the pains, metabolizes them, and

Figure 2 Berlin Jewish Museum Memory Void Continue reading Filling in the painful spaces by Ilany Kogan

Hypnotics’ association with mortality or cancer: a matched cohort study
By Categories: Science News

“This article studies the statistical association between hypnotics use (for sleep) and increased mortality.  They review over 30,000 patients for 2.5 years, controlling for other health variables.

Of course, statistical correlation is not the same as causality. But, the paper gives us pause and opportunity to pursue this further.”

N. Szajnberg, MD

Click Here to Read: Hypnotics’ association with mortality or cancer: a matched cohort study by Daniel F Kripke, Robert D Langer, and Lawrence E Kline on the BMJ Open newsletter on March 3, 2012.