Click Here to Read: The Idea of Happiness By Ashis Nandy in the Economic and Political Weekly on January 14, 2012.
Jonathan House sends us this thoughtful discourse on the Happiness Industry, written by Ashis Nandy, a social theorist. He is skeptical about our “clenched teeth pursuit of happiness.” His conclusion hews closer to Freud’s more somber (or sober) view of life. Nandy starts with Continue reading The Idea of Happiness
Berkeley Prof. Demands Open Access to the People
Nathan Szajnberg, MD, Managing Editor
Professor Michael Eisen, at Berkeley, insists that research paid for by the U.S. taxpayer belongs to the public. Yet, he writes that profit-making journals are trying to make the public pay twice to read the results of their funded research:
“Since 2009, the results of that research have been available free of charge Continue reading Berkeley Prof. Demands Open Access to the People
Click Here to Read: Lights, camera, quick backflip: the eloquence of silent films Magic moments in films rarely need words, says Nicholas Wright, as his play about Hollywood, Travelling Light, hits the stage by Nicholas Wright on the Guardian.co.uk website on January 15, 2012.
Beware of the actor … Greta Garbo with Leo the MGM mascot in 1925
Click Here to Read: A Dramatic Enlightenment: ‘The Calling of St. Matthew’ (c. 1600) by Caravaggio by Willard Spiegelman in the Wall Street Journal on January 14, 2012.
Click Here to Read: Oops! Another Flawed Report on Long-Term Psychodynamic Psychotherapy; More double standards and exaggerated critiques against psychodynamic therapy by Jared DeFife on his Shrink Tank blog on the Psychology Today blogs on January 15, 2012.
Salon Meeting of the NYFS , Committee: 27 Rue de Fleurus
Co Chairs: Debra Gill and Nancy Cromer Grayson
Date: Wednesday, April 25, 2012, Time: 8 to 9:30 pm, Location: Upper West Side
“PROJECTIVE IDENTIFICATION AND ITS RELATIONSHIP TO NARCISSISTIC & SCHIZOID STATES”
Susan Finkelstein, LCSW Continue reading Projective Identificaiton and Its Relationship to Narcissistic and Schizoid States with Susan Finkelstein at NYFS
Click Here To Read: Cracking Open the Scientific Process by Thomas Lin in the New York Times on January 16, 2011.
For science, open-access online journals are jostling the profit-making paper journals. This continues the argument that publicly funded research belongs to the people, not the publishers.
Click Here to Read: Berkeley Prof. Demands Open Access to the People on this website.
Scientists argue that online publication fosters a more open form of peer review, rather than the slower-moving, more restricted nineteenth century paper journals. Further, online permits greater access to both Continue reading Open Scientific Journals
Click Here to Read: Why Depression Could Be Good For You by Deborah Dunham on the Blisstree website; July 19, 2011.
Click Here to Read: Eulogy for Psychoanalysis (2012) by Hari Kunzru on her blog,
