Click Here to Read: An Israeli study reveals the secrets of children’s conversations: Thanks to digital technology, it is possible to study the conversational patterns of young children without their feeling observed. The results reveal a surprising level of social sophistication and cooperation By Zvia Walden on the Ha’aretz website on November 30, 2011.
PSYCHOANALYSIS IN CONFLICT: ORTHODOXY AND HERESY: Part 2
By Elio Frattaroli, MD.
Introduction: Nathan Szajnberg, MD, Managing Editor
Frattaroli argues that conflict in our discipline was inevitable: in part I, he shows that Freud’s ambivalent heresy and orthodoxy became played out in his disciples, who, however became either heretics (Reich, Fromm, Adler) or orthodox (Strachey, Jones, Hartmann). Frattaroli studies our discipline as an organism with its own psychic dynamics: understanding these more clearly may permit us to master the conflicts, rather than perpetuate them in a repetition compulsion. Continue reading Psychoanalysis in Conflict: Orthodoxy and Heresy Part 2 by Elio Frattaroli
The Peregrinating Psychoanalyst (Try Repeating): Chuck and Leah Fisher now in Argentina
N. Szajnberg, MD, Managing Editor
A treat. Chuck Fisher and his wife Leah are taking a six month travel sabbatical. Prior to this break, Chuck spent time with the Acuar of South America on their dream rituals. He generously shares his experiences and photos with International Psychoanalysis readers. Last report was his visit in South Africa on Mark Solms estate. Today, we voyage through tangos, glaciers, water falls in Argentina, and a secret loma steak meal with David and Estella Rosenfeld. (Chuck will send Continue reading The Peregrinating Psychoanalyst (Try Repeating): Chuck and Leah Fisher now in Argentina
Happy Holidays
I had never heard of It’s a Wonderful Life until one winter night in the early eighties. I was feeling out of sorts. I don’t remember the particular details but I know that I was feeling down, unfulfilled, frustrated, disappointed, perhaps lonely, unconfident, worried and otherwise unhappy. Those who have never felt that way need not read on. That night, I felt that there was only one thing I could do—turn on the television. I happened onto a quaint looking black and white film that begins with a discussion in heaven about the assignment of a guardian angel to a man who was in a similar mood to my own. As I watched and became increasingly involved, my perspective changed so that when the film was over, I had tears in my eyes and felt much better about myself. Continue reading “It’s a Wonderful Life”: A Cure for the Holiday Blues
Happy Holidays
For the past few winters, my teaching schedule has me reading Anna Freud’s monograph, The Ego and the Mechanisms of Defense at around the same time that I come across the Christmas classic, Miracle on 34th Street. One wouldn’t think that they have much in common, but each year I am re-reminded of passages in the book that come to life in the film.
Miracle on 34th Street is a light, beautifully constructed story about a bearded, white haired portly gentleman (Edmund Gwenn) who insists, and clearly believes, that he is the real Santa Claus. Although he gives as his address an old age home in Great Neck instead of the North Pole, he does go by the name of Kris Kringle. From the Continue reading “Miracle (of Fantasy) on 34th Street
