Click Here to Read: An Analysis Of Freud’s Jewish Identity, Review of The Jewish World of Sigmund Freud, edited by Arnold Richards, Reviewed by Evelyn T. Hartman,
This Article originally appeared as: Hartman, E. (2011). Review of The Jewish World of Sigmund Freud, ed. Arnold Richards, Contemporary Psychoanalysis 47:4. and appears here with all requisite rights and permissions.
Click Here to Read: As Permafrost Thaws, Scientists Study the Risks By Justin Gilis in tbe New York Times on December 16, 2011.
Katey M. Walter Anthony, a scientist, investigated a plume of methane, a greenhouse gas, at an Alaskan lake. Dr. Walter Anthony is a leading researcher in studying the escape of methane
Dear Colleagues,
This week we continue to have numerous posts on the beginnings of psychoanalysis with books on Freud and the Dangerous Method. The counterpoint is the stunning preliminary evidence on the neuroscience on the boundaries of consciousness.
As always I have chosen a few from the many as suggestions:
1) The Dangerous Method is a never ending source of fascination and surprise comments on the founders of psychoanalysis and on Sabina Spielrein. Please Continue reading A Dangerous Method, Freud’s legacy, empathic rats and consciousness on IP.net from Sasha Rolde
Click Here to Read: Psychoanalysis in Conflict: Orthodoxy and Heresy, Part2, by Elio Frattaroli on this website.
PSYCHOANALYSIS IN CONFLICT: ORTHODOXY AND HERESY
By Elio Frattaroli, MD.
Introduction: Nathan Szajnberg, MD, Managing Editor
Here, we readers face a challenge and a treat. Since 1985, Elio Frattaroli has been thinking and writing about the conflict inherent in our field. He reads our history as if psychoanalysis were an organism, a being with its own psychodynamics. (IP.net readers know that Arnie Richards has been writing about our community in a similar Fleckian vein.)
In the first half of this article, which you see this week, Frattaroli presents his hypothesis: Freud ‘s intrapsychic conflict was being both heretic (the idol-smasher, the sex unveiler, the dream revealer) and orthodox (the “excommunicator of Adler, Jung and a few others); his followers carried on Continue reading Psychoanalysis in Conflict: Orthodoxy and Heresy, Part 1, by Elio Frattaroli
Click Here to Read: From the President: Charles Hanly outlines a New Initiatives Programme to address “troubling trends”on the IPA website.
Click Here to Read: The Meaning of Hanukkah: A celebration of religious freedom, the holiday fits well with the American political tradition by John D. Levenson in the Wall Street Journal on December 16, 2011.
Click Here to View: 62nd U.of C. Hillel Latke-Hamantash Debate 2008 Part 1 & 2:. on YouTube. Speakers include: Gary Tubb, Thomas Ginsburg, Roy Weiss, Rabbi Morris, Elizabeth Davenport, & Daniel Libenson.
Click Here to View:Chanuka, Oh Chanukah! Sung by Theodore Bikel on YouTube.
Click Here to Read: Review of Jung vs. Freud in A Dangerous Method by John M. Grohol, PsyD on the World of Psychology website.
Click Here to Read: ‘A Dangerous Method’ and Hollywood’s blocked feelings about psychiatry By Lewis Beale in the Washington Post on December 17, 2011.
Click Here to Read: Other Reviews of A Dangerous Method on this website.
Introduction to Gender Matters.
This article samples your interest in brief clinical observations.
Gardner and Jackson are both analysts trained at Columbia and both practicing in Greenwich Ct. for some decades. They note here that at their community general medical hospital and some outpatients, the staff and Continue reading Gender Matters by Wynn K. Jackson and Charles G. Gardner
Click Here to Read: In Memoriam: Christopher Hitchens, 1949–2011 By Juli Weiner in Vanity Fair on December 15, 2011.
Click Here to Read: Polemicist Who Slashed All, Freely, Dies at 62 By William Grimes in the New York Times on December 16, 2011.
Click Here to View: Christopher Hitchens delivers the Daniel Pearl Memorial Lecture at UCLA on YouTube.
Click Here to Read: The Tenth Man ; The key to Christopher Hitchens wasn’t his iconoclasm; it was his desire for belonging—and the proof can be found in an unexpected place By Marc Tracy on the Tablet website on December 19, 2011.
Click Here to Read: Regarding Christopher by Katha Pollitt on The Nation website on December 19, 2011.
