Dear Colleagues,
Warm regards from Shanghai. The tour is neatly nearing completion. I wish you were here–maybe next year. In the meanwhile, please join us at our
Dim Sum Lunch & Discussion Groups
New York City on
Saturday, January 14
9:30 AM – 2:30 PM
Chinatown Brasserie
380 Lafayette Street Continue reading CAPA Dim Sum Lunch
Click Here to Read: Memory Lapse By Maurice Decaul on the New York Times website on November 7, 2011.
Click Here to Read: Study Shows St. John’s Wort Ineffective for Major Depression of Moderate Severity on the NCCAM websit eon April 9, 2002.
Click Here to Read: Association Between Patient Beliefs Regarding Assigned Treatment and Clinical Response: Reanalysis of Data From the Hypericum Depression Trial Study Group by Justin A. Chen, MD; George I. Papakostas, MD; Soo Jeong Youn, BA; Lee Baer, PhD; Alisabet J. Clain, MS; Maurizio Fava, MD; and David Mischoulon, MD, PhD. in the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry:N 10.4088/JCP.10m06453.
St. Johns’ Wort
Click Here to Read: Personal Reflections on The Master and his Emissary by Ian McGilchrist, reviewed by Gerald J. Garguilo in the Psychoanalytic Review, October 2011, Vol 98,#5, pp.746-749.’
This review is reprinted by permssion from The Psychoanalytic Review, Volume 98, No. 5, 2011.
Gerald Garguilo
Seven Plus or Minus One: Latency in Germany and Brazil
(An “Orphaned” Book Review)
Nathan Szajnberg, MD, Managing Editor
This title borrows from Ted Shapiro’s classic and comprehensive article on Latency and evidence for its biological bases ((1976). Psychoanalytic Study of the Child, 31:79-105.). Freud thought that latency was biologically based (although his focus was on the repression of early sexuality), leaving a fallow Continue reading Seven Plus or Minus One: Latency in Germany and Brazil by Nathan Szajnberg, MD, Managing Editor
Irina Mashinski
I’m pleased to introduce our November poet, a bilingual poet and translator who emigrated from the former Soviet Unionin 1991. Irina Mashinski has authored seven books of poetry in Russian. Her most recent collections are Volk (Wolf) (Moscow: NLO, 2009) and Raznochinets pervyi sneg I drugie stikhotvoreniia (Raznochinets First Snow and Other Poems) (New York: Stosvet Press, 2009). Her work has also appeared in a variety of literary journals and anthologies, including Poetry International, Fulcrum, Zeek, The Continue reading Poetry Monday November 7. 2011: Irina Mashinski
Click Here to Read: Glancing at History: Punctiation on Formation: 25 years of Apres Coup by Paola Mieli.
Click Here to Read: The Wager of the Analysand by Mark Stafford.
Click Here to Read: The analytic act and the analyst certainty by Lillian Ferrari. Continue reading Apres Coup Conference on Formation Papers
Dear colleagues,
First of all, I want to express my heartfelt gratitude to all of you who have thanked me in so many ways for sending you these posts from the international psychoanalytic website every week. For me your comments make this challenging task worthwhile for me, as it again underscores the value of psychoanalytically oriented writing and reading for all of us. Not only am I glad to do it, but am encouraged by the results *** namely your continued and increasing readership. Continue reading Trauma, success/happiness/longevity, anarchism/sexuality, science and fraud from Sasha Rolde
