Early Childhood Loss and Creativity with Melissa Wanamaker

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EARLY CHILDHOOD LOSS & CREATIVITY
Melissa Wanamaker, Ph.D., L.C.S.W.-R

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Psychology beyond the Brain

Click Here To Read:  Psychology beyond the Brain: What scientists are discovering by measuring the beating of the heart By Adam Waytz in the Scientific American on October 5, 2010.  The background for this panel is the controversy stirred by Irwin Hoffman’s article “Doublethinking our way to ‘scientific’ legitimacy: The desiccation of human experience.” Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 2009, 57, 5: 1043-1069.

A Freudian Detective in Old Vienna: Frank Tallis’s Vienna Mysteries Series

Published originally in the PANY Bulletin, summer 2010

I came across a relatively new mystery series, written by a clinical psychologist from London, which takes place in fin de siècle Vienna and has as its primary protagonist a young psychiatrist, Max Lieberman, who is a disciple of Freud. Along with his friend, Oscar Reinhardt, a more conventional detective, Max uses his Freudian attention to detail and meaning in a Holmesian manner to solve crimes.

And there are other pleasures as well. Continue reading A Freudian Detective in Old Vienna: Frank Tallis’s Vienna Mysteries Series