Austen Riggs Center Staff Receive Prestigious Anna Freud Educational Achievement Award from the American Psychoanalytic Association

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Austen Riggs Center Staff Receive Prestigious Anna Freud Educational Achievement Award from the American Psychoanalytic Association
Riggs staff recognized for work in the Human Development Strategic Initiative.

Stockbridge, MA – November 30, 2017 – Donna Elmendorf, PhD, Claudia Gold, MD, and Kate Jewson, BS, have been recognized for their work in the Human Development Strategic Initiative, receiving the prestigious Anna Freud Educational Achievement Award from the American Psychoanalytic Association’s (APsaA) Schools Committee. Continue reading Austen Riggs Center Staff Receive Prestigious Anna Freud Educational Achievement Award from the American Psychoanalytic Association

Psychoanalysis on Ice

Update

As registration continues for the second Psychoanalysis on Ice, to be held at Harpa in Reykjavík, Iceland, from 26-29 July 2018, paper submissions are pouring in and more are welcome (note: we are at capacity for panels and will happily consider submissions for individual papers by email). Notices will be sent out in early January before the end of the early-bird registration period.

In addition to an exciting program with a wide-range of speakers and panelists, the conference will include several other events:

Opportunities to speak at local universities and to make public addresses
An Icelandic film program and panel discussion including the filmmaker
A cultural program at an optional dinner where a local expert on the Icelandic sagas will discuss the sagas and their significance
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Revoliutsiia! Demonstratsiia! Soviet Art Put to the Test at the Art Institute of Chicago

Click Here to Read:  Revoliutsiia! Demonstratsiia! Soviet Art Put to the Test at the Art Institute of Chicago—an introductory comment
Russian Revolutionary art exhibition opened October 29 By Jeff Lusanne and David Walsh On the World Socialist Web Site on October 31, 2017.

Click Here to Read: How the Bolshevik Revolution saved avant-garde art By Paul Mitchell on the World Socialist Web Site on November 30, 2017.

Writers Wednesday: Yevgeny Zamyatin

Click Here to Read:  George Orwell Reviews We, the Russian Dystopian Novel That Noam Chomsky Considers “More Perceptive” Than Brave New World & 1984 by Josh Jones on the Open Culture website on June 28th, 2017.

Click Here to Read: Freedom and Happiness (Review of ‘We’ by Yevgeny Zamyatin)  on the Orwell  Prize website.

Click Here to Read: Yevgeny Zamyatin’s We: A dystopian novel for the 21st century by Michael Brendan Dougherty on the Week.com website on March 18, 2014.

Click Here to Read:  Yevgeny Zamyatin’s We: A dystopian novel for the 21st century by Michael Brendan Dougherty on the Week website on March 18, 2014. Continue reading Writers Wednesday: Yevgeny Zamyatin