Click Here To Listen To: A discussion of the movie version of “Where the Wild Things Are,” Maurice Sendak’s Caldicott Award-winning children’s book, with Patrick Rogers of the Rosenbach Museum, psychiatrist Richard Gottlieb, and Vanity Fair writer Bruce Handy on the WHYY website on October 16, 2009. Please wait a few seconds for the file to load.
Click Here To Read: Theater: ‘Hysteria’: Jumping on Freud’s Couch, reviewed by Nelson Pressley on the Washington Post website on October 16, 2009.
Click Here to Read: A meeting of Freud and Dali in Rep Stage’s ‘Hysteria’ Stylish production mixes traditional farce with dark issues reviewed by Tim Smith in the Baltimore Sun on October 16, 2009.
Jeff Baker and Bruce Nelson as Freud and Dali in farce with multiple personalities
Click Here to Read: CAPA Hosts First China Study Tour for U.S. psychoanalysts and Psychotherapists. Press Release from the
China American Psychoanalytic Alliance (CAPA) on October 16. 2009.
Click Here To Read: CAPA Hosts First China Study Tour for U.S. Psychoanalysts and Psychotherapists on the Ajax World Magazine website on October 16, 2009.
Click Here To Read: Ignoring the Evidence: Why do psychologists reject science? by Sharon Begley in the Newsweek Magazine on Oct 2, 2009.
Sharon Begley
Katherine Nordal’s Letter-to-the-editor of NEWSWEEK in response to Sharon Begley
Dear Editor:
The assertions by Sharon Begley (Oct 12, Ignoring the Evidence: Why do Continue reading Ignoring the Evidence: Why do psychologists reject science?
by Herbert H. Stein (from the PANY Bulletin Summer, 2009)
Slumdog Millionaire is a wonderful example of life imitating art; or, perhaps of life riding on the heels of art. The film, taken from the novel Q and A1, is a rags to riches tale of a poor orphan from the slums who wins the grand prize on the Indian version of “Who Wants to be a Millionaire.” It has had its own rags to riches story. An independent film made with a view to DVD distribution wins worldwide awards, culminating in the Oscar for best film of 2008.
Perhaps as analysts we should not be surprised that this film about an underdog which is itself a successful underdog should have in its fabric a childhood Oedipal fantasy, the ultimate underdog drama. Continue reading Trauma and Transference in “Slumdog Millionaire”
Click Here To Read: Foreword by Otto Kernberg from Unfree Associations: Updated Edition by Douglas Kirsner.
Click Here to Read: Epilogue 2009 by Douglas Kirsner from Unfree Associations by Douglas Kirsner.
These recentlywere published as Kernberg, Otto (2009). Foreword 2009. In: Unfree Associations: Inside Psychoanalytic Institutes: Updated Edition. New York: Jason Aronson, p. vi-viii, and Kirsner, Douglas (2009). Epilogue 2009. In: Unfree Associations: Inside Psychoanalytic Institutes: Updated Edition. New York: Jason Aronson, p. 257-261. Both appear here with all requisite rights and permissions.
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