THE NEW YORK PSYCHOANALYTIC SOCIETY & INSTITUTE
247 East 82nd Street, between 2nd & 3rd
Tuesday, May 12, 2009, 8:15 p.m.
Lucy LaFarge, M.D. will speak about Authentication, Imposture, and Malicious Deception. Peter Dunn, M.D. will be the discussant.
Join us for light refreshments from 7:30 to 8 p.m.
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Click Here To Read: Bemused, a review of Topsy-Turvy, directed by Mike Leigh and Wonder Boys, directed by Curtis Hanson, reviewed by Harvey Roy Greenberg.
Dr Harvey Roy Greenberg, Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Albert Einstein College of Medicine at Yeshiva University, publishes widely on cinema, media, and popular culture. Other reviews and essays can be found at his website, http://www.doctorgreenberg.net. Dr. Greenberg welcomes comment, criticism, and further discussion, of his reviews and/or cinema in general. You can purchase both of these movies online.
Jane Hall Kenneth Eisold Leo Rangell
The Closed Mind: A Roundtable Discussion Moderator: Jane S. Hall. Participants: Garcia Badaracco (Argentina) Ken Eisold (New York) Leo Rangell (Los Angeles)
An Open Mind is hard to find. Why do human beings find it so difficult to be open minded, flexible, or willing to consider another way of thinking about something? Using the field of psychoanalysis we have an opportunity to examine this world wide, age-old problem. For as far back as we can remember, people have argued, debated, waged war, and insisted on one point of view over another. Rarely do we hear the phrases, “Let me think about that” or “You may have a point” or “Listening to your argument gives me a whole different slant on this issue”. Instead of listening to another opinion, we busily shore up our arguments and barely listen to another. The best we seem able to do is bargain. Continue reading Meet the Presenters at the IPA Chicago Congress: Jane Hall, Jorge Garcia Badaracco, Kenneth Eisold, & Leo Rangell
Click Here To Read: The Need Not To Believe: Freud’s Godlessness Reconsidered by Arnold Richards.
A shorter version of this paper was given at The First Conference: This Unbelievable Need to Believe. Sponsored by the Freud Center for Psychoanalytic Studies and Research Israel Psychoanalytic Society Mishkenot Sha’ananim. The conference was held in Jerusalem, Israel on November 20, 2008.
A longer version of the paper was given at: The Israeli Psychoanalytic Society at 13 Disraeli Street, Talbieh, Jerusalem.
A revised version of this paper is currently in press in the next issue of the Psychoanalytic Review.
