Click Here to Read: The Bipolar Puzzle by Jennifer Egan, on the New York Times website on September 12, 2008.
Advice to Barack Obama from George Lakoff and Drew Westen
Claude Levi-Strauss and Genesis 37– Exodus 20 by Alan W. Miller
Click Here To Read: Claude Levi-Strauss and Genesis 37– Exodus 20 by Alan W. Miller. The was previously published as Miller, Alan W. Claude Levi-Strauss and Genesis 37 Exodus 20 in SHIV’IM: Essays in Honor of Ira Eisenstein (1977) edited by Ronald A. Brauner. Philadelphia, PA: Reconstructionist Rabbinical College, p. 21-32 and appears here with all requisite rights and permissions.
Queen of Darkness: At 90, the psychoanalyst Hanna Segal has spent decades probing the murkiest corners of the human psyche
Click Here To Read: Queen of Darkness: At 90, the psychoanalyst Hanna Segal has spent decades probing the murkiest corners of the human psyche, an interview by John Henley in The Guardian from the Website facekraft on September 09, 2008,
She talks to Jon Henley about her search for truth, the healing power of art and what her years in practice have taught her about life.
Hanna Segal
WUNC: The State of Things interview: Torture and Interrogation Symposium: Diary Entry by Stephen Soldz
Prenatal Stress and Schizophrenia
The following article on the research of Dolores Malaspina, chair of our dept of psychiatry at NYU Medical Center, replacing the irreplaceable Bob Cancro, confirms a position I articulated 11 years ago when I was studying the effects of cortisol on the developing fetal neuroaxis. Marta Weinstock’s research in Israel demonstrated ADHD type sx in offspring whose mothers suffered a great deal of stress during pregnancy. There is a great deal of this kind of research involving the effects of war (the devastating invasion of Finland by Russia, the nuclear holocaust of Japan, etc.) I am including some material on this subject from a previous paper of mine given at an international psychiatry conference.
Brian Koehler
Click Here To Read: Material on Prenatal Stress and Schizophrenia by Brian Koehler
Click Here To Read: Offspring of Mothers Exposed to Severe Stress More Likely to Have Schizophrenia, Study Finds (Great Neck, NY – September 08, 2008), This article was adapted by NARSAD with permission of NYU Langone Medical Center/New York University School of Medicine.
Review of Promises, Oaths, and Vows by Herbert J. Schlesinger
Training Analysis, Personal Analysis and Certification by Harvey Bezahler
Click Here To Read: Training Analysis, Personal Analysis and Certification by Harvey Bezahler, M.D. This article was previously published as Bezahler, Harvey (Summer 2008). Training Analysis, Personal Analysis and Certification. PANY Bulletin 46:2 and appears here with all requisite rights and permissions.
Psychotherapists and counsellors should refuse registration by Ian Parker
Click Here to Read: The state registration of counsellors and psychotherapists will both fail to protect the public from abuse and threatens psychoanalysis. We should oppose it, argues Ian Parker from the website Psychminded.co.uk: for all who work in psychology, psychiatry and mental health on September 3, 2008.