New from IPBooks: Quantum Psychoanlysis by Gerald Gargiulo
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New From from IPBooks: Quantum Psychoanalysis: Essays on Physics, Mind, and and Analysis Today by Gerald J. Gargiulo.

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Readers of Quantum Psychoanalysis will find fresh perspectives on the therapeutic processes that define contemporary clinical treatment. As readers engage with Gargiulo’s use of metaphors from quantum physics they will discover potentialities for new metapsychological insights, moving psychoanalytic theory closer to 21st century science. (from the Foreword)
— Bonnie Litowitz, Ph.D. Editor,
The Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association

Gerald J. Gargiulo dares to go where no other psychoanalyst has gone before. In this collection of essays, he introduces a new world, namely, the interface between quantum physics and the unconscious. Offering a highly Continue reading New from IPBooks: Quantum Psychoanlysis by Gerald Gargiulo

Symonds Prize at Studies in Gender and Sexuality: Winner and New Contest
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Symonds Prize at Studies in Gender and Sexuality: Winner and New Contest
The Editors of Studies in Gender and Sexuality proudly announce the winner of the first Symonds Prize: Meg Jay, PhD, “Melancholy Femininity and Obsessive-Compulsive Masculinity: Sex Differences in Melancholy Gender,” Vol. 8, # 2 (2007).

They also announce the second annual competition for the best essay on a topic related to issues of gender, sexuality, or both. The essay may engage clinical or theoretical questions. The writer may be new or seasoned. The topic may be cutting-edge or devoted to any of the time-honored problems in psychoanalysis. Examples of topics include but are not limited to:

Gender in the work place, everyday life, and politics

Sex and gender in clinic and in culture

Gender and sex in contemporary cinema or theater, literature or art

Sex and food

Gay marriage and civil union

Race and gender in clinical and cultural representation

The materiality of sex: from sex toys to who does what with whom

Seduction and consent

Gender and sexuality in disability or illness

Gender and prisons

A cultural studies approach to pornography

A cultural studies approach to recent television (“The Real World,” “The L Word”…)

Torture, war crimes, and gender (Abu Ghraib, Rwanda…)

Gender, sexuality and the history of psychoanalysis

Abortion politics and rights

In the spirit of the journal’s mandate, we are interested in essays that vary in form and content. Submission could include papers that are multidisciplinary. We are open to orthodoxy and heterodoxy. Even to their combinations.

The contest will be judged by members of the journal’s Editorial Board. The winner of the Symonds Prize will receive $500, and the essay will be published in the journal.

Now in its seventh year of publication, SGS ( http://www.analyticpress.com/sgs.html) has served as an interdisciplinary forum for reexamining gender and sexuality. It was launched with paradigm-stretching articles on male and female homosexuality and bisexuality; femininity and the place of desire; postmodern gender theory; and the erotic transference. Since then, SGS has been at the leading edge of sex and gender theory. It has explored many clinical, developmental, and cultural topics – boyhood homophobia; bisexuality; infertility; gender jokes, transsexual and transgender categories of identity and experience – and ranged into the visual arts, cinema, and popular culture.

Submissions (title page to list author’s name and contact info; manuscript to list only title on first page and as running head) should be sent to:

Martha Hadley, Ph.D.

Executive Editor

About That Mean Streak
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My Letter to the Editor appeared in today’s New York Times, as follows:

To the Editor:

Re “About That Mean Streak of Yours: Psychiatry Can Do Only So Much” (Feb. 6): The examples Dr. Richard A. Friedman uses to promote his view that some people “can be mean or bad just like anyone else” give psychiatry a bad name.

Psychoanalytically oriented psychotherapy, in my experience, can help a person understand the roots of meanness, and only with such understanding is there hope for modulated change. I would ask Dr. Friedman what he means when he says that one patient had “all the benefits of an upper-middle-class upbringing?” And how did the psychotic patient happen to have the home phone number of a female resident? The vignettes do not substantiate his thesis.

Jane S. Hall
New York

The writer is the founder of the New York School for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy.

These types of arguments and articles unfortunately reflect poorly not only on psychiatry but on all mental health workers. As a psychoanalyst with a social work background I have treated many people whose so called “mean streaks” are wrecking their lives. Psychoanalytically-oriented work provides a deeper, broader look at why people react in “mean” ways. This off-putting attitude is a symptom of anxiety about closeness and intimacy that has become characterological and though adaptive in one way, also extremely injurious. We must speak up in support of our field and to educate the public.