Philosophy Thursday: Frans de Waal

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Click Here to Read: Frans de Waal on Wikipedia.

Click Here to View: Frans de Waal Primatologist Ted Talk on Moral behavior in animals on April 2012 on the Ted website.

Click Here to Read: Frans de Waal by Kate Murphy in The New York Times on July 30, 2016.

Click Here to Listen To: Primatologist Frans de Waal weighs in on Harambe By Micah Loewinger on the Radio Lab website on June 08, 2016. Continue reading Philosophy Thursday: Frans de Waal

CFS and IPTAR Master Clinical Case Conferences

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Master Clinical Case Conferences for Candidates and Recent Graduates
led by Distinguished London Kleinian Fellows
Note from Susan Finkelstein, UPMS Director

This is a rare opportunity for Candidates and Recent Graduates to participate in a clinical Klein-Bion format case discussion. These meetings are open to all candidates and recent graduates (three years out). UPMS is in its final year of meetings. Take advantage of this program of Kleinian scholars. Continue reading CFS and IPTAR Master Clinical Case Conferences

Writer’s Wednesday: Lionel Trilling

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Click Here to Read: Lionel Trilling on Wikipedia.

Click Here to Read: The Last Great Critic: Lionel Trilling believed that politics needed the imaginative qualities of literature and that liberalism needed literature’s sense of “variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty” by Nathan Glick in the Atlantic Monthly in the July 2000 Issue.

Click Here to Read:  Regrets Only: Lionel Trilling and his discontents By Louis Menand in the New Yorker on September 29, 2008. Continue reading Writer’s Wednesday: Lionel Trilling

The Psychiatric Question: Is It Fair to Analyze Donald Trump From Afar?

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Click Here to Read:  The Psychiatric Question: Is It Fair to Analyze Donald Trump From Afar?
By Benedict Carey in The New York Times on August. 15, 2016,

Clockwise from top left: Barry Goldwater, Donald J. Trump, Lyndon B. Johnson and Thomas F. Eagleton.CreditClockwise from top left: Sam Vestal/Time & Life Pictures, via Getty Images; Scott McIntyre for The New York Times; Okamoto/PhotoQuest, via Getty Images and Bettmann Archive/Getty Images

An interview with David Williams, author of Bitterly Divided: The South’s Inner Civil War

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Click Here to Read:  An interview with David Williams, author of Bitterly Divided: The South’s Inner Civil War Interviewed By Eric London on The World Socialist Web Site on August 16, 2016,

Professor David Williams and his wife, Teresa

Click Here to Purchase: On the Pleasures of Owning Persons: The Hidden Face of  American Slavery: By Volney Gay. Continue reading An interview with David Williams, author of Bitterly Divided: The South’s Inner Civil War