How a modest contract for ‘applied research’ morphed into the CIA’s brutal interrogation program

Interrogation

Click Here to Read: How a modest contract for ‘applied research’ morphed into the CIA’s brutal interrogation program By Greg Miller in the Washington Post on July 13, 2016.

The general view of the operations center of the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) is seen during a tour by U.S. President George W. Bush at Liberty Crossing near Tysons Corner in Virginia, June 10, 2005. (Jason Reed/Reuters)

Claustro-Agoraphobic Dilemma and Impasses in Treatment at CFS

Claustro-Agoraphobic Dilemma and Impasses in Treatment
A Psychoanalytic “Dialogue” about Claustro Agoraphobia
One-Session Program (2.5 Contact Hours)
Presenters:     Susan Finkelstein, LCSW (NYC) and Heinz Weiss, MD (Germany)}
Date:               Friday, February 10, 2017
Time:               7:30-10:00pm
Location:         Mt. Sinai Medical Center, Room TBA

This “dialogue” addresses the Kleinian theory of primitive object relations as defined by Henri Rey, Herbert Rosenfeld and John Steiner’s ideas about Melanie Klein’s “holes in the mind.”  The Continue reading Claustro-Agoraphobic Dilemma and Impasses in Treatment at CFS

Kleinian Clinical Case Conference at CFS

Kleinian Clinical Case Conference
Part 2 of the Claustro-Agoraphobic Dilemma Conference (2/10/17) the “Clinical Encounter”
One-Session Program (2.5 Contact Hours)
Clinical Consultant: Heinz Weiss, MD (GERMANY)
Case Presenter: Debra Neumann, PhD (Washington, DC)
Moderator:    Susan Finkelstein, LCSW (NYC)
Date:               Saturday, February 11, 2017
Time:               10:00am-12:30pm
Location:         Mt. Sinai Medical Center, Room TBA
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Writer’s Wednesday: Norman Mailer

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Click Here to Read: How Mailer Became “Mailer” The Writer as Private and Public Character By Morris Dickstein on the Mailer Review.org website.

Click Here to Read: Norman Mailer Book Reviews and His Own Writings on the New York Review of Books Website.

Click Here to Read: Norman Mailer: Reviews of Norman Mailer’s Books in The New York Times. Continue reading Writer’s Wednesday: Norman Mailer

Movies Monday: Le Chienne

LaChienne

Click Here to Read: La Chienne on Wikipedia.

Click Here to Read:  Jean Renior’s Ferocious “La Chienne” By Richard Brody in The New York Times on June 8, 2016.

Click Here to Read:  La Chienne by Darragh O’Donoghue on the Senses of Cinema website in November 2013.

Click Here to Read: Jean Renoir’s path to greatness began with La Chienne By Noel Murray on the A.V. club website on June 11, 2016. Continue reading Movies Monday: Le Chienne