Click Here to Read: The Jewish Museum Misses the Soviet Jewish Moment in Photography: By looking broadly at early Soviet photography and film in ‘The Power of Pictures,’ a new exhibit turns away from Soviet Jews and their specific struggle to avoid being lost to history By Frances Brent on the Tablet Website on December 10, 2015.
Click Here to Read: The brains of men and women aren’t really that different, study finds By Kate Wheeling on the Science website on November 30, 2015.
HIGHWAYSTARZ/ISTOCKPHOTO Researchers have identified several structural differences between the brains of men and women, but it’s impossible to tell the sex of an individual based solely on MRI images of the brain like the one above
IPTAR and The New School for Social Research Clinical Psychology Department
Present: JAY FRANKEL, PH.D.: “Authoritarianism as an Illness of Societies”
(With a View Towards Treatment)
March 5, 2016 9:30–1:30 p.m
CE Approved for 4 Credits
Discussants: Richard J. Bernstein, Ph.D and Dorothee C. von Tippelskirch-Eissing, Ph.D
Some groups, from families up to states, violate the needs of their individual members for the benefit of those in power. And sometimes the powerless collude in their own oppression—a psychological enslavement. Dr. Frankel sees Ferenczi’s conception of identification with the aggressor, which describes the abused child’s compliance with his or her oppressors, as crucial in understanding similar reactions in the sociopolitical sphere—specifically, how under certain conditions of social stress, citizens often neglect their own interests and align themselves with Continue reading Authoritarianism as an Illness of Societies with Jay Frankel at IPTAR
Click Here to Read: Neuroscience explains why ISIS attracts psychopaths by Bobby Azarian on the Raw Story website on December 9, 2015.
AFP/Welayat Homs/AFP – An Austrian Islamic State (IS) group fighter, identified as Mohamed Mahmoud (R) (aka Abu Usama al-Gharib), and his German comrade, named in the video as Abu Omar al-Alamani, speaking in German prior to executing two non-identified men
Click Here to Read: 100 years of General Relativity—Part One By Don Barrett on the World Socialist Web Site on December 7, 2015.
Click Here to Read: 100 years of General Relativity—Part Two By Will Morrow on World Socialist Web Site on December 8, 2015.
Click Here to Read: 100 years of General Relativity—Part Three By Bryan Dyne on the World Socialist Web Site on
December 9, 2015.
Einstein delivering a lecture in Vienna in 1921
Early Bird Rates until December 10th.
The Courage to Fight Violence Against Women
March 4th – 5th
IPA Committee for Women and Psychoanalysis COWAP Conference
at the Katzen Arts Center at American University
Katzen Location: ABRAMSON FAMILY RECITAL HALL KATZEN ARTS CENTER American University, Washington, DC.
4400 Massachusetts Ave. NW, Washington, DC, 20016 Continue reading LAST 5 DAYS FOR Early Bird conference Rates: CFS Annual Prog/IPA-COWAP DC – Mar 4-5
