Aftermath

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Click Here to Read: Aftermath: In the months after the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the U.S. government tried to cover up what it had done By Susan Southard in Lapham’s Quarterly August 05, 2015.

Click Here to Read:  Nagasaki: The Last Bomb by Alex Wellerstein in the New York Times on August 7, 2015.

IMAGE:Aerial view of Nagasaki, 1946, eleven months after the dropping of the bomb. Library of Congress.

Philosophy Thursday: Bernard Williams

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Click Here to Read: Bernard Williams on Wikipedia.

Click Here to Read: Bernard Williams on the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

Click Here to Read: Professor Sir Bernard Williams: Arguably the greatest British philosopher of his era, he brought wit and compassion to the moral questions of society by Jane O’Grady on the Guardian website on Junen 13, Continue reading Philosophy Thursday: Bernard Williams

Changing Sex, Changing Psychoanalysis with Patricia Gherovici at CFS

The Psychoanalytic Training Institute of The Contemporary Freudian Society
Changing Sex, Changing Psychoanalysis
One-Session Program
Instructor: Patricia Gherovici, PhD
Date: Friday, September 18, 2015
Time: 8:00-10:00pm
Location: Mt. Sinai Medical Center
Hatch Auditorium, Madison Ave @ 100th St, NYC

I take as my point of departure the dawn of psychoanalysis: hysteric patients presented somatic problems for which Continue reading Changing Sex, Changing Psychoanalysis with Patricia Gherovici at CFS

Writer’s Wednesday: Jonathan Safran Foer

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Click Here to Read: Jonathan Safran Foer on Wikipedia.

Click Here to Read: Love Is Blind and Deaf BY Jonathan Safran Foer in The Ne Yorker in the June 8, 2015 Issue.

Click Here to Read:  Against Meat By Jonathan Safran Foer in The New York Times on October 7, 2009.

Click Here to Read: A Bag of Tired Tricks: Blank pages? Photos of mating tortoises? The death throes of the postmodern novel B. R. Myers in The Atlantic Monthly in the MAY 2005 Issue. Continue reading Writer’s Wednesday: Jonathan Safran Foer

Response to Hoffman Report from Frank Summers

FrankSummersAt the risk of “Hoffman fatigue” I write my critique of Drs. Banks, Dunivin, James, and Newman’s message because I find it so distorted that I feel compelled to write down my reaction, even though I know others have done the same.

In response to the Kaufman report, Drs. Morgan Banks, Debra Dunivin, Larry C. James, and Russ Newman have written what they regard as a critique of the report. The first three are or were military psychologists who served in Guantanamo and Russ Newman is the spouse of Debra Dunivin. Dr. Dunivin was what is known as a “BSCT” or member of a Behavioral Science Consulting Team, the organization of mental health professional experts who participated in the interrogation of Guantanamo detainees. Dr. Banks, although not an APA member, was appointed to the PENS Task Force along with Dr. James, who is an APA member. The military connections of this Continue reading Response to Hoffman Report from Frank Summers