AMIA prosecutor accuses CFK, Timerman of ‘covering up’ Iran’s involvement in bombing

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Click Here to Read: Something Is Rotten in Argentina The sudden death of Alberto Nisman, lead prosecutor of the AMIA bombing, deepens the culture of impunity By Natasha Zaretsky on the Tablet Website on January 21, 2015

Click Here to Read: AMIA prosecutor accuses CFK, Timerman of ‘covering up’ Iran’s involvement in bombing  in the Buenos Aires Herald on January 18, 2015. Continue reading AMIA prosecutor accuses CFK, Timerman of ‘covering up’ Iran’s involvement in bombing

“Ferenczi, Yesterday and Today” with Jay Frankel at CFS

27 RUE DE FLEURUS, A SALON MEETING OF THE CONTEMPORARY FREUDIAN SOCIETY
“Ferenczi, Yesterday and Today” Jay Frankel
Wednesday, February 4, 2015 8:00 to 10:00pm Location: TBA

Sándor Ferenczi was Freud=s intimate friend, colleague, and collaborator, and also a radical, independent thinker. His profoundly democratic sensibility, his insistence on providing analytic treatment to the most difficult patients, and – most important – his revolutionary conceptions in areas ranging from trauma, to object relations, to the intersubjective nature of the analytic relationship, and his developing new treatment methods based on these discoveries, ultimately Continue reading “Ferenczi, Yesterday and Today” with Jay Frankel at CFS

Memories – history: individual, psychoanalysis, the holocaust & more from Sasha Rolde

Dear Colleagues:

Although we speak of free association, transference and the unconscious, the fact it that we rely on discussion of memories in our consulting rooms in order to produce insight.
How apropos is Memorial weekend for turning to the posts on our international psychoanalytic blog, looking back as well as creating more memories? Please enjoy the following with memories in mind.
Note that I am attempting not to list the posts that were present in the 2 preceding weeks.

As usual I will list may preferences followed by the full menu.
My choices are as follows:

1) to begin the memories: Please read about Maria Altmann, and her quest for the Klimt painting which she inherited. The article contains the history and fate of Jewish material culture in Vienna. ***Maybe 80 percent of Gustav Klimt***s iconic portraits were commissioned by Jewish patrons, assimilated Jews, intermarried Jews, baptized Jews, ennobled Jews, or converted Jews with names like Heymann, Wittgenstein, Pulitzer, Lederer, Continue reading Memories – history: individual, psychoanalysis, the holocaust & more from Sasha Rolde

‘The Wolfpack’ Tells of One New York Apartment With Seven Children Locked Inside

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Click Here to Read:  ‘The Wolfpack’ Tells of One New York Apartment With Seven Children Locked Inside by Brooks Barmes in The New York Times on January 23, 2015,

When they were not being home schooled by their mother, the Angulo siblings were allowed to watch movies nonstop. Their story is told in “The Wolfpack,” directed by Crystal Moselle. CreditCrystal Moselle