POETRY MONDAY: SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

Welcome back to our poetry pages, everyone.  Happy Labor Day, if such is still possible in the world we’re facing right now.  Nevertheless, we carry on.  The hard work of labor unions over the years needs to be honored and rights maintained. It’s also back- to-school time for all the students and teachers among our readers, as well as a time of celebration and reflection.

Our poet for today, one whose work I encountered on Continue reading POETRY MONDAY: SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

Psychology Sunday: Mary Henle

Click Here to Read:  Mary  Henle on Wikipedia.

Click Here to Read:  Mary Henle on the Psychology’s Feminist Voices website.

Click Here to Read: Ohio Women in Psychology: A Biographical Account of Mary Henle and Janet Taylor Spence by Kolina J. Delgado a Wright State University
CORE Scholar Psychology Student Publication.

Click Here to Read:   Gestalt Psychology and Gestalt Therapy by Mary Henle. [This paper was a presidential address to Division 24 at the meeting of the American Psychological Association, Chicago, September 1975. It was first published in the Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences 14, pp 23-32, then republished in M. Henle, 1879 and All That, Essays in the Theory and History of Psychology, Columbia University Press, New York 1986, pp 22-35.]

Click Here to Read:  Documents of Gestalt Psychology  edited by Mary Henle.

Click Here to Read: Other Posts on Psychology Sunday on this website.

 

“Sexualized fascism”: how the taboo nature of Nazi imagery made the alt-right more powerful

Click Here to Read:   “Sexualized fascism”: how the taboo nature of Nazi imagery made the alt-right more powerful: From The Night Porter to Nazisploitation, we eroticize the “forbidden” nature of fascist imagery — and make fascists stronger by Tara Isabella on the Vox website on August 19, 2017.

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Pope reveals he had weekly psychoanalysis sessions at age 42

Click Here to Read: Pope reveals he had weekly psychoanalysis sessions at age 42: Francis says he visited psychoanalyst for six months ‘to clarify a few things’ and that now nothing frightens himP Harriet Sherwood and Angela Giuffrida on the Guardian website on September 1, 2017,

Click Here to Read: Pope: Seeking clarity, I saw psychoanalyst weekly years ago on the AP News website on September 1, 2017.

Pope Francis: ‘The psychoanalysis helped me a lot.’ Photograph: Giuseppe C/PacificPress/Barcroft

Enlightenment-Era Teaching Cabinet

Click Here to Read: Enlightenment-Era Teaching Cabinet: The small chamber was at the heart of intellectual life in New England from 1766 to 1820, and then it all but disappeared by Mary Louise Schumacher on the HyperAllergic website on August 31, 2017.

Installation view of the loosely reconstructed Philosophy Chamber, with large portraits by John Singleton Copley and bird specimens prepared by Charles Willson Peale. The red wallpaper is inspired by a fragment of the original wallpaper donated to the chamber by John Hancock, c. 1772. On view in the The Philosophy Chamber: Art and Science in Harvard’s Teaching Cabinet, 1766–1820 at the Harvard Art Museums (photo by Katya Kallsen, © President and Fellows of Harvard College)

The Children of the Chateau de la Hille, by Sebastian Steiger Reviewed by Nathan Szajnberg, MD

The Children of the Chateau de la Hille, by Sebastian Steiger. English translation 2017, Lexographic Press Review by Nathan Szajnberg, MD

Why should attention be paid?

Under threat of death, one hundred children were hidden at a remote chateau in Vichy France, its front gate painted with the Red Cross of Switzerland on a white background. This Cross did not protect them from the French collaborating Milice, nor the SS.

One hundred faces you can see in the appendix; many of their voices you can hear in the text and the guiding voice of Steiger who came from Switzerland to educate, give first aid and above all try to keep them alive. Continue reading The Children of the Chateau de la Hille, by Sebastian Steiger Reviewed by Nathan Szajnberg, MD