Click Here to Read: Why Freud Survives: He’s been debunked again and again—and yet we still can’t give him up By Louis Menand in The New Yorker Magazine in the August 28, 2017 Issue.
How America Lost Its Mind
‘The Unauthorized Psychoanalysis of Donald Trump’
Events in Charlottesville, Virginia from the Dean of the New York Medical College
To the New York Medical College Community:
“We fondly hope that the instruction which may flow from this institution, kindly cherished, by advancing the minds of our youth with the growing science of the times, and elevating the views of our citizens generally to the practice of the social duties and the functions of self-government, may ensure to our country the reputation, the safety and prosperity, and all the other blessings which experience proves to result from the cultivation and improvement of the general mind.”
Thomas Jefferson, Virginia Board of Visitors Minutes (1821), ME 19:407
You need not hear from me regarding every headline in the daily news. Indeed, a college Chancellor oversteps his/her bounds by using the pulpit of position to advocate for particular political positions. Duke University’s President Nannerl Keohane taught me years ago that one should only speak publically in one’s capacity as Chancellor/President if the issue is of clear and vital interest to the mission of the university. In the last year I have exercised my prerogative to address you once on a matter of public discourse: attacks on the free movement of people and ideas. It is, however, necessary that I address the campus community again. Continue reading Events in Charlottesville, Virginia from the Dean of the New York Medical College
Dark Times and the Powers of Dreaming
The Disordered Leading The Discontent: Trump And The Psychology Of Crowds
Will Trump Be the Death of the Goldwater Rule?
Click Here to Read: Will Trump Be the Death of the Goldwater Rule? By Jeannie Suk Gersen on the New Yorker Magazine website on August 23, 2017.
The Goldwater Rule was meant to prevent psychiatrists from politicizing their authority. But now it’s muzzling them in the midst of a vital public debate. Photograph by Alex Brandon / AP
Two Comics Artists Draw Their Ways Through Depression
Historian Timothy Snyder: After Charlottesville, “we are hanging by our teeth to the rule of law”
Psychology Sunday: Daniel Everett
Click Here to Read: Daniel Everett on Wikipedia.
Click Here to Read: The Interpreter: Has a remote Amazonian tribe upended our understanding of language? By John Colapinto in the New YorKer in the April 16, 2007 Issue.
Click Here to Read: Daniel Everett: ‘There is no such thing as universal grammar’: The rules of language are not innate but spring from necessity and circumstance, says Daniel Everett Interview by Robert McCrum on the Guardian webwsite on March 24, 2012.
Click Here to Read: The power of speech: When Daniel Everett first went to live with the Amazonian Pirahã tribe in the late 70s, his intention was to convert them to Christianity. Instead, he learned to speak their unique language – and ended up rejecting his faith, losing his family and picking a fight with Noam Chomsky by Patrick Barkham on the Guardian website on November 9, 2008.
Click Here to Read: Lost for words in the Amazon: What started off as another journey to bring God to the natives ended up challenging Chomsky’s key theory of language by Andrew Anthony on the Guardian website on November 15, 2008. Continue reading Psychology Sunday: Daniel Everett