Click Here to Read: The Kids Who Beat Autism By Ruth Padawer in The New York Times on July 31, 2014.
Mark Macluskie, 16, who is no longer autistic.
Credit Mark Peckmezian for The New York Times
Satire from the Onion: Psychology Comes To Halt As Weary Researchers Say The Mind Cannot Possibly Study Itself
Secrets of the Right-Wing Brain
The Forgotten Founder of ‘Partisan Review’ Wrote Porn and Thrillers
Photography Friday: Susan L. Rose
The artists: Dali, Dante, Heine & Psychoanalysis : Freud, the feminists, & then the Russians from Sasha Rolde on IP.net
Dear Colleagues:
An early Labor Day weekend offers an opportunity to spend time reading the interesting posts on the international psychoanalytic website. It is a time of turmoil in the world and will hopefully offer some respite as well as some insight into the societal issues.
My choices this week are:
1) For those of us who did not know much about the Islamic State – The “Fertile Crescent had been a cradle to strange and fascinating sects” – the post about the “land of lost gods” in the Art Category is a must! Continue reading The artists: Dali, Dante, Heine & Psychoanalysis : Freud, the feminists, & then the Russians from Sasha Rolde on IP.net
Mao’s Sarcophagus and Other Constructions In ‘The Dog,’
Notes on Bel Kaufman and Sholem Aleichem by Merle Molofsky
(First published on Clio’s Psyche)
I well remember when Bel Kaufman’s book came out, in the 1960’s, with that evocative title, “Up the Down Staircase, a title that somehow encapsulated everything about school as I knew it. I had three marvelous years at P.S. 208 in Brooklyn, fourth, fifth, sixth, and all the rest was up the down staircase….
The stories of Sholem Aleichem, which I read when I was very young, were a major influence on my worldview, my perspective, and my sense of my ethnic identity.
My favorite story was “A Yom Kippur Scandal”. I found two videos on YouTube, Part 1 and Part 2, a telling of the story in Yiddish, with English subtitles. Here are the links, for the curious. If the links don’t work, go to YouTube, type in Sholem Aleichem, A Yom Kippur Scandal, and you will have access to the videos.
Click Here to View: Sholem Aleichem A Yom Kippur Scandal, Part 1
Click Here to View: Sholem Aleichem A Yom Kippur Scandal, Part 2 Continue reading Notes on Bel Kaufman and Sholem Aleichem by Merle Molofsky
