Click Here to Read: Review of : Hungry for Ecstasy: Trauma, the Brain, and the Influence of the Sixties by Sharon K. Farber, Reviewd by Marshall Poe on the New Books in Alcohol, Drugs, and Intoxicants website on February 20, 2014.
Keeper Of Her Grandfather’s Memory
The Jews and the Great War
The Dybbuk by Jacob Arlow
Letter to the Editor of the London Review of Books by Estela Weldon
I was very interested to read Jacqueline Rose’s article on mothers since the main focus of my work as a psychiatrist has had to do with women who suffer from the strange feelings they have about their babies. In my book Mother, Madonna, Whore: The Idealisation and Denigration of Motherhood (1988), I argue that the main difference between male and female perverse action lies in the aim. Whereas in men the act is aimed at an external part-object, in women it is against themselves: either against their bodies or against objects of their own creation – that is, their babies. Continue reading Letter to the Editor of the London Review of Books by Estela Weldon
A Godless Jewish Humanist
Photography as a Balm for Mental Illness
Click Here To Read: Photography as a Balm for Mental Illness By Aimee Lee Ball in The New York Times on July 24, 2014.
This is a selection of images from the Darkness to Light exhibit at the Fountain Gallery in New York City. Free Ya Soul Jessie Kolpak, of Copenhagen, was found to have with bipolar disorder two years ago. Now 29, she said she had just recently began to take pleasure in the things she used to enjoy again, such as photography. Jessie Kolpak
