Click Here to Read: Meet the “Queen of Hysterics” Who Was Freud’s Early Muse by Esther Inglis-Arkell on the IO0 website on July 14, 2014.
Video for the Third Annual Solange Skinner Conference
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July 10, 2014
We are pleased to announce the full video for the Third Annual Solange Skinner Conference is now available on the BPSI website. Please share this video with those who might be interested. Watch for more video posts in the future.
Three Critics on Freud’s
“Remembering, Repeating, and Working Through”
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Sociology and Anthropology Monday: C. Wright Mills
C. (Charles) Wright Mills (1916-1962) was one of the most significant sociologists and sociological theorists to challenge the Parsonian consensus in American sociology during the late 1950s and early 1960s. Born in Waco Texas he completed his doctoral dissertation in the sociology of knowledge on the relationship between pragmatism and sociology, having been influenced in his thinking by the writings of John Dewey and George Herbert Mead among others. In 1945 he was appointed to a research position at the Bureau of Applied Research at Columbia University headed by Paul Lazarsfeld. In the following year Mills became an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology at Columbia and remained a faculty member in that department until his death in 1962. Continue reading Sociology and Anthropology Monday: C. Wright Mills
Rikers: Where Mental Illness Meets Brutality in Jail
Click Here to View: Rikers: Where Mental Illness Meets Brutality in Jail by Micheal Winerip and Michael Schwirtz in The New York Times on July 14, 2014.
Video | A Beating at Rikers Andre Lane talks about a confrontation he had with correction officers at Rikers. This incident is one of 129 documented cases of beatings that resulted in severe injuries to inmates.
Mothers Find a Helping Hand in Sobriety Coaches
Click Here to Read: Mothers Find a Helping Hand in Sobriety Coaches By Marisa Fox in The New York Times on July 11, 2014.
Patty Powers, a recovery coach and a former addict, listening to a client in Central Park. Some clients require that she identify herself as something else. “My mom clients are the most terrified of being found out,” she said. Credit Jennifer S. Altman for The New York Times
Chain of Referral by William Fried
Reminder by Irene Willis
The latest poetry collection by our Poetry Editor, Irene Willis, is now available at Amazon, Barnes & Noble and through all bookstores. It’s called “Reminder.” A description and sample poems are on the publisher’s Click here for the Publisher’s website
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