Click Here to Read: Anxious Children Have Larger ‘Fear Centers’ in Their Brains: Anxiety Disorder Development by Catherine Griffin on the Science World Report website on June 15. 2014.
The Structures of Growth Learning Is No Easy Task
Save the Date: CFS-NY Annual Scientific Conference – 11/8
1928-2014: Maya Angelou, writer, performer and participant in the civil rights movement
Click Here to Read: 1928-2014: Maya Angelou, writer, performer and participant in the civil rights movement By Isaac Finn and Sandy English on the World Socialist Web Site on June 18, 2014.
Click Here to Read: Maya Angelou, writer and poet, dies at age 86 on this website.
Click Here to Read: Poetry Monday: June 2, 2014 on Maya Angelou on this Website.
Summer Reading
These Books Available on IPBooks.net. Some are also available from Amazon.com and the New York Psychoanalytic Institute Book Store:
An Accident of Hope: The Therapy Tapes of Anne Sexton by Dawn M. Skorczewski, from Routledge
Beginning to Grow: Five Studies by from IPBooks
City Within A City by Basia Temkin-Berman, from IPBooks
Fifty Shrinks by Sebastian Zimmerman, from Hippocampus.
Created in Our Own Images.com by Fred Sander, from IPBooks
Flashing Seven by Jack Hirschowitz and Ahron Friedberg, from IPBooks Continue reading Summer Reading
Czech Winter
After Baby, an Unraveling
Click Here to Read: After Baby, an Unraveling by Pamela Belluck in The New York Times on June 16, 2014.
The Mother Who Jumped A few months after Cindy Wachenheim gave birth to the child she had long dreamed of, she became convinced that she had caused her son irrevocable brain damage. It was a certainty she couldn’t shake.
Jacques Lacan: Past and Present – A Dialogue
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions at Fifty
Sociology and Anthropology Monday: Robert King Merton
Robert King Merton: (1910-2003) born in Philadelphia on the fourth of July as Meyer Robert Schkolnick to newly immigrated Russian-Jewish parents. Merton changed his name as an amateur magician to this stage name by which he came to be known during his scholarly career. One of the most celebrated sociologists in the mid to late 20th century – he amassed awards and honorary degrees from around the world – but it was his son, Robert C. Merton, who won the Nobel Prize in economics in 1997.
Merton eschewed the grand theory approach of one of his mentors and advisors, Talcott Parsons, in favour of a theory of the middle range, under the influence of his colleague, Paul Lazarsfeld, at the Bureau of Applied Research at Columbia University of which Merton was associate director. In addition to middle range sociological theory, Merton was known as an Continue reading Sociology and Anthropology Monday: Robert King Merton