Click Here to Read: The Magic of Psychoanalysis by Lawrence Blum on the Clinical Psychiatry News website on March 26, 2014.
An Interview with Jonathan Shedler
After 5 Years, Scant Progress on Restitution for Holocaust Survivors Promises of Terezin Ring Hollow Across Eastern Europe
Click Here to Read: After 5 Years, Scant Progress on Restitution for Holocaust Survivors Promises of Terezin Ring Hollow Across Eastern Europe By Uriel Heilman in The Jewish Daily Forward on April 21, 2014.
COURTESY OF CZECH REPUBLIC Promises Deferred: Dignitaries from 46 nations agreed to provide help for needy Holocaust survivors in a landmark 2009 conference in Prague. Now, those promises ring hollow.
The Secret Jewish History of William Shakespeare
One million years of the human story in Britain
Reading Pain in a Human Face
Click Here to Read: Reading Pain in a Human Face By Jan Hoffman in The New York Times on April 28, 2014.
Can you tell which expressions show real pain and which ones are feigned? A study found that human observers had no better than a 55 percent rate of success, even with training, while a computer was accurate about 85 percent of the time. (The answers: A. Fake. B. Real. C. Real.)
The Continuing Evolution of Genes
Courage as a Component of the Psychoanalytic Attitude with Clara Nemas
Visiting Kleinian Analyst Series
Clara Nemas M.D.
Courage as a Component of the Psychoanalytic Attitude
“If you have no stomach for anxiety, you are in the wrong profession” W.Bion
Friday May 30th at The Culture Center, New York 8 PM
This paper is located on the frontier between practice and ethics. The Continue reading Courage as a Component of the Psychoanalytic Attitude with Clara Nemas
Child psychology researchers find link between mechanical understanding and learning
Sociology Monday: Daniel Bell (1919-2011)
Daniel Bell (1919-2011)
Daniel Bell was one of the most influential sociologists and public intellectuals in the post-war era. His most famous works include The End of Ideology(related to the Cold War) in which he argued that the imperative of the new, post-war economy narrowed the field of ideology so that real ideological and political choices would be significantly attenuated by the technological imperatives of the new organization of production; The Coming of Post-Industrial Society in which he discussed the impact of the shift from industrial societies in which the production of goods is the dominant activity to post-industrialism which is largely based on the training for and delivery of services by the application of science and technology in the most advanced economies in the last quarter of the 20th century; and The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism in which he posited Continue reading Sociology Monday: Daniel Bell (1919-2011)