Click Here to Read: Review of Facing Cancer and the Fear of Death: A Psychoanalytic Perspective on Treatment. By Norman Straker, Reviewed by Leah Rosenberg, MD and D. P. Yuppa, MD in The Journal of Palliative Medicine Volume 17, Number 4, 2014.
Paddling to Peking
Click Here to Read: Paddling to Peking, Review of Ping-Pong Diplomacy: The Secret History Behind the Game That Changed the World by Nicholas Griffin, Reviewed by Roderick MacFarquhar in The New York Review of Books March 20th Issue.
Zhuang Zedong playing at the twenty-sixth World Table Tennis Championships, in which he won the men’s singles title, Beijing, 1961
How to Destroy Species, Including Us
The Fat Drug
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As Denzel Washington opens ‘A Raisin in the Sun’ on Broadway, Ellen Handler Spitz’ ‘Illuminating Childhood’ explores the play’s significance
What If Miley Cyrus Did the Nasty in the Shvitz? The Yiddish Roots of Tverking
Freud was a pioneering neuroscientist
Click Here Read: Freud was a pioneering neuroscientist: Before gaining worldwide recognition as the father of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud made an important contribution to early modern neuroscience by Mo Costandi on his Neuorphilosophy Blog on the Guardian website.
The father of psychoanalysis was also a pioneering neuroscientist. Photograph: AP
Sociology and Anthropology Monday: Franz Boas
Franz Boas (1858-1942) – Progenitor of American Anthropology
Franz Boas was a German-Jewish physicist and geographer who, through his studies of Inuit on Baffin Island and of the Kwakiutl in British Columbia under the auspices of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, came to devote himself to the study of anthropology by challenging the predominant fixed stage evolutionism in vogue in the last quarter of the 19th century. It was Boas who defined anew the science of Continue reading Sociology and Anthropology Monday: Franz Boas
Psychoanalysis and Thought Control: Reflections on Cold War Culture and Clinical Knowledge” with Daniel Pick at 7 RUE DE FLEURUS
7 RUE DE FLEURUS, A SALON MEETING
“Psychoanalysis and Thought Control:
Reflections on Cold War Culture and Clinical Knowledge”
Daniel Pick, Presenter
Wednesday, April 2, 2014
8:00 to 10:00pm
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