Psychoanalysis in academia and universities
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Click Here to Read:Psychoanalysis and Academia: Present, Past, Future By Murray Schwartz on the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute website.

Click Here to Read:  Psychoanalysis and the United States research university: Current trends by Stephen M. Sonnenberg.

This article originally appeared as:  Sonnemberg, Stephen M.  (2011).  Psychoanalysis and the United States research university: Current trends.  International Journal of Psychoanalysis 92:641–659 and appears here with all requisite permissions.

Click Here to Read: Inclusion of psychoanalytic thought in doctoral programs of psychology: Results of a survey of APA- and CPA-accredited programs in the American Psychological Association Division/Review Quarterly July 2012.

An Evening with Andrew Solomon at WCSPP
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Westchester Center for the Study of Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy – WCSPP.ORG

Join us on Friday, December 6, 2013 at 8:30 p.m. for a very special evening with Andrew Solomon, award-winning journalist, speaker and author of the new book, Far From the Tree. WCSPP, 468 Rosedale Ave., White Plains, NY 10605.
Admission: $40, payable by cash or check only.
Doors open at 8:00 p.m.

Refreshments will be served.
Books will be available for purchase and signing by the author.
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Philosophy Thursday: The Frankfort School
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Click Here to Read: Analogy and Confirmation Theory by Mary Hesse.

Click Here to Read:  Frankfurt School on the Wikipedia website.

Click Here to Read:  Theodor W. Adorno in the Stanford University Encyclopedia of Philosophy on First published Mon May 5, 2003; substantive revision Mon Oct 10, 2011.

 Click Here to Read:  Eros and Civilization by Herbert Marcuse 1955.  Chapter one:   The Hidden Trend in Psychoanalysis.

Click Here to Read:  Marcuse and the Quest for Radical Subjectivity By Douglas Kellner (February 2000) on the Dogman website.

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Who’s Afraid of Sigmund Freud?
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Who’s Afraid of Sigmund Freud?
The rise, fall, and possible resurrection of psychoanalysis in the United States

Jeremy D. Safran

For decades psychoanalysis dominated professional approaches to mental health in the United States and had an influential impact on our culture. Starting in the late 1960s, however, psychoanalysis has become increasinglymarginalized. Here, I will argue that psychoanalysis has always contained both subversive and conservative threads. As the historian Nathan Hale argued, Americans modified psychoanalysis to solve a conflict between the more Continue reading Who’s Afraid of Sigmund Freud?

Is Violence History?
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TheBetterAngelsPinkerClick Here to Read:  Is Violence History? Review of Better Angels of Our Nature Why Violence Has Declinedby Stephen Pinker, Reviewed by Peter Singer in The New York Times on October 6, 2011.

Ken and Brian have brought up the question of violence in modern times. It seems to me that we might consider Steven Pinker’s book in which he claims that violence has dramatically decreased. I am of two minds about his thesis, and I’d like to hear what others on the Listserve think. It seemsto me that Pinker has some powerful Continue reading Is Violence History?

“Contemporary Field Theory” A Discussion with S. Montana Katz at CFS
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27 Rue de Fleurus, a Salon Meeting of the Contemporary Freudian Society
“Contemporary Field Theory” A Discussion with S. Montana Katz
Wednesday, February 26, 2014, 8:00 to 9:30pm, Location: Upper East Side TBA

Psychoanalysts experience the creative fusion that takes place working with a patient, especially when something surprising and transformative emerges in the process. Madeleine and Willy Baranger described analytic processes and what happens in them that affords this creativity and also what blocks it by developing the idea of a psychoanalytic field. In their innovative work, they drew from writers in other disciplines including sociology and philosophy amongst others. The psychoanalytic field as the Barangers Continue reading “Contemporary Field Theory” A Discussion with S. Montana Katz at CFS