Contemporary Field Theory 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 Continue reading Contemporary Field Theory with S. Montana Katz at CFS

Yedies fun YIVO/ News from YIVO
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On Tuesday, October 22, Antony Polonsky, the Albert Abramson Professor of Holocaust Studies at Brandeis University will appear at YIVO to discuss his monumental three-volume The Jews in Poland and Russia (Littman Library of Jewish Civilization). This book received the 2011 Kulczycki Book Prize for Polish Studies, and the Pro Historia Polonorum Prize for the best book on the history of Poland published in a foreign language between 2007 and 2011. Polonsky is interviewed here by Yedies Editor Roberta Newman. Continue reading Yedies fun YIVO/ News from YIVO

‘Bad negotiators’: Experts say Congress is getting it wrong in fiscal talks
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Click Here to Read: ‘Bad negotiators’: Experts say Congress is getting it wrong in fiscal talks By Carrie Dann on the  NBC News website on October 16. 2013.

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U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, left, and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, right, look at their notes during a ceremony for the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, in July.

Call for Ideas for the 49th IPA Congress/ 23rd IPSO Congress
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49th IPA Congress/23rd IPSO Congress
22-25 July 2015, Boston Seaport & World Trade Center
on the theme: Changing World: the shape and use of psychoanalytic tools today

CALL FOR IDEAS

Dear Members,

In the past, the IPA has issued a single “Call for Proposals”, inviting you to send us the title and an abstract for a paper you wished to present at a Congress. But for 2015 we are planning to do things a little differently. In addition to a Call for Proposals, which will come later in the process, we are starting our preparation Continue reading Call for Ideas for the 49th IPA Congress/ 23rd IPSO Congress

Student-faculty research shows Oreos are just as addictive as drugs in lab rats
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Click Here to Read:   Student-faculty research shows Oreos are just as addictive as drugs in lab rats on the Connecticut College website on October 15, 2013.

Joseph Schroeder, associate professor of psychology and director of the behavioral neuroscience program, and Lauren Cameron ’14 found that eating Oreos activated more neurons in the brain’s “pleasure center” than exposure to drugs of abuse.

A Century of Wisdom: Lessons from the Life of Alice Herz-Sommer, the World’s Oldest Living Holocaust Survivor
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World’s Oldest Known Holocaust Survivor’s 110th Birthday to be celebrated in New York through leadership of author Caroline Stoessinge

 New York author (A Century of Wisdom: Lessons from the Life of Alice Herz-Sommer) and Mozart Academy founder Caroline Stoessinger is leading the New York celebration of the 110th birthday of Alice Herz-Sommer, the world’s oldest known Holocaust survivor, whose spirit of survival has been made possible by her lifelong love of music.

Continue reading A Century of Wisdom: Lessons from the Life of Alice Herz-Sommer, the World’s Oldest Living Holocaust Survivor

Happy Birthday Sylvia Brody!
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Sylvia Brody’s birthday is on  October 17th. She is 90 years old. We are currently offering her book, Beginning to Grow: Five Studies, on IPBooks.net.

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For a description of the books, see below:

Beginning to Grow: Five Studies describes work with five children from infancy to maturity at age 18. The children’s growth is traced with regard in terms of Continue reading Happy Birthday Sylvia Brody!