Welcome to the Age of Denial

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Psychoanalysis as Science?; Who Cares (Anymore); Does it Matter?
by Nathan Szajnberg

Arnie Richards has been writing about Fleck’s ideas of scientific communities and how their zeitgeist influences (unconsciously, we would say) their theories.

In this NYTImes Op-Ed, this astrophysicist points out that the trend in American culture is away from trusting (let alone understanding) science, and towards a scepticism towards science associated with beliefs in mystical/religious views of the world.

To what degree is our own trust in the science of psychoanalysis (or at least its clinical credibility and testability) weakened by our culture’s trend towards denial of science.

Look at Adam’s article on physics.

Click Here to Read:  Welcome to the Age of Denial By Adam Frank in The New York Times on August 21, 2013.

Child Bully Victims Fare Worse as Adults on Several Measures, Study Finds

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Click Here to Read:  Child Bully Victims Fare Worse as Adults on Several Measures, Study Finds on the Psychiatry News website on August 21, 2013

Click Here to Read:  Impact of Bullying in Childhood on Adult Health, Wealth, Crime, and Social Outcomes by Dieter Wolke1, William E. Copeland, Adrian Angold, E. Jane Costello on the Psychological Science website.

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Symposium 2013: On Envy & Jealousy: Panel 2: “On the World Stage”

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Lois Oppenheim         Jeffrey Stern             Edmund Leites                Martin Bergmann

Click Here to Listen to:  Lois Oppenheim’s introduction to Panel 2: On the World Stage from Symposium 2013.

Click Here to Listen to:  Jeffrey Stern, speaker on Panel 2: On the World Stage from Symposium 2013.  His paper is entitled: Loving not Wisely but Too Well: Kohut and Klein on Envy and Jealousy in Othello, Here is  Part 1.

Click Here to Listen to:  Jeffrey Stern, Part  2.

Click Here to Listen to:  Edmund Leites, speaker on Panel 2: On the World Stage from Symposium 2013.  His paper is entitled: Some Reflections on Envy. Here is Part 1.

Click Here to Listen to:  Edmund Leites, Part 2.

Click here to Listen To:  Martin Bergmann, speaker on Panel 2: On the World Stage from Symposium 2013.

Click Here to Listen To:  Discussion with the Speakers on this Panel.

Click Here to Read: David Lichtenstein Plenary Address at Symposium 2013 on this website.

Click Here to Read: Panel 1 at Symposium 2013 on this website.

Staff of the Menninger Outpatient Department in Topeka, Kansas

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The Staff of outpatient services are: (seated) Dr. Gertrude Ticho, Miss Winifed Wheeler, Dr. Michalina Fabian, Dr. Prescott Thompson, Miss Audrey Johnson, Dr. Robert Forman. Standing are Dr. Irwin Rosen, Dr. william Tarnower, Dr. Richard Siegal, Dr. Stephen Appelbaum, Dr. William Robinson, III, Dr. Bernard Hall and Dr. Martin Mayman. The Menninger Clinic remains one of the primary North American settings supporting psychodynamically informed research on clinical diagnosis, assessment, and treatment.

Date: May 1959

Hitler’s Jews: Max Von Oppenheim and the Myth of German Jewish Guilt

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Click Here to Read:   Hitler’s Jews: Max Von Oppenheim and the Myth of German Jewish Guilt. New biographies shed light on the cohort of Germans of Jewish descent who historians have portrayed as having served the Nazis By Walter Laqueur on the Tablet website on August 21, 2013.

Cartoon depicting Max von Oppenheim by Leonard Raven-Hill, Punch, January 25, 1911. (Princeton University Library)

Bloodshed in Egypt: No End In Sight

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Click Here to Read:  Bloodshed in Egypt: No End In Sight ; With corpses filling Cairo’s streets and both sides vowing to escalate, any glimmers of revolutionary hope have been all but extinguished by . Sharif Abdel Kouddous on The Nation wbsite on August 18, 2013

A trampled poster of Egypt’s ousted President Mohammed Morsi is seen on the ground outside the Rabaah al-Adawiya mosque, where supporters of Morsi had a protest camp in Nasr City, Cairo, Egypt, Friday, August 16, 2013. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)