Ex-Horace Mann Students in Talks on Sex-Abuse Case

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Click Here to Read:  Ex-Horace Mann Students in Talks on Sex-Abuse Case by Jenny Anderson in The New York Times on March 21, 2013.

A former student says Johannes Somary, a Horace Mann teacher seen here in 2004, abused him. Mr. Somary died in 2011.

Click Here to Read:  The Master:  A charismatic teacher enthralled his students. Was he abusing them? by Marc Fisher in The New Yorker on April 1, 2013,

DSM-V, Freud’s couch, terrorism, rise in carbon dioxide & more from Sasha Rolde on IP.net

Dear colleagues,

the international website content this week is colossal and multidimensional, and no summary of mine will do it justice. It does reflect all the concerns in the news from the psychodynamic point of view, be it terrorism, DSM-V, S. Freud’s couch, our brains or the increase in carbon dioxide content in the air we breathe. I will try not to have duplication of post which I have listed previously.

My choices this week are:

1) The Myth of the Adolescent Brain *** – “If indeed the objective of adolescence is to gain independence from parents, then providing Continue reading DSM-V, Freud’s couch, terrorism, rise in carbon dioxide & more from Sasha Rolde on IP.net

“…the Labyrinth of voices inside your head”

JeremyDenk

N. Szajnberg, MD, Managing Editor

Occasionally, someone quite peripheral to psychoanalysis gets the resonance of this craft.  Jeremy Denk, writing of finding his piano practice book from youth, gets the sense of what it means, how one learns a discipline — making music, making psychoanalysis, a duet of its own.

Jeremy Denk

Denk (a fine name from German, “Think.”) is a concert pianist and a remarkable essayist.  Here is the link to the New Yorker article, “Every Good Boy Does Fine,” (April 8, 2013)

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