Ernst Kris on Art History
By Categories: Art, Books, Papers

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Click Here to Read: Traces of Psychology: The Art Historical Writings of Ernst Kris by  Thomas Roeske  From: American Imago  Volume 58, Number 1, Spring 2001  p. 463-477 | 10.1353/aim.2001.0003 In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content. 

Click Here to Read: Review of  Psychoanalytic Explorations in Art (1952) By Ernst Kris, Reviewed by   RicahrdsD. Chessick,  M.D., PH.D.  American Journal of  Psychiatry. 2001; 158:506-507. 10.1176/appi.ajp.158.3.506   . Madison, Conn., International Universities Press, 2000, 398 pp., $29.95 (paper).

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The Man of a 1,000 Faces: on Ekman, deceit and other “tells”
By Categories: Audio/Video, General News


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This article by Ramsland, Ph. D. is one of the better overall summaries of Ekman and colleagues five decades’ work on emotion, particularly — but not only — its facial expression. Ramsland also details how Ekman became interested in assessing deceit and how to train on this.

This work, like attachment research, has proceeded outside the realm of psychoanalysis. Yet, its findings are central to our daily work: accurately reading emotions: both our own and our patients.’
N Szajnberg, MD, Managing Editor

Adderall and Zoloft under criticism
By Categories: General News

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Today’s front page article on the likely Adderall-addiction, subsequent psychosis, then suicide of a young man, Richard Fee (whose parents report no childhood history of ADHD and who implored the young man’s physicians not to prescribe the amphetamines) follows the recent report of a suit against Zoloft alleging inefficacy as well as selective reporting of clinical trials.

Too near the end of today’s lengthy and heart-wrenching tale, the reporter contacted forty “experts” in ADHD; “almost every one…said that worst case scenarios like Richard Fee’s can occur with any medication…” Continue reading Adderall and Zoloft under criticism

Em Cooper in Conversation with Andrea Sabbadini at the Freud Museum, London
By Categories: Announcements, Art, Movies

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Em Cooper in Conversation with Andrea Sabbadini
7pm, Wed 20th February 2013, Freud Museum, London

The world through the eyes of a newborn baby and recurring memories from childhood are just a few of the themes brought to life by Em Cooper’s oil painted animation.

Join us for an evening of three short films, which include an animation inspired by Ferenczi’s paper ‘Confusion of Tongues’, and a discussion with director Em Cooper, chaired by leading psychoanalyst and director of the European Psychoanalytic Film Festival, Andrea Sabbadini.

Click here for further information and tickets