Click here to read “Florida Okays Execution of Schizophrenic Man in Direct Violation of Supreme Court Ruling” by By Rania Khalek from Truthout on October 20, 2012.
The Florida Supreme Court has ruled that the state can proceed with the execution of 64-year-old John Erroll Ferguson, despite its finding that he is a paranoid schizophrenic. The decision will be appealed to the US Supreme Court.
Click Here to Read: Ethel Person, Who Studied Sexual Fantasies, Dies at 77 By Leslie Kaufman in The New York Times on October 20, 2012.
Click Here to Read: Open Mind: Feeling Strong with Psychiatrist Dr. Ethel Person on the Psychology Concepts website.
Click Here to Read: As The Wheel Turns: A Centennial Reflection on Freud’s Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality in The Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association vol: 53:4 .
Dear Colleagues,
For a relief from the national as well as APsaA election campaigns and excitement, I invite you to join me in reading and discussant the topical posts on the international website, which at least in my opinion tend to be possibly more scholarly. I say this with apologies to our candidates, who of course can be very erudite and often visionary.
I will list the posts that stood out for me this week followed by the entire weekly menu as usual. Please note that some of the posts in the ANNOUNCEMENTS Category had been noted by me before, but not last week and I review them in case you would like to attend any of the meetings. Continue reading Transmission of analysis, the Dora case and adolescent suicide by Sasha Rolde on IP.net
Click Here to Read: The Casebooks of Sigmund F. : Two novels turn an analytic eye to Sigmund Freud himself. Sam Sacks reviews Goce Smilevski’s “Freud’s Sister,” Lidia Yuknavitch’s “Dora: A Headcase” and Scott Hutchins’s “A Working Theory of Love, Reviewed by Sam Sacks in the Wall Street Journal on October 19, 2012.
“At the Corner of Hope and Worry,” by Dan Barry
Infrequently, someone’s front-page piece is so elegiacal, that it catches momentarily in the back of one’s throat. Here are some snippets from Dan Barry’s vignette of Oct 14 in the NY Times. “Another day begins with a sound softer than a finger snap…” “(Her glasses) …smudged with grill grease..(s)he sees the world trough the blur of her work.” “(She sees) food as life’s binding agent.” “…the past improves with distance the present keeps piling on, and a promising future is practically willed…” “Where the American dream they talk about can sometimes seem like a tease.”
If these are appetizing, look at the full piece here. This kind of journalism breathes life into our souls.
N. Szajnberg, MD, Managing Editor
Click Here to Read: At the Corner of Hope and Worry by Dan Barry in The New York Times on October 14, 2o12.
