The Metropolitan Institute for Training in
Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy,
The Metropolitan Center for Mental Health and
The Metropolitan Society of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapists
Invite you to a Scientific Meeting
Friday, October 26, 2012, at 8:00 P.M.
REFLECTIONS ON NARCISSISM, MANIA AND ANALYSTS’ ENVY
Presenter: Irwin Hirsch, Ph.D. Continue reading Reflections on Narcissism, Mania and Analysts Envy on Irwin Hirsch at MITPP
Click Here to Read: China’s Nobels By Larry Seims and Jeffrey Yang in The New York Times on October 17, 2012.
From Poem by Liu Xiaobo:
In memory and bravery
this day lives forever
It is an immortal stone
and though stone, can cry out
It is the grave’s wild grass growing eternal green
and though wild grass, it can take flight
The blade-tip that pierces the heart’s center drips
with the blood of snowbright memory
Click here to read “As China Readies for Leadership Handover, Where are Marx and Mao?” by Hannah Beech from TIME on October 17, 2012.
Marxist ideas, which normally enjoy public celebration before major political events in the People’s Republic, have been curiously diminished on the eve of China’s once-in-a-decade leadership transition.
Click here to read “App promises to psychoanalyze debates in real time” by Heather Kelly from CNN.com on October 16, 2012.
In olden times, watching the presidential debates was a lonely, one-dimensional experience. Now, we have running Twitter commentary, instant fact-checks and liveblogs to help us digest the candidates’ various claims and arguments as they make them.
Click here to read: “Standards” v Diversity: Testing Standards Reduce Diversity In Elite Schools by Edward C. Sullivan from New York Civic on October 14, 2012.
The Specialized High School Achievement Test which the New York City Department of Education uses to select students to eight specialized high schools has come under fire from the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund. They have filed a complaint with the U.S. Department of Education that the test is not predictive of success in these high schools and that its use has led to a diminution of the enrollment of minorities in the schools, which means fewer will enter the work force and the middle class.
Click here to read “Hospitals Ditch Formula Samples to Promote Breast-Feeding” by Pam Belluck from The New York Times on October 15, 2012.
For years, virtually every new mother has been sent home from the hospital with a gift bag full of free product samples, including infant formula. Now health authorities and breast-feeding advocates are leading a nationwide effort to ban formula samples, which often come in stylish bags with formula company logos.
