Click here to read “Fraud in the Scientific Literature” from The New York Times on October 5, 2012.
A surprising upsurge in the number of scientific papers that have had to be retracted because they were wrong or even fraudulent has journal editors and ethicists wringing their hands. The retracted papers are a small fraction of the vast flood of research published each year, but they offer a revealing glimpse of the pressures driving many scientists to improper conduct.
Click here to read “UCLA neurophysicists uncovers mysteries of sleeping brain” by Robin Wulffson, M.D from Examiner.com on October 7, 2012.
UCLA neurophysicists have made an exciting discovery about the sleeping brain. The findings should provide further understanding regarding how the brain remembers and reveal factors involved in Alzheimer’s disease. They published their research on October 7 in the early online edition of the journal Nature Neuroscience.
Dear Colleagues,
even though the US national elections and other sociopolitical issues elsewhere in the world are taking front stage, I hope you will find time on this long weekend to read and comment on post that interest you on the international psychoanalytic website. They encompass a wide array of topics from a large number of programs in NYC, to psychoanalytic slant on political issues, and the negative effects of benzodiazapines. Enjoy.
As usual, I will note my choices before giving you the full menu.
1) The ban on gay conversion therapy will be signed by the CA governor but it seems that the debate is not over. Please read in the AUDIO/VIDEO category
Click Here to Read This Article Continue reading Psychoanalysis and politics – in science, and globally from Sasha Rolde on IP.net
NCP is having on Saturday Oct 20, a Workshop on Sexual Boundary Violations featuring Muriel Dimen and Andrea Celenza.
With its inherent intimacy, cloistered sessions, and risks of sexual boundary violations, psychoanalytic psychotherapy is still a dangerous method for patient and therapist. This program, with its workshop format, examines the circumstances in which sexual violations develop, typical transference/countertransference dynamics, traumatic sequellae for both Continue reading Muriel Dimen and Andrea Celenza on Sexual Boundry Violations at NCP
Click here to read about Dr. Jack Drescher’s book Textbook of Psychoanalysis from The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease.
The Textbook of Psychoanalysis could easily be subtitled Just About Anything You Wanted to Know About Psychoanalysis but Were Afraid to Ask. It is a collection of essays written by mainstream members of the American Psychoanalytic Association (APsaA) as well as contributors who have achieved prominence by training and working in institutes and theoretical traditions outside the APsaA. Refreshingly lacking in polemics and with some rare exceptions (noted below), The Textbook of Psychoanalysis provides an up-to-date snapshot of today’s broad field of psychoanalytic inquiry, theorizing, and treatment.
Click here to read “The Neuroscience Of Climate – Change Apathy (And How To Fix It)” by Mark Trexler and Laura Kosloff from Ecosystem Marketplace on October 9, 2012.
Scores of studies and analyses suggest that the costs of ignoring climate change are likely to far outweigh the costs of avoiding it, but estimates of business-as-usual climate change continue to tick upward. Before we can understand and manage climate-change risk, we need to understand and manage the brains that evolution gave us.
Click here to read “Authenticity And The ‘Tale of Two Romneys'” by Todd Essig from Forbes on October 7, 2012.
Have you ever pretended to like a client just to make a sale? Or showed respect to a manager whose decisions and style you found contemptible? Or, in general, wanted something—or someone—so bad you would say and do anything, or almost anything? If so you have struggled with authenticity and might benefit from the Tale of Two Romneys.
