Click Here to Read: Stress, depression may affect cancer survival By Amanda Enayati, on the CNN website on September 14, 2012.
This study suggests that stress management should be an integral part of cancer treatment.
Psychoanalysis meets surrealism in American Stage production
“Take Shelter” and “Melancholia”: Apocalypse in Film
by Herbert H. Stein
Each generation chooses its favorite myths and images. Listening to patients and acquaintances and following the news, I have the sense that our own culture and folklore includes a fascination with apocalyptic predictions and prophecies. This year we had the “rapture” prediction in the spring and we all await the end of the Mayan calendar some time in December. (I personally was not planning to use a Mayan calendar.)
I am not going to attempt to explain this phenomenon here, but would like to point your attention to two films that came out in 2011, Take Shelter and Melancholia, which both partake in this fascination with apocalyptic visions. Not surprisingly, they also allow us to vicariously enter into a psychotic depression. Continue reading “Take Shelter” and “Melancholia”: Apocalypse in Film
NAAP’s 40th Annual Conference: Generousity and Greed
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Scientists shocked to find antibiotics alleviate symptoms of schizophrenia
Click Here to Read: Scientists shocked to find antibiotics alleviate symptoms of schizophrenia Chance discovery of link between acne drug and psychosis may unlock secrets of mental illness by Jeremy Laurance on The Independent website on March 02, 2012.
The brain of a person shortly after diagnosis with schizophrenia (top) showing it relatively unscathed. Five years later, there is substantial loss of grey matter (above). Damage starts in the outer regions of the brain and spreads to all parts over the years. Patients with the worst tissue loss tend to have the worst symptoms.
Early Music Lessons Have Longtime Benefits
Click here to read “Early Music Lessons Have Longtime Benefits” by Perri Klass, M.D. from The New York Times on September 10, 2012.
When children learn to play a musical instrument, they strengthen a range of auditory skills. Recent studies suggest that these benefits extend all through life, at least for those who continue to be engaged with music.
Nominations for NYPSI’s Leon Kupferstein Memorial Award
CELEBRATING A CENTURY OF ADVANCEMENT THROUGH SELF-KNOWLEDGE
THE NEW YORK PSYCHOANALYTIC SOCIETY & INSTITUTE:
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A CALL FOR NOMINATIONS FOR NYPSI’S LEON KUPFERSTEIN MEMORIAL AWARD FOR INNOVATION IN PSYCHOANALYSIS
The New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute (NYPSI) formally announces the first call for nominations for the Leon Kupferstein Memorial Award for Innovation in Psychoanalysis. Continue reading Nominations for NYPSI’s Leon Kupferstein Memorial Award
