The Strange Story Of The Man Behind ‘Strange Fruit’

Click here to View: The story behind Billie Holiday‘s “Strange Fruit” on YouTube. 

Click here to read or listen to The Strange Story Of The Man Behind ‘Strange Fruit’ by Elizabeth Blair from NPR on September 5, 2012.

One of Billie Holiday’s most iconic songs is “Strange Fruit,” a haunting protest against the inhumanity of racism. Many people know that the man who wrote the song was inspired by a photograph of a lynching. But they might not realize that he’s also tied to another watershed moment in America’s history.

More Evidence Links Common Parasite to Suicidal Behavior

August 21, 2012 — Individuals infected with the Toxoplasma gondii parasite are at significant risk for later suicide attempts, new research suggests.

A cohort study of 84 adults from Sweden showed that those who had been infected with T gondii were 7 times more likely to participate in nonfatal, self-directed violence compared with their counterparts who had not been infected. Continue reading More Evidence Links Common Parasite to Suicidal Behavior

Lewis Aron & Karen Starr, Oct. 18th at AIP

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SCIENTIFIC MEETING
Thursday, October 18, 2012 at 8:00 PM
Lewis Aron & Karen Starr: A “PSYCHOTHERAPY FOR THE PEOPLE”: TOWARD A PROGRESSIVE PSYCHOANALYSIS

 How did psychoanalysis come to define itself as being different from psychotherapy? How have racism, homophobia, misogyny and anti-Semitism converged in the creation of psychotherapy and psychoanalysis? Is Continue reading Lewis Aron & Karen Starr, Oct. 18th at AIP

The Efficacy of Psychodynamic Psychotherapy with Jonathan Shedler at CFS

Contemporary Freudian Society – NY Division Annual Conference

Sunday, October 21, 2012, 1:00 – 5:00 pm, Mt. Sinai Medical Center, Hatch Auditorium, Madison Avenue & 100th Street

The Efficacy of Psychodynamic Psychotherapy: The Talking Cure in the Era of Prozac, Managed Care, and Evidence-Based Practice

Jonathan Shedler, PhD, presenter Continue reading The Efficacy of Psychodynamic Psychotherapy with Jonathan Shedler at CFS