Click Here to Read: The Dreamers by Selma Duckler: A Review of the film by Bernardo Bertolucci.
Re-Form: Can Psychoanalysis Take It?
A continuing dialogue by Richard Gottlieb.
Dr. Gottlieb sparks us to think with Dr. Makari about the fundamentals of our profession, our dedication to inner life and how to teach this discipline. Gottlieb also asks us to attend closely to our language so that we are clear with ourselves and others what we mean. This respectfully critical dialogue advances thinking in a professional community. Continue reading Re-Form: Can Psychoanalysis Take It?
Click here to read: Decoding the Brain’s Cacophony by Benedict Carey from The New York Times on October 31, 2011, which tells the story of Michael S. Gazzaniga’s series of studies that revealed the brain’s split personality, the division of labor between its left and right hemispheres.
Dr. Gazzaniga is a psychology professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Today, in lectures and a new book, he is spelling out another kind of cautionary tale — a serious one, about the uses of neuroscience in society, particularly in the courtroom.
Click here to read: Who Is Philip Roth’s Portnoy Satirizing? by Bernard Avishai from The Daily Beast on August 28, 2012.
Philip Roth’s Alex Portnoy is the satirist par excellence. He’s awfully clever, making us laugh out loud. But who is Portnoy mocking exactly? The bourgeois family? Psychoanalysis? Himself? Bernard Avishai, author of Promiscuous: ‘Portnoy’s Complaint’ and Our Doomed Pursuit of Happiness, talks to Roth himself to come up with the real object of Portnoy’s critique of America.
Click here to read a book review by Roxanne Myslewski of Lidia Yuknavitch’s novel Dora: A Headcase from Portland Monthly Mag on August 23, 2012.
FROM HEATHERS TO MEAN GIRLS TO GOSSIP GIRL, the scary teenage girl is a well-worn pop culture character—flippant, stubborn, and obnoxious. But in Oregon author Lidia Yuknavitch’s novel Dora: A Headcase, that familiar archetype becomes a razor-edged scalpel for dissecting what it means to be categorized, typed, and diagnosed.
Click here to read “Deluded Individualism” by Firmin Debrabander from The New York Times on August 18, 2012.
There is a curious passage early in Freud’s “Ego and the Id” where he remarks that the id behaves “as if” it were unconscious. The phrase is puzzling, but the meaning is clear: the id is the secret driver of our desires, the desires that animate our conscious life, but the ego does not recognize it as such.
Click here to read: Before Gunfire, Hints of ‘Bad News’ by Erica Goode, Serge F. Kovaleski, Jack Healy and Dan Frosch from The New York Times on August 26, 2012.
The text message, sent to another graduate student in early July, was cryptic and worrisome. Had she heard of “dysphoric mania,” James Eagan Holmes wanted to know?
