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Click Here to Read: Four Characters in search of an analyst: A Dangerous Method reviewed by Bennett Roth Ph.D.
Click Here to Read: Other Posts on A Dangerous Method on this website.
Dear Colleagues,
Our international psychoanalytic website is ready to give you all the good news this week, one in which our country’s president made history by endorsing gay marriage and history was made in psychoanalysis by a prominent psychoanalytic society and institute as it changed its name to move forward. May these historic changes continue in our own society.
Let me draw your attention to:
1) Note the change of name of the New York Freudian Society
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Click Here to Read: Obituary for Bertram Cohler in the Chicago Tribune on May 13, 2012.
Bert Thoughts: In Memorium for Bertram Cohler.
N. Szajnberg, MD, Managing Editor
Bert and I met in 1970 when I was a counselor at the Sonia Shankman Orthogenic School and he was preparing to follow Dr. B. as the director. I began working as Leslie Aranow’s co-counselor and also the night counselor for the six boys in the youngest dorm.
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Laplanche in this interview covers some of his basic and often controversial ideas, such as the “normative” seduction of infants by their parents’ (infantile) sexuality. Note that Laplanche was considered one of Lacan’s promising students. Yet, Laplanche is able to stay much closer to clinical work in a non-ambiguous, non-teasing, and more comprehensible manner than his teacher. This gives us hope that our discipline can pursue ideas that are more fruitful despite our tendencies to carry on too slavishly the Read the rest of this post »
For those interested, Laplanche’s Book Freud and the Sexual, Available Here.
A tribute to Jean Laplanche by Dominique Scarfone
(Translation: Jonathan House; French below):
Jean Laplanche died on May 6, 2012 just a few weeks before what would have been his 88th birthday. A philosopher (student of Jean Hippolyte, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Gaston Bachelard), a psychiatrist and a psychoanalyst, one of the great readers of Freud and translator of the just completed French edition of Freud’s complete works, he was, with Serge Leclaire, among the first Read the rest of this post »
Jean Laplanche, a man as careful with words as a surgeon with scalpel, died this week. International Psychoanalysis.net will honor his life and work with three pieces: his 1991 “Is Psychoanalysis Curable” (courtesy of Jimmy Fisher); a classic translated by Jonathan House; and an interview.
In the “Curable,” piece below, Laplanche states that overusing psychoanalytic terms leads to ridicule; further, even in 1991, psychoanalysis was considered passé.
Yet, for Laplanche, psychoanalysis — the method — leads to lucidity and freedom. These are subversive and even revolutionary activities.
CELEBRATING A CENTURY OF ADVANCEMENT THROUGH SELF-KNOWLEDGE
THE NEW YORK PSYCHOANALYTIC SOCIETY & INSTITUTE:
Arnold Pfeffer Center for Neuropsychoanalysis
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Saturday, June 2, 2012, 10 am – 12 pm, Donations accepted
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Click here to read “The Tragedy of Leon Trotsky,” which discusses Joshua Rubenstein’s latest book, Leon Trotsky: A Revolutionary’s Life, from the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research on March 8, 2012.
Click here for more information about the above topic on this site.
Click here to read “French Autism Treatments: Children in the European Country Mostly Get Psychotherapy” by Marie Cheng from the Associated Press on May 18, 2012.
Click Here to Read: Chapter 4: Trauma: how events shape the brain and the mind from Reading Minds: A Guide to the Cognitive Neuroscience Revolution by Michael Moskowitz.
Click Here to Read: Review of Reading Minds: A Guide to the Cognitive Neuroscience Revolution by Michael Moskowitz, review in the British Journal of Psychiatry.
Click here to read “Education minister faces copycat allegations over ‘Freudian slip’” published in the 222 issue of University World News on May 16, 2012.
Click here to read “‘The Self’ in the Future: Will it be Extinguished, by Neuroscience?” written by Hank Pellisier from The Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies on May 16, 2012.
Click here to watch a video from the Algama Foundation via YouTube of Dr. Howard Shevrin discussing the unconscious and his career.
CELEBRATING A CENTURY OF ADVANCEMENT THROUGH SELF-KNOWLEDGE
THE NEW YORK PSYCHOANALYTIC SOCIETY & INSTITUTE:
The Helix Center for Interdisciplinary Investigation
247 East 82nd St., between 2nd & 3rd, NY, NY, 10028
212-879-6900
www.psychoanalysis.org
Saturday, May 19, 2012, 2:30 – 4:30 PM, Donations accepted
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by Herbert H. Stein
I don’t know how many readers of International Psychoanalysis have seen the French Canadian film, Incendies. For those who have not seen it, I must warn you that this article will include important “spoilers,” so reader beware.
It is an award winning film, highly acclaimed, that brings the viewer to the horror and cruelty of war and of ethnic hatred amidst a story of incredible courage with the inevitable accompaniment of intense trauma. But that is not why I particularly bring Incendies to your attention. I thought that it might be of interest to analysts because it bears striking parallels with Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex (perhaps more properly Oedipus Tyrannus). Read the rest of this post »
Click here to read “iPad gives voice to kids with autism” by Supraja Seshadri from CNN on May 14, 2012.
Click here to read “Jews, the Left and the Rest” by Eitan Kensky from The Jewish Daily Forward on May 15, 2012.
Click Here to Read: Psychoanalysts of the Left and Far Left Panel with Richard Brent, Arnold Richards, and Nathan Szajnberg on this website.
Click here to read and view “Slideshow: Yiddish Communist Magazine” by Eitan Kensky from The Jewish Daily Forward on May 15, 2012.
Click here to read “Goldman-Bred Neuroscientist Bares Secret of Testosterone Trading” by James Pressley from Sanfrancisco Chronicle via Bloomberg News on May 14, 2012.
THE PACELLA PARENT CHILD CENTER
247 East 82nd St., between 2nd & 3rd, NY, NY 10028
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www.theparentchildcenter.org
Helping Post Partum Mothers Attachment with their Babies
Dear Colleague,
We would like to let you know about our mother support groups, where mothers attend with their babies and toddlers. Read the rest of this post »
Click Here to Read: ‘This is the cost of being human’: The same genes that allowed modern humans to evolve speech may cause autism. Part of brain that recently evolved helped us speak and make complex decisions also responsible for ‘Fragile X’ syndrome, leading cause of inherited autism By Rob Waugh on the Daily Mail website on May 14, 2012.
Click Here to Read: Chapter 11 of Minding the Social Brain by Jay Harris.
From Jay Harris, author of the upcoming book, Minding the Social Brain:
I invite you to the final chapter of Minding the Social Brain, a book about how the functional brain externalizes its structure to form human society. The anterior prefrontal cortex contains the full verbal and iconic Read the rest of this post »
Click Here to Listen To: The Many Meanings of Where The Wild Things Are on the Day 6 with Brent Bambury show interviewing Richard Gottlieb about Maurice Sendak on the CBC Radio website on May 11, 2012.
Click Here to Read: Maurice Sendak, Author of Splendid Nightmares, Dies at 83 by Margalit Fox in The New York Times on May 8. 2012.
PLEASE JOIN US
for an informal gathering to learn about training at our
CHILD & ADOLESCENT PSYCHOTHERAPY PROGRAM (the CAP program)
Sunday, May 20th, 3:00-5:00 p.m., At the home of Rori Shaffer Read the rest of this post »
Click Here to Read: Can You Call a 9-Year-Old a Psychopath? by Jennifer Kahn in the New York Times on May 11, 2012.
