International Psychoanalysis

Schlesinger on Psychoanalysis.

Herb Schlesinger is speaking tonight on how we know when we are doing psychoanalysis at NYU.  Here is a review of his gem-like classic, The Texture of Treatment. It is reprinted from the Hebrew, Sichot.

 N. Szajnberg, MD, Managing Editor.

 Book Review: The Texture of Treatment: On the Matter of Psychoanalytic Technique.  Herbert J. Schlesinger (2003) Analytic Press. 

By Nathan Szajnberg , MD and Keren Segal, BA Read the rest of this post »

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.

 Click Here to Read:  Bertram Cohler, psychologist and esteemed teacher, 1938-2012 By William Harms in the U Chicago News on May 14, 2012.

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 »

Dear colleagues,

This week it has been very difficult to focus a single theme as so much is happening in our analytic world. We wonder about the influence of mothers on world leaders, neuroscience interfaces with our approach in ethical questions regarding the loss of a “self”, in our understanding of autism and Asperger diagnosed children, we are finding more data on the atrocities of the Holocause and we mourn 3 men whose lives have touched so many – Jean Laplanche whose contribution to psychoanalysis is unforgettable and Maurice Sendak whose ability to use the unconscious to speak to children and adults is unsurpassable, and Bertram Cohler who meant so much to many of his students. I list them first in my choices. Read the rest of this post »

Towards An Understanding of Loneliness and Aloneness: At APSaA Conference 2012, Chicago, Illinois

How does a psychoanalyst understand loneliness? LIterary works
through their dramatic characters allow us to examine and consider
human passion, foibles and pain in a way that otherwise might not be
as easily recognizable. We invite you to to a discussion by Dr.
Jeffrey Stern about the loneliness of particular characters in Read the rest of this post »

Click here to watch: “PRADA presents ‘A THERAPY’” by Prada via YouTube on May 22, 2012.

Click here to read: “A Richard Life by Seeing the Glass Half Full” by Jane E. Brody’s from The New York Times on May 21, 2012.

Jackie O: On the Couch, Inside the Mind and Life of Jackie Kennedy Onassis by Alma H. Bond is an Award-Winning Finalist in the Fiction: Historical category of the 2012 International Book Awards.

Click here to read: “Drugs Help Tailor Alcoholism Treatment” by Douglas Quenqua in The New York Times on May 21, 2012.

Click here to watch: “You’ve Got Paul J. Zak” via AOL.com, which features neuroeconomist Paul J. Zak explaining the role of  oxytocin in allowing humans to feel more trust and love for one another.

Dr. Zak is the founding Director of the Center for Neuroeconomics Studies at Claremont Graduate University. He is also credited with the first published use of the term “neuroeconomics” — a discipline that integrates neuroscience and economics.

Click here to read: “Two significant works: Fritz Lang’s House by the River (1950) and Carol Reed’s The Third Man (1949)” by Kevin Kearney from the World Socialist Web Site on May 22, 2012.

Click Here to Read:  Transgender Five-Year-Old? What decisions should small children be permitted to make?  By Mona Charen on the National Review Online website on  May 22, 2012.

Mona Charen

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The Treatment of Celebrity Patients
Ellen L. Mezan, Ph.D. Read the rest of this post »

Click here to read “Education Pioneer Annemarie Roeper Passes Away” written by Julie M. Rodriguez from the Care2 website posted on May 20, 2012.

Click here to watch “Alive Inside” posted on YouTube April 7, 2012, which follows the story of an elderly, typically depressed man in a nursing home who reacts positively to hearing music from his era.

Click Here to Read: The Story of Melancholia  by Åsa Jansson on the History of Emotions website on The Story of Melancholia on November 28, 2011.

Click Here to Read: Paralysed woman moves robot with her mind by Nature Video on YouTube.

Click Here to Read: Paralyzed, Moving a Robot With Their Minds by Benedict Carey in The New York Times on May 16, 2012.

Click Here to Read: Depressed people spend more time chatting online By Linda Carroll on the tails at MSNBC website on May 18, 2012.

Click Here to Read: Mary R. Kennedy’s Death Teaches What United Behavioral Health Forgets: Depression Kills by Todd Essig on the Forbes Magazine website on May 19, 2012.

Click here to watch “Psychoanalytic Therapy Session” via YouTube from The Royal Road…Psychoanalytic Approaches to the Dream produced by Dr. Glenn Gabbard; Menninger Video in 1988.

Click here to read “Alain Badiou: a life in writing” written by Stuart Jeffries from The Gaurdian on May 18, 2012.

Click here to read “Their Sense of Belonging,” written by Timothy Snyder from The Wall Street Journal on May 18, 2012.

Click here to Read:   Joanna Kellond ‘Deciding How to Live: Review of  The Life and Death of Psychoanalysis: On Unconscious Desire and its Sublimation by Jamieson Webster  in Excursions, 3, 1 (2012).