International Psychoanalysis

DJ Fisher on Makari: Broadening  Freud and Freudianism
 N. Szajnberg, MD, Managing Editor

  Dr. Fisher returns with a reflective review of Makari’s landmark “Revolution in Mind,” a book that takes its place with Ellenberger’s history of the unconscious and the series of works by Peter Gay and Sander Gilman.  Fisher outlines Makari’s crisp outline of the three strands of nineteenth century thinking on mind (academic psychology), sex and psychophysics, weaving them into the fabric that is psychoanalysis.  Makari also explores the woof and warp that became the “professionalization” of psychoanalysis beginning in the 1920’s. 
              Then, Fisher broadens this work by articulating how psychoanalysis, particularly in  the U. S. became stiff with its decades-long isolation from colleagial disciplines in the humanities and social sciences (and today, with some neuroscientists, excepting a few such as Kandel and Solms, ignoring psychoanalysis.  Let us see where Fisher brings us.

Click Here to Read: Considerations of George Makari’s Revloution in Mind by David James Fisher, Ph.D.

Dear colleagues,

As winter keeps us more or less indoors despite the mild weather on the east coast, the international psychoanalytic website provides us with an opportunity to read numerous posts this week worthy of our attention. The horizon of psychoanalysis is widening despite predictions of biological psychiatry taking over and our posts are an increasing testimony to that effect. Theater, film, and news articles more and more address psychological roots of many societal problems. This week I will again begin with a list of few that I picked out as stand outs in this area, followed by the usual list.

I have omitted some announcements which I had listed in previous weeks, but please make sure that you glance at them if you have the opportunity to attend any of them.

The following are my choices.

1) The film ***A Dangerous Method*** has brought the public***s attention to Jung and Freud.

Writer Kate Ferguson on the Ham and High website has taken advantage of this to publish a well written history of the London Hampstead Clinic started by Anna Freud.
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Early Rates Extended to March 1st!  Register Soon! 

Symposium 2012: On Loneliness
Guldwurm Auditorium Mount Sinai Medical Center
March 24th, 2012

Loneliness is perhaps one of the most painful affective states a person can experience. It is a subjective experience that most of us have, at some point in our lives, had. It may be experienced as an intense emptiness or solitude, an isolation from others both internal and/or external. Or, it can be experienced as grief; a loneliness in the presence of others. It can be also be understood by its duration (e.g., temporary or chronic) or, as Sartre noted, an essential feature of the human condition. Sartre believed this condition arose from conflict between the need to create meaning in life and the awareness of isolation or nothingness in the universe. For a psychoanalyst this idea might translate into an infantile experience of needing the mother and becoming aware that she is not always available. For a psychoanalyst this idea might translate into an infantile experience of needing the mother and becoming aware that she is not always available.

 Click Here to Register:  For Symposium 2012.

Click Here for: The Full Brochure  

 
Chronic loneliness has been linked to physical (e.g., cancer, stroke, high blood pressure and cardiovascular disease) and psychological (e.g., depression and schizoid pathology, impaired cognition and personal determination, sleep disturbance, suicide, alcoholism and substance abuse) difficulties. As we can see from the variety of manifestations loneliness is often a complex phenomena in both its aetiology and presentation.
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 Saturday March 24 at Yale Child Study Center, 200 South Frontage Road, New Haven, CT.  with  Vamik Volkan, MD and Leora Kahn, Executive Director,  PROOF: Media For Social Justice

We will explore the psychological experiences of individuals bearing witness to conflict. As participant observers we must confront the limitations and Read the rest of this post »

Click Here to Read:  The coming medical revolution:  Technology has the potential to transform our concept of sickness. An expert explains what the future holds By Lucy McKeon on the Salon website on February 19, 2012.

Click Here to Read: A Jew in the Northwest By William Deresiewicz on The American Scholar website.

Click Here to Read: John Ford’s The Broken Heart: Impressive production of a rarely performed 17th-century classic By Robert Fowler  on the World Social Web Site on February 22, 2012.

Click Here to Read: “The Book of Emotions” Entrancing but Unsatisfying, review of  “The Book of Emotions” by João Almino (Dalkey Archive Press), Reviewed By Zoe K. Hitzig in the Harvard Crimson on February 21, 2012.

Click Here to Read: David McWilliams: Illusion of Greek bailout is Europe’s dirty little secret on the Independent.ie website on February 22, 2012.

Click Here to Read;  Tired of Feeling Bad? The New Science of Feelings Can Help by Sharon Begley on the Dialy Beast website February 20, 2012.

Click Here to Read: Sleep: How Long Can You Go Without It? on the Huffington Post Talk Nerdy to Me blog on February 21, 2012.

Click Here to Read: A Seminal Leader in the Field of Psychoanalysis:  Retrospective Sketches about the Life of Bertram David Lewin (1896-1971) by Lawrence M. Ginsburg.

Bertram David Lewin

Click Here to Read:  Are you mad to love city living? By Andrew Purcell i9n the New Scientist on February 21, 2012.

Click Here to View:  Treating Depression: Is there a placebo effect? A Harvard scientist says the drugs used to treat depression are effective, but for many, it’s not the active ingredient that’s making people feel better. It’s the placebo effect.  onthe 60 Minutes website on February 19, 2012.

Irving Kirsch, MD

Click Here to Read: Show Me the Love… Or Not Smothering or Standoffish, People Can Be Happy With Their Emotional Opposites by Elizabeth Bernstein in the Wall Street Journal on February 21, 2012.

Click Here to Read:  There’s More to Nothing Than We Knew By Dennis Ooverbye in The New York Times on February 20, 2012.

Click Here to Read: Uncomfortable past: Confronting the psychology of communism, review The Psychology of Communism by Jindřich Kabát, Reviewed by Dominik Jůn on the CzechPosition.com website.

PLEASE JOIN NYPSI AS IT CONTINUES ITS CENTENARY CELEBRATION
CELEBRATING A CENTURY OF ADVANCEMENT THROUGH SELF-KNOWLEDGE THE NEW YORK PSYCHOANALYTIC SOCIETY & INSTITUTE:
Theater Series
247 East 82nd St., between 2nd & 3rd, NY, NY, 10028
212-879-6900, www.psychoanalysis.org

Saturday, March 3, 2012, 2 pm, at Primary Stages, 59 East 59th St.; NY, NY
PSYCHOANALYSIS & THEATER
See a Professional Play and Stay to Participate in an After Play Analytic Discussion with Fred Sander, M.D. & Dan Prezant, Ph.D.

Kate Fodor’s world premiere of “Rx” about America’s love affair with Big Pharma. Read the rest of this post »

PLEASE JOIN NYPSI AS IT CONTINUES ITS
CENTENARY CELEBRATION
 CELEBRATING A CENTURY OF ADVANCEMENT THROUGH SELF-KNOWLEDGE

THE NEW YORK PSYCHOANALYTIC SOCIETY & INSTITUTE:
Extension Committee
247 East 82^nd St., between 2^nd & 3^rd, NY, NY 10028
212-879-6900
www.psychoanalysis.org

A SHORT COURSE IN PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTING FOR MENTAL HEALTH PROFESSIONALS William H. Braun, Psy.D. Tuesdays
8:15 – 9:45 pm April 3 & 10, 2012 (2 sessions) Fee:  $30 Read the rest of this post »

PLEASE JOIN NYPSI AS IT CONTINUES ITS CENTENARY CELEBRATION
CELEBRATING A CENTURY OF ADVANCEMENT THROUGH SELF-KNOWLEDGE
THE NEW YORK PSYCHOANALYTIC SOCIETY & INSTITUTE:
Scientific Meeting
247 East 82nd St., between 2nd & 3rd, NY, NY 10028
212-879-6900
www.psychoanalysis.org

MINDING THE GAP III: DREAMING: PSYCHOANALYSIS OR NEUROBIOLOGY?
Saturday, May 5, 2012, 9:15 am to 4:45 pm, No Charge
No Registration Required
Location: Mt. Sinai Medical Center (Stern Auditorium) Read the rest of this post »

CELEBRATING A CENTURY OF ADVANCEMENT THROUGH SELF-KNOWLEDGE
THE NEW YORK PSYCHOANALYTIC SOCIETY & INSTITUTE:
247 East 82nd St., between 2nd & 3rd, NY, NY 10028
212-879-6900
www.psychoanalysis.org

NYPSI: OPEN HOUSE & COCKTAILS FOR PROSPECTIVE CANDIDATES
Thursday, March 8, 2012, 7:30-9 p.m.,
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Click Here to Read:  SPAIN 1936 to 1939. The memories and places of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade. A Tour and a Blog of the places connected with the American International Brigaders. Two members of APsaA Aaron Hilcovich (Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute) and William Pike (New York Psychoanalytic Institute) were in thr Medical Corps of the Lincoln Brigade