International Psychoanalysis

Dear Colleagues,

Fresh from the APSaA meeting in Washington, DC, the beat goes on and the international psychoanalytic website “that never sleeps” is again full of interesting posts which I will outline below.

My suggestions this week are:

1) though perhaps I should not have been, I was taken aback by the post on “British Girls in the 3rd Reich”:

“In the 1930s, many English families sent their daughters to finishing school in Nazi Germany. Rachel Johnson, sister of the London mayor, interviewed several for her most recent book. She told SPIEGEL ONLINE about Britain’s enthusiasm for Hitler’s Reich.” The British press has praised the book for being both entertaining and historically accurate.Johnson, who is the sister of Read the rest of this post »

Internationanalpsychoanalysis.net has flourished in a remarkable way since it was launched in January 2007. It has become both an archive and a news source.

One of the serendipitous outgrowths of its presence and has been that we have even more reasons to experience ourselves as a community with a history, elders, anniversaries, anecdotes, a paper trail, photos and relics of our founders — and evidence of our on-going growth and adaptation to a very changed therapeutic world.

But the growth has outpaced the cottage and one computer.

Are you able to contribute to the cost of our widening scope?

We will use contributions to internationalpsychoanalysis.net to scan and transcribe papers, search archives, find photographs format documents and upload recordings and videos. It is labor intensive and for me a labor of love [but for the helpers, indeed, work]. Read the rest of this post »

A symposium in Sigmund Freud’s birthplace, Příbor, Czech Republic, following the IPA Congress in Prague, August, 2013. Sunday Evening, August 4, 2013: welcome reception and cultural program.Monday, August 5, 2013: full day symposium.

Click Here to Read: Flyer for the Conference

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Click Here to Read:  Front and Back Covers of The Still Small Voice: Psychoanalytic Reflections on Guilt and Conscience by Donald L. Carveth.

Click Here to Read:  Women in Nepal Suffer Monthly Ostracization By Allyn Gaestel in The New York Times on June 14, 2013.

Click Here To Read: Mind the Brain Podcast Episode 02: The Neuroscience of Music – Anticipation and Reward By Ruchir Shah on the Plos Blogs website on  June 18, 2013.

Click here to Read:  Beyond the Brain By David Brooks in The New York Times on June 17, 2013.

David Brooks on “Neurocentrism”

Brooks in today’s NYT’s column cites several recent books that reframe the popularity of brain picturing in today’s science and popular press.

He summarizes four conceptual complications about using brain imaging alone to explain our functioning. First, that a brain region may serve a variety of different tasks. Second, (and complementary), that one task may use different brain reactions or states. Third, that one activity, such as ‘working memory’, may distribute over multiple regions (at least 30 in the case of working Read the rest of this post »

Click Here to Read: Homer C. Curtis, 96, psychoanalyst and teacher By Bonnie L. Cook in the Philadelphia Inquiry on June 17, 2013.

Click Here to Read:  Freud’s Baby, Fliess’s Maybe: Homophobia, Anti-Semitism, and the Invention of Oedipus by Daniel Boyarin.

This article originally appeared as:  Daniel Boyarin,  (1995). Freud’s Baby, Fliess’s Maybe: Homophobia, Anti-Semetism, and the Invention of Oedipus.  GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies April 1995 2 (1 and 2) : 115-147; doi:10.1215/10642684-2-1_and_2-115  and appears here with all requisite rights and permissions. 

Click Here to Read: Dad’s Stress Could Affect Offspring Through Epigenetic Changes To Sperm, Mouse Study Shows  on the Huffington Post website on June 16, 2013.

Contemporary Freudian Society: Foundations of Psychoanalytic Practice

Click Here to Read:  Getting Started With Czech-Jewish Genealogy by E. Randol Schoenberg and Julius Mueller on the Austria-Czech Special Interest Group website.

Click Here to Read:  Secrets, review of The Correspondence of Sigmund Freud and Sándor Ferenczi. Vol I: 1908-14 edited by Eva Brabant, Ernst Falzeder and Patrizia Giampieri-Deutsch, translated by Peter Hoffer, Reviewed by Adam Phillips in the London Review of Books in  Vol. 16 No. 19 · 6 October 199.

Click Here to Read:  Faking It in China by Ian Johnson in The New York Review of Books on June 6, 2013.

Click Here to Read:  Freud & Ferenczi:  By  Phyllis Grosskurth in response to The Lovable Analyst by Axel Hoffer from the December 8, 1988 issue on the New York Review of Books Website on August 17, 1989.

Click Here to Read:  Judy Blume’s Tiger Eyes brought to the screen: An  understated examination of grief By Christine Schofelt on the World Socialist Web Site on   June 17, 2013.

Click Here to Read:  The Problem With Psychiatry, the ‘DSM,’ and the Way We Study Mental Illness  By Ethan Watters  on the Pacific Standard website on June 3, 2013 .

In the 1880s, women by the tens of thousands displayed the distinctive signs of hysteria: convulsive fits, facial tics, spinal irritation, sensitivity to touch, leg paralysis. (ILLUSTRATION: MICHELLE THOMPSON)

Here is the announcement from the Anna Freud Centre, where Sir Peter Fonagy is Chief Executive Officer.

Professor Fonagy first came into contact with the Centre as a teenager when he received help from the organisation after being separated from his family upon leaving Hungary. Now over 30 years later and after ten years successfully leading the Centre that once helped him, Professor Fonagy has been honoured with an OBE in recognition of his services to psychoanalysis and psychology.
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Click Here to Read nnd View:   Ghosts of Soviet Holocaust Cinema Finally Escape From the Censors’ Files  Long-lost and suppressed classics with complicated depictions of the Shoah have found a revivalist champion By Lea Zeltserman on the Tablet website on June 12, 2013.

Still from Fate of a Man. (Courtesy Olga Gershenson)

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Violence in Schools, Homes, and on the Streets:Psychoanalytic Collaboration with Educators, Law Enforcers,
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Click Here to Read:  Two IUP books featured in upcoming YIVO Institute book sessions on the Indiana University Press blog on June 15, 2013.

Click Here to Read:  Heading Into the ‘I’ of the Knaidel Controversy Over Yiddish Spelling Bee Word Misses the Point  By Philologos on The Jewish Daily Forward website on June 16, 2013.

Spelling Trouble: 13-year-old Arvind Mahankali won this year’s Scripps National Spelling Bee and uncorked a linguistic debate.

Click Here to Read:  Knaidel/Kneydl and other posts on this issue on this website.