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I decided to review Freud the Man, an intellectual biography by Lydia Flem after I read
and reviewed the Peter Kramer biography of Freud. It seemed to me that Kramer and Flem were not writing about the same Freud… Click here to Read

“The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science” is the title of a book by Norman Doidge about the current revolution in neuroscience reviewed in today’s The New York Times by Abigail Zuger, M.D. “The credo of this revolution is neuroplasticity — the discovery that the human brain is as malleable as a lump of wet clay not only in infancy, as scientists have long known, but well into hoary old age.

Take note of third from last paragraph:

For neuroplasticity may prove a curse as well. The brain can think itself into ruts, with electrical habits as difficult to eradicate as if it were, in fact, the immutable machine of yore. Sometimes “roadblocks” can be created to help steer its activity back in the desired direction (like bandaging the stroke patient’s good arm). Sometimes rewiring the circuits requires hard cerebral work instead; Dr. Doidge cites the successful Freudian analysis of one of his patients.

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Gregory T. Lombardo’s “Understanding the Mind of Your Bipolar Child” was reviewed in Psychiatric Times (May 01, 2007 Vol. 24 No. 6). Reviewer Amy E. West concludes:

This book is highly recommended as an excellent resource for parents of patients and for health care professionals who work with children and families affected by bipolar disorder. In particular, the book will benefit those who want to understand the disorder’s emergence within a comprehensive developmental framework.

To read the whole review click here.

Click here to read a review of the movie “Munich” by Arlene Kramer Richards.

Announcing two new features at InternationalPsychoanalysis.net

The first is conceptual — we call it our blogs-within-a-blog. Several commentators have stepped up as editors for posts relating to:

psychoanalysis and movies — Herbert H. Stein and Anita Katz (co-editors)
psychoanalysis and art — Danielle Knafo
psychoanalysis and music — Julie Jaffee Nagel
psychoanalysis and books — Joseph Reppen

These editors will be post their own pieces as well as pieces submitted by you. If you’d like to submit a piece for posting, please send it via email to Tamar Schwartz and include the editor’s name in the subject line.

Book Mark Our Book Mart: The second new feature is our Book Mart, accessible from the link on the horizontal menu (a/k/a dashboard) up top. To start off, Book Mart will feature a short list of recommended books at discounted prices, but we hope that the list will grow to include more titles and even some journals. In addition, we can get for you titles from IUP that are not available anywhere else. Tamar Schwartz can take your credit card order via email or telephone.

Dr. Richards has asked me to bring to your attention a blog he found of interest. Psyche, Science, and Society — Blog of Stephen Soldz: Psychoanalyst, Psychologist, Researcher, and Activist. One of Soldz’ recent postings features a video: “Obedience, the classic film on the Milgram experiments on obedience to authority.”

To find Soldz’ blog easily in the future (after it scrolls off our main page here) I have added it to the quick links down the left sidebar, under the “Blogs” heading. I have also added a link directly to the Google site hosting the video on the static page currently called Media that you can access by clicking on the Media button on the horizontal menu bar (a/k/a dashboard) toward the top of our blog.

Click Here to Read: “Echo, Self-object and Love” Paper given by Martin Bergmann at 31st Annual Scientific Conference at Washington Square Institute on Sunday, February 25, 2007.

Click here to Read: Music as Simulacrum of Mental Life by Stuart Feder, M.D.

Links to the music mentioned in this paper: 

Franz Schubert Piano Sonata in A Major Opus 120

Franz Schubert Impromptu #1 In C  

Click here to Read my review of Peter Kramer’s Book: “Freud, the Inventor of the Modern Mind”

My film review essay, “Stanley Kubrick’s swan song: Eyes wide shut” was translated by Karen Christenfeld and published in Int.Jnl.Psycho-Anal. (2004), 85: 209-218.
© Institute of Psychoanalysis, London, UK. It is posted here by permission.
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Click here to Read Yale Kramer’s review, entitled “Indiana Spielberg and His Jewish Problem,” of the movie “Munich”

We cannot literally put Marshal Will Kane on the analytic couch, but he has much in common with a young man who was analyzed by Dr. Arlow.

With much thanks to the members of the NY chapter of the Psychoanalytic Study of Film who discussed this film in June, 1999. Read the rest of this entry »

Click here to read the paper “The Many Faces of Narcissism: Theory, Treatment and Nosology A Personal Journey” I gave at 31st Annual Scientific Conference at Washington Square Institute on Sunday, February 25, 2007.

Click Here to Read: Arthur Lynch’s review of “The Road to Unity” by Leo Rangell