International Psychoanalysis

Click here to read:  Daniel Widlocher, Past-president of the International Psychoanalytic Association’s Contribution to the Panel: “What Do We Mean By Working Through?” at the International Psychoanalytic Association’s Meeting in Berlin, July 26th, 2007. 

Click here to read my interview with Charles Fisher Part III: From LA to Chicago to DC to NYC

Click here to read: Steven Ellman’s Review of Howard Shevrin’s Subliminal Explorations of Perception, Dreams, and Jantasies: The Pioneering Contributions of Charles Fisher. This article was originally published in the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association. Used with Permission.©2005, American Psychoanalytic Association. All Rights Reserved.

Click here to read: Melvin Lansky’s Discussion from Symposium 2006: On Shame

Click here to read: Elizabeth Carr’s Paper from Symposium 2006: Shame and Abuse: A Contemporary Self Psychological Relational Perspective

Click here to read: The Introduction by Cyril Levitt to: The Mystery of Sacrifice or Man is what he eats by Ludwig Feuerbach

Click here to read: The Mystery of Sacrifice or Man is what he eats by Ludwig Feuerbach translated by Cyril Levitt.

Syriana confuses the viewer. In the opening scenes, we move rapidly from the middle of the desert, to a Teheran nightclub, to a Georgetown garden, to a board room, to a family breakfast table in Geneva, Switzerland; from a bus loading workmen, to a missile sale, to a man cutting flowers while explaining oil deals, to a corporate argument over a merger, to a young American family eating breakfast. We are continually given snippets of conversation, passed off rapidly. We are introduced to multiple characters, with names thrown around like a juggler’s batons. We struggle in each scene to understand what is going on and in most cases can’t complete the task before we are in the next scene, having to re-assimilate. We are left with an impressionistic flow of visual and auditory stimuli. We can make some sense of it, but are at the same time aware that we are missing important details. One of the film’s earlier titles was “See No Evil”. In fact, we often are not sure what we are seeing.

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Click here to Read: Paul Mosher and my paper “The History of Membership/Certification in the APsaA: Old Demons, New Debates”

Click here to read: Andrew Morrison’s Paper “Shame in the Transference/Countertransference Interaction” from Symposium 2006: On Shame

Click here to read: Joseph Lichtenberg’s Paper “Shame: Initiative’s Social Regulator; Shame: Initiative’s Stealth Destroyer” from Symposium 2006: On Shame

Psychologists Aiding and Abetting Torture By Deborah Kory.

 In August, the American Psychological Association (APA)  will hold its annual convention in San Francisco. Notably absent from the program: the application of psychology to current world events. War, terror, genocide. “Our War on Terror that has led to the Deaths of Hundreds of Thousands of People”—how about that for a plenary session? Of course there are divisions inside the APA organizing against the Bush Administration’s policies and trying to have an impact on public discourse about the war in Iraq, but they are marginalized and fighting an uphill battle in a professional organization whose adherence to the status quo allows it continued legitimacy and access to power.

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Click here to Read: Bertram Rosen’s review of The Sopranos on the Couch by Maurice Yacowa and Psychology of the Sopranos by Glen O. Gabbard

Click here to Read: Sheldon Bach’s Getting From Here to There: Analytic Love, Analytic Process reviewed by Jay Frankel.

Reprinted with the permission of the Psychologist Psychoanalyst, the Newsletter of Division 39 of the American Psychological Association.

Click here to read: The Canary in the Coal Mine: Psychoanalysis and Health Care Policy by Prudence Gourguechon, MD

Crazy or Evil?
Classing the Virginia Tech killer among them is an insult to the insane.

By Martin E.P. Seligman (with the permission of the author). | In the wake of the Blacksburg massacre, we are once again hearing the chorus of crazy. Seung-Hui Cho had an imaginary girlfriend, Jelly. He said he was from Mars en route to Jupiter. He was withdrawn, bashful to the point of mute, and delusional. He is headlined as a “madman.” This does not, to my way of thinking, remotely explain what happened. It neither mitigates his responsibility, nor will it help to prevent such awful events. Even worse, it is a callous and egregious insult to all the wonderful, humane “crazy” people that psychologists and psychiatrists routinely treat. Read the rest of this entry »

Click here to read: Bennett Roth’s Review of Jim Sheridan’s Movie “In America”

Click here to Read: Jane Hall’s Paper from Symposium 2006: On Shame.

Reprinted with permission from The Round Robin, Spring 2007, Volume XXII, No. 2, the Newsletter of Section I, Division 39 of the American Psychological Association.

Click here to read: Benjamin Kilborne’s Paper from Symposium 2006: On Shame.

Reprinted with permission from The Round Robin, Spring 2007, Volume XXII, No. 2, the Newsletter of Section I, Division 39 of the American Psychological Association.

Click here to read: Mary Libby’s Presentation “On Narcissistic Mortification” from Symposium 2006: On Shame at Mt. Sinai Medical Center, Stern Auditorium, New York, NY.

Reprinted with permission from The Round Robin, Spring 2007, Volume XXII, No. 2, the Newsletter of Section I, Division 39 of the American Psychological Association.