International Psychoanalysis

THE NEW YORK PSYCHOANALYTIC SOCIETY & INSTITUTE:
Arnold Pfeffer Center for Neuropsychoanalysis
247 East 82nd St., between 2nd & 3rd                               

Saturday, November 1, 2008, 10 a.m.

Frances Champagne, Ph.D. will speak about Epigenetics and the Transmission of Behavior Across Generations.  Do mother infant interactions mediate a Lamarckian mode of inheritance?  Maggie Zellner will be the discussant.

For information about our training programs please visit us at: www.psychoanalysis.org

Click Here to Read: Our Hatred of “The Other”: American Racism and Democrats Vs.  Republicans in the 2008 Presidential Election by Peter Wolson.  Presented it at a workshop in Orange County sponsored by the American Association of Clinical Social Workers in  Psychoanalysis last Saturday, October 11th, 2008.

Click Here To Read: Inscribing Jewish Identity: Reading an Italian Hebrew Sonnet by Cheryl Goldstein in the New Vilna Review written on April 9, 2008 and published on October 15th, 2008.

This article originally appeared in the New Vilna Review.

Click Here to Read: APsaA’s Long March to Inclusion: The role of the internet in organizational change by Arnold Richards.  Paper to be given at the Conference Listening in the Age of Google - Clinical Perspectives and Social Action at NAAP on October 18th, 2008. 

Click here for Info: On the NAAP Conference: Listening in the Age of Google - Clinical Perspectives and Social Action on October 18th, 2008.

Click Here To View: Powerpoint for this Presentation by Arnold Richards

Click Here To Read: Internet use ‘good for the brain’ from the BBC News Website on October 14th. 2008.

Areas activated by reading a book
in the brain of an experienced web user

Web use stimulates much more
activity in the same brain

Click Here to Read: As economy sinks, officials fear violent solutions from the Associated Press on CNN Website on October 14, 2008.

Click Here To Read: New dads can get postpartum depression, too from  Houston, Texas on the CNN wesbite on October 13, 2008.

          Last month, I posted on twinship fantasies in The Prestige, in memory of Jules Glenn. The Road to Perdition, a film that came out a few years ago, also focuses on brothers.

         When a film has a narrator, we are often seeing the world through the subjective eyes of that narrator. Even analysts tend to forget when they are in a theater that what they are told refers to psychic reality which contains admixtures of the “real world” and fantasy. The Road to Perdition has a narrator, Michael Sullivan Jr., and I think it fair to examine the film as coming from his psychic reality. (more…)

Click Here To Read: Notes for a dialogue between psychoanalysis and neuroscience by Franco Scalzone.  

This article previously appeared as Scalzone, Franco (2005). Notes for a dialogue between psychoanalysis and neuroscience. International Journal of Psycho-Analysis, 86: (5) 1405-1423. and appears here with all requisite rights and permissions.  The definitive version is available from Wiley.

Click Here to Read: Israel Artist, Psychiatrist Evan Hillel Bellin “Parapraxis” In Ra’anana.

Unpublished Letter to the Editor by Fern Traeger:

To the Editor:
Re: “Pitbull Palin Mauls McCain” (Sunday Opinion, October 5th)

Bravo to Frank Rich who has so articulately identified one of the most disturbing aspects of Sarah Palin’s rhetoric: “A consistent message of hubristic self-confidence and hyper-ambition.” Rich goes on to describe Charlie Gibson’s interview with Palin during which he asks her about her readiness to join McCain’s ticket, and her response that she didn’t “hesitate” and didn’t “even blink.”

In my professional sphere, this inflated sense of one’s abilities, inconsistent with reality, is known as mania. It is characterized by grandiosity that, in the extreme, might result in an individual jumping off a building believing he is Superman, or another bankrupting himself spending all his savings on luxuries, or someone who, as Rich points out, thinks she can be President because she wants to be President.

In the first two examples, the individual’s recklessness primarily hurts himself; the consequences of the third will be disastrous for all Americans, and will reverberate throughout the world.

Ferne Traeger
New York, October 6th, 2008

Click Here To Read: Letters to the Editor of the New York Times re: Let’s Talk About the Talking Cure on October 5th, 2008.  Sylvia Brody’s is at the bottom of the page.
 
 

Leo Rangell, M.D. is the recipient of the Haskell Norman Prize for Excellence in Psychoanalysis for 2008. Established in honor of the late psychoanalyst, Haskell Norman, M.D., this international award is given to a psychoanalyst for outstanding achievement as a clinician, teacher and theoretician.

Dr. Rangell will receive the award and deliver a lecture at the Scientific Meeting of the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis at 7:30 pm on Monday, October 13, 2008.? The Center is located at 2340 Jackson St., 4th Floor (entrance on Webster St.) in San Francisco.

The lecture, entitled “Music in the Head. Living at the Brain-Mind Border. A View into the Creative Process,” is a personal and theoretical view of an unusual creative phenomenon at the interface of brain and mind.

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Click Here to Read: Warhol’s Jews by Kenneth Baker, Chronicle Art Critic, in the San Francisco Chronicle on October 10, 2008.

Eric Kandel

Click Here to Read: We can learn how to banish our fears on the Daily India.com website on  October 9, 2008. 

Click Here To Listen To:   Podcast of Interview with Robert Stolorow on Trauma and Change in America.  On The Howard Gluss Show.  In four parts.

 Click Here to Read: Psychologist had a 50-year career in New York City by Mark Zaloudek in the Herald Tribune website on Friday, October 3, 2008 at 1:00 a.m.
 
 
 
 
 
 

Click Here to Read: Angst Is Rising, but Many Must Forgo Therapy By Elizabeth Bernstein in the Wall Street Journal on October 7th, 2008.

Click Here To Read: 2008 Presidential Candidate Positions on Disability-related Issues: Prepared by the Ohio Legal Rights Service, September 2008.

THE NEW YORK PSYCHOANALYTIC SOCIETY & INSTITUTE
247 East 82nd Street, between 2nd & 3rd

Friday, October 10, 2008, 7:30 p.m.
Candidate-Sponsored Scientific Program

Oh for Freud’s Sake!
Should There Be a Place for Lacan in the Future of Psychoanalysis?

Dany Nobus, Ph.D. will speak about Lacan being the most important analyst since Freud.  Dr. Nobus will address the significance of Lacan’s contributions, resistance to Lacan as well as why Lacan resists entering the mainstream.

Join us for a wine and cheese reception at 6:30 p.m.

Please RSVP at: info@nypsa.org

For information about our training programs please visit us at: www.psychoanalysis.org