Click Here to Read: “Destructive Delusions” How therapists and ‘victims’ seized on the idea of repressed memory, leveling false charges and ruining lives By Theodore Dalrymple in the Wall Street Journal on November 19th, 2008.
Click Here To View: Video “Interrogation Psychologists: The Making of a Professional Crisis”
This is a guest post which highlights the documentary video “Interrogation Psychologists: The Making of a Professional Crisis” directed by colleague and friend Martha Davis PhD. Dr. Davis is a Clinical Psychologist and a Visiting Scholar at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City. She is an expert in the detection of deception, and has published numerous articles and books on non-verbal communication research. The “Interrogation Psychologis ts: The Making of a Professional Crisis” premiered at the conference entitled “The Interrogation and Torture Controversy: Crisis in Psychology” held at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, Center on Terrorism in New York City on September 12, 2008.
Click Here for Details: Symposium “Psychoanalysis, Rights, Knowledge” Sponsored by UNESCO as a part of Phliosophy Day. The conference will take place in Room I, at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris, on 20 and 21 November, 2008.
Click Here to Read: In Psychiatry, Can a Punch Line Be a Lifeline? by Benjamin Brody in The New York Times on November 17, 2008.
Click Here To Read: Extract: Bleak Hotel by DM Thomas from the Sunday Times of London on November 15th, 2009,
Click Here to Read: The Morning After: A Reflection by Leo Rangell in the Huffington Post website on Saturday, November 15th.
In the July, 2005 issue of The Psychoanalytic Quarterly, Leon Balter examines seven dreams from the literature and his own clinical work in which a patient describes either a dream within a dream or a work of art within a dream. Starting from Freud’s formulation that the “dream within a dream” represents reality that the dreamer needs to deny by portraying it as a product of imagination, Balter convincingly comes to the conclusion that the “nested” dream or work of art represents in greater or lesser disguise a distressing reality that is being partially denied. A dream or work of art within a dream should alert us to an attempt to disguise a distressing inner or outer reality while also creating a question, uncertainty, about how we can know what is real.
What if we applied Balter’s findings to a play within a film?1 The film I had in mind is Finding Neverland, a popular film about J.M. Barrie’s creation of the play, Peter Pan. The “nested” play is, of course, Peter Pan, itself, a play well known to most of the audience. (more…)
PHOTOGRAPHS BY DR. ERNEST KAFKA FEATURED IN:
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December 12th 2008 – January 31st 2009
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Click here to Read: The thought-catcher By Kobi Ben-Simhon in H’aretz November 13, 2008.
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THE NEW YORK PSYCHOANALYTIC SOCIETY & INSTITUTE:
WORKS IN PROGRESS
247 East 82nd St., between 2nd & 3rd
Wednesday, November 19, 2008, 8:30 p.m.
The Role of Couples Therapy in Individual Treatment
Graciela Abelin-Sas, M.D. will discuss how psychoanalytically informed couples therapy impacts individual therapy.
For information about our training programs please visit us at: www.psychoanalysis.org
Click Here to View: 75th Anniversary Retrospective of the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis.
Click Here to Read: John Harris: Inside the court of London’s golden couple, Elisabeth Murdoch and Matthew Freud from Inside LA.com on November 12, 2008.
Elizabeth Murdoch and Matthew Freud
Click Here to Read: Ernest Kafka’s Introduction of Ernest Hartmann who delivered the 16th Annual Charles Fisher Memorial Lecture on Tuesday, November 11, 2008 at the New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute.
Click Here to Read: Ernest Hartmann’s paper: On The Nature and Function of Dreaming in the International Psychoanalysis Website.
Click Here To Read: In a Novel Theory of Mental Disorders, Parents’ Genes Are in Competition by Benedict Carey in the New York Times on November 10, 2008.
Bernard Crespi of Simon Fraser University and a fellow researcher propose that a tug of war between genes can tip brain development.
Click Here to Read: Blueprints for Auschwitz camp found in Germany by Erik Kirschbaum on the Reuters Website on November 8, 2008.
Click here to Read: Auschwitz survivor tells of family’s ordeal by a Staff Reporter in the Derry Journal on January 27, 2009.
Hair which belonged to prisoners is seen in the former Nazi death camp Auschwitz in Oswiecim, Poland, January 12, 2007.
Click Here To Read: Think Again: Psychoology and Torture by Stanley Fish in the New York Times on November 9th, 2009.
THE NEW YORK PSYCHOANALYTIC SOCIETY
(Incorporated March 2, 1911)
The Memorial Meeting for Charles Brenner will be held at The New York Psychoanalytic Society in the Auditorium, 247 East 82nd Street, New York City, on Saturday, November 15, 2008 from 10:00 A.M. – 12:30 P.M.
A Meeting to Remember Charles Brenner, MD
(All Are Welcome to Attend)
