Medication can’t fix a broken childhood
Tuesday, January 27th, 2009Click Here To Read: Medication can’t fix a broken childhood By Claudia Meininger Gold in the Boston Globe on January 26, 2009.
Archive for January, 2009
Whatever Happened to the the Blank Screen? When Psychoanalysts Write Memoirs
Monday, January 26th, 2009
Click Here To Read: The Mid-Manhattan Library Presents: Whatever Happened to the the Blank Screen? When Psychoanalysts Write Memoirs with Fern W. Cohen, PhD and Sue Erikson Bloland, LCSW. Wednesday February 11, 2009, 6:30 pm on the 6th Floor.
Fern Cohen Sue Erikson Bloland
“Undzere Kinder” by Judith Eckman-Jadow
Monday, January 26th, 2009
Click Here To Read: “Undzere Kinder” by Judith Eckman-Jadow, Ph.D. Paper presented at the final conference of a series on “Bearing the Unbearable” sponsored by the Freudian Colloquium Committee, NYU Post-Doctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, November 2, 2008, NYC.
Click Here To Read: Information about a showing of Undzere Kinder at the Institute for Psychoanalytic Training that was held on November 4, 2007 and more information about the file.
World Premier of Arthur Giron’s Voltaire’s Emily
Monday, January 26th, 2009THE NEW YORK PSYCHOANALYTIC SOCIETY & INSTITUTE:THEATER SERIES
247 East 82nd St., between 2nd & 3rd
Saturday, January 31, 2009. 3 p.m.
World Premier of Arthur Giron’s Voltaire’s Emily
The true story of Voltaire’s enduring passion for Emilie du Chatelet, the great translator of Sir Isaac Newton. By night she was a gifted actress, but suffered being a woman, at a time when in France women were not allowed to drink coffee or use their minds. The play explores the question ‘What is the secret of a maintaining a long-lasting love? The play, commissioned by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, was awarded The Galileo Prize – given to plays with science content.
A Comment on The Oprah Syndrome, Bloated, Depressed–As O Goes, So Goes the Nation by Bonnie Litowitz
Monday, January 26th, 2009Click Here to Read: A comment on the article “The Oprah Syndrome, Bloated, Depressed–As O Goes, So Goes the Nation,” comment by Bonnie Litowitz.
Click Here to Read: The Oprah Syndrome, Bloated, Depressed–As O Goes, So Goes the Nation on this website on January 25, 2009.
Freud’s, Rodin’s Collecting Zeal, Foot Fetishism Shown in Paris
Monday, January 26th, 2009
Click Here To Read: Freud’s, Rodin’s Collecting Zeal, Foot Fetishism Shown in Paris reviewed by Jorg von Uthmann on the Bloomberg.com website on January 25, 2009.
The Talented Mr. Madoff
Monday, January 26th, 2009
Click Here To Read: The Talented Mr. Madoff by Julie Creswell and Landon Thomas Jr. in the New York Times on January 24, 2009.
Click Here To Read: Madoff: A Jewish Reckoning Panel Discusion at YiVO on January 15, 2009 with audio on this website.
Click Here To Read: Symposium 2009 – Greed, Sex, Money, Power, and Politics on this website.
Click Here To Read: Troubled Times Bring Mini-Madoffs to Light By Leslie Wayne in the New York Times on January 27, 2009.
Counting the Walking Wounded
Monday, January 26th, 2009Click Here To Read: Counting the Walking Wounded By Lawrence M. Wein in the New York Times on January 25, 2009.
Troubled Minds and Purple Hearts
Monday, January 26th, 2009
Click Here To Read: Troubled Minds and Purple Hearts by Tyler Boudreau in the New York Times on January 25, 2009
Single cell ‘can store memories’
Monday, January 26th, 2009
Click Here To Read: Single cell ‘can store memories.’ Just one brain cell is capable of holding fleeting memories vital for our everyday life, according to US scientists on the BBC News Website on January 26, 2009.
The Oprah Syndrome, Bloated, Depressed–As O Goes, So Goes the Nation
Sunday, January 25th, 2009
Click Here To Read: The Oprah Syndrome, Bloated, Depressed–As O Goes, So Goes the Nation by Maureen Callahan in the New York Post on January 24, 2009
Is Freud Dead?: The Relevance of Freud’s Theory of Group Psychology in Today’s World
Sunday, January 25th, 2009Click Here to Read: Is Freud Dead?: The Relevance of Freud’s Theory of Group Psychology in Today’s World
Roundtable Participants: Mark Edmundson (moderator), Ken Eisold, Jim Hopkins, Bennett Markel, Jane McAdam Freud, at the Piloctetes Society at the New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute on November 14, 2008, 7:00 PM
Neural paths for borderline personality disorder
Sunday, January 25th, 2009From the APsaA Meetings:
Click Here To Read: Neural paths for borderline personality disorder. People prone to stormy social lives display brain activity that may prompt oversensitivity to emotion and an inability to resolve conflicting information by Bruce Bower in on the Science News website on January 17th, 2009
Psychiatrist Harold Koenigsberg of Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City described his team’s results January 17 in New York City at the winter meeting of the American Psychoanalytic Association.
The Leo Baeck Institute presents: Goldscheider Ceramics
Sunday, January 25th, 2009
The Leo Baeck Institute presents:
Goldscheider Ceramics
A World Brand from Vienna:
Commerce and Art in an Age of Transformation
JANUARY 29, 2009
5:00 – 6:30 PM | Opening reception
Opening remarks by Peter Goldscheider
7:00 PM | Lecture by Filipp Goldscheider:
“Art Deco Masterpieces by Walter and Marcel Goldscheider” (more…)
Stella in the Bois de Boulogne at Center for Jewish History
Sunday, January 25th, 2009
The American Jewish Historical Society and the Center for Jewish History present:
Stella in the Bois de Boulogne
Dramatic Reading of a New Play by Jane Wood and Tara Prem
Directed by Donald T. Sanders
January 26 performance:
FEATURING
Paul Sorvino & Mira Sorvino
February 2 performance:
FEATURING
Elizabeth Zins & Robert Ian Mackenzie
Stella Adler
Freudian Fridays: The Ten Sexiest Movie Doctors
Saturday, January 24th, 2009Click Here To Read: Freudian Fridays: The Ten Sexiest Movie Doctors By Ben on January 23, 2009
What do Women Want? By Daniel Bergner
Saturday, January 24th, 2009
Click Here to Read: What do Women Want? By Daniel Bergner in the New York Times on January 22, 2009.
Click Here To Read: The Poignant Frog Blog on What do Women Want.
Thoughts On Measurement
Friday, January 23rd, 2009by Jane S. Hall
Measuring each other is, more often than not, a fruitless exercise and breeds strife where there should be encouragement, ill will where there should be generativity, falsification of material due to perceived requirements, and mistrust where there should be trust.
If we can agree that the practice of psychoanalysis includes intensive work with patients who suffer from both pre oedipal and oedipal conflicts, object hunger, developmental lags, mood disorders, character problems, anxiety inappropriate to the occasion, using the psychoanalytic techniques that include recognizing and using transference, counter transference, and projective identification to inform; action and enactment to explain; awareness and modification of resistance to proceed; and listening for fantasy that clouds wished for functioning; in a safe and consistent atmosphere, we should be able to know and explain just exactly what psychoanalytic work is. (more…)
Mirror Neurons and Beyond: Shared Circuits of Self and Others by Regina Pally
Friday, January 23rd, 2009Click Here To View Powerpoint: Mirror Neurons and Beyond: Shared Circuits of Self and Others by Regina Pally. Paper given to American Psychological Association, Division 39.
Left behind: The exploits of BHL by Russell Jacoby
Friday, January 23rd, 2009
Click Here To Read: Left behind: The exploits of BHL by Russell Jacoby on the International Relations and Security Network Website on by Jan 22nd, 2009. Books by Russell Jacoby include: Social Amnesia: A Critique of Contemporary Psychology and The Repression of Psychoanalysis: Otto Fenichel and the Political Freudians.
Bernard-Henri Levy