Archive for February, 2009

Adolescent and Young Adult Substance Use

Monday, February 16th, 2009

THE NEW YORK PSYCHOANALYTIC SOCIETY & INSTITUTE:
Extension Division
247 East 82nd St., between 2nd & 3rd

ADOLESCENT & YOUNG ADULT SUBSTANCE USE:
FOR PARENTS, TEACHERS & THE COMMUNITY
William H. Gottdiener, Ph.D. (more…)

Elizabeth Gero-Heymann 1905-2009

Monday, February 16th, 2009

Click Here To Read: Biographical Sketch of Elizabeth Gero-Heymann by Abby Adams-Silvan on this website.

Elizabeth Gero-Heymann 1905-2009

  Lilo, as she was known to all her friends, died February 15, 2009.  Much has been said and written about Lilo throughout her long life and there will be a memorial service in the future where much more will be said by a gathering of her relatives, psychoanalysts and friends.  At this juncture a few words in her honor and to mark the occasion of her departure from us should be written. Lilo’s life spanned practically all of the twentieth century and almost a decade of the twenty first. (more…)

Heart pill to banish bad memories

Monday, February 16th, 2009

 

Click Here To Read: Heart pill to banish bad memories. Scientists believe a common heart medicine may be able to banish fearful memories from the mind. On the BBC website on February 16, 2009.

Risk Factors For PTSD

Monday, February 16th, 2009

THE NEW YORK PSYCHOANALYTIC SOCIETY & INSTITUTE:
Academic Research Seminar
247 East 82nd St., between 2nd & 3rd

RISK FACTORS FOR PTSD

Tuesday, February 24, 2009, 8 – 9:30 pm (more…)

A Screening & Discussion of Chaplin’s Film “The Kid”

Monday, February 16th, 2009

Click Here To Read:  A Screening & Discussion of Chaplin’s Film “The Kid” at the American Academy of Psychoanalysis Meeting in San Francisco this Spring from the Chaplin: A Life blog on February 16, 2009.

U.S. to Compare Medical Treatments

Monday, February 16th, 2009

Click Here To Read: U.S. to Compare Medical Treatments by Robert Pear in the New York Times on February 15, 2009.

Click Here to Read: ‘Stimulus’ bill may change health care forever on this website.

Click Here to Read: Urgent Doctors for Obama Campaign: Healthcare and the Stimulus Bill Vote on this website.

Jane Austen’s Emma – Language and Development

Monday, February 16th, 2009

THE NEW YORK PSYCHOANALYTIC SOCIETY & INSTITUTE:
WORKS IN PROGRESS
247 East 82nd St., between 2nd & 3rd

Wednesday, February 18, 2009, 8:30 p.m.

 Jane Austen’s Emma – Language and Development

 Dr. Patricia Wesley will discuss the interface between literature and psychodynamic theories of development. (more…)

Doing Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy

Sunday, February 15th, 2009

Doing Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy
A Full-Day Conference Sponsored by Center for Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy and the Child and Adolescent Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Training Program of the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis
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The Rags of Time: Psychoanalytic Notes on Ingmar Bergman’s Wild Strawberries

Sunday, February 15th, 2009

 

Click Here To Read: The Rags of Time: Psychoanalytic Notes on Ingmar Bergman’s Wild Strawberries by Harvey Roy Greenberg.

 

Harvey Roy Greenberg

Uncovering Lost Path of the Most Wanted Nazi

Sunday, February 15th, 2009

Click Here To Read: Uncovering Lost Path of the Most Wanted Nazi By Souad Mekhennet and Nicholas Kulish in the New York Times on February 4, 2009.

“The Four Feathers”: The Pineapple on the Table

Sunday, February 15th, 2009

Many adventure films reflect a boy’s conflict over competition with his father and its genital overtones, often reflected in swordplay and marksmanship, but few so wonderfully, with both drama and humor, as the 1939 Zoltan Korda movie, The Four Feathers. 

I was reminded of this old favorite by a patient in therapy.  He is an army veteran, an unhappy man who was describing his feeling of dissatisfaction with himself because he was not in active combat even though that was simply a matter of timing and no fault of his own.  His father, grandfather, and possibly great grandfather had been in World War II, I, and who knows.  (more…)

Sholom Aleichem: A Star Shines Brightly

Sunday, February 15th, 2009

Click Here To Read: Sholom Aleichem: A Star Shines Brightly: A Real Life Drama of Fairy Tales and Fame By Dara Horn on in the Jewish Daily Forward on January 20, 2009.

Click Here To Read: Life Imitates Art: An Excerpt From ‘Wandering Stars’ on this website.

Click Here To Read: Playing Sholom Alecheim’s Prose Music on this website.

Life Imitates Art: An Excerpt From ‘Wandering Stars’

Sunday, February 15th, 2009

Click Here To Read: Life Imitates Art: An Excerpt From ‘Wandering Stars’ on the Jewish Daily Forward Website on  February 12, 2009.

Chaplin’s the Kid and the Loss-Restitution Hypothesis of Creativity

Saturday, February 14th, 2009

 

 

Click Here to Read: Chaplin’s the Kid and the Loss-Restitution Hypothesis of Creativity:  An Evening with Stephen Weissman at the American Academy of Psychoanalysis and Dynamic Psychiatry Conference in San Francisco on May 16, 2009.

Scientists find link in brain between greed & sex

Saturday, February 14th, 2009

 Click Here To Read: Scientists find link in brain between greed & sex on the Macedonian International News Agency Website.

Click Here To Read: Symposium 2009: Greed, Sex, Money, Power and Politics.

Playing Sholom Alecheim’s Prose Music

Saturday, February 14th, 2009

 

 

 Click Here To Read: Aliza Shevrin on Playing Sholom Alecheim’s Prose Music on the Beatrice website on  February 5, 2009.

Bennett Roth on Taking Speilberg Seriously

Friday, February 13th, 2009

 

Click Here To Read: Taking Speilberg Seriously By Bennett Roth, previously published in Projections.

Consulting Master Clinician: Neil Altman

Friday, February 13th, 2009

March 5, 2009  (8-10pm) Consulting Master Clinician: Neil Altman, Ph.D.

Neil Altman, Ph.D. is Adjunct Clinical Professor, Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, New York University. Former Joint Editor in Chief, Psychoanalytic Dialogues: The International Journal of Relational Perspectives. Author, The Analyst in the Inner City: Race, Class and Culture through a Psychoanalytic Lens and numerous articles on race, racism and prejudice.

Presenter: Susan M. Zigouras, M.S. 
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The Worst-Case Scenario

Friday, February 13th, 2009

 

 

Click Here To Read: The Worst-Case Scenario By David Brooks in the New York Times on February 12, 2009.   

 

David Brooks

Darwin and His Doppelgänger

Friday, February 13th, 2009

 Click Here to Read: Darwin and His Doppelgänger By Frank J. Sulloway In The New York Review of Books, Volume 50, Number 20,  December 18, 2003.

Click Here To Read:  More on Charles Darwin on this Website 

 

Alfred Russel Wallace