Click Here to Read: Fifth European Psychoanalytic Film Festival: Epff5 Screen Memories From Eastern Europe: Programme Announced For 5th European Psychoanalytic Film Festival, 29 October-1 November 2009 on the PR Log website on August 20, 2009.
Bernardo Bertulucci
Click Here to Read: Review of the play, Freud’s Last Session, A Barrington Stage presentation of a play in one act by Mark St. Germain, suggested by “The Question of God” by Armand M. Nicholi Jr. Directed by Tyler Marchant, Reviewed by Chris Newbound on the Variety website on August 20. 2009.
Martin Rayner’s Sigmund Freud, left, and Mark H. Dold’s C.S. Lewis debate the existence of God in ‘Freud’s Last Session.’
Click Below to Listen to: Freud Lecture by Sander Abend, On Transference, given on May 5, 2008 at the New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, Part 2.
Click Here To Read: Getting at the Heart of Kindness By Michael Dirda in the Washington Post on August 20, 2009, a review of On Kindness By Adam Phillips and Barbara Taylor.
Kindness is a virtue kids possess. But when examined in adults, it can take on new meanings. (By Margaret Thomas — The Washington Post)
Click Here to Read: Premature Anti-Fascist by Leslie Pratch on the Huffington Post website on August 16, 2009.
Click Here to Read: Review of Fed with Tears: Poisoned with Milk: The Nazareth Group Relations Conferences by H .Shmuel Ehrlich , Mira Erlich-Ginor and Hermann Beland Psychosozial-Verlag, 2009, reviewed by James E. Liberman on the Metapsychology Reviews website.
Click Here to Read: Hermann Beland’s Paper: Collective Mourning – Who or What Frees a Collective to Mourn? on this website.
Click Here to Read: Understanding Conversation and the Ubiquitous Human Potpourri of Conflicted Opinions by Leo Rangell on this website.
Click Here To Read: Basics: Brain Is a Co-Conspirator in a Vicious Stress Loop by Natalie Angier in the New York Times on August 17, 2009.
Click Here to Read: Mental Stress Training Is Planned for U.S. Soldiers by Benedict Carey in the New York Time on August 17, 2009.
At a recent training session in Philadelphia, Sgt. First Class James Cole and other soldiers participated in role-playing and learned mental fitness techniques intended to help them in combat.
Click Here to Read: One Hundred Years of Freud in America by Daniel Akst in the Wall Street Journal on August 6, 2009.
Sigmund Freud at Clark University in Worcester, Mass. (1909).
Click Here To Read: The biopsychosocial concept: relic or reality? Letter to the Editor by Zvi Lothane, on July 29, 2009, in response to S. Nassir Ghaemi’s editorial: The rise and fall of the biopsychosocial model in The British Journal of Psychiatry 2009; 195:3-4.
Click Here To Read: Freud, Like Columbus, Opened a Whole New World by Henry (Zvi) Lothane, M.D. Letter to the Editor of the Wall Street Journal in response to Daniel Akst’s “One Hundred Years of Freud in America” (Taste, Aug. 7). on August 14th, 2009.
Christopher Columbus
Click Here to Read: Pedrito: Blood of the Ancestors by Martha Bragin given at the IPA Chicago Congress in July 2009.
This paper appeared earlier as Bragin, Martha (2005). Pedrito: Blood of the Ancestors. Journal of Infant, Child, and Adolescent Psychotherapy, 4(1):1–20 and appears here with all requisite rights and permissions.
Martha Bragin. PhD LCSW is an Associate Professor at Hunter College School of Social Work and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She is a member of the IPA working group on the psychic effects of social exclusion, a fellow of the IPA research training program and a candidate at IPTAR. (more…)
Click Screen Below to View: Season 2, Episode 5 of Be’Tipul
Be’Tipul is the Original Israeli Version of In Treatment.
The second season of the Israeli series on which the HBO Series In Treatment was based, Be’tipul, is available at IPBooks, our new bookstore, click for details: IPBooks.net.
by HH Stein
(continuing with the sci fi theme this spring and summer (May: The Day the Earth Stood Still; June: Independence Day; July: Men in Black)
Psychoanalysis is well known for its concept of penis envy, but the corresponding male envy of a woman’s ability to bear children is less publicized although certainly no less important. Edith Jacobson addressed this issue in a 1950 paper entitled “Development of a Wish for a Child in Boys.” Jacobson’s paper refers to a point in the first two to three years of childhood when children are fascinated by the magic of pregnancy and birth. She writes about a little boy’s envy of his powerful mother and her god-like ability to create life. Interestingly, Jacobson’s ideas are represented in an unlikely place, Steven Spielberg’s film, Jurassic Park. (more…)
Click Here To Read: What Is Psychoanalysis? What Is Child Psychoanalysis? on the Psychology Today blog, Great Kids, Great Parents Infant/Child Development and the Importance of Children’s Feelings by Paul C. Holinger, M.D. on August 14, 2009.
Paul C. Holinger
Click Here To Read: Tribute to Robert Holt at the Rapaport-Klein Study Group
Click Here To View: Slide show on Robert Holt Tribute on the Rapaport-Klein website
Click Here To Read: Understanding Conversation and the Ubiquitous Human Potpourri of Conflicted Opinions by Leo Rangell on the Huffington Post website on August 11, 2009.
Click Here To Read: Leo Rangell Received the Sigourney Award
Click Here To Read: The Movies On My Mind: Bum Trip: O Brother, Where Art Thou?, directed and written by Ethan and Joel Coen, reviewed by Harvey Roy Greenberg. O Brother, Where Art Thou?, and most of the other films cited in Dr. Greenberg’s review are available either through Netflix, Ebay, or Amazon.com, as well as special internet sites. Dr. Harvey Roy Greenberg, Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Albert Einstein College of Medicine at Yeshiva University, publishes widely on cinema, media, and popular culture. Other reviews and essays can be found at his website, http://www.doctorgreenberg.net. Dr. Greenberg welcomes comment, criticism, and further discussion, of his reviews.
Click Here To View Slide Show: from our booth at the 2009 IPA Chicago Congress.
During Slide show, click “Show Info” on the upper right of pictures to view names & dates of photos taken. (Click it again to turn info off.) To enlarge photos to full-screen size during slide show, click the four white dots to the lower right corner of the screen.
Click Below to Listen to: Welcome by Lester Schwartz to Daniel Widlocher’s Presentation on The Interaction Between Object-Love and Infantile Sexuality (Infantile Sexuality as a Creative Process) at the New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute on March 31, 1998.
Click Below to Listen to: Introduction by Daniel Papernik to Daniel Widlocher’s Presentation.
Click Below to Listen to: Part 1 of Daniel Widlocher’s Presentation.
Click Below to Listen to: Part 2 of Daniel Widlocher’s Presentation.
Click Below to Listen to: Discussion by Helen Meyers of Daniel Widlocher’s Presentation.
Click Below to Listen to: Discussion by Marion Oliner of Daniel Widlocher’s Presentation.
