International Psychoanalysis

Click Below To Listen To: Part 1 of Brian Koehler’s Presentation on Neuropsychoanalysis and Psychosis (following a brief introduction by Mark Solms) at the New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute on June 6. 2009: 

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Click Below to Listen to Mark Solms’s Discussion of Brian Koehler’s Prestentation:

Click Below to Listen to Question and Answers with Brian Koehler and the Audience:

Click Here To View:  Holocaust Surviror Henri Parens’ Interview with America’s Table on YouTube

Click Here to View:  Martin Wilner’s Website

Click Here to View:  Reinventing Ritual: Contemporary Art and Design for Reinventing Jewish Life at the Jewish Museum of Art in New York City, which includes works by Martin Wilner

October 23 – 24

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Click Here To View and Listen to: And When I Die performed by Mary Travers.

Click Here To View and Listen to:  The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face performed by Mary Travers.

Click Here To View and Listen to:  If I Had a Hammer performed by Peter, Paul and Mary.

Click Here To Read: Other/Wise, The Online Journal of the International Forum for Psychoanalytic Education, Volume 2, Fall 2009.

Artwork by Lynn Somerstein, PhD, LP, RYT.

Click Here to Read: Arithmetic of a One- and Two-Person Psychology: Merton M. Gill, an Essay by Doris K. Silverman on the Rapaport-Klein Study Group website presented on June 10, 1975.

Doris K. Silverman

Victor Jara died on September  15, 1973.

Click Here To View and Listen to:  Victor Jara’s Manifesto on YouTube .

Click Here To View and Listen to:  El Derecho De Vivir En Paz by Victor Jara on YouTube.

Click Here To View:  Bombardeo de La Moneda, El 11 de Septimbre, 1973.

Click Here To Read: CIA Experiments on US Soldiers Linked to Torture Program by  Jeffrey Kaye on the Truthout Website on September 13, 2009.

Students at the US Air Force Survival School at Fairchild Air Force Base, Washington, the military’s premier survival training program. (Photo: MOJO HD)

by Herbert H. Stein

When the new blockbuster remake of King Kong came to theaters a few years ago, I thought I would take a closer look at the original film. Most of the monster pictures of the past are relatively forgotten, but somehow Kong has held its place in our imagination. I remember reading many years ago that it outrated nearly all other old films on New York City television. How many of us associate to Kong when we think of the Empire State Building? Without Kong, Fay Wray would be known only to movie trivia buffs. In fact, a few years later, the “blockbuster” has faded into the lists of films we can scroll through on television while the clumsy, grainy original still holds an iconic spot in many of our minds. What I found when I examined the classic Kong was that that is not an accident. (more…)

Click Here To Read:  Anish Kapoor: Mr Big: The artist’s work dwarfs the viewer and stands tall in the world of art. But what do his supersize sculptures reveal about the man himself?  by Deirdre Fernand on the Times Online website on September 12, 2009. 

Kapoor inside one of his trademark distorting mirror installations at the Royal Academy

Click Here To Read:  Starting a business in a recession: What kind of nutcase launches during a downturn? by Alexander Stein in Fortune Magazine on August 5, 2009.

Click Here to Read:  The art of the layoff: Layoffs can be traumatic for both employees and business owners. Here’s how to make the best of a bad situation by Alexander Stein in Forture Magazine on July 21, 2009.

Click Here To Read: 100-year-old to share wisdom by Alonzo Ponce on the Long Beach City College Viking Website on September 10, 2009.

Hedda Bolgar

Click Here To Read: “My friend was cursed by his analyst” by Simon Feuerman on his My Mother, My Father, My Money blog on the Psychology Today website on September 4, 2009.

Click Here to Read: “We are all prisoners: our fascination with Jaycee Dugard” by Simon Feuerman on his My Mother, My Father, My Money blog on the Psychology Today website on September 1, 2009.

Click Here to View:  for an interactive map of Manhattan as it was in  1609.  You can enter an address  on the map.

(Note: We apologize for the background noise in these recordings; they were made from low-volume original tapes, and the noise resulted from boosting the voice to be audible here.)

Click Here To Read: Jesse J. Prinz’s Bio

Click Below to Listen To: Brief Introduction to Jesse J. Prinz by Mark Solms.

Click Below to Listen To: Jesse J. Prinz on The Limits of Consciousness: What Research on Psychoneural Correlates of Conscious Experiences Reveals about Our Access to Thoughts, Self, and Emotions at the Arnold Pfeffer Center for Neuropsychoanalysis of the New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute on May 2, 2009, part 1.

Click Below to Listen to: Jesse J. Prinz’s presentation, part 2.

Click Below to Listen to: Jesse J. Prinz’s presentation, part 3.

Click Below to Listen To: Jesse J. Prinz’s presentation, part 4.

Click Below to Listen To: Jesse J. Prinz’s presentation, part 5.

Click Below to Listen To: Discussion between Mark Solms and Jesse J. Prinz.

Click Below to Listen To: Questions and Answers with Jesse J. Prinz and the Audience

Click Here to Read:  The Reader, a Psychoanalytic Approach by Bennett Roth.

Click Here to Read:   This Day in Scientific History (Freud Gives First American Lecture)  on The Boat Against the Current Website on Septermber 7, 2009.

Click Here To Read:  The Centenary of Freud’s Visit on this Website.

Clark University

Click Here To Read: How Could You?   Your Broker, Your Boss, Your Best Friend, Sometimes It’s the People You Trust Who Hurt You the Worst by Lynn Sherr.

This article previously appeared as:  Sherr, Lynn. (July 2009).   How Could You?   Your Broker, Your Boss, Your Best Friend, Sometimes It’s the People You Trust Who Hurt You the Worst.  Town and Country.  July 2009:  pp. 68-73 and appears here with all requisite rights and permissions.

Cain and Abel

Five riddles for psychoanalysts

(In honor of the Sphynx whose code was cracked  When Sophocles and Freud the myth attacked)

                                                                  1.
    What looks up
    But sees below
    The surface 
    Of all human show,
    By wording all the things
    In flight
    From reason
    And the rhymes of night? (more…)