International Psychoanalysis

 Click Here to Read:  An Era of Money, Minds and Trotsky:  The Eitingons: A 20th-Century Story By Mary-Kay Wilmers, Reviewed by John Lloyd  on the Financial Times.com website on November 29, 2009.

Click Here to Read: Getting under the family skins, a review of The Eitingons: A Twentieth-Century Story on this website.

Click Here to Read:  The Eitingons: Orlando Figes on a family quest into the dark recesses of Stalin’s Russia on this website.

 

Click Here To Read:  A Psychoanalytic Challenge by Robert Langs.  Psychoanalysts and others interested in the psychology of human behavior have a rare opportunity to compare the offerings of two recent books on Sigmund Freud and the origins of psychoanalysis.

Click Here To Read:  Invitation to IPA’s 100th Anniversary celebration to be held at the meetings of the American Psychoanalytic Association on Friday, January 15th from 7-9 PM at the Waldorf Astoria.

Click Here to View:  The Benefits of Therapy – An Interview with Chris Boyce, University of Warwick.

Click Here To Listen To:   The Science Behind Dreams and Nightmares with Natalie Angier on National Public Radio on October 30, 2009

Click Here to Read:  The Economic Impact of Psychotherapy: A Review on this website.

In Clint Eastwood’s film, Unforgiven, he plays a familiar role, a psychopathic killer hero.  In this film, however, he appears to take an introspective approach to his character and those who admire his character.  In the process, the film allows us an opportunity to examine some of the dynamics of killing and of our interest in seeing it on the screen.  Ultimately, it provides us with another fantasy designed to defeat death.

The film centers around William Munny, played by Eastwood.  In a prologue, and in the early scenes of the film, we learn that he had been an outlaw and killer, but had been reformed by his wife, Claudia.  She had died in 1878 of small pox, two to three years before the action of the film, leaving Munny with the care of his young son and daughter.

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Click Here To Read:   The diplomat’s daughter by Liam Collins in the Sunday Independent on the November 29, 2009.

Click Here to Read: Review of the Audio book:  The Borderlands of Science written by Michael Sherman and narrated by Grover Gardner, reviewed by Justin Marley, on the website The Amazing World of Psychiatry: A Psychiatry Blog on November 28, 2009.

 

Click Here To Read: Citizen Proust: On Politics and Race by Barbara Probst Solomon.  The articles originally appears as Solomon, Barbara Probst (2001).  The Reading Room vol. 1 and appears here with all requisite rights and permissions.

Marcel Proust

Click Here to Read: Patients and Text Messaging: A Boundary Issue: A Letter to The Editor by Geoff Neimark.

This article originally appeared as: Neimark, Geoff (November 2009). Patients and Text Messaging: A Boundary Issue: American  Journal of Psychiatry 166:1298-1299 and appears here with all requisite rights and permissions.

Click Here To Read:  The Economic Impact of Psychotherapy: A Review by Glen O. Gabbard, Susan G. Lazar, John Hornberger, and David Spiegel on the International Psychoanalytic Association website.

 

 

 

Click Here to Read:  Give Thanks to Kathleen Sebelius for Saving 47,000 Women by George Lakof  on the TruthOut website on November 25, 2009.

 

 

Click Here To Read: Quack Psychologists, 1927 on the Mind Hacks blog on November 26, 2009.

 

 

 

Click Here To Read:  You Taking Care of Yourself? Getting Some ‘Me’ Time? By Sam Sifton on The NY Times.com blog on November 26, 2009.

Click Here to Read:  Evidence Basis for “Evidenced Based”? by Prudence Gourguechon on her Psychoanalytic Excavation: A Look at What Lies beneath the Surface of Human Behavior and Motivation on the Psychology Today website on November 25, 2009.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Shepard Kantor                        Mortimer Ostow

NOTE: Part of the introduction to these speakers was omitted from the beginning of the original recording made on March 7, 1989. The recording begins about a minute or so into the introduction. There is also a small gap in Dr. Kantor’s talk from when the cassette tape was turned over during recording.

Click Below to Listen To Introduction Shepard Kantor & Mortimer Ostow on The Role of Medication in the Psychotherapeutic Relationship:

Click Below to Listen To: Shepard Kantor’s Presentation, Part 1:

Click Below to Listen To Shepard Kantor’s Presentation, Part 2:

Click Below to Listen To Mortimer Ostow’s Presentation:

Click Here To Read: New York Times Obituary of Shepard Kantor

Click here to read: ‘Uncovering the great Freudian slip’ John Banville’s November 14th review in The Irish Times of  Louis Breger’s book ’A Dream of Undying Fame: How Freud Betrayed His Mentor and Invented Psychoanalysis.’

Click Here To Read: ‘A Dream of Undying Fame’ by Louis Breger: The story of Freud’s early collaboration with an older colleague and how it led to the invention of psychoanalysis, reviewed Michael S. Roth in The Los Angeles Times on November 22, 2009.

 

Click Here to Read:  Nightmarish power of Maurice Sendak’s classic by Bryan Appleton on the Times Online website on November 22, 2009.

Click Here to Read: Richard Gottlieb on Where the Wildthings Are on NPR on this website.

 Click Here to Read: Bringing the Buzz Back to the Café by Micheal Idov on the Wall Street Journal website on November 21, 2009.

A 1954 coffee klatch at London’s The Coffee Inn

 

Click Here to Read: Barbara Kafka’s Roast Turkey recipe from her cookbook Roasting: A Simple Art on the BarbaraKafka.com website.

Click Here To Read: Barbara Kafka’s website.

Barbara Kafka

Click Here To Read:  Update from 43rd Annual ABCT Conference by Michael D. Anestis on the Psychotherapy Brown Bag website on November 21, 2009.

 

Aaron Beck