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Click Here to Read:  The grand challenge of consciousness by Anil K. Seth on the Frontiers in Consciousness Research website.

Coming Soon from IPBooks: Winston Churchill: Character Shapes History by Donald Coleman

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Science 19 March 2010:
Vol. 327. no. 5972, p. 1437
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Beyond DSM: Seeking a Brain-Based Classification of Mental Illness
Greg Miller

If a fright or despondency lasts for a long time, it is a melancholic affection.
—Hippocrates, Aphorisms, 400 B.C.E.

Since the time of the ancient Greeks, mental disorders have been classified according to their outward signs. But even in Hippocrates’ day, attention was paid to the underlying causes. The word “melancholy” derives from the Greek word for black bile, an excess of which was thought to cause prolonged sadness. (more…)

Psychoanalysts are known for their sensitivity to the suffering, conflicts, and inhibitions of their patients.  What is less well known is that many are also sensitive and talented artists. To provide a forum for that expression and an opportunity for sharing those visions and talents with others, there was an exhibit entitled “The artistry of Psychoanalysts” which was held at the winter meetings of the American Psychoanalytic Association in New York at the Waldorf Astoria hotel.  The show was open to Members, Affiliates, and Associates of the American and Members of the IPA and IPSO and included photographs, paintings, watercolors, and collages. I am very grateful for the opportunity to give each of the artists more exposure on the International Psychoanalysis.net.  One piece from the show will be shown each week and, as you will see, we have a lot of talent among us.  –Jon Meyer 

Nadine Levinson: Dana Point Harbor

Click Here to Read: Sharing Secrets, Review of The Evocative Object World by Christopher Bollas  and The Infinite Question by Christopher Bollas, reviewed by Jonathan Lear in the London Review of Books, Vol. 32,  No. 5 · 11 March 2010.

 Christopher Bollas

Click Here to Read: How to Write a Psychoanalytic Paper by Glen Gabbard.  The link to the paper is from the Hgpsas website.

Glen Gabbard

Click Here to Read: Who can heal a guilty conscience? Despite efforts to reduce conscience to conditioning, guilt persists, and science is powerless before it by Aaron Kheriaty on the MercatorNet Website on  March 25,  2010.

Click Here To Read: Countertransference, an overview: What is countertransference? by Steven Reidbord, MD on the Sacremento Street Psychiatry Blog on the Psychology Today website March 24, 2010

Steven Reidbord

Click Here To Read:  Your Medical Records Aren’t Secure: The president says electronic systems will reduce costs and improve quality, but they could undermine good care if people are afraid to confide in their doctors by Deborah C. Peel on the Wall Street Journal website on March 23, 2010.

Click Here to Read: Mahler, youth will be BSO’s themes for 2010-11 season. Weak demand ends ‘Casual Concerts’ By Tim Smith in the Baltimore Sun on March 24, 2010.

Gustave Mahler

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 The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Announces Distinguished Achievement Award Recipients

The Board of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has approved the selection of this year’s recipients of the Distinguished Achievement Award.  The awards are intended to underscore the decisive contributions the humanities make to the nation’s intellectual life.  Amounting to as much as $1.5 million each, the awards honor scholars who have made significant contributions to humanistic inquiry and enable them to teach and do research under especially favorable conditions while enlarging opportunities for scholarship and teaching at the academic institutions with which they are affiliated. (more…)

Click Here to Read: Cases: In Therapy, Cellphones Ring True By Barbara Schildkrout in the New York Times on March 22, 2010.

Click Here to Read:  Review of From Oedipus to Moses: Freud’s Jewish Identity, by Marthe Robert, translated by Ralph Manheim, Reviewed by Alan Miller.

This article originally appeared as: Miller, Alan (1979).   Review of : From Oedipus to Moses, Freud’s Jewish Identity, by Mathe Robert, translated by Ralph Manheim.  The Psychoanalytic Review.  66(1): pp. 146-147 and appears here with all requisite rights and permissions.

 Marthe Robert

Click Here To Read:  Common Language for Psychotherapy (CLP) procedures website.

Click Here To Read:  Yiddish on the Psychoanalyst’s Couch: USA vs. France By Benjamin Ivry in the Jewish Daily Forward on March 22, 2010.

Click Here to Read:  Interviews by Max Kohn about the Yiddish language with people from several countries, on this website.  Dr. Arnold Richards is the fifth interview on the page.

Click Here to Read:  A Godless Jew: Freud, Atheism, and the Making of Psychoanalysis by Peter Gay, Reviewed by Alan Miller in the PANY Bulletin in 1990.

This article originally appeared as: Miller, Alan (1990). Review of A Godless Jew: Freud, Atheism, and the Making of Psychoanalysis by Peter Gay. PANY Bulletin Vol 28 (1): 20-22 and appears here with all requisite rights and permissions.

Peter Gay

Click Here to Read:  A matter of movement: Jewish thinker Prof. Sander Gilman believes that Israel is simply one of many Diaspora communities by Alana Sobelman in the Jerusalem Post on March 21, 2010.

Sander Gilman

Click Here to Read: 100 anos depois, Freud explica mais.  This article about the IPA 100th Anniversary is written in Portuguese.

Click Here To View:  Encounters Through Generations  the  first movie of a series conducted by the “Film Project” of the British Psychoanalytic Society.  Encounters through Generations is a series of filmed events organised at the Institute of Psychoanalysis between old and new generations of psychoanalysts and candidates in training. This video is an edit of a longer DVD documentary which they hope will be available after Summer 2010.

Click Here to View: Charlie Chaplin / Yiddish Brodyaga by Myzeidi’s Charlie Chaplin on the YouTube Website.

Click Here to Listen to: Stephen Weissman on Charlie Chaplin on the BBC Radio.

Click Here To Read:  Chaplin: A Life by Stephen Weissman Reviewed By Pam Norfolk on the Lancashire Evening Post website on December 26, 2009.

Click Here to Read:  Absorbing analysis of Chaplin’s appalling childhood