Archive for May, 2010

A pregnant question: How antidepressants may subtly alter a growing baby’s brain

Saturday, May 22nd, 2010






Click Here to Read: A pregnant question: How antidepressants may subtly alter a growing baby’s brain By Susan Gaidos in Science News on June 5th, 2010.

Imago Mundi: The Poetry of Peter Blos

Thursday, May 20th, 2010

Click Below to Listen To: Introduction to Dr. Blos his Reading of his Poems from the Book Imago Mundi on January 31, 1995.


Click Below to Listen To: The author’s own introduction and reading of:
1) Unicorn Park
2) Question and Answer
3) In A Melodious Plot of Peach and Cream


Click Below to Listen To: Eugene Mahon’s reading of
(4) In Celebration of the Imagination
(5) A Potter Contemplating the Sunset
AND:
Peter Blos’s reading of:
(6) Words
(7) To My Enchanted Clown
(8 )Anniversaries
(9) Spring Song
(10) On My Brother’s Death
(11) Strolling in Pompei


Click Below to Listen To: Eugene Mahon’s Reading of :
(12) Exalted and Alone
(13) Sic Transit Gloria Mundi
(14) A Moment of Love
(15) I Like it This Way
(16) Lost and Found


Click Below to Listen To: Peter Blos’s reading of:
(17) Circ de Soleil
Final comments follow last poem


News from Uncle Siggy: Freud’s Ever-Present Influence

Thursday, May 20th, 2010








Click Here to Read:  News from Uncle Siggy: Freud’s Ever-Present Influence, Review of The Jewish World of Sigmund Freud, Edited by Arnold D. Richards, Reviewed by Benjamin Ivry On the Artie Semite Blog in the Forward.com on April 29, 2010.

Psychoanalytic Themes in the Work of Jane Austen at NYPSI

Thursday, May 20th, 2010

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

PSYCHOANALYTIC THEMES IN THE WORK OF JANE AUSTEN

Muriel Morris, M.D.
Thursdays, May 20 – June 17, 2010
7:45 – 9:15 pm (5 sessions)
Fee $150 (more…)

Dream Debate: Freud’s Dream Theory Hobson vs. Solms (2006) DVD

Thursday, May 20th, 2010






Click Here To Read: Dream Debate: Freud’s Dream Theory Hobson vs. Solms (2006) DVD on the Psychoanalysis Blog on the Myblogtrade.com website.

Mark Solms and Allan Hobson

Differences Between Psychology and Psychoanalysis

Thursday, May 20th, 2010




Click Here to Read: Differences Between Psychology and Psychoanalysis by Adriana on Today’s Life Psychology blog on May 19, 2010.




Aristotle

The Brain That Changes Itself: A Film by Norman Doidge

Wednesday, May 19th, 2010








Click Here to View and Read:  The film of “The Brain That Changes Itself” by Norman Doige and Mike Sheerin and the article, “The Death of Neurological Nihilism” about the film, written by Norman Doidge.

Firms put limits on mental therapy

Tuesday, May 18th, 2010

Click Here to Read: Firms put limits on mental therapy: New scrutiny may break federal law, opponents allege by Kay Lazar in the Boston Globe on May 17, 2010.

Can an Enemy Be a Child’s Friend?

Tuesday, May 18th, 2010


Click Here to Read: Can an Enemy Be a Child’s Friend? by Benedict Carey in the New York Times on May 17, 2010.

Video: Psychoanalysis in the 1940s

Tuesday, May 18th, 2010

Click Here to View: Video: Psychoanalysis in the 1940s on the Wellsphere website on May 16, 2010.

Sigmund Freud

Libel in Fact Magazine: The Challenge to the American Psychiatric Association

Tuesday, May 18th, 2010





Click Here to Read:  Libel in Fact Magazine: The Challenge to the American Psychiatric Association: A secret of psychiatric diagnosis in the 1960s is revealed by John D. Mayer  in the Personality Analyst blog on the Psychology Today blogs on  May 17, 2010.

Barry Goldwater

In Treatment on YouTube

Monday, May 17th, 2010


Click Here to View:  HBO’s In Treatment vs. Betipul – Cultural Differences on YouTube.

Click Here to View:  The origins of HBO’s ‘In Treatment’ on YouTube.

Click Here to View:  Blair Underwood on his ‘In Treatment’ character on YouTube.

Click Here to View:  Sophie from In Treatment on YouTube. (more…)

Delay sought for mental parity rules

Monday, May 17th, 2010

Click Here to Read: Delay sought for mental parity rules: Compliance stymied by health reforms, complexity: Firms by Joanne Wojcik on the Business Insurance website on May 17, 2010.

Daniel Widlöcher, IPA President 2001-2005

Sunday, May 16th, 2010

Click Here to Listen To: Daniel Widlocher on The Interaction Between Object-Love and Infantile Sexuality on this website.

Click Here to Read:  Daniel Widlöcher on Wikipedia.

Click Here to Read: Daniel Widlöcher’s Sigourney Award page.

Click Here to Read: Daniel Widlöcher’s papers on PEP web.

Trouble sleeping? Maybe it’s your iPad

Sunday, May 16th, 2010




Click Here to Read:  Trouble sleeping? Maybe it’s your iPad by John D. Sutter on the  CNN website on May 13, 2010.

FORBIDDEN Planet

Saturday, May 15th, 2010

by Herbert H. Stein

Some day you can tell your grandchildren (it might even be now) that there was a time (1956) when psychoanalysis was so prominent in the popular culture that it was used as the basis for the plot of a glossy, high budget science fiction film with flying saucers and a powerful humanoid robot. I’m referring to the film, Forbidden Planet, that brought us the tagline, “Monsters from the Id.” I can probably be justly accused of looking a gift horse in the mouth when I say that the filmmakers tended to confuse Freud’s first and second theories; but, that is a sin for which they should be forgiven since many of the psychoanalysts of the time probably fell into the same error.  I also think that a closer examination of the film suggests that those “monsters” are multiply determined and perhaps even more terrible than they seem. (more…)

Hoarders leave behind disturbing mess for families to clean up

Saturday, May 15th, 2010

Click Here to Read:  Hoarders leave behind disturbing mess for families to clean up by Jill Sell in The Cleveland Plain Dealer on May 15, 2010.

Overwhelming “stuff,” covering all surfaces, is the oppressive hallmark of hoarding. These images are taken from the TLC series “Hoarding: Buried Alive.”

Demand Everything! An Interview With Philosopher Simon Critchley

Saturday, May 15th, 2010



Click Here to Read:  Demand Everything! An Interview With Philosopher Simon Critchley on the Truthout website on May 15, 2010.

Simon Critchley

The Aliquis Lapse Revisited

Saturday, May 15th, 2010

Click Here to Read:  The Aliquis Lapse Revisited, paper by Robert L. Lippman. 






Robert Lippmann

Art’s New Winners and Losers

Friday, May 14th, 2010






Click Here to Read:  Art’s New Winners and Losers:  Sales are rising, but the recovery is leaving some artists behind. Why Renoir and Calder are up, and Munch and Hirst are down by Kelly Crow in the Wall Street Journal on May 14, 2010.

Jean-Michel Basquiat: Untitled (Stardust) 1983.