Click Here to Read: The Brain Is Music for Wooing, Mothering, Bonding—or Is It Just “Auditory Cheesecake”? Older than civilization, music fosters communication, wellness, and bonding across all cultures—but where it comes from is disputed by Carl Zimmer in Discover magazine in the December issue.
Click Here to Read: The Reception of Psychoanalysis in Russia until the Perestroika on the Russia by Alexander M. Etkind website.
The Consortium for Psychoanalytic Research, Inc.
18th Annual Research Conference
Assessing Change in the Therapeutic Process:
What Does Research Show?
Phil S. Lebovitz, M.D
Sunday, February 27, 2011. (more…)
Click Here to Read: Sinhabahu the Paradigmatic myth of the Sri Lankan Oedipus By Dr Ruwan M Jayatunge on December 23rd, 2010.
Happy Holidays
For the past few winters, my teaching schedule has me reading Anna Freud’s monograph, The Ego and the Mechanisms of Defense at around the same time that I come across the Christmas classic, Miracle on 34th Street. One wouldn’t think that they have much in common, but each year I am re-reminded of passages in the book that come to life in the film.
Miracle on 34th Street is a light, beautifully constructed story about a bearded, white haired portly gentleman (Edmund Gwenn) . (more…)
Click Here to Read: Website for the Quest for Power: Religion and Politics, a book by Sanuel Slipp, M.D.
Click Here to Download: The Quest for Power: Religion and Politics, Chapter 1: Overview
The Quest for Power: Religion and Politics
by Samuel Slipp
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Click Here to View: Today Show clip on Adultury and Addiction Treatment with Gail Saltz.
Click Here to View: Samantha Ettus on her show Obsessed interviews TODAY show psychiatrist Gail Saltz
Gail Saltz
Army Sets New Calendar Year Record For Soldier Suicides from American Psychiatric Association Headlines:
According to the current edition of the Army Times (12/27), the US Army “has set a new calendar year record for soldier suicides — with one month still to count.” By the end of the year, the “2010 suicide rate will be more than 10 percent more than last year and as much as three times the rate in 2006.” The Times adds that through November of this year, “127 non-active-duty Guard and Reserve soldiers killed themselves, compared to 80 such suicides in all of 2009.” (more…)
Click Here to Read: Don’t let this happen to you: 6 tips to surviving a stressful Christmas By Joe Miller in the Charlotte Observer on December. 20, 2010.
In “Surviving Christmas,” not even the money he was paying a family to be his kin on Christmas could save Ben Affleck, right, from the wrath of James Gandolfini. He should have taken tip no. 5 below: Watch for signs of stress (such as grabbing a snow shovel).
Click Here to Read: Pollutant Changes Sexual Preference by Cassandra Willyard on the Science Website on November 30, 2010.
Fred M. Sander (ed).Before becoming half of the legendary team of Gilbert and Sullivan, Victorian author W.S. Gilbert was a brilliant playwright. His most popular play was the 1871 comedy, Pygmalion and Galatea. In it, sculptor Pygmalion has made numerous copies of his wife Cynisca, one of whom, Galatea, comes to life and falls in love with him! What is he to do with a younger copy of his wife when Cynisca returns from a trip?
God is said to have created man in His own image; Mary Shelley described Frankenstein’s creation as his monster; Gilbert can hardly have anticipated cloning in the 19th century when he imbues his first millennial Athenian, Pygmalion with the envy of the gods’ ability to create life. Using Gilbert’s 19th-century play as a catalyst, editor Fred M. Sander has brought together 21st-century scientists, educators, clinicians, and historians to contribute essays on our proclivity to reproduce ourselves not only in art, but psychologically, socially, and, in the future, by biogenetic engineering. This will involve the science of molecular biology using the cloning of stem cells.
Contributors include Carolyn Williams, Chair of the English Dept. at Rutgers; Tom Freudenheim, art historian; Lee Silver, Professor of Molecular Biology and Ethics at Princeton, Bill McKibben, resident scholar at Middlebury College; and others including Fred Sander’s commentaries.
Unique in our era of specialization is the way this book narrows the gulf between the arts and sciences.
Now available at IPBooks.net (more…)
Click Here to Read: Beside Freud’s Couch, a Chow Named Jofi by Melinda Beck in the Wall Street Journal on December 21, 2010.
Click Here to View: Recent Lectures at the Arnold Pfeffer Center for Neuropsychoanalysis: Vittorio Gallese “From Mirror Neurons to Embodied Simulation” October 2, 2010 Part 1. on the Neuropsychoanalysis website.
Click Here to Read: Mental Health Needs Seen Growing at Colleges
By Trip Gabriel in the New York Times on December 19, 2010.
CRISES AND PREVENTION Judy Esposito, a social worker with experience counseling Sept. 11 widows, started a triage unit at Stony Brook to help with mental health issues. Another program recruits students to help their peers.
Click Here to Read: A Real Science of Mind by Tyler Burge on the New York Times Opinions website on December 19, 2010.
Click Here to Read: Freud Skating: A Play in Twenty-One Scenes by Sabina Berman.
Click Here to Read: From the President: Charles Hanly reflects on the Asia conference, Latin America and the centenary year in the IPA Newsletter, December 2010 issue.
Click Here to Read: A Brain Made of Memristors By Massimiliano Versace, PhD on the Brain Blogger website on December 18, 2010.
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Click Here to Listen To and View : Psychoanalysis and Literature: 150 Years After the Birth of Freud, Podcast and Video of a Philoctetes panel from May 6, 2006. Participants: Cathy Caruth, Mark Edmundson, Paul Fry (moderator), Margaret Ann Fitzpatrick Hanly, Meredith Anne Skura.
Click Here To Read: In Pursuit of the Perfect Brainstorm By David Segal Corporate America wants help coming up with fresh ideas. Can a new breed of consultant teach companies how to think? in the New York Times Magazine on December 16, 2010.
Mind- Bending: At Jump’s corporate seminars, group stretch comes before groupthink
