International Psychoanalysis

Click Here to Read: Scaling the ‘Wall in the Head’ by Costica Bradatan in the NEw York Times on November 27, 2011.

Click Here to Read: Richard II: a play for todayfor decades, Shakespeare’s Richard II was regarded as a piece of conservative camp. But on the eve of a major new production, its tale of heads of state falling from power seems startlingly relevant for 2011 by Michael Dobson on the GuardianUK website on November 25, 2011,

Click Here to Read: An Addendum to “Misconceptions about Bertram David Lewin (1896-1971)” by Lawrence Ginsburg.

Lawrence Ginsburg

Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy Program is pleased to invite you to attend a meeting of our Visiting Faculty Series
“Representations of Mother in the Daughter of a Gay Single Man”
By Sally Moskowitz, Ph.D.
Monday, December 5, 2011 (more…)

Dear Colleagues,

As you are recovering from what I hope was an enjoyable Thanksgiving feast, unless you are traveling during this holiday weekend, you will have a little more time to read the variety of posts and comment on the international psychoanalysis website. The increasing global financial and political turbulence is reflected in this week***s content. The issue of medical and mental health coverage in the USA is also much more prominent. (more…)

Click Here to Read: Review of Crises and Special Problems in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy by Leopold Bellak and Peri FaithornReviewed By David Downing on in Psychoanalytic Psychology.

Click Here to View: Dick & Woody on psychoanalysis, Dick Cavett and Woody Allen on YouTube.

Click Here to Read:Two Brains Running, Review of Thinking, Fast and Slow By Daniel Kahneman, Reviewed  by Jim Holt in the New York Times on November 25, 2011.

Click Here to Read:  Toxic Couple Relationships – Five Protective Neural Patterns & Role Scripts (1 of 3)  By Athena Staik, Ph.D on her Neuroscience and Relationships blog.

Click Here to Read: Keeping Marital Secrets Closeted by Jane Isay in the New York Times on November 27, 2011.

Jane Isay

PLEASE JOIN NYPSI AS IT CONTINUES ITS CENTENARY CELEBRATION
CELEBRATING A CENTURY OF ADVANCEMENT THROUGH SELF-KNOWLEDGE
THE NEW YORK PSYCHOANALYTIC SOCIETY & INSTITUTE:
Arnold Pfeffer Center for Neuropsychoanalysis
247 East 82nd St., between 2nd & 3rd, NY, NY  10028
212-879-6900www.psychoanalysis.org
 
Saturday, December 3, 2011, 10 am – 12 pm, Free
 
Therapy for the Mind,
Pharmacology for the Brain?
 David Schwab, M.D.
Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry,
Columbia University (more…)

Dear Friends and Colleagues,

South Africa has been such a rich, complicated, exhilarating, and poignant experience that I cannot possibly encompass it in a letter. However, here is an attempt, with thanks to my wife, Leah, for editing assistance.
The end of Apartheid was only seventeen years ago. Nelson Mandela was elected president in 1994. We can still feel the exhilaration of that revolutionary change. And yet there are many (more…)

Click Here to Read: Aging: Is it All in Your Head? by Sam Sommers on the AOL Health Living Website on November 24, 2011.

Click Herfe to Read:  Climategate-gate: The Dangerous Psychology of Ongoing Climate Change Denial by TOdd Essig on the Forbes website on November 26, 2011.

Click Here to Read:  The Sex Addiction Epidemic by Chris Lee on the Daily Beast website on November 25, 2011.

It wrecks ­marriages, ­destroys ­careers, and saps self-worth. Yet ­Americans are being ­diagnosed as sex ­addicts in ­record numbers. Inside an epidemic.

Click Here to View: When Nietzsche Wept.  Film on YouTube.

Josef Breuer

Click Here to Read: Psychoanalysis and Neuroscience: Ten Years Later,  Philoctetes Roundtable Discussion with Cristina Alberini, Heather Berlin, Vittorio Gallese, Robert Michels, Donald Pfaff, and Mark Solms.

 Cristina Alberini

Click Here to View:  Women in Advertising Presentation This presentation asks the question, “Do we really live in a post-sexist society?” It provides examples of many forms of sexism in advertising through time, showing how these values remain deeply entrenched in society on YouTube.

Click Here to Read: Finding Purpose After Living With Delusion By Benedict Carey in the New York Times on November 25, 2011.

Meaning in Madness: Milton Greek, who has been diagnosed with schizophrenia, believes that decoding the messages in delusions can help some people recover.

 Click Here to Read: Human survival depends on space exploration, says Stephen Hawking By Cassandra Szklarski in The Canadian Press Novmber 18, 201.1

Stephen Hawking