International Psychoanalysis

Click Here to Read: Adrienne Cooper, Yiddish Singer, Dies at 65 by Joseph Berger in the New York Times on December 28, 2011.

Click Here to Read: 2011 Sigourney  Awards Announced on the Sigourney Awards website.

Click Here to Listen To:Act Three. Christmas Freud by David Rakoffn playing Freud in the windows of Barney’s department store. (15 minutes) Song: “Christmas Freud Caroling”, The Formerly Known As Family foon This American Life on WBEZ on NPR Radio.

David Rakoff

Click Here to Read:  Robert Ader, Who Linked Stress and Illness, Dies at 79 By Paul Vitello in the New York Times on  December 25, 2011.

Dear Colleagues,

First of all I hope that you are all enjoying the holiday season and wish you a peaceful and healthy 2012.
Despite the stresses of the season, this week has been busy on the international psychoanalytic website.  Below are my highlights for the week.  I did not include the Dangerous Method Category, as I am sure you are all following it, just at I am.

1)  Different messages (?) regarding Feminist Psychology : Hedda Bolgar***s life story &/or The Changing Face of Feminist Psychology.
 Must we chose?
Click Here to Read the Bolgar Article (more…)

Click Here to Read:  A Dangerous Method By James Bowman in the American Spectato on December 27, 2011.

Click Here to Read:  Other posts on A Dangerous Method on this website.

Click Here to Read:  Scholars Retract Another Study Linking Virus to Fatigue Syndrome By David  Tuller in the New York Times on December 26, 2011.

Click Here to Read:  The Hormone Surge of Middle Childhood By Natalie Angier in the New York Times on December 26, 2011.Today’s NY Times “Now We are Six” reviews recent work on latency.

This article emphasizes Ted Shapiro’s early classic, “Seven plus or minus one” cited in the recent review of the latency study by Franieck. Click Here to Read This Article

Click Here to View: Yiddish & Seinfeld . . The Bar Mitzvah on YouTube.

Click Here to View: In Treatment: Season 3 Trailer (HBO) posted by Alex Em on the Vimeo website.

Click Here to Read: A Pretty Boring Dangerous Method: Cronenberg’s movie mostly misses true excitement of psychoanalysis  by Prudence Gourguechon, MD on her Psychoanalytic Excavation  blog on the Psychology Today blogs on December 18, 2011.

Click Here to Read: Other Posts on A Dangerous Method website.

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Click Here to Read and View : Navigating Love and Autism By Amy Harmon in the New York Times on December 26, 2011.

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Click Here to Read:  North Korean labor camps in Siberia By Shane Smith from the vice.com website  on the CNN.com website on  December 15, 2011.

Click Here to Read: A moment in history with David Cronenberg By Mark Feeney on the Boston.com website on December 23, 2011|.

Click Here to Read:  Other Posts on A Dangerous Method on this website. 

Click Here to Read: 1915  “I was positively uninterested in the dance.”  on the Museum of Public Relations website.

Michael and Vera Vokin, Russian court dancers, in the ballet “Scherezade.”

Click Here to Read:  An Israeli study reveals the secrets of children’s conversations: Thanks to digital technology, it is possible to study the conversational patterns of young children without their feeling observed. The results reveal a surprising level of social sophistication and cooperation By Zvia Walden on the Ha’aretz website on November 30, 2011.

Click Here to Read: Brilliant minds star in superb ‘Dangerous Method’:Keira Knightley and Michael Fassbender in “A Dangerous Method.”By Robert Horton on the Heraldnet website on December 23, 2011.

Click Here to Read: Other Posts on A Dangerous Method on this website.

Click Here to Read: ‘Kosher psychology’ gives hope to haredim  by Judy Siegel-Itzkovich on the The Jerusalem Post website  website on December 24, 2011.

PSYCHOANALYSIS IN CONFLICT: ORTHODOXY AND HERESY: Part 2
By Elio Frattaroli, MD.

Introduction: Nathan Szajnberg, MD, Managing Editor
Frattaroli argues that conflict in our discipline was inevitable: in part I, he shows that Freud’s ambivalent heresy and orthodoxy became played out in his disciples, who, however became either heretics (Reich, Fromm, Adler) or orthodox (Strachey, Jones, Hartmann).  Frattaroli studies our discipline as an organism with its own psychic dynamics: understanding these more clearly may permit us to master the conflicts, rather than perpetuate them in a repetition compulsion. (more…)