International Psychoanalysis

Jackie O: On the Couch, Inside the Mind and Life of Jackie Kennedy Onassis by Alma H. Bond is an Award-Winning Finalist in the Fiction: Historical category of the 2012 International Book Awards.

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 Schlesinger on Psychoanalysis.

 Herb Schlesinger presented the 47^th Freud Anniversary Lecture at the Psychoanalytic Association of New York on April 21^st on how we know we are doing psychoanalysis.   We will summarize that presentation in the near future.  Until then, here is a review of his gem-like classic, The Texture of Treatment. It is reprinted from the Hebrew, Sichot.  N. Szajnberg, MD.

  Book Review: The Texture of Treatment: On the Matter of Psychoanalytic Technique.  Herbert J. Schlesinger (2003) Analytic Press.  (more…)

Click here to read “Alain Badiou: a life in writing” written by Stuart Jeffries from The Gaurdian on May 18, 2012.

Click here to read “Their Sense of Belonging,” written by Timothy Snyder from The Wall Street Journal on May 18, 2012.

Click here to Read:   Joanna Kellond ‘Deciding How to Live: Review of  The Life and Death of Psychoanalysis: On Unconscious Desire and its Sublimation by Jamieson Webster  in Excursions, 3, 1 (2012).

Click here to read “The Tragedy of Leon Trotsky,” which discusses Joshua Rubenstein’s latest book, Leon Trotsky: A Revolutionary’s Life, from the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research on March 8, 2012.

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Click Here to Read: Chapter 4:  Trauma: how events shape the brain and the mind  from  Reading Minds: A Guide to the Cognitive Neuroscience Revolution by Michael Moskowitz.

Click Here to Read: Review of Reading Minds: A Guide to the Cognitive Neuroscience Revolution by Michael Moskowitz, review in the British Journal of Psychiatry.

Click here to read “Goldman-Bred Neuroscientist Bares Secret of Testosterone Trading” by James Pressley from Sanfrancisco Chronicle via Bloomberg News on May 14, 2012.

 Click Here to Read:   Chapter 11 of Minding the Social Brain by Jay Harris.

From Jay Harris, author of the upcoming book,  Minding the Social Brain:   
I invite you to the final chapter of  Minding the Social Brain, a book about how the functional brain externalizes its structure to form human society. The anterior prefrontal cortex contains the full verbal and iconic (more…)

Click Here to Listen To: The Many Meanings of Where The Wild Things Are on the Day 6 with Brent Bambury show interviewing Richard Gottlieb about Maurice Sendak on the CBC Radio website on May 11, 2012.

Click Here to Read: Maurice Sendak, Author of Splendid Nightmares, Dies at 83 by Margalit Fox in The New York Times on May 8. 2012.

Click here to Read: Introduction to Antiphilosophy by Boris Groys,  reviewed by Stuart Kelley on the The Guardian website on May 11, 2012.

Nietzsche: one of the begetters of ‘antiphilosophy’. Photograph: Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images

Click here to watch a video, which was posted on YouTube May 6, 2012, of Glen Gabbard, M.D., discussing the field of psychoanalysis and his new book, which he co-edited with Bonnie E. Litowitz, Ph.D., and Paul Williams, Ph.D., The 2nd edition of The Textbook of Psychoanalysis.

Click here to read about Basia Temkin-Berman’s published diary, City Within a City, originally written in Polish and for the first time ever translated into English. Use the link above to order the book via IPBooks.

Click here to read: A Psychoanalyst Talks About How Couples Can Prevent Divorce the Second Time Around by Erica Manfred from The Huffington Post on May 8, 2012.

Click Here to Read: Martha Graham Redivivus By Mark Franko on the Oxford University Press blog on May 8th.

Click here to Read:  Pride and Joy: A Guide to Understanding Your Child’s Emotions and Solving Your Family’s Problems by Kenneth Barish.

Click Here to Read: Fifty Shades of Porn Which Porn Is Good/Bad For Your Relationship on the Psychoanalysis 3.0 blog on the Psychology Today blogs on May 1, 2012.

Click Here to Read: The Psychoanalysis of Superheroes and Their Fans by Dennis O’Neil on the Oz and Ends website on April 29, 2012. 

This image, by Norm Breyfogle, adorns Spencer Ackerman’s article in the new Pacific Standard on “Comic Con on the Couch: Analyzing Superheroes.”