International Psychoanalysis

Click Here To Read: A History of Abuse in the War on Terror by Jennifer Schuessler, a review of The Dark Side by Jane Meyer, from the New York Times on July 22nd, 2008.

Chick Here To Read: Madness and Shame, article by Bob Herbert in the New York Times on July 22, 2008. 

Click Here to Read: Here’s Looking at Me, Kid By Jan Hoffman in the New York Times on Sunday, July 20th, 2008.
 
 
 
 
 

Click Here To Read: Getting It Right: In HBO’s In Treatment, Art Imitates Therapy By Molly Layton on the Psychotherapy Networker Website. 

 
  
   
 
Click Here to Read:  The World Inside Our Heads: ‘Human’ by Michael Gazzaniga from the New York Sun on July 16, 2008. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Trying to Fathom the Human Condition, Letter by Alan Eisnitz to the New York Times on July 17th, 2008.

To the Editor:

David Brooks writes how scientists view human behavior, motivation and feelings as influenced by genetics, brain mechanisms and interactions over time with a complex environment and the people in it. This is precisely the area in which psychoanalysis works.

Psychoanalysis today aims to understand and eliminate negative forces in a person’s “transference” — the emotions and predispositions, both conscious and unconscious, from that person’s present and past experiences as they come to life as motivational forces in the present, and in particular in the treatment and toward others in the patient’s life.

I believe that much could be learned if shifts in the transference could, if possible, be studied as they occur, by methods of brain study now available, and as they develop, and their findings correlated with the psychoanalytic findings. Read the rest of this entry »

  
 
Click Here to Read: Freud’s Jewish Identity by Arnold Richards which will be translated into Portuguese and appear in a Brazilian Jewish publication. 
 
 
 
 

 
 
 
Click Here To View: Ideas Festival: David Brooks on Human Behavior from FORA TV.
 
 
 

Click Here to Read: Freudians having bad dreams about the end of the couch by Jasper Copping from the Telegraph.co.uk website.

Click Here To Read: Psychotherapy In UK Should Be Subject To Rigorous Regulation Just Like Drug Treatments, Say Academics from the Science Daily, January 15th, 2008. 

 
 
 
 Click Here to Read: Freud’s Hypothesis that the Jews Killed Moses by Robert Lippman. 

This paper was previously published as Lippmam, Robert (2001, Summer). Freud’s Hypothesis that the Jews Killed Moses  Midstream,  47 (5),  19-21 and appears here with requisite rights and permissions.
 
  
 

Click Here To Read: Psychiatric Group Faces Scrutiny Over Drug Industry Ties by Benedict Carey and Gardiner Harris in the New York Times, July 12, 2008, 

Click Here to Read: Initial Severity and Antidepressant Benefits: A Meta-Analysis of Data Submitted to the Food and Drug Administration  

Click here To Read: Beyond Medication, Toward Rehabilitation: The Role of the Psychiatrist By Martin Willick

  
 
Click Here to Read: Sigmund Freud and the Holocaust from Holocaust Education & Archive Research Team.  Includes information on the fate of Freud’s sisters.  
  
 
Sigmund Freud’s Sisters

Click Here To Read: The Political Consequences of Child Abuse by Alice Miller in African Press International, July 10th, 2008.

Click Here to Read: Alice Miller in Wikipedia. 

Click Here to Read: Splits in Psychoanalytic Communities (and in Tampa Bay)  by Arnold Z. Schneider from Contemporary Psychoanalytic Musings, Blog of the Tampa Bay Institute for Psychoanalytic Studies, on Wednesday July 9th, 2008.

 
 
Click Here to Read: Decades Later, Still Asking: Would I Pull That Switch? by Benedict Carey from the New York Times on July 1st, 2008, concerning Stanley Milgram’s experiment. 
 
  
 
  
 
 
  

Stanley Milgram

The Forever War on Terror: Dilemmas and Choices
Charles B. Strozier, Ph.D., Professor of History, John Jay College of Criminal Justice and Director, John Jay Center on Terrorism, New York;  and a training and supervising analyst, TRISP.

Summary of paper delivered at the meetings of the APsaA in Atlanta, June 20, 2008

In my talk I described the apocalyptic mindset that underlies the current global “war on terror” (GWOT).  The GWOT emerged out of a radical shift in America’s relation to the world after 9/11.  The GWOT, as a self-proclaimed fight against evil, has served as the ideological basis for the actual wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.  The GWOT also reverses centuries of our cautious posture to the world, projecting power in ways not seen since the Roman Empire.  This new stance alters the principles established by the framers of the constitution, and early presidents, particularly George Washington, John Quincy Adams, James Monroe, and Abraham Lincoln.  Read the rest of this entry »

Click Here To Read: Research-Based Psychotherapy by Andrew J. Gerber, MD, PhD and Robert Michels, MD from Psychiatric Times Vol. 25 No. 7.  Posted on the Psychiatric Times Website of June 1st, 2008. 

Click Here to Read: Freud’s “Disturbance of Memory on the Acropolis” Revisited by Robert L. Lippman
 
This article has been previously published as Lippman, Robert  (2008).  Freud’s “Disturbance of Memory on the Acropolis” Revisited.  The Psychoanalytic Review 95(3) 489-99 and appears here with the requisite rights and permissions and with the permission of the National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis.

 Click Here to Read: Psychoanalytic Theories of Infant Development and its Disturbances: A Critical Evaluation by Sylvia Brody. This article was previously published as: Brody, Sylvia (1982).  Psychoanalytic Theories of Infant Development and its Disturbances: A Critical Evaluation. Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 51: pp. 526-597 and appears here with all requisite rights and permissions.

 © The Psychoanalytic Quarterly, Inc.; first published in The Psychoanalytic Quarterly, Volume 51, pages 526-597 

Click here to read: Letter from Charles Brenner to Sylvia Brody about this article, written on May 4th, 1983. 

The following materials from the New York Disaster Counseling Coalitions are being made available here to all.  They are especially useful to non-profits working with people in relationships.

Click Here for: Participants’ Workbook: Enriching, Reconnecting and Rebuilding Intimate Partnerships

Click Here for: Module 1: Feeling and Facts about Stress and Resiliance

Click Here for:  Module 3: Communication Skills

Click Here for:  Faclitator’s Guide.  

Off the couch, back on its feet
12 June 2008 Times Higher Education 

By Matthew Reisz

Psychoanalysis may have little place in university psychology departments, but it is flourishing within the arts and humanities. Matthew Reisz reports on the debates - and divisions - between academics and clinicians

The American Psychoanalytic Association recently set up a task force with an ambitious goal - to “reach and captivate the 10,000 best minds of the next generation with the power of psychoanalytic ideas”. Clearly worried that its influence was in decline, it employed Jonathan Redmond and Michael Shulman to research “access to psychoanalytic ideas in American undergraduate institutions”. Their report was recently published in the association’s journal. Read the rest of this entry »