Click here to read: “Pinter’s The Caretaker at the Harvey Theater in Brooklyn: A classic has lost none of its power” by Fred Mazelis from World Socialist Web Site on May 23, 2012.
Click here to read: “Hysteria; Loose Cannons; film notes” by Sawyer J. Lahr from Windy City Media Group on May 23, 2012.
Click here to read: Part three, Adventures in the Dream Factory, of the three-part series, “Philip K. Dick, Sci-Fi Philospher,” by Simon Critchley in the New York Times on May 22, 2012.
Part two, Future Gnostic, and part one, Meditations on a Radiant Fish, can also be found using the link above.
Click Here to Read: The Amygdala Made Me Do It By James Atlas in the New York Times on May 12, 2012
Click here to read “Diagnosing the D.S.M.” written by New York Times op-ed contributor, Allen Frances, which was published May 11, 2012.
Click Here to Read: The Campus Tsunami By David Brooks in the New York Times on May 3, 2012.
Click Here to Read: My Mom Was My Roommate By Gisselle Perez in the New York Times on May 3, 2012.
Click Here to Read: Are Some Psychiatrists Addicted to Deference? by Michael Cornwall, Ph.D on the Mad in America website on May 2, 2012.
Michael Cornwall, Ph.D
Click Here to Read: Motherhood vs. Feminism, debate with seven articles by various authors in the New York Times on May 1, 2012.
Click Here to Read: Up in Smoke By David Kramer in the New York Times on April 30, 2012.
Click Here to Read: The Creative Monopoly By David Brooks in the New York Times on April 23, 2012.
Creativity and Competition: What can we learn? Nathan Szajnberg, MD Managing Editor
David Brooks writes about the tension between competition and creativity. This has implications for psychoanalytic institutes. Briefly, he refers to Peter Thiel’s Stanford course on line. Click Here to Read: Notes Essays on Peter Thiel’s CS183: Startup: Stanford, Spring 2012 on Blake Master’s website. Thiel (more…)
Click Here to Read: Earth Day: Discussing the Coming Climate Crisis With Heidi Cullen Record-breaking heat. Floods. Droughts. Tornadoes. Don’t believe the skeptics—the evidence of climate change is all around us. An interview with climatologist Heidi Cullen on the Daily Beast website on April 22, 2012.
Click Here to Read: The Flight From Conversation By Sherry Turkle in the New York Times on April 21, 2012.
Click Here to Read: By Jonathan Alpert in The New York Times on April 21, 2012.
Click Here to Read: “We Have Nothing to Fear, But . . . “We have nothing to fear, but…”; Makari on the Anxieties in Today’s NYTimes on this website.
Click Here to Read: Jonathan Alpert’s Mis-Statements, And Possible Misconduct by Todd Essig on the Forbes Magazine website on April 23 2012.
Click Here to Read: Is Quick Therapy the Best Therapy? Letters to the Editor in the New York Times on on April 23, 2012.
Response to “In Therapy Forever: Enough Already,” (NYT 4-22-12)
Nathan Szajnberg MD Managing Editor
Imagine retitling Alpert’s OP-Ed “In Therapy Forever? Enough Already”: into “In Medical Treatment Forever? Enough Already.”
This is not entirely wrong; it simply doesn’t make sense. If medical treatment is for a runny nose, of course medical treatment shouldn’t be forever; any Doc-in-the-box can handle this. If it is for a diplococcal pneumonia, of course (more…)
Click Here to Read: Hunger Games’ Parenting by Bruce Handy in the New York Times on April 14, 2012.
Click Here to Read: Confession: Is Dr. Freud at War with Religious Beliefs? by Paul Wilkes on the Huffington Post website April 10, 2012.
Paul Wilkes
Click Here to Read: Protecting Psychologists Who Harm: The APA’s Latest Wrong Turn By Roy Eidelson on the Truthout website on April 7, 2012.
Camp Delta, where detainees on the war on terrorism are kept, at the U.S. Naval base in Guantanamo, October 9, 2003.
Click Here to Read: Does psychoanalysis have a valuable place in modern mental health services? Yes by Chris MacGregor on the BMJ website on April 4, 2012.
Click Here to Read: Seeking Happiness on a Finite and Human-Shaped Planet By Andrew C. Revkin in the New York Times on April 2, 2012.
Takeshang Gompa, Tiger’s Nest Monastery
Click Here to Read: Eat your broccoli, Justice Scalia by Steven Pearlstein in The Washington Post on March 31, 2012.
Justice Antonin Scalia