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Click here to read “Education Pioneer Annemarie Roeper Passes Away” written by Julie M. Rodriguez from the Care2 website posted on May 20, 2012.

For those interested, Laplanche’s Book Freud and the Sexual, Available Here.

A tribute to Jean Laplanche by Dominique Scarfone
(Translation: Jonathan House; French below):

Jean Laplanche died on May 6, 2012 just a few weeks before what would have been his 88th birthday. A philosopher (student of Jean Hippolyte, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Gaston Bachelard), a psychiatrist and a psychoanalyst, one of the great readers of Freud and translator of the just completed French edition of Freud’s complete works, he was, with Serge Leclaire, among the first (more…)

Laplanche in this interview covers some of his basic and often controversial ideas, such as the “normative” seduction of infants by their parents’ (infantile) sexuality. Note that Laplanche was considered one of Lacan’s promising students. Yet, Laplanche is able to stay much closer to clinical work in a non-ambiguous, non-teasing, and more comprehensible manner than his teacher.  This gives us hope that our discipline can pursue ideas that are more fruitful despite our tendencies to carry on too slavishly the (more…)

 Click Here to Read:  Bertram Cohler, psychologist and esteemed teacher, 1938-2012 By William Harms in the U Chicago News on May 14, 2012.

Click Here to Read: Obituary for Bertram Cohler in the Chicago Tribune on May 13, 2012.

Bert Thoughts: In Memorium for Bertram Cohler.
N. Szajnberg, MD, Managing Editor

Bert and I met in 1970 when I was a counselor at the Sonia Shankman Orthogenic School and he was preparing to follow Dr. B. as the director. I began working as Leslie Aranow’s co-counselor and also the night counselor for the six boys in the youngest dorm.
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Click Here to Read:  Jean Laplanche on Wikipedia.

Jean Laplanche

For those interested, Laplanche’s Book Freud and the Sexual, Available Here.

Click Here to Read:   Ulric Neisser Is Dead at 83; Reshaped Study of the Mind By Douglas Martin in The New York Times on February 25, 2012.

Ulric Neisser

Click Here to Read: The Cautionary Tale of Whitney Houston’s Tragic Early Death by Todd Essig on the Forbes Magazine website on February 12, 2012.

Click Here to Read: Frank Cioffi, Philosopher and Critic of Freud, Dies at 83 By Paul Vitello in the New York Times on February 1, 2012.

Click Here to Read:  The death of Greek filmmaker Theo Angelopoulos
By Stefan Steinberg On the World Socialist website on  January 27, 2012..

Click Here to Read: “Sing like your life depends on it”: Etta James—1938-2012
By Paul Bond  on the World Socialist website on  January 26, 2012.

*Doctor Andre Green*
**
12 March 1927 in Cairo – 22 January 2012 in Paris.

A major figure in psychoanalysis has left us. The psychoanalytic
community is in mourning.

A psychiatrist by training, Andre Green became one of the major thinkers in contemporary psychoanalysis. He was in direct dialogue with Lacan, Winnicott, Bion, and with all the influential psychoanalysts worldwide. He is (more…)

Click Here to Read and Listen To:   Beloved Yiddish Singer Adrienne Cooper Mourned by Colleagues By Jon Kalish on the WNYC website on December 30, 2011. 
  

Adrienne Cooper

Click Here to Read: Sir Michael Dummett obituary: Philosopher who focused on falsehood and truth in language i8n the Guardian UK on December 28, 201.1

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

This obituary of Abe Zaleznik,  was written by Prof Manfred Kets de Vries:

Professor Abraham Zaleznik (Abe) of the Harvard Business School, a pioneer in the study of leadership and applied psychoanalytic organizational consultation, died November 28 in Boston at the age of 87.

To quote Voltaire, *To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.* After working through the grief, I had to consider how to honor (more…)

Click Here to Read: In Memoriam: Christopher Hitchens, 1949–2011 By Juli Weiner in Vanity Fair on December 15,  2011.

Click Here to Read: Polemicist Who Slashed All, Freely, Dies at 62 By William Grimes in the New York Times on December 16, 2011.

Click Here to View: Christopher Hitchens delivers the Daniel Pearl Memorial Lecture at UCLA  on YouTube.

 Click Here to Read:  The Tenth Man ; The key to Christopher Hitchens wasn’t his iconoclasm; it was his desire for belonging—and the proof can be found in an unexpected place By Marc Tracy on the Tablet website on December 19, 2011.

Click Here to Read: Regarding Christopher by Katha Pollitt on The Nation website on December 19, 2011.

Click Here to Read:  Hedda Bolgar, Age 98, Video on the Beauty of Aging website.

Click Here to Read:  At 99, she’s living life for others  by Steve Lopez on the Los Angeles Times websote on September 14, 2008.

Hedda Bolgar

Click Here to Read: Abraham Zaleznik, at 87, professor emeritus of Harvard Business School By Herald staff on the Boston Herald website on December 9, 2011.

Click Here to Read:  Elisabeth Young-Bruehl, Who Probed Roots of Ideology and Bias, Dies at 65 By Margalit Fox in the New York Times  on December 5, 2011.

Click Here to Read: In Memoriam: Elisabeth Young-Bruehl on this website.

Click Here to Read: Creative Aggression by Elisabeth Young-Bruehl on this website.