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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 a review written by Fred M. Sander, M.D. of the 58th Freud Lecture at the New York Psychoanalytic Society, which took place on May 8, 2012.

Click here to read: Sinai Scholars Symposium Explores Kabbalah and Freud by the Chabad.edu Staff from Chabad.edu on May 9, 2012.

Use the links below to view several videos from the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research Conference posted on YouTube:

Deborah Hertz at YIVO

Harvey Klehr at YIVO

Mitchell Cohen at YIVO

Click Here to Read:  The Fate of the Warsaw Ghetto Medical Faculty by George M. Weisz MD FRACS BA MA, Andrzej Grzybowski MD PhD MBA,  and William Randall Albury BA Phd.

This article originally appeared as: Wiesz, G.M., Grzybowski, A. and Albury, W.R.  (2012).  The Fate of the Warsaw Ghetto Medical Faculty.  Israeli Medical Association Journal.  Volume 14 and appears here with all requisite rights and permissions. 

Click Here to Buy:   City Within a City by Basia Berman from IPBooks.

Click here to Read:  Lourdes Lynch’s Powerpoint on Child Development from Wuhan, China.

Click Here to Read:  Arthur Lynch’s Klein and Winnicott Wuhan Powerpoint.

 Click Here to Read: A rthur Lynch’s Freud powerpoint from Wuhan, China. 

Introduction by Arthur Lynch      

    Visiting and teaching in Wuhan was an exceptional experience.  To give some back groundWuhan, the capital of theHubeiprovince, is one of the largest cities inChinaand was ranked by National Geographic as the tenth largest city in the world.  With its 3,500-year-long history, Wuhan is one of the China’s (more…)

Click Here to Read:  A New Look at Evidence About Reduced Cost of Medical Utilization Following Mental Health Treatment by Emily Mumford, PH.D., Herbert J. Schlesinger, PH.D., Gene V. Glass, PH.D., Cathleen Patrick, PH.D. and Timothy Cuerdon, B.A.

This article originally appeared as Emily Mumford, PH.D., Herbert J. Schlesinger, PH.D., Gene V. Glass, PH.D., Cathleen Patrick, PH.D. and Timothy Cuerdon, B.A. (1998). Journal of Psychotherapy Practice and Research 7:65-86 and appears here with all requisite rights and permissions.

Click Here to Read:  Introduction to Psychoanalysis and Social Work in the Summer of 1936  by Daniel Benveniste.

Click Here to Read: Introduction to Psychoanalysis and Social Work in the Summer of 1936   by Arthur Lynch

Click Here to View: Marion E. Kenworthy to John W. Beard letter,  July 22, 1936.  

Marion E. Kenworthy

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 Click Here to Read: The Replacement Child: Variations on a Theme in History and Psychoanalysis by Leon Anisfeld, D.S .W. and Arnold D. Richards, M.D presented by Arnold D. Richards in Wuhan, China.

Wuhan, China (more…)

Click Here to View: The Nonlinear Psychoanalytic Clinician, Lecture by Robert Galatzer-Levy given in honor of John Kafka at the Washington Psychoanalytic on on YouTube.

Pas de deux in Wuhan, China
N. Szajnberg, MD, Managing Editor

Invited to teach in China about psychoanalytic development, how does a psychoanalyst select something that is more cross cultural than not?  I chose to teach attachment theory, born of the mind of a psychoanalyst, John Bowlby, exiled for some decades and now returned to psychoanalytic interest since the work of Fonagy, the Steeles, Lieberman and others. 

Here is a brief snippet of the three hour lecture with video from Everett Waters’ website. I thank the Wallerstein Foundation for its ongoing support, Arnie and Arlene Richards and Dr. Tong for this invitation.

If there is enough reader interest, we can develop this as a primer that covers adult attachment and implications for psychoanalytic technique. This would be available through IPBooks.

Nathan Szajnberg, MD, Managing Editor (more…)

Click Here to Read:  Psychodynamic Psychiatry:  The Official Journal of The American Academy of Psychoanalysis and Dynamic Psychiatry Edited by Richard C. Friedman, MD, Cornell University Deputy Editor, Jennifer I. Downey, MD, Columbia University. 

Volume 40, 2012

Filling in the painful spaces

N. Szajnberg, MD, Managing Editor         

Ilany Kogan, writes about holes: voids, memory-erased spaces of open-mouthed silent screams.  She presents cases of children or grandchildren of those who survived the Holocaust, documenting how their psychic holes are populated, filled in with unconscious fantasies, enacted in their lives.

Her work, as you will read here or in her books, is pains-taking:  she absorbs the pains, metabolizes them, and

Figure 2 Berlin Jewish Museum Memory Void (more…)

Attention must be paid — James Q. Wilson and Psychoanalytic Organizations
Nathan Szajnberg, M.D., Managing Editor
Alfred Marcus, Ph.D., Professor and Spencer Chair in Strategy and Technological Leadership, Univ. of Minnesota (a student of James Q. Wilson)

“Attention must be paid!” Willy Loman’s wife cried to her hapless sons Biff and Hap shortly before their father’s fatal car crash.

But, why should attention be paid by psychoanalysts to James Q. Wilson after (more…)

Click Here to Read: “Three archaic components of the religious instinct: Awe, mysticism, and apocalypse” by Mortimer Ostow, MD—Presented at the NY Psychoanalytic Society, March 13, 2001, write up of the event by  Leon Hoffman for the NYPSI Newsletter.

Click Here to Read: Discussion of “Three archaic components of the religious instinct: Awe, mysticism, and apocalypse” by Mortimer Ostow, MD, Discussion by Leon Hoffman, MD Presented at the NY Psychoanalytic Society March 13, 2001.

Click Here to Read: Illness in the Analyst and its Impact on ths Psychoanalytic Process by Jacob Arlow.

 Introduction by Sheldon Goodman to Jacob Arlow’s Illness And Its impact On The Psychoanalyst Process
                      
               Most discussions of illness in the analyst during the course of psychotherpay or psychoanalysis emphasize the effect of the analyst’s illness on the patient, it’s relationaship to the (more…)

Introduction by Nathan Szajnberg, MD Managing Editor

 Charles Strozier presents below a meticulous historical study of idea evolution in psychoanalysis.  Previously, this careful biographer of Kohut, showed, given the limitations of historical research, that Kohut was his own analyst in the Mr. Z. case, something those of us in Chicago simply knew.  Now, Strozier presents a scholarly textually-tight study of the historical intellectual relationship between Stolorow, a father of (more…)

Click Here to Read: Abstract of: Management vs. Interpretation: Teaching Residents to Listen by Shapiro ER. from the Nervous Mental Disease 2012 Mar;200(3):204-7. You may purchase the article here.

Click Here to Read:  Head to Head: Does psychoanalysis have a valuable place in modern mental health services? Yes by Peter Fonagy and Alessandra Lemma. 

This article originally appeared as Fonagy, Peter, and Lemma, Alessandra,  (2012) Head to Head: Does psychoanalysis have a valuable place in modern mental health services? BMJ Psychotherapy 344:e1211 and appears here with all requisite rights and permissions. 

Alessandra Lemma  Peter Fonagy