International Psychoanalysis

Click Here to Read:   The Classical Psychoanalytic Technique Revisited by Robert L. Lippman, Ph.D.

This paper is previously unpublished.

 Click Here to Read:   The dangers of systematic thought in psychoanalytic work: a riff on listening by Jane S. Hall. This is a special op-ed article written specifically for this website.

Jane Hall

Click here to read “Mass Psychology of the Led and the Leaders: Masses and Mobs, Democracy and Demagogues Or How Prejudice of the Leader becomes Mass Paranoia With Some Thoughts on the Current World Events.”

By Zvi Lothane, M. D.

This paper was originally published in International Forum of Psychoanalysis, 15:183-192, 2006.

Click here to read Zvi Lothane’s review of  Freud in Zion: History of Psychoanalysis in Jewish Palestine/Israel 1918-1948 by Eran J. Rolnik.

Below find a list of papers posted on InternationalPsychoanalysis.net  from 2009 to the present.   Those not published in any other venue are marked with  “UN.”

Chase, H.E. (April 1911).  Freud’s Theories of the Unconscious.  The North Carolina High School Bulletin, April 1911, pp. 110-121
September 7th, 2009

Other/Wise, The Online Journal of the International Forum for Psychoanalytic Education, Volume 2, Fall 2009.
September 16th, 2009

UN  Pearls From Tears: The Poetry of Irene Klepfisz  by Arlene Kramer Richards from the IPTAR Arts Symposium on October 25, 2009.
October 27th, 2009
 
UN International Conference:  BODY, PSYCHOSIS AND THE FUTURE OF PSYCHOANALYSIS, Introduction to the conference by Riccardo Lombardi:
November 6th, 2009 (more…)

Click here to read ”Playing with Brazilian Street Children: a pilot study using narrative story stem” by Dr. M. Leticia Castrechini F. Franieck; Prof. Dr. Michael Günter University of Tübingen-Germany.

Dr. Franieck has been studying three groups of Brazilian slum children: homeless street kids; those in shanties and those living away from their abusive families.  In a poignant study, she shows how these children remain emotionally connected (for better and worse) to their parents. She uses the MacArthur story-telling technique. Bear with the methodology, as what she has to teach us about disenfranchised children is valuable.

(This was presented at the 2012 World Association of Infant Mental Health meeting in South Africa.)

N. Szajnberg, MD, Managing Editor

Click here to read “The System Is Failing Most of Us” by Joseph Stiglitz from Psychohistory on June 12, 2012.

Noble Prize winning, and highly influential, economist Joseph Stiglitz explains why our economic system is failing most Americans.

 Click here to read “How Racist Are We? Ask Google” by Harvard PhD candidate Seth Stephens-Davidowitz in The New York Times on June 9, 2012, which discusses the findings from his recent study (link below).

Click here to read the original paper by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz: “The Effects of Racial Animus on a Black Presidential Candidate: Using Google Search Data to Find What Surveys Miss”

Click here to read “The Wisconsin Blues” by  George Lakoff and Elisabeth Wehling from Psychohistory on June 12, 2012.

Click Here to Read:  As Good As it Gets: A Study in Sibling Rivalry by Jacob Arlow.

Click here to read: “Fish, Antidepressants, Autism and a Problematic Research Premise” by Dorothy Bishop, PhD from PLoS Blogs on June 8, 2012.

Click here to read: “The Couch as Icon” by Ahron Friedberg & Louis Linn originally published in The Psychoanalytic Review, volume 99, No. 1, February 2012.

The couch has always been an integral part of psychoanalytic practice. It has even become a cultural icon representing psychoanalysis itself. However, minimal evidence exists in the psychoanalytic literature that using the couch is necessary or even necessarily helpful to establish a psychoanalytic process and conduct an analysis. Furthermore, it can potentially be harmful to patients such as those who have experienced early loss and trauma or who have significant ego organizational prob- lems. Therefore, the use of the couch per se does not seem well suited as a defining criterion of psychoanalysis. To the extent that it may be clinically valuable, the use of the couch should be more carefully con- sidered and critically examined.

Click here to read: “On Sulking” by Dr Joseph Berke.

Sulking is a state of sullen resentment, irritability and negativity manifested by and through extreme inactivity. It is a key to understanding many self destructive phenomena including the refusal to talk, to eat or to thrive. Moreover, in therapy or analysis, sulking often lies behind the negative therapeutic reaction. Most severely, conditions such as paranoia, somatic psychoses, and manic episodes may signify intense, unremitting, unrestrained sulking…

Click here to read: “Freud’s Dogs” by by Peter Byrne from Swans Commentary on June 4, 2012.

“Hence comes the four-legged friendships of so many of the better kind of men, for on what indeed should one refresh oneself from the endless deceit, falseness, and cunning of men if it were not for the dogs into whose faithful countenance one may look without distrust?”
—Arthur Schopenhauer, Ethics

Click here to read: “Remarks at the Festival of Economics, Trento Italy,” a recent speech by George Soros on June 2, 2012.

Click here to read: “Notes for reminiscences of David Rapaport” by Robert R. Holt, which was read during the discussion at the “40th Anniversary of the Rapaport-Klein Study Group: Reflections on David Rapaport” panel, held on June 14, 2003, at the Annual Meeting of the Rapaport-Klein Study Group.

Click here to read: “Shell Shocked” by  Dr. Edgar Jones from the June 2012 American Psychological Association’s 43 volume, which outlines the World War I story of Charles S. Myers who convinced the British military to understand Shell Shock as a serious illness and developed approaches that continue to guide treatment today.

“My Friend Peter Loewenberg” by Josh Hoffs, MD with an introduction by N. Szajnberg, MD Managing Editor

Dr. Josh Hoffs’ piece below will be in Clio’s Psyche and tells us more of a life full-lived. Among other significant achievements for our field, Dr. Loewenberg along with Nellie Thompson of NYPSI edited the centenary history of the International Psychoanalytic Association, 100 years of the IPA (London:  Karnac, 2011).  As Dean of his Institute, he catalyzed the union of the two LA Institutes. In the psychoanalytic land of fission (see Doug Kirshner’s Unfree Associations), this is like discovering fusion in nuclear science.  But there is much more here, including Dr. Loewemberg’s initiatives in China, once his refuge and childhood home.

Please use link below to read: “My Friend Peter Loewenberg” by Josh Hoffs, MD.

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Click here to read: “Why B. F. Skinner, Like Freud, Still Isn’t Dead” by John Horgan from Scientific American on June 1, 2012.

Click here to read: “Conceptualizing Gender: Karen Horney’s Womb Envy” by by Azadeh Azad From Iranian.com on May 31, 2012.