What’s new on InternationalPsychoanalysis.net from Sasha Rolde

Dear Colleagues,

in the northeast we have gone from the cold weather into summer – not good for the mind or body- and staying in the air-conditioned room reading the posts on our international psychoanalytic website spare me and hopefully will spare you from worrying about heat in the atmosphere, in Korea, in the White House and anywhere else globally where things may be heating up.
I will give you my favorites followed by the entire list.

My choices;

1)  For those of you who may be attending the APA meetings in NYC this week, see if you can attend “Riggs Clinicians Presenting at the 2018 American Psychiatric Association (APA) Annual Meeting
May 7, 2018 – May 9, 2018

internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/announcements

2)  Also in the announcements, please note a meeting re islamophobia (timely):
“FOUNDATIONS: Denied Origin: The Koran and the Question of Subjectivity with Angelo Villa at Après-Coup Continue reading What’s new on InternationalPsychoanalysis.net from Sasha Rolde

Japan’s Rent-a-Family Industry

Click Here to Read: Japan’s Rent-a-Family Industry: People who are short Jon relatives can hire a husband, a mother, a grandson. The resulting relationships can be more real than you’d expect By Elif Batuman in The New Yorker in the April 30, 2018 Issue.

Day before her wedding, Hideko Hosokawa (lower right with white head scarf) and her siblings prepare her belongings to her bridegrooms house.
This photograph was originally taken by Ito Monakadaneten Inc. (伊藤最中種店), a private grocery firm in Ishinomaki, Miyagi, Japan. And the photo was currently owned by Mr. Yasuhiko Ito, who is Hideko’s son. Mr. Ito has asked that use of this photograph to “preserve the integrity”, i.e, that it not be used in any defamatory ways.〔This note was added by トトト upon the request of Mr. Ito.〕 21 November 1957 Source 細川家集合写真3 Photo by Yasuhiko Ito from Sendai, Japan.  Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.