International Psychoanalysis

Click Here to Read:  Mississippi River Flooding Photos: Images Of 2011 Historic Floods on the Huffingron Post website on May 12, 2011.

Click Here To Read:  The daughter of an eminent psychoanalyst uses her experience to help us understand the pursuit of celebrity –   its psychological roots, its social meaning, its human cost by Sue Erikson Bloland.

Click Here to Read: My Rapprochement with My Mother at Age 90: A Fragment of an Ongoing Self-Analysis by Louis Linn.

Click Here To Read: A Footnote to My Mystic Writing Pad by Louis Linn.

Click Here to Read: A Contemporary Annotated Bibliography for Psychoanalysts Who Want to SCAN: Social Cognitive Affective Neuroscience by Jay Harris, MD.  Dr. Harris’s email address is Jayevanharris@gmail.com

Click Here To Read: Flyer for Eavesdropping on Dreams: A Staged Reading of a New Play by Rivka Greenberg  pm Monday, April 27th, 7:30 PM 92nd Street Y, 1395 Lexington Ave, Room: 102. Featuring: Kate Burton, Lynn Cohen, Matt Servitto, Pepper Binkley and Matt Walters.

Click Here to Read: Freud In Rome: It Takes a Little Courage, a play by Robert L. Lippman, Act I scene iii

Click Here To Read: Freud In Rome: It Takes a Little Courage, a play by Robert L. Lippman, Act I scene iv

Freud in his Office

Click Here to Read: Abstract of The Bio-semiotic Roots of Psychoanalytic Metapsychology by Anna Aragno.

Click Here To Read: The Bio-semiotic Roots of Psychoanalytic  Metapsychology by Anna Aragno.

I have just returned from Prague where I had been invited to participate in the 9th Biosemiotics Conference held at the Charles University( established in the 1200′s) and the oldest university in Eastern Europe. This is a new field (only about a decade old!!) extremely inter-and trans-disciplinary (more…)

Click Here to Read: Cathexis revisited: Lessons from a neurobiology of meaning by Arnold H. Modell on the Rapaport-Klein Website.

Click Here to Read: Beyond Inanity by Peter Unger, a book in progress, and other papers by Peter Unger on his web page.

 Click Here To Read: Chapter 10 of Unto Death (Words Unspoken) by Naftali Moshe.
Click Here To Read: Previous chapters of Unto Death (Words Unspoken) by Naftali Moshe.

Click Here To Read:  Psychoanalytic Power: Its Unique Character and Self-Destructive Effect by Howard Shevrin.

Click Here To Read: The IPA Chicago Congress page that was created to allow previewing the diffusion material of the  IPA Chicago Congress 2009, in the four IPA Languages. If you want to download the animation please go to http://sites.google.com/site/ipapublicinformation/ and follow instructions.

Click Here To Read: Body and infinite: notes for a theory of genitality by Leopold Nosek to be given at the 46th IPA Congress in Chicago, July 29th to August 1st.

                                 Jane Hall                     Kenneth Eisold                    Leo Rangell 

The Closed Mind: A Roundtable Discussion Moderator: Jane S. Hall. Participants: Garcia Badaracco (Argentina) Ken Eisold (New York) Leo Rangell (Los Angeles)

An Open Mind is hard to find.  Why do human beings find it so difficult to be open minded, flexible, or willing to consider another way of thinking about something? Using the field of psychoanalysis we have an opportunity to examine this world wide, age-old problem. For as far back as we can remember, people have argued, debated, waged war, and insisted on one point of view over another. Rarely do we hear the phrases, “Let me think about that” or “You may have a point” or “Listening to your argument gives me a whole different slant on this issue”. Instead of listening to another opinion, we busily shore up our arguments and barely listen to another. The best we seem able to do is bargain. (more…)

Click Here To Read: The Need Not To Believe: Freud’s Godlessness Reconsidered by Arnold Richards.

A shorter version of this paper was given at The First Conference: This Unbelievable Need to Believe. Sponsored by the Freud Center for Psychoanalytic Studies and Research Israel Psychoanalytic Society Mishkenot Sha’ananim.  The conference was held in Jerusalem, Israel on November 20, 2008.

A longer version of the paper was given at: The Israeli Psychoanalytic Society at 13 Disraeli Street, Talbieh, Jerusalem.

A revised version of this paper is currently in press in the next issue of the Psychoanalytic Review. 

Click Here To Read: Chapter 7 of Unto Death (Words Unspoken) by Naftali Moshe

Click Here To Read: Previous chapters of Unto Death (Words Unspoken) by Naftali Moshe.

 Click Here To Read: Freud at the Precipice: How Freud’s Fate Sealed the Fate of Psychoanalysis, Chapter 2 by Robert Langs.

Introduction to the chapter:
This chapter adopts a new view of Freud’s 1897 shift in thinking about the human mind by casting it as a paradigm shift based on unconscious archetypes. The introduction of universals, which are neglected by mainstream psychoanalysts largely because they are expressed primarily through unconscious adaptations to death-related traumas, brings Freud and psychoanalysis into alignment with some of the greatest scientists and (more…)

Click Here To Read: Fragmented Psyches, Uncomfortable Emotions: Sing Out! , a review of the play Next to Normal, by Ben Brantley in the New York Times on April 16, 2009.

Alice Ripley and Louis Hobson in “Next to Normal,” a musical about a manic-depressive (Ms. Ripley) at the Booth Theater.

Click Here To Register for:  The 46th Annual IPA conference in Chicago on July 27th 2009 to August 1, 2009. Early Bird Booking has been extended to April 17th. 

Click Here To Read: Warren Poland’s paper and the other IPA keynote papers on this website.

Warren S. Poland, M.D. will present a keynote address entitled “Problems of Collegial Learning in Psychoanalysis: Narcissism and Curiosity,” responding to his specific charge to address difficulties that interfere with analysts’ hearing each other. (more…)