Click Here to Read: ‘Mahler on the Couch’ Recounts Fateful Therapy Session How Mahler Channeled a Marital Crisis into the Tenth Symphony Wednesday By Brian Wise on the WQXR blog on May 23, 2012.

Bert Cohler, Psychoanalysis and the Classroom

Bert presented this paper, co-authored with Bob Galatzer-Levy, at  a conference honoring Bruno Bettelheim and held at the University of Chicago, in the very room where Dr. B. would teach.   This paper and others presented are published in “Educating the Emotions: Bruno Bettelheim and Psychoanalytic Development,” edited by this managing editor.

The paper speaks to the intent and meaning in Learning and Teaching. For instance, Bert relates how the University revised its first year social science and humanities curriculum to better accommodate the
developmental sensitivities of eighteen year olds, many of whom were living away from home for the first time.

Bert received the Quantrell award for undergraduate education twice. Many faculty coveted this award and would have been pleased to receive it once in their careers, a remarkable statement about how much undergraduate education was valued by the faculty at this research institution. When you read this chapter, I think you will have a sense of why Bert won twice. His students were fortunate. As were his colleagues.

Nathan Szajnberg , MD Managing Editor

Click Here to Read: Psychoanalysis and the Classroom:  Intent and Meaning in the Learning and Teaching by Bertram J. Cohler and Robert M. Galatzer-Levy from Love’s Return: Psychoanalytic Essays on Childhood, Teaching, And Learning By Gail Masuchika Boldt, Paula M. Salvio.  This article is best read at 150% magnification.

Click here to read: “Pinter’s The Caretaker at the Harvey Theater in Brooklyn: A classic has lost none of its power” by Fred Mazelis from World Socialist Web Site on May 23, 2012.

Click here to read: “With Europe on the brink, the U.K. faces its own crises” by Niall Ferguson from his Daily Beast blog, London’s Last Waltz, on May 21, 2012.

The article provides an interesting description of the environment in
which Freud was living and working.

Click here to read: “Hysteria; Loose Cannons; film notes” by Sawyer J. Lahr from Windy City Media Group on May 23, 2012.

Click here to read: Part three, Adventures in the Dream Factory, of the three-part series, “Philip K. Dick, Sci-Fi Philospher,” by Simon Critchley in the New York Times on May 22, 2012.

Part two, Future Gnostic, and part one, Meditations on a Radiant Fish, can also be found using the link above.

How does a psychoanalyst understand loneliness? LIterary works
through their dramatic characters allow us to examine and consider
human passion, foibles and pain in a way that otherwise might not be
as easily recognizable. We invite you to to a discussion by Dr.
Jeffrey Stern about the loneliness of particular characters in
literature and how they resemble the patients seen by psychoanalysts
and psychotherapists. After attending this discussion the
participants should be able to: 1. Define methods of staving off
loneliness in specific situations; 2. Recognize the ways patients
defend against loneliness. Dr. Stern has published on Shakespeare.He
is a graduate and member of The Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute.
Self Psychology informs his ideas.
Arlene Kramer Richards, Ed. D. ( Co-Chair)
Lucille Spira, LCSW/Ph.D. ( Co-Chair)
Presenter: Jeffrey Stern, Ph. D.

Date: June 14, 2012 Thursday
Time: 4:30-6:30
Place: Palmer House Chicago

Click here to watch: “PRADA presents ‘A THERAPY’” by Prada via YouTube on May 22, 2012.

Click here to read: “A Richard Life by Seeing the Glass Half Full” by Jane E. Brody’s from The New York Times on May 21, 2012.