Of Fear and Strangers with presenter George Makari, M.D at NYPSI

By Tamar SchwartzOctober 19, 2021October 19, 2021 EVENTS

NYPSI’s 1051st Scientific Meeting: Of Fear and Strangers with presenter George Makari, M.D. and discussant Sander Gilman, Ph.D. Of Fear and Strangers Presenter: George Makari, M.D. Discussant: Sander Gilman, Ph.D.

The second in a series of three meetings devoted to the notion of conflict, both small-scale and large-scale, intra-institutional and inter-national.

Tuesday, November 9, 2021 | 8:00 – 10:00 pm (EST) (Held Virtually on ZOOM)

$35 – General Admission $25 – Student Admission No charge for NYPSI members and students Register HERE, visit nypsi.org or call 212.879.6900 Continue reading Of Fear and Strangers with presenter George Makari, M.D at NYPSI

Anni Bergman, Therapist Who Listened to Children, Dies at 102

By Tamar SchwartzOctober 19, 2021October 19, 2021 Uncategorized

Click Here to Read: Anni Bergman, Therapist Who Listened to Children, Dies at 102: She was part of a groundbreaking study that observed how very young children separated from their mothers. Late in life, she became a photographer’s muse in the New York Times on October 17, 2021.

Twofold: For Yom Kippur, fiction by Nobel laureate S.Y. Agnon

By Tamar SchwartzOctober 16, 2021October 16, 2021 Literature

Click Here to Read: Twofold: For Yom Kippur, fiction by Nobel laureate S.Y. Agnon, in a first English translation BY S. Y. Agnon on the Tablet website on
October 03, 2014.

THE HEBREW WRITER SHAI AGNON, WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE 1966, AT HIS HOME IN JERUSALEM. Image: Israeli GPO photographer Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

A Secretive Hedge Fund is Gutting Newsrooms

By Tamar SchwartzOctober 16, 2021October 16, 2021 Politics

Click Here to Read: A Secretive Hedge Fund is Gutting Newsrooms: Inside Alden Global Capital By McKay Coppins on the Atlantic website on October 14, 2021.

Interview with Samuel Grove on Freud and Darwin

By Tamar SchwartzOctober 16, 2021October 16, 2021 Psychoanalysis, Science

Click Here to Read: It is 150 years since the publication of Darwin’s The Descent of Man. Kezia Picard sat down with Samuel Grove, author of Retrieving Darwin’s Revolutionary Idea, to talk about the relevance of Darwin’s theory for psychoanalytic thought..

Freud and Darwin

What Drove Homo Erectus Out of Africa?

By Tamar SchwartzOctober 16, 2021October 16, 2021 History, Science

Click Here to Read: Excavations at the site of ‘Ubeidiya are at the heart of a debate about Homo erectus migrations, with profound implications for questions of human resilience and adaptability By Josie Glausiusz on the Sapiens website on October 14, 2021.

Homo erectus adult female – head model – Smithsonian Museum of Natural History – 2012-05-17 Image: Tim Evanson Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

Justice Alito complains, but the evidence is clear: This Supreme Court was built by dark money

By Tamar SchwartzOctober 16, 2021October 16, 2021 Politics

Click Here to Read: Justice Alito complains, but the evidence is clear: This Supreme Court was built by dark money: Alito wants us to believe everything is going great at the Supreme Court. And so it is — for big Republican donors By SEN. SHELDON WHITEHOUSE on the Salon website on October 14, 2021.
The Supreme Court as composed October 27, 2020 to present. Credit: Fred Schilling, Collection of the Supreme Court of the United States. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.