International Psychoanalysis

Last night I opened a book entitled Religion in Human Evolution: From the Paleolithic to the Axial Age by Robert N. Bellah . I did so because I have a policy to read books in fields other than psychoanalysis that are written by outstanding scholars. I find that the subjects that great minds are working over and the insights they derive always have a bearing on psychoanalytic issues Read the rest of this post »

Click Here to Read:  Jackie O: On the Couch Wins the Pinnacle Book Achievement Award on the Digital Journal website.

Click Here to Buy:  This book and others by Alma Bond on IPBooks.net.

Click Here to Read:  Our Own Worst Enemies By  A. O. Scott  in the New York Timeson December 6, 2011.

Denting the Universe II: Can Psychoanalysts Learn From an Apple?

Nathan Szajnberg, MD, Managing Editor

My first “Denting” piece looked at the internal ingredients in Steve Jobs that nourished his ingenuity; I focused on his feeling  a “chosen” child because of his adoption. Touchingly, Read the rest of this post »

Click Here to Read:  Holiday Gift Ideas (2): Five Books To Help You Make The Most Of Living by Todd Essig on the Forbes Magazine website on December 9, 2011.

Dear Colleagues,

The overshadowing cloud on this week has been the deaths of Elizabeth Young-Bruehl and Abraham Zaleznik, both of whom many of us knew well, mainly due to their immense contributions as teachers and to the community. The topics on the international psychoanalysis website this week range from trauma to addictions to ability to predict and more. I strongly recommend a few but there are many more. Read the rest of this post »

Click Here to Read and View: A new model of empathy: the rat by David Brown in the Washington Post on December 8, 2011.

 Click Here to Read: Empathy and Pro-Social Behavior in Rats by Inbal Ben-Ami Bartal1, Jean Decety1,2,4, Peggy Mason3,4 in Science in the   December 9, 2011 issue, Vol. 334 no. 6061 pp. 1427-1430.

Click Here to Read: ‘The Jester and the Sages’ looks at Twain and his contemporaries A study of the great American writer and three contemporaries goes above the literary By Alexander Heffner in the Kansas City Star on December 8, 2011.

Click Here to Read: International Ferenczi Conference: Faces of Trauma conference in Budapest on May 31st to June 3rd, 2012.

Click Here to Read:  The Wives of Sex Offenders: Was Dottie Sandusky Complicit? by Jessica Bennett on the Daily Beast website on December 5, 2011.

(Raphael’s fresco of School of Athens at the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican)

FROM ADDICTION TO RELATIONSHIPS: NEUROPSYCHOANALYTIC PERSPECTIVES
ON CRAVING, CARING AND CLINGING
NPSA CONGRESS, ATHENS: 14-16 June 2012
EDUCATIONAL DAY: Thursday 14 June
CONGRESS: Late Thursday 14 to Saturday 16 June
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Click Here to Read: Abraham Zaleznik, at 87, professor emeritus of Harvard Business School By Herald staff on the Boston Herald website on December 9, 2011.

Click Here to Read: Group Psychology and the Study of Institutes by Jacob Arlow written in the 1970s.

Click Here to Read: How Dangerous Is “A Dangerous Method”?  Boundary violations are hazardous  by Tamara McClintock Greenberg, on her 21st Century Aging on the Psychology Today blogs on  December 5, 2011.

 Click here to Read:  Other posts on A Dangerous Method on this website.

Click Here to Read:  Words That Don’t Work by George Lakoff on the Huffington Post website on December  7, 2011.

Click Here to Read: Sexual obsessions and psychoanalysis take centre stage: Steve McQueen’s “Shame” explores addiction; Jan Svankmajer’s “Surviving Life” charts one man’s disturbing dreams By Iain Millar  on the Art Newspaper in the December 2011 issue.

Michael Fassbender in Steve McQueen’s “Shame”

Click Here to Read: The Freud Project, Year One: The Early Works on the Irish Medical Times website on December 8, 2011.

Click Here to Read: Stories City Lights: Head Case By Don Bauder  on the San Diego website on December 7, 2011.

Click Here to Read: Honor Roll 2011 on David Cronenberg On His “Dangerous Method” by Peter Knegt on the IndieWire website on December 7. 2011.

David Cronenberg with Sony Classics heads Tom Bernard and Michael Barker and actor Viggo Mortensen in Toronto.

Click Here to Read:  Other Posts on a Dangerous Method on this Website.

Click Here to Read:  Freud and Meaning: A psychoanalyst examines the role of meaning in modern psychoanalysis  by Eric Maisel, Ph.D. in Rethinking Psychologyblog on the Psychology Today blogs on December 6, 2011.