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Click Here to Read:  A Bar Mitzvah, With Autism By Joel Yanofksy in The New York Times on  May 18, 2012.

Clck Here to Read:  Psychiatry Giant Sorry for Backing Gay ‘Cure’ by By Benedict Carey in The New York Times on May 18, 2012.

Dr. Robert L. Spitzer is a major architect of the modern classification of mental disorders.

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Click here to read “The Tragedy of Leon Trotsky,” which discusses Joshua Rubenstein’s latest book, Leon Trotsky: A Revolutionary’s Life, from the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research on March 8, 2012.

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Click here to read “French Autism Treatments: Children in the European Country Mostly Get Psychotherapy” by Marie Cheng from the Associated Press on May 18, 2012.

Click Here to Read: Chapter 4:  Trauma: how events shape the brain and the mind  from  Reading Minds: A Guide to the Cognitive Neuroscience Revolution by Michael Moskowitz.

Click Here to Read: Review of Reading Minds: A Guide to the Cognitive Neuroscience Revolution by Michael Moskowitz, review in the British Journal of Psychiatry.

Click here to read “Education minister faces copycat allegations over ‘Freudian slip’” published in the 222 issue of University World News on May 16, 2012.

Click here to read “‘The Self’ in the Future: Will it be Extinguished, by Neuroscience?” written by Hank Pellisier from The Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies on May 16, 2012.

Click here to watch a video from the Algama Foundation via YouTube of Dr. Howard Shevrin discussing the unconscious and his career.

by Herbert H. Stein

I don’t know how many readers of International Psychoanalysis have seen the French Canadian film, Incendies. For those who have not seen it, I must warn you that this article will include important “spoilers,” so reader beware.

It is an award winning film, highly acclaimed, that brings the viewer to the horror and cruelty of war and of ethnic hatred amidst a story of incredible courage with the inevitable accompaniment of intense trauma. But that is not why I particularly bring Incendies to your attention. I thought that it might be of interest to analysts because it bears striking parallels with Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex (perhaps more properly Oedipus Tyrannus). Read the rest of this post »

Click here to read “iPad gives voice to kids with autism” by Supraja Seshadri from CNN on May 14, 2012.

Click here to read “Jews, the Left and the Rest” by Eitan Kensky from The Jewish Daily Forward on May 15, 2012.

Click Here to Read: Psychoanalysts of the Left and Far Left Panel with Richard Brent, Arnold Richards, and Nathan Szajnberg on this website.

Click here to read and view “Slideshow: Yiddish Communist Magazine” by Eitan Kensky from The Jewish Daily Forward on May 15, 2012.

Click here to read “Goldman-Bred Neuroscientist Bares Secret of Testosterone Trading” by James Pressley from Sanfrancisco Chronicle via Bloomberg News on May 14, 2012.

Click Here To View: Interview with Peter Fonagy on YouTube.

Peter Fonagy

Click Here to Read:  ‘This is the cost of being human’: The same genes that allowed modern humans to evolve speech may cause autism. Part of brain that recently evolved helped us speak and make complex decisions also responsible for ‘Fragile X’ syndrome, leading cause of inherited autism By Rob Waugh on the Daily Mail website on May 14, 2012.

 Click Here to Read:   Chapter 11 of Minding the Social Brain by Jay Harris.

From Jay Harris, author of the upcoming book,  Minding the Social Brain:   
I invite you to the final chapter of  Minding the Social Brain, a book about how the functional brain externalizes its structure to form human society. The anterior prefrontal cortex contains the full verbal and iconic Read the rest of this post »

Click Here to Listen To: The Many Meanings of Where The Wild Things Are on the Day 6 with Brent Bambury show interviewing Richard Gottlieb about Maurice Sendak on the CBC Radio website on May 11, 2012.

Click Here to Read: Maurice Sendak, Author of Splendid Nightmares, Dies at 83 by Margalit Fox in The New York Times on May 8. 2012.

Click Here to Read: Can You Call a 9-Year-Old a Psychopath? by Jennifer Kahn in the New York Times on May 11, 2012.

Click Here to Read: The Amygdala Made Me Do It By James Atlas in the New York Times on May 12, 2012