Symposium 2025: On Human Sexuality
By Categories: EVENTS, Psychoanalysis


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Symposium 2025: On Human Sexuality, hosted by Mount Sinai Medical Center,  will take place virtually and in person on April 19, 2024 from 8:45 am to 4:30 pm.  The plenary address will be given by Jennifer Downey.  (Scroll to the form below at the bottom of this post to register.)

Note: Please include your phone number in the bottom box. If you are interested in CEs for Social Workers, Psychologists, or Licensed Psychoanalysts, also state you license-type and write your license number in box provided as well.

= Co-Sponsors =
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health System, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai; Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research (IPTAR); and The Consortium for Psychoanalytic and Psychotherapeutic Publications and Organizations (C3PO).

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6.0 CE CONTACT HOURS for Licensed Psychologists, Social Workers and Licensed Psychoanalysts

The Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research (1651 3rd Ave, Suite 205, New York, NY 10128) is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Psychology as an approved provider of continuing education for Licensed Psychologists (#PSY–0026).

National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis (NAAP) is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0168

Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychologists (#PSY – 0026) NAAP is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Practitioners as an Approved Provider of continuing education for licensed psychoanalysts. (#P-0019).

If you wish to cancel your registration, you may do so up to April 7th and will receive a refund minus a $25 registration fee. Also, please remember to choose in-person or virtual below.

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Real-World ‘Schrödinger’s Cat’ Brings Quantum Computing Breakthrough
By Categories: Science

Click Here to Read: Real-World ‘Schrödinger’s Cat’ Brings Quantum Computing Breakthrough on the Newsweek website on January 14, 2025 .

An illustration of the famous “Schrödinger’s Cat” thought experiment. Created with Photoshop CS2 using illustrations from the Commons.  Image: File:Kamee01.jpg: Martin Bahmann. File:Geiger counter.jpg: Boffy b
derivative work: Anarkman.  Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

Who built Europe’s first cities?
By Categories: History, Science

Click Here to Read:  Who built Europe’s first cities? Clues about the urban revolution emerge: Around 6,000 years ago, a group known as the Cucuteni–Trypillia culture developed egalitarian settlements north of the Black Sea and created the region’s earliest urban centres. Then, after two millennia, they vanished. By Emma Marris on the Nature website on January 7, 2025.

A map of the approximate extent of the Neolithic Cucuteni-Trypillian culture.Image: Saukkomies at English Wikipedia.  Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

How Archaeologists Discovered Europe’s Oldest-Known Book, Revealing Never-Before-Seen Insights Into Ancient Religion and Philosophy
By Categories: History, Literature

Click Here to Read: How Archaeologists Discovered Europe’s Oldest-Known Book, Revealing Never-Before-Seen Insights Into Ancient Religion and Philosophy: Charred by the flames of a funeral pyre, the Derveni Papyrus has proved to be a fascinating—and confounding—artifact by Teresa Nowakowski on the Smithsonian Magazine website on January 15, 2025

Derveni papyrus. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

‘They just got my uncle’
By Categories: Politics

Click Here to Read: ‘They just got my uncle’: Immigration arrests spark fear among farmworkers in Central Valley by By Rachel Uranga and Andrea Castillo in the Los Angeles Time on January 11, 2025.

 Edison, Kern County, California. 17-year-old boy agri. [sic] worker sacking early potatoes after mechanical potato digger on large-scale potato ranch. Kern County planted 27,250 acres in potatoes (1940).Image: U.S. National Archives and Records Administration. Photographer  Dorothea Lange.