Dear Colleagues,

The snow having finally melted after the deep freeze for the last week or so, we might rejoice if only we were not hearing the tweets from the WH and the language that you don’t want your children listen to and worry about the inaccurate warning about a missile headed for the north west, and on and on in the world news.  I have browsed through our international psychoanalytic website to gain some peace of mind and will again list my favorite posts below, followed by the list of contents.  Please comment on the posts as you read.

My choices:

1) Please note that there are a number of Announcements on the development and treatment of children:
a) The Child Today: A Presentation and Round-Table Discussion at Après-Coup

b) Understanding and Coping with Childhood Aggression with Wendy Olesker, Ph.D. at NYPSI.

internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/announcements


2) Do glance at the ART category and see Diego Rivera, a Temple to ancient Roman cult resurrected beneath London, dynamic Soviet film posters…

internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/art

3)  How did Frank Sinatra get to be seen as one of the greatest entertainers that has ever lived?  Please see: Sinatra: The Swinging Narcissist by Harvey Kaplan

internationalpsychoanalysis.net/2018/01/02/…

4)  Would you like a book to enjoy with your children and grandchildren?

please see: All Aboard by Howard Schwartz on IPBooks.net

internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/books

5)  How much do you know about Carl Jung?  Glance at:  Hide and Seek: Jung: The Man and His Symbols: Carl Jung in a nutshell by Neel Burton M.D. and his photo!

internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/books

6)  There are 8 posts on D.Trump’s mental health and mind in the general news  In the interest of time and space I won’t list them but if interested, please   go to

internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/general-news

7)  In contrast :  Chiune Sugihara Saved Thousands of Jews during World War II, Without Defying His Government

internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/general-news

8)   We took my mother to see Fiddler on the Roof in NYC and when we came out she said: “it will happen again”  Meanwhile this play has become popular all over the world – please read:

” A ‘Fiddler’ in Tokyo: Why has the musical been beloved in Japan for 50 years?”

internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/plays

9)  Radio waves from three billion light years away puzzle astronomers.  I tried the post and what puzzled me was that it was accompanied by music.  Perhaps one of you can explain whether is is man made or comes from the radio waves.

“Mystery Radio Bursts From Space Just Got Even Weirder”

internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/science-news

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Below is the table of contents from 12/30/17:

A. In the ANNOUNCEMENTS Category:

I. Mind as Text: Freud’s Typographical Model of the Mind with Adele Tutter at NYPSI

NEW YORK PSYCHOANALYTIC SOCIETY & INSTITUTE PRESENTS The Heinz Hartmann II Lecture

HEINZ HARTMANN II AWARD RECIPIENT AND PRESENTER:
Adele Tutter, M.D., Ph.D.
Introduction by Daria Colombo, M.D.
Tuesday, February 6, 2018 at 8:00 pm
NYPSI’s Marianne & Nicholas Young Auditorium
247 East 82nd Street, NYC

Vincent Van Gogh, Piles of French Novels, 1887

Freud developed the topographical model of the mind at a time when not only literary, but all academic, scientific, medical, and publications-especially ……

to read more please go to internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/announcements
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II.From the Chair to the Couch with Navah Kaplan at NYPSI

The New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute invites you to a clinical series: FROM THE CHAIR TO THE COUCH
2017 – 2018

Interested in learning more about psychoanalysis and how to deepen your clinical practice? Please join us for this year’s three part clinical series.  Our upcoming and second presentation will continue to address an adult clinical case. Dr. Navah Kaplan will present an analytic case, followed by a discussion with Drs. John Crow and Wendy Olesker. As usual, there will be food and drink and a lively discussion of clinical material. Professionals and students with backgrounds in psychology, psychiatry, and social work are welcome to attend.
Event Date: February 6th, 7-9PM
Please RSVP by January 30th to Hilli Dagony-Clark at hilli@dagony-clark.com. (Location address will be provided when you RSVP).

to read more please go to internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/announcements
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III.  Center for Jewish History Announces Innovative Program Series Premiering this January

Series include: History Matters; Very Short Introductions: Short Talks on Big Subjects; First Person: Jewish Stories, Jewish Lives; and an Exhibition on Jews in Space.

to read more please go to internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/announcements
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IV.  Understanding and Coping with Childhood Aggression with Wendy Olesker, Ph.D.
at NYPSI
NYPSI: DIALOGUES ON… SERIES

New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute’s Child and Adolescent Psychoanalysis division continues the “Dialogues on…” Series with
leading child development experts:

Understanding and Coping with Childhood Aggression

Wendy Olesker, Ph.D.
January 24, 2018, 8:00 – 9:30 pm
New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute
247 East 82nd Street, NYC
No charge.
Register HERE,  visit nypsi.org, or call 212.879.6900

Dr. Olesker will look at aggression from a developmental perspective focusing on school aged children. She will discuss the manifestations of aggression, typical developmental conflicts, and the role of caregivers in helping children understand, channel, express,

to read more please go to internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/announcements
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V.  Discussion Group: Towards an Understanding of Loneliness and Aloneness at APsaA Winter Meetings in NCY

Those who plan to attend the APsaA conference, at New York Midtown Hilton, in Feb. of 2018, we invite you to our clinical case hose who plan to attend the APsaA conference, at New York Midtown Hilton, Feb. 15, 2018, 7-9 PM, we invite you to our clinical case discussion group: Towards an Understanding of Loneliness and Aloneness.

Dr. Danielle Knafo will present her clinical and theoretical material that describes her treatment of a singular young Japanese man, Hisoka, who epitomized the phenomenon of Hikikomori. The hikikomori are young people who live extremely solitary lives, never leaving their homes and hardly coming out of their rooms. At the onset of therapy, Hisoka only emerged for his therapy sessions and even then he hardly participated in a usual manner. The therapeutic work involved the creation of a safe holding space within which Hisoka learned to face the derailments of his early attachments and to engage in a mutual relationship. He gradually took steps to interact with the analyst and the outside world. The experience transformed both him and the analyst.

Presenter: Dr. Danielle Knafo, CORST essay prize recipient, 2014. She is a professor in the clinical psychology doctoral program at LIU and faculty and supervisor at NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. She is the author of numerous books and articles on psychoanalytic topics including loneliness, solitude, and trauma. Also, Dr. Knafo has presented at numerous conferences.

Co-Chair : Dr. Arlene Kramer Richards: Training and Supervising Analyst IPTAR; Training Analyst New York Freudian Society and IPA, faculty Tonji Medical College. Author of numerous books and articles on topics including gender, perversion, and loneliness.
Co-Chair: Dr. Lucille Spira: Member NYSPP; Presentations and Publications on Loneliness and other psychoanalytic topics; Co-Editor with Arlene Kramer Richards and Arthur Lynch of: Encounters with Loneliness-Only the Lonely (IP Books: Gradiva Award Winner, 2014. )

Analytic Association Conference

to read more please go to internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/announcements
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VI.  Loneliness Discussion Group at APsaA Conference: New York Midtown Hilton

Those who plan to attend the APsaA conference, at New York Midtown Hilton, in Feb. of 2018, we invite you to our clinical case discussion group: Towards an Understanding of Loneliness and Aloneness.

Dr. Danielle Knafo will present her clinical and theoretical material that describes her treatment of a singular young Japanese man, Hisoka, who epitomized the phenomenon of Hikikikomori. The hikikikomori are young people who live extremely solitary lives, never leaving their homes and hardly coming out of their rooms. At the onset of therapy, Hisoka only emerged for his therapy sessions and even then he hardly participated in a usual manner. The therapeutic work involved the creation of a safe holding space within which Hisoka learned to face the derailments of his early attachments and to engage in a mutual relationship. He gradually took steps to interact with the analyst and the outside world. The experience transformed both him and the analyst.

Presenter: Dr. Danielle Knafo,CORST essay prize recipient, 2014. She is a professor in the clinical psychology doctoral program at LIU and faculty and supervisor at NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. She is the author of numerous books and articles on psychoanalytic topics including loneliness, solitude, and trauma. Also, Dr. Knafo has presented at numerous conferences.

to read more please go to internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/announcements
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VII.  Early Registration for Symposium 2018: On Change

Register Now at the Pre-Brochure Rate for Symposium 2018: On Change, Saturday, April 14 2018

Select: Regular or Student
Degree and Phone
Affiliation

Mt Sinai Medical Center, Goldwurm Auditorium
Madison Avenue & 98 Street, New York, NY
Saturday, April 14 2018

6.0 CE contact hours for social workers.

Co-sponsor: National Institute for Psychoanalytic Education and Research in Clinical Social Work (NIPER) Inc., educational arm of the American Association for Psychoanalysis in Clinical Social Work (AAPCSW)
And The Consortium of Psychoanalytic and Psychotherapeutic Publications and Organizations

8:45 to 9:00 AM: Introduction: Art Lynch, DSW
9:00 to 11:00 AM Panel 1
How psychoanalysis changes us: The effect of psychoanalysis on both patient and analyst
Chair and discussant: Robert Michels, MD

to read more please go to internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/announcements
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VIII.  AAPCSW – Call for papers – 2019 conference

AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR PSYCHOANALYSIS IN CLINICAL SOCIAL WORK – AAPCSW
March 28-31 2019 Durham Marriott City Center/Durham Convention Center, Durham, NC
CALL FOR PAPERS Deadline March 10, 2018
www.aapcsw.org

Intrigue, Insight, Inquiry: Through Today’s Psychoanalytic Lens

In these multilayered and challenging professional times, how can we sustain excellence in clinical theory and practice? Our challenge is in safeguarding core values – individual dignity, respect for diversity, social justice advocacy – as we embrace innovations in psychoanalytic knowledge. Holding this complexity in mind, the conference aims to provide a space to explore the human condition in health and illness. We will view these ideas in relation to clinical experience, based on understanding the intersection of the inner and outer world. We will also continue to build our legacy for the next generation. Join us in our efforts at facing our challenges, and promoting depth and breadth in our insights about contemporary clinical practice.

The Full Message

to read more please go to internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/announcements
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IX.  Segregation Yesterday and Today with Alain Vanier at Après-Coup

Après-Coup Psychoanalytic Association presents FOUNDATIONS OF PSYCHOANALYSIS

Thursday, January 18, 2018 · 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm
Friday, January 19, 2018 · 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm

The School of Visual Arts
136 West 21st Street, New York, NY

Separations have always served to organize the social space of groups and societies, colonizers and colonized. But today there exists a new, all-pervasive…..

to read more please go to internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/announcements
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X. The Child Today: A Presentation and Round-Table Discussion at Après-Coup
Thursday, January 4th, 2018

Après-Coup Psychoanalytic Association presents WORKSHOP ON CHILD ANALYSIS

The Child Today: A Presentation and Round-Table Discussion

Christine Anzieu-Premmereur
Olga Poznansky
Catherine Vanier
Lissa Weinstein

Saturday, January 20, 2018
10:30 am – 3:00 pm

The School of Visual Arts
136 West 21st Street, New York, NY

to read more please go to internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/announcements
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XI.  The Austen RIggs January Newsletter

January 2018 News & Events

The Riggs Blog

Check out these popular articles from the Riggs Blog:

Dr. Eric Plakun Running for APA Area 1 Trustee

According to Dr. Plakun, “As the field drifts toward a biomedical model, with 15-minute med checks becoming a frequent practice model, I hope to bring a solid biopsychosocial perspective to the Board of Trustees, representing Area 1, born out of my training, practice, and senior leadership roles at Riggs over the past 30 years, as well as my ongoing involvement and leadership in the APA and organized psychiatry.”

photo: Eric Plakun_ MD

to read more please go to internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/announcements
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XII.  Art Opening of Major Works by Charles White at IPTAR

IPTAR’s ARTS AND SOCIETY COMMITTEE Invites You to An Art Opening of Reproductions of Major
Works by CHARLES WHITE (from the Gordon Collection at the CEJJES Institute) CEJJES INSTITUTE.org
On the Occasion of Charles White’ 100th Birthday Year, January 20, 2018, 2:30 pm to 4:30 pm

IPTAR Conference Room, Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, IPTAR.org
1651 Third Avenue, Suite 205 New York City
Brief Presentation by Professor Edmund W. Gordon
Followed by Wine and Cheese Reception
Arts and Society Committee: Co-Chairs: Rena Matison Greenblatt
and Roda Neugebauer; Thrae Harris, Sarah Valeri and Matthew von Unwerth

Contributions Welcome

to read more please go to internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/announcements
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B.  In the ART Category:

XIII.  Diego Rivera in the Soviet Union: An exhibition in Mexico City

By Alex González on the World Socialist website on January 12, 2018.

Photo: Diego Rivera.  Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons

to read and view please go to internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/art
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XIV.  Temple to ancient Roman cult resurrected beneath London

By Katy Scott on the CNN website on January 12, 2018.

Marble statue of Mithras slaying the bull (tauroctony), Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen. Photo by Carole Raddato from  FRANKFURT, Germany.  Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons

to read and view please go to internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/art
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XV.  Zoom Through European Art History in An Endless Vortex of Paintings

A software engineer at Google used the computer vision program Deep Dream to create the mesmerizing, slightly dizzying video by Claire Voon on the HyperAllergic website on January 2, 2017.

Frans Hals St. Matthew. Public Domain in the US via Wikimedia Commons

to read and view please go to internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/art
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XVI. The Dynamic Soviet Film Posters of the 1920s and ’30

Susan Pack’s Film Posters of the Russian Avant-Garde celebrates the experimental film posters from the pre-Stalin Soviet Union by Allison Meier on the HyperAllergic website on Janaary 2, 2018.

to read and view please go to internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/art
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XVII.  A New Website Profiles Pioneering Female Architects

The recently launched online portal features profiles of 50 women born before 1940 who made significant contributions to architecture in the US by Claire Voon on December 31, 2017.

Parkway House by Elizabeth Fleisher. Public Domain via Wikipedia Commons.

to read and view please go to internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/art
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XVIII.  Birding with Max Ernst

In the Museum of Modern Art’s current Ernst retrospective, the artist’s avian alter ego, Loplop, reveals a realer reality by Michael Friedrich on the HyperAllergic website on December 28, 2017,

Max Ernst. Author: Unknown.  Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons

to read and view please go to internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/art
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C.  In the AUDIO/VIDEO Category:

XIX.  Inside a Puerto Rico Suicide Prevention Center

Video on the New York Times website.

To read, listen and view please go to  internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/audio
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XX.  Interview with Hanna Segal

Clip from an interview filmed during Hanna Segal’s last visit to Poland on YouTube, In Polish with English Subtitles.

To read, listen and view please go to  internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/audio
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D.  In the BOOKS Category:

XXI.  Review of The Holt Rapaport Correspondence

by Robert Holt reviewed by Steven Ellman in TAP 51/4 Fall/Winter 2017G.  Reprinted with permission from The American Psychoanalyst (TAP) of the American Psychoanalytic Association.

To read  please go to internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/books
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XXII.  IPBooks Independent Press book ads in The New York Review of Books

in the January 18, 2018 Issue. IPbooks ads are on page 2 of the document .

To read  please go to internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/books
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XXIII.  Bloomsbury and Psychoanalysis

An Exhibition of Documents from the Archives of the British Psychoanalytical Society at the British Psychoanalytical Society on the Internet Archives website.

Photo: Virginia Woolf.  Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons

To read  please go to internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/books
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XXIV. New From IPBooks: How I Became a Psychologist: Poems by Henry Seiden

a)to Purchase:  How I Became a Psychologist: Poems by Henry Seiden.

To read  please go to internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/books
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XXV. New From IPBooks: All Aboard by Howard Schwartz

on IPBooks.net

Dr. Howard L. Schwartz’s book of adventure stories incorporates many of the stories he has written for his five grandchildren as The Adventures of Kenny and Benny (two unpublished books). The stories are funny, scary, and exciting and, as Mark Twain wrote in his Preface to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, “are intended mainly for the entertainment of boys and girls . . . and to remind adults of what they once were themselves.”

Dr. Schwartz is a character, participant, and observer in these stories, enjoying them as he tells them. He invites his readers, young and old alike, to enjoy the journey with him.

Howard Schwartz, MD is a practicing clinical psychiatrist, specializing in psychoanalysis, for the past forty-five years.  He lives in Maplewood, NJ.

To read  please go to internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/books
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XXVI.  Psychoanalysis and the Artistic Endeavor by Lois Oppenheim

Conversations with Literary and Visual Artists by Lois Oppenheim et al. Montclair State University.

To read  please go to internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/books
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XXVII.  Goldilocks and the perils of defining by Bhaskar Sripada

a) Goldilocks and the perils of defining by Bhaskar Sripada.
b) The Rangell Reader: Commentaries on and Selected Papers by Leo Rangell, M.D. edited by Beth I. Kalish and Charles P Fisher from IPBooks.net
c) The Selected Papers of Arnold Goldberg, MD with Forward and Introduction by Gavin Mullen Coming Soon on IPBooks.net

To read a),b) & c) please go to internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/books
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XXVIII. Jung: The Man and His Symbols

Hide and Seek: Jung: The Man and His Symbols: Carl Jung in a nutshell by Neel Burton M.D. on his Hide and Seek blog on the Psychology Today blogs on April 08, 2012.

photo: CG Jung.  Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons

To read  please go to internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/books
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XXIX.  New From IPBooks: Sinatra: The Swinging Narcissist by Harvey Kaplan (Plus Free-Book Offer)

a)  Sinatra: The Swinging Narcissist by Harvey Kaplan

b)  The Exploiters by Harvey Kaplan

c)  Saving Beauty: A Memoir of Love, Healing and Multiple Sclerosis by Harvey Kaplan

If you order The Swinging Narcissist, we will send you one of the author’s other two books for free.  If interested, please contact Psypsa@aol.com

From the Introduction:

How is this book different from other books that have been written about Sinatra?

Frank Sinatra was one of the most spectacular figures of the twentieth century. There are more books and articles written about him that would attest to his popularity. He could be seen as one of the greatest entertainer, performer and singer that has ever lived. I do not intend to follow the story of his life but rather address some issues or strategies that brought him to the top. ….

To read a),b) & c) please go to internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/books
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XXX.  Robert Holt’s Birthday: December 27, 1917

a) Birthday Book for Robert Holt including letters, reminiscences, and photos of Robert Holt.

b)  The Rapaport Holt Correspondence from IPBooks.net

To read a) & b) please go to internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/books
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E.  In the BUSINESS AND FINANCE Category:

XXXI.  The Rockefellers vs. the Company That Made Them Rockefellers

The family that pioneered the oil industry in America wants to expose what Exxon hid from the public about climate change By Reeves Wiedeman in New York Magazine on January 7,  2018.

Photo: John D. Rockefeller.  Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons

To read please go to internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/…
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F.  In the EDITORIALS Category:

XXXII. The ethics of warning the public about a dangerous president

By Bandy X. Lee, Leonard L. Glass and Edwin B. Fisher on the Common Dreams website from the Boston Globe on January 2, 2018.

Photo: Gade Skidmore.  Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

To read please go to internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/editorials
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G.  In the GENERAL NEWS Category:

XXXIII. Maybe Trump Is Not Mentally Ill. Maybe He’s Just a Jerk

y Jeffrey A. Lieberman in The New York Times on Janaury 12, 2018.

Photo: Michael Vadon Public Domain via Wikomedia Commons

to read more please go to internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/general-news
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XXXIV.  Is Mr. Trump Nuts?

By The Editorial Board in The New York Times on January 10, 2018.

Analyze This Letters to the Editors in The New York Times on January. 11, 2018.

Gage Skidmore Public Domain Via Wikimedia Commons.

to read more please go to internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/general-news
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XXXV.   An old paper on presidential mental health gets new attention

by Sarah Avery And Eric Ferreri, Duke University, on the Medical Xpress website on January 11, 2018.

Photo:CC-BY-SA-3.0/Matt H. Wade at Wikipedia

to read more please go to internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/general-news
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XXXVI. Trump’s ‘shithole’ comment is his new rock bottom

by Chris Cillizza on the CNN website on January 12, 2018,

Photo: Michael Vadon. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons

to read more please go to internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/general-news
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XXXVII.  Entering Trump’s Mind

By Gail Collins in The New York Times on January 10, 2018.

Leonard Glass and Bandy Lee: We aren’t diagnosing Trump. We’re sounding an alarm By Leonard L. Glass and Bandy X. Lee in the Boston Globe on January 10, 2018.

Photo:Gage Skidmore.  Public Domain Via Wikimeida Commons

to read more please go to internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/general-news
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XXXVIII.  No, Trump doesn’t need a mental fitness evaluation

By Richard A. Friedman in the Washington Post on January 10, 2018.

Photo: Donald Trump.  Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

to read more please go to internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/general-news
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IXL. The Other Other L. Strauss

Meet Lewis (not Levi, and not Leo) Strauss, the now-forgotten American Jew who helped German Jews escape the Nazis, played a key role in developing nuclear weapons, and more Aallan Arkush on the Mosaic website on January 10, 2018.

Photo: Dwight D Eisenhower and Lewis l. Strauss.  Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons

to read more please go to internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/general-news
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XL.  Trump Could Destroy the Entire Human Species, Says Yale Psychiatrist Who Warned Congress Members

By Kate Sheridan in Newsweek on January 6, 2018.

Photo: Michael Vadon. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

to read more please go to internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/general-news
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XLI.  Chiune Sugihara Saved Thousands of Jews during World War II, Without Defying His Government

on the Mosaic website on anuary 8, 2018.

Photo: Chiune Sugihara.  Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons

XLII.  Donald Trump Didn’t Want to Be President

One year ago: the plan to lose, and the administration’s shocked first days By Michael Woff in New York Magazine on January 3, 2018.

Photo: President Donald J. Trump and First Lady Melania greet service members at the Salute to Our Armed Services Ball at the National Building Museum, Washington, D.C., Jan. 20, 2017. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons

to read more please go to internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/general-news
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XLIII.  Washington’s growing obsession: The 25th Amendment

Lawmakers concerned about Trump’s mental health invited a Yale psychiatry professor to brief them in December By Annie Karni on the Politico.com website on January 3, 2018.

Photo: Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons

to read more please go to internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/general-news
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XLIV. 110 Ways to Spot a Good Therapist: Despite their differences, all good therapies share certain qualities

by Noam Shpancer, Ph.D. on his Insight Therapy blog on the Psychology Today blog on March 4, 2016,

to read more please go to internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/general-news
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XLV. ‘Bomb cyclone’ to blast East Coast before polar vortex uncorks tremendous cold late this week

By Jason Samenow in the Washington Post on January 3, 2017.

Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons

to read more please go to internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/general-news
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H. In the LEO HURWITZ FILMOGRAPHY category:

XLVI.  Leo Hurwitz Filmography Tuesday: In Search of Hart Crane

1966 Reflections On Hart Crane’s Suicide – and His Childhood by Dr. Sandra E. Cohen on her Characters on the Couch Blog on January 8, 2017

To read more please go to internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/…
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I.  In the MOVIES Category:

XLVII.  Short films considered for Academy Award nominations

Emmett Till, a Jack London story and an isolated child
By Joanne Laurier on the World Socialist Web Site on January 3, 2018.

to read and view please go to  internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/movies
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J.  In the MOVIES MONDAY Category:

XLVIII.  Movies Monday:  The Shape of Water

a)A Psychoanalyst’s Thoughts On: A Girl’s Muteness, A Creature’s Aggression, & Seemingly Magic Cures in Film by Dr. Sandra E. Cohen on her Characters on the Couch blog on January 4, 2018.

b) ‘The Shape of Water’ Is Altogether Wonderful By A.O. Scott in The New York Times on November 30, 2017.

to read and view please go to  internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/movies
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IXL.  Movies Monday: Bill Nye: Science Guy

a) Bill Nye:  Science Guy Movie website.

b) ‘Bill Nye: Science Guy,’ a Portrait of a Fighter for Facts By Andy Webster in The New York Times on  October 26, 2017.

c) ‘Bill Nye: Science Guy’: Host of ’90s kids show turns his crusade to climate-change deniers By Lora Grady in the Washington Post on November 16, 2017.

to read a), b) & c) and view please go to  internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/movies
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K.  In the PAPERS Category:

L.  The History of Psychoanalysis in Chicago

by Roy R. Grinker.

This article originally appeared as: III Early Psychoanalysis In Chicago: The History of Psychoanalysis in Chicago, 1911–1975 by Roy R. Grinker, Sr, Ph.D. (1995). Annual of Psychoanalysis, 23:155-195 but appears here in its manuscript version.

to read please go to internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/papers
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L.  In the PHOTOGRAPHY Category:

LI.  Photography Friday: Mary Kaye Catone

The Shortest Day of the Year 2017  by Mary Kaye Catone

If you would like to have your photography considered for internationalpsychoanalysis.net‘s Photography Friday, please send your jpegs to Joel Seligmann, the Photography Editor

to view & read please go to internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/photo
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LII. Walker Evans’s Eye on the City

While Walker Evans may be best known for his photographs from small towns across the US during the Great Depression, an exhibition at SFMOMA shows him also as a longtime New Yorker fascinated with the particulars of urban life by Matthew Harrison on the HyperAllergic website on December 18, 2017.

Walker Evans, profile, hand up to face.  Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons

to view & read please go to internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/photo
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M.  In the PLAYS Category:

LIII. A ‘Fiddler’ in Tokyo: Why has the musical been beloved in Japan for 50 years?

By Wayne Hoffman on the Tablet website on January 8, 2018.

to read, please go to internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/plays
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N.  In the POETRY Category:

LIV.  POETRY MONDAY: January 1, 2018
Monday, January 1st, 2018

Salman Akhtar

Good morning, and Happy New Year, everyone-the first day of 2018, after a tumultuous 2017.

In times like these, or at any time, it’s refreshing to read poetry, and I’m happy to say that our poet this morning is someone we’re honored to have on our pages, Salman Akhtar, who has contributed so much to our understanding of both poetry and psychoanalysis.

Dr. Akhtar, who comes from a family of renowned poets and writers in India, is himself the author of eleven poetry collections. I first encountered his work in a volume he edited called Between Hours: A Collection of Poems by Psychoanalysts (Karnac Books, 2012) and was struck by his poem in that book, “Summary.” With his permission, I was proud to include it in an anthology I edited, Climate of Opinion: Sigmund Freud in Poetry (IP Books, 2017).

Six of his eleven collections, The Hidden Knot (1985), Conditions (1993), Turned to Light (1998), After Landing (2014), Blood and Ink (2016), and Freshness of the Child (2018) contain his poems in the English language; the other five are in his native Urdu. He is also a prolific contributor to the psychoanalytic literature, having authored or edited eighty-nine books. For his distinguished contributions to psychoanalysis, he received the prestigious Sigourney Award in 2012. A psychiatrist, psychoanalyst and teacher by profession, Dr. Akhtar has been a Visiting Lecturer in Psychiatry at the Harvard Medical School and currently is Professor of Psychiatry at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, Supervising and Training Analyst at the Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia and (probably of the greatest interest to poets) a Scholar-in-Residence at the Inter-Act Theater Company in Philadelphia.

We hope you will enjoy the following three poems by Salman Akhtar: “The Limit of Instruction,” “A Wish,” and, reprinted here from Between Hours, “Summary.” In times like these, the third one is particularly instructive.

                                    –Irene Willis
                                       Poetry Editor

THE LIMIT OF INSTRUCTION

The Master said: Write every day even if later you throw it away.
The disciple said: But am I not to wait for the muse to arrive and for inspiration to arise?

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LV.  Psychology Sunday: Leta Stetter Hollingworth

a) Leta Stetter Hollingworth on Wikipedia.
b) Leta Hollingworth on Psychology’s Feminist Voices website.

c) The Pioneering Work of Leta Hollingworth in the Psychology of Women Full Citation: Ludy T Benjamin, Jr., “The Pioneering Work of Leta Hollingworth in the Psychology of Women,” Nebraska History 56 (1975): 493-505.

d)  Variability as Related to Sex Differences in Achievment: A Crituque by Leta Stetter Hollingworth (1914)
New York City First published in American Journal of Sociology, 19, 510-530.

e) Leta Stetter Hollingworth (1886-1939) Educational Psychologist on the Human Intelligence website.

f)  Leta Stetter Hollingworth on YouTube.

g)  Other Posts on Psychology Sunday on this website.

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P.  In the SCIENCE NEWS Category:

LVI.  Hebrew University’s Einstein archives set for Asian exhibits

Artifacts to go on display include handwritten pages from the theory of relativity, letters to lovers and even a vinyl record collection By AFP on the Timew of Israel Website on January 11, 2018.

photo:Albert Einstein, during a lecture in Vienna in 1921. (Wikipedia/public domain)

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LVII.   Mystery Radio Bursts From Space Just Got Even Weirder

Astronomers are transfixed by twisted waves seen coming from an odd object three billion light-years away By Nadia Drake Jamuary 10, 2018.

Alain R. Public Domain ca Wikimedia Commons

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What exactly is a coma and what happens to you when you’re in one?

on the Brain Charm website on November 30, 2017.

Photo: Coma Position.  Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons

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