Author: Tamar Schwartz

It’s All Still Very Present’
By Categories: History

Click Here to Read: It’s All Still Very Present’: The miniseries “Our Mothers, Our Fathers” has sparked widespread discussion in Germany about memories of WWII, both first-hand and inherited. In a SPIEGEL interview, war survivor and psychoanalyst Hartmut Radebold talks about guilt, war trauma and his own fraught memories of growing up in the Third Reich on the Spiegel Online website on March 28, 2013.

WWII Europe: Germany: Concentration Camps: “Piles of dead prisoners” Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons

Crossfire Hurricane, FDR, precursors of Nazism, Mommy brain, 1945 from Sasha Rolde on InternationalPsychoanalysis.net
By Categories: Uncategorized

Dear Colleagues,

getting ready for the Chicago APsaA meeting, welcoming spring, and trying to ignore the national and global news ( in that order), I am preparing this weeks list of my choices on the international psychoanalytic website, which I will give you followed by the entire list; It seems that the psychology of today’s political situation – i.e. group psychology is more prevalent both in our patients’minds (what they bring at least to my office) and on our website.

My Choices:

1) Please read about”Crossfire Hurricane and FBI anxiety – apparently they all need a psychoanalyst to treat their  psychodynamics – go to it and write your comments!!!

 nternationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/general-news

2)  FDR”S solutions to the Holocaust – how “nice” was the USA? Continue reading Crossfire Hurricane, FDR, precursors of Nazism, Mommy brain, 1945 from Sasha Rolde on InternationalPsychoanalysis.net

The Wrongful Conviction of Oscar Pistorius by Brent Willock
By Categories: Literature

Click Here to Read:  Chapter 3: Trial and Judgement  from The Wrongful Conviction of Oscar Pistorius by Brent Willock.

Praise for this Book from Leading Authorities in the Scientific and Forensic Fields:

“This book is a murder mystery but not a ‘who done it?’ We know who fired the shots through the door of the toilet room killing Reeva, the girlfriend of Oscar Pistorius. He had been asleep next to her when he was awakened by a noise he thought was due to one or more intruders. He ran to the bathroom calling to Reeva to phone the police and shouting to the intruder(s) to get out of his house. Neither she nor they responded. After being frozen in fear, he shot through the locked door and thendiscovered Reeva close to death. From here on the story is a detailed analysis of the legal procedures, the misunderstandings of the state of mind of the accused: was he fully conscious and so responsible for murder? The author, Brent Willock, is highly informed to make a compelling case that Oscar was not fully conscious, therefore not responsible, and to address Continue reading The Wrongful Conviction of Oscar Pistorius by Brent Willock