Activism and Psychotherapy

By Tamar SchwartzMarch 3, 2018June 14, 2018 Politics, Psychoanalysis

Click Here to Read: Not your great-grandfather’s psychoanalysis: Psychologists have modernized the approach to better serve patients and have conducted more research that validates its success By Amy Novotney on the American Psychological Association website in the Monitor on Psychology Section on December 2017, Vol 48, No. 11.

Click Here to Read: Letter send to the United States House of Representatives on Gun Control by various psychological associations.

Click Here to Read: Call for Action to Prevent Gun Violence in the United States of America: Interdisciplinary Group on Preventing School and Community Violence on February 28, 2018.

Click Here to Read: The Honorable Alex Azar, Department of Health and Human Services re LGBT rights from Various Health Organizations.

This is the lesson of guns

By Tamar SchwartzMarch 2, 2018June 14, 2018 Politics

Click Here to Read: This is the lesson of guns By John Samuel Tieman on the St. Louis Dispatch website on February 28, 2018.

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How True is “The Crown” on the Suez Cover-Up?

By Tamar SchwartzMarch 1, 2018June 14, 2018 Film, History, Politics

Click Here to Read: How True is “The Crown” on the Suez Cover-Up?: In the hit show, Queen Elizabeth II puts the British prime minister in check for his secret plan to attack Egypt. In real life, he was checkmated by David Ben-Gurion by Martin Kremer on the Mosaic website on March 1 2018.

A Westland Whirlwind helicopter taking off from the Royal Navy aircraft carrier HMS Albion (R07) to stand by for emergency rescue operations as the ship turns into the wind to fly off her aircraft on a strike. Visible on deck are De Havilland Sea Venoms of 809 Naval Air Squadron, and Hawker Sea Hawks from 800 and 802 NAS. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

The Fate of the Union: Kennedy and After

By Tamar SchwartzMarch 1, 2018June 14, 2018 History, Politics

Click Here to Read: The Fate of the Union: Kennedy and After in the New York Review of Books om December 26, 1963 • Volume 1, Number 9.

Photo: White House Press Office (WHPO).

Anti-Semitic incidents surged nearly 60% in 2017

By Tamar SchwartzMarch 1, 2018June 14, 2018 Politics

Click Here to Read: Anti-Semitic incidents surged nearly 60% in 2017 By Harmeet Kaur on the CNN News website on February 28, 2018.

Man holding an anti-Semitic sign on Church Street near the corner of Cortlandt Street, across the street from the World Trade Center site on September 11, 2011, the tenth anniversary of the September 11 attacks.© Luigi Novi / Wikimedia Commons.

150 years ago, the UK’s first and only Jewish leader changed politics forever

By Tamar SchwartzFebruary 27, 2018June 14, 2018 Politics

Click Here to Read: 150 years ago, the UK’s first and only Jewish leader changed politics forever: Staring down vicious anti-Semitic attacks, Benjamin Disraeli became Queen Victoria’s man of the people and built up the most successful party the country has ever seen
By Robert Phipot on the Times of Israel website on February 22, 2018.

Benjamin Disraeli. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons

Emerging from the “House of Gaslight” in the Age of #METOO”

By Tamar SchwartzFebruary 27, 2018June 14, 2018 Politics, Psychoanalysis

Click Here to Read: Monica Lewinsky: Emerging from the “House of Gaslight” in the Age of #METOO””: On the 20th anniversary of the Starr investigation, which introduced her to the world, the author rfeflects on the changing nature of trauma, the de-evolution of the media, and the extraordinary hope now provided by the #MeToo movement by Monica Lewinsky in Vanity Fair in the March 2018 Issue.

Photo by Mingle Media TV. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons