Click Here to Read: Hermine Hug-Hellmuth: The First Child Psychoanalyst by Robert Kaplan, University of Wollongong. Published in Academia Letters, September 2021. ©2021 by the author,
Category: Psychoanalysis
The latest VOICES FROM ROOM Podcast – with Adrienne Harris
Click Here to Listen To: Episode 5 of Voices from ROOM: A Podcast for Analytic Action, “Stepping into the Line of Fire with Adrienne Harris” is now available wherever you listen to podcasts.
This week, Isaac and Aneta talk with Dr. Adrienne Harris about her timely piece, “My Back-Alley Abortion.” They discuss Harris’s personal experience, the implications of overturning Roe v. Wade, and what it means to step into the line of fire as a politically engaged clinician.
“How do we go forward maintaining the deep capacity for supporting other women that feminism and the women’s movement gave us? How not to live always alone in a frightening and dangerous room? That is one of my worries for the women, now three generations younger than me, who have an increasingly shaky access to means of being in control of their bodily, sexual, and reproductive lives. And as we learn, over and over, that danger falls unequally on women of different classes, races, social groups, and castes. We-all women-are again at the mercy of the “back alley,” but we are not equally vulnerable.” – Harris, ROOM 10.22, “My Back-Alley Abortion”
New episodes will be released twice a month on Thursdays; Listen and Subscribe today!
People Don’t Drown in Living Rooms by Orna Reuven and Yair Eldan
Click Here to Purchase: People Don’t Drown in Living Rooms by Orna Reuven and Yair Eldan from IPBooks.net
Click Here for: Letters 1 to 10
Click Here for: Letters 38 to 42
Above are two clusters of chapters from a unique psychological novel, “people don’t drown in living rooms”. Written in two voices, in the form of epistolary exchanges between analyst and patient, this book is unique in its form as well as in its contextual content. Touching on the complexity of emotional and physical boundaries between therapist and client, through the tumultuous arena of erotic transference – as Danielle Knafo, professor, psychoanalyst and author, commented “This book teaches us more about the intensity of the love-hate dynamics that exist between patient and analyst than any journal article on the subject”.
This book was written by two authors; Dr. Orna Reuven, a psychoanalyst and lecturer from the Tel-Aviv Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis, and Dr. Yair Eldan, a lecturer of law from The Hebrew University, who together embarked on an adventure knowing how it would begin but with no view of where it would end. During the writing of this book, they took it upon themselves to restrict their Continue reading People Don’t Drown in Living Rooms by Orna Reuven and Yair Eldan
On the ten letters by Sigmund Freud to Wilhelm Reich 1924-1930 by Alberto Angelini
Freud was dying of cancer, the Nazis were closing in — and his last book challenged Judaism. Why?
Room 10.22
REMINISCENCES OF GERALD J. ARONSON, M.D. (1922-2022) By David James Fisher, Ph.D.
REMINISCENCES OF GERALD J. ARONSON, M.D. (1922-2022) By David James Fisher, Ph.D.
I was neither an analysand nor supervisee of Gerry Aronson. I was a student in his L.A.P.S.I.
Seminar on “Resistance” in the early 1980’s and a friend for the remainder of his life. I found Gerry to be consistently brilliant, with an encyclopedic knowledge spanning Einsteinian theoretical physics, to mathematics, to philosophies of religion, to literature ancient and modern; he possessed an acute, insider view of the history of psychoanalysis. Gerry was endowed with a unique sense of humor; It was a Jewish sense of humor, marked by improvisation, wise cracking and one-liners; he possessed tons of stories, ad-libbed rapidly, and hit hard with his jokes. For my taste, his humor was intelligent and irreverent, puncturing pretense and debunking established pieties. In speaking the unspeakable, there was some aggression and some malice in his jokiness. But mostly, he was hilarious. Let me provide a few examples.
L.A.P.S.I. invited Adolf Grunbaum to conduct an all-day program on his book, The Foundations of Psychoanalysis: A Philosophical Critique (1984). Grunbaum was temporarily running out of steam by the late afternoon, catching his breathe, saying out loud “What am I thinking? what am I doing?” Gerry bellowed from the auditorium, “A lot of damage.” The audience cracked up, including Grunbaum. Continue reading REMINISCENCES OF GERALD J. ARONSON, M.D. (1922-2022) By David James Fisher, Ph.D.