China Long Avoided Discussing Mental Health. The Pandemic Changed That.

By Tamar SchwartzDecember 24, 2020December 24, 2020 Psychoanalysis, Science

Click Here to Read: China Long Avoided Discussing Mental Health. The Pandemic Changed That.By Vivian Wang and Javier C. Hernández.
Citizens of Wuhan China standing in line outside a drug store during 2020 coronavirus outbreak. Image: Chinanews.com / China News Service. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons

Disturbing the Sleep of the World at Berggasse 19

By Tamar SchwartzDecember 15, 2020December 15, 2020 History, Psychoanalysis

Click Here to Read: Disturbing the Sleep of the World at Berggasse 19. A Monologue by Robert Lippman.
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Freud Museum at Berggasse 19 in Vienna. Image: Lerner. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons

The Life of Viktor Frankl

By Tamar SchwartzDecember 14, 2020December 14, 2020 History, Politics, Psychoanalysis

Click Here to Read: The Life of Viktor Frankl: An exchange about the survivor and psychotherapist—and the ‘lessons’ of the Holocaust by Anna Geigman and David Mikics on the Tablet website on December 10, 2020.
Viktor Frankl Image: Prof. Dr. Franz Vesely. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

Is Freud in the Dates?

By Tamar SchwartzDecember 9, 2020December 9, 2020 History, Psychoanalysis

Click Here to Read: Is Freud in the Dates? by Robert Lippman from Midstream, Volume 46, Issue 1, January 2020.
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Why Freud Survives

By Tamar SchwartzDecember 8, 2020December 8, 2020 Psychoanalysis

Click Here to Read: Why Freud Survives: He’s been debunked again and again—and yet we still can’t give him up.
By Louis Menand in the New Yorker on August 21 2017.

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The Hate That Can’t Be Contained

By Tamar SchwartzDecember 7, 2020December 7, 2020 Politics, Psychoanalysis

Click Here to Read: The Hate That Can’t Be Contained: Jewish students like me thought not being on campus would at least spare them some drama. We couldn’t have been more wrong BY Blake Flayton on the Tablet website on November 25, 2020.
Mall of University of Delaware, Spring, 2000, by Paramount Wide Angle,11MB, HD. Image: Parkpay2000. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

Does Dream Interpretation Have Any Scientific Basis?

By Tamar SchwartzDecember 4, 2020December 4, 2020 Psychoanalysis, Science

Click Here to Read: Does Dream Interpretation Have Any Scientific Basis? Scientists are trying to wrap their heads around the content of your dreams, from the wild to the mundane By Leslie Nemo on the Discover website on December 3, 2020.

Laura Theresa Alma-Tadema (1852–1909) World of dreams. Image: VAN HAM Kunstauktionen, Köln, 15.05.2015, lot 708 via Lot-tissimo Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons