Click Here to Read: Mexico’s Little-Known Attempt to Save Freud From the Nazis: Had the campaign to bring Sigmund Freud to Mexico succeeded, the imperiled psychoanalyst would have found himself living among the world’s foremost artists and intellectuals By Rubén Gallo on the MIT Press Reader website.
Image: Mexican currency postcard. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
Deadline by By Nancy Tartaglione
At the Cannes Film Festival : May 25th Other major winners include Antonio Banderas who plays a sort of alter ego to Pedro Almodóvar in the Spanish director’s Pain And Glory. Banderas said on stage, “You have no idea how much I’d like to be able to speak French and at the same time I want to speak Spanish so I’m going to try to do a paella of both… When I walked up the red carpet I was asked how much time it took me to get here… it took 40 years.” He added, “There is no mystery” that the character he plays is Almodovar who he met 40 years ago. “We did eight films together. I respect him, I love him. He is my mentor. He gave me so much that this prize is dedicated to him.” Banderas concluded with, “There is pain and glory but the best is yet to come.”
Click Here to Purchase: Pedro Almodóvar: A Cinema of Desire, Passion and Compulsion edited by Arlene Kramer Richards, Lucille Spira with Merle Molofsky.
A CLINICAL WORKSHOP: THE BUDDHIST WHEEL OF LIFE AND DEATH
AND PSYCHOANALYTIC PSYCHOTHERAPY SATURDAY, JUNE 8, 2019
9:00 AM – 1:00 PM
PRESENTER: PAUL C. COOPER, MS, LP
The Wheel of Life & Death functions as a pictorial representation of cyclic existence or “samsara.” It is comprised of a series of concentric circles that detail how the mind is structured and functions. It serves as a template for mapping out and understanding internal mental processes, the range of emotional and psychological states that contribute to our sense of identity and their behavioral manifestations that can contribute to identifying both internal and relational dynamics, which can expand our awareness and Continue reading The Buddhist Wheel of Life and Death at MITPP
Click Here to Read: A Brief History of Anti-Semitic Violence in America: The synagogue attack in Pittsburgh may be the deadliest attack against Jews in American history—but it’s nowhere near the first by Isabel Fattal on the Atlantic website on October 28, 2018.
Memorials to Victims. A memorial outside the Tree of Life Congregation Synagogue in Pittsburgh. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons. 
Click Here to Read: Today’s Biggest Threat: The Polarized Mind/ To counter it, we call for a mobilization of mindfulness practices and dialogue groups on the scale of a public works program for human civility By Kirk J. Schneider, Sayyed Mohsen Fatemi on the Scientific American website on April 16, 2019.
CT scan of patient with brain trauma. Author: Rehman T, Ali R, Tawil I, Yonas H. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons
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Click Here to Read: ‘Partly Alive’: Scientists Revive Cells in Brains From Dead Pigs: In a study that upends assumptions about brain death, researchers brought some cells back to life — or something like it By Gina Kolata in the New York Times on April 17, 2019.
Culture of rat brain cells stained with antibody to MAP2 (green), Neurofilament (red) and DNA (blue) Image courtesy of EnCor Biotechnology. Image: Gerry Shaw. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
