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?
internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/general/news
3) And more on “war” ” An Empire of Nothing at All by Tom Engelhard
internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/general-news
4) Did you know that post pregnancy, mother’s brains continue to change and become more empathic, able to pick up on nonverbal communications etc. Please read: reframing’Mommy Brain’
internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/general-news
5)I’ll refrain from mentioning the rest of the posts in the General News category buy they all follow the same genre and are worthy of reading.
6) I loved reading “A Super-Simple, Non-Quantum Theory of Eternal Consciousness”
you may too if you are interested in the topic of matter and consciousness
internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/general-news
7) If you like Picasso:
internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/art
8) If it can’t be treated it’s Healthy? “”Vive La Résistance! Treatment-Resistant Depression as a Sign of Unconscious Health”
internationalpsychoanalysis.net/2018/05/14/…
9) If you are interested in a historical review of the Holocaust, please read:
” Hitler’s Logical Holocaust”
internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/books
10) As for the Movies – please comment if you have seen “Tully” ,which I have not,
and on post partum depression/psychosis.
internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/movies
11) You may want to read about the film “1945”. As one who remembers May 1945 in Czechoslovakia, it is clear that things were much worse in Hungary, though even in Prague I saw and heard about similar situations.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2018/05/11/1945-m11.html
12) A very interesting essay worth reading:”Paths of Power: Psychoanalysis and Sorcery” by Marie Coleman NelsoN
“This essay, which first appeared over thirty years ago in “The Psychoanalytic Review,” looks to abstract from the controversial works of self-styled anthropologist Carlos Castaneda implications for the practice of psychoanalytic psychotherapy. Taking as the basis of her study a framework for understanding cultural systems first posited by sociologist Benjamin Nelson, the author establishes a set of correspondences between Nelson’s six general classes of directive cues (relating to sign, symbol, object, event, person, situation) and the directive models deployed by Castaneda’s tutor, the sorcerer Don Juan. These illustrative correspondences are then seen to replicate crucial aspects of the analytic relationship, as well to evoke certain dialectical techniques employed by the 19th-century Danish philosopher Soren Kierkegaard”
internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/papers
12) Last but not least – So what (who in) did the USA have to do with it?
Please read: “How American Racism Influenced Hitler”
internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/uncategorized
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Below is the table of contents from 5/6/18
A. In the GENERAL NEWS Category:
I) New Data Reveal 250 Preschoolers Are Suspended or Expelled Every Day
By Rasheed Malik on the Center for Progress website on November 6, 2017.
Photo: Senior Master Sgt. David Lipp. Public Domain Via Wikimedia Commons.
to read more please go to internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/general-news
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II. Psychoanalysis Is Alive and Well
How Contemporary Psychoanalysts Help You Lessen Pain and Increase Satisfaction By Fred Pisoni, PsyD on the American Psychoanalytic Association’s Psychoanalysis Unplugged blog on the Psychology Today’s blog on May 17, 2018.
Photo:Freud and other psychoanalysts : (left to right seated) Freud, Sàndor Ferenczi, and Hanns Sachs (standing) Otto Rank, Karl Abraham, Max Eitingon, and Ernest Jones. [Sigmund Freud Collection , Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Call number PR 13 CN 1978:209.39 [item] [P&P]. Retrieved from LOC exhibits. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons
to read more please go to internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/general-news
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III. Code Name Crossfire Hurricane
The Secret Origins of the Trump Investigation By Matt Apuzzo, Adam Goldman and Nicholas Fandos in The New York Times on May 16, 2018.
FBI Headquarters. Photo by Aude. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons
to read more please go to internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/announcements/…
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IV. An Empire of Nothing at All?
By Tom Engelhardt on the Reader Supported News Website on May 16, 2018.
ISAF Headquarters Public Affairs Office from Kabul, Afghanistan. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
to read more please go to internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/generalnews
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V. Holocaust Museum’s Exhibit Makes Excuses for Ignoring Genocide
One shudders at the thought of museums one day conjuring up excuses for more recent presidents who likewise turned a blind eye to genocide or other atrocities around the world.
BY Rafael Medoff on the Jerusalem website on May 12, 2018.
a) New Documents Reveal FDR’s Eugenic Project to ‘Resettle’ Jews During World War II: As the Holocaust raged, the American president secretly asked his government to study the possible resettlement of remaining European refugees in Africa and South America. His goal: for Jews to be ‘spread thin all over the world.’ By Steve Usdin on the Tablet website on April 30, 2018.
b) Reexamining FDR’s Response to Kristallnacht Ken Burns and others have called it impressive, but the truth is less inspiring By Rafael Medoff on the Tablet website on November 4, 2014.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1933. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons
to read more please go to internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/general-news
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VI. Their Husbands Abused Them. Shouldn’t Divorce Be Easy?
By Zoe Greenberg in The New York Times on May 11, 2018.
Victorien Sardou: A divorce cure from the French of Sardou by Harry Saint Maur. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
to read more please go to internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/general-news
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VII. Talmudic, Psychoanalytic Viewpoints Explored
By Andy Gotlieb on the Jewish Exponent website on May 9, 2018,
Talmud Torah, by Ephraim Moshe Lilien. Etching on paper, 25X35 cm.
to read more please go to internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/general-news
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VIII. Reframing ‘Mommy Brain’
By Alexandra Sacks, M.D. in The New York Times on May 11, 2018.
to read more please go to internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/general-news
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IX. Trump’s Shadowy Money Trail
By The Editorial Board on the New York Times on May 9, 2018.
Money Trails by Author Serge Melki from Indianapolis, USA. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons
to read more please go to hype://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/general-news
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X. Psychology and Torture
by Jeremy Safran on the Public Seminar website of the New School for Social Research on December 15, 2014.
Burning witches, with others held in Stocks 14th century. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons
to read more please go to internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/general-news
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XI. A Super-Simple, Non-Quantum Theory of Eternal Consciousness
A sleepy philosopher inspires thoughts on how consciousness could endure forevers by John Horganin in Scientific American on May 7, 2018.
Photo by Jon Sullivan. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons
to read more please go to internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/general-news
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XII. Random Acts of History
Stories about people who accidentally bump into unsettling facts of history in settings meant to teach them history. What they end up learning is very different from what they’re supposed to on the This American Life website on April 27, 2018.
Photo: David Shankbone. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons
to read more please go to internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/general-news
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B. In the ART Category:
XV. Picasso’s Pivotal Year
A show at the Tate Modern in London hones in on the artist’s diaristic relationship to his own work by Olivia McEwan on the HyperAllergic Website on May 7, 2018.
Pablo Picasso in 1908. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons
To read more please go to internationalpsychoanalysis.netcategory/art
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C. In the AUDIO/VIDEO Category:
XVI. “Vive La Résistance! Treatment-Resistant Depression as a Sign of Unconscious Health
with Elio Frattaroli, M.D. on his blog. Presented at The Conference Center at Sheppard Pratt, 6501 N. Charles Street, Baltimore, MD 21204, Wednesday, July 26, 2017: 12-1pm,
To read, view and listen please go to internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/audio
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XVII. Morning Rounds: What’s behind America’s loneliness epidemic?
CBS News Videos on May 5, 2018.
Photo:Psychoanalyst Gail Saltz interview on CBS News
To read, view and listen please go to internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/audio
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XVIII. The Giro d’Italia’s Secret Holocaust Hero and Cycling Champ
on YouTube.
To read, view and listen please go to internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/audio
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XIX. Today in History for May 6th
on the Salamanca Press website.
To read, view and listen please go to internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/audio
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D. In the BOOKS Category:
XX. Featured Book of the Week: Whose Baby is It Anyway: Inside the Indian Heart by Kalpana Asok
a)To purchase: whose Baby is It Anyway: Inside the Indian Heart by Kalpana Asok
Get to know the Indians in your life better! Whether they are your patients, clients, friends, neighbors, colleagues, or are a part of your community, South Asians make up a distinct culture and this book can help you understand this population from the inside.
Kalpana Asok, M.S., M.A., is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with over 21 years of experience working with South Asian families. She was raised in India and moved to the United States too many years ago. She lives and works in Silicon Valley. She also dares to hope that her next book is a collection of poems she is writing.
To read please to to internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/books
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XXI. Hitler’s Logical Holocaust
by Timothy Snyder in The New York Review of Books on December 20, 2012 Issue.
To read please to to internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/books
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XXII. A New Unpublished Story by Isaac Bashevis Singer
on the Mosaic website on May 3, 2018.
a) Isaac Bashevis Singer’s Yiddish Speech in Stockholm 1978 on YouTube.
b): Bashevis Revisited, Review Essay in Isaac Beshevis Singer by Harold Bloom in The New York Review of Books on September 20, 2010.
c) The Lost Photographs Of Isaac Bashevis Singer by David Attie on the Forward Website on August 10, 2017.
To read pa),b) & c) please to to internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/books
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XXIII. Sigmund Freud and his legacy
by Vikas Datta on the Gulf Today website on May 07, 2018.
To read please to to internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/books
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XXIV. The Politics of Unreason by Lars Rensmann
Review of Lars Rensmann. The Politics of Unreason: The Frankfurt School and the Origins of Modern: Antisemitism. Philosophy and Race Series Reviewed by Clemens Holzgruber Published in H-Antisemitism (April, 2018) in H-Net Reviews.
To read please to to internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/books
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XXV. New from IPBooks: Psychoanalytic Technique with Children, Adolescents, and Adults by Ivan Sherick
To Purchase: Psychoanalytic Technique with Children, Adolescents, and Adults by Ivan Sherick. Email Psypsa@aol.com or call 718-728-7416 for a special 20% off offer.
FROM THE PREFACE:
I have decided to write this Introduction following the positive reception of a recent earlier book, Introduction to Child, Adolescent, and Adult Development:
A Psychoanalytic Perspective for Students and Professionals, published by IP Books. That book was written in a “reader-friendly” manner. I used technical language with clear and simple definitions, did not include references, or footnotes, and it was not styled as an academic scholarly treatise. I have endeavored to write this book in the same fashion. Technical terms are italicized.
To read please to to internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/books
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XXVI. Ezra Pound’s Anti-Semitism
“The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.”
Ezra Pound
I am unable to determine when Pound made that comment but for an in-depth and detailed (long) discussion of Pound’s antisemitism citing multiple sources and many of his own writings see the following
a) “Pound’s Anti-Semitism at St. Elizabeths: 1945-1958” by Ellen Cardona from Flash Point’s Spring 2012 Web Issue.
b) Merle Molofsky on Pound’s Anti-Semitism.
To read a) & b) please to to internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/books
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E. In The CHNA Category:
XXVII. Recovering from one child: China’s growing fertility problem
By Serenitie Wang on the CNN website on May 7, 2018.
Peasant ot the ethnic Yi, a minority in Yanyang, Yunnan province. Photo byt M M from Switzerland. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
To read more please to to internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/china
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F. In the ANNOUNCEMENTS Category:
XXVIII. Max Weber, Sigmund Freud, Charismatic Power, and Political Leadership with Peter Loewenberg at the New Center for Psychoanalysis LA
Max Weber, Sigmund Freud, Charismatic Power, and Political Leadership 2018 Franz Alexander Lecture
Presented by Peter Loewenberg, PhD Thursday, May 17, 2018 8 – 10 PM 2 CE Credits *pre-registration preferred*
Psychoanalysis is a social science as well as a humanistic, hermeneutic and a psychological science. Dr. Loewenberg compares the lives and thought of two great Central European shapers of modern culture, Sigmund Freud (1856- 1939), creator of psychoanalysis, and Max Weber (1864-1920), founder of modern interpretive comparative sociology. Weber was a contemporary of Freud who was the shaper of social science method. Dr. Loewenberg explores their lives and insights on leadership, political power and domination and applies their insights to empirical leadership functions in the current world.
Learning Objectives
As a result of attending this session, participants should be able to:
• Describe the theoretical contributions of Weber and Freud as they apply to leadership, political power, and domination …..
to read more please go to internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/announcements
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XXIX. The Death I Want with Roger Kliger, M.D. at NYPSI
Wednesday, May 16th, 2018
NYPSI WORKS IN PROGRESS SEMINAR: Geriatric doctor geriatrician consulting and diagnostic examining elderly senior adult patient older person aging and mental health care in medical clinic office or hospital examination room
Wednesday, June 6, 2018 at 8 PM New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute 247 East 82nd Street, NYC (btw 2nd and 3rd Aves)
$15 – General Admission $10 – Student Admission No charge for NYPSI members/students Register HERE, visit nypsi.org or call 212.879.6900
to read more please go to internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/announcements
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G. In the MOVIES Category:
XXX. Machines: An unflinching look at an Indian textile mill
By Wasantha Rupasinghe on the World Socialist Web Site on May 15, 2018.
To read more please go to internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/movies
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XXXI. Russia’s Strange Obsession with Sobibór
on the Russia file on the a Kennan Institute Blog website on May 9, 2018.
To read more please go to internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/movies
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XXXII. A psychiatrist’s defense of Tully, a controversial new movie about postpartum struggles
Tully starts an important conversation about motherhood and mental healthy Lauren M. Osborne, MD on the Vox website on May 7, 2018,
To read more please go to internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/movies
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XXXIII. Christian Petzold’s Transit
The condition of refugees as hell on earth By Stefan Sternberg on the World Socialist Web Site on May 9, 2018.
To read more please go to internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/movies
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H. In the MOVIES MONDAY Category:
XXXIV. Movies Monday: ‘1945’
a) ‘1945’: The horrors of the Holocaust in Hungary By Joanne Laurier on the World Socialist Web Site on May 11, 2018.
b)’1945′: by Boyd van Hoeij on the Variety Website on February 20, 2018.
c) ‘1945’ is a lean, unadorned parable about guilt and the nature and consequences of evil by Kenneth Turan in the Los Angeles Times on November 22, 2017.
d) Review: In ‘1945,’ Hungarian Villagers Are Forced to Revisit Wartime Sins By Ben Kenigsberg in the New York Times on October 31, 2017.
To read a) to d) please go to internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/movies-monday
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I. In he MUSIC Category:
XXXV. Daron Malakian and Scars On Broadway – Lives
(Official Video) on YouTube. Executive Producer & Concept – Daron Malakian. Producer – Gayané Khechoomian, Esq. Director – Hayk Matevosyan Cinematographer – Justin Richards
To read more please go to internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/music
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J. In the OBITUARIES Category:
XXXVI. Remembering Buddhist Psychoanalyst Jeremy Safran
A friend and colleague reflects on the New School professor’s life following his tragic passing By Sara Weber on the Tricycle website May 16, 2018.
To read more please go to internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/obituaries
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XXXVII. Jeremy Safran, researcher of psychoanalysis and Buddhism, killed in burglary
by Lilly Greenblatt on the Lion’s Roar website on May 9, 2018.
a) McMindfulness: The Marketing of Well-Being by Jeremy Safran on his Straight Talk blog on the Psychology Today blogs on June 13, 2014.
b) Chess ace, 28, who ‘beat and stabbed a renowned psychology professor, 66, to death at his $2.2m home in Brooklyn – less than two years after he was arrested for trying to rape a tourist’ By Hannah Moore and George Martin in the Daily Mail on May 8, 2018.
c) Note from The New School for Social Research about the death of Jeremy Safran.
d) Note from the Stephen Mitchell Institute about the death of Jeremy Safran.
To read a) to d) please go to internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/obituaries
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XXXVIII. Jeremy Safran: April 23, 1952 – May 7, 2018
a)Professor killed by maniac with hammer during burglary attempt at his Brooklyn home By Andy Mai, Ken Murray and John Annese in the New York Daily News on May 7, 2018.
b) Articles by Jeremy Safran on the Public Seminar page of the New School for Social Research.
To read more please go to internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/obituaries
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K. In the PAPERS Category:
IXL. Paths of Power: Psychoanalysis and Sorcery
by Marie Coleman Nelson in Journal European Psychoanalysis, Number 23, 2006/2,
to read please go to internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/papers
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XL. Address Emotional Regulation
A Bridge between Psychodynamic and Psychoanalytic Approaches to Contemporary Child and Adolescent Psychiatry by Timothy Rice n the AACAP Newsletter March/April 2018 Volume 49, Issue 2 on p. 64.
to read please go to internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/papers
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L. In the PHOTOGRAPHY Category:
XLI. The Secret Photographer Who Captured Four Decades of Life in St Petersburg
Unlike most long-lost family photos, Ivashintsova’s 30,000 images show a unique aesthetic, one that she hid from her loved ones, inviting comparisons to Chicago street photographer Vivian Maier by Elena Goukassian on the HyperAllergic website on May 14, 2018.
Street scene in Tomsk, Russia. June 2008. Photo:Adam Jones. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons
to view & read please go to internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/photo
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M. In the SCIENCE NEWS Category:
XLII. Austen Riggs Center Clinician and Researcher Dr. Jane Tillman Receives Significant Grant for Suicide Study
Media Contact: Janet Hiser Director of Communications and Advancement 413.931.5333
janet.hiser@austenriggs.net
Austen Riggs Center Clinician and Researcher Dr. Jane Tillman Receives Significant Grant for Suicide Study
Stockbridge, MA – May 18, 2018 – Jane G. Tillman, PhD, ABPP, Evelyn Stefansson Nef Director of the Erikson Institute for Education and Research, has received a significant grant from the Fund for Psychoanalytic Research through the American Psychoanalytic Association (APsaA) for her work, “Follow Up to States of Mind Preceding a Near Lethal Suicide Attempt Study.” In making this award, the review committee indicated that this was an important topic for study and may yield valuable information.
According to Dr. Tillman, “Suicide is a significant public health problem. Despite a burgeoning research literature that focuses primarily on biobehavioral and diagnostic risk factors, there has been little effective translation of these findings into improved clinical care of suicidal patients.”
to read please go to internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/science-news
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XLIII. Epigenetics: The Evolution Revolution
by Israel Rosenfield and Edward Ziff in The New York Review of Books in the June 7, 2018 Issue.
Photo:Jean-Baptiste Lamarck. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
to read please go to internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/science-news
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XLIV. Study finds alarming decline in biodiversity worldwide
By Philip Guelpa on the World Socialist Web Site on May 14, 2018.
Image Source: World_map_blank_without_borders. Crates. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons
to read please go to internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/science-news
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XLV. Ancient DNA Study Pokes Holes in Horse Domestication Theory
A long-held theory on how horse domestication and language spread across Asia has been disrupted by a look at our genetic past By Erin Blakemore on the National Geographic Website on May 9, 2018.
Horses born wild on Shackleford Banks adjust well to being domestic companions by Bonnie Gruenberg. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons
to read please go to internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/science-news
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N. In the UNCATEGORIZED Category:
XLVI. How American Racism Influenced Hitler
Scholars are mapping the international precursors of Nazism By Alex Ross April 30, 2018 Issue.
Photo:German Federal Archive (Deutsches Bundesarchiv). Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
To read more please go to internationalpsychoanalysis.net/category/uncategorized
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Coming to the end of the post, I realize that you will have Sunday to read through the website and hope that you will write your comments on your favorite ones . Enjoy
Respectfully submitted by
Sasha Rolde