Covid-19’s Global Divide: As West Reels, Asia Keeps Virus at Bay

Click Here to Read: Covid-19’s Global Divide: As West Reels, Asia Keeps Virus at Bay: Coronavirus cases are surging again across Europe and the U.S., but infections have stayed at low levels in most Asian countries By Margherita Stancati  on the Wall Street Journal website on October 20, 2020.
The number pick-up machine in the lobby of Taipei Minsheng Post Office has notices on the safety distance for epidemic prevention and temperature measurement on the front.Image: Xuanshisheng

Bob Dylan reveals he wrote ‘Lay Lady Lay’ for Barbra Streisand in ‘lost’ 1971 interview

Click Here to Read: Bob Dylan reveals he wrote ‘Lay Lady Lay’ for Barbra Streisand in ‘lost’ 1971 interview: The folk icon also opens up about anti-Semitism and his Jewish identity by Daniel Arkin on the NBC News website on October 28, 2020.
Bob Dylan at Massey Hall, Toronto, April 18, 1980 Photo by Jean-Luc OurlinImage: Jean-Luc  Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

Tomasi Di Palma Alessandra

Alessandra Tomasi Di Palma (Nizza, 1896 – Palermo, 1982)

Pioneer of psychoanalysis in Italy, she has actively participated in the establishment of the Italian Psychoanalytic Society and its re-establishment during the years after the War. She has been the only woman to hold the position of President of the Italian Psychoanalytic Society. She played an active role in the organization of national and international conferences. She has been Honorary President of the Center of Psychoanalysis in Palermo.

The Life

Alessandra Tomasi, Baroness Wolff of Stomersee, Duchess of Palma, Princess of Lampedusa was born in Nice on November 27, 1896. She lived in St. Petersburg , in the Winter Palace, where her father, the baltic baron Boris Stomersee Wolff, was a high dignitary of Tsar Nicholas II. Her italian-born mother, Alice Barbi, was a famous opera singer. Continue reading Tomasi Di Palma Alessandra

James Baldwin’s I am Not Your Negro: The Lived Experience of Race Then and Now Online with NYPSI

NYPSI’s 1044th Scientific Meeting:  James Baldwin’s I am Not Your Negro: The Lived Experience of Race Then and Now with panelists: Beverly Stoute, M.D. (moderator), Irene Cairo, M.D., David Goldenberg, M.D.,
Kirkland Vaughans, Ph.D., Meredith Wong, M.D.

Tuesday, November 10, 2020  |  8:00 – 10:00 pm (Held Virtually on ZOOM) $30 – General Admission
$20 – Student Admission No charge for NYPSI members and students Register 
HERE,  visit
nypsi.org or call 212.879.6900

THIS MEETING IS VIRTUAL; READ INSTRUCTIONS TO ENSURE SUCCESSFUL REGISTRATION: Buy your ticket at nypsi.org One day prior: Complete ZOOM registration for webinar which you will receive by email from Sharon Weller Click on email from Lois Oppenheim (host) which contains ZOOM meeting link and password to “enter” the meeting.

The acclaimed documentary, I Am Not Your Negro, directed by Raoul Peck, is drawn from James Baldwin’s unfinished work about his murdered friends Medgar Evers, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King, Jr. Peck Continue reading James Baldwin’s I am Not Your Negro: The Lived Experience of Race Then and Now Online with NYPSI