Note from Aisha Abbasi M.D.  re: Floods in Pakistan (includes a good place to donate relief)

Dear All, 
Donations can be made at:
Hassanfoundationusa.org

Whether the immense damage is a result of climate change, poor planning of infrastructure on the part of the Pakistani government , unusually high monsoon rains, water diversion to the areas where the poor and underprivileged Pakistanis live ( to save neighboring countries or the assets of the privileged landlords in Pakistan), the bottom line is : one human being in severe distress is no different than another human being in severe distress …whatever the color of their skin, their eyes, their hair ; or their level of education or socio- economic status . Who could we hope would understand this better than a group of psychoanalysts ? 

APsaA has a number of analysts of Pakistani origin ( including me) who have devoted decades to helping, pro bono, the cause of psychoanalysis locally, nationally, and internationally; as well as helping fulfill, again pro bono , the mission of APsaA and analytic institutes locally. Continue reading Note from Aisha Abbasi M.D.  re: Floods in Pakistan (includes a good place to donate relief)

Drought reveals 113 million-year-old dinosaur tracks in Texas:

Click Here to Read: Drought reveals 113 million-year-old dinosaur tracks in Texas: Prints mostly left by a creature that stood 15 feet tall, weighed 7 tons and roamed the area 113 million years ago have emerged as the Paluxy River has disappeared By Tim Stelloh on the NBC News website on Aug. 23, 2022. 
Acrocanthosaurus atokensis, Early Cretaceous (Aptian-Albian) of North America.  Image: DiBgd  Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

The Weekly Reader from the Yiddish Book Center

The long and complicated history of Jews in Ukraine was not always a happy one, but it would be a mistake to think of it as an unmitigated series of upheavals. To the contrary, the region gave rise to some of the greatest achievements of Jewish literature and culture, as the collections of the Yiddish Book Center bear witness. As exhibit A, you can listen to this program of readings and songs from Yiddish works in translation by Yiddish writers from Ukraine including Blume Lempel, Mendel Osherowitz, Dora Shulner, and Sholem Aleichem.

View our map of Yiddish writers who were born or lived or worked in Ukraine
Continue reading The Weekly Reader from the Yiddish Book Center

Conversation Analysis – A Powerful Tool for Psychoanalytic Practice and Psychotherapy Research by Michael B. Buchholz & Horst Kächele

Click Here to Read: Conversation Analysis – A Powerful Tool for Psychoanalytic Practice and Psychotherapy Research by  Michael B. Buchholz & Horst Kächele.
Discourse into the Night, Two learned robed, bearded and barefoot gentlemen converse, books in their lap.  Blades, William: “Pentateuch of Printing with a Chapter on Judges” (1891).  Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.