Click Here to Read: Hydroxychloroquine: A Morality Tale: A startling investigation into how a cheap, well-known drug became a political football in the midst of a pandemic by Norman Doidge on the Tablet Magazine website on August 14, 2020.
A simple ball and stick representation of an uncharged molecule of hydroxychloroquine. Image: Jovan Gec Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons
TRAUMA and MIND In WAR and LIFE: UNDERSTANDING and TREATING TRAUMA: A Psychoanalytic Psychodynamic Philosophical Perspective Saturday, October 17, 2020 10:00am – 5:00pm EST Sunday, October 18, 2020 10:00am – 3:00pm EST via Zoom 8 CEU/CMEs
To dare to be aware of the facts of the universe in which we are existing calls for courage. –Bion
Join us for an in-depth exploration of the effects of trauma on the psyche from a variety of perspectives and vantage points. This two-day remote conference will provide ample space to examine how traumatic experiences shape us and how we can work to promote personal and collective growth. There will be many opportunities for lengthy discussions with experts from the Military, Philosophy and Psychoanalysis. There are different views about what constitutes a traumatic experience. How do we conceptualize trauma from a psychoanalytic perspective? How can we promote post traumatic growth? How do we understand and work with intergenerational trauma? Is death necessary for a trauma diagnosis? How do we perpetuate trauma by failing to recognize internal conflicts about race? How can combat trauma experienced by vets inform us to help promote healing? What consequences do the trauma of sexual, Continue reading Trauma and Mind In War and Life: Understanding and Treating Trauma Online with CFS
Click Here to Read: Night of the Murdered Poets: Rokhl’s Golden City: This week in 1952, five Yiddish poets were executed in the Soviet Union. How have their deaths been framed since then? by Rokhol Kafrissen on the Tablet website on August 14, 2019.
Alter Kacyzne, Peretz Markish, Moyshe Broderzon. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
Click Here to Read: Twists of fate made Nagasaki a target 75 years ago: The Japanese port was not the U.S’s. first choice for a nuclear attack in August 1945, but shifting circumstances and last-minute choices doomed the city by Amy Briggs on the National Geographic Website on August 5, 2020. Atomic cloud over Nagasaki from Koyagi-jima Image: Hiromichi Matsuda (松田 弘道, ?-1969) Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
