Panacea or Posion: Placebos and Nocebos in Modern Medicine at the Helix Center
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Panacea or Posion: Placebos and Nocebos in Modern Medicine Saturday 2:30 PM EST 20 March 2021

Placebos “work” for quite a few medical problems. But how? And what is the work they do?

What one thinks a medicine is capable of, one’s idea of that medicine, may affect us in the way “proper” medicines do. This implies that, in observing the work of a placebo we are watching an idea affect biology, the mind moving the body.

Despite the dualist notions this description elicits, where mind and body are held as separate entities, most neuroscientists, generally of a monistic bent, welcome the challenge of the placebo effect. Most insist that placebos precisely demonstrate that the mind is one with the body. Yet, Continue reading Panacea or Posion: Placebos and Nocebos in Modern Medicine at the Helix Center

“The Intersection of Gender, Sexuality, and Our Current Crises” 4/9-10 online with CFS
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The Intersection of Gender, Sexuality and Our Current Crises: The Psychological Impact of Race, Politics, Economics, and COVID
Friday, April 9, 2021 4:00-6:00pm EST and Saturday, April 10, 2010 11:00am-6:00pm EST Live via Zoom
Co-sponsored by the Contemporary Freudian Society, the International Psychoanalytical Association, and the American Psychoanalytic Association
 
Claudia Rankine, MacArthur Fellow and award-winning poet, will offer a Friday keynote inspired by her recent book, Just Us: An American Conversation.  She will be joined by San Francisco analyst, Francisco Gonzalez. Saturday will be a day of presentations and study on the intersectionality of our current world crises and gender and sexuality.
Two panels of forward-thinking psychoanalysts, along with break-out groups for self-study will offer the enriching opportunity to think, synthesize and reflect on issues concerning race, class, health and politics and the place of gender and sexuality.
This conference is open to members of the mental health community, as well as anyone interested in exploring the psychological impact of the pandemic on social issues embedded in our global fabric.

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SEMINAR: On Voluntary Servitude — Paola Mieli online with Après-Coup
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Kazimir Malevich, Female Torso, 1928-9

SEMINAR On Voluntary Servitude   Paola Mieli With the participation of  Raffaella Colombo
Saturday, March 20th, 2021 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM (EST)
In times like these, as new forms of totalitarianism are taking over everywhere, it’s necessary to reflect on humans’ inherent propensity to take joy in their own servitude. Returning to Freud’s and Lacan’s articulations of the subject of language and the social link, and that subject’s passion for ignorance, the seminar will explore the nature of the drive, masochism, and the ways the superego Continue reading SEMINAR: On Voluntary Servitude — Paola Mieli online with Après-Coup

China proposes teaching masculinity to boys as state is alarmed by changing gender roles
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Click Here to Read: China proposes teaching masculinity to boys as state is alarmed by changing gender roles: Boys in China traditionally are expected to be strong leaders, get good grades and excel at sports. But the gender balance in China is changing.
The rising economic status of women has upended traditional ideas of masculinity in China.  By Zixu Wang, Xin Chen and Caroline Radnofsky on the NBC news website on March 5, 2021.
Ying Yang.  Image: Gregory Maxwell. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons