Click Here to Read: Why Freud Survives: He’s been debunked again and again—and yet we still can’t give him up.
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The Voyagers Found a Small Surprise in Interstellar Space
Click Here to Read: The Voyagers Found a Small Surprise in Interstellar Space: The spacecraft are still feeling the sun billions of miles from home by Marina Koren on the Atlantic website on December 4, 2020.
This closeup still of the January 22, 2012, M8.7 class solar flare was taken by the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) in 304 angstrom. Image: NASA. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
The Hate That Can’t Be Contained
Click Here to Read: The Hate That Can’t Be Contained: Jewish students like me thought not being on campus would at least spare them some drama. We couldn’t have been more wrong BY Blake Flayton on the Tablet website on November 25, 2020.
Mall of University of Delaware, Spring, 2000, by Paramount Wide Angle,11MB, HD. Image: Parkpay2000. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
For churchgoers during the Covid-19 pandemic, a deadly lesson from the 1918 flu
Click Here to Read: For churchgoers during the Covid-19 pandemic, a deadly lesson from the 1918 flu By Kristen Rogers on the CNN website on December 3, 2020.
U.S. Army Camp Hospital No. 45, Aix-Les-Bains, France, Influenza Ward No. 1. Influenza pandemic ward during World War I. Image: Unknown Photograher. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
POETRY MONDAY: December 7, 2020
Forrest Hamer
Good morning, all – and happy post-Thanksgiving, our first, yes, since the pandemic lockdown and a time to relieve and refresh ourselves with poetry.
I had known of Forrest Hamer’s work as a poet long before I learned that he is also a psychoanalyst (notice what I put first here). Since so many of our readers are also in mental health professions, it seems more than appropriate to feature him now, when it’s what so many of us seem to need.
These are trying times, as Forrest Hamer reminds us in his article, “This Country Is Going to Kill Me” (The American Psychoanalyst. Vol. 54, No. 3. Fall 2020). I do hope you will be able to read his stirring article for yourselves, in which Hamer discusses his feelings of vulnerability on first learning that the virus is “disproportionately affecting Black, Latino, and Native populations in the U.S.” As one who is older, has health vulnerabilities, is Black and male, he knows he is at greater risk than many others, even though he realizes he is privileged by being able to work remotely and having access to good health care. He also observes that most of the Black male patients in his practice feel the same way he does. Then other Continue reading POETRY MONDAY: December 7, 2020
