Save the Date: Upcoming Meets at NYPSI
By Categories: EVENTS

Special Event:   Saturday, Nov. 21, 10:30: “Tribalism and Discrimination:  An Anthropological and Evolutionary Perspective,” Henry Nunberg, M.D. (moderator), Mark Solms, Ph.D., Robert Paul, Ph.D., Chief Vincent Mann of the Ramapough-Lenape Nation
Dec. 8:  Brill Lecture:  Robert Smith, M.D. “On the Transition Towards a University Educational Model at the New York Psychoanalytic Institute.”
January 12: Judy Kantrowitz, Ph.D. and Ted Jacobs, M.D. in conversation with Leon Balter, M.D.
February 23: Leon Hoffman, M.D. “Evolution of a Classic Psychoanalytic Institute: Escape from Rome.”  Discussant:  Arnold Richards, M.D.
March 9:  Leon Kupferstein Memorial Award:  Wilma Bucci, Ph.D.
April 16-17:  Conference: “Creativity:  Trans-Formation in Psychoanalysis and Art”
In honor of Matthew Silvan.  Postponed to Fall 2021 or to such time as it can be in-person with accompanying art exhibit.
April 27: Peter Blos Sr. Memorial Lecture: John Tisdale, D.Min.May 4:  Coline Covington, Ph.D.  “My Country, My Self: Separation, Identity and Dissonance.”Respondents (in informal conversation with each other and the presenter): Anna Balas, M.D. and Gilda Sherwin, M.D.
May 11: Freud Lecture: Leon Balter, M.D.
June 8:  Candidates’ meeting:  Jess Olson, Ph.D.  Case presentation. Discussant:  Lissa Weinstein, Ph.D.

Remembering Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks
By Categories: History, Politics

Click Here to Read: The Pause  by Pádraig Ó Tuama on the On Being website.
Click Here to Read and Listen to:  Remembering Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks transcript and podcast of an interview with Rabbi Lord Jonathon Sacks by Krista Tippett on the On Being website.
Sir Jonathan Sacks, Chief Rabbi of the UK, at National Poverty Hearing 2006 at Westminster, London.Image: cooperniall Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons

What Is a Particle?
By Categories: Science

Click Here to Read: What Is a Particle?: It has been thought of as many things: a pointlike object, an excitation of a field, a speck of pure math that has cut into reality. But never has physicists’ conception of a particle changed more than it is changing now by Natalie Wolchover on the Quantum Magazine website on November 12, 2020.
Quantum particle interference Image: Thierry Dugnolle  Public domain via Wikimedia Commons.