Memory’s Eyes by Cordelia Schmidt-Hellerau
By Categories: Books, Literature

Click Here to Read About and Purchase:  Memory’s Eyes A New York Oedipus Novel
By Cordelia Schmidt-Hellerau on IPBooks.net

American Board of Psychoanalysis Cordelia Schmidt-Hellerau, PhD, FABP

MEMORY’S EYES is a contemporary New York Oedipus novel. It is written for readers who enjoy playing with concepts and storylines, here namely the classical Oedipus myth, Sophocles’ three Theban plays, the psychoanalytical concept of the Oedipus complex, and its pop-cultural adaptations in cartoons and jokes. Consequently, this novel is meant to be tragic and funny, playful, but also uncomfortable. Ann, a modern Antigone, candidate in training at a psychoanalytic institute, relives and rethinks the complex story of her wide-ranging family clan. The Prologue reminds the readers of the myth’s characters and destinies, and yet they will find themselves simultaneously knowing and not knowing, anticipating and being surprised by the truth’s revelations.

“In Memory’s Eyes Cordelia Schmidt-Hellerau renews the emotional richness of psychoanalysis and ancient myth. Even Continue reading Memory’s Eyes by Cordelia Schmidt-Hellerau

The Event That Sparked the Movement to Free Soviet Jewry
By Categories: History, Politics

Click Here to Read: The Event That Sparked the Movement to Free Soviet Jewry: Fifty years ago, the Leningrad Trial spurred the American Jewish community to action by Glenn Richter and Avi Weiss on the Tablet website on December 15, 2020. Jewish Emgiration from the USSR, before and after the First Leningrad Trial.. Image: Azk0702 Anat Zalmanson-Kuznetsov. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons

 

Out from Behind the Couch with Susan Siegeltuch online with CFS
By Categories: EVENTS
SAVE THE DATE
 
2020 Plumsock Prize-Winning Paper
 
“Out from Behind the Couch:
The Case of a Mother and Her Suicidal Teenager in Detention”
 
Susan Siegeltuch, LCSW, FIPA
CFS Member and Chair of the1/14
Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Training Program
 
Introduction by
Helen Gediman, PhD
Chair of the CFS Plumsock Prize Committee
 
Thursday January 14, 2021
  7:00 – 8:30 pm EST
Live via Zoom
Overview  
A Central American mother and her teen suicidal daughter were evaluated forensically by two senior psychoanalysts, Gilbert Kliman, MD and Susan Siegeltuch, LCSW, FIPA. Both mother and daughter experienced multiple traumas in their country of origin as well as having their trauma reactivated by ICE and their time in detention. The interviews were conducted with psychoanalytically-informed thinking, awareness of transference and countertransference and empathic and humane listening.   Bearing witness to traumatized individuals and the atrocities they experienced has to be tolerated by the interviewers. This first-hand account of an asylum seeker and her daughter is a tribute to this mother’s resilience and the power of attachment. It is also a demonstration of how psychoanalysts can make a significant contribution to work outside one’s office.

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Everyday Sadomasochim with Lynn Changer and Christian Churchill online with CFS Brooklyn
By Categories: EVENTS

PSYCHOANALYTIC BROOKLYN:  EVERYDAY SADOMASOCHISM: A CONCEPT BRIDGING PSYCHOANALYSIS AND SOCIOLOGY
with Lynn Chancer, PhD and Christian Churchill, PhD, LP Friday, January 22, 2021 1:30-3:00pm Online via Zoom

As psychoanalytic clinicians, we are familiar with sadomasochistic dynamics in the treatment room. How can we benefit from thinking more about the cultural dimensions of these dynamics?

In her book Sadomasochism in Everyday Life, Lynn Chancer advances the provocative thesis that sadomasochism is far more prevalent in contemporary societies like the United States than we realize. Sexual sadomasochism, she argues, is only the best-known manifestation of what is actually a much more broadly based social phenomenon. She suggests that the structure of societies organized along  patriarchal and capitalistic lines reflects and perpetuates a sadomasochistic social psychology, creating a culture steeped in everyday experiences of dominance and subordination. She places Continue reading Everyday Sadomasochim with Lynn Changer and Christian Churchill online with CFS Brooklyn

The Sassoon Family Collection
By Categories: Arts, History

Click Here to read: The Sassoon Family Collection: A Sotheby’s curator describes an important sale of Judaica from ‘The Rothschilds of the East,’ who dominated the opium and cotton trades in the Persian Gulf, India, Southeast Asia, China, and Japan BY Shaul Swidler-Feller on the Tablet website on December 14, 2020.
David Sassoon (seated) and his sons w:Elias David Sassoon, w:Albert Abdallah David Sassoon & w:Sassoon David Sassoon. Image: Unknown photographer, mid-19th century.  Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.