How an elite group of Jewish refugees helped to defeat the Third Reich

Click Here to Read: How an elite group of Jewish refugees helped to defeat the Third Reich: X Troop played a crucial role in the D-Day landings and killed, captured and interrogated their way across occupied Europe all the way into the heart of the Third Reich  By Leah Garrett on the Forward website on June 6, 2022.
Map of the Holocaust in Europe during World War II, 1939-1945. Image: :Dna-Dennis Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

Poetry Monday: June 6, 2022

Jamey Hecht

Good morning, everyone!  This is beginning to sound like same-old, same-0ld, but that’s because it is.
Depending on where we live and percentages of viruses, vaccinations, masking and hand-washing, we’ve all seen recommendations go up and down and, being the intelligent rule-followers that we are, we’ve done our best to obey.
But it’s exhausting – and even expensive, as our prices also go up and down.  It’s at times like these that we most need the soul-healing experience of poetry.
With this in mind, I’m happy to introduce you to a wonderful poet named Jamey Hecht.
He’s new to me and probably not new to many of you, because he’s been writing for a very long time. Jamey is the author of five books to date: Plato’s Symposium: Eros and the Human Predicament (Twayne, 1999); Sophocles’ Three Theban Plays: Antigone, Oedipus the Tyrant, Oedipus at Colonus, a translation with commentary, (Wordsworth Editions, 2005); Bloom’s How to Write about Homer  (Chelsea, 2010); and two books of poetry. Limousine, Midnight Blue (Red Hen Press, 2009) is fifty elegies for President Kennedy.  Dodo Feathers: Poems 1989 – 2019 is a collection published by IPBooks.
Continue reading Poetry Monday: June 6, 2022

Review of Staring Night by Robert C Abrams, Reviewed by Claire Hilton

Click Here to Read:  Book Review: Claire Hilton on Staring Night: Queen Victoria’s Late-life Depression by Robert C Abrams (New York: International Psychoanalytic Books, 2020. ISBN 978-1-949093-55-1) on The Medical Humanities Blog on  February 10, 2021.|
Click here to Purchase: Staring Night: Queen Victoria’s Late-life Depression by Robert C Abrams on IPBooks.net

The lie of the banality of evil: Hannah Arendt’s fatal flaw by Henry Zvi Lothane, M.D.

Click Here to Read:  The lie of the banality of evil: Hannah Arendt’s fatal flaw by Henry Zvi Lothane, M.D. Published in: Naso, R.C. & Mills, J. (eds.) (2016). Ethics of evil/ Psychoanalytic Investigations. London: Karnac, Chapter 7, pp. 233-264.
Click Here to Read: How To Think About Evil: A Response To Richard J. Bernstein Ph.D. On Arendt’s Banality Of Evil  by Henry Zvi Lothane, M.D. Published in Issues in Psychoanalytic Psychology, 36:1-20, 2014.|
Photograph of Hannah Arendt in 1933. Public domain via Wikimedia Commons.