POETRY MONDAY: February 4, 2018
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Kalpana Asok

Namaste, everyone, as you look at this beautiful picture of our February poet, who has been in this country for thirty-one years. Her country of origin was India and her native language Tamil, but her primary language is English. The greeting, as many of you know, is given with the hands pressed together and a small bow, meaning the recognition of the divine in another person.

What better time could there be to recognize the soul in every human being than this, when the world is talking and thinking about immigration and when much of that talk has been less than generous and even hostile? But here, with Kalpana Asok, we have someone who is kind and grateful, as we will see from her poems and the story of her life. Continue reading POETRY MONDAY: February 4, 2018

On Sublimation with Erik Porge on Après-Coup
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Après-Coup Psychoanalytic Association presents

WORKSHOP: On Sublimation with Erik Porge , Friday, February 23, 2018 · 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm Saturday, February 24, 2018 · 10:30 am – 2:30 pm, The School of Visual Arts, 136 West 21st Street, New York, NY

Continuing our investigations of sublimation in the clinic, we will focus on the analyst’s practice. Sublimation has to do with the analyst’s savoir-faire, yet should not be confused with what we call the analyst’s desire. Continue reading On Sublimation with Erik Porge on Après-Coup

Searching for the Roots of Empathy in Rituals of Care
By Categories: Arts, Film

Click Here to Read:  Searching for the Roots of Empathy in Rituals of Care: In Kerry Tribe’s video we see both actors playing patients and medical students acting as though they were doctors, but the aim is for something real: empathy by Emily Wilson on the HyperAllergic website on February 8, 2018.

Photo: Pepartment of Foreign Affairs and Trade Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons