Passover Thoughts

Click Here to Read: Let Our Data Go: This Passover, let’s break free from the new Pharaoh, Mark Zuckerberg, and cast aside the chametz that is social media By Liel Leibovitz on the Tablet website on march 26, 2018.

Click Here to Read: An Air Force Chaplain’s Unforgettable Passover, 50 Years Ago: How a week of military leave created one rabbi’s unlikely connections to Menachem Begin and Ted Kennedy, on the eve of the Six-Day War By Jordan Hiller By Jordan Hiller on the Table Website on April 10, 2017.

Click Here to Read: A Seder of my Own: After my mother died, I made Passover just the way she did—until, drawing inspiration from Purim, I made my own tradition By Rachel Mesch on the Tablet website on April 1, 2015.

Click Here to Read: Why Even Some Jews Once Believed Moses Had Horns. It is often said that this is a simple matter of mistranslation, but Vulgate author Saint Jerome would not have made such a crude mistake by Elon Gilad on the Ha’aretz website on March 27, 2018.

Atypical brain development observed in preschoolers with ADHD symptoms

Click Here to Read:  Atypical brain development observed in preschoolers with ADHD symptoms: NIH-funded study uses high-resolution brain scans to uncover structural changes on the National Institutes of Health website on March 26, 2018.

Maturation of the brain, as reflected in the age at which a cortex area attains peak thickness, in ADHD (above) and normal development (below). Lighter areas are thinner, darker areas thicker. Light blue in the ADHD sequence corresponds to the same thickness as light purple in the normal development sequence. The darkest areas in the lower part of the brain, which are not associated with ADHD, had either already peaked in thickness by the start of the study, or, for statistical reasons, were not amenable to defining an age of peak cortex thickness. Movie of same data below. Source: NIMH Child Psychiatry Branch. National Institute of Mental Health Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons,

 

On Klein’s r/evolution in psychoanalysis Ron Britton, MD at IPTAR

IPTAR PRESENTS REVOLUTIONS IN TECHNIQUE: On Klein’s r/evolution in psychoanalysis Ron Britton, MD Discussant: Neal Vorus, PhD
Moderator: Carolyn Ellman, PhD  May 5th, 2018 9:00 am – 4:30 pm IPTAR, 1651 Third Ave, suite 205 Register here: http://iptar.org/event/Britton-2018

ADMISSION General: $125 includes 5 CE credits Candidates: $25 includes 5 CE credits

PROGRAM
9am – 9:30am — BREAKFAST
9:30am – 10:45 am: Dr. Ron Britton (followed by audience Q&A)

The paper describes the evolution of so called post-Kleinian analysis and its current style as exemplified in the work of Ronald Britton. The development of a method of using psychoanalysis with young children largely based on the application of dream analysis to children’s play made considerable changes to adult analysis. A child case is described that illustrates manifest recapitulation in play of an immediate life trauma and its segregation from the primitive phantasy that existed in the child’s frightening dream life. The paper discusses some of Britton’s own ideas and those shared with others such as John Steiner that have influenced technique as well as theorizing such as the concept of triangular space, thick and thin narcissistic organisations and the post- Continue reading On Klein’s r/evolution in psychoanalysis Ron Britton, MD at IPTAR

Movies Monday: Ingmar Bergman

48 Ingmar Bergman Films Ranked: Film Forum’s retrospective marking the centennial of the Swedish auteur’s birth includes 48 of his films, which we’ve dutifully ranked from best to worst Craig Hubert on the HyperAllergic website on February 7, 2018.

Click Here to Read: Ingmar Bergman: IN MEMORY by Roger Ebert on the REgoerEbert website on July 30, 2007.

Click Here to Read: Persona review – Ingmar Bergman’s enigmatic masterpiece still captivates: Bergman’s sensually brilliant 1966 film about a mute actress and her psychiatric nurse is an endlessly questioning and mysterious disquisition on identity Peter Bradshaw on the Guardian website on December 29, 2017.

Click Here to Read: A Solitary Ingmar Bergman on Life, Love and Death, in Documentary Style: BERGMAN ISLAND By STEPHEN HOLDEN in The New York Times on December 6, 2006. Continue reading Movies Monday: Ingmar Bergman