Review of the Subversive Edge of Psychoanalysis by David James Fisher
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Book Review, THE SUBVERSIVE EDGE OF PSYCHOANALYSIS London and New York: Routledge/History of Psychoanalysis series, 2025, pp. 236. From “Sihot—Dialogue: Israel Journal of Psychotherapy”

By Ofra Eshel, Ph.D.

Dr.Eshel is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Israel Psychoanalytic Society and Institute. She is the author of The Emergence of Analytic Oneness: Into the Heart of Psychoanalysis (Routledge, 2019).

Dr. David James Fisher is a core faculty member at the New Center for Psychoanalysis, a. Training and Supervising Analyst at the Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis both in Los Angles, and a practicing psychoanalyst in private practice in Los Angeles. He works in the tradition of British Object Relations psychoanalysis and has taught psychoanalysis for 45 years. Fisher is a prominent and senior researcher in the history of psychoanalysis. His Continue reading Review of the Subversive Edge of Psychoanalysis by David James Fisher

Banning Plastic Bags Works to Limit Shoreline Litter, Study Finds
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Click Here to Read: Banning Plastic Bags Works to Limit Shoreline Litter, Study Finds: Using crowdsourced data from shore cleanups, researchers found that areas that enacted plastic bag bans or fees had fewer bags littering their lakes, rivers and beaches than those without them by By Christina Kelso in the New York Times on June 19, 2025.

Marine debris litters a beach on Laysan Island in the Hawaiian Islands National Wildlife Refuge, where it washed ashore. Image: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Headquarters. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

What your legacy Can Tell You: Implications for personal and community evolution
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Click Here to Read: What your legacy Can Tell You: Implications for personal and community evolution by Kenneth Silvestri on his A Wider Lens substack on
June 12, 2025.

Also, Click Here to Read: How to Sustain and Improve Empathy: Personal Perspective: Pursuing and sharing the unseen in relationships by Kenneth Silvestri on his A Wider Lens  blog on the Psychology Today blogs on June 20, 2025.

The extended family La Familia de Ojeda Ruiz de Luna (eleven children, twenty-seven grandchildren) during their family reunion in September 2007 to celebrate the parents’ 50th wedding anniversary in front of the Monastery of Saint Mary of Guadalupe, Spain Image: Ojedamd.  Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

Understanding Trump Fatigue as Denial
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Click Here to Read: Understanding Trump Fatigue as Denial: Breaking Through Denial of American Autocracy Progressing (Vol. 5; Issue 24) by Alan Michael Karbelnig, PhD in his Journeys to the Unconscious Mind newsletter on June 18, 2025. 

President of the United States Donald Trump speaking at the 2017 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in National Harbor, Maryland. Image: Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America.  Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

Judge deems Trump’s cuts to National Institutes of Health illegal
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Click Here to Read:  Judge deems Trump’s cuts to National Institutes of Health illegal
The federal judge said the NIH violated federal law by arbitrarily canceling more than $1 billion in research grants because of their perceived connection to DEI initiatives By Reuters and Evan Bush on the NBC News website on June 16, 2025.

NIH Building 1 Image: Chris Spielmann (Photographer) Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

A New Summer Read from IPBooks
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Click Here to preorder: A new fiction book from IPBooks: Getting Past Z by G.F. Gravenson.

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A Memoir of Things to Come . . .
We are several years into the future. Jerome Myer is turning 90. He is a retired advertising executive and lives in Montclair, New Jersey. Two recent deaths have troubled him. First, his daughter-in-law died of Covid in 2020. Then his wife of over 50 years died of pancreatic cancer three years later. He is alone, save a devoted aide, Caroline. Despite these setbacks, he is determined to live out the rest of his life on his terms in an old colonial-type house at the end of an isolated cul-de-sac. He has both a grandson and a granddaughter from his one remaining offspring, a son, who is a math teacher. (A daughter died from a bike/car accident when she was 10.)The good news is that his granddaughter has met a very successful wealthy lawyer. They are planning to get married in the summer of 2028—in the large back yard of the Montclair estate. The lawyer not-so-subtly wants the property for himself and his new wife, who it turns out, is pregnant with his child. The problem in all of this is Jerry’s grandson. Because of some on-line mistakes he made in California, he now legally carries a pistol. Jerry, his granddaughter and her husband-to-be want no weapons, concealed or otherwise, at their wedding. A very recent mass murder at a wedding in Madison, Wisconsin is the reason why.
 
Getting Past Z is the growing divide the Z generation is going through over issues like guns, mental health, growing wealth disparity, AI—as well as extreme politics. Spoiler alert: The grandson manages to bring his pistol onto the premises and the narrator of the book, Jerry, is hit in the knee just prior to the start of the wedding. And so, as part of his recovery, Jerry begins a memoir. He starts in 2024 and takes us through the years leading up to the wedding in the summer of 2028 and even somewhat beyond. The reader is exposed to a sensitive mind, a clever writer and an explosive era which is already proving to be among the most traumatic in our history.

G.F. Gravenson is the author of The Sweetmeat Saga (1971, Dutton) which was celebrated with a 50th Anniversary Edition in 2022 (Tough Poets Press). He currently resides in Mexico with an ever-growing population of cats and ex-pats.