The Psychoanalytic Post

  Click here to read a review of Elisabeth Roudinesco’s Lacan, envers et contre tout by Sergio Benvenuto from the APA Division of Psychoanalysis website.

    Click here to view photos posted by SKYE Editors on August 27, 2012.  

  Click here to read “Max Ophuls’s Caught and Edgar Ulmer’s Ruthless: Remarkable postwar films about wealth and power” by Joanne Laurier from World Socialist Web Site on August 29, 2012.  

  Click here to view a new infographic provided by The New York Times by Mike Bostock and Matthew Ericson, which provides a visual look at the words and phrases used so far, based on an analysis of transcripts from the Federal News Service, by speakers at the Republican National Convention.  

  Click here to read “The battle over homework” by Kenneth Barish from the Oxford University Press’ blog on August 28, 2012. For this back-to-school season, I would like to offer some advice about one of the most frequent problems presented to me in over 30 years of clinical practice: battles over homework.

  Click here to read “Eight weeks to a better brain: Meditation study shows changes associated with awareness, stress” by Sue McGreevey from The Harvard Gazette on January 21, 2011.

  Click here to read “Feces and the Gold Standard: A Psychological Explanation of Goldbuggery” by Simon van Zuylen-Wood from The New Republic on August 28, 2012. This week, delegates at the Republican National Convention will decide whether the GOP should officially contemplate a return to the gold standard.

  Click here to read “Fertility treatments may put women at risk for PTSD symptoms, study suggests” by Rachael Rettner from MyHealthNewsDaily on August 8, 2012. Women who undergo fertility treatments may find the situation so distressing that they develop post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), a new study says.

  Click here to read “Circumcision benefits outweigh risks, but parents should choose, pediatricians say” by Maggie Fox from NBC News on August 27, 2012. Circumcising baby boys has clear health benefits and parents should feel free to have it done, but they shouldn’t feel pressured to do so, the top U.S. pediatricians group said on […]

  Click here to read ”Military hopes antidepressant nasal spray will prevent suicides” by Rebecca Ruiz from NBC News on August 27, 2012. The military is seeing unprecedented mental illness and suicide in its ranks, and is funding research to treat depression and prevent the most tragic of outcomes.