The Psychoanalytic Post

Click Here to Read:  A review the book of Nine Lives by Newell Fischer, reviewed by Jane Hall.    This article is presently in press at the Psychoalytic Quarterly, is ©  The Psychoanalytic Quarterly and was used by permission.  

Please note new date!    What: A Benefit Dinner for The Helix Center for Interdisciplinary Investigation of the New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute When: Sunday, November 18th, 2012, 5:30pm – 9:00pm Where: Ginny’s Supper Club at Red Rooster Music by Jane Ira Bloom Magic by Mark Mitton All proceeds to fund programs of The […]

 
Click Here to Read and Listen To:   The Beatles’ Surprising Contribution To Brain Science by Jon Hamilton on the VPR website oOn November 8, 2012.

Click Here to Read: China: Worse Than You Ever Imagined  by Ian Johnson, Book Review Essay in The New York Review of Books on  November 22, 2012.
Chinese refugees returning to China from Hong Kong, May 1962

Click Here for:  The Powerpoint that introudced  Nathan Szajnberg at the Ticho Lecture. I am pleased to present Nathan Szajnberg’s Ticho Memorial Lecture given at the American Psychoanalytic Meeting  on June 15, 2012 in Chicago.   This is the first post of a four-part series of posts of Dr. Szajnberg’s  lecture.   – Arnold Richards, Editor-in-Chief Mimesis of Inner Lives in Western […]

Part II: Christ’s Tale: On (not) Outgrowing One’s Godhood; Dante: the Intimate Trail of Treatment We continue with ideas of inner life, intimacy and now, an early form of psychoanalytic treatment in Western canon. We have Borges’ deeply humanistic scent of Christ; for Dante, we have Dante himself on treatment of an ailing soul. N. […]

Click Here to Read: A daughter faces demons of father’s war by Moni Basu, CNN website on November 4, 2012 It took Christal Presley many years to understand how a war that took place before she was even born had marred her life. Her father, Delmer Presley, was traumatized by a yearlong tour of Vietnam, which […]

Part III: Shakespeare’s Invention of the Human: Generating Our Own Miseries or Not Lear and his obverse, Prospero Let’s leap to Shakespeare, that poet whom Harold Bloom said invented the human. Were we to have time for Lear alone, this would be enough. But, let us press ourselves and place King Lear and Shakespeare’s final […]

Click Here to Read: How Obama’s data crunchers helped him win  By Michael Scherer on the CNN website  on  November 7, 2012 . 
President Obama’s campaign manager hired an analytics department five times as large as that of the 2008 ope…

Click Here to Read: A Brain With a Heart: Oliver Sacks has made a literary art of staring into the minds of others. So what does he make of his own? By David Wallace-Wells in New York Magazine November 4, 2012. (Photo: Christopher Anderson/Magnum Ph…