Archive for July, 2011

Adolescent binge drinking can damage spatial working memory

Sunday, July 31st, 2011


Binge drinking is prevalent during adolescence. Adolescence is also a crucial developmental time for cognitive functioning, including spatial working memory. A new study has found the female may be particularly vulnerable to the negative effects of binge drinking.

Bygone Lunar Flight: From M?hammad to Goethe During the Age of Freud

Saturday, July 30th, 2011

The Dream Ladder: A Fairy Tale was indexed in The Letters of Sigmund Freud to Eduard Silberstein, 1871–1881 . . .  It was initially referenced in the August 15, 1877 letter from the 21-year-old to the 7½-months younger Silberstein. . . .

Ginsburg has here compiled a fascinating analysis of an obscure fairy-tale story that the young Freud had read in the original German, complete with an English translation, and a comparison with the original German text.

Click here to read: “Bygone Lunar Flight . . .”

Lawrence M. Ginsburg is a retired lawyer with  an interest in psychoanalytically-informed scholarship. He is the author or coauthor of thirty such contributions which have been published in North America, Europe and Israel. Several appear in French, German and Hebrew translations.

 

 

Psychoanalysis and Its Discontents

Saturday, July 30th, 2011

 




Click Here to View: Psychoanalysis and Its Discontents on Richard Heffner’s Open Mind on The Channel Thirteen website on November 17, 1998.

Sept. 11 Revealed Psychology’s Limits, Review Finds

Saturday, July 30th, 2011

Click Here to Read:  Sept. 11 Revealed Psychology’s Limits, Review Finds by Benedict Carey in the New York Times on July 28, 2011.

Not all who received mental health care after the Sept. 11 attacks benefited, researchers found.

Cornell psychiatry chairman Dr. Robert Michels discusses doctors and prescriptions

Saturday, July 30th, 2011

Click Here to View:  Cornell psychiatry chairman Dr. Robert Michels discusses doctors and prescriptions on the Open Mind Program on the Iowa Public Television Station website, board cast on December 29, 2004.

Robert Michels

 

Psychoanalytic Education in 2008: Deepening the Treatment

Saturday, July 30th, 2011

Click Here to Read:  Psychoanalytic Education in 2008: Deepening the Treatment: Presentation to the Affiliates Council of APsaA, January 18, 2008 By Jane S. Hall, LCSW, FIPA1.

This paper was previously unpublished.

Jane Hall

 

New perspective By Rachel Spence on the work of painter Patrick Hughes

Saturday, July 30th, 2011




Click Here to Read: New perspective By Rachel Spence on the work of painter Patrick Hughes in the Financial Times on July 28, 2011.

Patrick Hughes’ ‘Leaning on a Landscape’ (1979)

Adventures in the Orgasmatron

Saturday, July 30th, 2011







 

Click Here to Read: Adventures in the Orgasmatron:by Christopher Turner,  Reviewed by George Pendle on the Financial Times website on July 29, 2011.

Research reveals dynamics behind magical thinking and charismatic leadership

Saturday, July 30th, 2011


Research by Columbia Business School's Michael Morris, Chavkin-Chang Professor of Leadership; Maia Young, assistant professor of Human Resources and Organization Behavior, UCLA Anderson School of Management and Vicki Scherwin, Assistant Professor, Management and Human Resources Management, California State University, Long Beach, suggests that we attribute certain leaders to be charismatic through "magical thinking." The paper, recently published in the Journal of Management, reveals how this deep-seated process in human cognition is involved in the attribution of charisma.

Gardening in the brain

Saturday, July 30th, 2011


Cells called microglia prune the connections between neurons, shaping how the brain is wired, scientists at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Monterotondo, Italy, discovered.