Psychoanalysis

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• Marijuana for Children with Autism

  
  Dr. X's Free Associations — Authority: 479
  Im not about to recommend it, but a mother claims that medical marijuana saved her sons life. Video.
  2 days ago

• World Books Review: Reading Jung’s “Red Book”

  
  PRI's The World — Authority: 622
  An examination of the the recent publication and translation (ninety years after it was begun) of C. G. Jung’s confessional meditation “The Red Book.” The volume stands in a select company of books that exerted an enormous influence on social and intellectual history even while it remained unpublished. THE ...
  3 days ago

• Absolute Objectivism as the Defect of Subjective Critique

  
  Sub Specie Aeterni — Authority: 108
  In the chapter entitled “The Critique of the Subject” in the volume Who Comes After the Subject (edited by Cadava, Connor, and Nancy), Michel Henry embarks on a critical history of the philosophy of the subject. While he claims that the history of the critique of the subject has “numerous convergent ...
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• Obama State of Mind

  
  Blogs — Authority: 162
  Yesterdays NY Times assessed President Obamas China trip somewhat unfavorably. Although they called the criticism "premature," they threw in a few digs of their own, using words like "disappointing" and "dispiriting" in the context of the trip. In todays NY Times the columnist Maureen Dowd went much further. ...
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• Irreal

  
  Fractal Ontology — Authority: 100
  Irrealism . Modernity can be seen as a kind of victory for realism, but this victory was always already betrayed by capitalism, disseminated to death. Despite all appearances, the masks and pseudonymity of the postmodern era indicate not an abandonment of the war against cynicism and superstition, but rather a renewed ...
  6 days ago

• Mrs Klein

  
  Wellcome Library — Authority: 423
  The play Mrs Klein by Nicholas Wright is currently enjoying a well-reviewed revival at the Almeida Theatre , London. The play had its first production at the National Theatre in 1988. Two years previously Phyllis Grosskurth’s somewhat controversial biography of Klein had appeared, based on extensive ...
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• Mind Links

  
  Dr. X's Free Associations — Authority: 479
  The Male-Warrior Hypothesis (a 2006 article): researchers find evidence that intergroup rivalry increases cooperation among men, but not among women. Of course there are individual differences. The researchers are comparing groups. Dave Munger writes about sugar, artificial sweeteners and obesity. The immature brain ...
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• Social Psychologists in the Subway

  
  Dr. X's Free Associations — Authority: 479
  Tom Vanderbilt (Slate): Spend enough time riding the New York City subway—or any big-city metro—and youll find yourself on the tenure-track to an honorary degree in transit psychology. The subway—which keeps random people together in a contained, observable setting—is a perfect rolling laboratory for the study ...
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• German for Travelers : A Novel in 95 Lessons

  
  Feminist Review — Authority: 543
  By Norah Labiner Coffee House Press Norah Labiners third novel German for Travelers reads a lot more like poetry than prose. Each chapter, which is framed as a lesson, begins with a seemingly disconnected sentence translated into English from German, before jumping to a different time period, country, character, ...
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• A Psychoanalytic Defense of Realism

  
  Larval Subjects . — Authority: 541
  A central aim of Bhaskar’s A Realist Theory of Science is to diagnose what he refers to as the “epistemic fallacy”. In a nutshell, the epistemic fallacy consists in the thesis, often implicit, that ontological questions can be reduced to epistemological questions. The idea here is that ontology can be ...
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• Sailing between support and insight in therapy

  
  Blogs — Authority: 162
  For more than a decade Ive taught a seminar in dynamic psychotherapy to psychiatry residents. One tricky issue that arises every year is the apparent choice between conducting a "supportive" psychotherapy, versus an "analytic" or "insight-oriented" one. I developed a sailing analogy to clarify this issue, and to ...
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• Billy Corgan Was Psychoanalyzed In Public at the Rubin Museum This Past Weekend

  
  Sound of the City — Authority: 652
  "The first thing that struck me was the boat," said Billy Corgan, onstage Saturday at the Rubin Museum, where he was being psychoanalyzed. In front of him was an image from C. G. Jungs Th...
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• The American Academy of Psychoanalysis and Dynamic Psychiatry is home of experts and public service

  
  Therapist Unlimited Blog — Authority: 129
        The American Academy of Psychoanalysis and Dynamic Psychiatry (AAPDP) is a forum for physician psychoanalysts and psychodynamic psychiatrists to exchange ideas, find a voice within the American Psychoanalytic Association (APA) to advocate psycho dynamic understanding in the evaluation and treatment of ...
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• Behavioral Genetics

  
  Dr. X's Free Associations — Authority: 479
  Were all familiar with the vulnerability hypothesis of behavioral genetics. This approach to genetics and psycholopathology emphasizes genetic vulnerability to psychiatric conditions. In this view, vulnerabilities are considered only as liabilities. If youre depressed its because youve got a defective genetic makeup ...
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• Thinking Matters: Psychotherapy, Dreaming, and Psychoanalysis

  
  Blogs — Authority: 162
  Okay folks, heres the problem. When it comes to insight, listening with the third ear (meaning understanding connections as well as the underpinning to a conversation - even to a monologue one is having silently in ones mind), and especially to the personal tradition one has of practicing introspection, of practicing ...
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• The Meaning of Dreams and Do Dreams have Meaning

  
  Blogs — Authority: 162
  One of my morning patients on Tuesday reported a dream in which three approaches to solving a problem were portrayed-one avoidant, one excessively aggressive, and the third a strong but tempered and effective response. Of course the dream itself, as dreams do, conveyed these ideas with vivid images and a rather ...
  2 weeks ago

• Letting things go...

  
  Coming Out Crazy — Authority: 116
  Problems have a curious way of working out. With work. Nothing happens all by itself. Timing is everything.  Today, Im feeling weightless. This has nothing to do with the seven pounds Ive lost at  Weight Watchers  in the last five weeks. Im feeling lighter emotionally. Less stressed. Relaxed. So much so, Ive ...
  2 weeks ago

• Freud and Love

  
  A Piece of Monologue: The Online Journal of Rhys Tranter — Authority: 133
  Mark Edmundsons apparently bleak summary of Sigmund Freuds outlook on love and happiness in the West: Sigmund Freud is Western cultures laureate of unhappy love. He is our prose-poet of the hearts endless desire to break. The heart breaks time and again and, Freud insists, it is prone to do so in the same fashion. ...
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• Article Title Unknown

  
  Blue skies, the sun and dreams — Authority: 108
  Something begins to change, when you realize that the hole in your heart isnt everything you have anymore. You begin to grow. You get bored of dwelling on the loss, and you tell yourself - sternly, repeatedly - that brooding is a no-win thing. One day, you realize you can talk about most things that happened. One ...
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• Dream differently

  
  I cite — Authority: 472
  Ive been in California. A student challenged me on one of my typical appropriations of Zizek, this time the one that says something to the effect that we have to reinvent our modes of dreaming. Leaving aside the unfortunate evocation of Clinton era politics (reinventing government)--which could be mine, but Im too ...
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