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For your viewing pleasure: “Rendez-vous chez Lacan”
For your viewing pleasure this weekend: “Rendez-vous chez Lacan” by Gérard Miller: Filed under: Jacques Lacan
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The secret world of male anorexia
The Guardian When my two older brothers and I were kids my mum would make two dinners every day: ordinary food for us; sad crudités and dry crackers for her. If I had taken a picture of her kitchen every
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Kingsley Hall: RD Laing’s experiment in anti-psychiatry
The Guardian The maverick psychiatrist RD Laing once described insanity as “a perfectly rational response to an insane world”. In 1965, having served as a doctor in the British army and then trained in...
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When Freud Came to America
The Chronicle of Higher Education One hundred years ago, Sigmund Freud arrived in the United States on his first and only visit. As the George Washington pulled into New York Harbor, he supposedly...
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Donald Winnicott Today
Routledge Mental Health What in Winnicott’s theoretical matrix was truly revolutionary for psychoanalysis? In this book, the editor and contributors provide a rare in-depth analysis of his original...
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Behind Mental Health Stigmas In Black Communities
Talk of the Nation JOHN DONVAN, HOST: This is TALK OF THE NATION. I’m John Donvan in Washington. Neal Conan is away. Time was a politician admitting to needing treatment for mental illness was taking a...
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Your 10 Year Antipsychotics Money-Making Forecast
Alt-Mentalities To paraphrase a recently released pharmaceutical industry investment report, your 10 year antipsychotics money-making forecast is as follows: partially cloudy skies in 2011 will give...
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THE LOST MILLENNIUM: PSYCHOLOGY DURING THE MIDDLE AGES
by B. MICHAEL THORNE The medieval period-roughly the 1,000 years from the classical Greco-Roman age to the Renaissance and modern erahas long been neglected in the history of psychology. Various...
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Whole Body Madness
Psychiatric Times The first thing the physician noticed about the young woman sitting before him was her sallow complexion. She was 17 years old. He listened carefully, not only to her words but also...
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Psychoanalysis and Politics: Histories of Psychoanalysis under Conditions of...
by Marco Ramos International Psychoanalysis The historical relationship between psychoanalysis and politics has been the subject of recent debates among both historians and mental health practitioners....
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Eating Disorders in Males: Clinical Characteristics and Treatment
Psychiatric Times Males conservatively make up approximately 10% of anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa patients (bulimia nervosa is the more common disorder). The typical age range at presentation is...
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Review: Textbook of Psychoanalysis
The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by Jack Drescher, MD The Textbook of Psychoanalysis could easily be subtitled Just About Anything You Wanted to Know About Psychoanalysis but Were Afraid to...
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Doing Psychoanalysis in Tehran
The Times Higher Education Elegantly sleek and severe, the analyst’s couch in Gohar Homayounpour’s office backs on to a three-paned window from which is afforded a view of a remotely dilapidated...
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Psychology Today by Allen J. Frances, M.D. The $3 million DSM 5 Field Trials have been a pure disaster from start to finish. First, there was the poor choice of design. The study restricted itself to...
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International Psychoanalysis They say you shouldn’t judge a book by its cover. But Women’s Bodies in Psychoanalysis has a cover that is a perfect metaphor for the contents within. An old fashioned,...
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UNCONSCIOUS THINKING OUT OF BOUNDS: Christopher Bollas as Thinker and Artist
S One of today’s most successful and also most controversial psychoanalytic authors in the English language is Christopher Bollas. Bollas came into contact with psychoanalysis while an undergraduate at...
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MERCI À JEAN-BERTRAND PONTALIS
Pensez Bibi La mort de Jean-Bertrand Pontalis dans la nuit du 14-15 janvier m’a plongé dans une grande tristesse. Avec son recueil d’articles parus en Idées NRF («Après Freud»), ce psy pas comme les...
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Eros, Dantesque and Freudian
Berfrois by William Flesch When I was younger, in college and grad school, I’d read that someone my current age had won the lottery, and it just seemed so pointless. What would they do with twenty...
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Amnesia and the Self That Remains When Memory Is Lost
The Atlantic Tom was one of those people we all have in our lives — someone to go out to lunch with in a large group, but not someone I ever spent time with one-on-one. We had some classes together
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No Flowers on the Psych Ward
The Atlantic by Amelia Rachel Hokule’a Borofsky Psychiatric hospitals have a certain smell. Old urine hits the nostrils first and then the sting of bleach. As I unlock the metal doors, the smell lets...
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