Why do we hate? Academics seek answer in new... Nov 19, 2009
In psychology, Sigmund Freud defined hate as an ego state that wishes to destroy the source of its unhappiness. Gonzaga, a Jesuit university best known for its basketball team, offered a class on the subject taught by five professors from different disciplines. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
How Charles Darwin changed the way we see Nov 15, 2009
With this, he altered the field of psychology, including the thinking of his later admirer, Sigmund Freud. Darwin also influenced the course of photography. (AbsoluteArts.com)
Calendar: MIND events in November and December Nov 14, 2009
4 Sigmund Freud, the famous Austrian neurologist and founder of psychoanalysis, first published his book Interpretation of Dreams on this day in 1899. Although many of Freud s ideas have since been modified or rejected, researchers in the emerging field of neuropsychoanalysis have started to argue in favor of his theories, pointing out brain structures relating to Freudian concepts such as libido, the unconscious, and repressed desire. (Scientific American)
Novel zooms in on noted photographers life (2) Nov 10, 2009
Liouba also convinced Albert Einstein, Sigmund Freud, Thomas Mann, Georges Clemenceau, and Eleanor Roosevelt to fight for Halsman s successful release. Although the Austrian Dreyfus Affair, was the talk of Europe, little was known of the case in America. (Cleveland Jewish News, OH)
COLUMN: Kindness is a tricky business Nov 6, 2009
We find this pessimistic view of human nature in religious people like Augustine and John Calvin as well as secular people like Sigmund Freud and the philosopher Hobbes. Their view is so prevalent in our society that any child s kindness instinct might be drummed out of them by adulthood. (Easton Journal, MA)
Astrology Moon in Gemini Nov 4, 2009
Astrology Moon in Gemini. Astrology Moon in Gemini. (Suite101.com)
City Beat (3) Nov 1, 2009
The Friends of the Cleveland Psychoanalytic Center hosts Dr. Marjorie Johnson for a talk at the center, 2460 Fairmont Blvd., Suite 312, in the Heights Medical Building, from 7:30-9 p.m. Topic is James Joyce s Thoughts on Sigmund Freud. Free. (Cleveland Jewish News, OH)
Authors discuss philosophy of death Oct 29, 2009
Cathcart and Klein told philosophy jokes from their newest book, ranging from psychologist Sigmund Freud to religions' perspectives on death. One of the jokes regarding religion was about a guy about to jump off a bridge, and another man trying to stop him. (Northeastern News, MA)
LETTER: Looking out for othersis part of reform effort Oct 19, 2009
" DR. SEUSS Did the chicken cross the road? Did he cross it with a toad? Yes, The chicken crossed the road, But why it crossed, I've not been told! ERNEST HEMINGWAY To die. In the rain. Alone. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. I envision a world where all chickens will be free to cross roads without having their motives called into question. GRANDPA In my day, we didn't ask why the chicken crossed the road. Someone told us that the chicken crossed the road, and that was good enough for us. BARBARA WALTERS... (Mattoon Journal-Gazette, IL)
Dr. Leon Eisenberg, 87, affirmative action advocate at Harvard Medical Oct 11, 2009
In the 1950s, when Freudian psychoanalysis held sway, Dr. Eisenberg sampled Sigmund Freud s work, notably the book The Interpretation of Dreams, but soon believed it was politically unacceptable to treat patients that way. How could you use a treatment that would take so long per person when the burden of mental illness is so high. (Boston Globe)
A Brief Biography of Alfred Adler Oct 10, 2009
He challenged the theories of Sigmund Freud and founded the school of individual psychology. Although Sigmund Freud is often thought of as an icon for the study of psychology and is regarded as the father of psychoanalysis, his work did not solely establish the field ... Adler met Sigmund Freud in 1899 when he sought Freud s assistance with a female patient. (Suite101.com)
How Maurice Sendak made the world safe for monsters Oct 4, 2009
A lot happened to those monsters between Goya and Sendak: 19th-century Gothic horror brought them into literary vogue, Sigmund Freud placed them squarely in the unconscious mind, films and television brought them lurchingly to life. Sendak s creatures are unmistakably indebted to these advances (he recalls narrating the plots of monster movies to his childhood friends, and embellishing them with even more gruesome details), but the Wild Things are ultimately closer to the denizens of myth and... (Boston Globe)
Carl Jung's Red Book to be displayed for 1st time Oct 3, 2009
Jung was a student of Sigmund Freud who went on to develop his own theory of the human experience, viewing analytical psychology as a process of becoming whole and dreams serving to reveal the inner psyche. "It's a very complex book," but even a nonscientist can appreciate it, said Stephen A. Martin, a Philadelphia analyst and president of the Philemon Foundation, which helped fund the translation. (Anchorage Daily News)
Newsweek: Why do women really have sex? Sep 30, 2009
The mystery of , and , has long been an elusive studysomething even Sigmund Freud called "the great question." Researchers have historically theorized that women's motives lie in , while newer studies have shown they do it for pleasure, just like men. But women are complicated creatures: their sexual health is determined as much by their emotions as by their physical state, which might help explain why as many as 50 percent of women have trouble getting aroused. (MSNBC -- Health)
How would Einstein use e-mail? Sep 26, 2009
The researchers examined extensive letter correspondence records of 16 famous writers, performers, politicians and scientists, including Einstein, Darwin, Sigmund Freud, Karl Marx, and Ernest Hemingway, and found that the 16 individuals sent letters randomly but in cycles. The same mathematical model the Northwestern team used in a previous study to explain e-mail behavior now has been shown to apply to the letter writers. (EurekAlert!)
Incest: an age-old taboo Sep 25, 2009
If Sigmund Freud is to be believed, everyone would be sleeping with their close relatives given half a chance. Society had to keep these deep-seated desires in check, he argued. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
The Shakespeare truthers Sep 25, 2009
The search for the real Shakespeare is a collective madness, one that has gripped (of all people) Sigmund Freud, Mark Twain, William and Henry James, and several Supreme Court justices with too much time on their hands. It is a madness with momentum. (Boston Globe)
I demand to end my life when I want Sep 22, 2009
Seventy years ago Sigmund Freud s doctor helped him to die ... Seventy years ago today, a quarter of a mile from where I am writing, Sigmund Freud s doctor, Max Schur, administered a third and final shot of morphine to his celebrated patient ... Consequently, as a matter of principle, none of these hypothetical possibilities can overcome the right of a suffering Sigmund Freud, who had thought more about life than a convocation of bishops or a dinner of lawyers, to ask a Max Schur in effect to... (Sydney Morning Herald -- Opinion)
Reviews of 'Once You Go Back', 'A Dream of Undying Fame', and 'Waiting for Rescue' Sep 20, 2009
Sigmund Freud was celebrated - not least by himself - as the inventor of psychoanalysis. But in fact, says scholar and psychoanalyst Louis Breger, Freud stole the psychoanalytic ball from his mentor Josef Breuer and ran with it for all he was worth. (Boston Globe)
Direct Evidence Shows Role Of Sleep In Memory Sep 16, 2009
Sigmund Freud further suspected that what we learned during the day was rehearsed by the brain during dreaming, allowing memories to form. And while much recent research has focused on the correlative links between the hippocampus and memory consolidation, what had not been identified was the specific processes that cause long-term memories to form. (Science Daily)
Idyllic grounds belie tussle over founder’s research Sep 6, 2009
Starting in 1947, the FDA believed that Reich, who had trained as a psychoanalyst under Sigmund Freud, was a charlatan, falsely promoting his ideas and his experimental scientific and medical invention, the orgone energy accumulator, to improve sex and health. Seven years later, the FDA persuaded a federal court in Maine to issue a Complaint for Injunction against Reich, forbidding the interstate shipment of orgone accumulators. (Boston Globe)
20 actors who know the meaning of range Aug 23, 2009
Sigmund Freud, Lovesick, 1983. Founder of psychoanalysis. (Boston Globe)
John Watson on Behavior Aug 4, 2009
Sigmund Freud and Psychoanalysis. At the advent of 20th century, was creating his idea of psychoanalysis, the process of introspective questioning in which a person reveals deeply-hidden damaging experiences. (Suite101.com)
Click to read: Walter Cronkite Dies Jul 18, 2009
" While working for the UP, Cronkite was offered a job at CBS by Edward R. Murrow - and he turned it down. He finally accepted a second offer in 1950, and stepped into the new medium of television. In the early '50s, it was a medium many of the "serious" journalists at CBS and elsewhere viewed with skepticism, if not disdain. Radio and print, they contended, were for real reporters; television was for actors or comedians. At first, it seemed an unlikely fit. Walter Cronkite, with his serious... (CBS News)
Letters Jul 5, 2009
" Obviously, this is a subject that needs in-depth coverage and exposure to the world so New Delhi gets sufficient pressure from the United Nations to address the unrepresented voices of the many people directly affected by India's lack of policies. Chrysantha Wijeyasingha Clinton, USA (Jun 25,'09) Israeli propaganda and misinformation (never to be confused with "control of the media", the favorite trigger-words of the Jewish attack-squads) would have the ignorant of the world think of them as... (Asia Times Online)
In ‘The Last Supper,’ author sweeps her family off to adventure in Italy Jun 28, 2009
We leave the heavy lifting on that to Boyt s great-grandfather, Sigmund Freud (Boyt is one of the numerous children of artist Lucian Freud, an unorthodox heritage she reveals only obliquely), and to Thomas Carlyle, whom Boyt quotes on the subject, mischievously substituting Judy for the eminent Victorian s relevant nouns and pronouns. Boyt corrals Mickey Rooney and Liza Minnelli for star-struck interviews. (Boston Globe)
Jonathan O. Cole, at 83; pioneered use of drugs in psychiatry Jun 28, 2009
To his colleagues and patients, psychiatrist Jonathan O. Cole, a man with the jolly face of a Santa Claus, rather than the stern mien of a Sigmund Freud, is the acknowledged father of clinical psychopharmacology in the United States. Internationally known for his breakthrough research on the use of drugs to treat psychiatric illnesses, the former chief of psychopharmacology at McLean Hospital in Belmont was so beloved by his patients that in 1992 they established the Mental Health Consumer... (Boston Globe)
Vets Who Repress Traumatic Memories May Not Be Worse Off Jun 23, 2009
"Because the concept that talking about your trauma and analyzing your fears and emotions is always the best policy goes back to Sigmund Freud, and for decades it's kind of been taken as a given.". "But this has never really been truly validated," Boscarino noted, "and it may be an overgeneralization. And we found that in some cases not talking about it and actually repressing traumatic thoughts and experiences may not translate into a more adverse outcome.". (MEDLINEplus)
Sgt. Charles King, a prudent father Jun 21, 2009
An English proverb says, "One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters." And Sigmund Freud stated, "I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.". Fatherhood -- at least during a child's pre- adolescence -- is one of life's sublime experiences. (Orangeburg Times and Democrat, SC)
Actor Rayner finds a fit in Freud role Jun 5, 2009
Mark H. Dold (left) as C.S. Lewis and Martin Rayner as Dr. Sigmund Freud ... When did Martin Rayner click with Sigmund Freud ... So what's it like being the man who argues with Sigmund Freud. (Boston Globe)
Types of Intuition Jun 2, 2009
although the idea is ages old, the existence of intuition as a formal theory was first introduced in the work of who studied with Sigmund Freud and later embarked on his own research practice. Unlike Freud, and other psychological theorists that would follow, Jung theorized that spiritual aspects of human psychology played an important part in individuals' lives as well as society. (Suite101.com)
Remembering Amos Elon Jun 2, 2009
(To have made this decision as soon as Nazism took power in Germany, and not to have waited as even Sigmund Freud did until after the Austrian Anschluss, argues that they had a good dose of that premonitory or seismic intuition that some Jews are held to possess. . (Slate)
People who call others racist fit four categories Jun 1, 2009
cross1242 wrote on May 31, 2009 10:33 AM:" This week, Prof. Clayson advises us that there are four kinds of people who accuse others of being racists. He then presents us with specifications for each of the four types. (His topic reminds me of the old joke about there being two kinds of people in the world: those who divide all people in the world into two groups and those who dont.)In doing so, Prof. Clayson ignores another possible conclusion: that there is still an unfortunately large... (Waterloo Courier, IO)
Making the World Safe—Again May 25, 2009
Wilson, wrote Sigmund Freud, was rapidly nearing that psychic land from which few travelers return, the land in which facts are the products of wishes. We often hear of the unintended consequences of government intervention into the economy. (The American Conservative)
Drama in the court: Breyer, faculty to view law through the Bard’s words May 15, 2009
Their significance and the insight they give into the Bard have long been deliberated by scholars from author Mark Twain to psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud, and now, Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer. The Law School will host Justice Breyer and an impressive list of other experts in law, literature and philosophy to explore this rich interdisciplinary debate at a Shakespeare and the Law conference on Friday, May 15 and Saturday, May 16. (Univeristy of Chicago Chronicle, IL)
COMMENT: Who Is A Cricket Expert? May 9, 2009
- Editorial - Opinion - The Times of India. 9 May 2009, 0000 hrs IST, Ashis Nandy. (India Times, India)
A look at some of fashion's A-students May 7, 2009
To play Sigmund Freud for a minute: Is this similar to your personality. Do you look for structure in your life, but also look for ways to express yourself more freely. (Boston Globe)
Novel offers personal snapshot of photographer (4) May 2, 2009
Liouba also convinced Albert Einstein, Sigmund Freud, Thomas Mann, Georges Clemenceau, and Eleanor Roosevelt to fight for Halsman s successful release. Although the Austrian Dreyfus Affair was the talk of Europe (Sigmund Freud even wrote a paper about it in 1931), little was known of the case in America. (Cleveland Jewish News, OH)
Vaginas with teeth and other sexual myths Apr 28, 2009
" Joy on the jobWhen mechanical sewing machines arrived, a few lucky women using a model with two foot pedals found that by rubbing their thighs together, they could reach orgasm, which could certainly make working in a garment factory a little more fun, but it also posed a danger. Doctors thought all sewing machines were bad for women, Maines explained. They thought the women would turn into lesbians. Some of the advice was an attempt to apply science to what had been largely... (MSNBC -- Health)
Homosexuality not normal Apr 28, 2009
this being dated back to well before Dr. Sigmund Freud. Usually onset by some sort of traumatic experience. (Wasilla Frontiersman, AK)
Clement Freud, BBC panelist and orator, grandson of famous psychoanalyst Apr 18, 2009
LONDON - Clement Freud, a grandson of Sigmund Freud who became a well-known writer, politician, and urbane regular on British radio, died Wednesday at his home in London, his family said. The cause of death was not announced. (Boston Globe)
Would you really want to be 17 Again? Apr 17, 2009
I mean, why not childhood, the era Sigmund Freud claimed all our problems stemmed from. Or why dont films have characters go back to their 20s when most people get married. (MSNBC -- News)
Judas pleads case in biblical courtroom drama Apr 16, 2009
He said several unexpected characters show up in the play -- like historical figures Sigmund Freud and Mother Teresa -- and biblical characters are portrayed as living in modern times. "It's an in-depth look at how people throughout history said Judas was the evil character and that he's in hell," Nick Reynolds (graduate-theatre) said. (Daily Collegian, PA)
Sir Clement Freud Apr 16, 2009
Born in Berlin in April 1924, Clement Freud was a grandson of Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis. Another grandson was Clement's elder brother, the artist Lucian Freud. (BBC News -- UK)
Scientific Explanations for the Plagues, the Red Sea, and the Rest of the Passover Story Apr 9, 2009
Roman Jewish historian speculated that the parting of the Red Sea "might be of God's will or of natural origin. Let everyone believe at his own discretion."The skeptic's skeptic, Sigmund Freud, called the Passover story "a pious myth," contending that Moses was a rebellious Egyptian prince who worshiped the sun god Aton and made up the Jewish religion as a political ploy. In more recent times, scientific explanations of the Passover story range from formula-laden academic papers like to more... (Slate)
Final punch line - What philosophers’ last days can tell us about death Apr 4, 2009
Sigmund Freud, who famously observed that a cigar is sometimes just a cigar, failed to note they were bad for you, smoked up to 20 each day and died of cancer of the mouth. These and other endings are the stuff of The Book of Dead Philosophers, Critchley s ironic take on 3,000 years of philosophy and the demises of 190 of its greatest practitioners. (Missoulian, MT)
Dr L. Michael Hall, A trainer and author, gets. . . Apr 4, 2009
That was when I created my own personal school by reading everything Sigmund Freud and Alfred Adler (both psychologists) wrote. I could not understand why I was doing things to sabotage myself. (The Star Online, Malaysia -- Business)
Small bookstoresenjoying unchained success Apr 2, 2009
The gift annex that Booksmith opened in a former storage room carries greeting cards, Sigmund Freud action figures, and battery-operated twirling forks for spaghetti. A Used Book Cellar offers a Dick Francis mystery for $3. (Boston Globe)
COMMENT: End Of The End Of History Mar 26, 2009
Every crisis, Sigmund Freud said, is potentially a stimulus to the positive side of the personality it is an opportunity to start afresh. The point has not gone unnoticed by political leaders. (India Times, India)
Famous dead people Mar 25, 2009
Sigmund Freud is following Andy Warhol, who is following P. Diddy. . (The Palm Beach Post)
Ovid’s stories retain their power to haunt and seduce the audience Mar 22, 2009
There was a good reason, Griffin says, why Sigmund Freud was so keen to name significant psychological complexes after Greek myths. Built into the stories is an acknowledgment of the dualities of human existence: man and woman, day and night, good and evil. (Fresno Bee)
EX-CONCERT PROMOTER EYES COMMUNITY CHANGE Mar 17, 2009
White said he believes, contrary to Sigmund Freud s contention that sex is the most basic need, relationship with others is humans most significant need. From cradle to grave, we need that human connection. (Pine Bluff Commercial, AR)
Jesuit Priest Reflects on Off-Broadway Experience Mar 14, 2009
His play considers whether or not Judas deserved eternal damnation, putting him on trial with witnesses including Mother Teresa, Sigmund Freud, and Pontius Pilate. It's a sophisticated theological treatment in the slangy and sometimes vulgar contemporary urban argot that marks Guirgis' work. (Yahoo News -- Press Releases)
Unraveling The Secret Of "Alters" Mar 9, 2009
But there is a whole school of therapists that say the number is not in the millions, but zero that not even a single case of multiple personalities is real the whole concept not Sigmund Freud but junk science. "I believe all MPD cases are artificial productions provoked by the attention doctors and others give them - all of them, said. Dr. Paul McHugh, a professor and former head of psychiatry at Johns Hopkins Medical School in Baltimore. "People are persuaded that they have multiple... (CBS News)
Oedipus Wrecked: Study Supporting the Mother of All Psychological Complexes Withdrawn Feb 25, 2009
February 24, 2009 in. A journal retracts a paper that supported the idea that your wife is likely to look like your mother, but others say that Freud's theory may still hold water. (Scientific American)
Ruth Hunsberger, 97; worked at WHO and as speechwriter Feb 23, 2009
Her thesis, "The American Reception of Sigmund Freud," took a sweeping look at religious movements in the United States in the late 1800s. Mrs. Hunsberger suggested that Christian Science and the New Thought and Emmanuel movements helped lay the groundwork for what she termed the "enthusiastic" reaction to Freud in 1909, when he made his only trip to the United States and spent part of his time lecturing at Clark University in Worcester. (Boston Globe)
You are here: Your microspot in the universe Feb 16, 2009
One revolutionized biology, the other astronomy and physics, but their work also forced humanity to endure, as Sigmund Freud put it, "two great outrages upon its nave self-love.". The first outrage, sparked by Copernicus but taken seriously only after Galileo's observations, was that the Earth is not special: Our world is merely one of several planets orbiting a central sun. (Toronto Star)
Whither romantic love in new times? Feb 15, 2009
Sigmund Freud, the founder of modern psychiatry, defined it as a "sickness and craziness, an illusion, a blindness to what the loved person is really like.". Our early California Indians likewise thought it to be a sickness in youthful lovers to be tolerated until they could return to the serious business of collecting acorns and digging roots. (Fresno Bee -- Opinion)
The Book That Changed My Life Feb 14, 2009
Barbara Leaming -- The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud. Senator Joe Lieberman The Bible. (Suite101.com)
The revolutionary and the ruler Feb 8, 2009
Born in May 1928 in Argentina, Guevara studied medicine at the University of Buenos Aires, where his favourite writers were Sigmund Freud, Bertrand Russell, Jack London and Emile Zola. A bad asthmatic since childhood and an Argentine who incongruously never learnt to dance, the impulsive Guevara with his pale skin and dark, haunting eyes loved living on the edge and was readily attracted to danger. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
