InSight | August 2011

In this issue

Psychoanalytic News

What is happening the world of psychology and psychoanalysis

  • Freudian Words: iTunes offers a free app with Freud quotes.

  • What Brain Research Leaves Out: Psychoanalyst Ruth Burton implies the environment has a role in deviant behavior. Check out her brief, but persuasive  letter in The New York Times.

  • Psychoanalysis on the Internet: See International Psychoanalysis.net for the obituary of Hanna Segal.

  • Drug Limits: The New York Review of Books has a series of articles on the crisis in psychiatry and the problem with the wish for psychotrophic cures. 

  • Survival: Psychiatrists on what is needed to ensure continued training in psychodynamic approaches during residency.

  • Freud's Family: One of the most famous members of Freud's family has died. See the story on the loss of Lucian Freud, one of the world's most influential realist painters.

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