By Alexandra Murray Harrison, Boston, USA In the context of visits to orphanages and hospitals in Central America and India, I have developed a model for mental health professionals in developed countries to volunteer their consultation services to caregivers of children in developing countries, in a long-term relationship, with episodic visits and regular skype contact. What appears in this issue of Perspectives is an excerpt from my blog,...
On the Set of Freud’s Office
By Phillip Freeman, MD, DMH The excerpt below comes from a paper given at the Cape Playhouse in Dennis, Massachusetts, on the occasion of its production of the Mark St. Germain play Freud’s Last Session, about an encounter between Sigmund Freud and C.S. Lewis. Following the excerpt is a brief article describing and suggested by the discussion that followed the paper. An excerpt from “Dramatizing Ideas in Mark St. Germain’s Freud’s...
Three Critics on Freud’s “Remembering, Repeating, and Working Through” – VIDEO
Full program below: THE THIRD ANNUAL SOLANGE SKINNER LECTURE SATURDAY, APRIL 26, 2014 @ 1:00 – 4:00 pm at Wilson Hall, 234 Herrick Road, Newton Centre MA THREE CRITICS ON FREUD’S ‘REMEMBERING, REPEATING AND WORKING-THROUGH’ A CONVERSTION WITH STEPHEN GREENBLATT, JOSEPH KOERNER, and WENDY LESSER Moderated by ADAM PHILLIPS In this program, three distinguished critics respond to Freud’s classic paper, “Remembering, Repeating and Working-Through”...
An “Off the Couch” Discussion of the Film Her (2013)
This film plays with the way we experience being “known” by someone else, being intimate, being intruded upon, having our personality invaded. A word about Spike Jonze’s work: If you have seen Being John Malkovich (1999) or Adaptation (2002), you recognize in this “science fiction romantic comedy-drama” what Liam Lacey calls the “lonely guy genre.” We have our basic socially awkward nerd. Like all the lonely...
The Psychology Of Violence In Sports — On The Field And In The Stands
By Leonard Glass, MD. Originally published in WBUR’s Cognoscenti. In this Aug. 20, 2011 photo, football fans fight in the stands during a preseason NFL football game between the San Francisco 49ers and the Oakland Raiders in San Francisco. (Ben Margot/AP) I thought my mother was a quintessentially maternal woman. But at one of my college’s football games, just before the last crucial goal line play, she yelled out her wish for the...
An “Off the Couch” Discussion of the Film Nebraska
By Michele Baker , M.D. The Nebraska of director Alexander Payne and writer Bob Nelson’s movie of the same name, shot in iconic black and white, evokes the childhood of the film’s central character. The elderly Woodrow Grant, brought to life by Bruce Dern, is a man with dementia who has a monomaniacal drive to get to Lincoln, Nebraska, in order to collect the $1 million he delusionally believes he has won in what everyone else in his life knows...
