Decades Never Start On Time
Decades Never Start on Time: A Richard Roud Anthology. British Film Institute, 2014 Richard Roud (author), film writer and co-founder and director of the New York Film Festival, was one of the most influential film critics of the twentieth century. Renowned for his close relationships with French New Wave directors such as Godard and Truffaut, he played a key role in bringing European art cinema to the attention of American and British audiences. Michael Temple (editor) is Reader in Film and Media at Birkbeck, University of London,...
read moreThree 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” (1914), the fifth of his six Papers on Technique written a century ago. Freud in this brief yet...
read moreAn “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 guys in this genre, he lives in a chilly, unfriendly apartment and works in an impersonal office, but...
read morePsychological Testing That Matters by Anthony D. Bram and Mary Jo Peebles
Anthony D. Bram, Mary Jo Peebles American Psychological Association, 2014 Meet the Author, Anthony D. Bram, on Tue, March 17, 2015 at 7:45 pm in the BPSI Library! Psychological testing is most valuable when it makes a meaningful difference in a person s treatment. This groundbreaking book offers a person- and treatment-centered approach to psychological testing, as opposed to the more common test-centered approach. The result is a clinically nuanced and robust approach to inference making and data synthesis. The book’s...
read moreThe 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 rival fullback: “Kill him! Kill him!” she shouted. My father, always much more contained, leaned...
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