Symposium 2026: PsychE/PsychAI: Artificial Intelligence
By Categories: EVENTS, Psychoanalysis

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Dear Colleagues and Friends: 
We’re excited to bring you Symposium 2026 titled “PsychE/PsychAI”. The meeting is Saturday, April 18 in Goldwurm Auditorium at Mount Sinai (live and virtual). Dr. Dennis Charney, MD will give the Plenary and receive the Freud Award. Dr. Todd Essig, PhD will give the Keynote. Distinguished faculty include David Forrest, MD, Amy Levy, PsyD and Heather Berlin, PhD among other leading experts.

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International Journal of Controversial Discussions Issue Volume #3 Issue # 2
By Categories: Psychoanalysis
 Click Here to Read: The International Journal of Controversial Discussions Volume #3 Issue #2.  The theme of the issue is Primary Femininity: Discussions on a Central Identity, with a target paper by Arlene Kramer Richards, Ed.D and edited by M. Sagman Kayatekin, M.D. There is also a paper entitled Psychoanalytic History—Sketches The Power of Exclusion (An Ode to Sheldon Bach and Sándor Ferenczi) by Carolyn Ellman with commentary by Ph.D. with a response by Giselle Galdi. This journal is supported by a generous grant from the American Psychoanalytic Foundation.
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Outward Signs of Inner Mysteries: Eric Gudas on the work and afterlife of the misunderstood photographer Diane Arbus
By Categories: Arts

Click Here to Read:  Outward Signs of Inner Mysteries: Eric Gudas on the work and afterlife of the misunderstood photographer Diane Arbus By Eric Gudas on the LA RB website on January 5, 2026.

Diane Arbus Constellation, photography exhibit at Park Avenue Armory.  Image: Kenneth C. Zirkel.  Public Domian via Wikimedia Commons. Image

The strange tale of Sigmund Freud’s begonia: How the gift of a plant helped Emma Freud finally get to know her great-grandfather
By Categories: History, Psychoanalysis

Click Here to Read: The strange tale of Sigmund Freud’s begonia: How the gift of a plant helped Emma Freud finally get to know her great-grandfather By Emma Freud in The Observer on  January 2,  2026.

Love Actually With Richard Curtis LukeParkerBowles and EmmaFreud Photo courtesy of Neil Grabowsky, Montclair Film Festival. Image: Montclair Film.  Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

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Oliver Sacks Put Himself Into His Case Studies
By Categories: Psychoanalysis

Click Here to Read:  Oliver Sacks Put Himself Into His Case Studies. What Was the Cost?
The scientist was famous for linking healing with storytelling. Sometimes that meant reshaping patients’ reality By Rachel Aviv in The New Yorker magazine on December 8, 2025.

Neurologist and writer Oliver Sacks at the 2009 Brooklyn Book Festival, wearing a light-blue shirt and a dark-blue necktie that features a double helix pattern.Image: Luigi Novi.  Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

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Reframing Altruism: Learning how to tend mutually to the needs of others
By Categories: Psychoanalysis

Click Here to Read: Reframing Altruism: Learning how to tend mutually to the needs of others. (this is an expanded version of my Psychology Today Blog of January 8, 2026) by Kenneth Silvestri on his A Wider Lens substack on January 15, 2026.
Oil painting of woman giving alms in Belisarius Begging for Alms by Jacques-Louise David (1781) Image: Own work, Remi Jouan, 2007-03,

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Why Ailing Trump Is Paranoid About Mental Decline
By Categories: Politics, Psychoanalysis

Click Here to View: Why Ailing Trump Is Paranoid About Mental Decline: The Daily Beast  Podcast on You Tuble.

Dr. John Gartner joins Joanna Coles to explain why Donald Trump’s worsening paranoia, erratic behavior, and visible health problems point to a dangerous mix of malignant narcissism and possible frontotemporal dementia. Drawing on clinical practice and the shift toward observable diagnostic criteria, Gartner argues that Trump’s public performances reveal more than enough: the “25th time” fixation, the aspirin theories, the right-side weakness, and the drifting, rambling speeches. The conversation ends with a stark question: What happens when a country is governed by a man whose greatest vulnerability is his own deteriorating mind?

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