lördag 31 december 2016

Gabor Mate, Trump, Clinton and Trauma, 

Kathleen Man Gyllenhaal, My 2-Year-Old Is An Addict, 

Fred Magdoff, An Ecologically Sound and Socially Just Economy, 

Noam Chomsky on the new Trump era -- Upfront special, 
Allan N. Schore, Right-Brain Affect Regulation, 

On page 135, the author quotes Nathanson, who says that "[t]he entire system of psychotherapy, as we had been taught it, worked only if we overlooked the shame that we produced day in and day out in our therapeutic work..." But this totally contradicts what Schore says on p. 128: "the right hemisphere is dominant in treatment, and ... psychotherapy is not the 'talking cure' but the affect communicating and regulating cure." This claim is neither factual nor is it even an ideal among an overwhelming number of therapists, given the preponderance of behaviorist approaches (a left hemisphere "cure" predicated on animal psychology) in the field, approaches doomed to fail in terms of right-brain affect regulation. Schore has a lot of useful insights to offer, but there are times when he isn't sufficiently careful.


onsdag 21 december 2016

If you decide to read the book (entitled From the Wrong Side) from which the article by Adolf Guggenbuhl-Craig (“Creativity, Spontaneity, Independence,” posted here recently) was excerpted, be careful, as the author’s views are reactionary, not least because he did not face his own crimes with unflinching eyes and take responsibility for them; he was merely using the garb of Jungian analysis to dishonestly frame and rationalize his very unsavory past. So in a real sense he was a charlatan, in my view, even if the basic problem was simply lack of initiation.

söndag 18 december 2016

Dave Ziegler, Understanding and treating attachment problems in children, 

Daniel J. Siegel, Toward an interpersonal neurobiology of the developing mind, 

Daniel J. Siegel, Attachment (chapter 3: excerpted from The Developing Mind), 

Plato, Phaedrus (pp. 506-556 or 537-587), 

Tom Engelhardt, The most dangerous country on earth, 

tisdag 6 december 2016

John Pilger: ‘The truth is… there was no one to vote for’ (Going Underground US election special)

Michael Klare, Whose Finger on the Nuclear Button?,

Noam Chomsky and CJ Polychronion, Trump in the White House, http://www.alternet.org/election-2016/trump-white-house-interview-noam-chomsky

John Firman and Ann Gila, On religious fanaticism, 

Gordon Neufeld, Uncovering the roots of delinquency, 

John Welwood, Embodying your realization. Psychological work in the service of spiritual development, 

John Welwood, Vulnerability and power in the therapeutic process, 

John Welwood, Personality structure: path or pathology?, 

Allan Schore, Paradigm shift: the right brain and the relational unconscious, 

Judith R. Schore and Allan N. Schore, Modern attachment theory, 

Galia Benziman et al., The wounded healer as cultural archetype, 

Peter Gotzsche, Our prescription drugs kill us in large numbers, 

C.S. Lewis, The abolition of man, 


D.W. Winnicott, Living Creatively, 

D. W. Winnicott, On Transference,